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Speaker 1 this week, it was in the UK, it was fireworks on fire night.

Speaker 1 Did you guys do anything?

Speaker 1 I did, actually. I went up to Brandon Hill Park, which is just in the middle of Bristol.
It's right, saw the big park behind the uni. And it was...
I've never been up there before on Fireworks Night.

Speaker 1 I don't know why I went. Yeah, right.
So he's up there every day scoring. Wow.
Smoking weed and

Speaker 1 chatting to the seasons. What are you studying? Wow.
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Speaker 1 snake. Donald Trump was up there.

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Speaker 1 I thought it's a good place to get a good view of fireworks on the horizon, you know, across the city. And it was, but there was also...
a

Speaker 1 dearth of young people.

Speaker 1 Good word. Setting up fireworks in an impromptu way.

Speaker 1 Dirth does not mean there were loads of. That means there were barely any.
Sorry, I meant it in a negative context, though. Okay.
But if you say there's a dirt of young people, you mean

Speaker 1 there are no young people. There's hardly any.
In fact, insufficient. Give me a word.
The gangle. A large amount of negative.

Speaker 1 A surfant. Negative.

Speaker 1 But that's not negative in its own. A surge of young people.
Dirge. No, you mean that.
No, not a dirge either.

Speaker 1 So there was all these students basically

Speaker 1 students is what you could just well do you know what a lot of them were nice and fine and everything but i think there were a lot of bristol types there and they would obviously they turned up with fireworks they bought it was it was like a kind of bring your own fireworks impromptu free

Speaker 1 opportunity to just set them off somewhere because i think a lot of people don't have a necessarily a green set of

Speaker 1 students student accommodation they haven't got somewhere to go yeah well so you're saying

Speaker 1 it was a bit of a war zone it was absolute war zone it was chaos We were stood there and like there were fireworks going off like all around us. They were like firing into the crowd.

Speaker 1 It was like, you know, there was some. It was, it was the, I've never experienced anything like it, honestly.

Speaker 1 It had the classic thing of like, something would go up and like, whoop, it would like go up, right? A big fire would go up and then it would go poot.

Speaker 1 And like everyone would go, oh, because it didn't, you know, it wasn't impressive. It promised, you know,

Speaker 1 but it didn't deliver a big bang, but it delivered like a sad little poot. So can I just say that this is something interesting?

Speaker 1 To talk about fireworks, I want to ask you guys a question because I'm intrigued to know your answer.

Speaker 1 This was when I was streaming last night and the conversation turned to fireworks.

Speaker 1 And some people were saying that the sort of public displays where you go along and everybody stands in ooze and ahs and it's like a proper fireworks display, no problem.

Speaker 1 But people just being able to buy a box of fireworks and shoot them at each other and, you know, fire them off in the road in their garden is going into other people's gardens, All of this is kind of mad, and that we shouldn't have it.

Speaker 1 Now, that's all there is over here. There wasn't like a big fireworks, it's just all people with their own.
So, there's no big fireworks display on Jersey down at the harborside or whatever.

Speaker 1 They don't do that, they don't do anything for it. Miserable buggers, aren't they? Well,

Speaker 1 even little villain people

Speaker 1 do their own little display. Like, there was a couple of people.

Speaker 1 I bet you there's a bunch of displays.

Speaker 1 There must be a Jersey display. Oh, not that I know of.
Not like I'm googling it. Not in the main town, at least, maybe down in in like

Speaker 1 Jersey Fireworks Display. Starburst Fireworks.
Fireworks displays in.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's just fireworks. Yeah.
They do a couple in the summer. They usually have a fireworks display for the Battle of Flowers, which is

Speaker 1 an August thing.

Speaker 1 New Year's. It's a Martins Charity bonfire display.
Yeah, they have little bonfires that you can go to that probably have their own.

Speaker 1 fireworks but it's nothing like you know it's not like a big um you know the the town or the city putting it on. This is just like little private

Speaker 1 bonfire. So, I mean, obviously, like, you can, yeah, you can absolutely buy your own fireworks.

Speaker 1 And I remember, you know, back in when I was, when I was in Essex, you know, when I was growing up, my friend would always buy big boxes of fireworks.

Speaker 1 And they will be called things like, you know, they'd all have these stupid names like Apocalypse Nightmare and Exploding Sunrise. Yeah.
And, you know, stuff like that.

Speaker 1 They've all got names like roller coasters.

Speaker 1 So what do you think about the fact that it is kind of mad to think that we just sell explosives over the counter to anyone 18 or over? I think it's 18 or over can buy fireworks.

Speaker 1 Do you think it's kind of crazy? Do you think that we should

Speaker 1 mind other people doing it? Personally, I wouldn't. But having said that, we do buy the kids sparklers, which is different.

Speaker 1 But like we had, we did like we had a barbecue last night and the kids had sparklers and then they toasted some marshmallows on the barbecue as well. You know what?

Speaker 1 That's all we did. Fuck it.
I'm going to buy some bloody fireworks and we're going to have a bunch of it. Yeah, why not? Just do it.
Just be safe. Get a little.
Yeah, just a little one.

Speaker 1 You just need like a little bit of a

Speaker 1 little

Speaker 1 bit more. Just get a barrel with some earth in it.

Speaker 1 Petroleum price now. Put earth in it.

Speaker 1 No, it won't be.

Speaker 1 It's like buying a calendar. So you're saying get an old barrel.
I don't have a barrel, but I'll find something.

Speaker 1 Half of a barrel. You need something with some earth in it.
And then

Speaker 1 that's your launch pad and then just make sure everybody is stood way back yeah and uh enjoy the uh enjoy the show exactly exactly just get a few little fires it'll be fun it'll be fun because i tell you what the dogs don't like bonfire night around here but it's only once it's only a few days every time somebody launches a firework it's like all you can hear is about a hundred dogs all starting like barking it is honestly the worst yeah i mean it's really cruel for pets well they're not but you can get like dog dog safe fireworks that don't make the big booms booms my um my guinea pigs didn't notice and uh

Speaker 1 it's the noise that's the issue right yeah but you know that my dog gets scared by all kinds of things this is just one more thing

Speaker 1 so i don't see why we should stop fireworks you can get dog friendly ones and they're not that they're they're they're basically dog-friendly ones are meat flavoured delicious

Speaker 1 things having the dog run up to the lip one honestly that's the dog

Speaker 1 it is kind of mad with just like yes here's your box of explosives and be careful, but there's no

Speaker 1 sort of oversight, is there? Like, you could just fucking set them off all day. It is kind of mad.
But I just think it's a bit of a mistake.

Speaker 1 It's kind of mad, but it's one of those things where people would go absolutely nuts if you tried to ban it.

Speaker 1 I know, yeah, but it is just one of the few sort of chaotic, fun things that people have, where they were just allowed to cut loose and fucking blow some shit up.

Speaker 1 I think it's a nice reminder that, you know, we could just fucking blow shit up, but we don't. As long as you just occasionally let us

Speaker 1 defend their rights to make noise, a lot of noise, right?

Speaker 1 Anything that makes a loud noise, I'm going to be so pissed if you try to take it away from me. That's me.
I make a lot of noise. No, but I'm talking about like explosive noises.

Speaker 1 So for 20 years,

Speaker 1 like the Americans with guns, except for like, you can't take our firearms. Yeah, so

Speaker 1 open carry and all the things that they hold so dear. You should have a backpack teeming with rockets.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. Like a goblin on World of Warcraft, just like fucking millions of rockets sticking out, all angles of the backpack and stuff.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's one of those things that I'm looking at it now.

Speaker 1 The idea of fireworks just being something that we all get to use is kind of like, it's, it's one of those mad things that the fact that exists in society, we all just accept like, well, it's just one of those things.

Speaker 1 Like being able to drive a car at 16 or 17 or whatever, just being able to get in a car and drive something that is incredibly dangerous deadly you're walking on the pavement two feet from someone who can barely drive driving it 60 miles an hour if they're an idiot that's fine we we deal with that you know we'll clean up the the pieces when all these terrible things happen but you know it's like well it'd be worse if people didn't have cars you could have cars But it is crazy to think that just people, think of all the people out there that are complete idiots.

Speaker 1 They're behind the wheel of a car, right? Like they're driving just like the the good drivers. And we just kind of accept that.
So we think it's the same with fireworks.

Speaker 1 Although there's more utility to cars, we do understand that decent, safe, good-minded people are not going to shoot fireworks at other people's pets, but there will be some dickheads. For each other.

Speaker 1 Don't let the dickheads ruin it for everybody. Hey, come on.
So, well,

Speaker 1 that's often how things do get ruined, though. All it takes is one or two dickheads.
One or two dickheads. Some of the deadliest.

Speaker 1 Well, okay, fireworks night doesn't normally kill too many people. Fireworks injure a lot of people.
I think in 2022, about 2,000 people were taken to AE with burns.

Speaker 1 And the NHS website, someone Google, someone looked at the burns and scalds advice page every 21 seconds.

Speaker 1 That's just kids grabbing sparklers. There's a lot of that stuff going on.
You can not kill the trick if you're worried about burning your hand on the metal end of a sparkler is put a carrot on there.

Speaker 1 You can put a carrot on the end and hold the carrot.

Speaker 1 And you will not get it. You can eat the carrot and then the sparkler.

Speaker 1 You can eat it or just chuck it into the bonfire. Oh, I like that a lot.
That's good. I mean, I remember that there was an advert for Fireworks Night.

Speaker 1 It was like one of those public service announcement adverts back in the 80s of a little girl who grabs a sparkler that's just been on.

Speaker 1 She grabs it by the end and she's like, she screams and it cuts to her with a massive bandage on her hand. That one advert scared my

Speaker 1 younger sister so much that she wouldn't go near a sparkler for years. Like well into adulthood.
Sparklers are the most dangerous.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're stupid but handing a child a sparkler it's insane but only should

Speaker 1 it's again it's not like more people die in traffic accidents going to firework displays than actually at firework displays or technical fireworks stuff like it's like you like you said like you know i think on these on these celebratory days like the fourth of july or new year or whatever when people have been out late drinking yeah i think new year is one of the most road oh god yeah it's terrible

Speaker 1 i mean alcohol the fact that you can go into town and for a bit of money get absolutely fucking blasted in public and just roll around going,

Speaker 1 and everybody's like, that's fine.

Speaker 1 It's kind of mad, isn't it? It's just one of those things that we as a society have sort of kind of accepted. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I guess that's what I noticed last night. It did feel very, my partner felt very unsafe.
I felt fine, but my partner was like, we shouldn't be here.

Speaker 1 Just wear goggles. Because there were just so many, you know, it was like the whole place stacked of weed.
Everyone was drinking Thatcher's. Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It was like the most Bristol place you could have. Nice.
And it's just like, you know,

Speaker 1 there's like guys, you know, biking down the hill, you know, at like 100 miles an hour kind of thing. It's, it was quite, quite wild and fun, but it's something different, isn't it?

Speaker 1 You know, to the quaint display. Also, lovely and warm.
It was like lovely climate change.

Speaker 1 It was very warm last night. It was 16 degrees.
Now, I remember when I was a kid, I was barbecuing in my school. I was in a school school uphill both ways.

Speaker 1 um when i was a kid and went to these firework displays that you know or went out and to do fireworks in the garden with my dad um it was fucking freezing yeah but you might have just been

Speaker 1 back then as well everyone

Speaker 1 i'm even more

Speaker 1 honestly sorry um you know i i it was it was like fucking zero degrees um and i always say this like you know because i'm my birthday is 22nd of october when i the day i was born it snowed um and you know it's hard to think that it would snow on October 22nd.

Speaker 1 I guess a freak weather. Climate change isn't it? I remember it.
I remember it sounds freak weather

Speaker 1 occasionally on Halloween when I was a kid, but not

Speaker 1 every Halloween. Like it, you know, sometimes.
So

Speaker 1 it's just, just, just, anyway, something to think about.

Speaker 1 I had a blast and maybe get those fireworks, Pig Flex. They'll be half price.

Speaker 1 I'm thinking, you know, fuck it. But I don't think they're going to be cheaper because a lot of people have fireworks displays either weekend, either side of the 5th of November.

Speaker 1 And, you know, Diwali and stuff is, and generally, I think fireworks just, there seem to be some shops that sell them year-round and get by. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 I did go to Costco recently and they were selling fireworks, but of course, being Costco, it was enough, it looked like you were taking ammo to resupply a rebel army. Like, it was that much explosive.

Speaker 1 It really looked like,

Speaker 1 you know, you could imagine some fucking Hyundai booting it around with a box of explosives in the back, delivering the business. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 What you do see in the news quite often is fireworks factories blowing up.

Speaker 1 Nothing to see here.

Speaker 1 That naked gun bit where the fireworks factory is on fire.

Speaker 1 That's

Speaker 1 also in the Simpsons, isn't it? Oh, when are they going to get to the fireworks factory?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like, I don't know. It's exciting, but it's some of the worst fires ever are the ones in fireworks factories in the same way that a fire at an arsenal would be bad.
Like if you had a.

Speaker 1 It does sound hilarious. I mean, it would be amazing to look at, but they are incredibly dangerous.
What about a fire at a fire extinguisher factory, but like the whole thing goes up and can't be

Speaker 1 great irony. Yes,

Speaker 1 oh no, we were using petrol in our fire extinguisher.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know. I think bonfire night's fine.
It was fun. Like, uh, I think Flax is right, though.
I think the weekend is when more stuff happens. I don't think all right.

Speaker 1 Well, I'll keep the dog inside. Keep your dog in.
You got a dog?

Speaker 1 Keep your bitch on its leash on the weekend.

Speaker 1 You're allowed to call a dog that. That's now what joke.
It's like an old-timey

Speaker 1 phrasing, you know. They used to it always makes me laugh when, like, when uh, when you deal with real dog people, like dog trainers or dog breeders, they'll refer to a bitch.

Speaker 1 Where'd you get your bitch? With yeah, the lovely bitch. Who bread your bitch? It's like, damn.
Now, tell your bitch to heal and then tell your bitch to sit.

Speaker 1 Call your your bitch.

Speaker 1 You're looking between your wife and your bitch.

Speaker 1 So it's one of the only times you can actually just say that word and use it to its full potential, like all the time. And they really roll it, bitch.

Speaker 1 Tell your bitch to heal. Yeah, it's like

Speaker 1 Winston Churchill with a mouth full of marbles talking about dogs.

Speaker 1 We must never allow our bitches to rather marble. We will allow the bitches on the beaches.
Witches on the bitches.

Speaker 1 Millions of bitches. Witches for free.

Speaker 1 Well, of course, the other. I love it when

Speaker 1 you can get those delicious pork of brains faggots to eat as well.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, you can, yeah. It's wonderful.

Speaker 1 And I always regale everyone with the story. You can master it

Speaker 1 as well in the UK when you're done eating.

Speaker 1 damn oh i've got a i've got something for you uh i suppose uh the curtain this is curtesy of of a ben via instagram this isn't a mailbag i thought this was funny is this the man

Speaker 1 no this is not a big up the man versus horse marathon have you heard of this no

Speaker 1 so this is it's an annual race it's 21 miles it's runners on foot versus people on horseback on a mixture of roads trails and quite mountainous terrain right um and it's in the welsh town of excuse me welsh people i'll try hlanwerchted wells

Speaker 1 That's got to be spot on what you just said. Maybe.
There are other man versus

Speaker 1 I've got a sucky sweet because my throat was a little dry. Do you want me to take it out? Why did you

Speaker 1 pepperami right before you said the Welsh? I'm sucking down a pepper army right now.

Speaker 1 Because in order to speak Welsh, you need a lot of phlegm in your throat. And so you need someone.
You're sucking the skin off of a pepper army.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
Oh, actually, it might be Glanwertith.

Speaker 1 Sorry. I'll try.
How are people supposed to even begin to spell that if they want to look at it? You meant to speak Welsh. I mean, sorry, it's a different language.

Speaker 1 Maybe we shouldn't have invaded them and told them not to speak their language.

Speaker 1 It's more widespread, John.

Speaker 1 Anyway, I think he's just disconnected. I think his internet went out because he went.

Speaker 1 Hello? Oh, he's back. Hello? Yeah, sorry.
My internet's going to be a bit funky. I don't know what's going on.
It's so nice for me not to be the one having this.

Speaker 1 This is what it was like with you. So nice.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so, okay, listen to this.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then the

Speaker 1 time of year. Time of year.
And maybe people are at home more, so the internet's getting caned. I don't know.
Yeah. But they are doing some works in my area.
Spawn fire night, surge.

Speaker 1 Everybody's on there trying to get burns advice from the fireworks. That's why it overloads the internet.

Speaker 1 So what were you saying about Glenn Wetted Wells? It It doesn't matter. But from 1980 to 2003,

Speaker 1 it was horse one every time. It was horse every time.
Every time. The man versus horse marathon is a very long time.
It was Wayne Hall.

Speaker 1 Right. And has so who who wins these marathons nowadays in the past, like, say, five years, who's won?

Speaker 1 I'll tell you who. In the past five years,

Speaker 1 it was... Between 2020, 2021, there were no races because of COVID, even though you're outdoors, whatever.

Speaker 1 2022, 2023, humans. 24, horse, 25, human.
So humans are the three of the last four. Prior to that, from 2008 to 2019, horse.
It was all horse. It was very rare.
People want twice

Speaker 1 in like 20, 40 years.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's like the passing the torch of a generation, because I feel like an older generation might have been more horse-savvy than a younger generation.

Speaker 1 I think the horse on its own probably has a good shot of winning, but it really depends on who is commanding the horse you know

Speaker 1 for first of all i i would say it's it's horse plus human on horse yeah it's not just that is slowing down the horse the the person second of all

Speaker 1 horse won horse won most of the time but but but dewey griffiths won this year and he was a man

Speaker 1 dewey griffiths dewey it's not dewy

Speaker 1 right he he won by 11 12 12 minutes i like this by the way on the wikipedia article for it yeah it's got the going.

Speaker 1 You know, that thing in horse ranking where it says, oh, the going is good for fur, soft to heavy, soft to heavy, but they've also got weather, and sometimes it says unknown, which is I love because it's just

Speaker 1 war. In 2023, it was the word is sweltering.
I love that. Sweltering.
Just a one-word description of the weather on the day.

Speaker 1 Warm to hot. So

Speaker 1 apparently, the thing is, it's like quite rocky. Like, it's a genuine sort of mountainy path, if you like.

Speaker 1 so for example, it's not just a straight shot along a road because horses would win, it's going up and down some quite rocky hills and dales, I guess.

Speaker 1 So, humans have an advantage there because we're much more nimble than a horse.

Speaker 1 Um, I am interested as well that Iola Evans, whoever she is, uh, or whoever they are, won twice on two different horses, one on Gridol Star and Gridol Petra. Well done, Iola.
Fighting the good fight,

Speaker 1 trying to

Speaker 1 ruin

Speaker 1 the horse supremacy. Yeah, she just fucking hates horses.
She hates them so much. And she's like, I'm going to train my ass off.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. You're right.
Because the horse

Speaker 1 isn't aware of the race, effectively, right? And so you can push the horse as much as you want, but you can.

Speaker 1 push the horse beyond what it's it's healthy for

Speaker 1 and injure it right and so it can't crawl a

Speaker 1 push

Speaker 1 you can't because there is a vet halfway around the vet will inspect the horse. And if they suspect the horse is tired, they just stop the race then and there.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 okay. They can't push the horse too much.

Speaker 1 They don't want a sudden influx. They don't want psychopaths.

Speaker 1 Because people are like that in any competition. But people that love their horse.

Speaker 1 People do anything to win, even a fun

Speaker 1 man versus horse. Listen, Ray Jenkins, three-time winner,

Speaker 1 in a four-year span, 1987 to 1990, Ray Jenkins on his horse, The Doid, won three times in four years. You don't think Ray Jenkins loved his horse, huh? The Doid?

Speaker 1 He probably didn't even know his horse. He probably just turned up on race day and was like, get ready, bring me a man.
Bring me my bitch. Bring me my.
Okay, first of all, Ray Jenkins.

Speaker 1 Bring me my bitch. Ray Jenkins did win on the Doid, but he co-won with Bill George on Mando and with Chris Powell on Elkie.

Speaker 1 So he actually had his mates hanging out with him, and they had a joint victory. What kind of race is this? It's like a £25,000

Speaker 1 winning prize if they win. That's how they've been making all their money.
Yeah. That's how they've done it.
Oh, my God. They won 25 grand a year for three years in a row.

Speaker 1 Well, actually, this was in the 60s, so I don't think the price was a lot of money. Well, even back then, that was

Speaker 1 equivalent to winning like 50 million per race nowadays. You could buy a house for that.
You can buy it back then.

Speaker 1 You could buy a house for fuck all.

Speaker 1 You know, it's like it's in the 1960s. Oh, God.

Speaker 1 My

Speaker 1 in-laws bought their three-bedroom house in 1988 for 40 grand.

Speaker 1 It's unbelievable. Yeah.
Like that is unbelievable. Yeah.
I'm buying this house.

Speaker 1 Three bedroom houses now are like 800,000. I've got some of the old because I'm getting all this info, right, from the old deeds and stuff.

Speaker 1 You know, when you buy a house, you get all this info coming in.

Speaker 1 And this house, obviously it's quite old but i think it was sold for like i think i saw it some some you know some squirrely squirrely medieval style deed you know from about 100 years ago well not even 100 years ago i think it's from again it was from the 70s or something but they just did it more elaborate back then right and i think it was sold for like eight to eight thousand pounds or something insane that's insane and oh i'm not paying that for

Speaker 1 that's for damn sure i don't think that's going to cover like you know me getting it cleaned um holy so

Speaker 1 my mother-in-law was saying, though, that her dad used to earn six pounds a week.

Speaker 1 Uh, he used to work on the dust cart, he used to earn six pounds a week, but that was enough to pay your rent, buy groceries, and have money left over to do all sorts of stuff for the week.

Speaker 1 It's crazy to think, though, like, those were back in the days where you could go and buy like an iced bun for uh like a penny and stuff, you know, like the

Speaker 1 volume of money was much lower. I mean, it's crazy,

Speaker 1 The extent to which costs have risen is wild. It is.

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Speaker 1 But hey, let's talk about something more cheerful. Have you heard of Otto Baumbach? No,

Speaker 1 Baron von Munschausen. He was not.
This is super niche. He was born in 1882.
Right. What do you think he's doing? Around the time of Baron von Munchausen.

Speaker 1 I feel like

Speaker 1 he's famous for some weird industry.

Speaker 1 He made

Speaker 1 sheepskin undergarments or

Speaker 1 elastics.

Speaker 1 So he made elastics. Believe it or not, you're not that far off in that he is involved in a niche industry and he was considered very good at it.

Speaker 1 Now, what do you think that industry is? Soap making.

Speaker 1 So Victorian era, I'm thinking... Well, late Victorian era.
Just pistons. Just pistons.
So he came into his own. Like he really,

Speaker 1 his work found its most important

Speaker 1 in the early 1900s. So like early part of the 20th century, important things are happening.
And Otto Baumbach's work was vital to something that was very famous. Planes.
Nope.

Speaker 1 The S-Bends for toilets. No, but you're getting

Speaker 1 on the right track. Something to do with personal hygiene? No.
Right. Something to do with the cycle.
Something to do with

Speaker 1 the WC.

Speaker 1 No, just something that's vaguely there. You said a word that was kind of close.

Speaker 1 S-Bend? No, yeah, but

Speaker 1 what is an S-Bend? It's a pipe. It's a pipe or a tube, perhaps.
A tube.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 he made tubes.

Speaker 1 He was a glass blower. A glass blower.
So he was making tubular glass

Speaker 1 for syringes. He was so good at it that he made the glass tube that was used in this very famous experiment,

Speaker 1 the gold foil experiment, which was a landmark discovery about atoms and their nuclei and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 This was his glass tubes that he blew, like artisanally, handmade glass tubes were vital. He could blow these perfectly, incredibly thin glass tubes.
That was his whole thing. It's Otto Baumbach.

Speaker 1 And now he's forgotten. But he's considered like integral.
One of the most famous tube blowers of our time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Now he's forgotten. Died in 1966.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you know what, though? This is still the case today. There are some incredibly talented people making components across the world that are used

Speaker 1 and they're not real. Not just components, this idea.
All sorts of incredibly talented people making all sorts of incredibly talented things, like

Speaker 1 Will Smith eating spaghetti.

Speaker 1 We just assume that everything's made in a machine, and much of it is, don't get me wrong. Nowadays.

Speaker 1 But I think that you always hear that there's like some guy in a shed in fucking Japan somewhere who's the last guy making this component, which is apparently used by, I don't know, NVIDIA.

Speaker 1 And it's all like this. This whole thing is propped propped up on a matchstick.

Speaker 1 And that's this one Japanese guy holding up the fucking, you know, billion dollar AI industry because he's the only person in the world who can, you know, shave a fucking, you know, goose feather so thin or whatever.

Speaker 1 Because apparently, do you know what I mean? Some things

Speaker 1 that you can do. You can do something that can be.

Speaker 1 And it'll be some component from nature as well. It'll be like, oh, you know, we can't make these at a factory as good as they're grown on a spider's wing.
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It's like, oh, this fucking thing. A spider's wing.

Speaker 1 There's some nest of flying spiders or some shit. And there's a guy covered in them.
And he's like, yeah, I've spent my whole life pulling the wings off flying spiders. And turn, you know,

Speaker 1 because if it wasn't for me, he wouldn't have your iPhone. It's always like

Speaker 1 there's always like from the Victorian era as well, all of their little luxuries were always things like that, too.

Speaker 1 This intricate doll's house, the curtains on the shower are made of a thousand flies' wings and stuff like that. It's always like these stupid little intricate details that everybody's

Speaker 1 60 dead tropical birds were made

Speaker 1 to make this small basket, which I have, which I have disposed of after I take a shit in it. It's like, okay.
Yeah, that's the fun.

Speaker 1 Well, I can go down at Smith's Toys now and buy PJ Mask's three set for like two pounds. So fuck you, I guess, you know?

Speaker 1 This is fucking ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
It's crazy. But

Speaker 1 that's what it was like back then and still is probably like that sometimes. Yeah, I think for the upper echelons of society, it's still a little bit like that.

Speaker 1 I tell you what, over here, there's a big industry around

Speaker 1 getting like a low number plate. So you have like over here, what you call J plates because it's Jersey.

Speaker 1 So all of the number plates start with a J, but then the sequences of numbers, I mean, mine is like six digits. Don't tell us, you're don't tell us yours.
It's not going to, but it's six digits.

Speaker 1 But you can get J1, for example.

Speaker 1 You can get J3.

Speaker 1 You can get J69. Like some of the low numbers are worth

Speaker 1 thousands. Oh, oh, oh, tens of thousands.

Speaker 1 Have you guys heard of this 6-7 meme? Yeah, we talked about it the other day.

Speaker 1 Did we? I mentioned it, and you said you'd never heard of it. No, no, but on Triforce? I think on stream when we were playing R C Raiders, I was talking about it.
Oh, yeah. Gosh, no, I didn't.

Speaker 1 Because I was saying at the time, and somehow still, we've avoided it. My son does not say it, but apparently, it's much more American than anything else.

Speaker 1 It's everywhere

Speaker 1 with TikTok and all these things. It's just, I don't, I look, I don't think we're supposed to understand it, but I've just, when they find out,

Speaker 1 you could be saying 6-9 instead of 20%. You're just looking at the wrong stuff because I've never heard anybody say that before.
I've heard of it, but I've never,

Speaker 1 I've never watched something where somebody has said that. I've never heard that.
Even Jon Stewart might said 6-7 on

Speaker 1 last season. But so immediately that we're aware of it, as in grown-ups and people on television like Jon Stewart, it's no longer a thing.
Yeah, it's already

Speaker 1 like immediately it's done. Yeah.
Because the moment parents say things like, oh, oh, scooby Riz, Ohio, kids are like, fuck that. We're moving on.

Speaker 1 We've got to come up with something else they haven't heard of. Exactly.
The best way to counter it is to listen to what they're saying and be really uncool with it. We destroy their brain rot.

Speaker 1 We rot their brain faster than they can rot their brain rot. We derot it.
We outrot them. That's the key.
We have to out-rot them.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's time that my generation, Gen X, started to come up with some brain rot of our own

Speaker 1 and just tried to make out that we were stupider than this young generation. That'd blow their mind.
What did we? I mean, most of our slang, the equivalent

Speaker 1 to what the stuff they're saying now for us,

Speaker 1 or certainly for me and people I knew and grew up around, was everything was gay, everything was retarded.

Speaker 1 Like that, those were that was the slang, which is, I think, the slang now, it doesn't make sense, but at least it's not offensive. But our slang is like mega offensive and has aged

Speaker 1 so poorly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it was like, it wasn't even just kids saying it, though. Adults would say these things on TV, everything.
Like it was why, I know we probably talk about it a lot, but I still can't believe how

Speaker 1 just how widespread and common it was for these things to be said. It was on TV, like people would say, like on the news, everything.
It was just, you know, it was just acceptable slang back then.

Speaker 1 Said it on the news. Lawmakers said something super gay.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 More than 10 with our reporter Jerry Paul.

Speaker 1 No, it was though.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Nick. I'm here on the steps of the White House where the president said something so gay and so retarded that Congress decided to kill an emergency meeting.

Speaker 1 This is like a South Park episode,

Speaker 1 honestly. I know.

Speaker 1 It's like, oh, the deja vu.

Speaker 1 Holy shit. But yeah, like some of the stuff that my son says, like no cap and whatever, skibbity and all this stuff, at least it's nonsensical, but it's not offensive.

Speaker 1 It's offensive if you don't understand it and you find it annoying, I guess, but it's not. Yeah, but it's not offensive.
It's not like there's some skibbity. It's not marginalizing, like,

Speaker 1 anyone in society or anything like that. It's just, you know, it's just a word.
It's just a dumb word that doesn't have to make sense. But yeah, a lot of our stuff was

Speaker 1 just super offensive. But I don't know if this is something that we've spoken about before, but this made me think of something that I thought of the other day.

Speaker 1 I've probably spoken about this because we do this podcast for so long, I can't fucking remember all of it. No, I know.

Speaker 1 It's going to happen. Yeah.
It is going to happen.

Speaker 1 So I was thinking, right, that the next evolution for actors, in fact, I've definitely said this before, but fuck it, is that it's not enough to just be an actor and in a movie.

Speaker 1 I think that the next stage is that you now also have to have full-on porn level sex in a mainstream movie and that the audiences will come to expect that. So for example,

Speaker 1 let's say the 2016 film Passengers starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt.

Speaker 1 Would that movie be worse if at the midpoint when they fall in love, they have full-blown 18-plus porno-level sex for half an hour just to really cement the relationship?

Speaker 1 And then we just carry on with the movie.

Speaker 1 I see what you're saying.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying, I think it would put some bums in seats. I would

Speaker 1 two very hot problems. I think it would put some cums in seats, and then most people would leave

Speaker 1 two minutes into the movie. They'd be

Speaker 1 like, first of all, you've got to put in the midpoint, right? People are very horny, but they want to do it in private, right? People want to be, and they can't help them.

Speaker 1 Any game, look at how popular hentai and adult games are, or even Boulder's Gate. Anything with a bit of nudity.
What's that new game that came out on Steam with the comic book

Speaker 1 that everyone's dispatched? Really, really good. Dispatch.
It's a little

Speaker 1 bit does have like some

Speaker 1 potential to be horny. Only Burlington.
I've done episode one and it wasn't overly horny. The tags, the tags are choices matter, story rich, sexual content, nudity.

Speaker 1 They're the four top tags on that Steam game. And as a result, like, I think that, but it, but it's a, but it's a mainstream game.
And it's like, oh, I can get my horny fixed. It is actually

Speaker 1 so well done, though. The dialogue and everything.
So I actually think, P-Flacks, this has already happened. What you're saying, in video games, right, right.

Speaker 1 But what I'm saying is that the next step is that you have a movie, like in the same way that violence on screen becomes more and more realistic, the people falling in love and having sex on screen becomes more and more realistic realistic to the point where people will just expect actors to be as good at fucking as they are at acting.

Speaker 1 Well, here's the thing that's going to happen, P-Flax, and I'm going to tell you this right now. There's not going to be time for this transition to happen because AI is going to sweep in and

Speaker 1 you can just type in this. You can say, Degenerate me a sex scene between these two actors, and it will, it's happening.

Speaker 1 And it's honestly, you know, you can see it if you know if you want to, if you want to see that stuff, you can find it on the internet already. Fucking fucking hell.

Speaker 1 It's genuinely out of the way. So I could have Robert De Niro and Al Pacino fucking each other.

Speaker 1 You 100% can. You can talk in the middle.
You're talking to me. Come on.
Come on.

Speaker 1 You got a great ass.

Speaker 1 Holy shit. Come here,

Speaker 1 bitch.

Speaker 1 Briggle bitch rouge.

Speaker 1 Man,

Speaker 1 I gotta get on to AI out.

Speaker 1 That's it, Robert.

Speaker 1 Let him in the ducas. Do him in his ducas.

Speaker 1 Am I a clown? I fucking amuse you. I'm here to watch you fuck.
Is that what it is? Lenny, put on the clown.

Speaker 1 I'm fucking.

Speaker 1 But I'm gonna fucking join in. That's it.
I'm joining in.

Speaker 1 Don't join in, Joe. We spoke about this.

Speaker 1 That's all

Speaker 1 Peggy and says is. Ahooah.

Speaker 1 He sounds like Danny DeVito in Sonny.

Speaker 1 Who was? Who is?

Speaker 1 Oh, God. I love that show so much.
Anyway,

Speaker 1 I think for sure, like, you look at Amazon and it's just flooded with AI novels, AI books. And I think part of it is the desire for people to want a very specific niche thing.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, they will, and to satisfy their desires. And

Speaker 1 in many ways, like, that is. natural.
Like, you know, I read, whenever you read a book on PFAX and SIPS, I'm sure you're the same.

Speaker 1 Like, you sort of, you get to a bit in your book and you're you're like oh i wish he'd done this instead yeah you can do that you know george o'er martin we talked about this as well he's like suing ai for like you know rewriting the bad end to game of thrones do you know i mean like but you can that's out there you know you can and it's not going to be long before you can just put your request in almost live you could be reading a book on your kindle and be like

Speaker 1 i wish this wasn't like this can we just rewrite it so it was so this happened instead it will happen that's the world we're living in um and that's i think crazy yeah it's crazy.

Speaker 1 Do you think there'll be a passengers AI edit where Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt were he just fucked up? I found it while you were talking. Yeah, I'll send it to you after.

Speaker 1 Rails her in the hyper deck or whatever.

Speaker 1 Right in the fucking hyper deck.

Speaker 1 You see that new passengers film with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence and fucks are all over that ship, mate. Oh, I'm gonna go see that.

Speaker 1 So, uh,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 Talking of like fireworks, I watch a lot of

Speaker 1 fireworks. Let's just rewind.
I watch a lot of shit on YouTube, which is like how it's made style stuff, like factory stuff, right?

Speaker 1 I love watching just stuff spinning around and seeing these clever little machines that make stuff. And like, because you assume, you know, that a sparkler is handmade by, you know,

Speaker 1 making some special machine,

Speaker 1 whatever. Or maybe, or maybe you have a picture of how your stuff is made, okay.

Speaker 1 Um, and the reality is always startlingly different, both, both amazing and horrifying, okay, at the same time.

Speaker 1 Because a lot of these things I see are some factory making, I don't know, tennis balls or um, I did see one making sparklers the other day, actually, but that and often they're just a YouTube short because that's what YouTube is now.

Speaker 1 Um, and and I, and sometimes they're nice, clean Japanese factories, and sometimes they are literally a death trap. You know, you've got like a guy in Crocs.
You know, he's covered in filth.

Speaker 1 He's got his elbows deep in the sparkler mix. Okay.
And he's like mixing it by a hand. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then he's doing some very dangerous like forging or something where it's like, he's got like a red horse poker. He's got...

Speaker 1 He's got a cigarette in his mouth, you know, over the top of this firework fucking pool. And then he's standing

Speaker 1 batteries and stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and his wife is there, and she looks just as bad, and she's like fucking carrying all these heavy metal. And the kids all have like three arms and five eyes, and

Speaker 1 exactly. And then they have, they put them all, you know, you think, oh, she's just going to feed these as an absorption.
No, no, no, she's like, dips them in one by one or whatever.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, give me a break. Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 half the comments are like, really interesting to see how fireworks are made. And it's like the other half of the comments are like, what the fuck is this?

Speaker 1 This is like, this is, how is this allowed? You know, the safety of this. And it's, it's, it, it blows my mind how much of these, how many of these factories are making stuff.

Speaker 1 And also the quality of it comes out at the end because you've got this filthy factory full of filthy people doing stuff in a terrible way.

Speaker 1 And the product at the end is this like pristine set of tennis balls. You know, it looks like,

Speaker 1 and you're like, how have they, how have they gone from this to this? Do you know what I mean? It is astonishing.

Speaker 1 But like, like a lot of the stuff that you buy in the, in the store, you know, you, you just assume because the packaging looks nice and it's it's presented nicely to you that uh, you know, these things are all being made in these really nice places, you know, state-of-the-art factories or whatever.

Speaker 1 100%. That's the juxtaposition.

Speaker 1 But it's uh it is seldom the case because it uh it saves them a lot of money by just getting a dude out in a field with his flip-flops on, risking his life every day to uh to make tennis balls.

Speaker 1 Uh, it costs far less than it would uh to do it properly. And just think he's made those tennis balls.

Speaker 1 More than half of the stuff that you buy comes from that rather than but then you know when they're playing tennis on the court, they always they'll give the tennis balls to the guy and he'll the player will look at a couple of them and just chuck a couple of them away like nah, that guy's slaved to make that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, do you think it breaks his heart every time one is thrown away? He's like, that was my finest work this morning. Throw it away like nothing.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I saw this thing and they were like, you know, hand making artisanal olive oil or whatever the fuck, right?

Speaker 1 And they had all these, they had this big pot in the middle and it was basically like two guys and they were, you know, filthy and the whole floor is all muddy and everything's filthy, of course.

Speaker 1 And it's on like a main road. It's like, there's like a really busy main road, like right next to where this is happening.
Okay. And they get like an oxen.
Okay. And he walks

Speaker 1 an oxen for real. And he walks in like circles around this thing, okay, for a bit.
And then the oxen gets tired. And because you can see it's like it pans forward.
And obviously the oxen's tired.

Speaker 1 So they put him to one side. And they have this little, what looks like a lawnmower replace the oxen, effectively.
And the lawnmower's like chunky, chunky, chunky. It's like

Speaker 1 vibrating like crazy. And it, you know, continues

Speaker 1 where the oxen was, grinding this olive oil up into nothing. And again, they get these beautiful, and they look like,

Speaker 1 handmade, handcrafted, small batch olive oil,

Speaker 1 extra virgin.

Speaker 1 And it's like, it just does not display the reality of where that came from no well you wouldn't buy it if uh it's got a beautiful picture on it of like a greek village do you know what i mean with like an old grand of course it does it's like oh my god

Speaker 1 squeeze these my hands it's like you would never buy those products if you knew where they were made or how they were made oh um like a vast majority of them that's we we live like

Speaker 1 we live these these conditioned lives where it's like don't don't ask those questions just buy this shit all the time all these things that you think you need i think what it's led to me thinking is just generally be horrified about the world that we live in but also you do sometimes see the opposite which is some absolutely clinically clean japanese sandwich factory or something making these japanese workers are creating lunches for the thousands of people in their town you know and they have this and they can tell that the cameras have been um you know told that they're coming around because they are absolutely odd there's not like every single thing dust in the whole factory it's like yeah you know, but you know that the action in reality that I think every food that's pub that's released can have like a maximum of one 10 thousandths of it can be insect parts.

Speaker 1 It does depend well country by country, the amounts, but yes, you have to allow for me.

Speaker 1 You're allowed a certain amount of insect parts per meal. It's like and rat feces.
You're allowed a tiny, a little, but there's a percentage. You're allowed a little snippet of rat feces.

Speaker 1 I think, in fact, the rules are so stringent because my partner's celiac, gluten is much more stringent than like rat feces or insect parts. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, we can all get them.

Speaker 1 The rules in that are much tied to them. I mean, I suppose.
So they can do it. That's the thing.

Speaker 1 They can make these things, you know, these gluten-free factories can make these things with very low amounts of

Speaker 1 wheat flour in, you know. Yeah.
But insect parts, much harder to reduce that. They're getting everywhere.
I mean, think how big a factory is. It is huge.
It's fucking huge. What?

Speaker 1 Every day you're going to say, right, break everything down and check for bugs. No, it's impossible.
Some of them are not. I'm not saying it's like it has to be like Nvidia's chip factory.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying, like, a little bit of fucking effort. There is effort.

Speaker 1 They've minimized it to the legal limits of cockroach markets.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just get it down your neck. Look, we're all still here.
It can't be that bad for you. I'm sure, you know, why don't we deal with microplastics before we deal with microplastics?

Speaker 1 There's extra pullings. I don't know what you're moaning about.
If you don't eat your cockroach buttocks, you'll grow up poor. I'll tell you that.
And your hair will fall out.

Speaker 1 Get some mug parched down your children.

Speaker 1 That's the old man I'd like to be at the park berating children, but with nonsense.

Speaker 1 You should all be eating more mosquitoes. I don't know what your parents are doing.
Just really lecture them about some nonsense. That would be fun.
I'll do that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like when they do a documentary on a,

Speaker 1 it's always British places that are like this.

Speaker 1 You know, they'll go into like an office or a factory and all of like the workplace safety stuff looks like it's from the 90s And they all have, especially offices, they all have those like airlock doors.

Speaker 1 Like they have, they probably have like 70% more doors than they need.

Speaker 1 You know, there's always like, there's like a straight hallway, but it'll have about six different airlock doors like going through it.

Speaker 1 And it's got all like the health and safety, the circles and the squares and stuff on it.

Speaker 1 It's all very British, isn't it? Like, you know, like it's, it never seems like

Speaker 1 modern or high-tech or pristine. It just always seems a little bit sort of like,

Speaker 1 oh, it's somebody's birthday. So there's cakes everywhere and stuff.

Speaker 1 It's always messy and just kind of a bit run down and shitty, but I don't know. I guess that's part of the charm too.
We've been

Speaker 1 just to chat. I just felt the subject had run out.
If you want to keep talking about it, I was just going to bring up something else. Oh, my God.
I've got loads more to say about this.

Speaker 1 No, I'm just joking.

Speaker 1 No, no, go. I felt that was a false stop.
That's it, yeah. Sorry, I completely ruined the whole conversation.

Speaker 1 I was just loading up. I was just loading up the Louis New Year.

Speaker 1 I was just going to talk about the fact that we've been trying out, we've sort of settled into a little groove of cooking more or less the same things every week. We'd mix it up.

Speaker 1 We'd maybe do one new thing. But in the last few weeks, we've been doing like four or five new recipes every week.
Nice. So we'll get, we're on the New York Times app, which is good for cooking.

Speaker 1 And so this week, we've done... Cumin beef and green bean stir-fry, which was really good.
Nice. Cheesy baked gnocchi with spicy tomato sauce.
That sounds good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Butternut squash pasta with bacon and parmesan, which was really nice. That sounds good.
And tonight it'll be a coconut chicken curry.

Speaker 1 Obviously, you could substitute meat for whatever you want in all of these recipes. And we're going one non-meat, one meat, one non-meat, one meat.

Speaker 1 So make sure that, you know, we don't just eat meat all the time. Okay.

Speaker 1 And I think that it's a lot of fun. And I would recommend

Speaker 1 cooking some more stuff that is this. That's today's shout-out.
Cooking. Porchetta beans recipe, for example.
Caramelized short pasta. That's great.

Speaker 1 Red curry lentils or sweet potatoes.

Speaker 1 Can I tell you something that may surprise you? Yeah. We cut up our old pumpkins and made homemade pumpkin soup with them.

Speaker 1 A classic.

Speaker 1 Last week. And it was.
I'm not a fan of pumpkin soup myself, but I do love

Speaker 1 making it. We put big croutons in the pumpkin soup and it made all the differences.

Speaker 1 Did you make the croutons yourself? No, those were store-bought. We did not make the croutons.
They are very easy to make if you ever wanted to. And you can make them massive.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 well i think we were just pleased that we actually made the pumpkin soup because we normally probably wouldn't but um but it was fun everybody everybody helped out with three kids three kids yeah

Speaker 1 yeah my youngest will make she will bake like she baked a cake the other day she just said can you pick me up uh some unsalted butter i need to bake this afternoon i was like cool come home give her the stuff and within a few hours bam she's got a cake she's iced i need to i need to bake she like she gets the she's like i'm baking i want to bake she finds it very relaxing nice she does Oh, fair enough.

Speaker 1 That's a good job. I think it's a good skill to have, like, to be able to bake stuff.

Speaker 1 The thing is, if you want to eat stuff like that, it's way better to make it yourself than if you have the time and the inclination to make it yourself than to buy it.

Speaker 1 Because all the other crap that is in this stuff normally, you know, it's better to avoid. So if you, if you're just making your own.

Speaker 1 um cakes or whatever and it's all ingredients that you've seen and touched and you know exactly what's in them and they're all like base ingredients it's got to be a lot better for you, right?

Speaker 1 In the long run? Yeah. No E-numbers and all that crazy shit that they put in all the sweets and cakes and stuff, you know, preservatives and all that.

Speaker 1 You can't beat a fresh cake, man.

Speaker 1 Like when they're still like a bit warm after they come out of the oven. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, baby. No, it is.
It's so good.

Speaker 1 It's the best. What about like a fresh banana bread that's just come out of the oven? Oh, like a banana bread.
Right. Yeah, to make, I used to make a banana blondie.

Speaker 1 Oh, which was it was a real baff to make. Stop if I haven't had breakfast.
He's getting. Oh, sorry.
Sorry.

Speaker 1 So we're going to get through this podcast. All right, Lulu.
So give us your news news.

Speaker 1 Lou's news today is scientists have discovered a new creature that exists in a third state between life and death. It's me in the morning.
Okay, so it's like a zombie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like that's me when I wake up. I think it's undead.
It's this idea that certain cells,

Speaker 1 when given nutrients, oxygen, electricity, or biochemical signals, have the capacity to transform into new organisms which exhibit new functions.

Speaker 1 Now, I feel like there's a little bit of this anyway, like with those

Speaker 1 stupid little sea monkeys and stuff, you know, they are basically. Stupid little sea monkeys.
Well, sea monkeys are like little praw, like really tiny little

Speaker 1 shrimps, aren't they?

Speaker 1 That when you dehydrate them, they kind of dry out but they are you're telling me that when you dehydrate the sea monkeys they dry out well that's crazy i think it maybe it's the eggs but something can last they're brine shrimp because they've they've they've kind of evolved to be in a river that might dry out

Speaker 1 sea monkeys are sold as eggs or temporary pools they're sold as eggs they're not just dried up creatures they're eggs yeah but the the eggs could survive for years i see um without you know dying i remember they used to be in comic books this is true the wikipedia article mentions you'd read an old Spider-Man and on one of the pages say send him for your sea monkeys now.

Speaker 1 And I was like, sea monkeys? I always blew my mind. And the illustrations of what they might look like were fanciful at best.

Speaker 1 Wildly lying would be another way of putting it. And I never got them, but what a boring toy to buy some prawn eggs or shrimp eggs and then watch them roll around.
I mean, how dull is that?

Speaker 1 Did you ever get, did you ever, speaking of toys, did you ever get the barrel of monkeys where they could all hook together?

Speaker 1 You can make like a big chain of monkeys yeah of course i wonder if they'd still have like buckaroo or something no you just made a big chain of monkeys like they have

Speaker 1 an arm above their head and an arm below and you could hook them up and make a chain you could make like a necklace of monkeys and stuff yeah yeah that was the whole we did use some of those in our games night toy story video actually as part of the set dressing because alex just bought up old that he got car boot sales to make the set you know i'm honestly i'm always impressed by how alex puts together these incredible sets that we have for games night with he must have such a lot of chunk in his house though oh my god just like box boxes of random crap and some sort of it's almost like a hoarder's mind he's like oh yeah box of barrel of monkeys i know exactly where that is and he's like you know runs rummages through and finds these things um so yeah next up google home oh my god actually did you see i ben linked me a thing the other day which freaked me out there's this like robot helper no

Speaker 1 no pikers in my house thank you um there's this robot helper? Horrible. All these robots that you see punch people in the nuts.
They freak out when they fall over.

Speaker 1 Well, here's the thing. This AI robot helper that's that's pitched as this thing that will help out old folks around their house.
Yeah, but killer. It actually is basically just

Speaker 1 a robot with a with a guy with a VR headset on driving it around from a computer. For real.
So it's not a robot.

Speaker 1 It's not AI or robot at all.

Speaker 1 It's basically a guy in a warehouse in probably India, you know, helping, you know,

Speaker 1 like looking around your parents' house, you know,

Speaker 1 helping them when they fall over and, you know, putting things away. Oh, that is, I cannot get on with that.
That's nuts. Just that idea, that frightening stuff.
Holy shit. Sorry.

Speaker 1 That was not one of the articles we have. That's Google Home.
Yeah. Apparently, is hallucinating fictional entities.
Excellent. So,

Speaker 1 okay. So a user's nest camera described an activity summary that said, Michael was taking out the trash, even though no one called Michael lives in the house.
Oh,

Speaker 1 creepy.

Speaker 1 When the user asked about it, Google's assistant replied that the Nest camera can identify faces even if you haven't explicitly named them.

Speaker 1 And it had spotted someone called Michael between October 26th and 27th. Jesus, that is pretty creepy.
Yeah. Here's something else for you.

Speaker 1 Have you guys got a Google phone? No. What have you got? I've got an old Nokia.
I've got a Samsung. No, but is it Android? Sorry.
I mean, I don't have Android.

Speaker 1 Okay. It is Android.
It'll work on Apple phone as well. If you click on the camera icon, bring up your gallery.

Speaker 1 I didn't know if you know you could do this. I didn't know you could do this.
And like, bring up your gallery of photos.

Speaker 1 And then, you know, when you click on the thing that shows you all the photos and collections you've got, and you can search there, if you type something in, it will find pictures that match your query.

Speaker 1 So type in like passport and it goes through your pictures and auto-finds everything. You don't have to have tagged it.
It just recognizes these passports.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like looked at the picture and determined. Like if I search for dog, it comes back with all the pictures I've got of Aggie and any other dogs I've taken pictures of, even videos.

Speaker 1 It just knows. Isn't that bonkers? Yeah, that's nuts.

Speaker 1 That is quite frightening. Like it just, it's just going through my pictures and trying to figure out what they are all the time.
Like it's got that info.

Speaker 1 Because I was in the pharmacist the other day. I had to pick something up.

Speaker 1 The guy needed some id because i was picking it up for my eldest not for myself and he said do you have a picture of your passport on your phone i was like i don't know i'd have to find it and he goes oh just search passport i was like come on i haven't i haven't named the picture because just do it and i did it and it popped up blew my mind i was like not even not only that but you can type like if you're taking a screenshot and you type in like a word like bank yeah or password it will show you every it will scan the pictures yeah for words that have password on them and it will bring those up It's crazy.

Speaker 1 It's nuts. But then he said to me, if you type wife, it'll come up with all pictures of your wife.
I said, what if I type wife and it comes up with a different women? And it did.

Speaker 1 I searched wife and it came up with a bunch of different women that I have pictures of

Speaker 1 my phone. Okay, so I just type wife and it said, which one's your wife? And it's come up with three pictures of me.
That's the top line.

Speaker 1 A picture of my current partner. Two pictures of my previous partner.
Hedgwin

Speaker 1 twice. Duncan once.
Boba once, Tommy G, my friend, Ozi, Ravs, my dad,

Speaker 1 my

Speaker 1 Duncan again, Spiff, Ozi again, Sarah from the office, Mango, Tommy G, Tommy G's partner, just put it on the bottom of the motherfucker, me again.

Speaker 1 Just say I'm married to every one of these people. Sparkles, my mum,

Speaker 1 Ravs, Duncan, me again.

Speaker 1 This is insane. I love this.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Pedgin's baby is on this list.

Speaker 1 Which one's your wife? Oh, yes. The one-year-old.
Yeah, don't say that.

Speaker 1 The FBI will turn up to your house immediately.

Speaker 1 Holy shit, the list just goes off. My nan,

Speaker 1 who's now sadly deceased. So it's just got all these pictures of people and it wants to know which one is your wife.

Speaker 1 They're all my wife.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're my wife now.

Speaker 1 It's also come up with some pictures from like Twilight Imperium cards of like the characters. It's like, yes, I'm married to, you know, the fucking

Speaker 1 queen of the robots. Jesus.
Anyway, that is the

Speaker 1 world we live in. It's mad.

Speaker 1 We have Iceland apparently now has mosquitoes, which is exciting news for them.

Speaker 1 They must be so annoying. They're one of the only areas in the world that was previously hadn't got any mosquitoes, but now it has

Speaker 1 Iceland. Iceland.
Is that because it's getting warmer there, or someone turned up with a jar of mosquitoes? I think both.

Speaker 1 Sir, do you have any mosquitoes in your luggage? No. Then they open the luggage.
Sir, why is there 7,000 jars of mosquitoes in your luggage? Who put those?

Speaker 1 Those are gnats. Oh,

Speaker 1 it's a sex thing.

Speaker 1 God, has anyone got a mosquito fetish? I really don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I reckon Quentin Tarantino probably has.

Speaker 1 Anyway,

Speaker 1 so who else we got? We got Waymo, which I don't know what that is. We don't have it here, but they.
Waymo. Waymo.

Speaker 1 They are, apparently we do have it here because they are launched a commercial robo-taxi

Speaker 1 in London

Speaker 1 in 2026.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 that's right. They're going to have robo-taxis in London.

Speaker 1 This time next year, P-Flex, you are going to be talking about how you're Waymo. Nope.
You Waymoed in. I'm going to Waymo over to see my friend.

Speaker 1 I think in previous episode, I might have spoken about the fact that eventually the dream is that nobody has to own a car and that you don't need to and there wouldn't be parking.

Speaker 1 Your road would be completely free of cars. Imagine that.
There would be no parked cars along the side of your road. You could have plants growing there.
Children could play in the road.

Speaker 1 That would be red. Wonderful.
Fantastic. When you need a car, you walk to the main road nearby and you signal, I need a car to take me from here to there.

Speaker 1 It pulls up, you get in, it drops you off, job done. And it would be much cheaper than car ownership.
There's no need for MOTs and taxes. It's all taken care of by these big companies.

Speaker 1 That was my dream. That was what I thought.
That would be fantastic. We'll cut down on so much electric cars.
Traffic is a thing of the past.

Speaker 1 There's no traffic accidents. These cars are perfect.
And then it turns out the people who are in charge of making this reality are fucking idiots. Yes.

Speaker 1 And they don't give a shit about any of the good stuff. They just want to rinse us for money as much as possible.
So it's going to be shit. So I'm not looking forward to it anymore.

Speaker 1 I was, but not anymore.

Speaker 1 Well, the thing is, like, oh my god, I don't know. Were you talking to me about China last week? I was talking to someone about China last week, and they just come back.
They've just come back.

Speaker 1 Very big country. Short name for a big country.
They like rice, and I understand also noodles.

Speaker 1 We have rice and noodles here. They won't buy our rice or our noodles.
We're going to make them buy them.

Speaker 1 We're going to make the Argentinian beef into rice, turn it back into a noodle, dress it up as a soybean, and fire it into space.

Speaker 1 That's

Speaker 1 So apparently everything obviously is controlled through WeChat. I don't know if you've heard of WeChat.
It's basically their WeChat, but also

Speaker 1 we do chat. We do.
WeChat. They have...

Speaker 1 It's basically their bank, also their Google Maps and everything. When I went to China for work, we had to install WeChat.
There was no other...

Speaker 1 It's like everything, the app.

Speaker 1 But one of the things that it does, which blew my fucking mind, was when you plan your route, like walking through the city, you can press on the app the buttons for the crossings.

Speaker 1 So when you get to the crossing, it's green. Fuck off.
Isn't that insane? That is kind of nuts. Yeah.
I think it's like... How are people so important these days?

Speaker 1 And in so much of a hurry that they need to have the traffic crossing.

Speaker 1 So you turn up somewhere a couple of seconds early before

Speaker 1 the walk sign is up and you think you got the whole thing to yourself and then suddenly there's just like this flood of people that turn up because they have

Speaker 1 perfectly.

Speaker 1 They've timed it perfectly. Yeah.
Oh, sir. That is so crazy.
Yeah, I hate that.

Speaker 1 Isn't that that's the kind of that's just one example of I was talking to my friend who's just been out there and that's just one example of the kind of shit that they just have got going and it's mental.

Speaker 1 So robo-taxis, I think, are much more likely to be taking shape out there than I saw a video of a robo-taxi that was stuck. Like it couldn't figure out where to go.

Speaker 1 And the people were in the back seat of this thing and it was just stuck

Speaker 1 behind a bus or something. No, it was just in the middle of the street holding it up.
And you can hear people beeping and honking. People get out of their cars and bang on the hood of the Waymo.

Speaker 1 Move your fucking car. People are like, We can't.
We're not in control of it. It's Waymo.
We're on the phone with them now.

Speaker 1 So you have to call up home base and be like, Your car is just fucking stuck in the middle of the road and it's not broken down. It just doesn't know what to do.
Please help. Man, I saw this morning.

Speaker 1 I saw a trade van trying to enter a parking lot, but it had one of those like height restriction, you know, like the flappy bit of metal with the flight restriction the height restriction.

Speaker 1 But he had a bunch of ladders on the roof of his of his truck. So he bashed into them.

Speaker 1 Probably didn't remember that he had them up there or whatever. And he couldn't get into the car park.
So there was all these cars behind him. And the car directly behind him started honking.

Speaker 1 Like they could see what was going on and they started honking. So this guy just gets out of his van.

Speaker 1 and starts walking over to the to the it was a it was a land rover behind him uh and as there's there's a woman in there was was just honking her horn, and he's like, What the fuck do you want me to do?

Speaker 1 Like, what, like, how are you helping right now? It was so funny. Like, he just he looked uh like just not even slightly disturbed by the fact that somebody was honking.

Speaker 1 Like, if somebody's honking at me, I'd be like, Oh my god, I'm so stressed out, somebody's honking at me, or whatever. This guy must get honked all the time.

Speaker 1 He's just, he gets out and he's just like, What? Like, what the fuck do you want me to do?

Speaker 1 Like, he was just like, he just didn't give a and then he was just taking his time getting his ladders off and everything it was it's pretty good actually that's uh i i feel like it's a good way of dealing with uh with hawkers and finally in um more successful content creator news mr beast yeah

Speaker 1 mr beast i don't know him he just seems like a cunt carry on he seems awful but he's basically taking the next step towards being a billionaire because he's wonderful he's he's he's starting his own bank right wasn't he already wealthy though before he started like wasn't there enough he's already needs more i think he's already a billionaire on paper but he's he's because i'm sure that he used to this was the guy before he was known he would um he became known for being for donating like big

Speaker 1 amounts of money to people on streams and stuff like that and that's kind of how he built up his you know uh is he really only gotta spend money to make money he's he has that one smile smile right like he just has one terrible that weird one smile he's only two you've gotta respect that he's he's joining the game playing the game right with all these other mega cunts around the world he's becoming one of them he's he's setting up like a mobile phone service because ryan reynolds has got a phone service called mint mobile right yeah because they're not rich enough they need more money and so the way to do that is to make a business and make even more money and then you can become a complete cunt he's a cunt but he's but obviously he's got the ghost restaurants feastables the lunchly thing

Speaker 1 um all of his all of his like tv show stuff like and and he's gonna make a a fuck the fintech bank good on him but you know what take it to the take it to the man um you know i'd rather have mr beast than jeff bezos and elon musk he's just another one of them wouldn't you yeah

Speaker 1 he's just the next in line really isn't he yeah it's just it's just like a fucking if these are the these are the moves he's making he's making i reckon

Speaker 1 he's making moves no he looks creepy but he might be all right. I've not met him.
I don't know. You're hedging your bet in case Mr.
Beast is. Well, he does play one of the board games I've played.

Speaker 1 There you go. You might have Mr.
Beast.

Speaker 1 Maybe this is a fan of Dune Imperium. This is you.
Maybe this is. I feel like a fan of Dune Imperium can't be that bad.
Really? Then again, maybe Zuckerberg plays. He might be a hot coner.
I take it.

Speaker 1 Zuckerberg plays Civ, mate. Isn't he like the best in the world at it? Self-claimed,

Speaker 1 self-proclaimed.

Speaker 1 But, you know,

Speaker 1 that's our podcast. Fuck me.
What a time we live in. It's good, isn't it? You're great.
What a world we live in. Wonderful.
There you go. That was some podcast.
Thank you for joining us, everybody.

Speaker 1 God, what a great podcast. Thank you so much, as usual, and see you next time.
Love you.

Speaker 1 Bye.