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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 periodically.
It's number five. It's mailbag.
Number six. Number two.

Number

two.

Joined by Sis.

Hello. And Lulis.
Lulis. Lulis.
Lulis. Lulis Brimindley.

How are you guys doing? Hi, I'm Ryan In. Dear Mailbaggers, man, men, mailmen, 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

and your friends

know nothing about subjects and quite frankly, offended me. Okay.

And my family.

I have been so upset that I have written this very long and sternly worded email, very long as well and uh just a waste of time really yeah uh because it turns out i also don't really know much about what i'm talking about uh

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, the idea also made a point of Harleithia's contribution to obesity and climate change.

He even went so far as to describe dairy farms as torture camps. So there you go.
So you go

listed in. 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 a little finger to mouth.

It's very, they're very kind. Kurtz Gazakt, they're doing a great job, honestly.

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

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 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, 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 I don't mind

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 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 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, when I get very angry defending them,

i.e. defending false facts.
And they, and you can't argue with them either. There's this longstanding idea that, you know, it's not worth trying to convince someone.

You know, 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 like 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 and then he tells you some fact you if you took a marble he's like oh me i'll 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

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.
All right, let's

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 science was there.

The most

primary.

The best ones are both 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.

Best of luck. He's left.
He's gone. I work for Weatherspoons.
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 to add to your collection 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 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 weatherspoons right so these people are making a list of where they're going to be.

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 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.

I don't do a lot of shopping unless

my wife asks me to.

I'm not a good shopper.

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 eaten so you're 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 lemod what does she mean by that i don't know

she's fine like it's i i never have any problems deciphering the list but i always feel a bit like you know maybe i could uh be more involved or enthusiastic with it but i just can't well i can't do think being a good being a good gatherer is is 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, yes, there's no

machines.

Do you want to get calls?

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 saying, like, you know,

can you come and do my shopping for me?

Sure, sure, why not? I can't.

Honestly, that's like the dream scenario. I don't think you realize that, you know, secretly, maybe this is one of your,

you don't realize you're 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 to. I am terrible.
I'm terrible.

It doesn't always happen, but I will make it. I'll pick 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.

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 would probably enjoy shopping more if I lived in London or somewhere. Exciting, but where I live is not that exciting.

100%. hundred percent and like do a bigger cardo order, fill up the fridge than 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

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

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

Well, it's a so my partner recently told a story to some of her friends, which they all laughed at me about. Okay, right.
Laughtered you.

I didn't, I didn't think it was laughable or worthy, but maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe this is a very Lewis story. Yeah, let's hear it.

This is how she would tell the story. So I offhandedly mentioned one time 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 combination. Kind of, yeah.
She's like gluten-free. So it's hard to find stuff that she actually likes.
Right. So she less so on the old.

but i 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 go for it 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 no no i don't want a picture i do not want you 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 can 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 can 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 the gnocchi,

but it's light. When you just bake them, it 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.

So, you can never use gnocchi,

anyway. I say like that, gnocchi, like I'm like

a bit of Russian.

You put gnocchi, broccoli, and sausage in a pan, cook in the oven for 25 minutes, and take off with this delicious midweek meal. Very simple, very simple for a whole family.

I

would say

nochi. I would say gnocchi.
Myockey is my favorite thing to put in.

Sausage broccoli put in pen.

25 minutes, my friend. Very simple.
Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Talking of food.

Talking of food. No, no, no, I haven't finished it.
Let me finish this story.

I've stand open on my desktop, and you're talking about dinner. Can we read this?

can you've given me like fucking 10 seconds

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

he stole the quota he wants this

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 i could that was the only thing i could find from the manufacturer i packed packs of cookies yes gluten fruit Yes.

Holy 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,

that's fine.

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

too much.

Even with a family of five, even with a family of five, everybody was sick of them. Oh, guess what? We did this.
I suddenly like six another box. I don't know why we did it.
A 50.

Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? It's just well, I got so many cream eggs now.

You're an alley cat.

Why are you 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.

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

In episode one, 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

in 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 another email.
This is from Gils Mark Gills? Gils. Giles.
It could be, but it's two L's

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

Indeed, the tapping works but is 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 tasting mussels with a creamy sort of mussel 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. What's awful? Do you think they have feelings?

Well, no.

Gil Giles. Thank you, Sheil.
Yeah, says, try soaking the mussels 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 from Ralph. A recent Triforce 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 6000 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 envies 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.

Saying they have 100 eyes with better eyesight than a snail

is not particularly a fucking like

mind-blowing

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 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 uh on the podcast and i realize of course 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

20 years ago, I suppose. Yeah, but I mean,

20 years ago, I mean, she was in the Austin Powers movies. I mean, people still probably watch those.

I think they came out in the 90s. Right.
So the previous century. And if you were 21 now, you

know, 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 this early, I guess. Yeah, I get it.

I get it.

But now it seems crazy to me but it's i i i do i do keep an eye out i do get it keep an eye out try to think of stuff that was popular um 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 i probably listened to quite a bit of music from uh 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 um 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 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.

And I think a lot of people of our generation have never heard of the big actors of that time. Maybe, yeah.
Like, like, 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 the 50s. I guess.
I don't know, really,

who would count as the most famous. 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 megastar actor. No,

Grace Kelly. So here is

Marlon Brando, I would say, would have a lot more broader

appeal and people would know him because he was in kind of big, big movies.

Yeah, he's always been a big movie. Well, he was younger in the 50s and he's

bigger and

he was still like... Whereas I think some of the characters, I don't know, like Clark Gable's 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 in

1939. So America wasn't in the war at that point.
But 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 controversy.
He had

a brain hemorrhage. Oh, died.
Died of 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

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

didn't see i was reading about yesterday so zizzix road is do you heard of this it's the film that gained notoriety for only selling 30

oh my god it had it had a budget of 1.2 million and it's zizzix z y z z y x z y z it was famously

the worst it sounds like a gross 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 Seismaro.
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 Theater 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 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 $5 each.

Jesus.

This opening weekend netted $20.

Oh,

man. Oh, I see.
Because they personally refunded two tickets purchased by Sheila Moore, the film's makeup artist. He 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

have to ask you 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 who

are outside of the UK.

Yeah, regions.

Yeah, exactly. Prince Andrew.

Well, fair enough. I mean, fair enough.
Okay, let me vote 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 go-to guy in Quebec.

He does all the Canadian stuff. You know, he could be prime minister or he could be my

maple syrup dealer or whatever.

He doesn't exist.

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

Ontario thing as well. Because

when I was growing up, that was like,

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, oh, yeah, and 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 Agnes.
Well, okay, I guess. Kim and Aggie.
Nigel Farage.

Jimmy Saville is

the UK Bill Cosby, 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 like...

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

let you know these wonderful, colorful characters.

What's the equivalent of Nigel Farage in US politics? Because he's kind of like

he's like

he's very much like a third party, but he's like a bit of a...

Just any of those people you see about podcasts. Yeah, I guess so.

Yeah.

So this is from Lackland. This is an Aussie.

uh email he says read in an aussie accent please so 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. His

was the branding similar?

What was the name of the place? We can't ask them questions. It's a mailbox.

What was the name of the video? What is it called? Easy View or something? So, no, 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 the rough sex.
This show, very good. Very, very good show.
Slams his fist on the counter.

Just slaps it right down.

Very good. I feel pressed.
Yes. Listen to me.

Great show. Keep it up.

Love it. Love the gay sex.
Love it.

Oh man, that is funny.

That's great. Maybe it is good.
Maybe it's

like, I love, 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, 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 one.

Give me one again. I watch.

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. It's pretty 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 covered. I want to get to the bottom.

Right.

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 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 they're listed with

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

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'm not going to fucking get stabbed for

some guy nicking a bag of Chris. Who gives a shit? I mean, 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. I'm going to, 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.
Fuck you, easy video. Stick it to the man.
Anyway. And then list of things that have been returned in DVD cases.

A turd, used dirty panties, three small cockroaches living, a used tampa, a $5 note, a phone number,

a complete wrong DVD. Fucking hell.
Possibly cooking oil and butter smeared in style and a used or staged used condom. We did not test it.
No. Yeah.
Sorry to hear that, Mike.

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

i think those that that does sound incense doesn't what a waste of perfectly good come probably opening those dvd cases must have been like just opening a mystery box of grooves 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.

This Mother's Day is coming up, and the number one thing your mum wants is probably a phone call. So, definitely give her a ring.
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I have given one to my mother, and every time I go away or take any pictures, I upload them to her frame.

And I almost inevitably get a little text back saying, Oh, enjoyed seeing you doing that thing you were doing. It's really nice.
I recommend I've got my family have one in their living room.

It's really cute. And

they have figured out how to use it very capably. It's very easy to download the app and get it working.
And they've been uploading other pictures to it, which is really nice.

I've actually got one in my flat now as well. And so they can upload pictures to me.
It's just great.

Why don't you scan all of your childhood pictures from the 80s and then upload them to your mum's aura frame so that she can remember just what a precious little cherub you once were as well.

Oh my goodness, that's a really good idea. Thanks.
So, I my mum has one, my dad has one, and Mrs. F's parents have one.
We've we've spread the aura frame seed

all over the world. We do too.
Every house we know has one in it.

Yeah, everyone we know, we're giving them an aura, and when we go on holiday or something, pictures of the kids, bam, straight on the grandparents' auras. Nice.
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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 out for sideswiping me in cleveland ohio and speeding off wow somebody has got a bumper sticker of me and lewis yeah apparently off

That's hilarious. Is it

a real menace on the roads, do you think? Apparently. Hey, sideswitch deciding Cleveland.
Cleveland, Ohio, of all places. 2000.
Why would 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.

The ultimate team up. Jeff Gobblum as the fly.

I'm judging. And Brundle fucking.
Fucking

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. You've been

yeah i've aged a lot i might not have been kind of aged

i saw you in november what are you talking about

well you know you you get ground down by being a shirt you know it's it ages you feel i wasn't wearing shorts at the time but now i'm like full shorts it's it's warm enough so i've aged

oh yeah well get this right um my eldest came to me the other day and wanting to raise money for uh our trip to japan um to to you know be able to buy shit over there um 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.

If she'll fit.

Right.

I see. Like a damn thing.
She's definitely smaller.

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?

She's 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.

No,

sorry.

So she's trying to, 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.
Collecting dust, yeah. Yeah,

so um, we took that. So, imagine you took cash, we went to CEX, not cash,

okay, yeah,

which is the nerd's version of cash. Yeah,

um, so I want you to try and guess how much I got for a PS4, yeah, 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.

So they're selling that for 200.

It's fucking stupid. But it's 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.
No.

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 CX 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 Nintendo's 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 150 instead of 77, like who cares?

I mean, the ones that were like when 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 and it just doesn't function too much. I think

they're still fairly used, though, right? Like,

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 fully, but it's generally fairly backwards compatible yeah like you can play your you 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 get 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 this 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 gta6 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 phone it'll be like you scanned scan 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 worked.
It was really good.

It was great. Well, I have an email from a listener here.

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 um so this lad uh basically turned up and it was like miserable people telling him to fuck off uh slamming the phone down and it was just like an absolute obvious bullshit scam um and uh the lad quit wow so yeah there you go and he was on the was apparently yeah yeah and And Kir apparently was, he was expecting him to be a bit of an assholatelly, 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.

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

it's basically like it's basically a a very prescient and scary idea of having like ai porn of your yeah of

someone that you know and

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

they they can't be too explicit with it on starshack you know i mean this is this is

this is a this was on in like 1990 but certainly the it certainly is implied

yeah 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 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.

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 the world down for blind 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't smell somebody's been smoking weed in your neighborhood. Right.
I would throw whatever was left away the day after the use-buy date.

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

Very cautious with smell. 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 that 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. God, no, I was going to say that the drains.
Oh, the drains. Yes.

There's drains. I walk around.
That's just a note

for poor people receiving benefits.

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 a hundred grand, someone says I'll give you a hundred grand for that tortoise. You would not sell it.
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 could 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 to you? Yeah, I mean, we need more.

I mean, if he, if I would say, if they're going to sell them for a hundred grand, if they're going to put a 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 definitely say he's annoying.

There's definitely like there's 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 we 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 100 grand? No, I don't think I could

keep birds or 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 the is that money really gonna be giving you that much joy compared to what my dog does i don't think so i think it's it's sort of commodifying uh an animal that loves you and i think that's wrong yeah it's a bit like that time uh 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. It 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 doesn't have to not be at home either. It goes out to other places.
So maybe not such a bad cat. Well, our cat.
Oh, shit. Well, maybe that cat's got a bad home life.
Maybe that's why it's

not apparently not. Maybe it's running off.

Well, look, our cat barely ever leaves the house, certainly never leaves the back garden, won't let you pet her, doesn't sit on anyone's lap, 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.

She's not violent.

You can pick her up. Does she just play with

a bowl of yarn?

She'll play with something for like 10 seconds and then she just wanders off. The people I bought her for, their house stank of weeds so badly that I assume the cat is literally brain damaged.

I'm genuinely, I'm genuinely

traumatized in some way. Like, you know,

she's not traumatized.

It could be that the people were not gentle with her previously, or that she doesn't like it. If she doesn't eat it, then why, why should she?

Like, I think a lot we're going to get a lot of people writing in about cat psychology here, by the way. And I just want to preempt it by saying, don't write in to Miriam about how

thoughts on why his cat's like this how he can change it how he can fix it just just people love kittens

how long have you had the cats

good good couple of years now you've 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

stinks of weed yeah it 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 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 isn't a house.

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

love the cat £100 to take the cat. Oh, I don't dislike her.
I just... What is 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'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.

Yeah, my relationship with my cat is one day my cat was there and the next day he went to live on a farm. Yeah.
That's what happens. That's what happens.
Joe, I've changed my mind.

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.

Go for it. This is a...

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.

You want me to put all my plants together in one place and put fat on them?

Lewis has Lego plants as well. He has real plants and Lego plants.
I've got half. Well, the thing is, before my partner moved in, I obviously had some sort of problem 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 fucking die.

Do you know what I mean? I wasn't particularly careful. So I'd 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've 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 kill the adults, and then there's these like little um bacteria tablets you can put in the water that you wash, um, wash them, right?

Feed them water, yep, that you water them with the water that you water them with. Um, and

pouring that in, it kills the eggs, and apparently, those two, 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. 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 bum. 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 and the rest of the world.

Regularly, 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 like make eco-friendly Lego, but actually, on the scale of things, Lego is not actually all that much plastic.

Um, you know, so that's that's how I feel about Lego. I'm sure it's, I 100% agree it's bad, um, 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 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 and said it's 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, 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 either

do that again, Buster. Don't do it again, Chris from Minnesota.
Hey, listen 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.
Listen to me.

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 uh from patrick i am a long time listener and british

british student 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, the 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 share? 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 uh to the earth uh you know reincarnate dungeon keeper stuff 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 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 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 donut shot. 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

get angry. Get angry.
And then

when you send them back topside, 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 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 deserves a shout out.

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, you know, that's the life, isn't it? You know, 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, 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. So 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.

All right. Well, thank you very much for listening, everybody.
And we'll see you next time. Bye.
Thank you. Bye-bye.

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