We Liking the Rough Stuff | Triforce Mailbag #53

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Hello, friends, and welcome once again to the mailbag.

I don't know which mailbag this is,

but I hope you enjoy it.

I'm here in the middle of the middle.

It's number five.

It's mailbag.

Number six.

Number two.

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Joined by six.

Hello.

And Lulis.

Lulis.

Lulis.

Lulis.

Lulis Brimindley.

How are you guys doing?

Hi, I'm Ryan Inn.

Dear mailbaggers.

Man, man, mailman, mailman mail people mail friends i'd like to strongly complain about something that was said in the latest episode of the podcast go on you me and your friend friends right know nothing about subjects and quite frankly offended me okay uh and my family i have been so upset that i have written this very long and sternly worded email Very long as well.

And just a waste of time, really.

Yeah.

Because it turns out I also don't really know much about what I'm talking about.

So here we are.

Two people butting heads together and neither of us know what we're talking about.

On that note, I have an email from James.

Lewis calling out Kursgasakt on their accuracy seemed pretty rich to me.

There we go.

Naturally, the standard for Lewis should be lower as an entertainer rather than an educator.

But even so, his track record isn't pretty.

To cite his own words from earlier in the same podcast, he claimed that their video on milk portrayed it positively.

However, aside from debunking some claims that it is carcinogenic or contains large doses of certain hormones, Video also made a point of Harlethia's contribution to obesity and climate change.

And even went so far as to describe dairy farms as torture camps.

So there you go.

So you go.

You've been called out.

What's your response?

Well, you know,

I think there's a lot of people who are quite happy to toe the line, you know, quite happy to like, you know, side with the man.

You know, I think their meat thing, their meat episode is very much like, oh,

don't get upset with us, but maybe you shouldn't eat meat.

Ooh.

Like, you know,

puts little finger to mouth.

It's very, they're very kind of Kurtz Gazakts.

They're doing a great job, honestly.

I love their videos, but I also think they're very much, they're very scared to upshit anyone.

Yeah,

they don't want to go full in, you mean?

I'm not, I've never seen any of these videos.

I don't even know what you're talking about.

I just want to put that out.

They're good.

They are good.

They're so good.

They're such excellent animations.

But I'm getting a sense that maybe they don't want to overextend themselves by making, you know, lumping in with no way back sort of thing.

Is that accurate?

I think Lewis's point is that, or perhaps his point is, and I you do see this from some quite a few content creators, really,

that they try to both sides a lot of stuff and sort of just be like, oh, you know, it's up to you.

Of course, you know, we don't have an opinion.

We're just expressing facts here because the moment you actually come down on one side, the other side's going to rinse you.

So

profitable minds are just facts.

But oftentimes, facts are presented

not as facts.

It's opinion, you know.

It happens.

And often the other way around, too.

I think in our world these days, disinformation is a massive problem, a real thing.

And many opinions are facts.

You know, the idea of opinions as valuable as facts is something I have a huge problem with.

And I think that, you know, people say, well, you've got to respect my opinion.

It's like, well, no, I hate that saying.

He's entitled to his opinion.

No, he's not.

People are not entitled to an opinion.

You have to formulate it.

He is entitled to his opinion, but he should also recognize sometimes that maybe his opinion is not right.

We know we're idiots, right?

It's not correct sometimes.

I think sometimes we'll have an opinion about something and we'll recognize that that opinion maybe isn't

politically correct or...

We don't know what the fuck we're talking about.

It's just completely non-factual.

Like, you know, like we will talk about something that we know very little about most of the time and um but i think we're honest about that you know i don't think we're i don't think we're so confident in what we're saying all the time that it comes across as fact which for other people i think that happens way too much yeah i think people get very entrenched and very committed to their opinions too though and i get very angry defending them um ie defending false facts um and and they and you can't argue with them either there's this long-standing idea that it's not worth trying to convince someone.

If you've got an elderly relative who is, you know, who believes that some, I don't know, something awful

makes something up.

It's just not worth trying to come up with a presentation for them or like trying to figure out.

Even if you're fucking Bill Nye, the science guy, or,

you know, what's his face?

Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Yeah.

You know, space is so big, you won't believe it and then he tells you some fact you if if you took a marble he's like oh Neil just get to the point like the pauses that my man puts between sentences are insane I also some of the stuff he reveals as being like mind-blowing seems like stuff you would be telling kids in primary school like that's the level I think some of the stuff that he's not all that mind-blowing yeah it's just I think it was the first time I heard it people just go nuts for these guys maybe it's mind-blowing for an eight-year-old yeah and uh but I mean space is cool.

Don't get me wrong.

Hey, he's don't email in saying we hate space, we love space.

I don't hate Neil deGrasse Tyson particularly, but I do think he said some shit as well.

Oh, yeah.

I've never even heard Neil deGrasse Tyson speak before.

I feel like, oh, he redid Cosmos or whatever.

He did like,

which is a big deal.

He's just a guy.

He's a big science educator.

And I think that a lot of these people.

Encouraging people to get into science is good.

Even the most

primary to science competitive style

is there.

The most

primary

problematic in some ways, I think.

Anyway, that just goes to show that that's part of the problem, isn't it?

Good luck, everyone out there.

Here's an email.

He's left.

He's gone.

I work for Wetherspoons.

You might have heard of them.

Obviously, lots of people come through, and some of them leave behind their shopping lists.

After finding one recently, I was reminded of your request for pictures pictures to add to your collection of shopping lists.

I agree.

They're a fun, voyeuristic window into someone's life.

And I always feel quite cheeky reading what someone else is out for and where they're going.

So here is one I'm reading.

It's Wilco is at the top of the list.

And Wilco is then crossed out.

I don't know why.

And the list reads as follows.

Curtain hooks, dog treats, cushions, question mark?

Right.

Look at prices for electric sockets.

Sainsbury.

And then I think it says bitter lemod, fish, custard creams.

Then it says pound pound land and then it says crisps i i love the fact that it's telling which shop to go to like you're writing a list of where you're going to go not just a shopping list they might be trying to like plot uh an efficient route you know like if they look at their list and they see what shops they need to go to then it helps them do like a nice circuit or you know i guess i mean i will just say that the the lad sending these in the the pictures of these jacob got these in a weather spoons right so these people are making a list of where they're going to be.

They're weatherspoons customers, but then they're going to weatherspoons as well.

So they're stopping in for a few points as well as going shopping.

On the shopping trip, you've got to loosen up a little bit before you go do your errands sometimes, you know?

Yeah, I get it.

I get it.

This guy's buying a coffee, coffee mare.

I don't know what that is.

Sweet pots, mixed leaf, whole grain, raw king prawn, cherry, lollipsed capers, oatmeal.

If you,

I don't do a lot of shopping unless

my wife asks me to.

I'm not like a very, I'm not a good shopper, you know.

My wife gives me a list and I will just get what's on the list.

I don't really think outside the box much.

Like, I do like very occasionally, but predominantly, if I'm out doing stuff, I want to be quick so I can get back.

You know, I don't want to be out.

So, your wife is the one who is kind of deciding what's being cooked and eaten.

So you're just an errand boy.

Pretty much.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm just like, I'm just like the logistics, you know, I'll go out and get.

So you're the one trying to decipher the list.

Bitter Lamod.

What does she mean by that?

I don't know.

She's fine.

Like it's, I never have any problems deciphering the list, but I always feel a bit like, you know, maybe I could be more involved or enthusiastic with it, but I just can't.

Well, I can't do it.

Do you think

being a good gatherer is probably all that's needed?

If I have a shopping list, I write it down, someone brings back everything on that list, fucking brilliant.

That is like the perfect scenario.

I don't want them ad-libbing on the list.

I don't want to get a call halfway through the list saying, no, it says no

machines.

Do you want to get calls yet?

See, that's one thing I don't do.

If it's on the list and I go to the store and it's not there, I'll check a couple of other stores within reason.

Oh, right.

I'll go to a couple of other places just to see what's going on.

Well, that's more dedication than I expect.

God,

if it doesn't work out with your wife sips just just saying like you know

can you come and do my shopping for me

sure

sure why not I can

I'll start a service honestly that's like the dream scenario I don't think you realize that you know see secretly maybe this is one of your uh you don't realize you're one of one of the things that makes you a catch maybe one of the reasons you're still together maybe yeah possibly you actually go through and get everything on that list i try i am terrible i'm terrible it doesn't always happen but i'll i will make it something up on the way home.

I forget all the time.

But fortunately, I live right in the center of town.

Yes.

So my partner can just go down and get it.

If I so you forget and your partner goes and gets it.

Well, usually, yeah.

That's true.

Or something like that.

I love shopping.

I love shopping for food.

I love shopping locally.

I love going into London and shopping.

I love it.

It's really fun.

I think I'd probably enjoy shopping more if I lived in London or somewhere.

Exciting.

But where I live is not that exciting.

A hundred percent.

And like, do a bigger cardo order, fill up the fridge and the cupboard with like jars and powder.

I like when the fridge and the cupboard is full, though.

Oh, yeah.

I do like that.

I like, I like seeing, oh, yeah, look at all this stuff, you know, like it.

But

actually, going out and thinking of stuff to get or whatever, like, I don't know.

Well, here's the so my partner recently told a story to some of her friends, which they all laughed at me about.

Okay.

Right.

Laughter you.

I didn't, I didn't think it was laughed at all worthy, but maybe I'm wrong.

Uh,

maybe this is a very loud story.

She, she, this is how she would tell the story.

So, I offhandedly mentioned one time, yeah, that I like this specific brand of cookies, okay?

Right.

Is it Maryland, the like chocolate chip ones?

They come in like a little red packaged like constant chip.

Kind of, yeah, she's like gluten-free, so it's hard to find stuff that she actually likes, right?

So, she less so

you mean that she likes.

But I think in terms of like availability of products, it's never been better.

Like there's whole sections for gluten-free now.

Can I just make tons of stuff?

Can I make a quick request?

Please

never invite me to your flat for dinner.

A gluten-free vegan dinner, I think I would just throw myself out of a window.

Honestly, I'll send you a picture of it.

No, no, I don't want a picture.

I do not want a picture.

You'll be surprised.

Oh, I will not be surprised.

I would be surprised if what you present on a plate is edible,

because I can't imagine how few ingredients are available to you with all these restrictions.

I mean, obviously, it's not your partner's fault.

It's not even that ridiculous.

You can eat most veg, right?

Like, I could eat like all

Thai food, all Chinese food, all Japanese food, basically, apart from like, I mean, sushi with vegetables in, which is fine.

I can eat like, you know, tons and tons of things.

And so we have a really varied diet that just doesn't involve.

It's like I could eat half the things you eat that just don't have meat in.

It's fine.

You couldn't eat any of the stuff I eat.

Well, I guess you're, I'm not Gordon Ramsey.

So you couldn't eat it because it's got animal products in.

It's fine.

She's fine.

We're both fine.

We're very healthy.

Here's a recipe for people out there that like sausages.

Just hear me out.

You could chuck a fucking tofu sausage or whatever you animals eat.

You could toss in there if you wanted.

This was the easiest midweek meal I think I've ever done.

And it was fucking delicious.

You get a broccoli.

You get a broccoli.

You get a bag of gnocchi, you get sausages.

Take the skins off the sausages, make the sausage meat into little meatballs, put the gnocchi, put the sausages, cut up the broccoli, put that in a pan like an oven dish, olive oil all over, salt and pepper all over, smoosh it around a bit in the and garlic, loads of garlic, bash it in the oven, 25 minutes later, take it out, amazing.

Fucking amazing.

The gnocchi goes like little potatoes.

Like they're gnocchiato,

but it's light.

When you just bake them, it literally just comes out like a tiny roast potato and it's fucking incredible.

I'd never done oven-baked gnocchi before.

I hadn't occurred to them.

Anyway, I say like that gnocchi.

I'm like

a bit Russian.

You put gnocchi broccoli and sausage in cookie oven for 25 minutes and take off in this delicious midweek meal.

Very simple.

Very simple for a whole family.

I

would say

Noki.

I would say

Myockey is my favorite thing to put in

sausage, broccoli put in pen.

25 minutes, my friend.

Very simple.

Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

talking of food.

Talking of food.

No, no, no, no, let me finish it.

Let me finish this story.

Oh, try to read the Instagram story.

I've stand open on my desktop, and you're talking about dinner.

Can we read it?

i ever got i've can you give me like fucking 10 seconds

for 10 minutes we're 20 20 minutes into the podcast i've read two emails what is this podcast it's five

he stole the quota he wants to hit his email back he wants to hit his numbers for the month geez long story short i bought um i these these biscuits are she couldn't find them so i went and bought 48 packs of them because like that's the only thing i could find from the money factory packs of cookies Yes.

Good and free.

Yes.

Oh, shit, man.

I thought I could, you know, we'd get through them over time.

Well, listen,

I thought it was a romantic gesture, but it turns out it's just some sort of weird, embarrassingly

large amount of cookies.

Last year,

they'll be all right.

Last year before Easter, we bought a bag of 50, sorry, a bag, a box of 50 cream eggs.

Let me tell you, it was a mistake and I regret it because I don't, I kind of like cream eggs, you know, I like them enough, but getting through 50 was was

too much.

Even with a family of five, even with a family of five, everybody was sick of them.

But guess what we did this?

I literally like six.

We bought another box.

I don't know why we did it.

A 50.

Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

It's just

so many cream eggs now.

You're an alley cat.

Why are we doing this?

Hold on.

Now, hold on, six.

I am an alley cat.

I can't help it.

I'm crazy.

I love cream eggs.

I just love the cream.

I don't know.

This is an email that says March 23rd marks the ninth birthday of the podcast.

Wow.

Okay.

Yeah.

In episode one, I had just 5,000 hours in Dota.

Could we please get an update nine years on?

Yeah.

13,000 hours now.

So wow.

Oh, that's a lot of Dota.

It's a lot of Dota.

That's too much.

So we started this.

Basically,

I should stop.

You should stop.

Are you still minding business?

Do you still actively play it or not so much now?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, not for the last couple of weeks.

I'm going away later this year to do some Dota stuff.

And I thought, do I want to just play Dota and then have to spend basically a month working Dota and then come back and play Dota?

I just wanted a little bit of a break.

Sure.

So I've been playing football manager instead.

Nice, nice.

So, yeah.

Here's here's another email.

This is from Gils Mark.

Gils?

Gills.

Giles.

It could be, but it's two L.

And he's Belgian.

Could be Gil.

First time writing in, just to tell you, I cringed so hard when you mentioned you cook mussels in a little bit of water.

I kind of get it if you're making paella, but as a Belgian, I feel the need to correct you here.

All right, go on then, Gil.

It might surprise you to hear that.

Belgium is the single country that consumes the most mussels in the world.

That doesn't surprise me.

Even though most of them come from the Netherlands, the duchies don't nearly have as big of a mussel eating culture as we do.

What you should do with fresh mussels is wash them, just to get rid of anything that is not a mussel.

You should keep them in the water for a while and you should observe all of them closing up.

Indeed, the tapping works, but it's time consuming.

As an added bonus, all of the mussels are filled with the most delicious mussel juice.

At this point, add them to a pan with some onions and whatever veggies you like.

Do not add any water.

In Belgium, we like to eat them with some onions, celery, those kind of vegetables, and some herbs.

This results in tasty mussels with a creamy sort of mussel muscle soup that is very flavorful.

If you're making a paella, I guess you could add no veggies.

The mussels will release all the water that they are holding inside and steam themselves.

Stop telling us about mussels.

They'll be screaming while they do it as well.

They'll be all boiled up and stuff.

That's awful.

Do you think they have feelings about it?

Well, no.

Gil Giles.

Thank you, Shil.

Yeah, says, try soaking the muscles and have them release their own moisture.

I'll give it a go.

I'll give it a go.

Thank you.

There's also a follow-up.

Muscle denigration.

This is is from Ralph.

A recent Trive Force was very uncomplimentary about the intelligence of muscles.

And as a mollusk-focused marine biology student and vegan, I am perfectly positioned to be offended by this.

Take it up with Kurtzkazakt.

I'll save you their 6,000 word brand.

Email their podcast on the subtle wit and charm of muscles, but it's a losing battle.

Just be aware that muscle denigration is a slippery slope to writing off all shellfish as soulless meat chunks.

You're just a

small taxonomic leap to writing off their cousins, scallops.

Do you want to hear about scallops?

No, but they should be respected and envied because, and there is some scallop facts for you, right?

They possess 200 telescope-like eyes with nine times better resolution than the piddly eyes of a snail.

They can recognize and tell the difference between different predators.

They can track objects with their tentacles.

They frequently solve the Times crossword with barely any wrong.

And they identify and swim towards the safety of seagrass patches.

okay thank you very good um

having that saying they have a hundred eyes with better eyesight than a snail nine times is not particularly a fucking like uh it's pretty cool mind-blowing like fact jesus christ all right let's move on all right this is this is from luke i thought you might find this interesting throughout the podcast you've had many lengthy conversations about famous or infamous people i do now know if it is because i'm i do not know if it is because i'm from the states or because i'm about 20 years younger than all of you But of all the names below are people that I feel like I now know I've never seen their faces seen their work or heard a single person other than you guys utter their name right so these are names of people that apparently we mention quite often on the podcast

a young American has never heard of never heard of right some of these might surprise you um Liz Hurley okay

that's I I think that's insane I mean she's she's been in movies that were very big in America

But yeah, maybe 20 years ago.

20 years ago, I suppose.

Yeah.

But I mean, I 20 years ago, I mean, she was in the Austin Powers movies.

I mean, people still probably watch those.

So I think they came out in the 90s.

Right.

So the previous century.

And if you were 21 now, you

know, yeah, if you're 21 now.

So if you were born in like the early 2000s,

you might, you might have missed the, you might have missed Liz Hurley, I guess.

Yeah, I get it.

I get it.

But now it seems crazy to me, but

I'm trying to think of stuff that was popular like 10, 20 years before we were born, like before I was born in 1980.

So all of the 60s and the 70s.

I mean,

I probably listened to quite a bit of music from

both of those decades.

And I probably saw a lot of...

movies from both of those decades as well.

Certainly a lot of TV shows from both of those because

they were just in massive syndication all the time on TV when I was a kid, you know, like

your,

like, the Adams family, the Munsters, Gilligan's Island, all that shit.

Like, my parents used to watch because they remember it from, you know, being younger or whatever.

So, it's not,

I still maintain, I think you should probably.

I think it is a generational thing, though, to some extent.

And we, in the same way that, like, I don't know, big movie stars of the 50s or whatever i i think the black and white transition was a big one i think a lot of people see that as like a different time like you know these are in black and white um and i think i think a lot of people of our generation have never heard of the big actors of that time maybe yeah like like um god you know john wayne i guess james stewart like i think a lot of people might never have seen a james stewart movie yeah and he's the most famous probably of like 50s i guess i don't know really who uh who would count as the most like like Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando?

I don't think Charlton Heston has ever, in all honesty, I don't think Charlton Heston has ever been considered like a mega star actor.

No, Clark Gable, Grace Kelly.

So here, here is

Marlon Brando, I hope,

would have a lot more broader, you know, appeal and people would know him because he was in kind of big, big movies.

Yeah.

You know, yeah.

He's always been a well, he was younger in the 50s and he's,

he was, he was still like, whereas I think some of the characters, like, I don't know, like, like Clark Gable is a good example.

He's someone who was a huge star in the war, you know,

during the wartime, right?

And Gone with the Wind.

Although that was made before the war.

Oh.

Gone with the Wind was made before.

Well, actually, 1939, so America wasn't in the war at that point.

And it came out in 1939, which means it was probably made in 1938.

Anyway,

here are the other names.

Tom Sizemore, which is fair enough, because his career basically ended.

Yeah, it ended in

some controversy as well.

And then he died of contra.

He had

a brain hemorrhage.

Oh, dude.

He did a brain hemorrhage.

Yeah, he's gone.

Long gone.

Tom Sizemore was an American actor, died, oh, two years ago, March 3rd, 2023.

Yeah, not that long.

Let's see what he died of.

Brain aneurysm.

Yeah, didn't make it.

61.

He did a lot of drugs, and I believe he did some pornos.

He did some pornos, yeah.

But he was kind of, I guess, probably again in the 90s, he was sort of the sidekick guy.

He was in

was in saving private ryan and he was always he he always played uh like a you know uh a

a good sidekick in yeah in those movies he was like the sergeant in end of anything yeah he would be the guy who was like come on you guys shake your ass yeah never questioned orders sort of thing you know he was in so many things

he was like

he was a real worker yeah he was in a lot of stuff he was in zizzix road which i saw yesterday

I didn't see.

I was reading about yesterday.

So

Zizix Road is...

Do you heard of this?

It's the film that gained notoriety for only selling $30.

Oh, my God.

It had a budget of 1.2 million.

And Zizix, ZYZ, Z-Y-X.

It was famously

the worst

film in the entire movie history.

General Zizix.

Box offices, $30.

That's two people.

Catherine Heigl.

I know, basically.

Yeah.

It's nonsense.

But yeah, it had Tom Seismarine.

I guess he.

That's

funny that I recognized that movie.

Oh, so there's a reason it has that.

Well, it was only

shown at one cinema.

Yeah.

So it was shown once a day at noon at the Highland Park Village Theatre in Dallas, Texas, in one auditorium rented by the producers for $1,000.

The limited release was deliberate.

Grillo, one of the guys, was uninterested in releasing the film domestically until it underwent foreign distribution, but the film needed to fulfill the u.s release obligation required by sag um for low-budget films those with budgets less than 2.5 million that are not for direct-to-video market strategy had the side effect of making it at the time the lowest grossing film in history as it earned just 30 at the box office from six people paying five dollars each jesus

this opening weekend net it netted twenty dollars oh man

oh i see because they personally refunded two tickets yeah purchased by sheila moore the film's makeup artist, who saw the film with a friend.

That's fantastic.

The similarly named film Zizix has mistakenly been cited as the lowest growing due to the film's similar titles.

What is a Zizix anyway?

I don't know.

I'm going to do this.

You'd have to ask a professor of Zizix.

Oh, it's a town in California.

Oh, there you go.

Oh, right.

Okay.

A professor of Zizix.

That's very good.

I missed that.

Thanks.

So, in addition, Greg Wallace, Alan Sugar.

Okay,

I get Greg Wallace and Alan Sugar are very UK-centric.

They probably don't have.

I think you ask English people.

Or like regions.

Yeah, exactly.

Prince Andrew.

Well, fair enough.

I mean, fair enough.

Who cares about that guy?

Here's one.

So, brackets, not sure if this is a real person.

Gene G.

Tupperware.

Jean-Gi Tupperware.

Jean-G.

Tupperware.

Jean-Gi Tupperware is my, he's my, he's my go-to go-to guy in Quebec.

He does, he does all the Canadian stuff.

You know, he could be prime minister or he could be my, uh, my maple syrup dealer or whatever.

He doesn't exist.

Well, he does exist in my mind, but he's my,

I, I think that's maybe an Ontario thing as well.

Because I, when I, when I was growing up, that was like, uh,

you know, If somebody was describing somebody from Quebec or whatever, you know, if they were mad about something or whatever, they'd be like, oh, yeah, fucking, I guess, Jean-Guy Tupperware is going to tell me what to do or whatever.

Like, it's just a, oh, that's so good.

It's pretty funny.

Yeah.

All right.

Larry David.

I'm surprised the Larry David isn't a known guy.

Frasier Crane.

He doesn't know who Larry David is.

No, no.

Harvey Weinstein.

And then these are obvious.

Jimmy Saville.

Fucking Aggie.

Well, okay, I guess.

Kim and Aggie.

Nigel Farage.

Jimmy Saville is

the UK Bill Cosby, I I guess.

Yeah, basically.

Who is that?

Nigel Farage?

Well, fuck.

I mean, you don't need to know who Nigel Farage is.

I wish none of us knew who he was either.

He's a fucking idiot.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah, I mean, fair enough.

The UK ones is fair enough.

Those people don't.

They don't track.

We're happy to educate you, you know, and like

that you know these wonderful, colorful characters.

What's the equivalent of Nigel Farage in US politics because he's kind of like uh he's like he he he's very much like a third party but he's like a bit of a

just any of those people you see in podcasts yeah i guess so

yeah uh so this is uh from lachlan this is an aussie um uh email he says read in an aussie accent please so all right here we go uh cutting to the point when i was 19 years old i'm now 35 i worked for video easy which is australia's version of blockbuster i worked in an area of Newcastle which had high volumes of state housing or affordable housing.

Therefore, we had the spectrum of customers, and I thought I'd share some bizarre and funny stories.

So, this guy worked in Aussie Blockbuster.

Here's a fancy.

Was the branding similar?

What was the name of the place?

We can't ask the questions.

It's a mailbox.

What was the name?

What is it called?

Easy View or something?

So I've looked it up.

It's Video Easy.

The branding is completely different.

Video Easy.

Easy way.

Like, Video Easy Way.

Easy.

Right.

Video easy.

The choice is easy.

Video easy.

Yeah, it is completely different.

Okay, cool.

A regular Russian man would usually come in with family, wife, and teenage boys.

One day, he returned a DVD and called me over as he exclaimed loudly, I need to talk to you about this show.

I must speak.

I walk over.

He hands over a DVD, Dante's Cove, which I know to be an R-rated, basically gay porn TV show.

And there is an image of two lads hugging

in a very sexy way on the front cover of the DVD.

The customer then says, this show, very good, very good.

I like the rough sex.

And then slaps his hand on the counter, nods, and leaves.

This was at 8 a.m.

in the morning.

I love it.

This show, very good.

Very, very good show.

Slams his fist on the counter.

Just slaps it right down.

I hate your press.

Yes.

Listen to me.

Great show.

Keep it up.

Love the gay sex.

Love it.

Oh, man.

That is funny.

Maybe it is good.

Maybe it's good.

He's like,

I like the rough sex.

He's just, I love the idea that this guy's so confident in who he is.

Yeah.

He can watch a gay porno and be like, this is very good.

I'm enjoying this very much.

I'd love to see if you showed him something like, not rough.

No, no.

No, no, no, no, no.

He must grab the other man and really, like, he means it.

Come on, rough him up a little bit.

No.

No.

No, no, this is no good.

That is Cove 2 completely missed the point of that is Cove 1.

The whole point is rough sex.

Rough, rough, rough.

Like two dogs fighting in a bag.

I'm going back to one.

I'm going back to the first.

Give me one again.

I watch.

Oh,

that is great.

What a great story.

I love that.

I don't think this is actually a gay porno.

I think it's an actual TV show.

Yeah, yeah, but it's like,

it's gay as hell.

I mean, look at that.

I think it is gay as hell.

Should be gay.

Dante's cove.

His cove, you say.

I see.

I want to see Dante's cove.

I want to see.

Show me your cove.

Show me your gaping cove, Dante.

I want to see gaping cold.

I want to get to the bottom.

Right.

So this is another guy.

Thief steals ice cream in crotch.

One day I was restocking the popcorn drinks and candy, etc.

When I noticed a customer had been lingering in front of the ice cream fridge for about five minutes, which we knew was a blind spot in our cameras.

And then this man began to crinkle.

I realized he was stuffing cornettos down his crotch.

Instead of confronting him, I just began to stack boxes of products around him and proceeded to chat with him.

He was very short and then explained he needed to leave.

However, I was overly polite and kept leading the conversation.

Basically, I kept casually talking to him for another five minutes or so in the hope that either his cock would freeze or the cornettos would melt.

That is hilarious.

And a list of things.

If you work somewhere

and you saw someone shoplift and they ran out of the store, would you chase after them?

I don't fucking know.

No, me too.

I would never fucking do it.

I would just pretend like I just didn't see them.

I just would not get involved.

I mean, I'm not going to fucking get stabbed for

some guy nicking a bag of Chris.

Who gives a shim?

It's not my money.

If it was my shop.

And that was, you know, my stuff, I'd probably be a lot more pissed off.

I'll help him.

The cops will come along and say, which way did he go?

And I'll go, that way, I'll point the wrong way.

good on you cornetto thief get out there yeah fuck you easy video

to the man anyway um and then list of things that have been returned in dvd cases um a turd used dirty panties three small cockroaches living a used tablet a five dollar note a phone number a you complete wrong dvd

possibly cooking oil and butter smeared in stye and a used or staged used condom we did not test no yeah sorry to hear that

you didn't like like we didn't slurf a bit out just to see just to test to see

i think those that that does sound

what a waste of perfectly good cum probably opening those dvd cases must have been like just opening a mystery box of gruesome just imagine oh my god so this is i used to work at uh blockbuster but back in my day I mean, I worked at Blockbuster before DVDs were even out.

So we were still, you know, be kind, rewind, which is pretty good.

but there you go

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Oh my goodness, that's a really good idea.

Thanks.

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We do too.

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Yeah, everyone we know, we're giving them an aura.

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uh to the motherfucker with off-brand sips and lewis stickers on the back of their white 2007 toyota camry i am certain you listen to this podcast i'm calling you the fuck out for sideswiping me in cleveland oh and speeding off wow somebody's got a bumper sticker of me and lewis yeah apparently.

Off-brand.

That's hilarious.

Is he a real menace on the roads, do you think?

Apparently.

Hey, sideswitch design Cleveland.

Cleveland, Ohio, of all places.

2000.

Why doesn't he just have me and you, though?

What kind of merch have we got?

He doesn't like me.

Yeah.

What do we do together, Tips?

Like, maybe it's just people that look like us.

Maybe, yeah.

Who looks like us?

Is there like a kind of like radio shock jock duo or something?

Well, I look a lot like Harrison Ford, and I would say that you probably look a little bit like Jeff Goldblum.

Right.

Well, they're when he was turned into the fly, is what I was going to say.

The ultimate team up.

Just probably as the fly.

I'm joking.

And Brundle Flying is probably 90-year-old Harrison Ford.

No, no.

Sure.

No.

No, I'm talking Harrison Ford from like the first Star Wars kind of.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, okay.

Not

the fucking geriatric.

Who wants to look like a geriatric, Lewis?

Come on, man.

Geez.

Well, I haven't seen you for a while.

Well, that's true.

Yeah, I've aged a lot.

Time might not have been kind.

I saw you in November.

What are you talking about?

Fucking hell.

Well, you know, you get ground down by being a true.

You know, it ages you feel.

I wasn't wearing shorts at the time, but now I'm like full shorts.

It's warm enough.

So I've aged a lot.

It's cool now.

It's nice.

Oh, get this right.

My eldest came to me the other day and wanting to raise money for a trip to Japan

to be able to buy shit over there.

They've been going through various things in the house that they think they might be able to sell.

How small is she?

Would she fit in like a tunnel system, like a small tunnel system or a crawl space?

Who?

Your daughter.

It's like got some work for her if she wants some money.

She'll fit.

Right.

I see.

Like,

she's definitely smaller.

your own kids.

I don't want to put my own kids in there.

They're fucking hurt.

Does your daughter think she can fit in my wall?

Got a dusty sword.

We're going to have some exorcisms that need to be done in there.

I think there's some phantoms living in my walls.

Oh,

sorry.

So she's trying to, that's, that's sweet, actually.

She's trying to raise money for your trip to Japan.

Okay, so.

Yeah, but no, so that she can buy crap over.

Right, yeah.

Fair enough.

There's a lot of crap to buy over there, it turns out.

Oh, yeah.

Um, my old PS4, which I hadn't used in fucking since Red Dead Redemption 2 came out.

That was the last time I used it.

Yeah, and I never fire it up.

I just literally, it's just sitting there.

Yeah, so

we took that.

So, imagine you took cash.

We went to CEX, not cashmere,

which is the nerd's version of cashmere.

So, I want you to try and guess how much I got for a PS4 with a power lead, one controller,

and an HDMI cable.

30 quid.

Lewis?

I'd say

60.

It was 77 pounds.

Wow.

Okay, that's more than I thought it was.

I'm actually 70.

So they're selling that for 200.

It's fucking

mad, right?

Who's buying a PS4 now for that much money?

I was just shocked because if they're buying it for 70, I wouldn't pay 77 for a new PS4.

This is a years-old, dusty-as-hell PS4 that we just cleaned up a bit and they were like 77 quid.

That's what it says in the book.

How the fuck is EX making money on that?

Blew my mind.

Anyway, I think there's a cycle, though, isn't there?

Like, I think if you certain things don't drop below a certain value over time, right?

Like, you could still buy Super Nintendos, Nintendo 64s, and stuff for, you know, like they're almost a little bit valuable.

Well, those are now.

They're older, but PS4 is like any like the previous gen consoles are always worth like nothing.

They'll be worth more in years to come, but it's never worth it.

You're talking like 20, 30 years.

I mean, and for it to be worth like 150 instead of 77, like who cares?

I mean, the ones that were like with the games were on cartridges or discs, right?

Yeah.

And were completely internet.

not internet connected and didn't require any of this online authentication or any of this stuff are, I guess, on the, you know, they're, they're like a pinball machine, right?

They're kind of, as long as they keep going, they keep going.

Great.

But I wonder if the PS4 will turn into a brick eventually once some sort of service shuts down for it.

Um, and it just doesn't function.

I think they're still, um, they're still fairly used, though, right?

Like, um, I don't think everybody who had a PS4 now has a PS5.

Like, I still, I think some people still use a PS4, but there'll come a time where they will just have to.

Is PlayStation the one which is fully backwards compatible?

Like, you can run every older PlayStation game.

I don't know if it's about fully but it's generally fairly backwards compatible yeah like you can play your your PlayStation 4 games on PlayStation 5 for example but do they even have does PlayStation 5 even have like a fucking CD tray or anything yeah you can get them yeah you can get them with or without I just assumed that I assumed that they'd phased that out yeah along with like everything else like i assume like a you go and buy a new phone and the only connector it has is like the charger connector right and and the same thing with like laptops and everything like this fucking nothing has any kind of way to yeah everything has to be wireless or bluetooth now yeah no i mean you can still get playstations with uh with this with a disk drive i just for some reason i don't have a playstation 5 or i just assume the next one will be you'll probably get one soon i guess for gta 6 right everybody's a white rectangle with absolutely nothing it'll be like a colorless white rectangle and you'll have to like touch a bit of it and it'll say boop boop and then it'll appear on your fucking phone It'll be like you've scanned this QR code with your phone and it will connect to your Wi-Fi and it will all be like, oh, that's where it's going, right?

I think that's where the suits want it to go as well.

They want it to be as futuristic as possible.

Hey, listen, speaking of futuristic, I watched The Apprentice last night and it was the shopping network task, you know, where they have to sell live on TV.

No, nope.

And anyway, so they had to sell live on, you know, like QV, whatever it's called.

Is it QVC?

Sure.

Yeah.

And one of the teams picked a coffee maker that

you can link up to your Alexa.

And so they're like, Alexa, make me a coffee.

Didn't work like four times.

Like it finally went.

It was really good.

It was great.

Well, I have an email from a listener here.

It says, I am writing to you because I started watching The Apprentice this week and realized that I actually worked two shifts for Keir from the newest series.

He's gone.

A couple of years ago.

He got fired.

He's already gone from the show.

Well, good.

He got fired.

He ran or runs a telemarketing company based in Leeds called Parallel Partnerships that targets mainly old people and pressures them into booking a solar panel salesman to come and give them a quote and hard sell them on brand new solar panels.

All right.

So this lad basically turned up and it was like miserable.

People telling him to fuck off, slamming the phone down.

And it was just like an absolute obvious bullshit scam.

And the lad quit.

Wow.

So yeah, there you go.

And he was on the internet.

Yeah, and Kir apparently was, he was expecting him to be a bit of an arsehole telly, but he doesn't seem a bad guy.

But his business made money confusing and tricking elderly people.

So, yeah, I'm glad Kir's.

A typical scumbag.

Yeah.

Oh, and a very, a very quick correction from Yuri.

Thought I'd drop a line to correct a mistake you guys made repeatedly on the show.

Geordie LaForge did indeed fall in love on the holodeck, but it was with a hologram version of the woman who designed the Enterprise's engines.

Yes.

Not Deanna Troy.

There was one with Deanna Troy, though.

That was Barkley.

That was Barkley, indeed.

He creates it as an interface to help him fix the engines and tells the computer to use all the information it has available to create an accurate representation who falls in love with them.

The person you guys are thinking of is Barkley.

played by Dwight Schulz of A-Team fame, who simulates various people on the holodeck, including Deanna Troy, who he impresses by beating a buffoonish holo Riker in a sword duel.

Right.

So yeah, it's basically like It's basically a very prescient and scary idea of having like AI porn of your

of someone that you know.

And

it's kind of, yeah, like some of these things are actually quite,

they can't be too explicit with it on Starship.

I mean, this is

this is a this was on in like 1990.

But certainly the, it certainly is implied

that, you know, there's certainly an idea there behind the bubbling away that this could be very creepy and dystopian, very black mirror.

I mean, I'm not kidding.

As the lad says in the tail end of the email, if I had access to a holodeck and it was as realistic as the one on TNG is portrayed, I'd be fucking all kinds of people.

Why wouldn't you?

Well, but then you then what, but again, like what happens when people find out about your holodeck history?

Yeah, I kill myself.

What if they walked in and you were just constantly fucking yourself?

Like, uh, oh my god, that'd be weird.

Oh, my God.

I mean, you know, I'd be, I'd have sex with, with, with, with Liz Hurley, Prime Era Liz Hurley.

Why not?

Yeah.

I mean, it's just a virtual litch.

Well, most people would walk in and don't even know who she was, so it's fine.

Who's that?

Greg Warren, you see.

All right.

This is

Ryan,

who has anosmia, which we spoke about on a previous episode.

Yeah.

Which was the Gordon Ramsey Bingo one.

Anosmia, if anyone doesn't know, is that you can't smell things.

Right.

So, why do I have it?

There are a few potential reasons why I have it, but it ultimately comes down to me suffering a head injury when I was a toddler or a baby.

I wasn't abused.

Toddlers sometimes just hit the head on things.

It was only until I was in late high school that I fully realized I couldn't smell.

And when I went to university, I finally got it checked out.

For the most part, life is normal for me.

It's sadly not like a superpower, sorry, Lewis, but more like a part of the world that is closed off, like how blindness closes the visible parts of of the world down for blind people.

Some downsides.

I don't know if I smell.

So I shower every few days just in case.

I don't know if food has gone off.

So I'm extra cautious around that.

You can

smell it.

Somebody's been smoking weed in your neighborhood.

Right.

I would throw whatever was left away the day after the used-by date.

It's wasteful, but it's safer than drinking off milk, which he's done plenty of times.

Very cautious with smells.

So if someone's coming over, lights a bunch of scented candles, even though apparently the place doesn't smell, you know, Ryan doesn't know.

What do things taste like?

It's limited, but I do have some taste.

I can tell if something is sweet, spicy, salty, sour, or umami, but beyond that, I'm clueless.

Lemons and limes taste exactly the same to me.

I didn't realize there were other flavors to Nando's spicy dip till a friend told me that there were.

I just thought it was spicy.

So yeah, just

doesn't smell bad smells, but sometimes wants to smell bad smells.

And then in fact, not being able to is itself a hindrance.

Thank you.

So you've never smelled a fart before?

Apparently, not.

I mean, geez, lucky.

Well, maybe not, actually.

So, you're saying it's not a superpower, but you've never smelled a fart.

I don't know.

I think it depends where you live, right?

If you live in the fucking city center, then oh my god, having like the fucking not being able to stink, smell all the,

I don't know, like some cities really stink.

Is that what you're going to say?

Oh my god, you can't smell.

Well, God, no, I was going to say that the drains.

Oh, the drains.

Yeah, there's drains.

I walk around.

That's just enough

for poor people receiving vengeance.

I wish we would flush them all.

Flush the drains.

Flush the turds away.

You know what I mean.

Get the hose.

Get the hose.

This is from Alex.

Recently saw a video on Reddit where a guy claims he wouldn't sell his dog for £100,000.

Is it not ridiculous to take this offer, no matter how much of a family member a dog is?

Or am I out of touch?

Would Sips sell Terry?

And if so, what is his lowest price?

I would not sell Terry.

No.

For 100 grand, someone says I'll give you 100 grand for that tortoise.

You would not sell it?

Yeah, it's a tough one because, I mean,

on the one hand, yeah, I would love to have a hundred grand.

But on the other hand,

everybody in my house would be so sad, you know?

Need more things.

Okay.

We can't do this with this kind of information.

Where is it going?

Who's buying it?

What are they going to do?

Yeah.

I mean, we need more.

I mean, if he would

sell it for 100 grand, if they're going to put the blender right in front of you, live with other tortoises in a tortoise sanctuary and be taken good care of and I could go visit them and stuff.

Yeah, I would, I would definitely sell

it.

There's definitely like, there's the qualifiers to this thing.

And also, people

on the one hand love animals and love their pets and are perfectly happy to, you know, and will do anything for them, by the way.

And all the more so now.

And I totally understand it, right?

You know, people get attached to cuddly toys.

you know they wouldn't sell their favorite cuddly toy for a hundred grand they're like

a living being yeah you make love to them and and I think it's also the same it's what informs this question is the same thing that will it says what would you

what would you do for a family member versus what would you do for a stranger right like would you you know would you die for a family member I think a lot of people would would say yes would you die for a stranger a lot of people would say no right no um i i think it's it but you don't know them you know maybe if you got to know them suddenly you would die for them i think these are very difficult quandaries moral quandaries to put people in and so i think it's tough right it's certainly in different ages people

really treated pets a lot worse than they do now and i think even some even today in some cultures pets are not treated as well as they are in the west flax would you sell your dog for a hundred grand no i don't think i could

keep keeping keeping birds or like like when i went to spain and people were keeping their dogs in cages outside.

I'm sure they'd be happy to sell those for 100 grand.

Do you know what I mean?

I mean, look, I think if we did, whilst I would, I would, again, I would love to have a hundred grand.

I just feel like ultimately you would feel incredibly guilty.

Yeah.

And it would feel like you have been lying to yourself about your relationship with your pet because we all love Aggie.

We really do love her.

Mrs.

F, especially, first dog she's ever had, absolutely adores her.

And if I was like, I sold her for a hundred grand, is that money really going to be giving you that much joy compared to what my dog does?

I don't think so.

I think it's sort of commodifying an animal that loves you.

And I think that's wrong.

Yeah.

It's a bit like that time Woody Harrelson accepted the indecent proposal.

Ask him how he felt.

Probably not great.

Yeah.

You know, probably not great.

You probably felt pretty good when they were like showering money over each other on the bed and stuff.

Yeah.

But then when it came to it, the indecent part feels bad.

You probably felt like shit.

I will just say, you can have my cat.

In fact, I will pay you to take my cat.

I fucking, this cat is the worst cat ever.

Is it like that one, the mischief one?

Oh, no, sadly not.

If only.

That's actually an interesting cat.

That cat fucking doesn't have to not be at home either.

It goes out to other places.

So maybe not such a bad cat.

Well, oh shit.

Well, maybe that cat's got a bad home life.

Maybe that's why it's maybe no apparently not maybe it's running a wanderer well look our cat barely ever leaves the house certainly never leaves the back garden uh won't let you pet her um doesn't sit on anyone's lap uh doesn't do anything like not even amusing in any way shape or form she i feed her every day and i go to pet her and she just goes oh no don't touch me she doesn't let anyone pet her ever which is she's not violent does you can pick her up does she play with

with a bowl of yarn if you she'll play with something for like 10 seconds and then she just wanders off the the people i bought her for their house stank of weeds so badly that i i assume the cat is literally brain damaged i'm genuinely i'm genuinely brain damaged traumatized in some way like you know no she's she's not traumatized

it could be that that that the people were not gentle with her previously or that she doesn't like it if she doesn't need it then why why should she like i think we're gonna get a lot of people writing in about cat psychology here by the way and i just want to pre-empt it by saying don't don't write in

about how

thoughts on why his cat's like this, how he can change it, how he can fix it.

Just people love kittens.

How long have you had the cat?

People love cats.

Good, good couple of years now.

Yeah.

And so, and it sounds like it was a rescue, or at least no, it wasn't a rescue.

We bought her from

this is a couple that were relatively

sticks of weed.

Yeah, just it was just, they were a Polish couple who had two cats and had a shitload of kittens and sold them on a cat-selling website.

And And I popped over and bought one because our cat had recently died.

So the kids wanted a new cat.

So I went and bought a cat.

I thought it was, you know, cat's a cat, but this one is just shit.

It's like having a very large pest.

So that lives in a house.

That doesn't mean you will sell for 100 grand in a heartbeat.

That doesn't mean you will need

to give the cat £100 to take the cat.

Oh, I don't dislike her.

I just this is.

What's the cat called?

Bonnie.

Bonnie.

Bonnie.

My relationship with the cat is zero.

Like, I don't even bother acknowledging her.

What's the point?

Well, that's pretty standard.

That's what a cat is.

Yeah, I feel like that is the relationship that most people have with a cat.

I think that is.

I think that's absolutely not true.

You guys don't have cats, do you?

No, no.

You've never had a cat.

I had a cat when I was small.

Right.

Well, that is not how most people's relationship with their cats is.

Right.

Well, you've got a bad one.

That's all.

My relationship with my cat was one day my cat was there and the next day he went to live on a farm.

Yeah.

That's what happens.

Joe, I've changed my mind.

What?

All of you cat people out there, write in and tell T-Flex what he's doing wrong.

I've changed my mind.

Go on.

This isn't.

Go for it.

This isn't.

Because you clearly want to say something about it.

So just get it off your chest.

This is an email for you.

Lewis doesn't know anything about cats.

Just true.

Just told my wife about Lewis and his bug infestation in his plants.

This is a solution.

Have a fan blowing at your plants so the fungus gnats can't land to lay their eggs.

What the fuck are you talking about?

that's the plan lewis just try it i got plants all over the place what you want me to put all my plants together in one place but a fan

um lewis has lego plants as well he has real plants and lego plants i've got

the thing is before my partner moved in i obviously had some sort of problems before and so i'd gotten rid of all my dead awful useless house plants you know things i'd go on hold over two weeks and no one would come in and water them they'd all die do you know i mean i wasn't particularly um careful so i replaced all my plants with lego plants but now my partner's brought in all of hers and it's the place is full.

But we have actually got a solution to it.

We've got these little yellow stickers that I put in each plant, which is like little fly traps.

No fungus gnats.

Is that what it says?

No, they just they're just anti-fly traps.

They basically they kill the adults and then there's these like little bacteria tablets you can put in the water that you wash

them, feed them water that you water them with.

The water that you water them with.

And

pouring that in, it kills the eggs.

And apparently apparently, those two, if you kill the adults and the eggs, it breaks the life cycle.

I mean, that sounds good.

Wow.

So, your apartment is basically a murder factory.

Well done.

Touchwood, yeah, like they won't

keep going.

Well, if I may, Lewis, that sounds like you're murdering living things.

We have an email from Tom.

I've been out of control murdering these things.

I've killed

a thousand of them in the last week.

It's titled Lewis.

Lewis Brindley, the hypocritical vegan.

I'm writing to express my general frustration with one Lewis Brindley, professional yapper.

Often, Lewis uses the platform of the podcast to wax lyrical about his veganism, framing himself as an environmentalist and telling us about going to hippie events

and pushing crystals into the ground and possibly up his bump.

Ordinarily, I wouldn't have a problem with this.

Veganism is probably a morally righteous position.

I just can't be bothered to change my diet in any meaningful way to make the big jump.

Fair enough.

No.

My issue

is that on occasion, Lewis will be on a vegan tirade, railing against meat eaters like you, me, and the rest of the world,

then proceed to talk about how much he loves Lego, an activity meant to soothe little toddlers, a company that has dumped tons and tons of injection-moulded plastic crap into the world for decades.

My question is this: Will Lewis

buying or building Lego until they move to a fully recyclable model as they plan to do in 2032?

Can we just talk about the green solution of having a fan on all day, by the way, on your plants?

I mean,

permanently, It's such a terrible idea.

But also, like, I get it.

Oh, my God.

Like, the Lego, like the waste, the plastic, like destroying the world.

Holy shit.

I struggle with that every day.

It eats them up inside.

It does.

I don't like the

pupa of the fungus.

Here's the thing about Lego.

When you buy a thousand pounds worth of Lego, right?

It's about the size of a quarter of a plastic chair.

Do you know what I mean?

If you buy a set of lawn furniture and stick it outside or throw it in the bin, I think that's actually a lot worse.

Like, there's, I mean, it might be recycled in some way.

And I know Lego are trying to do their Lego initiatives to make eco-friendly Lego, but actually, on the scale of things, Lego is not actually all that much plastic.

You know, so that's how I feel about Lego.

I'm sure it's, I 100% agree it's bad.

But actually, I think you have to think more broadly about your

one-time use of things.

Welcome.

Two final emails.

All right.

Right.

This,

I don't know if this is true.

I will let you guys judge it.

Okay.

I think it's unlikely, but on the off chance that it's likely, I think it's interesting that it's true.

Then here we go.

Was

I'll paraphrase it.

On their way home, got pulled over for speeding.

Right.

Had the podcast on the phone on the dashboard.

You know, the way it's in that thing, paused it, but you can still see the podcast and what I listen to on the screen.

Yes.

Officer walks up, goes through the formalities, looks around the inside of the vehicle, goes back, says, all right, I'll be right back, sit tight.

About five minutes past, he comes back to the window, hands me my license and insurance card and says, I have a tiny police.

Of course, I am shocked as that is probably the strangest interaction I've ever had with a stranger, let alone a police officer.

And then I looked at my radio screen.

We both burst out laughing and started to chat about the podcast for 10 minutes before he sent me on my way with a warning and no ticket.

If that's true, first of all, uh, officer, officer, Triforce fan, you should have given that guy a ticket for speeding.

Don't play favorites with any Triforce listeners if they're speeding.

You probably got a warning, though, right?

You must, you must do it again.

Don't do that again, bust.

Don't do it again, Chris from Minnesota.

Hey, you're sitting to me, Chris from Minnesota.

I got a tiny penis, you got a gaping vagina.

Let's make this happen.

Let's go.

Dante's Cove, baby.

I love that.

Part one.

On the one hand, like, I agree.

Like, you know, people should be paid for their time.

You know, if he, if he, if, you know, if you're not.

If you do the crime, you go do the time.

Don't offer me free stuff.

Or if you do, I'll pay you for it.

Do you know what I mean?

But at the same time,

don't get in trouble for a trifle.

Don't go to prison for a trifle listening.

Unless you're going to email us about what it's like in prison.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yes.

Then.

By all means.

Then go to prison.

All right.

Here's another one.

This is from Patrick.

I'm a longtime listener and British,

British student studying studying abroad in France.

Recently took a solo trip to Jersey because I was

went there from San Malo with the ferry, arrived late, only had time to get to my hotel and have a meal, maybe a few drinks before I did touristy stuff the next morning.

Immediately made friends with the hotel manager who upgraded my room and told me that next door had a live band, which would be cool to check out.

Went there, everyone was nice, made friends with loads of people and pensioners who even bought me a couple of pints.

Just wanted to thank the people of Jersey for a nice welcome and being far from the stereotypical Tory tax avoiders, as they all seemed like decent normal people to be honest it was a welcome break from french people in general

wow they're fine i mean you get you get everywhere you go you have you know there's there's degrees of people right but on on uh i'd say in a general sense it is nice here the people are pretty laid back the pace of life is a lot slower it's uh it is a decent place to uh to live and to bring up um a family for sure i'm glad you had a good experience was a sponsorship from the Jersey Tourist Board.

Yeah, thanks to the government of Jersey for sponsoring us today on this podcast where we talked about gay porn and other interesting topics.

Yeah.

Yes.

And also, have we got any good shout-outs of stuff that we like this week?

I've got a thing, got anything you want to shout out?

A positive thing that you like?

I played a game this week called Syntopia, and it's fantastic.

It was for a hashtag ad, I will say, but it is such a cool game.

You manage hell, so you have to manage like an influx of souls coming into hell and process them and so that they can go back up to the to the earth, you know, reincarnate

it's dungeon keeper style, yeah, but it's more like

the the the hell aspect is like it's not like freeform.

It can be, but you really want to path people into buildings so that they can get pro so there's like a lot of uh there's like a lot of logic to it, you know, there's like little operators where you can do like, you know,

you know, if if if this person satisfies this criteria, put them on the A lane.

If not, put them on like the B lane or whatever.

So you know what I mean?

Right, like if they're a pervert, we put them in the yeah, you can, like, some, some of them sin too much, so they might come down as like mega gluttons, and you might have to process them different to like another one, right?

Put them through the dough.

Yeah, and sometimes you get saints come down, and

they are in able, they are unable to sin.

And the way to break their sainthood is to make them queue in lines for a very long time.

So you have to put them into these loops so that they eventually break and then

they get angry.

And then when you send them back top side, they're no longer saints.

And it's stuff like that.

It's cool.

It's really fun.

It's called Syntopia.

I loved it.

Okay.

All right, cool.

It's a good shout-out.

Got one, P-Flex.

A shout-out?

Yeah.

Anything you want, anything you like?

I guess it's not going to be your cat.

No.

Doesn't like that.

I have no shout-out.

Okay.

Nothing.

I want to shout out the coconut tree in Bristol.

Oh, nice.

Sorry.

I thought you meant the concept of the coconut tree desserts.

No,

no, it's a restaurant.

It's like a Sri Lankan curry place.

They do great, great, great, great.

I want to keep them going, basically, because I like going there.

And they never seem to be very busy.

And I'm worried they're going to shut down.

Oh.

Because

that's the life, isn't it?

You find somewhere you like.

That's the thing.

Fast and loose, you know.

But then it becomes too popular, the quality drops, and you know, yeah, and then you stop going anyway.

So, it's a fucking

life, it's always the way you know.

You need that sweet spot.

Well, the food looks jolly good, it is excellent.

I'll take you next time.

It's a nice look at a restaurant.

Well, I'm down next month.

I'm down next month, but only for a few days.

Oh, are you?

Oh, good.

Right.

Well, thank you very much for listening, everybody, and we'll uh see you next time.

Bye, thank you.

Bye-bye.