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Shayne wants to post his ultimate Reddit power-scaling question: if you could send one fictional character to live with an evil dictator for a week and try to turn them good, who do you pick? Paddington, Ted Lasso, SpongeBob — or someone weirder? Damien's answer: Ian Hecox.
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The tone shifts hard. Shayne reads an AskMen post from 2019 laying out elaborate rules for a hypothetical kindergartner fight: five children released every 30 seconds, unarmed, in a barren 40x25-foot classroom, with the goal of pinning you for 15 seconds [1] — Shayne Topp "The rules: five kindergartners charge you every 30 seconds in an empty classroom. No weapons. You must knock them unconscious to win. The h…" 29:05 . The group spends several minutes earnestly strategizing — Ian proposes a football charge on the first wave, Damien argues for something to keep them at distance, and Damien floats 'dress as a dentist' as a fear tactic before they all agree the sim children probably can't feel fear anyway. Damien raises the genuinely important point that actually knocking someone unconscious is nothing like the movies — it requires severe force and causes real concussion. The hosts collectively mock a Reddit commenter who claims he could survive 15–20 waves, noting that 60 seconds of boxing alone will destroy an untrained person. Shayne's power-scaling side-tangent about the subreddit r/PowerScaling briefly hijacks proceedings, leading to the episode's best joke: Damien nominates Ian Hecox as the fictional character most capable of swaying an evil dictator.
The rules: five kindergartners charge you every 30 seconds in an empty classroom. No weapons. You must knock them unconscious to win. The hosts quickly realize cardio is the real enemy here, and that 15–20 waves is pure fantasy.
The hypothetical kindergartner fight scenario releases five children every 30 seconds into a 40x25-foot empty classroom, with no weapons allowed for either side.
Ian proposes a football-charge opening move to scatter the first wave; Damien argues you need something to keep them at distance. Everyone agrees that the commenters claiming 15–20 waves have never thrown a punch in their life — boxing for 60 seconds alone will drop you.
Damien estimated the average kindergartner weighs around 50 pounds, reasoning backward from his own childhood weight as a larger-than-average second grader.
Shayne pitched a fictional power-scaling scenario: which fictional character — Paddington, Ted Lasso, or SpongeBob — would be best at swaying an evil dictator to goodness in one week?
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