EP 163

Joe: Welcome to the neuro nerds. So what if I had a, sorry, because I looked over and she was literally like, I’m tired there. What’s going on?

Felice: What if we never start this episode? What if he never started this podcast?

Joe: That would be so sad. I wouldn’t know a huge chunk of the people that I know.

Hi, I’m Joe and I’m Lauren and we are The Nuero Nerds. We’re here every week, meet every week.

This is a very special episode because I have a very special lady with me. Hello.

I can’t remember a time that I introed you and it was like, oh, wow. That was cool. It’s always lackluster. It’s always awkward. It’s always weird. So if we’re talking lackluster or awkward, Hello, Felice LaZae.

Felice: hello? Hello?

Joe: He did one of these intros and you just, you came in hot.

Felice: Hey, what’s up everybody. Welcome to the neuro nerds. Boom. Is that me? That’s you.

Joe: that’s not me. I got to tell you that might be the worst impression of me ever.

Felice: I’m really tapping into my Wednesday vibes right now. I’m actually really excited about that. That this episode is not about the Wednesday Netflix series, but side note, I’m very excited about…

Joe: oh, I had no idea where you’re going with that. I was like, wait, what? I don’t understand what’s happening. So yeah. Spoiler alert. We’re recording this on a Wednesday.

Felice: Today’s Thursday, what?

Joe: Hey, that’s where we’re at.

Felice: You’re saying what if a lot? So this episode, we are going to be talking about the new Marvel series.

That was your cue. It was such a visual cue.

Joe: It was such a visual cue that I didn’t really know what was happening. You can see me, but you weren’t even making eye contact with me. You just made like a head motion and you weren’t really looking at me. So this episode is going to be about what if the show?

So alternate timeline. The one true timeline. No, that’s no, that’s Loki.

Felice: Not the one true timeline, the sacred timeline.

Joe: So we’re going to talk with some branch realities in Marvel’s new animated series, whatever. Is awesome. It is. And it’s Canon all, everything that happens in that is like Canada, the MCU.

Felice: And then we’re going to relate it back to how Joe felt like he was waking up from an alternate reality. When he woke up from his stroke. Wait, I had a stroke.

Joe: Wait here. What if I didn’t say I was thinking about like, all right. If like marbles, what if is, what if captain America didn’t like, what if Steve Rogers didn’t get the super soldier serum?

Agent Carter got it. Peggy Carter. So she became like the captain, captain Carter, weird things like that. So what if I was the rock star? And we own, I had a stroke or what if you were the brain? Yeah. Injured. And I was like the rockstar? mind blowing.

Felice: Wow. So I would just milk it all the time. If I have a brain injury. I would have you cooking me breakfast.

Joe: What’d you do what I do. Would you like put your fist together and hunch over and then shake a little bit and go, but I had a stroke. What’d you do that?

Felice: Okay.

Joe: Yeah, absolutely. Look, I look, I’ll say this saw the brain injured people out there. We had brain injuries for a reason. To use it as an excuse to get our shit that we don’t want to do.

For pity. No, we’re not. No, we didn’t have this. Hey guys. Guess what? We had this stuff for pity and to get out of things that we don’t want to do. I say, pull the stroke card as often as humanly possible. And people get tired of that. Just say, Hey, oh, I didn’t remember. I did so often because I had a stroke.

Joe: You can get as often as I can, who helped me with. Oh, your drummer dude, from when you were performing up in…

Felice: Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was a drummer that we used one time.

Joe: It was really awesome. Cause I would say stuff like my brain was bleeding cause it was, and like it would work all the time where police would be like, okay.

And after awhile she was like, yeah, your brain was bleeding. It’s not anymore. So I couldn’t use it anymore. So he was like, Hey, you might not be able to use the, my brain is blank. But you can say you survived a major stroke, the rest of your life.

Felice: you’re a stroke survivor for life.

Joe: I survived a major hemorrhagic stroke and then I’ll let you Guildford the me not wanting to go places before the pandemic.

And now we just don’t go places. Dependent because of the pandemic.

Felice: what if there hadn’t been a pandemic?

Joe: Oh yeah. That would’ve been weird, actually. You know what? It is weird. What do you mean?

Felice: It wouldn’t have been weird because we wouldn’t, there wouldn’t have been anything different. It just would have been regular life.

Joe: Yeah. That’s yeah. That’s very true. That’s yeah, that’s true. Which thinking about that right now is.

Felice: I know it’s so crazy. This show really makes you think in interesting ways. Yeah, because I never would have thought what if I had the stroke instead of you, what would that have been? Like?

Joe: What if I was on tour with a Kanye west Sunday service choir.

Felice: would you have stayed with me, Joe,

Joe: get outta here. I would have been happy that you were flashing me in the hospital and asking me for it to be,

Felice: it happened in real life, not me doing that, but Joe does it. Wasn’t on purpose.

Joe: He had a stroke. Yeah. I definitely blame the stroke because of what I asked you to do to me Hey, I would not ask that never singular act. If I did not have a brain injury.

Felice: And then you woke up and Donald Trump was president. I really feel like it was another, he didn’t wake up and doll, but it just was like, no.

Joe: I woke up to where Biff is running things. It didn’t even make any sense. I didn’t feel like I truly woke up until maybe about a year ago when I was like, oh, okay. Like the world is yeah. I’m back in the sacred timeline. Yeah. Yeah. So what if is a really bizarre comic book I’m serious?

Felice: I didn’t know anything about it until this.

Joe: So it would basically, so basically everybody note you nerds should know, and if you don’t, there are alternate timelines, right? So instead of going right, maybe I went left instead of, if something bad happening, maybe something good happens. So then, and then everything changes. So there are like a million different timelines.

The multi-verse. If you will. So Marvel’s what if it’s exploring all of these different branch timelines. So if captain America didn’t get the super soldier serum and then Peggy Carter got it in Katherine, in Steve Rogers place, what would happen? Then we have captain Carter, which by the way, was an amazing episode.

Felice: And it was like, I really, before the show we started watching the show, I was like, how are they going to do this? Okay. How is she going to become captain Britain? Yeah. Like how does that happen? And it makes so much sense.

Joe: So they’re doing it and what’s, it’s not like they just completely threw everything from captain America, the first Avenger out, what they did with what they did is they just slightly tweaked it.

Felice: that’s, what’s really cool.

Like even with the latest episode with. Being star. I was like, how are they going to do this? That doesn’t make any sense at all. And it makes so much sense. And what’s really cool too. Is that him being Star-Lord because let’s face it. Peter quilt is the worst. He’s the worst. I know people like him and I like what’s his name?

I love Andy Dwyer so much. Shout out to all the parks and rec fans out there. Peter Quill, ruined everything in. What was it? Not end game, but infinity war. No, it wasn’t. No, it wasn’t.

Joe: It wasn’t funny.

Felice: Wasn’t there one and two.

Joe: I am so angry at you. Felice actually knew what was going on in the MCU.

It was infinity war at, which was basically Avengers,

Felice: infinity war for some reason, but there was a part one and two

Joe: No, it was initially going to be infinity war one and then two, but then it was just infinity war. Okay.

Felice: spoiler alert, Peter Quill ruined everything end game would have never happened if it hadn’t been for Peter quell because spoiler alert, Peter quell could’ve killed banjos.

I’m sorry not Peter Quill, but they Spider-Man and Ironman were about to kill…

Joe: What, if you actually knew this story, you were completely…

Felice: They all had them. They all had him.

Joe: I’m helping you here. I’m walking you through that and pointed, what were they doing? Why did they have all, they were pulling off… rings or taking off the infinity gauntlet? You’re not confusing.

Felice: They happen to have the infinity pulling the infinity gauntlet off. They were about to get it off. And then Peter Quill got mad. About what did he get mad about? He got mad. I watched the movie.

Joe: he found out that to get the soul stone banjos had some murder Gomorrah.

Felice: So he was pissed that he killed Gomorrah and it was like really dude Gomorrah and the whole entire world.

Okay.

Joe: And Peter Quill’s defense without Gomorrah, right? That was his, everything. Just think about it like that. Think about it like our dynamic. Just think about that. I want to let

Felice: the world know that if I know that was murdered by Thanos and that there was nothing I could do about it, because in that moment we were about to defeat him.

I would not ruin that. I would avenge you later. But I would not just sucker punch or whatever he did. I can’t remember what he did, but it was so dumb

Joe: and he was hitting him in the face with his gun. He hit her hand, she removed her hands. He came to and got the infinity gauntlet back.

Felice: So annoying,

Joe: irritated.

It was annoying, but I’m just, I hate as a way better. So you gave your heart. What about me? If he, murdered, you get the souls.

Felice: you better go save the world and avenge me later. Don’t ruin your saving the world.

Joe: Here we go. How about this? And this is how Peter Quill felt without you.

There is no world. Boom. There it is. There it is selfish. It is selfish, but selfish. The world. Okay. The world doesn’t mean anything,

Felice: but that’s shining. The only thing that matters is what the world is to Peter Quill in that moment, that is really selfish. I’m just saying, literally because of Peter Quill, banjos was able to snap and he killed half of the world for five years and then they had to bring it back to spoiler alert already.

So don’t get mad at me, half of life in all of the universe. It was much larger than just the world of Star Lord.

Joe: Instead of Yondu picking up Peter Quill as a child to bring back to ego, he accidentally picked up to challah and then to challah grew up with the Ravagers and became star Lord. So that episode was amazing.

That was really funny because it’s to challah. It’s the black Panther hanging out with the rabbit. And instead of doing kind of hood rat things, which is what Peter quilt did, he was actually doing. He changed the universe.

Felice: spoiler alert. you should watch the show. If you haven’t watched it yet, go watch it. And then come back and listen to the rest of this episode, right at this point.

He went out to cello, went out and basically changed the universe for the better he made banjos.

Joe: Good. Yeah. He basically broke down, down to Thanos. He’s cool. So you have let’s say you get the infinity gauntlet, you snap, half of all. Is just gone. But there might be a better way. Hey, how about if we create maybe more resources, so people don’t go home, which is what we all said. Yeah.

Felice: We’re like really fantas. You’re going to just snap and kill half the world. Why don’t you just make more food and water?

Joe: So he broke it down at that and I wasn’t, Dennis was like, Hey, that’s a good idea. Now I’m going to be one of your homies.

Felice: And then we wasted that snap twice. Because of banjos when we could have snapped and saved all humanity and the universe by making more resources.

Joe: Boom. Yeah. He could have snapped his thing or boom in and out for everybody. For life. Everybody gets double doubles, animal style, no spread catch up instead extra. So CIT cut in half for the rest of their lives. Just with the, with one little snap.

Felice: Absolutely.

Joe: That’s a good addition. Thanks for putting

Felice: the cherry on top of this is what I’ve been saying the whole time. So I like the, what if series? I think they’re saying it’s cannon. So I’m interested to see. How is that going to work? If it’s Canon will they end up bringing crap, captain Britain into stuff?

Will they bring, they can’t, I don’t think they’re ever gonna replace childhood Bozeman. So are they going to do some sort of. VFX mentioned that they’re not going to do that. So what’s going to happen. Are they going to ever explore that different Star-Lord situation?

Joe: No, I don’t think, I don’t think that’s way too wild.I think out of everything that’s going to happen. The one thing that I can see crossing over into the actual movies is captain Carter. I can see that happening. I can’t see Spider-Man is Dr. Strange.

Felice: I can’t see, which is supposedly going to happen.

Joe: Yeah. I can see star Lord. It’s a challah star, Lord. I can’t really see Marvel zombies, which is going to be my favorite episode.

Me too, which I cannot wait for. But yeah all the like little bits and pieces I can see or dude for, I could see we’ve already had to do that. Like a

Felice: broker. We had the dude that dude, big Lebowski. If you guys haven’t seen it,

Joe: wait, have you not seen the big Lebowski guys?

Felice: Come on.

Joe: I hope so. I thought we were friends guys. I thought we were, you have not seen the big Lebowski.

Felice: You should stop right now and go watch it and then come back and listen to the rest of this episode.

A lot of things that you need to do before you finish this episode, what if you went in and saw the big Lebowski?

Joe: So what’s funny about what if it’s literally, what I love about it is it’s just, it’s the subtleties of the changes.

It’s not these. Yeah. It’s major changes. Peggy Carter is now captain America. That’s a big change star. Lord is now to challah. So child is now star Lord. That’s a huge change, but the way it happens, it’s just these little tiny things, and the super soldier serum this happened and the super soldier serum was going to go to waste and they wasted all the time and resources and effort.

So it’s either now or never. So she basically sacrificed herself and she’s let’s do it. I’m going to be the Guinea pig and she became captain Carter. Boom. There it is. And I made a lot of sense and all the things that happened afterwards made sense to her interactions with Howard stark, her interactions with Arnold, Zola, all of these little things added, it didn’t take away from, I think captain America, I think if anything, it enhanced, I thought it was cool.

Felice: And they still incorporated Steve Rogers into it, which was cool. He was like her sidekick and but let’s talk about her. Okay. So the man, he couldn’t just be like Peggy Carter and just be off on the side. He had to be like in it with her Whiting, Peggy Carter, get to get the, what’s it called the war machine, steam suit, the hydro stopper.

Felice: We have the hydro somber widen painted car to get that.

Joe: Because that time in that timeline, Reality not being sexist in, in that reality, she caught a lot of shit because she was a woman in that time. So like in, in that movie, in that timeline, of course she wouldn’t have been like, oh yeah, let’s give you this like iron man suit and go fight that.

Felice: That’s super wet, but what’s interesting though, that I find about the, what if series so far is that it’s very much like things work out in that alternate reality, right? Whereas like in a situation like a, what if like it’s a wonderful life? What if situation. If y’all, haven’t seen that movie, you should.

No, you shouldn’t stop and watch that right now. That’s a little bit. Yeah.

Joe: If you want to be depressed until it’s really good. If you want to be depressed,

Felice: it’s funny. The best holiday movies of all time. It’s with Jimmy Stuart.

No, Joe does a bad one, but but in that scenario, Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen it’s it was made in the forties or the fifties? No, it was made in the forties. You should have seen it by now. But in it’s a wonderful life, like the, what if scenarios? Everything wouldn’t be as good as it is now.

If it didn’t happen the way it happened, but in this, what if scenario? Everything is like just it’s? I think in, to be honest, I think to childhood means star

Joe: Lord is significantly better than Peter Quill’s captain Carter. It’s just as good as captain America. I guess the outcome just in a completely different way. To challah Lord, I like that the child that starts to challah Lord start challah, start shopping.

Lord, that branch timeline is significantly better. He basically brought a huge ton of peace and happiness to the universe where Peter Quill was like, Hey, we’re going to Rob some people because he’s basically like a hood rat and ruin everything. And half of the life immunity. Yeah. Cool.

Felice: Is going to have to make up for that. Cause I still haven’t forgiven him for that. Like really?

Joe: He is April Ludgate should divorce him.

Felice: I know. Karate. I forgot his name. No. Do you remember?

Joe: Johnny

Felice: karate. Thank you, Johnny karate. Why can’t you just say it?

Why do you have to go and extend and emphasize? It’s fine. I was. Yes. I was on the right track.

Joe: The Kung Fu guy. It wasn’t Jeff

Felice: only fans of parks and rec can understand what’s happening right now. It’s very true. You just stop the show right now,

Joe: but that’s only after you watch it. It’s a wonderful life.

Felice: What if you’ve seen all.

Joe: these shows? Oh, the big little basket, stop. Watch the big Lebowski. Then watch parks and rec every season, every episode of every season.

Felice: And hen while you’re at it, you should watch community just for shits and get me mad.

Joe: Throw that in. Hey, we just really got into a new girl. You might want to throw in.

Felice: okay. This episode’s turning into what if you watch all the sitcoms that ever made.

Joe: So what if this crazy. It’s a Brent, like what if this happened? And you wake up and it’s oh wow. Captain America is Peggy Carter, which is not captain America. She is captain Britain of very, if anything, but she’s captain Carter, it’s like waking up after a brain injury to what if you woke up and Biff was running this country under the ground.

Oh yeah, that happened to me. It was wild. It was really weird. So I don’t really know how to. Explain what it’s like to wake up from a brain injury, because I don’t really remember waking up. I have like bits in, like I have flashes. It’s what if, where everything is just strange, right?

Everything is normal. I’m doing normally everything is like normal, but just like a little bit off, but I think gear situation in a, what if situation is more.

Felice: It’s a wonderful life, which was the name of two episodes ago. Shout out to episode 1 61, go check it out. But no, I think that your scenario would be more like that because I really think that, sure.

Maybe there’s a lot of people that might feel, oh, if I didn’t have my stroke or my brain injury, things would be different and this and that, but I think. Part of we’ve been talking a lot about this lately about the hero’s journey. Part of the hero’s journey is the change that you experienced from what happens to you.

And you don’t want to go back to the way things were because you’re wiser and you have learned a lot from it. Frodo,

Joe: Baggins, I went to Mount. That’s right. This is such a Lauren moment. And she’ll probably give me shit for getting something wrong, but yeah. Went to the Mount doom and I threw the one ring amps of the flames of mortar.

I think I got that wrong, but it sounded good. But you understand where I’m going now that I’ve saved everything. I can’t just go back to chilling in the Shire.

Felice: Yeah. That’s why photo spoiler alert. You should go stop the show.

Joe: You can avoid the Hobbit when you about 50.

Felice: No, maybe two weeks worth of TV and movie watching today.

Joe: Grab some coffee in an adult diaper. You’re going to be here for a while. No,

Felice: but seriously like you can’t. So I think that part of part of suffering is resistance. A bull. The source of suffering is resistance, resisting where you are in the world. What your reality is. I think part of being and again, you could speak on this show because I’m not a brain injury survivor.

But anything that anything traumatic that we go through in our lives? Yes, you could wish it never happened, or you can embrace that. It happened. And try to see. The B evolution that you are going to experience out of those experiences. I look back at myself like, this is not a brain injury experience, but as a kid, I had a lot of issues with getting bullied and things like that.

And now I look back at that and while it was happening, And want it to happen, but now looking back at it, all the things that I’ve learned from those experiences, I wouldn’t really trade it’s made me the person that I am today.

Joe: today. Yeah. She’s learned how to get revenge.

Felice: No, but that’s really what the hero’s journey is about is like the return after the change

Joe: or whatever traumatic incident it is, the evolution or the transformation that you just have to accept what the reality is now. Now fully said, you can wish that these things didn’t happen. Yeah. That’s not going to do anything. It’s just, it’s wasting time. You can wish as much as you want.

The reality is these things did happen to us now, what are we going to do with that? Are we going to be bitter and upset and angry and get stuck? I hope not because it’s not going to do anything. Let’s just accept that. Yeah. These things happen now. What am I going to do with that? Am I just going to cave or am I going.

Grow past this. And I think we just accept what it is and try to grow past it. And that’s where I try to be.

Felice: That’s what I’m proud of you. And that’s really what life is about. Life is about choices and choosing how you want to interpret and and grow from situations. And so I guess back to what if.

If little things happen differently. Yes. The whole reality would be different, but I think that the characters still maintained their integrity in terms of how they react to the situations to challah. Wow. And then, in some instances like, okay, spoiler alert the way that this second episode of what if ended with seeing where Peter Quill actually ended up you go, wow.

Joe: He needed to be able to be around his people. He needed to.

Felice: that really made him who he, that really made him who he is. So it just shows that our experiences are important. What we go through is important because it makes us who we are. And you could see that from what happened with Peter.

Felice: He just, he wasn’t, he didn’t become the star Lord that he, he didn’t become anything because he didn’t leave earth. And that was really important to his evolution. Of who he is.

Joe: Yeah. It was just, he was just a dude. And then when ego comes in at the end, spoiler alert again, who knows what’s going to happen because ego wasn’t the nicest dude in the world.

And Star-Lord, didn’t have all these experiences to keep them on that. Like hero’s path. He’s just like some dudes. So he’s probably going to get sucked up into this wave of evil. So look, speaking of what, if, what if you guys do something. There’s a lot of us who suffer out there and do what Felice mentioned.

Just try to wish that the stuff didn’t happen. Is it really helping? Let’s take an honest look at our recoveries. Let’s look in a mirror and say, okay, is me wishing that this stuff didn’t happen to me? Is that making any dents? Is it helping me? Is it moving me forward? Is it getting me to where I want to.

Probably not. And by probably 100%, it’s not. So what if you do something different? What if you choose to go at recovery with a different mindset? What if you choose to meditate every single day? What if you choose to slow your thoughts? What if you choose to focus on the positive, right? What if you set goals and try to hit every single one?

What if you reach out to others in the community to feel like you’re not alone, build a sense of community, right? What if you share your story? What if that makes you feel better? What if that makes someone else feel better? Look at all these things. Look at all these, what ifs? I just what is that there’s 15 different branch timelines. You use one, if the hell out of that, I did. What if I keep what iffing let no seriously, if you really think about it what if there’s that thing that makes you uncomfortable? There’s that thing you don’t want to do? What if you just. What’s the worst that can happen.

Unless it’s something really bad, then don’t do that. But in recovery, what if it’s, you know what, I don’t want to take a chance and do this thing because whatever, what if you just do that thing? I talk to you. I’m not even gonna, I’m not gonna say who it is. Cause she’ll yell at me and she’ll probably murder me.

It’s almost. Very dear friend of mine was talking about starting a podcast. She was like, I really want to do it. And then she was going to do it with a partner that kind of fell through. So then she was thinking about doing it herself and I’m like, yeah, go ahead and do it. And she’s no, I got to have this.

And then I got to do this. And then I ha she’s doing all the, what ifs. And I’m like, you don’t need any of this stuff. Just do it. You’re getting in your way. What if you want to do something? I want to write a book. I want to start a podcast so started, I want to, get functionality back in my house.

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What, if you take these steps and do these things, what if, yeah. Just think about where you are in your recovery. Some of us were not very happy with where we’re at, so let’s not follow the definition of crazy. Do the exact same things and expect a different result.

Felice: What if we do something different, messy and perfect action is much better than trying to get everything to line up in, have all the stars aligned to just.

Joe: And one of the things we’ve been talking about a lot in the things that we’re doing done is significantly better than perfect.

Felice:a lot of people will be a wall it’s not done unless it’s perfect, but that’s not the most successful people out there. They’re not doing it perfectly. They’re not. And so it’s much better to just get out there and put yourself out there. The most imperfect book produce the most imperfect podcast, go in, whatever, do it all in perfectly, but

Joe: just do it.

Thanks Nike. Nike always just do it. You’ll never know what, yeah. Thanks Shiloh. Sure.

If you just put it out, you’re seriously, you are head and shoulders up further than what? 95% of the people out there. There so many talkers, your friends, your family, whatever you’re doing, I’m sure they have thoughts. I’m sure they have critiques. They have. Ideas for what you’re doing.

That’s cool. They’re talkers. You’re the doer. So they can say whatever they want, they could disparage you. They could say, it’d be better if you did it like this. Cool. You can listen if you want, or you could just ignore them because they’re not doing it. You are be a doer.

Felice: You do it. Do her. Yeah. I love that joke.

And also give yourself a break and just be sometimes.

Joe: Yeah. In that and give me a break, break off a piece

Felice: of it. Be gentle with yourself, basically, do your best. And then when it’s time to take a break because you’re doing all that you can do. And you’re enough just as you are.

Yeah.

Joe: It’s hard because we want to, I don’t want to say normal because we are normal. It’s just a bit of a new normal, I’m doing quote fingers. Some days we can. Some days we can’t do anything it’s on those days where we really have to take a step back and say, all right today is just a day to rest.

Today’s a day to recover and recharge and it’s okay. It’s O K now think about it. So we’re saying what the, what if. What, if you just rested that day, instead of doing what I know you do, which has pushed through, I’m just going to grind. I’m just going to keep on going. Cause I have to do these things and I want to be better and I want cool.

How does that end up in all likelihood? The work that you do on that day is going to be piss poor. Sorry. You’re not all there. You’re going to make mistakes. It’s not gonna be. The best thing that you’ve ever done. So take a break, right? And if you push through in all likelihood tomorrow, the next day, you’re still going to be recovering because you push too far.

Now, what if you just took a break? What if you let your mind heal you, your body and soul recharge, and then the next day, boom, you could then take on the world, right? What if we do this guys?

Felice: Yeah, no, that’s so good. Joe tells me that all the time, he’ll be like, just go take a nap.

Felice: No. Oh, fighting naps. Since I was a toddler, I never liked to take a nap. My brother was always, my mom would just turn back to my brother. He’d be in the car seat in the backseat and he’d go, she’d go leave and go take a nap, go put your head down, go put your head down.

And he would just put his head down and pick it up. It was so cute. My brother has always been a napper. That’s why he’s taller than me because he’s had way more sleep.

He’s also taller than me. Guy, but also he’s really tall and I attribute that to his nap taking.

So I would just like to say, be like my brother, take him out.

Joe: You tall guys? No. Hey, what if you guys chose to be taller? We have a bunch of tall brain injury survivors.

Like I say most of the brain injury survivors that I’ve run into the very short people.

Felice: Pocket-sized peoples in the interesting theory you have here. I’m just saying what if short, I’m just saying that I could have been taller. I could have been a little bit tough. I could have been. You should go stop the podcast,

Joe: listen to that.

Yeah, you should probably not listen to Felice butcher that song, Lord. So what if by the way, guys, definitely check out. What if it’s a comic series, if you guys are into like, I don’t read. I just go watch

Felice: the new show, really sponsored this show. We really,

Joe: yeah. You know what Disney plus needs, they need our support.

Felice: They do.

Joe: we like to really help out these small, independent companies like Disney, is that. Yeah. Is it does NEI, am I saying it right? Does NY that’s what it is.

Felice: They’ve been shut down during the pandemic. If there’s anyone. No, they’re not hurting. They’re fine. They’re doing, yeah.

Joe: They own all the way. Have you seen the picture of a Mickey mouse with the infinity gauntlet? Oh yes. Yeah. It’s like Fox has Marvel and it’s they’re just collecting them all. I’m telling you the next one is going to be.

Felice: Yep, man. And then we’ll finally see the DC versus Marvel.

Felice: but in the movies now with James Gunn,

Joe: we’re running both sides,

Felice: playing both sides.

You guys should see, you should guys just stop right now and watch suicide squad. If you guys like a good bit, I think we should just do this.

Joe: If you guys followed that well, before you finish this, watch. This would be the longest episode

Felice: ever. Oh my gosh. You guys would never finished this episode.

Joe: All the, what if episodes for the neuro nerds?

It took me three and a half weeks to finish

Joe:. If you throw in the Lord of the rings. Now, if you watch the Lord of the rings, extended cut. Each one of those movies is four hours. Yeah.

Felice: We sat in theaters. For a special screening that allowed us to watch all three Lord of the rings movies, the extended, we got a record.

We got like a 30 minute break in between each movie

Joe: We’re getting blood clots in her legs for sitting for 12 hours. But it was epic. I would absolutely do it again. Maybe not anytime soon, but I would do it again at. So that was great. And what we didn’t do is watch the Hobbit trilogy because that’s no, we did see it though.

Felice: we didn’t go watch it in one sitting though. No, we did not do that.

Joe: We saw the trilogy and then we’re like, why did we waste our time watching that trilogy? Yeah. That wasn’t their best. What if those movies were.

Felice: well, the, you know what the problem was. They tried to fit a movie that should have just been one movie and into three movies, they should just made the Hobbit one movie.

Joe: It was one book. It was one book. So basically you look at Lord of the rings and those books are like dictionaries they’re super thick. So most of the stories are that. Yeah. All the stories were just like, I’m holding up like three inches. That’s like all the books. For the Hobbit. It’s literally, it’s like a half an inch book.

Felice: It was a cartoon. I liked to watch when I was little.

Joe: Why did you like to watch? It was scary.

Felice: It was scary, but I liked it. Actually. It probably scared me. I was scared of everything.

Joe: It scared me and I’m not afraid of everything.

Felice: I was scared. I was scared. I was so scared. Scared of the rats.

This Brian, you should stop this right now and watch princess bride. If you haven’t seen it. And on that note.

Joe: Oh my God. That is the best thing you’ve ever said in life. What if we just focused on the positive? What if we all loved one another? What if we cared about our neighbors?

What if we all did the right thing, perfect. Imagine all the people. Why is this your name to like John Lennon right now?

Imagine I’m not going to sing. I’m not going to sing it. I can’t afford that. I was about to say I could was gonna be very expensive, but we’re not paying royalties to I do like to take care of independent artists like John.

So every Wednesday is to do episodes of what if, and I believe the next episode is going to be the Dr. Strange Spiderman episode. I think they haven’t really said anything. They’re not giving me any information.

Felice: Guys has drawn me and also just randomly should stop the show right now and go watch the eternal story.

Yes.

Joe: Yes. And after you watched the eternal his trailer, now that I mentioned Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, you should definitely, before you finish this, watch Dr. Strange and followed up by the Spider-Man movies, not the ones with Maguire, the ones with Tom Holland. If you really want go back to the ones with Toby Maguire, and then follow up, watch one with Andrew Garfield and then.

Felice: What’s civil war, because that was the first intro of time. And if you want to be prepared for the new doctors, change will be, you should watch the one division show and then you should watch the low-key show because you’re going to be lost without them.

Joe: And then you should watch into the spider verse because it has a lot of the different branch timelines.

And one of the Spider-Man is actually Jake Johnson. Star of new girl, which, like I said before, you guys should have been watching new girls all connected.

Felice: We brought that all the way back. That was very good.

Joe: We did. So this has been a very strange, what if episode it’s been fun and Felice is going to fall asleep very quickly after this.

I could see it in her eyes. I’m always happy to have police as my guest. Co-host, she’s my significantly better, significant other. And I’m so thankful for you. And yeah, what if you do this next time and you’re awake?

Felice: What if it wasn’t a million degrees in here and making me tired? It’s so hard. The weather is so crazy and we’re trying to make sure that the sound’s good.

So we can’t put the, yeah,

Joe: we don’t have the AC on and I run hot cause I’m a big sweaty Puerto Rican. And I, we have the ambience, there’s some lights on it. They’re giving up a little bit of heat. It’s just, it’s a lot, it’s sexy big. It is. It is. It’s Ooh, sexy, hot,

Felice: sexy way. It’s just sexy.

Joe: Yeah.

And when we came in, we were coming here. I don’t know I had to fit in a Drake song. So

Felice: stop and listen to that. And I’m scared.

Joe: Yeah. Yeah. I’m absolutely kidding. You should not stop and listen to Drake, but you should watch the aggressive,

Felice: why.

Joe: His trick was in the grassy, but why?

Felice: Because I was talking about coming to hot.

Should they watch it? Are you putting them through their

Joe: legacy Drake in a wheelchair? Don’t go.

Anyways on that weird note. If you want to reach out to police, you can reach out to police at Felice Lazea on Instagram and everywhere.

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