# Taco Tuesday: "Blinded by Toys 🧸 & Electronics 📱"

Host: Margie B (@MargieAponte2) with cohost Ryan (@RyanJ8812) · Tue, 20 Oct 2026 · 2:10:01 · 8 speakers

## TL;DR
- Margie ran a hand-written toy-and-electronics trivia round — Mr. Potato Head, Cabbage Patch butt cheeks, Rubik's Cube sales, Operation, Hungry Hungry Hippos — with Ryan and Wizard1sgv trading answers like a tennis match until Oromë (@Orome0116) showed up and started clearing the board.
- The second half turned into a full gaming session: everyone named three consoles and three games, from Sega Dreamcast and PS2 to Skyrim, GoldenEye and Need for Speed.
- Oromë shared the news that someone had pulled off a *physical* jailbreak of the PS5 letting it run PS2 and PS3 discs — no software patch to kill it.
- Sir Vic (@SIR_VIC_719) and Ryan landed on the modern-gaming gripe of the night: $100 games plus $70 DLCs, and digital purchases you don't actually own if the platform pulls them.
- The last half hour drifted into Wii-related injuries, holiday decorating guilt, and a run of Jehovah's Witness doorstep stories that got the biggest laughs of the night.
- 21 (@21ch4inz) dropped in mid-trivia, got hooked, and left to go run his own daily Dead space; Linda (@lindame55ina) attended her first Margie space and was promptly recruited for the next one.

## Highlights

**[05:37] Corn-silk dolls and stick guns.** El Gato Satoshi opened the nostalgia with her mother growing up on a ranch in San Luis Potosí, making her own dolls out of the hair on corn — the point being that a branch could be a gun, a fishing pole, or a sword depending entirely on how much imagination you brought. Margie countered with Little House on the Prairie, and Ryan quietly placed Woofy somewhere in the Stone Age [06:48].

**[22:00] Talking Amy, the doll that knew what time it was.** Margie's description of her daughter's battery-powered doll — programmed with a clock, announcing "I'm hungry, mommy" from a La-Z-Boy mid-domino-tournament, head turning — did not need embellishment. Her daughter's review at age three: "Mommy, is it the end yet? Because she keeps saying that" [23:08].

**[26:29] The high-school baby doll that snitched.** Margie's class had to carry sensor-equipped dolls for ten days without knowing the teacher could hear everything. Her advice to her partner involved a little Bacardi on the baby's lips, and her grade came in around a 79 for being a bad mom. Ryan's deadpan diagnosis: there was probably a sensor in its mouth [27:06].

**[40:32] "Stabilizers," or: restraints for toddlers.** Training wheels were the answer, but the British term sent Margie's mind to restraints, and Wizard1sgv ran with the image of strapping a kid's feet to the pedals [40:51]. Ryan saw the upside immediately.

**[44:44] Negotiating the Rubik's Cube.** Margie said sales were "close to a billion," then revealed she meant roughly halfway there, which Ryan found to be a generous use of the word close. The answer was 450 million; he got half a point. Margie also confessed to disassembling her cube as a teenager, reassembling it by color, ringing her little bell first, and collecting a quarter from each cousin — though she did share her candy, having a conscience and a fear of waking up Pinocchio-nosed [42:22].

**[56:17] The Velveteen Rabbit standoff.** "A 1922 children's book about a stuffed toy who longs to become real" stumped the room long enough for Ryan to offer Pinocchio, who, as he noted, wasn't stuffed. Margie eventually gave the title's first word and let Ryan supply "Rabbit."

**[1:16:14] Strawberry Shortcake vs. the snack aisle.** Asked who Blueberry Muffin's BFF was, 21 confidently went with Little Debbie. Oromë got there with Strawberry Shortcake; 21 admitted he'd simply gone off, hungry, and needed a Nutty Buddy.

**[1:33:48] "I used to be an adventurer, until I took an arrow to the knee."** Wizard1sgv put the Skyrim line to the room as a riddle. Margie's answer — you got a woman and now you can't play your video games — led into her father's advice to get into every sport so your man never has to leave the house to watch the game, and into a theory about an AirTag she's definitely not hiding on anyone [1:34:29].

**[1:36:32] Sir Vic on story games.** Arriving late, Sir Vic made the case for the N64 and Ocarina of Time — stuck in the desert section for months, refusing to quit because he wanted the story — plus a SimCity habit where the city usually destroyed itself before he could, and a PS2 bought for exactly one game, GTA 3 [1:36:58]. He and Oromë then spent a happy stretch on Vice City, including the indignity of being in Miami and unable to swim [1:38:09].

**[1:43:35] The Wii era, injury report.** Linda recalled TVs destroyed by flung remotes; Sir Vic released his own controller mid-bowling swing and hit himself square in the head, retiring from the game on the spot [1:44:22]; Ryan's auntie backhanded a small cousin during tennis [1:45:55]. 21's take: a great idea, but too much exercise for a gaming generation.

**[1:58:52] Doorstep theology.** Sir Vic, coming home drunk one Sunday at seventeen, answered the door to a Jehovah's Witness and her grandson, asked whether the kid knew the Bible well, said "give me a minute" — and passed out on the couch. His later worry was that they might still have been standing there at four in the afternoon. Margie matched it with her mother shushing the family and turning off the TV on Saturday mornings, and with the visitor who stopped coming once Margie claimed to have no coffee [1:55:21].

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [01:24]–[09:30] | Intros, El Gato Satoshi co-hosting, pre-electronics childhoods, Ryan's upcoming birthday |
| [09:40]–[15:24] | Everyone's three favorite childhood toys; Hot Wheels tracks, parachute soldiers, Atari joysticks |
| [15:24]–[25:15] | Slinkies, Black Friday vs. Black Monday, Jingle All the Way, talking dolls, Baby Alive |
| [25:15]–[31:35] | High-school baby-doll parenting, Wizard1sgv arrives, the Windex gif incident |
| [31:35]–[57:17] | The main trivia run: Twister/Pretzel, Mr. Potato Head, Barbie, Slinky origin, Cabbage Patch, Tickle Me Elmo, Rubik's Cube, Operation, Easy-Bake, Tetris, Clue, Lite-Brite, UNO, Velveteen Rabbit, Etch A Sketch |
| [58:39]–[1:21:00] | Shoutouts, Encanto, dreidels, Beanie Babies, Crayola, jacks made of sheep bone, Monopoly, PS2, Strawberry Shortcake, Bratz, He-Man |
| [1:21:30]–[1:33:21] | Three favorite consoles and three favorite games, round the room |
| [1:33:48]–[1:35:58] | The arrow-to-the-knee riddle and relationship philosophy |
| [1:35:58]–[1:42:53] | Sir Vic on story-driven games; DLC pricing and digital ownership |
| [1:42:53]–[1:46:28] | Dance mats, Wii injuries, Guitar Hero |
| [1:46:33]–[1:49:22] | 21's exit and his crew's daily space lineup |
| [1:49:22]–[2:02:10] | Holiday decorating, time moving too fast, religion and doorstep stories |
| [2:02:10]–[2:10:01] | Parting words, shoutouts, Margie's closing |

## Notable quotes

- "Damn, your head is not just for hats, sweetie. Shoe. There is a brain inside there." — Margie B, after Ryan nailed Alvin and the Chipmunks [38:30]
- "Yeah, but imagine being that poor 15-year-old kid working at the store at the closing shift, and then there's batteries dying, and all these things are just sitting there talking on the shelf to you." — Ryan, on Tickle Me Elmo [39:34]
- "Yeah, but I bet you you learned to ride that bike real quick." — Ryan, on strapping a child's feet to the pedals [41:02]
- "Halfway isn't close." — Ryan, on Rubik's Cube sales figures [45:21]
- "It was a life lesson if you think about it though. Like, honestly, like you always gotta be ready, man. You never know when shit's gonna hit you." — Sir Vic, on Wii remotes [1:46:18]
- "Stay safe out there and you know, always remember that you should still be a kid at the heart, no matter how old you are." — Wizard1sgv, parting words [2:05:46]

## Who said what

- **Margie B** — host, question writer, and chief narrator; wrote the whole trivia set around five o'clock the same day and kept score with a flexible definition of "close."
- **Ryan** — cohost, roll-caller, and the fastest buzzer in the room for most of the first hour; later the voice of reason on $400 game-plus-DLC bundles and not owning your digital library.
- **El Gato Satoshi (@Soy_tu_Satoshi)** — opened as co-host, brought the corn-silk dolls, metal vs. rainbow Slinkies, and a genuine fascination with American going-out-of-business signage.
- **Wizard1sgv** — trivia co-anchor (training wheels, Hot Wheels, Rubik's Cube, Jeffrey the giraffe, Easy-Bake), old-school hardware guy with an early Atari computer you had to program yourself, and the source of the arrow-to-the-knee riddle.
- **Oromë (@Orome0116)** — arrived late and swept Monopoly's free parking, Beanie Babies, Strawberry Shortcake and Bratz on 24 years of parenting experience; also brought the PS5 physical-jailbreak news and the Elder Scrolls evangelism.
- **21 (@21ch4inz)** — dropped in because he heard trivia, stayed for PS2 Madden tournaments and Need for Speed, left to go host his own space, and will accept a reminder for next Tuesday.
- **Sir Vic (@SIR_VIC_719)** — late arrival, long-form storyteller: Ocarina of Time, Vice City, self-inflicted Wii bowling injury, and the doorstep story that closed the night out.
- **Linda (@lindame55ina)** — first time in Margie's space; Atari from her dad's yard-sale hauls, PS2, World of Warcraft, Moon Patrol and Berserker.

## Worth a full listen

- **[1:35:58]–[1:42:53]** — Sir Vic's arc from N64 story obsession to GTA 3 to the current state of games, with Oromë and Ryan filling in around him. The affection and the frustration both come through better at speed than in summary.
- **[31:35]–[57:17]** — The trivia run proper. The rhythm of Ryan and Wizard1sgv volleying answers while Margie editorializes between questions (Twister as a foot-odor hazard, the Rubik's Cube bell scam) is the whole point of the space.
- **[1:57:16]–[2:02:10]** — The doorstep stories, ending on Margie's ex-brother-in-law and the cooler where the sodas sat too close to the Heinekens to be handed over.