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[Assistant] Yeah, it's quite, again, like, it's got good bits though. I think it's just, it's kind of, it's got, it's hit and miss, right? I think when you have these big things that are made by a huge group of people, you know, when you're making the Eurovision film, I can imagine the amount of checks that thing had to go through, you know, before it was fucking allowed to be put out.


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[Assistant] Okay, good point. Good point, cause I started watching, uhm, I watched the first season of Patriot this week. Patriot? Which is like, which is like this kind of- An American show? Well, it's like a comedy drama sort of thing about this sort of CIA agent kind of doing a mission and how


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[Assistant] Oh man, it's like a proper black comedy and it's just very, very, very good. Very good. It's got, uh, Locke in it from Lost, Terry Quinn, and, um, a few other people that I recognise. But man, I just really love it. I think it's great.


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[Assistant] The source material is kind of fairly, like, strict on the story as well, right? Whereas I feel like Zack Snyder's approach to the story is...


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[Assistant] Hell, like the guys in the Foley backend have just sort of searched for a simple search term and the music doesn't fit at all.


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[Assistant] Interesting. I didn't hate the movie, like, I, I, it kept my attention, just, but I was, I was continually out of the, I had to watch it from, like, a detached perspective. Do you see what I mean? Because of how ridiculous it was, and how, and I, it's almost like a challenge to find the plot hole. Cause there's so many plot holes. It's so bad. So, so, this guy's doing this? So why didn't he just do...


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[Assistant] It is tough to, like, pitch that tone, right, because even, like, a six year old is being shown Avengers movies, right, and they've got violence in, and so by the time they're ten they're playing


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[Assistant] No, you have to, you have to shoot them a lot when they're crying on the floor, surrendered, like dying, like some guy dies, you have to shoot him like four or five times more.


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[Assistant] It made me feel like I was making these choices. It was forcing me, in fact, to make these choices. It was forcing me to...


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[Assistant] See someone was, shoot someone, they're injured, and then shoot them five more times.


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[Assistant] It's not like that once per movie that happens. I'm doing that ten times in ten minutes.


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[Assistant] This week called Alice in Orderline, I think. It's like, it was like a comic or something originally, but it's now a kind of battle royale. It feels very like a modern battle royale.


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[Assistant] Well, no, but I just, I just, you gotta understand that, you know, you gotta amp this stuff up, you know, if that's not... what is the next logical step for an adult who's been brought up on Hunger Games style blurb?


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[Assistant] We talk about this a lot, and I think it's passion, right? I think passion drives productivity. You know, I think the most, the best things that you know about have not been done in a nine to five. They've been done by people who


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[Assistant] Have done it as a, as a small project, you know, on a Friday night or over, over their, over their weekends, you know.


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[Assistant] To make whatever it is, whether it's Minecraft or Harry Potter or like...


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[Assistant] I read recently, this week, that the Winklevoss twins actually, from that movie, they're real obviously, but they're now like, um, billionaires, because they're worth like, they have like loads of, they bought loads of bitcoins, like crypto-stites, and so they're now like, they're now like


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[Assistant] I think Dave Batista is probably a very nice man, although I don't know, and you can never fucking know, can you?


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[Assistant] We import from France. That's why the whole, the whole fishing, uh, row thing was so, um, was such a big deal because France actually threatened to cut the power supply to Jersey and 80% of Jersey's power is imported from France. So it would have been a big, big one for sure.


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[Assistant] Nice, nice. You're gonna over a couple of mojitos later, I guess?


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[Assistant] I never saw the old film, I never read the book, my introduction to Dune and all I know about Dune is the RTS game.


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[Assistant] I disagree, I don't think California is that safe. I actually think a lot of sort of the more remote parts of the US and Canada are pretty dangerous if you're not prepared for it. Like not just hydration and stuff, but these are vast areas of sort of like uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, untouched wildlife and stuff, right? So you, you, you will happen across bears and like coyotes and, and whatever while you're out there, right? And if you don't, if you're not sure like how to.


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[Assistant] Oh, in a big city, always there will be, right? Like, they're used to lots of idiots arriving, right?


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[Assistant] They're not welcoming to idiots, but they're easily, they're easier for idiots to navigate, I think.


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[Assistant] And their eyes glaze over and you can tell they're not interested.


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[Assistant] You never get people asking to go to a specific place though, right? They're always like a bit sort of withholding about where exactly they're going, right? Cause I guess most of them are just like,


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[Assistant] Right, have you, have you checked for cameras in like the alarm clocks and the, and.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's a really simple equation actually. It's e equals mc squared to the power of 2. I don't know, I have no idea. But it is just the way it goes. Like I remember when I was a kid, we went, we drove from,


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[Assistant] From coast to coast. Canada. Started in the east and ended up in the west. We had to drive through the Rocky Mountains. And some of them, the roads go like...


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[Assistant] What uh, what point do you think you start looking like uhm, when Arnold Schwarzenegger's mask comes off when he tumbles down the hill in Total Recall outside in Mars and his eyes are like bulging out? Like what point?


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[Assistant] What, what point is the pressure so high that your eyes would start to, uh, threaten to like leave their socks?


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[Assistant] Who do you think is a modern day Sharon Stone now? Like, I'd say that that, uhm, the one that plays, uh, the one that played Tonya Harding in, uh, I, Tonya, and she was in Wolf of Wall Street and, uh...


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, she's, she's like, she's gotta be like this, this generation's Sharon Stone, right? Like, she looks great.


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[Assistant] Man, she, I watched Ghostbusters 1 and 2 with my son the other day because we were, uh,


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[Assistant] We were, we were home with the baby while my wife and my daughter went, uh, to town to do stuff or whatever.


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[Assistant] So we're like, cause my daughter's too young and she finds Ghostbusters scary, so it was like a perfect opportunity for like the guys and the baby to watch.


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[Assistant] Ghostbusters 1 and 2, cause it's gonna be Halloween soon. Man, those are, those movies are fantastic. God, like you've, like I know, I've seen them a million times, not so much two, but the first one for sure. And uhm, every time I watch it, it just blows my mind, like, like how...


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[Assistant] Uh, creative it was and, and just, just how, how good of a movie it was. It still holds up, like it's still really good.


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[Assistant] I just don't want to be devoured by anything, like, if you're a small rodent and you get swallowed whole by a snake, I mean, that's gotta be pretty scary stuff, right? Like, you're just gonna suck.


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[Assistant] Of a wankathon. From what I could tell from watching an episode or two, there was lots of, lots of, lots of like sexual themes and stuff.


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[Assistant] And the tissues are so soft too on my nose, like my nose is red raw.


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[Assistant] Cause I'm blowing it all the time, but you gotta, you gotta try some of these, like just the smell and like, man, it'll teleport you back to like being a kid. You know, like when you were a kid and your mom had the towels in the dryer.


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[Assistant] And you, and, and she would like, be like, surprise, here's some hot towels and like wrap you in it and it would smell all clean and stuff and be warm. This is what these tissues are like. It's fantastic. It's really good. Wow.


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[Assistant] Listen, uh, these tissues, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give them a 9 out of 10.


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[Assistant] The curve will start at the tips on a banana for sure, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, how curved does it need to be though? Like, we're not, it doesn't need to break any records.


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[Assistant] Well, if the show I'm watching is to be believed, apparently Bill Clinton's penis.


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[Assistant] But she had, she had like, uh, apparently at the time, I don't know if this still holds true, but scientifically she had the perfect, uh, female body in terms of curvature.


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[Assistant] Lots of men's grooming stuff too, right? Like eyebrow balm and stuff like that. That was what it was like.


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't know, I think if you're wealthy though, and you have like the penny loafers and the fucking, uh, pink, pink jeans and, and, you know, like the purple shirt and stuff, like you ever see those?


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[Assistant] My, uh, my clothes disappear. Like, I don't know where, what happens to them. You know, like, I bought a whole bunch of new socks, like, maybe two months ago.


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[Assistant] I don't know where they all have gone. Like, they just slowly disappear. I don't know, like, uh, this whole...


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[Assistant] I feel like I just blew my nose into a dressing gown. This linen freshness is just, it's off the charts.


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[Assistant] Did you ever do that thing in school where you like iron on an imprint onto a shirt and create your own t-shirt? Sure. You color a picture onto like a special kind of paper and then you iron the paper onto a shirt. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I remember my friend at school in elementary school one time complained to the teacher, uh, because he said it was unfair that girls had their own locker in their bathroom. They had a locker in their bathroom, but it was a tampon dispenser. He thought it was a locker.


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[Assistant] Men. Yeah, well, I mean, at that age, though, you just, uhm, you just don't give a shit, right? Like, I mean, I was, all I wanted to do was just, like, joke around and, like, impress my friends and stuff. I didn't give a fuck.


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[Assistant] It's enticing sometimes actually, cause you look at it and you think like, man, it looks like marshmallow spread, but it's not. It's just fucking gross coconut shit.


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[Assistant] It's like a staple of a health food store, right? Like, they just have a whole aisle devoted to coconut oil, in a jar. And avocado oil.


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[Assistant] And it's not, and it costs like, uh, $50 for one jar. Like it's, it's just coconut oil, but it's somehow more expensive than anything else, right? Like at health food stores, it's always the same.


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[Assistant] Maybe this is like the great divide, you know, like in all the science fiction that, that features like Mars versus the earth or whatever. And you know, like, uh, Mars is colonized by humans, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, they don't get on with earthlings and stuff like that. Maybe it's all down to shit like this, you know? All the people that went to Mars decided, hey, let's fucking make, uh,


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[Assistant] A billion other people, like, you know what I mean? It's just like, if you weren't around like way, way, way back sort of thing, it's, you know what I mean? Like, it's impossible to get.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it is. It's yeah, that's, it's like a, like an animated, uh, avatar, right?


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[Assistant] Oh, I had a billion and one dollars and all I did was breed blobs, uh, all day.


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[Assistant] I was talking about that on, on streaming the other day, I think, but I was watching this thing. I can't remember what I was watching, but somebody mentioned that you can buy, it's, it's, it's kind of like buying like a loot box for a game, but you buy a pallet, unwanted stuff. And it's just a mix of, of crap.


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[Assistant] Has he opened it? No, you can't open it because then it'll lose all of its value, right? The values in the supposed contents, but you can't find out.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I'm not terrified of it. I mean, I'm concerned for some of the people who get really, really into it, but for me personally, I'm just so uninterested in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they get you early though. I remember even when I was a kid, it wasn't so much cards, but uh, sticker albums with the holograms and stuff. Yeah. And you, and like, if you wanted to trade for like, there's just no way, they were so rare, you know, like you, you, you might know somebody who had like,


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[Assistant] It was always the, the holograms always like formed like a big hologram or there was like a, like a set to collect and you like say there was like six in total, like maximum anybody you knew had like three, right? Like it was just impossible to, especially like back then the world was like a lot smaller if you like, because you know, you were just sort of.


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[Assistant] Confined to like your school or whatever.


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[Assistant] It's like a gateway into like gambling, I think, right? Because it's, it's that, it, it, it feeds into that hope of getting something for, for


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[Assistant] Like how young you are to be conditioned to that, you know what I mean? Like even, even when I was a kid, like, you know, 40 years ago or whatever.


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[Assistant] It was, it was still happening and now it's even worse now because it's, it's, it's gone beyond just like stickers or cards. Like, uh, you know, when I was a kid, that's what, that was all there was sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, but it's, it's toys now too. Like, I don't know if you, like, Flax, your kids are probably, uh, not, not old enough to have missed this sort of craze of like the, you know, like loot box toys sort of thing.


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[Assistant] And these things have become super popular. They're like these, it's like, it's like bubble wrap, but they're like these little rubber trays that have like these like, like popper things on them. I can't remember what they're called, but he's got fucking tons of them. They come in all different shapes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, kind of, yeah. So like, there'll be like, uh, like one that's shaped like England, or like one that's shaped like whatever, you know? And, and some are huge, and some are smaller, whatever. And then there's some that are almost like keychain size, right? That'll just have like three on them?


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[Assistant] And those are the ones, like they're like the hot property at school, like all the kids trade them constantly, like because you can get these big packs off like eBay with like 10 in them or something for like


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[Assistant] You could lose a muscle, right? Your toys to other people. The dude with six arms, I remember so clearly. And the guy with like the fucking, uh, like the press, you know, he's like the box and he's got the rollers. I remember that guy like, uh, like, like very well too. I don't know, those were like the hot properties.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I've got tons of these. I've got tons of these. Another one that was popular for us at school was army ants. Look, do a Google search for those army ants toys. They're another toy from the 80s, but really similar to muscles. Yeah, they're all like rubberized toys.


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[Assistant] There's like a guy that looks like a pirate, there's a guy with like, he's got four arms, and like one of his hands holding a gun, he has like a beret and stuff, and like, you have like a-


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[Assistant] Look up, uh, Food Fighters from Mattel in 1988 to 1989. It was like a failed toy line, but it was called Food Fighters, and it was like,


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[Assistant] Oh man, they used to have all the Super Mario toys, and like, with the Happy Meals, they used to have tons of stuff.


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[Assistant] These like, I'm just looking through the muscle stuff and there's all these-


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[Assistant] They were so good, and the Masters of the Universe toys, I remember having tons of those too, I love them. And G.I. Joe's, man, like the small ones, like the fully articulated ones, like the three and a half inch


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[Assistant] I don't have the app or anything, but like, sure, I've seen a whole bunch of them.


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[Assistant] Sort of regulation of anything when you're constantly ordering food in, right? Like, the levels of salt in food, the levels of sugar in food, like, if you're preparing food from fresh, you can control all of that stuff, but you lose all that control, right? If you're just ordering stuff in all the time.


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[Assistant] It tastes, I guess it tastes like, you know, like a smoked meat, but uhm, it just spices it up a little bit, you know, if you're just sick of cheese.


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[Assistant] My son collected these toys at one point when he was a bit younger, and they were like, I think they were called


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[Assistant] Specifically like a turd or anything, you know, it just looked like.


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[Assistant] And uhm, at one point, I think my mother-in-law bought him like this, it was like a truck.


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[Assistant] There's this big truck with like an arm grabber on the back of it, and you could like go around and just pick them up with the arm grabber and put them into this big toilet that was like on the back of the truck. But man, he loved them. Amazing. Yeah. But again, those little toys, yeah, they reminded me so much of like muscles or like army ants or whatever, because


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[Assistant] Like he was too young for any of his other friends to have any or to know to trade sort of thing. Like now that he's 10, he's more into that.


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[Assistant] I feel like those would have been like a prime real estate sort of thing for that sort of stuff.


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[Assistant] When you first said that, when you said TikTok were opening ghost restaurants, I thought you were gonna say that they were opening restaurants that are not actually restaurants, but they were just places for people to film TikToks so that they don't interfere with the general population of people who don't give a shit about TikTok or your dumb pranks.


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[Assistant] MrBeast is, um, he's a wealthy philanthropist, right? Like, he gives away money a lot to people? Am I misunderstanding this? Like, he's... Yeah, I think so. I get the impression he's... But a lot of his content is sort of like...


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[Assistant] Because he does have a lot of money, it's like, how many Ferraris can I fit into a phone booth? It's like all stuff like that, right? But he does this same shit, right?


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[Assistant] There's another, on the same topic though, isn't there like a, this like AI program that paints portraits or something of people and they always look like- Yes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like you're speaking in English, but like on the fly, it's just translating into like, say, I don't know what German or something like that. I guess it'd be fucking so hard to do that.


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[Assistant] Right, so he said, I found 200 pounds of gold, but he actually found like 800, and he's banking


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[Assistant] And then he found all the instruction booklet for the plates in, uh, in some attic in North Carolina or something as well. But it was all forged in the end it turned out.


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[Assistant] So the idea is that they put him into so much debt that even when he does get out of jail and claim his coins and sells them or whatever, they're just gonna get all the money anyway.


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[Assistant] But I guess, I mean, the thing is that the value, he might be able to sell it to like somebody for more, right? Like, like somebody out there might be desperate to have these coins or something and they might pay more. But even then, it doesn't seem worth it at all to go through all this.


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[Assistant] Well hello there, and welcome back everyone to the Triforce Podcast. That's right, uh, two dads and a adoptive dad. I feel like I've been, many people just think I'm their dad now.


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[Assistant] I'm one of those posh dads who has a nanny. And I see the children in my study when it's appropriate. Send in the children, I line them up in front of the fireplace. Like the dad from Mary Poppins. Which one are you?


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[Assistant] David, yes. Good to see you. Good, you're looking good. Your hair's a bit long. Uhm, and you? Cynthia. Okay, good. Well, it's just good, good, good to see you too. How's your school doing? Alright, well, take them away, take them away. We'll see them again in six months. See how they've been getting on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, some people can make it out normal, but most people get a bit weird. So a lot of people get a bit weird. Very Hogwartsian, isn't it? The idea of it as well, like slightly kind of, I dunno, like, like kind of- I think it's terrible.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but these days, you've got your phone, you can just like, as long as you can get a bit of privacy. I don't know if you really get that much privacy at boarding school, you know, everyone's always, there's someone always watching you, wherever you are, kind of thing.


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[Assistant] I think you get a pic- if one of you didn't go towards you all got a picture of it when


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[Assistant] You went on a school trip overnight somewhere and the teacher was staying with you, you know, in a, in some hotel or some, you know, big...


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[Assistant] We did that a bunch when we went to France on these overnight school trips. There'll be some Olympic, um, you know, like, kind of changing rooms, like, you know, like, I dunno, it'll be some sort of apartments for


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[Assistant] Yes, that's what it felt like, we were staying in, and we'd all have to sort of troop around, and the teacher would be trapped there with us, unwillingly kind of thing, in some slightly smaller or nicer room, but still have a debug down with fellow teachers, in this kind of, it was a very, like, wartime.


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[Assistant] There's gonna be one kid who's being sick, and there's gonna be one kid who's like, shit themselves.


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[Assistant] Well this sucks, right, because it's almost like you were the boy who cried wolf, or you made an excuse to get out of it, but you actually kinda wanted to go? Man. I wouldn't mind it, yeah. If you made it down, I was gonna come and see you.


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[Assistant] No, of course not. It is hard. I mean sometimes you're on guard permanently and you can't live like that, right? Like when I went to Rome I felt like I was just permanently on guard, partly because of the harassment of like the street sellers and stuff like this, and like other bits and bobs, and I'd heard one of my friends had been


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I've found that if you ask security guards, doorman, you know, like food cart owners, those types of people, they're a good source, cause they usually sort of know. Um, actually, weirdly though, the one of the things I was told was that those types of people know where the nearest bathrooms are, right? So you can always, cause as we get older...


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[Assistant] They're like the, um, the bots, or like the tinder prostitutes.


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[Assistant] I thought you were gonna warn us about some sort of scam, but this has happened to me, but when I was, you know, with my partner, people have approached us as a couple, I think that's a safer bet, right?


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[Assistant] I think a lot of the time though, it's, it's actually, you know, you're in a bad neighborhood, there's a lot of guys around you like, uh oh, my car can't start.


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[Assistant] And they surround the car, and you're like, uh oh. And they're like, do you need any help? We can push you if you want. And you're like, oh, that would be great, thanks. It's mostly like, good stuff that comes out of these types of situations, right?


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[Assistant] It's not like, I was watching this, um, watching this old documentary, Touching the Void, remember this? We talked about it, I think, on the Triforce podcast before, about the guy who, those young men who were climbing in the Andes, and one of them had got injured, and so his friend sort of cut the rope and abandoned him. Young men. Young men!


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[Assistant] There's this guy that they meet like halfway up the mountain, you know, uhm, who's like at the base camp, and he's sort of, he's the guy who's there, like, and so they sort of introduce him and they talk about him and he's involved.


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[Assistant] And I was like, is he, is he some, is he, does he kill them? Like, is he, cause I'd sort of forgotten, I was like, is he?


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[Assistant] They're adventurous, they're young, but partly, partly this was like, uhm, so sort of reading about it a bit.


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[Assistant] Relevant to today, one of the guys was really interested in climbing because he had a sort of teacher at school and he really got into climbing and his parents sort of forbade him from climbing, you know, they said, oh, it's too dangerous, you can't do it. As a result, he ended up becoming a climber, right? Because you can't...


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[Assistant] You can't really do that. Like, if you, if you, like, deny something that someone's passionate about, all it's gonna do is, is deepen that passion, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, well look, I think there's, I think sometimes it works, I think sometimes it doesn't. Uhm, I, did you really want a motorbike that bad? P-Flex? Was that your thing? Were you collecting motorbike magazines and, you know, obsessed with it?


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[Assistant] Right, did you have like a biker nickname?


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[Assistant] Very prescient. Very prescient. Very prescient. Yeah. Do you reckon that was, like, contributed to it? You just always, you know, had that dream and then it came true without, like, you realising, like, subconsciously?


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[Assistant] The Great Salt Lake, it's about half as salty as the Dead Sea, it turns out. So its salinity is only 142 grams per kilogram, which is still quite salty, as opposed to the Dead Sea, which is 337.


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[Assistant] Lake Repa, or Lac Rose, in the Cap Verde peninsula of Senegal, is even saltier than the Dead Sea. 400. But the saltiest place


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[Assistant] That's ridiculous! The saltiest water body on earth. Jeez. I know, it's amazing.


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[Assistant] Fuck me, Chase. That is gold. I think capping the Kickstarter, like, the reality is, is that, you know, if you're getting a book printed, getting a thousand is about the same as getting ten thousand printed, do you know what I mean? The same company is gonna...


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[Assistant] Just smash em all out for fuck all and mail em out for you. It might take longer if there's more, but not that much longer. I think that's the sort of general...


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[Assistant] That threw me off. Fantastic. Are there any, like, updates? I did see one update on, um, something we did talk about before on Triforce. Remember we talked about fucking Axie Infinity? That shitty Philippine game where you have to...


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[Assistant] Fuck you. Fuck you if you step on those. You know, barefoot. At least a sock cushions it a bit. Especially if you've got one of those big home walk around comfy lathes. I mean, I've basically not worn much beyond a tracksuit in the last three years. Let's be honest.


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[Assistant] And, uh, people sort of just are used to it now. I just, I wear flip flops. I mean, I only live like 10 minutes walk away, so I just flip flop my way in and fucking hope that no one sees me on the way.


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[Assistant] On the way in, you know, I don't think I get, I don't get stopped very often. No. Um, but there's a few pics of me on Twitter of people who've caught me on that 10 minute commute and I'm like, Oh God. I just sort of smile.


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[Assistant] No, like, they were like, oh, do you wanna get a picture with me? And I'm like, oh, I guess, I guess, like, I'm not worried if I get a picture with her, I'm just worried that I look awful, you know? Which, you know, it happens. You know, I try not to- I try to avoid mirrors these days. You know, it's just sort of a thing. I just don't give a fuck man.


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[Assistant] There is a brief period of disappointment where you look at your receding hairline, or you look at, like, your browning teeth, or whatever, and you're like, oh fuck's sake. And then after like a week you're like, actually, you know what, fuck it.


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[Assistant] Right. I see it, right. Well that just might be the glazed over worry of her own self-fears, you know? That we all experience their own creeping depression that age is wrinkling us and making us more stupid. Oh man. Jesus. Happy!


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[Assistant] One thing that happened over the last couple of weeks, which might be worth mentioning, is uh, r slash place. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I can look it up. Uhm, wow, I didn't realise I was being asked questions about this. Well, you brought it up, son!


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[Assistant] So, like, it's a bit... it was wild. There was a whole journey, lots of communities, lots of creators doing stuff, there was lots of, like, flags on there, lots of funny moments that came out of it, there was this great bit where Cannadra just couldn't make a maple list, you know what I mean? I saw that, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there were loads of good, there were loads of really cool pics, loads of like, weird things, there was a lot of like, communities sort of expressing themselves in really weird ways.


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[Assistant] Um, it was just this whole, I don't know, it was kind of fairly wholesome mostly, you know, and quite fun, like as a thing. It was a really interesting bit of community canvas that is just graffiti really. But it's amazing how these people can be coordinated to create. But you tend to see them to...


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[Assistant] I agree. Yeah, well, do you know what? I think it's gonna happen. You know, maybe that's actually the... Maybe like, who should just have it switched, like, on days. Like, one day it's like...


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[Assistant] Well look, first of all, on the one hand, there's probably ten strip clubs in Liverpool, right? That no one's complaining about.


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[Assistant] It was a thing for a long time, yeaah. Uhm, and they had this whole... I think it was like 10 years of happening. I think it stopped in about 2015. Because it was just a bit...


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[Assistant] I think they just realised it was like, not cool. It was kind of weird to have these sexy men in like malls just hanging out. Do you remember when like clubs, not clubs, like clothing stores were a little bit like clubs as well, they were kind of dark, very dark, so you could barely see


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[Assistant] It's like a thing, dudes, like in these, in these, like, shops. It just, it was just normal. I mean, it seems so, it was like, kinda like a really sticky floor, dingy, weird atmosphere that they focused on. It's all gone. It's all gone.


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[Assistant] So I've googled out of K1, and I've got a reddit post from five years ago where this guy says, uhm, I don't remember what happened from 7.30pm to maybe 4.10am.


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[Assistant] Cool enough, like, to do it, to go, I dunno, I just never felt like, I just felt like they'd laugh at me, and I can't deal with that. Do you know what I mean? And even if they weren't actually laughing at me, I'd see the laughter. God, that sounds awful. I tell myself, incel, awful guy.


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[Assistant] It fascinates me though. I always want to watch a documentary about the people who go to this. This is what TV's for, right?


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[Assistant] Right. No, we should- I mean, there's options, isn't there? Like, often times I get opt- you know, offered- there's- I don't know, some of my friends are like, oh, we're going to stay- we're going on holiday and we're gonna stay in a hostel. I'm like, I'm not fucking staying in a hostel, are you kidding me? Get out of here, you know?


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[Assistant] It's a con, please stop. It's been a con for two thousand years, dude, and it's gonna be a con for two thousand years more. Like, there's no way that people will... I think that what I've learned is that humanity doesn't really ever get smart enough to stop


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[Assistant] This stuff, right? Like, happening. To fall for these tricks, right? We fall for cons all the time. Oh, we do. No, but, yeah, but by the time we're old enough to stop falling from the cons, it doesn't matter, because it's like evolution, right? We're always gonna...


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[Assistant] I'm too stupid, I'm saying that we're all too stupid for too long. Like I was stupid when I was, when I was 15 and 25 and 35. And I will be when I'm 45.


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[Assistant] In NFT news, by the way, there's now an asteroid mining startup NFT. Can you believe it? We've reached the fucking asteroid mining.


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[Assistant] Well, you sort of, you put a specific, you buy these exploration tokens.


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[Assistant] It's bullshit, P-Flax, of course it is. It's just scams for people who want to get rich quick or feel like they're missing out on the, oh, if I can still get into NFTs, it's not too late.


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[Assistant] Uh, no. Just, it's all a lot of nothing. Fucking hell. Uhm, don't do it. I give up. Do not do it. I give up. I don't wanna think about it. No, uhm, just invest in Dongers and Hooters instead. Get in on board. Get in on the ground floor.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's enough. Thank you everyone, we'll see you next week. Bye. Goodbye. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] What a huge stuff. It's a freezing cold day outside. When this, when this podcast comes out, Jingle Jam will have just kicked off. Oh, that's, is that Nick?


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[Assistant] It's, it's a whole, it's nice, come on, no one, no one minds putting up the Christmas tree.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you have to have- I've got a fake one, obviously, but you have to have it for ten years to make it worth the cost of a real one or something like that. Really? Interesting. Yeah. So, I guess real ones are- Where it's at? Still have some disposal cost. Yeah. You know, I think they burn them after they're done, in a big Christmas


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[Assistant] How about candles? There's nothing dangerous about those. Let's get everyone burning loads of candles. Burning ca- I don't know about burning candles, though.


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[Assistant] People are crazily good at this. I think the pumpkin's good, right, because it's environmentally friendly.


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[Assistant] Where it's not too big, right? Like, it's just a pumpkin. Do you know what I mean? You can eat them if you have to. But as far as these things go, a tree...


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[Assistant] Usually people get them and chuck them away, or they get big plastic ones, chuck those away. There's a lot of waste around Christmas, especially with all the wrapping, and all that crap, and all the bows and ribbons, and all this stuff kind of just goes to waste, and it feels like a very throwaway. We need to move towards something less disposable.


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[Assistant] I don't think you could say as well that, you know, it's not our festival, just because we don't believe in any of this guff doesn't mean that we can't... it's not part of our culture. It's not like we're going around burning down the churches. I'm not saying we can't join in.


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[Assistant] Actually, the Pope, god bless him, uh, Pope John Paul, what, you remember the, um, really old one? Which one? There's a whole bunch of them.


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[Assistant] We went from the, sort of, John Paul to the Emperor from Star Wars. Katzenberg, or something his name was. Back to the most recent one. Anyway, Pope John Paul called the Christmas tree a symbol of Christ.


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[Assistant] A very ancient custom that exalts the value of life. In winter what is evergreen becomes a sign of undying life and reminds Christians of the tree of life, an image of Christ.


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[Assistant] Jonathan Price. It's actually brilliant. It gives you a real insight into the kind of way the Pope is chosen and works, because obviously there was a sort of, an unusual thing that happened relatively recently where the Pope


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[Assistant] Ratsenberger, what's the cat's name, what's his name, he kind of abdicated, which hadn't really been done before. So he just resigned, he just thought


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[Assistant] God is, your word is God, for a start. Which is nuts. And also, God is supposed to speak directly to you, and I think that in many cases here, cardinals who became popes, found that God wasn't speaking to them, almost, and were a bit surprised by it. They think he was like, in an email


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[Assistant] It's one of the, it's one of the oldest sort of traditional things, really, that's kind of still going. Because, and it's so weird, and it all wraps up in...


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[Assistant] Well I was actually eyeing up a Marks and Spencer's plant-based turkey thing. Oh yeah, I've had those before, they're not bad.


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[Assistant] Well I was, I was thinking of what to have this Christmas, yeaah.


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[Assistant] No, you can't beat a gravy, for sure. Gravy is crucially important. I went, I actually had, there's a pie minster in the St. Nick's Market and I had a moolus moo pie yesterday. Oh man.


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[Assistant] Well I think they used to eat chicken on Christmas because it was better and it was special and it was a bit rarer. They didn't used to have chicken every day like we do now, but when at some point that flipped and became the shitter one on Christmas.


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[Assistant] They always give me these stupid facts, like, we're only three days away from, y'know, starvation or whatever, y'know, we've only got three days worth of food at every given time on shore.


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[Assistant] You know, cos we're a net importer of food that you can't see. And so are some other places like Hong Kong and Singapore, big urban centres where they have to bring a lot of food in from the outside just cos they're, our economy is too...


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[Assistant] I dunno, industrialized or whatever, because too many people and not enough land. All the land we're using is golf courses instead of, um, you know.


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[Assistant] What was that bloody woman's name who my parents had the flipping cookbook of? Some terrible old- No, no, there was some old- What was her name? Oh my god, she had like nettle soup and all these wartime kind of cooking stuff. We had one in our- Fanny Craddock? Uh, no. Not Fanny Craddock?


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[Assistant] Not Fanny Craddock, not Betty Crocker, no. Delia Smith. Nigella Lawson. No, old. Gordon Ramsay. Man, she, um, they were eating some, they had terrible taste back then, they were eating soup.


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[Assistant] So now's the time to pick up your Manscaped Surefire Wind Stocking Stuffers Christmas presents. You can get some cologne, there's a nail kit, some ball toner and refresher. Uh, these are all


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[Assistant] Whether this is for your partner, your dad, or just your friend, you can get them something they will use, and it will certainly get a laugh. Uh, 20% off free shipping. Manscaped.com slash Triforce. Be the ballsy-est gift giver this year with Manscaped.


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[Assistant] I don't like people knowing where I live, you know, I just like being a secret, secretive mole in my...


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the door like slides aside and there's like an ugly face behind it, like, PASSWORD! Yeah, that's the one.


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[Assistant] Enough time to, uh, to... To say. But the thing is, you're right, though. Like, budgets are nuts. Like, even for TV shows. Like, I watched, um, the Wheel of Time TV show this week, and... Any good? I heard that's pretty good, actually. Lord of the Rings TV show's coming out. It's on Amazon Prime, it's, um, we're doing a little, um, show about it, actually, like a sponsored show.


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[Assistant] So, I can't say it's bad. I'm a big fan of the Wheel of Time.


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[Assistant] I thought it was actually okay. It's always hard to watch something that you know well, right? Because it's like, oh, how are they gonna cover this? You're constantly, like, aware of what's happening in the next scene, almost. Because a lot of the time...


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[Assistant] People are scared to adapt too much from the book, but they have to, right? Because they haven't got time. And sometimes the book stuff doesn't work. And, you know, you don't wanna, you know, books have got so much crap in them, that, you know, even if you did, I mean, I think the series is six or eight episodes, it does the first book of The Wheel of Time, there's 14 books! Jeez.


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[Assistant] All of it is slightly woolly, right? All of that is woolly. Like, the Wheel of Time is woolly, the pattern is woolly, like, everything is blurry and mysterious and not really properly... Well, I mean, you've got fourteen books to get a bit of a grasp on it. But even with that, it's still...


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[Assistant] It does feel... I know what you mean. The thing about Wind of Time is it's generic fantasy. I wanna say that high fantasy. At these days it would be a young adult series, right? Because everyone's 17.


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[Assistant] They don't really get into, they don't want none of them die for fourteen books kind of thing. It's, it's, it's not grimdark, gritty, modern fantasy, right? Where we want, you know, the thing is, this new series


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[Assistant] Well, all the characters that have been 17 are all mid-20s, so I'm assuming there will be... There was a bath scene I saw? A bit of humping? Yeah, so there are bits of that. There have to be, right, because...


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[Assistant] There have been things done around it that have been done very poorly. You know, this is obviously... I think, I get the feeling it's done by the Amazon Prime second team, and the first team are working on Lord of the Rings, do you know what I mean? But that doesn't mean it's bad, I think it's fine.


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[Assistant] Um, but I think I would like it more if I hadn't, didn't know the source material. Do you know what I mean? I wouldn't necessarily recommend people read the Wheel of Time unless they are willing, unless they like light fantasy. I'd say light in terms of


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[Assistant] I mean the TV show definitely isn't that, there's burning witches and torture and all sorts of stuff, but you know, it's, the books are lighter, they're more gentle in a sense, they're not as, not as, they're not


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[Assistant] Nasty stuff in the books. It's absolutely awful, really, comparatively, y'know. And so, y'know, this is not that, but I think, I think, I don't wanna say it's hard to go back, but it's different, it's a different universe, and you have to invest.


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[Assistant] Obviously huge fan of Brandon Sanderson who was brought in to complete the last, well I think he was originally going to do the last book but then ended up turning into three books because there were a lot of untied threads.


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[Assistant] And I think actually, a lot of work was done putting the threads together, and making it a satisfying conclusion. Right, what about the spokes? The wheel of time. Yea, the wheel of time. The pattern was threaded. The spokes were green. And completely sewn up. The gears were changed.


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[Assistant] They've been posting pictures of you going around the tent, that's those areas where they filmed it.


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[Assistant] Have you heard of Hellbound? No, I haven't heard of it. A few people have talked about it as it's like, um, it's the most popular Netflix series. It's like the new Squid Game, right? It's like, um, it's like a sort of a Netflix, um...


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[Assistant] I think that that's kind of what's happened, like, a little bit, like, uhm, with TV, though, in a sense, right? Like, back in the day, we only had a couple of channels, so everyone watched the same shit, right? And then it kind of spread out, started spreading out a lot, everyone got Sky, they got all those different channels, everyone started watching different stuff.


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[Assistant] So, Hellbound basically is this show where, like, randomly a terrifying face appears in front of people, they call it an angel, and it says, you're gonna die in three days at nine o'clock. And they're like, fuck. And then, in three days at nine o'clock, a


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[Assistant] Three giant hell beings rise up out of the fucking ground or come out of the walls or come out of the sky. They fucking just appear in midair.


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[Assistant] Beat the guy to death or stab him or torture him or rip him apart in some way, and then burn him, or her.


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[Assistant] In full view of everyone, right? They capture this on their phones, uhm, and share it around, and it's basically a show about how this is happening.


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[Assistant] Loads, to loads of people, and no one knows what's causing it, but they assume it's God. Uh, so they start, so this big organisation comes across where they're like, because they say you're going to get taken to hell.


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[Assistant] It's called the new truth, yeaah. And so it's like this idea that this church becomes a very, very powerful organisation that can then influence things.


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[Assistant] Um, and so it's about, so it's six episodes long, but it's very kind of... Is it like a mini-series, or is there gonna be more? There's probably gonna be a season two, but, but, but like, I think, I liked it because it was pretty unpredictable, um, you know, there was some


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[Assistant] Crazy, cause some crazy shit happened. It wasn't the best TV, I'm sure it'll be a bit overrated.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. We have time, like, I started watching this Netflix sci-fi called Another Life, with uhm, and oh, it's the worst thing you've ever seen.


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[Assistant] And so they send their one spaceship, their crew of like, their crew. But their crew is all like 21 year old horny American assholes.


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[Assistant] It's garbage, it's like so awful. Yeah, that sounds great, I'm gonna watch that. What's it called again? It's called Another Life. Another Life. It's got, um...


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[Assistant] Yep, so Quentin Tarantino is releasing a pulp fiction NFT, um, and Miramax sued him, and he replied by saying, I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing!


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[Assistant] Anyway, um, Uber Eats, here's the next bit of news. Uber Eats is going to deliver weed to customers in Canada. There you go. You can order your weed to your door. This is the fucking life, isn't it? This is where we're going.


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[Assistant] Just a little disclaimer there. That completely convinced me. NASA are going to slam a spaceship into an asteroid.


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[Assistant] The Double Asteroid Redirection Test. It's a trial run for dealing with Earth-threatening asteroids without Bruce Willis having to risk it all.


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[Assistant] Bam. Well, I mean, that's the hope, isn't it? Uh, and then final piece of news. In Brazil, a cow, um, is tended for the slaughterhouse, I assume, at some of these big ranches that they have, escaped


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[Assistant] And uhm, managed to get stuck on a water slide at a neighbouring holiday resort.


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[Assistant] Have fun, one last time. Good for her. Good for her. I mean, come on. It's become a bit of a celebrity, it's now got a name and a state of execution and all the rest of it. But, um, yeah. It's, I mean, I love that it just went on the water slide. That is pretty nuts. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So uhm, someone in the comments wrote, so now we know that it doesn't matter if cows are slaughtered or if they escape, either way, they have a good chance of becoming sliders.


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[Assistant] Oh wow, alright, he was, he was king for 72 years. 72!


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[Assistant] And to tell you what, I'm sick of queens. Let's have a king. It's about time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but she's had her chance now. She's been there for 70 years. She might break the record if she lives to be 100 or more. I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I think at her age, not only is she the queen, she's also 96. If she don't want to do something, she ain't fucking doing it. And I mean, there's no pressure on someone of that age and that level of seniority. I mean if anyone says, well you've gotta do it, she'd be like,


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[Assistant] Who's been queen for 70 fucking years and is 96? Get the fuck out of my face, I ain't doing shit. In fact, I bet she's having the time of her life telling them to piss off. I'd be throwing toast across the room, this egg is too, is overcooked, smash, you know, what are they gonna do?


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[Assistant] My, my street is, my street is preparing for a street party. Right. There is indeed bunting going up. There is a barbeque and drinks and all that. Uhm, I've done nothing to contribute because I'm a terrible, terrible, uh, member of society. So I'm just gonna tip up, have a chat and then go back inside and play dose. Yeaah. Sounds good.


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[Assistant] I offered, I offered, I said, I can do a run to Costco, I'm a member, and I got a quite snippy, no thank you, and I was alright.


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[Assistant] I mean, it might be that they all know, I'm the noisy dickhead on the end of the road, who they can hear screaming, you know, fucking, CAST YOUR SPOON!


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[Assistant] The only thing I do on my birthday is, I do nothing. Just do what I do and say, it's my birthday, and then if you can, if you're feeling cheeky, you can extend it to a birthday week, and you don't have to do shit for a week. Oh, I do that all the time. I've seen that happen.


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[Assistant] I am, I am doing something for the jubilee, I suppose. Which is that on Saturday, I'm going out with the lads.


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[Assistant] And, you know, this is my, my London and London adjacent lads that I've, you know, known since school and all that. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We're gonna go out and we're gonna do a pub crawl along the new Elizabeth line.


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[Assistant] Gosh. So we're gonna go a stop, go up, find a pub, have a drink, go back on, one more stop, up, pub, and so on, down the bulk of it.


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[Assistant] It's gonna go all the way out as far as Reading, to the west, and it's gonna go all the way far east as something in the east I've never, I don't know the name of. Shenfield, yeah, I grew up, grew up around there. So it's a proper, it's a real east to west connection. What we need, is what they were talking about.


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[Assistant] Was a connection from southwest London into central London much quicker and easier. That would be hype.


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[Assistant] But they just don't have one, which is a real shame. If they, if they had, they would, they would talk that they were gonna extend to Twickenham, this sort of crossrail thing that was gonna zip in.


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[Assistant] But then they were like, nah. Even though that would be unbelievable. Really, really good if they did that. Because at the moment, I want to get to Woolwich, say. It's, it's quite a few changes. The Elizabeth line does make it slightly easier, but I'd still need to go, tweaking them to Waterloo, Northern line to TCR.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of, and then you get to debate which line would be quickest, and you know, which way would be the best way, and people always have their shortcuts. Did you know, if you get off at Knee Slip on the World,


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[Assistant] Towards Gemla's ham. And then get back on.


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[Assistant] The Flipple line, and take that seven stops east to Dunschfuth.


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[Assistant] It will actually shave two minutes off. And you don't have to take the awful, interminable escalators at...


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[Assistant] I'm just saying, 96, that's a bit old, but when she was younger, what a hottie.


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[Assistant] We're going, we're going Woolwich. Which is pretty far east if you're a south west Londoner.


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[Assistant] Going to Woolwich. Drinks, and then we're gonna keep going. Chugging East. Uh, I don't know where we're going. Woolwich is 100% on it.


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[Assistant] No, we're probably gonna go Woolwich, Whitechapel, Liverpool Street, it's okay to get a pub around there, but it's not the best.


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[Assistant] Farringdon, some good pubs, TCR, if you head north of TCR, there's some good pubs, Bond Street, Paddington, and then I think we stop at Paddy, and then we'll maybe have a few drinks around there. It's easy for me to get home from Paddington, because I can just hop on the district line, uhm, so it's not too bad. We'll bake a lube back to Waterloo and then bosh it back down to Twickers, but we'll see.


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[Assistant] It looks, look at it, the Elizabeth line looks like a man stood very, very wide legged holding his arms a lot. HAHAHAHAHAHA!


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[Assistant] We should take the train to France. Let's take the train and then we never do it.


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[Assistant] That you have, generally people have one holiday, maybe two holidays a year, and generally speaking, you wouldn't mind going somewhere warm, and no offence to Scotland or Ireland, I love you both, but you ain't a summer holiday, so...


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[Assistant] I like to have activities planned that I know I'm gonna wanna do.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't just, I'm not a lie on a beach person, I find that very boring. When you've got kids...


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[Assistant] If I lie on a beach all day, I'm gonna get sunburned. I got sunburned at fucking Thorpe Park when I went there the other- on Friday.


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[Assistant] Here's my question, it is a radiation burn, right? Like, you're essentially, like, it's a radiation from the sun. Yes. So it's not like, like, is it any science types out there? How different is it from just a


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[Assistant] I mean, I understand that there is a heat element, I'm not a complete idiot, but there's a radiation element as well, isn't there? So, is that why people get skin cancer from the sun?


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[Assistant] I mean, there's one of them that can barely get through clothing, right? Like the different levels of radiation. Is it gamma that's really strong and goes straight through?


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[Assistant] Tell you what though, Thought Park, I took my


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[Assistant] Anyway, my, my, my kids both wanted to go to Thorpe Park as soon as they turned 10 and or were tall enough to ride on all the rides.


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[Assistant] She went on everything, multiple times. Right. She went on Swarm, she went on Stealth, she went on Colossus, she went on the Nemesis, Runaway, Inferno, whatever it's called. When she was 10.


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[Assistant] No, so we paid for, cause it was her birthday, I paid for the skip out all the fucking lines ticket. Right. Oh nice. It was like a special treat.


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[Assistant] Very basic level of parenting, well done, period. Yea, it was like, that was just me and her, like, zipping past all the cues. We went on stealth, which if you've ever seen Thorpe Park, it's the really tall one, it goes from nought to eighty in like half a second, shoots you up a big ramp, and then you come flying back down again, that's the whole ride, but you go so high,


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[Assistant] At such a speed that you could just see for miles and miles and miles and then you're just


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[Assistant] Just the two of us. So, when my now 10 year old turned 10 and was tall enough, she said, you had to take me to the thought park because you took Gene and you thought you'd take me.


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[Assistant] It is, absolutely, and I said, you're tall enough, and absolutely, you can ride all the rides, let's go. Uhm, so, we found an insect day, which is when the teachers get a day off drinking tea, sorry teachers, but it's true, and they basically, I took her and her mate, she wanted to take her mate with her, I was like, well, since you're bringing a friend, I'm not gonna get the...


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[Assistant] And they were like, what are we gonna go on first? Now the way I did it with my eldest was, we went on Colossus first. And I told her it was a beginner roller coaster, but it's actually quite hardcore. You go upside down like ten times, it's quite fast. And because if she could do that...


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[Assistant] You are about to find out that this is not the case.


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[Assistant] I was like, alright, come here, you two. And I said, put your hand in the middle. And we all put our hands on each other and said, listen, we are team No Fear.


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[Assistant] Walk along and there's the next one and it's called like Rush or Push or something and it's basically a giant swing that's hydraulically swings you right up in the air. Right. You're on a huge rack of people.


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[Assistant] And they're like, oh, let's just do, let's just do the water flume ride and go home. And I said, listen, I had to give them at the pep talk again. No fear. Come on gang, let's go.


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[Assistant] It got worse and worse because after the stealth, that was it, no more roller coasters. You know what their next ride was?


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[Assistant] And then they were like, dodgeums? They were scared of the dodgeums? What if someone barges me? I was like, what happened to Team No Fear? We are not afraid! We are riding these rides! And they wouldn't do stealth, they wouldn't do inferno, they saw it and they were like, no. You didn't take your eldest with you?


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[Assistant] So, they- we did the log for them, I said if we're gonna do the splashdown one where we all get soaked,


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[Assistant] So, as we're leaving, we see one more ride, which is, it's like, you get on a little dingy, and it's like a series of shoots that, like, it's just like a ledge, then a drop, then a ledge, then a drop.


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[Assistant] So, you, we did all, you did three at a time, we're at the top, we're in our dinghies, and then a little ramp tips you up and it slides you down. It's quite a, quite a stage, sort of quite a safe ride. Little bit of water on the ramp to keep the dinghy going.


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[Assistant] And the guy is like signaling to her to push herself.


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[Assistant] So, she's like trying to move this thing, but she's, she's little and the dinghy's quite big. And she's gotta move her body weight and the dinghy on a completely flat, dry surface.


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[Assistant] So she's just not managing it, so she starts to get out, and I'm thinking, oh my god, she's gonna fall off this thing, and she's got her legs hanging out the front, she's like slow walking this dinghy to the edge.


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[Assistant] And then she's just gonna ride down with her legs sticking out the front. And all I can envisage is her little legs getting stuck on the thing, the dinghy flipping over, and some awful accident happening. So I'm screaming, get back in the dinghy! As loud as I can.


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[Assistant] It was an Amer- I think there was an American theme park relatively recently where someone got their head cut off. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But I mean, here's the thing, we were waiting in the queue for the Dodgers. I bet they were really tall. Yeah, they must have been just like a beanpole. Yeah, but still they don't deserve that. We were waiting for the Dodgers, and I'm saying to the girls, come on, why don't you want to ride the rides? They were like, what if we get hurt? That was what they said, which is a legitimate concern. And I said, do you honestly think thousands of people come through here every day,


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[Assistant] Routinely, people get their limbs chopped, their heads getting knocked off, they're dying on the roller coasters. I said, nobody would come here. They wouldn't be able to operate. It would shut down. People would say, someone dies every week at Thorpe Park. Fuck that. I said, there's no way. I said, you, you, when you got in the car to come here,


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[Assistant] That's not on Center Parks, is it? I mean, it's not like they've- It's not like the thrill of being at Center Parks caused the heart attack. No!


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[Assistant] I hate to have my hand crushed. That's one of my- being crushed would be awful.


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[Assistant] Your assumption is that if someone has a limb or appendage replaced, that they just crack on.


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[Assistant] I mean I just, they are, and that's the thing is I've raised them the same, they've endured the same parenting from me. You know what I mean? The same, just imagine me as your dad, it would be fucking awful. They've both managed to make it through that to double figures.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you something, baby. I'm wearing the Manscaped Undie Pants that I got sent, and they are fantastic! The support is there!


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[Assistant] How about some mail? How about some mailbox?


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[Assistant] I've got a ton of emails from, I've probably got 50 or 60 emails. So we're gonna have to do an email postbox special. This is not that special, but I want to read a few.


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[Assistant] I do have a request. If you are sending in email to the Triforce podcast email address, which is perion.flax.gmail.com, please put in your subject line the word Triforce. All one word, spelled correctly, so it filters to the right folder. Otherwise I have to go past all the spam.


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[Assistant] No offense to some of you, but quite a lot of your emails look like spam from the subject line, and obviously I don't recognize any of your names, so quite a few of them have probably been binned off, like this one has no subject.


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[Assistant] Here's another phrase. Mugger me off is a cracker, but my youngest said, lots of tea in our group chat today. And I said, what do you mean lots of tea? She goes, you know, tea, gossip, T-E-A. Cause it's like, spill the tea is a meme about share the gossip. So now you just refer to gossip and sort of, uuuh, in general as tea. Right. Really? That's how she uses it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and apparently I asked in Twitch chat when I was streaming the other days, anyone heard that? The younger crowd had, the older crowd had not.


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[Assistant] Uh, here's an email from Dr. Paunch, the uh, I figured I'd tell you that I love listening to podcasts at my car rental branch, and many of my regular customers have been accustomed, have become accustomed to listening to it in the lobby.


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[Assistant] Can you um, I mean I understand people listening to it at work, but not if your work is also customer facing and you're just playing it on speaker in the lobby of the car rental. That's, I'm stagnant.


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[Assistant] Uh, had quite a few strip club stories. Right. Uh, some of which are pretty cringy. Okay. Uh, some of which are quite interesting. Had, had some, um, that were essentially from strippers. Right. Uh, which was interesting. I wasn't expecting that. From the viewpoint of


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[Assistant] You can add yourselves to the ban list. So here's a, something we spoke about, I think in episode 221, was people suggesting to people that are not white in Britain, and I'm sure this happens in America as well, where are you really from? Right. Right? Which is the question that we've, I've got quite a few emails from people, some of that has directly happened to them. So uhm, this, uh, I assume it's a lady, their name is Yu Chen, uh, cause they then talk about pole dancing. Okay.


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[Assistant] My name is Yu Chen. I consider myself British. I've lived here my whole life, but my family is Chinese and I look Chinese.


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[Assistant] I don't mind at all being asked, where are you from? I usually answer Wales, which is where I grew up. And then he sometimes gets followed up with something like, oh cool, have you always lived there? Which again, I don't mind, because it's polite conversation. There are some however, usually men in their 50s in her experience, who would press on with, but where are you from? And not let go, just refusing to accept my answer.


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[Assistant] I had this a lot from customers when I worked in retail tech support and I'd like to play a game to see how long I could keep it up. I will react to their question with feigned confusion and repeat I'm from Cardiff in Wales.


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[Assistant] My record is six rounds. I didn't know it was possible to phrase the question, but where are you from in so many different ways? I gave in when he said, okay, I know you've lived in Wales, but where do your ancestors originate? It was getting too hard to keep a straight face.


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[Assistant] Okay, Barry, I think it's one of the early things in Hearts of Iron a decision is, as the Nazis, you can give parts of one country to another.


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[Assistant] So I mean, we have, we have Northern Ireland, you know, come on. That's a pretty topical, isn't it? That Northern Ireland, we've got it and reasonably they might say, can we have it back? So, you know, it's a tricky one.


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[Assistant] I mean, Spain wants to brought her back. Again, pretty reasonably. It's literally attached to Spain. We got it a long time ago, but...


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[Assistant] That's a good one. Here's another one, this is from, uh,


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[Assistant] This, this is, this is the kind of hate mail that I sometimes receive, uh, in the, uh, the Triforce mailbag.


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[Assistant] incredibly ironic that a period of all people is dismissive of the new Kenobi show, describing it, as I did on Twitter, as an RPG session with a mediocre DM.


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[Assistant] I'll also say that the story of a man past his prime trying to relive the adventures of his youth should resonate with the Yogscast given the return of both GTA to the main channel and Dota Karting to Double Dragon. Brackets, both of which I enjoy by the way, keep up the good work lads.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because you would see them pop up in movies from time to time, so yeah.


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[Assistant] I'll check out the new one, I'll check out the new one. Here's an email, this is a really interesting opening. This is from Jordan. Hello Ted, pervert here.


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[Assistant] I had a cattle prod used on me by a partner. When playing, she touched the prod to my outer thigh and it was quite intense.


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[Assistant] However, however, I had a lot of emails from cattle workers, believe it or not.


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[Assistant] Right. Uhm, but other than that, they generally, for a start, I think...


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[Assistant] They don't want to do it because, I mean, if you're working with cows day in day out, even though it is your job, they're very sweet animals really, and I can imagine you not wanting to zap them. So, for our, uh, I believe I might have been the lead on misinformation regarding cattle prods, they don't use them that much from the cattle people that have mailed in to me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, alright, thanks everyone. We're gonna do a mailbag special, so don't worry if I haven't read your email out. Uh, we'll get to it. We'll get to it.


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[Assistant] Please don't do that. No, because if they're better, you'll stick with them. I don't want to be ousted.


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[Assistant] I played it, it was very complicated, and time consuming, and to be honest with you, I just got the Tarkovitch again, so I can play in Tarkov and Dota, but it's something I may return to. I didn't dislike it.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be rammed, it's a Friday lunchtime, on a- on a- on a- on a bank holiday weekend, yeaah, it's gonna be absolutely packed in there.


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[Assistant] Gil Hooley's glass skit glass fucking voice. Famous artist!


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome back to the Triforce Pod-


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[Assistant] I feel like maybe cattle pods are even banned now, dudes. They seem like a pretty dangerous, like pretty cruel thing, man.


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[Assistant] I guess it did develop into the taser. I saw a lot of tasers being used at the old, uhm, Four Hours at the Capitol documentary, uhm, I watched it recently, it was on, came on Netflix, it was, uhm,


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[Assistant] Have you, have you seen that? Like, oh my god. It was crazy to see these people who were very dumb, very sheepish. They were sheep, basically, running through into the capital, getting tased. Uh, that's what we should, so it was fine to use the tasers on them, I guess. But they were like, they were just, just...


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[Assistant] I guess the people at the capital think it's some sort of museum, or at least they did, you know.


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[Assistant] And even when there's like these gigantic, terrifying waves of people protesting, it feels like a very thin line of police is often... Or at least, yeaah.


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[Assistant] And oh my god, they definitely did turn up in force later on, but I mean like, and I guess it was all a very sudden thing that happened.


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[Assistant] But like, it's so fascinating to watch, like, what's the, some of them get into the...


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[Assistant] into the Capitol building, they're like, it's so, it's like, suddenly they're in this museum, right? And it's like, you know that they have a certain aura about them, these sort of places, right? It's kind of almost like a holiness, right? And some of the most effective security guards were actually the ones who


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[Assistant] We're like, oh come on, don't break that. Jeremy, look, don't do that. Or the ones who were just actually standing still. And so, if the security guard was just like a...


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[Assistant] A, uhm, one of those, uh, guys at the Buckingham Palace, you know, the guys who stand stock still, and just, just blocked away, like,


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[Assistant] They would often be fine, right? Weirdly, like the protesters wouldn't-


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[Assistant] Punch them or attack them or like try and push them out of the way. If they just stood in a force, whereas if the cops looked like they were scared or they were backing off or like they were raising weapons or they were like doing engaging like in a different way, then very quickly like people would just be like


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[Assistant] They're not, they're not, they're not protecting it. We can, we can reclaim the house. And then they, they would just sort of barge their way through or charge their way through. And, and certainly like a lot of the time it was just guys saying, just unarmed guys, big guys striding at a security guard. And him not wanting to shoot or attack that guy.


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[Assistant] That guy not really being armed or even wanting to harm the security guard, right? But, but like just through his sheer force of like...


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[Assistant] Aggression, like, physical, like, just, just posturing, like, scarily, it caused this kind of strange, and so, so obviously, yea, it was, it was a, it's a very strange documentary, it's full of, uhm, a very strange event.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, there were like people who were there with their mates with a goal, and that was just to be fighting, you know, to be angry, like the people who turn up.


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[Assistant] He's got like a series of sort of people with him who he's hoping will take pictures of him and film him, and he's constantly gravitating towards the cameras and standing on things and hoping to get- it's really interesting, other people are kind of-


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[Assistant] Uhm, documentary stuff, footage, cause I guess it's like, nowadays there's so much that comes out around an event, that sometimes you don't really get a cogent kind of like, viewpoint of what happened, or even like, get to see all the good bits, in one.


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[Assistant] Uh, 88 minute long sort of film, but oh man, it's just so interesting.


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[Assistant] Just seeing how it sort of, cause they obviously had, it was like an onion, right, the capital, it had kind of like all these layers of security. And as one would fall, you know, they'd fall back to the next one type situation.


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[Assistant] It started to get to the point where they were like, unsure where their layers of security actually were, you know, because they had never had to think, oh crap, what's the next thing we have to fall back to?


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[Assistant] Imagine your job was to, like, go to the capital and say, look, imagine what would happen if 10,000 protesters came and, you know, stormed the capital. Everyone would fucking laugh your face out there. They would not take you seriously at all, they wouldn't respect you at all, they wouldn't implement any of your planning at all, they wouldn't, they wouldn't put any funding down to, to,


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[Assistant] I feel like, no, but like, you'd be accused of being some doomsday guy or some conspiracy theory guy, do you know what I mean, for planning this future event, but I guess it does feel like it's a low chance of happening.


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[Assistant] Dave Fuckface, who correctly predicted this event, you know, thinks this about this, and obviously he's got his other complete bullshit.


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[Assistant] But I guess like, you know, this is, you can never plan for these things. But I think, even like Donald Trump, I'm sure, never thought that the Capitol riots


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[Assistant] In a country though where we also just accept bullshit, right? Like, a lot of the religion that goes into the politics, you know, a lot of people are very much


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[Assistant] Look, I looked at the upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider and it's so complicated, uhm, the stuff, the stuff, and so pinpoint precise and such, such incredible technology, you know, getting free, like, but that's just even the idea of like taking this like three mile long or half a mile long circle of tube, tube that has to be so


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[Assistant] I think it turns out that people and getting people, getting groups together and dealing with this shared history of idiocy that we've got hundreds of years of, that is still massively problematic. It turns out that's actually harder than...


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[Assistant] Which tier specifically? Well, no, well, we're making, like, some people are, like,


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[Assistant] Well, it's a little bit like how in The Expanse, I really like The Expanse universe because it's futuristic, right? We're on Mars and we're, you know, building spaceships and stuff, and yet...


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[Assistant] Everyone, all human factions are still bickering away with each other. You know, there's always someone who thinks that there's always one person being mistreated and knowing they're mistreated and then being dicks about the fact that they're being mistreated.


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[Assistant] Exactly, yeaah, so I, I, I love that, cause I guess like, I want my sci-, I like, my sci-fi classically as all of us, is the Star Trek kind of, the idea that everyone in the future is somehow better, and it's smarter, and bolder, and-


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[Assistant] I've met a lot of humans who look more fucking alien than any of the aliens in Star Trek, you know? You gotta make aliens weird if you wanna be racist against them, right? Like, put them in bags, or tanks, or like...


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[Assistant] Anyway, I was thinking about this because I went to the Van Gogh, uh, interactive exhibit. Van Gogh. Van Gogh. Uhm, the guy outside was like, you coming in for the Van Gogh exhibit? And I was like...


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[Assistant] It was in London, uhm, in like a big warehouse and the idea is that they, uhm, they have these big projectors and they sort of project all of his art up on the walls and so, like, Starry Night and so you're in there and it's kind of this


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[Assistant] It's like, it's like, there's a few like, it's just like a big gallery with lots of pictures of all of his stuff and a bit of history and lots of things on the wall. You know those things on the wall where you stand there and read them and you're like, oh, this is fucking boring. And then yeah, there's a big room and they just


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[Assistant] It's really interesting because it kind of immerses you in his art. Right. Um, and they've, it's very stylized.


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[Assistant] It reminded me in a lot of ways of, even though this all happened in like 1880s, 1890.


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[Assistant] It's all very kind of similar, like, you'll see, like, he painted, like, these landscapes, they look the same as now. You know, he painted, like, a street with, like, a cafe.


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[Assistant] Obviously all the landscapes look the same, but even architecture like, you played like a lot of cafe scenes and sort of scenes. Any Starbuzz scene there?


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[Assistant] Well there was like, yea, there was, almost, honestly, like, I was like, this, some of the pictures that he's done, that are very famous, you know, could be still...


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[Assistant] You know, an image of what you would see today, you know, walking around any kind of European city, uh, with the cobbled streets and a cafe with some, you know, some nice chairs outside it. It's kind of very...


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[Assistant] I, I, I think they'd be furious if that happened. People would be losing their mind. They'd be thinking it's like, Van Gogh and-


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, Van Gogh, I think that's the point of Van Gogh, that everyone's heard of him and therefore he's overrated. You think that.


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[Assistant] So a hundred years time, man on the street is gonna be like...


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[Assistant] I think, I think any lesser artist, sure, right? If it was any old fucking chump. But I feel like there's a couple of artists that are just so culturally bound, because of the ear thing, and because, oh, he was mental, wasn't he? He went, he was crazy, but he shot himself, didn't he? Uhm, you know, because of his, he became


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[Assistant] You know, I think that everyone knows Van Gogh. Your kids will know, have heard of him, right? Because he is part of our...


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[Assistant] Fucking, I dunno, some other famous artist did. I can't even name another famous fucking artist. Do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Hoegens. Name something that he did. Or uhm, you know, one of the other Dutch masters. Bob Ross, yea, what did he do? You know? He painted a whole bunch of banners, like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, but he was a quirky guy, he had this big hair, he had that weird, like, demeanor, you know, he had this-


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[Assistant] There's this, like you said, it has to be the, they need a gimmick, I hate to say it, and I hate to say that Van Gogh had a gimmick that he fucking cut his ear off and was very mentally ill, poor man. He had a tough time, like, it was a very sad thing, he was clearly an extremely accomplished painter who struggled with mental health.


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[Assistant] But people did that at the time! Vango never sold a painting when he was alive, right? And same thing with all these other people, I'm sure like Vermeer when he was doing those beautiful photorealistic paintings, you know, they were like, incredible. Everyone was like, oh he's just using some fucking cheat, isn't he? He must be using some...


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[Assistant] They had amphitheatres and theatres and areas to play music and speak and things like this, they had these events, but I mean, it was, it was, you're right, like, in a sense, you know, I think what, a sense I got from Vango, I don't know, I'm not an expert.


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[Assistant] You would go and see Wu-Tang live, right? And you have done. You know, you have to like it, do you know what I mean? Like, but you wouldn't, you wouldn't, if you got, are you saying if you got free tickets to a down and it was just round the corner, you wouldn't go? Yeah, I wouldn't know.


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[Assistant] Maybe that's what's needed. I think you would be tapping your feet along with the beat, just like every old dad at a disco.


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[Assistant] I'm sure it was the same for Mozart. People said, I loved his early stuff, you know, when he was eight, that stuff was great, but now he's twelve, rubbish. He's really crap now.


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[Assistant] It's changed a lot, right? But Snoop Dogg is still huge, right? There's multiple generations though, right? Like, I mean, when I was growing up, my mum listened to certain music, like, The Beatles, which was fine, you know, I think that was, and that's still, it's transcended the kind of, everyone can like The Beatles, right, whereas she also listened to Kate Bush. Some of their stuff is almost timeless, right?


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[Assistant] That was very much, you know, in the mid-90s, early 2000s, that's when I was discovering music, and also I was at school, so it was important music, it was important to like the music, your peers.


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[Assistant] You're right. It's like the Ramones, right? It's like people think teenagers, there's certain groups of teenagers who are the music


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[Assistant] Aficionados, right? And they have, they're the ones with Ramones t-shirts who don't actually like the Ramones, um, and stuff like this, do you know what I mean? Like, like that, there's certain bands that do have


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[Assistant] This reputation, Pink Floyd's a good example as well, of people who are kind of the, the, the, the, the artist's choice, you know, almost like, uh, the artist's favourite artist, you know, and I'm not saying that they're not good, they're not necessarily mainstream though, right? You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] But I thought Linkin Park were a great band. I loved Linkin Park when I was a teenager. Linkin Park were a banger, mate.


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[Assistant] I guess the thing is I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't know who it's by. Music is fucked up now. I listen to Spotify, but I don't listen to necessarily specific, like, bands.


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[Assistant] I listen to like weird genres, like Nintendo edge cyberpunk pop, I listen to like weird fuckin' mix up playlists and I find a song I like and I like play song radio and it plays fuckin' random shit. I don't know a band.


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[Assistant] I can't think of a time when I have actually put on music to listen to that music specifically. It's always when I'm doing something, I guess like a podcast.


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[Assistant] So, uh, this week I went to the Games Development Conference in Brighton. How was that?


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[Assistant] It was pretty exciting, I met some interesting folks and drank too much, and it was all very different apparently to how it usually is.


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[Assistant] Typically, they do it in summer, it's quite pub-y, they're all quite outside, Brighton's quite nice, this time it was in, y'know, the start of November.


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[Assistant] So it was cold, it was rainy, um, it was, it was in one small room in the Hilton Hotel. So it was kind of like, um, it's kind of like just a large room with some, with the whole convention in there, so all the booths and stuff. It was all very strange, you know? It was like a mini, a mini, a mini convention.


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[Assistant] A couple of people, but it's the same, exactly the same stuff, just on a much much smaller scale. I guess the people who are brave enough or keen enough to come back, or have been lured in with


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[Assistant] Cheapness, I don't know. But it was very interesting, I met, um, I met Charles Cecil. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] The Charles Cecil. The Charles, the Charles Cecil. Chuck E. C. himself. Who is he? He's an MBE. Charles Cecil, MBE. He's a very nice man. He wrote, uh, so he sort of, he was like, he sort of grabbed me on the shoulder, and he was like, Joe, when I wrote my first game.


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[Assistant] Interplay. No, so he wrote Broken Sword 1 and 2 and all the Broken Sword series. Beneath a steel sky. Yeah, Beneath a Steel Sky, which was a very famous point and click which I played when I was a kid, you know, very cool. And ever since then he's just


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, yeah, something like that. And I mean, he, I've also met Ian Livingston there, he's a big, big celeb.


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[Assistant] I don't know exactly who that is.


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[Assistant] That's fair. No, it's like, one guy's doing it, then he gets his friend who's, cause he's like, damn, this is so popular, we could make more of these, you know, I'll get my friend to do it. And so he gets his friend to do it, and between the two of them, they smash out, like, thirty gamebooks in about five years.


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[Assistant] Really? Man, their stock price is insane, Games Workshop. He is, he is minted, by the way. Yea, he would be. He runs like a big investment firm now, for like putting money into games and stuff.


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[Assistant] Man oh man. He is a bit like that actually, but he's, he's nice. Uhm, he put a Yogg-Goth reference in his latest game book. No way. He made a, he made a game book relatively recently and put uhm, put a Yogg-Goth reference in it. What was the reference? We covered it, we did it on the Christmas stream a couple years ago. Did he lean in and say- He was on it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I've been watching this fucking drama called Signal, which is on Netflix, because apparently it's like, that's what happens on Netflix now.


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[Assistant] And every episode is like an hour and a half long, it's fucking taking me ages to watch this thing. But, it just, because it's kind of a bingeable series, all of the fucking episodes just have cliffhangers all over the place, like completely everywhere, like, the pacing is completely off.


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[Assistant] It'll have a cliffhanger in the first ten minutes, and then kind of resolve that, and then it will start a brand new episode at about half an hour into the episode. It's so weird. That's weird. Anyway, sorry. I mean, join it. Uhm, but, PFLAX, you're back. What show was that, quickly? Signal. You should check it out. Okay. It's about, it's about, like, Back to the Future, but Cops.


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[Assistant] Yeah, kind of, yeah. It's okay. I have like a photograph and it goes all wibbly wobbly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've heard a lot of it because I'm watching this, I got recommended this stupid YouTube channel for some reason, because that's what happens, you get recommended this stuff that's virally popular, this guy called FroggyFlips on YouTube, and he goes to garage sales and car boot sales, we call them, where people just sort of sell their


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[Assistant] Um, and he, obviously his whole thing is to find valuable stuff that he can then flip on eBay, right? And, um, he's got a little antiques booth as well, so he, but he sort of has this kind of encyclopedic knowledge he's built up over years and years of running these stores and being involved in this industry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so he'll find like, he'll find like something that people think is worthless and it's basically thrown away for a dollar, and it's worth...


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[Assistant] He kind of has this camera on his head, and he goes around these yard sales, and obviously everyone there, I assume he asks permission before he does it, but there's just these people just having their small talk, right, and it's always like


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, did you see they, they moved that tree that was on, you know, the road down there, oh yeaah, that was getting, the branches were getting in the way of cars, you know, like kind of, you know, just the most generic


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[Assistant] That's the thing, I weirdly thought it would be, like, kind of boring and kind of, like, I dunno, annoying in some way, but no, I think it's actually quite comforting just to hear this very generic, like, low, like, just light conversation about nothing.