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He's launching it as soon as you go for it.

Excited.

I'm just a professional.

You said 3-2-1 mark, and we were ready to go.

And then as I'm doing the introduction, you're telling me to do the introduction.

Well, I'm just a control freak.

I have

command you to do things ho ho ho merry mailbag motherfuckers let's go we got mail you got mail that's good you got mail

all right well have we spoken about the campaign for North Africa before

right

have we spoken about it the board game the campaign for North Africa right okay I was gonna say is this like uh I thought you were doing like some like uh charitable ad read or something I think we talked about incredibly complicated board games.

Yes, we did.

We did.

All right.

Well, we'll ignore that email then.

I don't know where they're.

No, I'm interested because we talked about this and it was like, it was the most complex war game ever published, wasn't it?

Yeah.

This guy's email doesn't even come up with a lot of things.

It took thousands of hours to describe it.

So Louis has emailed in and said, we spoke about Freedom in the Galaxy in episode 306, which was an old board game that I have a copy of that looks dreadful.

Now, we've definitely spoken about Campaign for North Africa before, and it's a 10-player game at the minimum.

And you're looking at about 1,500 hours to complete the game.

We've spoken about this before.

There is a Hearts of Iron board game coming out.

Right.

And Hearts of Iron is a game that generally takes hours and hours and hours to play.

The Hearts of Iron board game, I'm kind of intrigued to see how that turns out.

Okay.

But it's like, I think a really good World War II board game is something that I would absolutely love to play.

The only one I've really played much of is Axes and Allies.

Oh, that's a classic.

That's a good one.

But the guy that made that made another game that's better, but similar.

And I only got to play it once on TTS and it broke quite a lot.

So we couldn't play it.

But I really want to play a good fucking solid World War II board game.

Okay.

So what about risk?

Let me just give.

give you.

Okay.

So these board games that existed, they became video games, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's what that was.

There wasn't this Europa Universalis board game.

And I think that's where Hearts of Island and these map games that we play now came from.

Oh, of course.

Absolutely.

The computerization of them was to simplify them to the point that you could play them, right?

But then it's gone full circle and been made back into a board game because board games are different now to what they were before.

Wow.

People want to play.

Yeah.

Like the Frostpunk board game or whatever.

Jim, assuming that I've got that in the office.

I've never played it.

I've got a See Skylines board game that I've never played.

Exactly, right?

And the thing is, there was a Europa Universalist board game recently called The Price of Power.

But when I sat down to play it with a couple of the guys from the board game cafe, who are very experienced gamers, it turns out the price of power is only $29.99.

It was only 80 hours of your life.

It was not.

The price of power was $159.99, and it was 18 hours of money or something.

That's a lot of power.

Are you able to harness that much power?

It was so...

So much tedium that it made me crave the simplicity of the video game version of the Europa Universal.

which is an astonishing thing to say.

You wanted to get back to Super Mario Bros.

one.

You wanted the simple life.

Don't get me wrong.

Okay.

World Warp Pipes.

So I've been playing wrong.

We won't get you.

I've been playing these asynchronous games of TI, right?

And other things.

Sorry.

And I'm still in this.

I know.

Just tell us every fucking podcast.

I'm still in these fucking.

What is TI?

We don't know what TI.

Twilight Imperium.

The International.

What I've discovered lately, this is just my one little insight into it.

People are playing this game and you'd think they have 24 hours for their turn.

Okay, so you'd think they'd be really thoughtful, really strategic, they'd be thinking about it all the time.

No, they're not.

They just turn up.

They're like, oh, oh, shit, it's my turn.

Is it?

I better do something quick.

Bam.

They do a quick turn on their phone and just do something really stupid or bad or lazy and then turn their phone off again for another 24 hours.

It's actually kind of the opposite of playing it in real life.

At least if you're playing a board game in real life and you're sat there at the table table and you're watching other people take their turns, you're thinking, well, what am I going to do on my turn?

People don't do that on asynchronous when they have 24 hours.

Well, you need to get the right people, mate.

It's mental.

I mean,

could you feed the board state into like an AI and get the AI to do the perfect move for you?

Well, you could do, but this game is so needlessly complicated that even the Discord bot is like so incredibly elaborate.

And also these people, because it takes 24 hours on a turn, they're in about about 15 fucking games.

And so they get to their turn on a game and they've got no fucking idea.

They can't remember which game they're in.

And they have to look at the ball state.

It's incredibly complicated ball station.

Can I make a suggestion?

Can I make a suggestion?

Go for it.

Find something else to do.

This sounds like it sucks.

This sounds really, like, really hard work.

It's weird because it's a good thing.

Like, you haven't said a single positive thing.

This is the modern day equivalent of I had to pull a plow with my arms and shoulders through a field all day today.

I always think about this in game design, right, though, because there are certain things in games that we clearly hate doing, but are there, are very compelling games.

Like even like Elden Ring or something like this, it's like this thing where you die over and over again and you grind over and over again, but then that feeling of satisfaction when you finally do it is tempered and

is increased dramatically by the amount of effort you put in and how much you hated it, right?

So in a sense, a lot of gaming is, I do this thing that sucks in order to feel a way that's, that's almost like I've earned it, right?

Like

all this trouble you go through in grindy games like MMOs or ARPGs to get to a thing where you kill a thing and you, or you hit a level threshold and you're like, bam, look at me.

I've done this achievement that only 1% of people have managed to do.

Like, you know, you feel.

like you've achieved something, even though it's been suffering the whole journey, right?

It's a really strange thing to think about.

And I think there's a lot of of that in Twilight Imperium as well.

There's a lot of needlessly tedious things, but it is weirdly compelling.

Okay.

Like I

keep coming, I do come back to it and people love the game.

And it's got a huge community of people who love it, right?

So it must have some redeeming features, right?

It must.

It must.

There must be some.

I'll tell you what.

If someone out there has an email that they could send in about this community or a good one, send it in.

Let us know.

Because Lulu's clearly losing his mind.

It is.

The psychology of it is making me go crazy.

But I guess what I'm trying to do is just slowly identify what bits of it are compelling.

How many asynchronous games are you currently involved in?

I'm only in one.

I'm only in one.

All right.

Hey, let's read an email.

Let's read an email.

I'm trying to do it healthily.

All right.

Let's do an email.

This is called Meeting Ryan Reynolds, the King, and Visiting North Korea.

Wow.

All right.

Not all at the same time.

Not all at the same time.

Okay, I was going to say that's crazy.

So for someone that just listened, that they want to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, it will become clear.

We made some incorrect remarks about North Korea, apparently.

Right.

So firstly, I sympathized with Sips when he was describing his experiences witnessing the king and the celebrities at Disneyland.

You saw the king?

Yeah.

I saw the king, yeah.

I live in North Wales and one day went for coffee with a friend to a new cafe in Wrexham.

After my friend and I sat for coffee, Ryan Reynolds, Channing Tatum, and a swarm of TV staff, cameras, mics, the works, came in following them.

It was hell.

The cafe was packed.

I couldn't get any silence to chat to my friend whom I hadn't seen in some time.

Not only this, but there was a horde of people outside.

I actually spoke to Ryan Reynolds.

He was very chasmatic and friendly.

Channing Tatum was busy chatting elsewhere.

My friend and I decided to leave and we literally had to shove and barge our way through the crowd, mostly comprising of American tourists coming to see Mr.

Reynolds and local middle-aged women wanting to see Channing Tatum, wondering if he still had that magic mic physique.

My image of celebrity being something cool was instantly shattered.

I hope to never become a celebrity.

It's terrible.

Second point, for work, I've met the boss, King Charles III, several times.

He's a chill bloke,

relatively relaxed and has great banter, clearly inherited from his late father.

Sips doesn't need to worry about meeting him.

His majesty can spark and carry a conversation well with anyone.

Good.

Thirdly, I look forward to my conversation with him one of these days.

Indeed.

And it will not be at all awkward.

Not in, not at all.

What would you talk to him about?

I don't know.

Well, I don't think it matters.

He's used to meeting people who go, I wouldn't know what to talk about.

He's like, hello, hello.

What would you do?

What does one do for a living?

Yeah.

So then this guy has also visited North Korea.

They are far more technologically advanced than you three jokingly assumed.

By no means are they thriving, but they have a workable intranet, not the internet, computers and modern governments that you and I would recognize.

Well, certainly some of them do, I guess.

Anyway, I hope you three and the families are doing well.

Stay warm and safe, et cetera.

You talk two.

Yeah, well, I just assume they had modern conveniences.

I assume they're not completely cut off.

You know, they do trade with China and all of these, all these other places that are very advanced.

So I thought they did have computers and internet.

I just think the standard living for the market.

What is their key export, though?

Like,

what are they trading with?

Like, what's

North Korea exports?

Scams,

fake currency.

I don't know.

It's probably something real, right?

I recommend

textiles, tungsten, molybdenum, ferro alloys, refined petroleum electricity, wigs, false beards, eyebrows, and eyelashes.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

But they're so limited in who they trade with as well, because there's obviously embargoes

all over the shop.

But I think the idea is that China is just trying to open up these

borderline border cities and open up trade and get them, get things going in and out.

They do have a lot of rare metals and things as well, I think.

And

it's an interesting part.

It's an interesting thing in the world because the I think it's very easy for China or Russia to trade with North Korea.

First of all, they both have borders with North Korea.

Geographically, yeah, it makes sense.

But also, if you are the only ones trading with a country, you can set the price.

So you're like, oh, we want your tungsten, and this is what we think of their prices.

And what are you going to say?

No, we want to go.

Yeah, we want millions of wigs, and we're only prepared to pay 10 cents a wig.

We'll better leave it, baby.

We got millions of baldies just hanging on for wigs.

I think, like, that Ryan Reynolds thing, that's two things strike me about that.

One, it's either badly organized, okay, or two, it's done on purpose, right?

They've kind of turned up in order to get this documentary feel of crowdedness, of like, you know, a film crewiness.

Do you see what I mean?

It feels like it's because if they wanted to they could have just booked the cafe out or whatever yeah don't tell anyone and just arrive at the car i mean the whole point is to try and tap into the local community and surprise them almost and um

because they're filming their their show right they want to they want to that they're their wrexham football show they want to get genuine reactions from genuine people and they they'll they'll do a lot of filming and they won't use 95% of it you know but sometimes they'll have a really funny or heartfelt interaction with someone and they'll be like, perfect.

That's that we put some sad music on that.

Yeah.

And then we'll win ourselves an award.

You know, it is sometimes about quantity more than quality with these things.

Like, if you just get enough stuff, my Welsh accent is very difficult to do.

I can't, yeah, and I'm sure the king

is a is a good person to speak to because that's he's the king of small talk.

He's been doing it entirely his entire adult life, like making small talk with people who are who are all he's he's almost the probably the best person to ask in the world about how to put someone awkwardly at ease you know but you get

to uh kiss your ring and then uh make them bow or curtsy

quite season

but do you see what i mean like he probably could even do that as a joke and it would put people at ease you know i would be if i was a king i would constantly be joking like all right we're gonna behead this one for sure after this conversation reggie make a note this one that

yeah I don't like what he said to me.

All right, this is a good one.

This one's about new houses, new builds, and why they look like shit, which is something I think I was complaining about on a previous episode.

So this guy used to do energy performance certificates for homes going on the market.

Yes.

New homes are almost always A or B banned due to regulations, as opposed to most older houses, which are around C D on average.

Yeah.

The reason for the small windows, small doors, et cetera, is to increase the energy performance rating.

Suppose it's better for the environment, but fuck me, they look like shit.

I agree.

I mean, I get it.

It is important that we build homes that don't just fucking pump out heat and waste energy because we're going to need to be better with that kind of stuff, especially if we're building, as I think Kia Starmer wants to build over a million homes in this parliament time.

We'll certainly get them started.

If they're all dog shit for heat, it's going to have a massive impact

on whether we can meet our target, our environmental targets.

So I get it.

I had another email about it.

I can't actually find it now, but the guy was basically saying that when you're building

sort of

modern buildings,

we don't have the skill set easily available for laying brick, for example.

It's much easier to have these big prefabricated things that you just fucking slap together and away you go rather than have someone come in and build it all and do all the little detailing around windows and doors because that's quite a high skilled job.

And doing that en masse, just the cost just goes up.

So, for a lot of reasons,

like Lego bricks, big concrete slabs and where you just go to the side of a house, you know, big boom, like those 3D models.

China do lots of building prefab stuff because they build these skyscrapers in like weeks, you know, what would normally take.

But they're so quick to

build them because they've had all the components just come in and they just slot together.

You just

bolt them.

You got to bolt them together.

Like a smart choice, honestly.

I think that's, it feels like a more energy efficient, cheaper way to do it.

I could be obviously completely wrong.

So, no, no, I think that's as much as I love the idea of someone locally, you know, using buying the land using the rock that is literally there on the land.

You know, in reality, a lot of these places

certainly if we're trying to build a million houses, they're going to be built on somewhere that, you know, is some weird coming from North America or something.

Canada specifically, where a lot of the houses are timber frame, well, where I grew up at least they were.

Not the old, old, old houses, but certainly anything that was built kind of in the 80s onwards

was all foundation, usually with like a basement that made up part of the foundation.

And then timber frame, because the neighborhood I grew up in, the new part of the neighborhood was under construction for years when I was a kid.

And you could just wander into these construction sites and see all these houses.

And it was pretty interesting to see how they go up.

But in the UK, they still build like these, you know, like it's like breeze block walls, like with cavities, you know, and it's all it's all block work on the outside of your house.

And then inside, it's just, you know, stud walls and stuff.

But it's completely different.

But

I feel like the timber frame stuff is so much, it's got to be such a such a quicker turnaround now because I think that there's places that you can just input stuff into a computer and it's almost like a 3D printer.

Yeah, it can cut all the wood, and then all you need is people to basically assemble

all of these like study walls and stuff.

You know what the future is?

The future is that you can design a tree that grows into the shape of a wall.

Oh, that'd be something that would be insane.

Yeah, with a window like a house seed.

Yeah, you just plant it and the house grows.

That would be

some stairs put in for our loft conversion and that was all just done by computer as well like a guy came over measured and he had like an idea of what it was going to look like just on his computer he just had a laptop he just fed in the measurements and then it drew up like a plan of what it was going to look like and then when they delivered the pieces it just all came in bits it was like a it was like a lego set there was

you know all the all like the like the the like kite segments and then like the the straight bits they like you know for the straight parts of the stairs and then there was these like really you know, like the

like

the bits on the side that like, you know, the steps connect into.

Yeah.

That's like all one big flat segment, but it's a big unit.

But it's like cut all curved and everything.

That's amazing.

It's nuts, yeah.

And then they just slot it all in, glue it, um, screw it in.

And it's, you know, it's, it's solid as anything.

But so I wonder if the fact that we have that

capability means that teaching people how to carve that, we don't fucking need that anymore.

We got

to do it.

Yeah, you get a big machine to do it.

But the guy who delivered the stuff, him and this other guy, they delivered it.

And I was like, oh, like, do you guys, do you guys fit these as well?

Like, do you turn up and fit them?

He's like, no, no, we turn up, we bring the stuff, we glue it together, and then somebody else has to come and fit it because it's like specialist work or whatever.

But this guy was covered in glue, like his boots, everything.

You could tell all he does is glue stairs together,

ready to be fit 24-7, 24-7.

And he's like, I'm busy as well.

Like, I wouldn't even have time to fit them.

Like, I have to do like 10 of these today.

It's like, what?

How many people are getting fucking stairs glued together?

It's nuts.

Like, I thought I'd be the only one over here.

But no, there's loads of people getting stairs glued.

So, never.

You don't have stairs.

Who knew?

Yeah.

And you have stairs in your office.

This guy's covered in blue, in glue.

Just absolutely plastered in glue.

Like his pants, his boots, everything.

Just I can't believe I didn't get a response to that.

Yeah, no, I am protected.

Okay.

All right.

This is my experience as a kitchen help.

Who wants to hear this one?

Go for it.

I sadly left my job as a kitchen help at the end of September to go study abroad for a semester.

Sadly.

You mentioned back in August how kitchen helps have a number six spot in highest amount of work-related accidents in the UK.

So I got inspired to write this email.

Now, this is a job that I've done.

I did this twice when I was younger, two different restaurants.

And you're basically, it's a fashion.

Were they like chef ones?

No, you're like a washer.

You'll do everything in the kitchen.

Chef.

Like,

the restaurants I was in were not chef-level restaurants.

And this one probably isn't either.

It's more like a workshop where food is assembled, but not with any love and care.

It's more like a methodical thing.

Like it was a very low-level restaurant, not fancy.

And you are doing the washing up.

You're helping out as needed.

Like you're just there as an extra pair of hands.

And when there's a lot of stuff.

You're cutting lemons.

You're taking the tea.

You're doing the basics, exactly.

You're doing tea.

Yeah.

You're leaving the actual cooks to do the cooking and you're doing some other shit.

That's like the kitchen help.

It's like the lowest rung on the kitchen ladder.

So these are some of the things that happened in the three years that this lad was working.

Number one, I have a total of 23 still visible burns on my arms.

I worked mostly around a fryer and oven, which often burned me.

Almost all the marks are from second-degree burns, which is pretty painful.

It's very hard not to get burnt in a busy kitchen.

You're going to get burnt.

That's just the way it is.

I worked together with three now models and one OnlyFans creator.

I suspect that some colleagues who still work there now will become models in the near future.

I guess a lot of young, young, attractive people work in behind the scenes in kitchens and as waiters and stuff.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah.

No, I can, I can, I can, I can, um, I can imagine that.

Most people like are young in that industry, you know, like waiters and waitresses and stuff.

Yeah.

I mean, I've certainly been in pubs before.

Some of the pubs in Bristol, everyone working behind the bar to me is extremely attractive.

Like you look, you think these people are all extremely handsome people.

Like, and they're just working in a pub.

I think maybe if you are, I don't know, maybe you're just kind of trying to get into modeling or OnlyFans or something and this is just paying the bills.

But yeah, some of the pubs, I'm like, damn, this is crazy.

Like everyone is going to be able to get a lot of people.

Well, I think there is a little bit, I think this is the case to some extent with tips, though.

Like, you know, if you're like, it's the classic thing of.

If you're a guy out on the street trying to raise money for a charity, you get a fraction of the amount of money that a woman will get on that.

Yeah, fucking women have an easy preach, brother.

Well, no, it's just, it's much more likely that men will give to an attractive woman oh hello than women will give to an attractive man i mean i signed up i've signed up to two charities that doorstepped us just turned up cold cord at the front door and because both times it's two very attractive young women i instantly signed up like just couldn't help myself i was just pretty in their hands yeah i'm awful i'm the opposite i'm like do you have any idea

can i have the terms and conditions i need some time to think about this this is a big step yes i i'll do whatever you say but imagine it imagine if you if you work in a if you take get a new job and you work in a restaurant or whatever and suddenly the first day you work there you get hundreds of pounds worth of tips you know from you know arguably possibly men you know customers you're like oh damn i made a lot of money tonight like this is something i'll keep doing yeah maybe i think maybe that industry that that is that's what i would call like sticky you know kind of just as an accidental incentive you know i think i think that i don't know if that's the same with bar bar staff.

I don't think they get tips particularly.

No.

But I think it is a social, more social thing to work in the pub.

And I think, you know, attractive people tend to be more outgoing.

They tend to be out more.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I think it's just, it is, it is something

for them as well.

You know, you go,

I always see people working these jobs and you think, I wouldn't want to do that the rest of my life.

But, you know, in my early 20s, if I'm going to university, fuck, that'd be a great job.

I'd be like, you probably meet so many fun people.

It's probably easier to get a customer-facing job if you're good-looking.

Like, that's another thing.

Is if you're hiring and you get a bunch of really good-looking people coming in, you're going to think, Yes, that's going to look good for the pub.

You know, I just realized that's why I was always working in the back room.

I thought I was lucky.

I thought I was lucky.

Oh, shit, I'm so lucky to get to work in the back room.

Now I realize why I was back there.

Yeah, Shrek in the back room for the first time.

Shrek an auger off the floor.

Of course, there's going to be all all the problems of being hit on all the time, which is probably a nightmare.

Oh, I'm sure attractive people are used to that.

It's yeah, it's definitely, I think, yeah,

that is annoying.

I don't know if people are going to think that this is inappropriate, but just hear me out.

I think that attractive women are very, very good at knowing when someone is looking at them and not returning that look.

Like, that's a skill that women learn, especially attractive women who get stared at a lot.

But I've noticed they're able to completely ignore someone looking right at them and still know that that person is looking at them.

I think they have very good peripheral vision for someone ogling them.

Yeah, I think so.

Because

I've seen women in that situation, and after it looks like they haven't noticed this person at all, and after you've been staring at them intently for 20 minutes, you notice that they're ignoring you.

No, they'll say, like, is that guy still staring at me?

And you'll be like, wow, yeah, you saw that.

I didn't even see you look over.

I mean, I noticed, but you know, I may do that.

It's just something I noticed.

I do this thing now.

I think it's from being conditioned working in an office where it doesn't matter who it is.

If I walk by somebody and I, even if I accidentally make eye contact with them, I do like a smile, you know, like, or like a, like, almost like a, like a little hello, but like a silent hello.

But when you work in an office,

you got to do it all the time.

You know, like if you walk by somebody in the hallway, you can't just ignore them because it's weird, right?

So you always have to be like, hmm, hey.

But is it that smile where you kind of just tighten your mouth up a bit?

Yes.

It's the tighten up the mouth and the slight nod.

i do it all the fucking time it's crazy i do it's pushing your bottom lip into your upper lip a little bit yes yeah i do it all the time but people do it back as well like you can the fellow fellow conditioners out there will know that the

everyone does it it's just a way of saying i acknowledge you yeah i've you you you exist yes you still exist

only just yeah barely yeah it's weird isn't it Number three, one of my colleagues would watch porn daily while cutting prep meat.

So while they're preparing the meat, they're just watching porn on their phone, hopefully.

Most of the other cooks were Chinese.

The only words they made me learn were, god damn it, thank you, and ball hair.

Right.

Three handy phrases.

I've worked together with an accomplice to a murder.

I was there when she was called by her parents to come home because the cops were at her house to arrest her.

She was only 17.

There is a link to the article.

I'm not going to

link it out.

A different colleague, she got fired before I started, was jailed this year for attempted murder.

Wow.

I will not tell you how common it is for food to be dropped on the floor and then still be served.

You would be disturbed.

I mean, that's an

everybody knows that.

We were a somewhat fancy place, very close to the beach.

So we had an uncountable amount of times where people with only bikinis on or still wet swimming trunks attempted to enter the restaurant and eat inside, which is something we've talked about recently.

And almost half of the total people working there at the end of the day were just smoked joints to calm down.

because it was so stressful.

But it's the Netherlands.

So yeah, fair enough.

Thank you, Daniel.

Yeah.

It's such an interesting insight into the uh into the wonderful world of kitchen help yeah like chaos but kind of fun yeah well i mean it is fun this stuff you can you can see um they they've got people that wear gopros that work in kitchens on youtube and stuff yeah you can you can see how they function it is interesting though because it is uh you know the the very high-level ones it's like a military operation you know like it's all so organized and they you know everybody is doing what they need to do and stuff it is interesting it's a it's a really interesting workflow One of the more interesting ones.

There's some of them out there.

God, I've just remembered something that happened when I was down in Bristol last week.

We were at the pub, a whole bunch of us, and it got super late.

And I decided to head off.

And I was going to go get some chips because I hadn't had any dinner yet.

And Lids was like, big Lids.

She was like, oh, I'll get a fucking schwama because I'm hungry as well.

So we walked up to Baldwin Street and there's a kebab shop there.

And we walked in.

And the guy, it was just us in there.

The guy behind the counter look sees Lids, who's very tall and beautiful.

And he's like, his eyes light up.

Like, this is like a vision who's come in

to the kebab shop.

And we approach the counter, and he just looks at her and he tilts his head to his side.

He goes, Hello, beautiful.

What can I get you?

Beautiful, you want anything and anything beautiful?

What do you want?

And she's like,

I'll have.

And she gives him her order.

And he's like, He's not taking his eyes off her while he's putting it together.

He's just staring at it, like just little diamonds in his eyes.

He turns to me, he goes, Yes.

I was like,

chips for me.

He goes, just chips.

And he makes the chips.

And then, while the food's kicking, he comes back and he gives her a lollipop from a big thing of lollipops.

Like, he's helped have a lollipop, beautiful, anything.

And she takes a beautiful lollipops.

He looks at me and puts the lollipops back under the counter.

I think that's a good thing.

I think they do.

I think it's, it's, I think they, it's, I don't think he's, he's doing it like, it's, you know, it's, it's a routine, you know.

I think they do.

Oh, no, dude.

He was, he fucking loved it.

The thing is afterwards Liz was like he didn't know if if you know it would be unlikely But he didn't know if if you were my partner or anything He does he does that shit all the time.

People always Yeah, but that's how you get into trouble Like I'm just kidding if you pick the wrong person They're chucking something straight through your fucking window like I know lots of nutters that would do that.

They would spot instantly.

I saw instantly what happened.

Yeah.

Litz knew instantly what happened.

You do that to the wrong person.

You're going to get fucked up.

Yeah, but

I think they develop like some sort of

gauge for who they can do.

This guy is a bitch.

This guy is a belittled bitch.

Well, tell his beautiful girlfriend, I love beautiful.

Hello, she's so beautiful, and he's such a bitch.

Exactly.

Huge bitch.

Huge bitch.

Chili sauce, bitch, boy.

I give lollipop to the woman.

I went out to a disco on the weekend.

You did not.

I fucking did.

I went out to.

A school disco?

No, a disco.

A normal disco.

It was an 80s, 90s themed disco.

Okay.

I haven't been out in like, I haven't been out clubbing in fucking, I don't know how long.

We went with another couple.

It was hilarious.

Holy shit.

It was so funny.

Yeah.

But I'm like hung over.

I've been hung over for like four days.

Like, uh i'm oh my god my body cannot uh handle it and

i got one of those uh disposable vapes a thousand puffs i think i finished it in like two hours i was out there

fucking caning it constantly and uh i'm i'm coughing like all the time now god it was really fun actually i haven't been like i said i haven't been out in such a long time it's been like 10 15 years since i've gone out like that and it was it was really fun it was really hilarious actually

yeah this is from Toby called Gazza being a menace.

I remember you boys talking about Gazza a while back, so I thought you might find this funny.

I watched a two-part documentary on him somewhat recently.

It's interesting.

This is my mate as a doctor working in AE in Paul.

Paul is in Dorset, and Gazza lives in, I think, Sandbanks, or certainly in the Bournemouth area.

I know this because my sister stepped over him going into a weatherspoons in town center.

No one's passed out drunk in the doorway.

Yeah, he's a fucking liability.

Apparently, Gaza,

brackets, Paul gascoyne to be clear we know who fucking gazza is regularly shows up absolutely pissed on on drugs most recently he heckled my mum from across the department um wait told her he wait what is this heckled my mate from across the department told him he had a lovely face and that he should go on love island

other stories include him telling a nurse who was inserting a urinary catheter that's the most famous cup you'll be touching in your life

wow cheers toby thanks toby yeah gazza's gonna die very soon.

I mean, he's literally drinking himself to death.

Yeah, he's not

in a good way at all.

He's got a very reckless life.

So always has really.

He's always been a real lad, you know, but like to the extreme.

He was just, it's crazy.

But he was really good at football for a time.

He was amazing.

Yeah.

In his prime.

He really was a brilliant, brilliant footballer.

And then he,

so he was, when he was young and he was at like Newcastle and Spurs, he was brilliant.

And then there was this one tackle, I think it was in the FA Cup final.

Can't remember who it was against.

Was it Forrest?

Um, I think he scored a brilliant free kick and then he went into tackle someone and absolutely fucked his, I think it was his knee.

Um, and his career sort of went a bit on the slide after that.

Um, but yeah, you know, he went to Italy and he, he, that's right, was amazing.

And I feel like we never got to see enough of a career that we should have.

Yeah.

Um, because he put on weight and he's kind of, I think, very difficult to have at the club, just a liability.

But I mean, what a player.

He was just a legend.

Probably one of the most naturally talented players that England's ever produced.

It was an interesting documentary, for sure.

I think he has done

as a, as a, it's funny how being a good footballer and being funny has as sort of a bit of a clown, has kind of given him a bit of a pass to get away with being a bit of an asshole.

I think he's like...

done a lot of drink driving.

He's done a lot of abusive stuff.

I think he's been a bit of a cunt, quite honestly, most of his life.

He's beat his wife.

He's not a person.

Quite frankly, he's probably

should have been cancelled, right?

Yeah, well, I mean, Andrew Morton Deck has done all this stuff as well, and he's still fucking on TV all the time.

Well, exactly.

It's funny, isn't it?

How some people can

seem to skirt along in a kind of, oh, he's a clowny way.

We love a fucking clown, don't we?

Oh, okay.

We bloody elected one.

I think if you're successful.

Which one are we talking about?

I think if you're successful, but but you don't seem like a serious person, people will like you more.

If you're a man of the people, like if you're an

awesome, yeah.

All we seem to get now is a bit of a bozo.

Like,

where are all the normal people that just don't seem to even exist anymore?

Oh, it just said not on TikTok, mate.

That's the problem.

Yeah.

All right, this one's called Bad Subtitles.

Listening to Mailbag 41, where you were discussing incorrect and lazy subtitles.

I watch a lot of Spanish and Korean dramas, and I agree that some host sites suck nowadays with missing words or complete mistranslations.

However, in general, I've noticed that when they say speaks in foreign language or speaks in Spanish, it's because even without subtitles, you aren't supposed to know what's going on.

I.e., as the audience or main character, they aren't supposed to understand because they're sharing some kind of secret information.

Yes, we understand.

That is a Fiona 27 gaping vagina.

Thank you, Fiona.

Thank you for Fiona.

Yes, that is definitely a thing.

You're not meant to know.

You're meant to be looking at it from the point of view of the main character who doesn't understand any English, but slowly, as he follows around the band of Merry Men, he picks up English here and there and then is able to fully understand English.

Yes.

Antonio Banderis in that one movie.

I have had this happen a couple of times.

I've watched a couple of movies.

in my life that had um 13th warrior 13th warrior antonio banderas he learns fucking English, dude.

He learns English.

They had a couple of.

Well, he's not.

He's learning English.

He learned Scandinavian in that one.

Yeah.

Sorry, Leon.

I can't remember which movie it was.

It's right.

And I thought it was one of those situations where I had subtitles, but it wasn't subtitling these foreign language bits.

But then I realized quite a way into the movie that it wasn't subtitling, it should have been.

Do you know what I mean?

Because sometimes these movies do have subtitles on those foreign language bits, but mine had none on those.

And so it was a lot of the movie that I didn't follow.

Do you see what I mean?

Yeah.

Um, there was just too much

that I was like,

I,

you know, it was just too, just a little bit too much of the movie that I was doing.

Back in the day, before all these streaming services, um, I used to, I'll say it, I used to pirate quite a few movies because that was literally the only way I know there's the only way to see them.

But quite often with

they didn't come with subtitle tracks.

Oh, yeah.

And you would have to scan around and download them.

You'd have to download a thing, yeah.

But sometimes it would be in the wrong language or out of time and you'd have to sync it up it was a real pain in the ass can i tell you something that i've been doing recently which i never thought i would be doing but have actually had a lot of fun doing clubbing no no that is a separate thing but i did yes i did do that uh my son got a like a you know like uh not not a big expensive one this is just kind of like an entry-level 3d printer for his birthday oh hell yeah and it it is awesome man you the stuff you can make on this thing it but everyone who's seen it everyone has come to our house and seen it has been like holy shit this is awesome you can download uh 3d art from anywhere there's there's all these sites that have these these files you slice them you you feed them into the machine and you know some of them are complicated they'll take hours some of them aren't so complicated they'll take a couple of minutes but this thing is is it's incredible It just melts the filaments and just creates these beautiful sculptures.

My daughters, especially, my son was like, he thought it was pretty cool.

He printed like a couple of like Fortnite V-Bucks coins for his friends and stuff.

And he, you know, he thought it was pretty neat.

But man, my daughters have been printing out like puppies and guinea pigs and like all the every day.

I get requests like, can you please find a pirate-themed guinea pig?

Uh, fighting another one, like, I've got this whole list of shit I gotta find so that I can print.

But then they're painting them and everything.

Oh, fuck, it's amazing.

It's such a cool thing.

How much is the goo that it turns into stuff?

How much is it?

You get it.

It's like a you get like a spindle of it.

It's like it's just like it's just plastic, like plastic wire that feeds up into like a tube.

It comes like on a on a roller thing.

It's just as it eats it up.

Yeah, yeah.

The nozzle gets like 250 degrees.

So it like kind of turns it into a glue, but then immediately it solidifies and it just kind of works from the bottom up.

But how big is it?

It's not huge.

It's like the size of a toaster.

Wow.

So you're just printing it like these little models, but it's like i think it was like 150 quid yeah i mean it's a 3d printer it's not going to be like that that cheap no but that sounds fantastic but there's there's there's like you know there's big big boy ones that are can be like a lot more expensive but this one is is fine like it wow yeah such a cool uh such a cool gift my my wife just was browsing around because we were trying to figure out what to get a 13 year old boy that wasn't just

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I mean, all he asked for was

V-Bucks, yeah.

So we're like, well, fuck, you know, we got to get him like a couple of things.

He wants something to open that's going to be funny.

Of course.

So like, yeah, it was such a good shout, actually.

It's so much fun.

Like, and like everybody in the house has just been...

You know,

you go in at night and this thing is just fucking printing away.

He's like, what the hell is printing now?

Like, it's all these little statues.

Yeah, it's really good.

Really good.

All right, this one's called AliExpress.

Um, so here we go, long time listener, first-time mailbagger.

That's what I'm saying.

Following episode 303, cheap, you'll see.

I want to share a report on some previous AliExpress purchases that were made purely out of curiosity to see if they were legit, as you all experienced in this episode.

So, these are the things that Stump here, they're called Stump, purchased.

A Shadow the Hedgehog t-shirt for £8

that says nice cock.

It arrived in two weeks and was decent quality.

Fair enough.

Okay.

A 16-inch, 60-hertz laptop for £12.

Shockingly, it worked, though it struggles and it can't show anything on the blue side of the color spectrum.

So it just can't do it.

What?

What the hell?

It's just a monitor for a laptop, and it just can't really show anything that's blue.

12 quid.

12 pounds.

A 17p watch, 17 pence.

Very fancy watch.

Took a month to arrive.

Came in in a lovely box, but inside it was just a strip of plastic in the shape of a watch

with a sticker of the advertised watch over the top.

Absolute scam, but it was a hilarious extra birthday present for my brother.

I love that so much.

All right, now for the funny.

So fucking scammy.

Steve, how much would that have cost to post compared to where it's gotta be the funniest thing I've ever heard?

I don't know what I expected from that.

It's like a Fucking hell, that's so funny.

The fact that something arrived.

Oh,

I know when I'm getting everybody.

I know what I'm getting everybody for Christmas next year.

Oh, it's too late now, though, but oh, shit, that's funny.

But the thing is,

I could use the 3D printer.

They could just keep the money, but instead, they're actually sending across the world a piece of plastic with a sticker or a watch.

He's just like, well, I don't know what I expected for 17P, but you know what

17p

oh god so now these are the slightly scary things uh that they got on on so i bought a 1p plasma lighter slash phone charger okay one penp yeah plasma so it's a lighter lighter slash phone charger uh despite not smoking or needing a power bank and a 120 100 million lumen flashlight so a lumen is like i think one candle worth of light i think that's a lumen so it's an incredibly bright flashlight for £1.20.

You bought the sun for £1.20.

Yeah.

Both seemed reliable and arrived at the exact same time.

Both the lighter and torch were out of battery on delivery.

So I decided to test out the portable charger.

I can't imagine that that torch would, there's no battery on Earth that could keep that bad boy going.

I agree.

So I test out the portable charger.

It charged up visibly fine and I decided to let it charge the torch.

Came back an hour later to the charger nearly glowing as it was molten hot.

Equipping some oven gloves, I picked them both up and took them outside, calling my girlfriend to grab the fire extinguisher just in case.

Now, both of us stood outside and it being quite dark, decided it was the perfect time to try the torch.

Within a second of turning it on, the flashlight was so bright it felt like a portable sun.

I cannot stress how bright it was.

Wow.

However, it immediately began to sound like a jet engine and let off a lot of smoke.

Oh, okay.

I dropped the torch, causing the bulb to shatter.

Without much time to respond to this, a small flame about six inches long shot out of the torch, lasting for about 10 seconds.

Me and my girlfriend now were both bewildered and slightly terrified, turned around to find the portable charger and was getting jealous of the attention and had decided to also engulf itself in flames.

Thankfully, we had a fire extinguisher at hand and dealt with them properly.

Handing them off to the bin men and giving them the warning, leaving it all a slightly funny, if terrifying, memory.

That is absolutely brilliant.

Please do not order random shit off Alex.

Don't fucking plug it in in your house either.

Yeah, can you imagine you'd left that for like 20 more minutes?

You would, you would have had a house fire.

Easy.

So bad.

Oh, God.

Oh, that's hilarious.

Holy shit.

Can you believe it?

No, I can't believe it.

That is the, that is like the wild west of online shopping it has to be it's it's insane that is insane i can't believe it and it's it is mental i don't know what could have possibly is it i'm just trying to think like is it different voltage in these countries

like these batteries but they're just so cheap hot like none of the parts in there are up to spec like they've thrown something together that that yes it it will technically work for a little bit yeah but it's just there's it's in no ways so basically

you're paying for people's science projects, little science projects.

Also, it's like even things like the tolerance of the casing will not be up to code for that level.

The battery will put out that amount of power, but for that brightness, think how much heat that's generated.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

So it's just not ready for it.

And the charger isn't like...

like limited.

Why would you ever need anything that bright?

Like, it's so bright.

Like, it's stupidly bright.

It's unusably bright.

Oh, it's insanely bright.

I mean, you would literally, if you shone that at someone, I think you would do damage to someone.

You would blind them immediately.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good lord.

Also, like, everyone has a torch on their phone.

Like, I.

Not 100 million lumens.

100 million lumens is

a tough act to follow.

I mean, if someone said, has anyone got a torch and you whip that out, I think I'd hit the deck.

I'd think we were under attack by aliens or something.

Oh, my lord.

It's insane.

Good God.

This one's called My Sketches Light Up Shoe Trauma.

In a recent episode of Triforce, there was some shoe talk, and Lewis mentioned how he wished he had a pair of LED light-up shoes as a child.

This brought back a now decades-old trauma I had relating to this style of shoe, which looking back now seems silly.

I entered elementary school in the great state of Minnesota in 2005.

Nice.

Same year as the infamous Red Lake shootings.

As a result, we started doing daily active intruder drills in all levels of instruction, including down to the kindergarten level.

That is madden.

The teachers took it very seriously, would turn off the lights in the classroom, draw the shades, and tell the kids to stay absolutely silent and hide in the corner.

Right.

As a young child, it was hard to tell if the drills were real or fake.

It was during one of these drills where the dead silence was pierced by another student's Sketchers brand LED light-up trainers going off.

Not only was there a light display, but for some ungodly reason, these sneakers also played a song.

This resulted in many other students, including myself, absolutely breaking down, thinking that this girl's LED Disney princess sneakers would be the end of all of us.

Everything, of course, ended up being fine, but ever since that fateful day, I've had an irrational fear of light-up sneakers.

What was the song?

Like, and do you get triggered every time you hear it now?

That's terrifying.

Uh, and no, in answer to the last question, we do not have anything like that in the UK because, uh, yeah, we don't have people with guns roaming around.

Well, active school shootings is not something that they need to prepare for much.

Not since Dumb Blame, which Andy Murray, the tennis player, was at that school.

He was at that school, yeah.

There's more, there's a lot of knife crime in the UK, but it's not really on the scale of

school shootings and school shootings.

No, there's really not a lot of knife crime in the UK.

It's still less than America.

Oh, yeah.

I think that's one of those things that they try and say, well,

it's just the same.

No, it's not.

No, no, no.

Sorry, I'm not comparing them.

I'm just saying you're more likely in the UK to get attacked with a knife than you are to be shot, I would say.

And you are still very unlikely.

And very unlikely.

Yeah.

So no, we don't train anyone for that because I don't know.

You know, I don't want to get political, but whatever.

We don't.

Bizarre Airbnb experience.

I imagine that most experiences at an Airbnb would be bizarre, right?

I mean, you are just living in, you're just staying in somebody's house, effectively.

No, you're not.

Well, sometimes you are.

I'm trying to think.

I have stayed in quite a few Airbnbs, and I'm trying to think of occasions where it was clearly the home that they lived in.

It used to be, but it was mainly their holiday home.

When they weren't using it, they'd rent it out.

So they like live up in London and they have a second home down in Cornwall, say.

And so when they're not using it, this is actually a good way to let it out.

I stayed at an Airbnb one time with a couple of friends.

We were in Munich, not for Oktoberfest.

We were there for just

like just having a little weekend trip or whatever.

We stayed at an Airbnb and it was somebody's house.

Like they were not there.

They'd gone away or something yeah yeah but like all their books and like mail every like it was just their house we just stayed i mean we i've done their house in an apartment i've had that way i've stayed in an apartment and it's clearly their yeah house and they're just away for the week i mean yeah fair enough did i tell you guys about yesterday about my airbnb experience when i was in bristol with the mirror no no i didn't tell you this i don't think so oh my god so i was staying at my usual i was staying at my usual airbnb god if we if we talked about this yesterday people are gonna fucking lose their minds that we did I told this same thing.

I'm not ringing any bells so far.

So I'm in my Airbnb.

It's a basement Airbnb and there's a house above it.

And the people who owned the house that I previously rented this Airbnb from like multiple times, it's my favorite one.

They're like, they'd sold the house.

So I had to redo the listing, you know, wait for it to come on and book it and all the rest of it.

No problem.

And the new owner seemed lovely.

First night in there.

Woken up very early in the morning by a load of drilling and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Because they're having the flooring redone.

Right.

And I was like, oh man, I just messaged her and I was like, how long is this going to be going on for?

I tend to work quite late.

Didn't want to be woken up at 8 a.m.

She's like, oh, I thought you'd be out.

I didn't think, even think that you might be sleeping in.

That's my bad.

I'll tell them to do all the noisy stuff today.

Please accept my apology.

Let us take some money off the cost of the Airbnb.

I said, that was really not that big a deal.

She said, well, let me get you some wine.

And I was like, fine.

So she bought me some wine.

Very kind.

Wow.

Right.

A couple of days later, this was actually the final day.

And I did the stream in the morning with Zilas on the Jingle Jam.

And then I was going to do the coffee with Boba in the afternoon.

So I thought I'll have a lie down during the middle of the day, be fresh for the stream.

So I'm there.

I have my nap.

I'm just coming around.

And the fucking mirror on the wall opens outward like a door.

And I can hear voices.

And there's people that are clearly showing some other people around this house that they've just bought.

And they're like, and down here's the seller.

And they're coming into the room.

And I am just fucking naked in bed,

having just had a nap.

And the door opens, luckily, sort of facing me.

So they didn't see me they just started coming and i was like hello like that trying to sound authoritative but clearly sounding like like a bitch boy like the the kebab shop guy knew yeah and um and they were like oh my god oh i'm so sorry and they like slammed the door and i could hear them run up the stairs that are behind the mirror i didn't know there was a fucking staircase behind the mirror uh and i was like oh my god and i i messaged the b owner again and i was like ah just to let you know some people tried to come in she wanted to she would wanted to like refund the whole thing and she's like oh please let me buy you some more wine

already carrying enough wine back home but it was it was so i was so shocked

yeah it was really that is insane

yeah

well

that's me i'm never staying at an airbnb ever again i think the one i stayed at i was just i lucked out you know like the the guy was gone like and it you know he just had like a really nice you just a single guy lots of books, you know, nice flat.

It's like in good, good order.

It was fine.

I don't know if you'd ever get that again, though.

Like, maybe that's just lucky, or maybe, I don't know.

If you have Airbnb experiences, send them in, I guess.

I don't know.

Well, here's one.

This is for the day.

This summer, I worked remotely doing wildlife research in the north of Manitoba, Canada.

Yeah.

Whenever I was not in the field living in company housing, I would rent Airbnbs in Winnipeg

on my weekends off.

Naturally, I would go for the cheapest option, renting a room in someone's house.

This went fine most of the time, but my final time doing this was bad.

I rolled up, no one was home, fine.

They gave me the keypad code, let myself in, shower, go to bed.

All this probably after midnight.

I get woken at seven in the morning by someone walking directly into my room and shouting in surprise.

After a bit of talking, we realized that he had booked the same room on a different app.

I check my phone and there's a message from the Airbnb host at 5 a.m., which says, I can no longer host you.

Please leave now.

So I'm absolutely dumbfounded at the fucking boldness of that.

Long story short, after a long time on the phone with Airbnb, managed to get him to fully reimburse me, pay for a three-bedroom suite at the Hilton.

Oh, and I was on the phone trying to figure it out.

A third guy showed up at the door, having booked the same room on a third app.

Oh, no.

That is

fucking shocking.

That is pretty bad.

This is something that's happened to us when we were going around New Zealand.

Like, you know, we booked these places on, I think, either booking.com or Airbnb or or something like this.

And when we turned up, they were like, oh, we don't, we didn't check that app.

We've already booked it.

So you've got to find somewhere else.

You know, it happened like multiple times.

Oh, my God.

And so my advice really is just to, if you're booked in with someone somewhere, just fucking message them like two days before you get there or at least 24 hours before you get there.

And if you don't get a reply,

something's probably wrong.

It's gone.

Going wrong.

Somebody else is there.

Somebody else is enjoying your accommodation.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Or there's like a secret swing mirror that they're coming on.

It was, it was a genuine surprise.

Oh, my God.

Hey,

the other day, my

daughter, my daughter's going through this phase now where she gets angry.

This is my youngest daughter.

She gets angry.

She really lashes out like irrationally, you know, and like it'll be over something really silly, you know, like she can't get Barbie's shorts on or something.

And she'll, she'll just go, she'll have a meltdown.

And she, she plays with my, with my other daughter quite often, you know, they play Barbies

and stuff together.

So recently, one of the big things that she's sort of come up with when she's angry is, I'm never being your sister ever again.

And

I don't like your hair, which I guess, you know, two girls saying this to each other, that can be pretty devastating, right?

Like there's, there's probably some sort of code or whatever where you shouldn't say that.

I'm trying to get her out of her high chair the other night after dinner and she's and she's making this huge mess.

I was like, please stop making a mess.

I'm trying to get you out of of the high chair she's like just go away and i don't like your hair and i was like well listen i got news for you i'm not a huge fan of my hair either but i'm still got to get you out of this high chair right now because you are plastered in mashed potato and right

i just thought it's such a weird and specific insult isn't it yeah it's not something that you would really hear uh every day and maybe you know maybe she's onto something maybe this is a way that we can insult people more you know like maybe instead of like fat shaming, we can hair shame.

Oh, thanks.

I appreciate that.

No one's ever brought up the fact that I'm a bald barrister.

No, but I think that's

a different podcast.

You're talking, this is, this is talking about, I don't lump myself in this, but I, but people who have hair but have shitty hairdos,

it's like a new, it's a whole new level of insult, right?

You're not, we're, so it's, it's easy to just target somebody with no hair and say, you're baldy, whatever, you know.

I'm not talking about people who are bald.

I'm talking about people who have hair, but they have a real shit hairdo.

And they are out there.

Gosh, there's a lot of them out there.

I just thought it was fun.

I thought it was sad.

Something did happen yesterday.

I can't remember.

I think I was at like an event in the evening and I was chatting to this

couple that I didn't sort of know very well.

And

we were outside, so it's quite cold.

And we all had hats on.

And I think

I made a joke about, you know, being 41 or something.

And she said, oh, take your hat off.

Have you still got hair?

And I was like, Yeah, yeah.

So I took my hat off.

I was, and they were like, Oh, not bad.

And

she gestured to her partner, and he took his hat off, bald, and he just like gave me like this sort of roll of his eyes.

Yeah, as if, like, and it was quite a weird

freak.

Hey, freak, take your hat off.

You know, like, come on.

Come on,

imagine the tables were turned.

Like, uh, yeah, hey, weirdo, fucking take your jacket off so that they can look at at you, you know, like your body shape.

Your hunchback.

Fucking weirdo.

You know, like, why is it okay?

Why is that okay?

It's really demeaning, isn't it?

I agree.

It was weird.

Yeah.

All right.

Last one, because I need the toilet.

There's a friendly reminder of statements recorded in Mailbag 27.

from last year just after jingle jam 2023 right so this is just after 2024 right you were discussing who will win in a fight between a polar bear and a silverback gorilla right and i said there's only one way to settle it jingle jam 2024.

And Sips said, I'll put my ape suit on.

Lewis can put his fursuit on, and we will prove to the world who is stronger.

Right.

We've forgotten to do this.

We should probably do this.

We completely forgot to do this.

Yeah.

I don't know how we forgot.

I don't know how we forgot.

Well, you didn't come down, Sips.

That was the problem.

I had the fursuit ready.

Okay.

All right.

I was there.

I was there, but just not for Jingle Jam.

Yeah, that's true.

The week before.

Well, there's your free content idea.

People dress up in fursuits and battle each other.

Okay.

jingle jam jingle jam 2025 it will do it okay we'll

this is an urgent toilet problem for me now so i have to go okay thank you very much for this we will see you next time next time bye bye bye bye bye

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