WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:01.443 --> 00:00:02.463 Matt: Do you hear that sound? 00:00:03.373 --> 00:00:04.133 Alison: Crickets? 00:00:08.323 --> 00:00:17.033 Are you integrating sound effects?! 00:00:17.123 --> 00:00:18.903 Dreams do come true. 00:00:19.413 --> 00:00:20.343 Matt: Dreams come true. 00:00:20.433 --> 00:00:20.993 They do. 00:00:21.063 --> 00:00:21.603 Oh, wait. 00:00:21.663 --> 00:00:26.913 Oh, just you wait, just, it's gonna get buck wild up in here. 00:00:27.483 --> 00:00:28.683 Alison: Oh, I'm so excited. 00:00:29.373 --> 00:00:31.083 Matt: How are you my friend? 00:00:31.113 --> 00:00:33.133 I've been thinking about you this week. 00:00:34.053 --> 00:00:39.048 Alison: Uh, yeah, it's not been my favorite week in the spirit of honesty... 00:00:39.733 --> 00:00:40.023 Matt: yeah. 00:00:40.988 --> 00:00:41.848 Alison: ...and full disclosure. 00:00:42.068 --> 00:00:46.443 For anybody listening who's not my friend on Facebook or Instagram. 00:00:47.253 --> 00:00:53.433 Um, I had to say goodbye to my wonderful 17 year old cat last week, 00:00:53.613 --> 00:00:56.763 my sweet little Maggie and that sucked. 00:00:57.273 --> 00:00:57.633 Matt: Oh, 00:00:57.843 --> 00:01:00.333 Alison: There's just no, no other way around it. 00:01:00.813 --> 00:01:03.153 Matt: Never a time where that's cool. 00:01:03.993 --> 00:01:05.013 Alison: Do not recommend. 00:01:05.133 --> 00:01:09.513 Um, so yeah, just been laying low this week and cuddling my other 00:01:09.513 --> 00:01:11.763 little snuggle bun, Coney Bear, 00:01:12.513 --> 00:01:17.553 Um, and trying against all of my best efforts to take it easy and take it 00:01:17.553 --> 00:01:19.593 slow, which is very hard for me to do. 00:01:20.253 --> 00:01:20.523 Matt: Yeah. 00:01:20.523 --> 00:01:24.063 Cuz that's the other thing is that you were supposed to have this week 00:01:24.068 --> 00:01:25.943 off, you were supposed to go to Maine. 00:01:26.823 --> 00:01:29.583 Alison: Mm-hmm I am not in Maine right now. 00:01:29.588 --> 00:01:32.373 I am in Charlotte, North Carolina, but it's okay. 00:01:32.378 --> 00:01:35.073 I figured Maine will always be there. 00:01:35.078 --> 00:01:38.253 I hope, I hope, you know, if any of the, you know, Continental 00:01:38.283 --> 00:01:40.293 US falls off into the ocean. 00:01:41.073 --> 00:01:41.733 And floats away. 00:01:41.733 --> 00:01:42.903 Maine is not my pick. 00:01:43.023 --> 00:01:45.323 Dear Ocean take Florida take Texas. 00:01:46.803 --> 00:01:47.223 Matt: Mm-hmm. 00:01:48.143 --> 00:01:53.063 Alison: So, so yeah, so I, I adapted, I changed my plans. 00:01:53.063 --> 00:01:55.403 I, uh, bailed out of my vacation. 00:01:56.243 --> 00:02:01.103 Um, and I stayed home and attempted to rest, but worked more instead. 00:02:01.328 --> 00:02:02.998 Matt: Oh, bummer. 00:02:03.523 --> 00:02:05.053 Alison: Go ahead and play the womp womp womp sound. 00:02:06.208 --> 00:02:07.288 Matt: Oh, that's the wrong sound. 00:02:13.658 --> 00:02:14.358 Oh man. 00:02:14.773 --> 00:02:15.763 Alison: You gotta laugh. 00:02:16.033 --> 00:02:17.263 You have to laugh. 00:02:18.178 --> 00:02:19.108 Matt: You gotta laugh. 00:02:19.218 --> 00:02:21.018 Um, not a, not a fun week. 00:02:21.018 --> 00:02:21.378 I know. 00:02:21.408 --> 00:02:24.688 I know, but it's, you know, I think it has just been, it's just been 00:02:24.688 --> 00:02:28.278 hard on everybody, I don't know why it's just something in the air. 00:02:29.208 --> 00:02:29.618 Alison: Truly. 00:02:29.618 --> 00:02:30.938 Matt: Something about August. 00:02:31.215 --> 00:02:34.465 Alison: Yeah, we're in the, in between where it we're all tired of summer and 00:02:34.465 --> 00:02:38.005 it's not quite fall, but the kids have already gone back to school and we're 00:02:38.005 --> 00:02:42.235 just seeing, you know, all these different shifts in ours and our loved ones lives. 00:02:42.970 --> 00:02:43.930 Matt: We're in the upside down. 00:02:44.515 --> 00:02:45.175 Alison: Yeah. 00:02:45.625 --> 00:02:46.015 Yeah. 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:46.645 We are. 00:02:46.679 --> 00:02:50.369 Matt: I think I may, maybe I forget every year that, that it's August 00:02:50.369 --> 00:02:53.189 is a little bit like that because I have great things to celebrate. 00:02:53.429 --> 00:02:57.814 Um, next week is my 10th year anniversary. 00:02:58.364 --> 00:02:59.914 Alison: Double digits! 00:03:00.179 --> 00:03:01.329 Matt: Yeah, I know. 00:03:01.889 --> 00:03:02.009 I 00:03:02.234 --> 00:03:02.964 Alison: That's amazing. 00:03:02.994 --> 00:03:06.306 Matt: I can't even believe it can't even, Uh, well, no, that's not true. 00:03:06.306 --> 00:03:07.296 I can totally believe it. 00:03:08.316 --> 00:03:08.556 I can 00:03:08.741 --> 00:03:11.181 Alison: Those of us who have met your wife could totally believe it. 00:03:11.246 --> 00:03:11.536 Matt: Yeah. 00:03:12.156 --> 00:03:12.726 Yeah. 00:03:13.761 --> 00:03:16.881 Alison: As per usual, I have a sweet little outline for today that we 00:03:16.881 --> 00:03:20.691 are welcome to ignore or keep to. 00:03:20.811 --> 00:03:22.191 We'll see, we'll see how it goes. 00:03:22.221 --> 00:03:24.921 You know, this, everything this week is just up in the 00:03:24.921 --> 00:03:26.211 air in some great experiments. 00:03:26.211 --> 00:03:27.261 So we'll just, we'll see. 00:03:27.711 --> 00:03:33.711 Um, but, but first but first, Matt, but first, do you know what time it is? 00:03:34.671 --> 00:03:35.001 Matt: Don't have 00:03:35.151 --> 00:03:36.381 Alison: Oh my goodness. 00:03:36.411 --> 00:03:37.481 Matt: ready to bed. 00:03:37.791 --> 00:03:41.841 Alison: Um, your, uh, links for you are in Slack. 00:03:42.301 --> 00:03:46.041 Matt: Yes, I actually, I saw it and I opened it and then I closed it again. 00:03:48.531 --> 00:03:49.731 I was like, I'm so excited. 00:03:49.736 --> 00:03:52.791 I'm oh, I just got no, I've got it right here. 00:03:53.121 --> 00:03:57.051 Alison: We are just walking tropes of ourselves most of the time. 00:03:57.291 --> 00:03:58.801 Matt: Gonna be super trope-tastic. 00:04:00.101 --> 00:04:01.561 Super trope-tastic. 00:04:02.391 --> 00:04:02.871 Alison: All right. 00:04:02.876 --> 00:04:04.071 You wanna, you wanna roll first? 00:04:04.071 --> 00:04:06.501 You wanna rock that, that, that dice roll first. 00:04:07.191 --> 00:04:07.481 Matt: Okay. 00:04:07.701 --> 00:04:07.881 Yeah. 00:04:09.091 --> 00:04:10.641 D100! 00:04:10.656 --> 00:04:17.226 Inquiring minds want to know 40, 48 is the number that I'm 00:04:17.226 --> 00:04:21.006 rooting on the ADHd100, um, table. 00:04:21.801 --> 00:04:24.441 Alison: So this is, this is one that I've actually been pretty 00:04:24.441 --> 00:04:26.121 excited about for a while. 00:04:26.301 --> 00:04:29.241 Build a D&D party with characters from a TV show. 00:04:29.241 --> 00:04:31.401 What show and what characters would you pick? 00:04:32.286 --> 00:04:35.346 Matt: Oh, to play, like what characters would I play would just like. 00:04:35.616 --> 00:04:40.116 Alison: No, like take the cast of Friends and like, you know, so you, you wouldn't 00:04:40.116 --> 00:04:43.806 wanna play with Ross, but you would play with, you know, Chandler and Joey and 00:04:43.806 --> 00:04:48.156 Rachel or whatever, you know, like you can, you can leave people out if their 00:04:48.156 --> 00:04:50.596 vibe isn't cool enough for D&D is telling. 00:04:50.746 --> 00:04:50.886 Matt: Okay. 00:04:50.886 --> 00:04:51.226 Interesting. 00:04:51.246 --> 00:04:51.726 Interesting. 00:04:52.122 --> 00:04:54.432 I mean, Now that you've opened that up though, now that 00:04:54.562 --> 00:04:54.747 Alison: I know. 00:04:54.747 --> 00:04:55.127 Right. 00:04:55.127 --> 00:04:56.142 Matt: We kind of have to do that. 00:04:56.142 --> 00:04:56.352 Right? 00:04:56.357 --> 00:05:00.822 Because I saw, I watched Friends for the first time this year, um, 00:05:01.122 --> 00:05:04.112 and, and genuinely enjoyed it. 00:05:04.662 --> 00:05:10.572 I, I just, I, um, yeah, I was too snobby in the nineties and too busy. 00:05:10.722 --> 00:05:13.399 I think we've talked about that, We sat down and watched all of 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:19.369 friends and I thought it was a strangely uplifting program. 00:05:20.419 --> 00:05:20.809 You know? 00:05:21.019 --> 00:05:24.799 I mean, it's just from starting to finish, they love each other. 00:05:24.799 --> 00:05:25.039 Right? 00:05:25.039 --> 00:05:25.939 Like, that's the cool thing. 00:05:25.939 --> 00:05:29.659 So what it would be, they would make a good D&D party. 00:05:29.659 --> 00:05:29.989 Right. 00:05:30.349 --> 00:05:32.539 But of course I would leave Ross behind. 00:05:33.649 --> 00:05:34.669 I just can't. 00:05:34.729 --> 00:05:36.079 I can't do it Ross. 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:36.949 I'm sorry, man. 00:05:37.509 --> 00:05:44.739 He, uh, he made the cut, but unfortunately, due to his hubris, 00:05:45.579 --> 00:05:46.059 Alison: Mm. 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:47.889 Matt: He perished. 00:05:48.225 --> 00:05:52.515 He perished fighting an Owlbear, which is such a sad way to go. 00:05:53.145 --> 00:05:57.555 Alison: At like level three too, Like not even, not even into it. 00:05:57.555 --> 00:06:02.055 Matt: Let's see, Ross would be, um, I would say probably Ross then would 00:06:02.055 --> 00:06:03.765 be like a, a wizard wouldn't he? 00:06:03.765 --> 00:06:05.385 He'd be the studious type. 00:06:05.625 --> 00:06:05.915 Alison: Yeah. 00:06:06.275 --> 00:06:06.355 right. 00:06:07.125 --> 00:06:08.775 Matt: He would be he's the nerdy studious type. 00:06:08.775 --> 00:06:10.425 So he would be a wizard and, 00:06:11.145 --> 00:06:11.955 Alison: He would be a wizard. 00:06:11.955 --> 00:06:16.005 He was probably planning on multi classing four or five times Paladin 00:06:16.010 --> 00:06:17.535 for some holy reason, you know? 00:06:17.535 --> 00:06:18.915 And didn't even get that far. 00:06:19.205 --> 00:06:19.495 Yeah. 00:06:19.695 --> 00:06:20.355 Matt: Ooh, Ooh. 00:06:20.715 --> 00:06:21.105 Ooh. 00:06:21.285 --> 00:06:24.285 Is it, do I dislike Ross because. 00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:30.960 They might have coded him to have a little ADHD, but the annoying parts of ADHD that 00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:33.540 I, that are annoying to me about myself. 00:06:33.630 --> 00:06:35.820 And that's what turns me off of Ross. 00:06:36.285 --> 00:06:36.575 Alison: Okay. 00:06:36.580 --> 00:06:37.785 That's its own episode. 00:06:38.325 --> 00:06:39.135 own thread. 00:06:39.455 --> 00:06:39.870 Matt: it down. 00:06:40.140 --> 00:06:40.530 my God. 00:06:40.890 --> 00:06:41.430 Oh my God. 00:06:46.935 --> 00:06:47.625 Alison: Oh, no. 00:06:49.050 --> 00:06:50.190 Matt: Oh, that is at episode though. 00:06:50.220 --> 00:06:50.760 Okay, cool. 00:06:51.330 --> 00:06:53.910 Uh, anyway, Ross was a wizard. 00:06:54.157 --> 00:06:55.030 Let's see. 00:06:55.030 --> 00:06:55.630 Let's see. 00:06:55.630 --> 00:06:56.230 Let's see,. 00:06:56.290 --> 00:07:00.360 A druid would absolutely be Phoebe, right. 00:07:00.690 --> 00:07:01.790 Phoebe would be a druid. 00:07:02.265 --> 00:07:03.095 Alison: Mm, a hundred. 00:07:03.510 --> 00:07:03.990 Matt: Bard. 00:07:04.170 --> 00:07:05.130 Joey would be the Bard. 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.960 Um, well Joey or Chandler. 00:07:10.425 --> 00:07:11.175 Alison: Yeah. 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:12.770 Matt: That's tough. 00:07:12.810 --> 00:07:13.965 Alison: Maybe they both would be bards. 00:07:13.965 --> 00:07:16.715 Maybe it would be a party of bards, a bardy party. 00:07:17.070 --> 00:07:19.740 Matt: Maybe like one would be like sub classing is sort of a 00:07:19.850 --> 00:07:23.430 jester type and the other one would be more of a, I don't know. 00:07:23.490 --> 00:07:24.690 And then Monica? 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:26.190 My favorite strangely. 00:07:26.655 --> 00:07:27.515 Alison: Did you already say Rachel? 00:07:28.290 --> 00:07:29.010 Matt: Oh, Rachel, right. 00:07:29.010 --> 00:07:29.250 Sorry. 00:07:29.255 --> 00:07:34.034 Rachel would be, I think Rachel would be a fighter, 00:07:34.206 --> 00:07:34.426 Alison: Oh 00:07:35.811 --> 00:07:38.451 Matt: So Monica, um, would then be 00:07:38.899 --> 00:07:39.529 Alison: Hmm. 00:07:39.949 --> 00:07:40.939 Matt: What would Monica be? 00:07:41.923 --> 00:07:43.963 Alison: I feel like she would be some kind of a caster. 00:07:43.963 --> 00:07:45.713 I feel like she would be warlock or sorcerer. 00:07:48.358 --> 00:07:49.918 Matt: She has a, she has a pact. 00:07:50.038 --> 00:07:52.498 She has a relationship with a... 00:07:53.323 --> 00:07:53.833 Alison: Can't you see. 00:07:54.178 --> 00:07:55.738 Matt: Well, maybe yeah, yeah. 00:07:56.178 --> 00:07:56.528 Uhhuh. 00:07:56.795 --> 00:07:57.755 I could see that. 00:07:58.145 --> 00:08:03.262 Um, I was trying to somehow work in her O C D. 00:08:03.837 --> 00:08:03.937 Alison: Mm-hmm. 00:08:03.937 --> 00:08:07.822 Matt: I was trying to somehow figure out what that, how that could 00:08:07.822 --> 00:08:12.022 manifest in a cool way, but, um, yeah, let's go with the warlock. 00:08:12.412 --> 00:08:13.192 Yeah, I like it. 00:08:13.312 --> 00:08:13.552 I like. 00:08:13.747 --> 00:08:15.232 Alison: I sign off on all of these things. 00:08:15.232 --> 00:08:15.732 Matt: Okay, great. 00:08:17.137 --> 00:08:20.857 Alison: I'm sorry that if my example led you to feel, you know, railroaded 00:08:20.857 --> 00:08:22.507 and boxed in, but I love that. 00:08:23.002 --> 00:08:24.232 Matt: No, it worked, it worked. 00:08:24.232 --> 00:08:27.892 I, I got to show off my, my new found knowledge of, of Friends. 00:08:28.222 --> 00:08:28.552 Alison: Yeah. 00:08:28.792 --> 00:08:33.442 Yeah, I did take that by the way, as a future topic, takeaway of 00:08:33.442 --> 00:08:36.452 diagnosing our favorite characters with ADHD example, Ross from from 00:08:37.252 --> 00:08:37.852 Matt: Yeah. 00:08:37.852 --> 00:08:38.872 Mm-hmm 00:08:39.382 --> 00:08:41.542 Alison: We'll go down that, that, that masky path. 00:08:41.932 --> 00:08:43.792 All you ready for me? 00:08:44.017 --> 00:08:44.557 Matt: Yes. 00:08:46.402 --> 00:08:47.992 Alison: I have a 13. 00:08:48.157 --> 00:08:53.377 Matt: 13 is What is your favorite D&D spell? 00:08:54.622 --> 00:08:55.462 Alison: Ooh. 00:08:56.482 --> 00:09:01.222 Ooh, I, so I, I, whatever one is the one that's going to cause the most damage. 00:09:01.332 --> 00:09:05.612 You know, even in games where I'm supposed to be like buffing other players or 00:09:05.617 --> 00:09:07.142 healing, like I'm not a good healer. 00:09:07.142 --> 00:09:07.772 I wanna fight. 00:09:07.832 --> 00:09:09.332 I wanna, I wanna kill stuff. 00:09:09.332 --> 00:09:10.352 So messed up. 00:09:10.622 --> 00:09:14.912 So I, I tend to like to cast the ones that you cast them once and then can use bonus 00:09:14.917 --> 00:09:20.132 actions to keep firing away, like a Call Lightning, um, or something like that. 00:09:20.132 --> 00:09:24.302 Moonbeam, Sunbeam, any of those where you cast on an action. 00:09:25.112 --> 00:09:25.532 Yeah. 00:09:25.897 --> 00:09:26.247 Matt: Uhhuh. 00:09:26.532 --> 00:09:31.472 Alison: Witch Bolt I don't like, because I feel limited that you 00:09:31.477 --> 00:09:33.962 can only send it at one person. 00:09:33.962 --> 00:09:37.172 You choose, you choose a, a place to send Witch Bolt. 00:09:37.442 --> 00:09:40.802 So I think I use this in one of our games in Strahd where I cast, Witch Bolt on 00:09:40.807 --> 00:09:42.302 somebody and they died in the next round. 00:09:42.302 --> 00:09:43.712 So then my Witch Bolt was wasted. 00:09:43.712 --> 00:09:46.862 I felt like, whereas. 00:09:47.597 --> 00:09:48.737 Area of effects. 00:09:48.857 --> 00:09:51.047 If I Call Lightning, man, I love that one. 00:09:51.047 --> 00:09:54.257 Cuz you could just move it around wherever you want it to go and just 00:09:54.257 --> 00:09:58.537 smoke people out of their little hidey holes and just burn them to a shred. 00:09:59.127 --> 00:09:59.967 Love it. 00:10:00.247 --> 00:10:05.852 Matt: OP, but, um, you were, you were playing the other day with 00:10:05.852 --> 00:10:10.239 one that, I wasn't super familiar with, but it was really cool. 00:10:10.239 --> 00:10:11.199 Mind Sliver. 00:10:11.199 --> 00:10:12.739 Is that, is it Mind Sliver? 00:10:12.739 --> 00:10:12.889 Is 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:15.004 Alison: I think it was no, I think it was Shatter. 00:10:15.064 --> 00:10:15.694 Mind Whip? 00:10:15.724 --> 00:10:16.114 Yes. 00:10:16.114 --> 00:10:17.704 Mind Whip is the one. 00:10:17.959 --> 00:10:19.009 Matt: That one was cool. 00:10:19.354 --> 00:10:20.194 Alison: Yeah, that one's 00:10:20.209 --> 00:10:24.619 Matt: It did some really unique things like, yeah. 00:10:24.994 --> 00:10:28.564 Alison: That's the one where I think same kind of vein. 00:10:29.059 --> 00:10:33.319 So it causes damage and then it takes things away from who it hits. 00:10:33.319 --> 00:10:37.489 So I think that's the one where on the next turn, the, if they, if they fail 00:10:37.494 --> 00:10:41.269 their save on their next turn, they can either have an action, a bonus 00:10:41.269 --> 00:10:44.359 action or a movement, not all three. 00:10:44.509 --> 00:10:46.009 And it's so limiting. 00:10:46.099 --> 00:10:47.359 Um, yeah, that one is fun. 00:10:47.929 --> 00:10:50.069 That's my newest character Cora. 00:10:50.069 --> 00:10:53.079 So I'm playing around cuz this is my second time playing a sorcerer. 00:10:53.389 --> 00:10:57.589 Um, so on this one, I'm I'm trying very hard to not choose the same spells I've 00:10:57.594 --> 00:10:59.169 played with before, you know, stretching 00:10:59.169 --> 00:11:00.049 Matt: Not it's really fun. 00:11:00.049 --> 00:11:02.869 You're doing a lot of thundery stormy. 00:11:03.319 --> 00:11:03.679 Alison: Mm-hmm 00:11:03.769 --> 00:11:06.739 Matt: Stormy weather kind of things. 00:11:06.829 --> 00:11:07.189 Yeah. 00:11:07.739 --> 00:11:09.619 Alison: Gotta get that boom, boom, boom. 00:11:11.569 --> 00:11:11.809 Matt: Yeah. 00:11:12.349 --> 00:11:13.309 Sweet, good answer! 00:11:13.309 --> 00:11:17.329 We need a, we need a sound effect for ADHd100 table time. 00:11:18.109 --> 00:11:18.649 Um, 00:11:18.649 --> 00:11:23.669 Alison: A little intro in and out of it. 00:11:23.669 --> 00:11:26.749 Matt: Let's see. 00:11:26.829 --> 00:11:34.054 This is gonna be the beginning, the end and the beginning of me. 00:11:35.254 --> 00:11:37.474 Um, yeah. 00:11:37.984 --> 00:11:41.434 So what kind of topics do you like? 00:11:46.504 --> 00:11:51.454 Alison: Well, Matthew, um, right before we hopped on mic, I think 00:11:51.454 --> 00:11:54.364 actually, as we were like doing some, some testing and, and checking. 00:11:54.364 --> 00:11:56.584 Our good friend Fitz, who we mention every episode. 00:11:56.584 --> 00:12:00.064 Hi Fitz, uh, slid into our DMS... 00:12:00.114 --> 00:12:00.534 Matt: Mm-hmm. 00:12:01.044 --> 00:12:02.424 Alison: With some news. 00:12:02.424 --> 00:12:07.294 So this news, if you haven't heard, is that, uh, 2024 will mark the 50th 00:12:07.294 --> 00:12:09.454 anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons. 00:12:09.509 --> 00:12:09.729 Matt: Yes. 00:12:10.524 --> 00:12:13.504 Alison: And so Wizards of the Coast is coming out with what is being called 00:12:13.504 --> 00:12:20.884 One D&D which it will effectively apparently be like D&D 5.5 E. 00:12:21.004 --> 00:12:22.754 Um, currently, now we're on 5E. 00:12:23.419 --> 00:12:24.409 Matt: Wow. 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.229 Alison: Uh, so I started, of course, while Matt was doing all 00:12:27.229 --> 00:12:30.409 of his nerdy tech things, I started furiously reading through the press 00:12:30.409 --> 00:12:34.189 releases and what, uh, Wizards of the Coast has put on their website. 00:12:34.189 --> 00:12:37.669 What's already live on, uh, D&D Beyond. 00:12:37.729 --> 00:12:41.149 Of course, you know, if you're a D&D person you've either heard of this, or 00:12:41.149 --> 00:12:45.859 you can go on your own, um, you know, uh, rabbit hole rampage, if you will. 00:12:47.059 --> 00:12:50.549 Um, but they're, they're, like that 00:12:51.529 --> 00:12:53.749 Matt: I've never heard that rabbit hole rampage 00:12:54.179 --> 00:12:55.509 Alison: Rabbit hole rampage. 00:12:55.969 --> 00:13:00.859 They're gonna start, like you could opt in, you can claim, play test 00:13:00.859 --> 00:13:04.879 material for your own games, get to fool around with it a little bit. 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:09.019 And then there will be these survey windows that you'll get to then give 00:13:09.019 --> 00:13:12.349 feedback to, I guess, help shape the future of Dungeons and Dragons. 00:13:13.219 --> 00:13:14.239 Matt: Happy. 00:13:14.269 --> 00:13:15.619 Happy clown. 00:13:16.084 --> 00:13:17.614 Alison: So I've already claimed mine. 00:13:17.690 --> 00:13:19.440 Log into your dndbeyond.com. 00:13:19.525 --> 00:13:20.055 Matt: Just now. 00:13:20.205 --> 00:13:20.495 Yeah. 00:13:20.540 --> 00:13:21.560 Alison: And you claim it. 00:13:21.650 --> 00:13:22.430 This is so great. 00:13:22.430 --> 00:13:26.900 And so the very first thing that's up, and this makes me weep with joy. 00:13:26.900 --> 00:13:33.560 I feel like after a cloudy, rainy, awful, depressing, terrible week, 00:13:33.620 --> 00:13:38.990 the clouds are parting and rays are shining through again because of this, 00:13:38.990 --> 00:13:43.400 because the first play test material is all around character origins. 00:13:43.400 --> 00:13:48.770 So basically it's just, it's begging, it's asking me to build some more 00:13:48.770 --> 00:13:54.680 characters and you, I think Matt mentioned this not too long ago, that 00:13:54.680 --> 00:14:00.710 they may be kind of replacing the whole idea of race with origins instead. 00:14:01.520 --> 00:14:03.440 Um, so I'm excited. 00:14:03.590 --> 00:14:04.340 I'm excited. 00:14:04.985 --> 00:14:09.245 Matt: I mean, I personally, have been wanting to move in that direction. 00:14:09.245 --> 00:14:12.581 Just like, look, well, you know, they've gotten flack. 00:14:12.581 --> 00:14:17.831 I don't know if it was necessarily deserved flack, meaning changes 00:14:17.831 --> 00:14:21.911 needed to be made to game to Dungeons & Dragons and 5E. 00:14:22.031 --> 00:14:30.857 But this movement, these movements, to just being more mindful, more, more 00:14:30.857 --> 00:14:35.807 sensitive, more, all these things, we're all learning how to do this, right? 00:14:35.807 --> 00:14:44.807 Like I don't think that, you know, making Drow evil for decades is you know, bad. 00:14:45.287 --> 00:14:46.517 It just needs to change. 00:14:46.547 --> 00:14:47.057 That's all. 00:14:47.107 --> 00:14:49.117 The game needs to evolve the way anything evolves. 00:14:49.117 --> 00:14:49.387 Right? 00:14:49.777 --> 00:14:54.217 So yeah, I, I love this and I, I think that's where it's moving to is 00:14:54.217 --> 00:14:56.137 like, what do you wanna look like? 00:14:56.137 --> 00:14:56.827 What do you wanna be? 00:14:56.832 --> 00:14:57.667 Who do you wanna be? 00:14:57.890 --> 00:15:03.067 You could be a, you know, a human orc halfling. 00:15:03.097 --> 00:15:06.807 I mean, my, I just found out my dog isn't even a shih tzu. 00:15:08.107 --> 00:15:08.497 Right? 00:15:08.497 --> 00:15:11.737 So like, why wouldn't that apply to everything? 00:15:11.767 --> 00:15:12.127 I don't know. 00:15:12.187 --> 00:15:12.727 It's fun. 00:15:13.297 --> 00:15:13.957 I'm psyched. 00:15:14.287 --> 00:15:15.307 We need a play test. 00:15:15.877 --> 00:15:16.597 Alison: Absolutely. 00:15:16.657 --> 00:15:17.167 So, yep. 00:15:17.227 --> 00:15:19.477 We've claimed ours go claim yours. 00:15:19.957 --> 00:15:23.407 And the other part of the announcement that kind of excited me, cuz we've also 00:15:23.407 --> 00:15:27.577 talked about this on prior episodes is they're trying to make it both 00:15:27.577 --> 00:15:30.757 forward, scalable and backwards proof. 00:15:30.787 --> 00:15:34.537 So they're trying to say, we understand that different people 00:15:34.537 --> 00:15:39.277 like different systems, modules, rule sets, whatever, for a reason. 00:15:39.727 --> 00:15:41.137 So they're trying to integrate this. 00:15:41.137 --> 00:15:49.867 So if you're on 4e you can continue with this One D&D you know, one D&D to 00:15:49.867 --> 00:15:52.747 rule them all one rule set to bind them. 00:15:53.227 --> 00:15:53.887 Um, 00:15:54.757 --> 00:15:55.387 Matt: Nerd! 00:15:55.597 --> 00:15:56.017 Wow. 00:15:56.577 --> 00:15:57.517 Alison: I'm really sorry. 00:15:57.817 --> 00:15:59.377 Matt: No, nerd. 00:15:59.677 --> 00:16:05.527 Um, no, I mean, we are nerds. 00:16:05.577 --> 00:16:06.597 And I really like that. 00:16:06.777 --> 00:16:08.187 I think that's, that's part of... 00:16:08.850 --> 00:16:10.440 we haven't really taken that plunge. 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.390 But the thing that has been attractive about Pathfinder to me, 00:16:13.810 --> 00:16:19.720 because I feel that as, as the indie rock version of D&D it's, uh which 00:16:19.725 --> 00:16:22.240 again is be the hipster version. 00:16:23.890 --> 00:16:27.280 That's so belittling, but I mean, there's an element of it that's true, 00:16:27.460 --> 00:16:31.540 but it is just way more open in a lot of ways, in some ways it's more 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.390 hardcore, but there's an openness to it. 00:16:34.395 --> 00:16:35.950 So I'm psyched. 00:16:36.310 --> 00:16:41.260 That Wizards is kind of, uh, saying, okay, look, let's open this up because... 00:16:41.260 --> 00:16:47.050 why they did such a good job with 5e man, they did such a good job. 00:16:47.570 --> 00:16:51.620 And there's always gonna be people who want to play 2e right? 00:16:51.710 --> 00:16:54.800 3.5, 4 whatever there's always gonna be. 00:16:54.890 --> 00:16:57.260 And that's, that is a different game. 00:16:58.100 --> 00:17:01.340 And I know we've talked about that, but like, you know, the 00:17:01.670 --> 00:17:05.570 Dungeons and Dragons of my youth is very different from the one now. 00:17:06.110 --> 00:17:06.890 It feels different. 00:17:06.890 --> 00:17:07.610 It plays different. 00:17:07.610 --> 00:17:08.930 It, it acts different. 00:17:08.930 --> 00:17:10.280 The choices are different. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:12.170 And that is an attractive thing. 00:17:12.175 --> 00:17:19.040 It's an attractive game, but man, the, the level of heart and the focus on 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:27.710 story, honestly, the therapeutic elements of this game, I think have happened 00:17:27.710 --> 00:17:29.930 since I took a 20, 30 year break. 00:17:30.170 --> 00:17:30.500 Right? 00:17:30.910 --> 00:17:36.650 Personally, I don't, I don't remember the game being quite as focused on 00:17:37.130 --> 00:17:40.010 your feelings, if you want them to. 00:17:40.070 --> 00:17:40.460 Right. 00:17:40.940 --> 00:17:45.410 You don't have to focus on your feelings, but I like to, and that's why I love 00:17:45.470 --> 00:17:47.081 part of why I love the game so much. 00:17:47.101 --> 00:17:47.936 So yeah. 00:17:47.986 --> 00:17:52.513 Keep branching, keep it open, you know, cuz they could close it all 00:17:52.513 --> 00:17:54.493 up, but I'm glad that they're not. 00:17:54.908 --> 00:17:55.328 Alison: Mm-hmm. 00:17:56.113 --> 00:17:56.503 Matt: Hooray. 00:17:56.743 --> 00:17:57.193 We'll see. 00:17:58.513 --> 00:17:58.843 Wow. 00:17:58.973 --> 00:17:59.663 That was live news. 00:18:00.323 --> 00:18:01.903 Um, what else? 00:18:02.698 --> 00:18:08.928 Alison: So, we got, we got some more fan mail, uh, this week, um, from our friend, 00:18:08.928 --> 00:18:14.118 Adam, uh, sent us, just a little bit of feedback, which we, by the way, love. 00:18:14.178 --> 00:18:17.418 And you can send that to us anywhere that you want to on Bivins Brothers 00:18:17.418 --> 00:18:22.128 Creative's, Facebook page on our website, uh, by joining our yeah. 00:18:22.133 --> 00:18:24.678 Twitter by joining our Patreon on our Instagram. 00:18:24.918 --> 00:18:29.928 If you have our emails, phone numbers, uh, carrier pigeon, owl post. 00:18:29.983 --> 00:18:32.353 Any which any, which way you wanna go, we'll take it. 00:18:32.833 --> 00:18:34.073 Maybe don't send us a howler. 00:18:34.093 --> 00:18:36.163 But other than that, actually, you know, what, if you wanna send 00:18:36.163 --> 00:18:37.333 us a howler, you can do that too. 00:18:38.053 --> 00:18:43.213 Um, , it's just all like bubbling to the top today. 00:18:43.843 --> 00:18:45.403 Matt: You're on fire today. 00:18:45.523 --> 00:18:47.473 Nerd, nerd fire. 00:18:47.803 --> 00:18:51.103 Alison: I told you we were leaning really into our tropes 00:18:51.103 --> 00:18:54.838 and you're going full hipster on me and I'm going big weird nerd. 00:18:54.943 --> 00:18:55.543 Matt: Yeah. 00:18:55.543 --> 00:19:02.383 I've got like I in front of me, I've got this like super fresh 00:19:02.383 --> 00:19:08.473 ground coffee made with vacuum press and I've got my mustache. 00:19:08.863 --> 00:19:09.223 None of that. 00:19:10.484 --> 00:19:14.144 Alison: So our friend Adam sent us this great message with, honestly, 00:19:14.144 --> 00:19:16.004 I think a lot of stuff that Matt and I wanna talk through on this 00:19:16.004 --> 00:19:17.594 podcast in one way or another. 00:19:18.104 --> 00:19:21.854 Um, but the part that really stood out to me was an actual, um, 00:19:21.884 --> 00:19:25.274 proactive podcast topic, suggestion that I'm just gonna read verbatim. 00:19:25.274 --> 00:19:26.354 I hope that's okay, Adam. 00:19:26.834 --> 00:19:30.674 Uh, it's how to make friends as an ADHD adult, especially when 00:19:30.674 --> 00:19:32.534 it comes to joining D&D groups. 00:19:32.804 --> 00:19:36.524 I play pickup games at the local game shop and feel super out of place. 00:19:36.794 --> 00:19:41.594 I'm not willing to buy a random graphic tee just to appear to fit in, uh, making. 00:19:42.374 --> 00:19:43.094 I love that. 00:19:43.634 --> 00:19:47.444 Making friends as an adult is hard, but it seems it might be harder with ADHD. 00:19:49.019 --> 00:19:52.649 Thank you for saying that because I I've, I've felt that way for a while. 00:19:52.709 --> 00:19:55.494 And I've heard from a lot of my adult friends. 00:19:55.554 --> 00:20:00.234 And so I, I actually don't know if it's any better or worse with, or without ADHD. 00:20:00.294 --> 00:20:03.534 I currently live in Charlotte, North Carolina, which is 00:20:03.534 --> 00:20:04.374 where I went to college. 00:20:04.374 --> 00:20:05.484 It's not where I grew up. 00:20:05.874 --> 00:20:10.104 So I'm lucky in that I have an abundance of people that I went 00:20:10.104 --> 00:20:14.154 to college with and kind of this ready made community for me here. 00:20:14.697 --> 00:20:19.167 But I moved to New York for a few years between college and settling 00:20:19.167 --> 00:20:22.497 back down here and had a, a hard time like figuring out how do 00:20:22.502 --> 00:20:23.907 you make friends outside of work? 00:20:23.937 --> 00:20:26.457 You know, I'm not the type just to, as we've talked about, walk up to 00:20:26.457 --> 00:20:28.947 strangers and start up conversations. 00:20:29.287 --> 00:20:32.882 And I've had a lot of friends here in Charlotte wonder and approach me and 00:20:32.882 --> 00:20:33.992 say, how do you make friends here? 00:20:34.082 --> 00:20:37.712 And I have no answer for them because my friends here are primarily 00:20:37.712 --> 00:20:38.642 people I went to college with. 00:20:38.642 --> 00:20:41.372 It's again, that, that safety blanket, that comfort zone 00:20:41.372 --> 00:20:42.662 that comes up every episode. 00:20:43.286 --> 00:20:46.676 But the reason I wanted to bring this up, not that, I mean, well, 00:20:46.766 --> 00:20:50.396 I'll pause here and kind of ask you, do you have any advice or thoughts? 00:20:50.396 --> 00:20:53.606 As far as I think this is something we both talked about though, is 00:20:53.606 --> 00:20:57.806 the hardships of making friends as an adult, as someone with ADHD. 00:20:58.091 --> 00:21:02.061 Matt: Yeah, we've definitely danced around the topic a little bit. 00:21:02.181 --> 00:21:06.171 I certainly can walk into a room and talk to almost everyone in there about 00:21:06.171 --> 00:21:11.331 something, you know, one thing But it, you would think that because of that, that 00:21:11.331 --> 00:21:14.271 I would have scores and scores and scores of friends, like really close friends. 00:21:14.271 --> 00:21:18.556 But the flip side of it is, is something that we talked about two podcasts ago. 00:21:18.561 --> 00:21:20.631 The object, uh, permanence, right? 00:21:21.351 --> 00:21:24.201 Where you're like, wow, that was such a great person. 00:21:24.201 --> 00:21:25.491 That was so cool to meet them. 00:21:25.491 --> 00:21:31.071 And then they live in this universe and you don't see them for a a year. 00:21:31.071 --> 00:21:32.841 And they're like, oh, hi, my name is this. 00:21:33.231 --> 00:21:34.551 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 00:21:34.551 --> 00:21:36.321 I just, I, I met you. 00:21:36.381 --> 00:21:36.831 Right. 00:21:36.981 --> 00:21:38.091 But it was a year ago. 00:21:38.091 --> 00:21:39.891 So it's your fault. 00:21:40.581 --> 00:21:42.291 Alison: Did I tell you about the experience of going to my 00:21:42.291 --> 00:21:44.121 brother's wedding a few months ago? 00:21:44.661 --> 00:21:47.511 And my family is pretty small on both sides. 00:21:47.811 --> 00:21:51.981 My aunts and uncles on both sides are how my parents got together. 00:21:52.011 --> 00:21:55.041 So these are obviously people that at one point in time knew each other, cuz they 00:21:55.041 --> 00:21:59.421 all went to the University of Alabama and met in Birmingham and set my parents up. 00:21:59.991 --> 00:22:02.991 My aunts and uncles, we get to the wedding and it had been so long since anybody had 00:22:02.991 --> 00:22:07.161 seen anybody that they started introducing themselves by first and last name. 00:22:07.421 --> 00:22:10.391 Cracked me up, like I'm, I'm sitting there just like taking 00:22:10.391 --> 00:22:12.551 it all in like stifling laughter. 00:22:12.631 --> 00:22:14.611 And it was funny to watch cuz they're doing it. 00:22:14.611 --> 00:22:17.551 And then at the same time as the other person is returning it, they're 00:22:17.551 --> 00:22:18.631 like, of course I know who you are. 00:22:18.901 --> 00:22:21.361 I think this is a fear that we all have though. 00:22:21.366 --> 00:22:25.801 We all have this fear that we're not gonna be remembered even by the most, 00:22:25.831 --> 00:22:29.251 you know, even by our, our relatives, relatives by marriage, but still. 00:22:29.671 --> 00:22:33.091 So I think, you know, and, and yeah, sometimes names are hard, you know, 00:22:33.091 --> 00:22:35.851 sometimes if I'm going to a place with a friend I'll, I'll tell that 00:22:35.851 --> 00:22:39.361 friend, Hey, I, if I don't remember somebody's name, I'm probably 00:22:39.366 --> 00:22:41.151 not gonna introduce you to them. 00:22:41.151 --> 00:22:42.921 You are gonna have to say hi I'm... 00:22:43.536 --> 00:22:44.196 Matt: Oh yes. 00:22:44.256 --> 00:22:47.976 Oh, I have all of those with any friend that I have going. 00:22:47.976 --> 00:22:49.206 Yeah, that is, yeah. 00:22:49.261 --> 00:22:51.351 Alison: So, you know, to jump in and say, Hey, I'm Alison. 00:22:51.451 --> 00:22:55.011 Matt: This is a timely topic for me because, I have 00:22:55.011 --> 00:22:56.301 this friend I've mentioned. 00:22:56.381 --> 00:22:57.191 He is an actor. 00:22:57.281 --> 00:23:01.911 I did not know him, pre pandemic very well, because he was a full-time actor 00:23:01.911 --> 00:23:06.711 in Chicago, which means he really just worked all the time all the time. 00:23:06.891 --> 00:23:12.622 But then the pandemic happened and I, I was, uh, reintroduced to how 00:23:12.915 --> 00:23:15.075 to make friends because of Matt. 00:23:15.585 --> 00:23:25.192 Because he decided for whatever reason that I was going to be a new bestie. 00:23:25.272 --> 00:23:29.683 Which is 100% necessary to become a friend of somebody with ADD. 00:23:30.163 --> 00:23:36.013 That's point, is that he didn't know all of that, but like he, I, I'm 00:23:36.013 --> 00:23:39.451 assuming all of his friends in his life, he says, do they pass muster? 00:23:39.456 --> 00:23:43.111 Yes or no, if yes, I'm going to work at it. 00:23:43.381 --> 00:23:45.121 And he works at it, you know? 00:23:45.901 --> 00:23:52.993 And he really moved past all of the topical stuff, the superficial stuff. 00:23:53.653 --> 00:23:58.883 And he he made us incredible cocktails and he would invite us over and we 00:23:58.888 --> 00:24:02.843 would like, you know, have dinner and, and doing all this stuff. 00:24:03.143 --> 00:24:07.043 And he just kicks ass 00:24:07.693 --> 00:24:07.943 Alison: mm-hmm 00:24:07.943 --> 00:24:09.203 Matt: at being a friend, you know? 00:24:09.713 --> 00:24:12.941 Um, He's my newest, best friend, like in Chicago and I 00:24:12.941 --> 00:24:14.591 have great friends in Chicago. 00:24:14.691 --> 00:24:19.851 And so, uh, tonight I'm going to his farewell party actually, and 00:24:19.941 --> 00:24:24.249 it's real sad, because I have spent so much time in Chicago just 00:24:24.529 --> 00:24:26.869 trying to understand all of this. 00:24:26.869 --> 00:24:29.779 Like why is it harder for me to have friends? 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:36.259 Because I, um, I am the way I am because I was in a rock band where, where I 00:24:36.259 --> 00:24:40.279 didn't have to work very hard, uh, because I have, because I am older, 00:24:41.149 --> 00:24:45.259 it could be because I have ADHD, it could be any number of those reasons. 00:24:45.289 --> 00:24:45.589 Right. 00:24:46.099 --> 00:24:50.499 Um, so the coolest thing is just that Matt gave me this 00:24:50.499 --> 00:24:53.939 gift, not just friendship, but he showed me what it takes. 00:24:54.059 --> 00:24:54.839 It's not easy. 00:24:54.989 --> 00:24:55.499 It's really nice. 00:24:56.064 --> 00:24:56.879 it's not easy. 00:24:56.969 --> 00:24:58.169 I mean, maybe it is for him. 00:24:58.319 --> 00:24:59.609 It's definitely not for me. 00:24:59.889 --> 00:25:00.999 I'm so grateful that he did. 00:25:00.999 --> 00:25:05.829 And I, and I, I feel like I've learned some lessons and, and the other cool thing 00:25:05.829 --> 00:25:09.219 is he's going away for a year or more. 00:25:09.322 --> 00:25:10.762 But I'm not afraid to lose him. 00:25:10.912 --> 00:25:11.452 You know what I mean? 00:25:11.482 --> 00:25:15.862 I'm not afraid to lose him as a friend where I don't know if that I 00:25:15.862 --> 00:25:21.232 could say that about everybody that I know, you know, so that's cool. 00:25:21.475 --> 00:25:25.700 Alison: Well, It reminds me of, and I think Fitz is somebody who sent it to me. 00:25:25.910 --> 00:25:30.080 There's a meme that says something along the lines of how introverts 00:25:30.080 --> 00:25:35.060 make friends: an extrovert, finds them, likes them and adopts them. 00:25:35.870 --> 00:25:37.260 And that's 00:25:37.955 --> 00:25:38.495 Matt: That's it? 00:25:38.795 --> 00:25:40.115 That is a hundred percent it. 00:25:40.295 --> 00:25:42.845 Alison: And I have been both the adopter and the adoptee 00:25:42.845 --> 00:25:43.895 and, you know, you're right. 00:25:43.895 --> 00:25:47.765 When you find a, a new shiny friend that you zing with, for whatever reason 00:25:47.765 --> 00:25:52.325 you wanna hold 'em in place and show 'em the ropes and like, Nope, Nope. 00:25:52.355 --> 00:25:52.565 Yeah. 00:25:52.595 --> 00:25:56.525 Not gonna let you slide outta here, but sometimes you need to be 00:25:56.525 --> 00:25:57.965 pulled into somebody else's orbit. 00:25:58.055 --> 00:26:03.725 Um, so I almost wonder if it's not so much an ADHD versus not conversation, 00:26:04.265 --> 00:26:07.685 but an, an introvert versus extrovert conversation that we started on, you 00:26:07.685 --> 00:26:11.645 know, before, and, and, and why you and I both are able to do it and also 00:26:11.645 --> 00:26:16.115 struggle with it because we've both become more introverted in recent years. 00:26:16.625 --> 00:26:19.145 Maybe even just, maybe we're just ambiverts now. 00:26:19.835 --> 00:26:24.245 Um, so, yeah, so I, you know, I think it's, I think that's all 00:26:24.245 --> 00:26:25.745 a wonderful thing to talk about. 00:26:26.255 --> 00:26:31.490 So what, stood out for me in Adam's question, because I 00:26:31.610 --> 00:26:33.860 personally don't have any answers. 00:26:34.130 --> 00:26:34.940 I wish I did. 00:26:35.470 --> 00:26:37.930 I thought this might be a fun challenge for me. 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:43.640 Like if, if I would take this as a, challenge maybe isn't the right 00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:45.260 word, but maybe I need to try. 00:26:45.260 --> 00:26:48.530 Maybe I need to like, almost go undercover and, and try for myself 00:26:48.535 --> 00:26:53.750 some of these meetups and local game and report back to the listeners of 00:26:53.750 --> 00:27:00.260 ADHd20, both as a social experiment, you know, research for our podcast 00:27:00.260 --> 00:27:02.060 and our listeners and our community. 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:06.050 Um, so I can say this is definitively what I learned in my experience. 00:27:06.050 --> 00:27:07.320 This is what worked and what didn't. 00:27:07.670 --> 00:27:10.910 Take that for what you will, but I also wonder if it's a boundary I need to 00:27:10.910 --> 00:27:16.370 push on for my own growth, you know, to find more people that I can play with. 00:27:16.375 --> 00:27:22.370 As often as I wanna play to get over the fear of strangers to, you know, 00:27:22.375 --> 00:27:25.280 we, we even talked about not that I would expect this out of it, but when 00:27:25.285 --> 00:27:30.350 we were having the, the podcast episode, uh, where dating with ADHD came up and 00:27:30.350 --> 00:27:31.550 I was like, I have no answers for you. 00:27:31.550 --> 00:27:35.210 I have no idea how to meet guys, like, other than dating 00:27:35.210 --> 00:27:36.660 apps, which is a swift no. 00:27:37.380 --> 00:27:41.490 Maybe there's a nerdy boy somewhere out there in Charlotte that I, I don't know. 00:27:41.940 --> 00:27:46.020 Evan, Evan has long suggested that I go to more Cons, just because like, 00:27:46.020 --> 00:27:50.490 he's like, you need to go to where your type of person is gonna be, and they're 00:27:50.495 --> 00:27:52.680 not gonna be, you know, at a bar. 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:55.440 And they're not probably even going to be on the apps, but they might 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:57.420 be at a, at a big old nerd Con. 00:27:57.785 --> 00:27:59.185 Matt: I love that. 00:27:59.280 --> 00:28:02.310 Alison: I'm telling all of you, all of this, what you, especially 00:28:02.310 --> 00:28:03.930 Matt to hold me accountable. 00:28:03.930 --> 00:28:07.740 Like, let, let me, you know, this is like the concept of meetups is 00:28:07.740 --> 00:28:11.670 something that I have long shunned, um, 00:28:12.855 --> 00:28:13.335 Matt: Me too. 00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:15.120 Alison: Feel free to hold me accountable. 00:28:15.180 --> 00:28:16.830 Give me a little bit of time, too. 00:28:16.950 --> 00:28:20.160 Matt: I, I love this challenge for yourself that you created. 00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:25.710 I accept the challenge that you created for yourself and I 00:28:25.715 --> 00:28:28.920 will hold you accountable, cuz I think it's an amazing idea. 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:34.650 I think that you are entering a new era of AK. 00:28:34.650 --> 00:28:39.600 You have, you have lovely friends, you have amazing ones, but where you are 00:28:39.600 --> 00:28:45.600 right now, I think that, uh, similar to me, there have been people who have 00:28:45.600 --> 00:28:51.180 kids or want kids or moved into this or got new jobs or, or are just operating 00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:55.530 or just focuses change and evolve. 00:28:55.860 --> 00:28:59.600 I think this is the time where you're going to find that group. 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.500 That's always, probably been there, but maybe you didn't know it was inside. 00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:07.160 We all knew that you were a nerd, but you just kind of had to like 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:09.560 open that door and walk on through. 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:10.730 Right? 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:14.980 Alison: I hear you on this new season and finding this new, you know, 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.610 blazing this new path to glory, then there's this other part of me that's 00:29:18.610 --> 00:29:19.640 sitting here going no new friends. 00:29:19.660 --> 00:29:19.930 I'm good. 00:29:19.930 --> 00:29:20.320 I'm full. 00:29:20.350 --> 00:29:21.070 I have, I have enough. 00:29:22.705 --> 00:29:24.535 Matt: Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, but 00:29:24.730 --> 00:29:28.120 Alison: But not every, but, and not every friend you, you meet has to be a 00:29:28.120 --> 00:29:30.520 soulmate, you know, like life changing. 00:29:30.550 --> 00:29:34.360 Like it's okay to have people that I see once a month and play D&D with, you 00:29:34.360 --> 00:29:40.060 know, maybe that's, that's the connection that I'm lacking, um, and will perhaps 00:29:40.060 --> 00:29:44.230 find and report back and tell you the good, the bad, the embarrassing, the 00:29:44.230 --> 00:29:49.420 ugly, and the wonderful, uh, someday soon on future episode of ADHd20. 00:29:49.665 --> 00:29:50.165 Matt: All right. 00:29:50.865 --> 00:29:51.365 All right. 00:29:52.145 --> 00:29:52.365 All 00:29:53.260 --> 00:29:54.040 Alison: Frightening 00:29:56.112 --> 00:29:56.892 Matt: Oh, man. 00:29:56.892 --> 00:29:57.342 Okay. 00:29:57.402 --> 00:29:57.882 All right. 00:29:58.239 --> 00:29:58.959 Alison: I think that's it. 00:29:59.289 --> 00:30:01.189 I think that's, I think that's the show! 00:30:03.879 --> 00:30:05.754 Matt: Yeah, I really can't. 00:30:05.854 --> 00:30:09.214 I mean, you're, you're literally leaving us on a cliff hanger. 00:30:09.214 --> 00:30:12.754 I can't imagine, like, I can't imagine how else to end it. 00:30:12.754 --> 00:30:14.551 But thank you, uh, Mr. 00:30:14.556 --> 00:30:16.171 Reinhardt for, for writing. 00:30:17.291 --> 00:30:18.761 Thanks everybody for writing. 00:30:18.791 --> 00:30:23.051 And thanks for caring for listening to this. 00:30:23.111 --> 00:30:27.041 Um, all y'all all my friends and you know who you are. 00:30:27.221 --> 00:30:30.371 This is a special thing for me and, has gotten me through 00:30:30.371 --> 00:30:32.848 some very tough weeks recently. 00:30:33.403 --> 00:30:33.913 Alison: Mm-hmm 00:30:34.023 --> 00:30:36.923 Matt: Hooray for ADHd20? 00:30:37.573 --> 00:30:39.553 Alison: It's been a beautiful little sailboat... 00:30:39.988 --> 00:30:40.558 Matt: Yes. 00:30:40.633 --> 00:30:42.733 Alison: ...this week for me, sailing me out of... 00:30:43.518 --> 00:30:44.078 Matt: sailboat. 00:30:44.773 --> 00:30:48.013 Alison: ...the yuck, get out of there. 00:30:48.328 --> 00:30:49.408 Matt: Yeah, get out 00:30:49.453 --> 00:30:50.053 Alison: yay. 00:30:50.563 --> 00:30:51.373 Thanks Matt. 00:30:51.463 --> 00:30:54.163 Thanks listeners of ADHd20 for being my sailboat. 00:30:54.358 --> 00:30:56.128 Matt: Thanks everybody for sail boating. 00:30:59.158 --> 00:31:00.118 Alison: Bye 00:31:04.738 --> 00:31:06.968 We're still the worst at endings. 00:31:07.053 --> 00:31:07.633 Matt: I don't know. 00:31:07.843 --> 00:31:09.583 Sometimes it's easier than other times.