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Activity request: about some times where either of you have been dragged to something against your will. Activity description: Well, before we talk about this episode, I want to say that it involves Niles forcing himself and Daphne to go to a concert. Neither of them really wants to attend. And I'm curious to hear about some times where either of you have been dragged to something against your will. I can go first. Great. I wasn't dragged to it against my will, but I was held there against my will. Does that count? Sounds like prison, but sure. Oh my God. Prison would have been so much nicer. This is my only time going to the drive-in movie theater. I don't even think I knew what was happening. I just went with my friends. They're like, let's go watch a movie. I'm like, great. Then we showed up to an outdoor area. It's like, this isn't what a movie is. And they go, yeah, it is. It's the drive-in. I was like, well, this isn't the four days. Yeah. Well, I didn't know what we were doing. Right. And the first movie was wanted. I don't know if you guys remember that. It's where, uh, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman could bend bullets for some reason. Oh yeah. I, I, I saw the trailer for that. It was fine. You know, like it could have been much worse. It could have been a lot better, but whatever. Uh, I was down. And then, uh, the second movie, which I found out like, after wanted was over, it was the happening. I don't know if you guys have had the displeasure of watching this movie. Hey, I've also not seen that, but I've, I've read about it. Is that the M night Shyamalan movie that is about plants? Uh huh. Uh huh. So as soon as like, as soon as the title card comes up, I, I was furious because I'd seen trailers and it looked like the worst movie ever. And spoiler alert, it's the worst goddamn movie ever. The entire time. I think it was like a two hour feature. I was ranting the, I don't think I stopped talking. I was so mad. I was like, we should just leave. I tried to get, I think 10 people to go with me and none of them were biting. They were just listening to me rant the entire time. I have never had a good experience in a drive-in movie. Same. Cause that was my only one. And I know people that swear by them. It's like their favorite way to see a movie. I don't get it. It's, it's just a bad way to see a movie. It was the best way to see the happening. Cause if I wasn't allowed to talk during that fucking garbage movie, Oh my, I'm going to have exploded. That's fair. I've never ranted like that in my life before. And it was a, honestly, it was kind of nice at the end. I was like, Oh, it turns out I can rant for two hours straight. No problem. Well, Brad, I, I am confident that you have held people against your will, but what, what have you been forced to do something against your will? Yeah. Oddly enough, it doesn't happen often to me because I like doing most things. Cause I, I just, you're usually the problem, right? Exactly. But I have a, I have a fairly good example. It's also one of those stories that does not make me look good in any way. You don't have any stories that make you look good. No, when I was, when I was 20, I had to go to, I was hoping this was going to be your buddy's weather. No God. Although my buddy was in this story a little bit when I was 20, I had to go to my brother's like senior award ceremony and I didn't mind going, but the problem is the night before I went to this bar that you only had to be 18 to go to and they get it card anyone. So we all got really, really drunk and I was like 20. So I didn't really understand that. And at this award ceremony, I was so hung over, but I couldn't say anything because if I told my parents, they would know I got real drunk the night before and I wasn't 21. So I just had to sit in this auditorium, super hung over and super miserable the whole time pretending like I was okay. How do you, how does Brad K pretend he's okay? I just go talk and I just smile. Everyone would have known that you're, you're having trouble if that's the case. I just smile. You're not talking is a very bad sign. I know, right? I'm seeing you not okay. You talked. All right, Curtis, how about you? How are you, how are you held against your will or probably your own stupid idea that you kept going through with? You're, you're much closer to my story than you know. So when I was, when I was a little kid, there was this museum near our house called Inventure Place. It was technically the Inventor's Hall of Fame. Oh, wait, what did you say? Invent, say that again? Inventure Place, not Adventure. My brain, not a correct name. Yeah, it was the Inventor's Hall of Fame and the top floor was really boring. It was just like a series of portraits of like Thomas Edison or whatever. How many floors were there? I don't know. I was a child. But downstairs was actually pretty cool. It was, it was a bunch of interactive, like, like a playground of goofy inventions you could play with as a kid. And the thing I remember most was it had a harp that you could play, but the harp was not with strings. It was a laser. So you would just run your hand through these lasers and it would make harp sounds. Sweet. Laser harp. I'm in. Really cool. So anyway, the story is my, my mom told me, you know, we're going to go, we're going to go to Inventure Place. And I threw a fucking Inventure. Yeah. You said Adventure. I did not. We definitely did. We went to Inventure Place. Time out, time out. Be honest. Did you really go here or did you go to Bible Land? This sounds like you went to Bible Land. I don't know what Bible Land is. What are you talking about? It's an amusement park for Christians. Yeah. It's a real place? Yeah. Yeah. In Florida. Bible Land. I've never heard of that. That's the first future episode where the three of us take a trip to Bible Land. We've talked about my mom on the show and just to be clear, she, and she also listens. So she's going to hear this. There is no world in which she takes me or anyone else, certainly not herself, to Bible Land. Okay. Good news. Good news. I think you can't be a California. I'm sure it'll be nice this time of year. Well, anyway, Inventure Place was cool. Not as boring as I assume Bible Land is, but I threw a fit. Like I was just like unbelievable. I was just unbelievably angry at the prospect of having to go to this place. I was so mad about it. And my mom just kept pleading with me like, you like it. Like it's fun. Like it's a cool thing that you, I know you like, like, what is the problem? And I was just miserable and such a little shit about it. And as soon as we got there, it was the best day. It was so much fun. I was so happy. It was such a cool place. This was not your first time going to it? No, I had been probably multiple times and always loved it and always had fun. And for some reason, I was in one of those little kid moods where the minute she said, I was like, I don't want to do that. Why are you making me do that? I don't want to do that. And I was so angry about it until we got there. And then I was fine. So the lesson is children are the worst. Oh, we know why you were hungry. I might've been hungry. That's how you get when you're hungry. You're definitely hungry. Very plausible. Final phrase attribution: Who gives the prompt beginning “about some times where either of you have been dragged to something against your will.”?: Curtis