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In “I Like a Good Brown” | Episode 251 of The Black Lincoln Collective Comedy Podcast, the crew opens by proudly declaring this the 351st edition, now featuring 100 lost episodes, because accurate episode numbering is apparently still against BLC policy. Parker welcomes Fred as the only man who can walk the line between donkey and ass, Allan almost misses recording the pre-show masterpiece, and the room briefly becomes an art gallery full of mispronounced Basquiat energy. The main story starts with the end of summer — not actual summer, because it is still hot, but “summer as a concept.” Parker promised his kids a trip, so he crams a week’s worth of vacation energy into one overnight run through North Carolina. First stop: Carowinds, where it is brutally hot but the kids have fun. Then comes the knife store, where Parker’s son wants a balisong, the clerk seems exactly like the kind of man who runs a knife store, and everyone gets very invested in “Jim James,” “flippy flops,” and whether a $100 knife is somehow a deal. The next day gets worse and more expensive. Parker is already dealing with a sore knee from getting sucked into lake mud — or what the guys call a “sargasm” — but he powers through a Charlotte slime museum anyway. The slime place turns out to be a gross, overpriced germ carnival full of slime walls, slime buckets, glow slime, slime sounds, slime charms, slime slingshots, and enough children’s hands to make any adult question civilization. Parker hates slime, but because he paid for it, he makes his own Hawaiian Punch-scented slime and then immediately gives it away. After lunch, Parker’s knee fully betrays him. While crossing a parking lot with the kids, he steps back to avoid a car and hears a loud pop. He cannot put weight on the leg, but refuses to go down because the pavement is too hot, which might be the most dad survival instinct ever recorded. He still drives a stick shift home from Charlotte and, because the tickets are already paid for, forces himself through a mall aquarium by locking his leg and hobbling around like a pegged-leg mall pirate. Then the episode derails into a long, broken-transcript stretch about men of a certain age, a signature scent, and what appears to be the episode-title zone: “I Like a Good Brown.” The transcript gets glitchy here, but the usable thread is clear enough: Parker decides he needs a grown-man fragrance identity, and the crew turns that into a deeply unnecessary scent conversation. After the break, Fred makes up for missing the movie last week and reviews the new Spider-Man, calling it the best Spider-Man movie he has seen. The crew debates Tom Holland, the Spider-Verse, the older Spider-Man movies, 4DX brain poisoning, villains, multiverse fatigue, and what a neighborhood Spider-Man movie would look like if it was just two hours of him eating hot dogs and beating up low-level criminals. The back half shifts into weird entertainment and culture stories. Parker talks about Peter Mossfield, a man who drank heavily, took steroids, barely worked out, and entered a bodybuilding competition just to finish last. Then they cover Christopher Lambert collapsing at an autograph signing but surviving, debate whether Highlander deserves a BLC Hall of Fame slot while he is still alive, discuss John Cypher, Major Dad, Masters of the Universe, and whether the “Fisto” jokes were the only good part. Finally, the guys get into the upcoming Varnell Hill / Martin spinoff, whether anyone waited too long to make it, and McDonald’s modern identity crisis. The episode ends with fast food complaints, kiosk-era sadness, app-only deals, expensive Big Macs, Better Burger Bits, and Fred’s upcoming birthday. In other words: family vacation trauma, aging, slime, superheroes, celebrity health scares, sitcom nostalgia, and fast food economics — exactly how BLC should start its next 100 lost episodes.

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