Every Damn Thing
Melissa B. is back to help Phil, Jake & Jason rank the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons] and sliced bread [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliced_bread] on the List of Every Damn Thing [https://www.everydamnthing.net/]. Plus we re-rank contemporary pop superstar Harry Styles [https://www.everydamnthing.net/71]. If you have something to add to the list, email it to list@everydamnthing.net [list@everydamnthing.net] (or get at us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/EveryDamnTweets], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/everydamnthingpod/] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068246141702]). SHOW NOTES: * Valley Fever [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccidioidomycosis], also called desert rheumatism, is a respiratory disease that's thought to be caused by shark scales. It's endemic to Central and Southern California. * Dungeons & Dragons [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons] is a role playing game invented by Gary Gygax and many others. It's really broad and open-ended but is the most popular game in that genre. In the game, players assume the roles of characters who have fantasy-themed adventures. * Dungeons & Dragons [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_(TV_series)] was also the name of a cartoon made in 1985 as a tie-in for that game. It was about a group of teens that got transported to a different world and became fantasy adventurers with magic weapons. It had a kind of Narnia vibe. * Gary Gygax was the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, although he didn't create it alone, and it grew out of other, similar games. * JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit which are foundational works in modern fantasy. Along with Conan, these books more or less created the genre/setting for Dungeons & Dragons. * Alcoholics Anonymous [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous] is a mutual-aid group formed in 1935 in which members work together to help themselves recover from alcoholism. Phil speculates that there are probably good AA Dungeons & Dragons games. * Dice are polyhedral objects with numbers on the sides used to generate random numbers. The most commonly used dice are the six-sided dice you might use in a craps game or Monopoly or inside the Pop-o-Matic bubble of a Trouble game. Dungeons & Dragons requires different dice, 4-sided, 8-sided, 12-sided, 20-sided etc although now that Phil thinks about it, it's pretty unnecessary. With a few math changes, the game would work fine with 6-sided dice but people like to have that velvet dice sack. In prison, where dice are banned, Dungeons & Dragons players have to use other methods [https://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2017/07/26/play-dungeons-dragons-without-dice/] though. * The Dungeons & Dragons movie [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SnA2rv4ros] looks like it has some pretty bad special effects, even for the time. Jeremy Irons appears to be having a fun time with it, though. * SPOILER ALERT! Harry Styles plays Eros aka Starfox [https://www.marvel.com/characters/starfox-eros] in Eternals [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film)]. ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: chain mail * half-orcs * improv * the Satanic Panic * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial [https://www.everydamnthing.net/episodes?page=2&per=30] * role-playing games * the Golden Girls [https://www.everydamnthing.net/63] * video games [https://www.everydamnthing.net/31] * audio books [https://www.everydamnthing.net/66] * Sorry! [https://www.everydamnthing.net/31] * titties [https://www.everydamnthing.net/86] * The Matrix [https://www.everydamnthing.net/46] * Insane Clown Posse [https://www.everydamnthing.net/86] * karaoke [https://www.everydamnthing.net/44] * Bill Paxton [https://www.everydamnthing.net/33] * Spaceballs [https://www.everydamnthing.net/43] * graffiti [https://www.everydamnthing.net/64] * Star Wars [https://www.everydamnthing.net/29] * industrialization * bagels [https://www.everydamnthing.net/44] * NASCAR * Bakersfield, CA * knives * Triscuits [https://www.everydamnthing.net/26] * Top Ramen [https://www.everydamnthing.net/25] * rye bread [https://www.everydamnthing.net/7] * plastic straws [https://www.everydamnthing.net/88] * Tommy Bahamas shirts [https://www.everydamnthing.net/2] * Britney Spears [https://www.everydamnthing.net/84] * “Weird Al” Yankovic [https://www.everydamnthing.net/43] * Bill Murray [https://www.everydamnthing.net/81] * the Golden Gate Bridge [https://www.everydamnthing.net/44] * Bruce Springsteen [https://www.everydamnthing.net/38] * Shakira [https://www.everydamnthing.net/23] Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here [https://www.everydamnthing.net/]). TOP TEN: 1. Dolly Parton - person 2. interspecies animal friends - idea 3. sex - idea 4. bicycles - tool 5. coffee - beverage 6. Clement Street in San Francisco - location 7. Prince - person 8. It’s-It - food 9. Doctor Doom - fictional character 10. Cher - person BOTTOM TEN: 291. cops - people 292. British Royal Family - institution 293. Steven Seagal - person 294. McRib - food 295. Hoarders - TV show 296. death - idea 297. war - idea 298. cigarettes - drug 299. QAnon - idea 300. transphobia - idea Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green. Our website is everydamnthing.net [https://www.everydamnthing.net/] and we're also on Twitter [https://twitter.com/EveryDamnTweets], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/everydamnthingpod/] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068246141702]. Email us at list@everydamnthing.net [list@everydamnthing.net].
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