JAR Media Posdact - BAMA FOREVER

Episode Date: May 18, 2026

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Hey, so Alex here, I've never had to do this before, but I thought it wouldn't be right not to give a warning that a section of this episode does contain discussions around suicide. We know it can be distressing, so if you're not in a place to hear that right now, feel free to skip the episode or use the time codes to skip over that segment. If you need support, free and confidential help is available 24-7. In the UK, you can call Samaritans at 116, 123 in the US. Call or text 988. Full resource links are in the show notes.

The whiplash and the tone flips in this episode is quite something, so just be prepared for that. And it's not about any specific jar member, it's about someone you guys don't know, but Jim and I do know. Okay. Does it look cool when I have it like this? Hello! Yeah, you kind of look like a pimp. That's usually what I'm going for. Yeah, you look like a pimp.

That's what I'm trying to be. But except, take the word P-I-N-P and do it backwards. P-M-E-M-P. P-M-M-P. I see myself as more of a PNIP type guy. I permit you to have a good time. You'll permit to have an amazing opportunity off-screener. You're an opportunity off-screener.

What's this off-screener doing around here? Hey, I'm off-screen gym. What happened to airport gym? Airport gym had it on sabbatical. Oh. This is cool. This is like your whole, like, Randy.

I woke up this morning and had an idea for a new, like, character to be, but I forgot. I didn't write down, so I can't be him. Shit. So it's your, yeah. Yeah. It's your mantle now of responsibility. Yeah. Take the battle of responsibilities, please.

With great power. Comes a lot of responsibilities, dude. Don't you feel a certain power, though, when being off-screener? In a sense, yeah. I'm kind of... You're a Karcha. I'm a Karcha. I'm Karcha Jim.

Hello, I'm Karcha Jim. Do you want to hear my impression of Karcha Jim? Sure. Hello, I'm Karcha Jim. I'm Jimmy Carter. Who's that? Who's that comedian? Jimmy...

Neutron. No, he's... Jimmy Saville was pretty funny. Saville. Like, I'm the gin flavor. God. Good afternoon, morning, evening or night. Lady and gentlemen.

I'm off-screen gym, isn't it? We've got off-screen gym here. Yes. And I'm on-screen Alex, unfortunately. Why, unfortunately? Because I kind of thought being off-screen was my thing, but it's fine. You've been usurped. This is broadcast.

Season 7, episode 19. What did I know? Did you know the name Jamie? means usurper. Really? Yeah. So it's only going to destiny. It's interesting, because you've got the name of like a king, like Alexander the lion.

And I've got the name of someone of like the one he's like the rat. Alexander. I'm like the Peter Pettigree fucking worm tongue like. I just I just remember I got to do a little sight gag for a minute. Okay. Sorry audios. Wee. Sorry, audios.

You normally get it good. That was fucking cool. Audios, just go and watch that bit. Yeah, just that one bit, okay? Yeah. Then you can go back. That's fine. We got a few things to talk about today.

Really? No. We do, but first, we got a shout at the patrons over the Jammedia Patreon. I love them. I love them. I actually want to marry all of them I want to keep them in my wardrobe I want to keep their skins

Oh creepy I want to keep their skins in my wardrobe In their flesh in my friezy Jesus Christ Well they make the show an audio version possible You can get the raw unfiltered MP3 Over on Patreon Add free

Chuck it on Spotify Or whatever RSS feed host of choice you enjoy That's not all there You get your patron names right out in the first or second week of each month, if it's itchy enough. If you're a dibby tier or above. Also, if you're a dibby tier or above, you get to be at the top floor. Why is it, why is there a thing in my head that's telling me that it's sandy tier above? Would we change it?

I thought it was always debby. Yeah, maybe. You've always said dibby. Maybe. I'm so full of burgers. I don't even know what's happening. Yeah, he's drunk on burgers. I got those burger sweats.

Yeah, I hear that. Yeah, that is also not all, though. You get the jafter hours accessed. Criky. Supplemental weekly show and just a smorgasbord of delicious treats to enjoy. For as little as one pound, by the way. Wow. What can you get for one pound in this economy?

Yeah, actually, genuinely. Yeah. Like a bag of jams is more than a pound now. Um, well, you're going to be cancelled for calling them that now. Now they're called, um, small people, gems. Um, what we got over there last week, we did, um, ah, a big one, spies and disguise explained. Um, we wanted to try something a little bit different with some of the, like, it wasn't an as they say type situation with like a media breakdown. It was a bit more like, a bit more like, let's say, academic than, as they say.

We'll try and be a bit more timely because we've been working on this one since, um, 2019 right when it came out yeah um it's been tinkered on yeah we'll try and be a bit more timely with the next um explained yeah do you want to tease what the next explained is going to be um i i think uh i think people could figure it out um there are clues it's yeah let's just say they're clues yeah there's a week in in a yeah yeah there are clues they're a sort of um Star Warsy including But if spies in disguise is somehow not up your alley There's the Jark Raiders video

Invincible Season 4 as they say The Planet Sounds guessing game As well as many many others trying to read Rugrats theory Hell divers feet Logan Yeah that was a good one Billy's Paisley's chance Paisley's chance And last one at least the Jarmedia group chat

It's a group chat We can leave suggestions for housekeeping and the question segment at the end. And to argue over which section of the wardrobe you'd like your skins in. Yeah. I don't know how I feel about off-screen gym. I have a feeling is going to be controversial. Really?

Yeah. People want to see your face, though. People don't want to... Yeah, they want to rank the eras of your face, you know? Right, yeah, yeah. No, I feel... I'm feeling a certain... Court diage.

Ha! Ha! Um, my favorite is, um, when we're in the forest. What? What? In corncast, you know? In the forest, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. We should, um, anyone who wants it, um... Who wants it? Yeah, who wants us to do a full play through of the forest? Um, comment. One or two? One. Right.

We got to play through the classic. The classic, yeah. Yeah, um, comment, uh, scree, scree, if, uh, you want us to do that. If there are more than how many screws, then, then how many do they need to get? How many screes do we need to, to, to, to like, green light it? Ooh. What do you think? How many, a hundred, a hundred screws would require, that's how much would be required.

Yeah. Okay. Also, what's, um, what's the temperature on people wanting, gummy guys. People seem to like gummy guys on the Patreon. Really? People into gummy guys. Yeah.

Because that's a potential. I'm mega down to do guys for the record. I'm willing to spend too much money on all gummies and find out. So let's do some housekeeping then. We round off conversations from the previous week. I'll start off with this one from Dylan, from the group chat, saying, I know you guys not knowing any of the memes on that 2020. What is wrong with me?

2026? Yeah, you're obsessed. You're a guinea. I'm accidentally just like, I'm just sucking cocks. I mean, I'm just being normal. 2026 list is just the result of getting older. Like, imagine trying to explain to a YouTube poop. No.

Imagine trying to explain a YouTube poop to a 30-year-old when you're a teenager or any other meme where there isn't inherently anything funny without broader internet. culture context. That's not true. That's a lie. You're lying. I may physically be 32, but mentally I'm what, like 10, 11. So I should be able to understand this. Which meme are we talking about? You know, we were trying to, there was that comment that was like, where are the good 2026 memes? Oh, right, yeah. Like there used to be, you know, you know, like that frog. The good old days. Like the crazy frog. No, that other frog, you know. Peep. No, not Pepe.

No, that other one It's like You know when things were innocent And cringy What frog is all you are like I don't know The one that the The grey ape got

The great The gem No not that Flash frog No not flesh frog Frog light No Yeah you can't search frog meme

Because just Pepe comes up That's not who I meant I don't know I can't remember these cringy memes You're being insane You're being crazy You're being crazy You're being an insane person right now.

You're insane. You're in pain. I can tell by what you're saying. See, if I understand that, why do I not understand? There's something universal, though, about the Dax Joker. There is something true, though, I guess what they're saying about being old and chopped, because one of our cousins, like, some of the things she whips out, are just like, want to try that again? What did you say? I understand everything, though.

Yeah, I understand everything. I feel like, like, you know when you're not supposed to, like, get it. Like, the one I just showed you with, like, Young Sheldon clip. Yeah. But sometimes the lack of humor is the joke. Yeah. It's so beyond irony poisoning that it's like, it's like apathy poisoning. Like, yeah.

We're getting zero nourishment from our humors. And there's no... That's why we're listening to the comedy tuition podcast. And the, yeah. And the joke is that there's no... up or punchline. Yeah. Yeah, real.

The joke is kind of that there's no joke to be found. Yeah. Yeah, and like latching onto things. There's always a latching onto of like... There's normally a latching and then a suckling. Yeah. Like, um... Did you know when anglerfish mate, the male just gets like absorbed into the female's body?

Oh, I know about it. It's weird. Yeah, they just become like a... little dingle. Yeah. A little cum dingle. Yeah. Like they're literally, they're like tiny and they just attach to the big anglerfish and just

come endlessly. I think there's some dudes that like, that's their dream. Yeah. I mean. Could be worse, I guess. Yeah, could be way. That's, that's probably better than being like a praying mantis and getting that end. You nut once and just get killed.

Decapitated. You get your head fucking eaten. Why do bugs be doing that? Like black widows as well. Oh yeah, they do, aren't they? They just, they're just built different. Yeah. They're hungry, I guess.

They get hungry. My wife, when she be hungry. I went and got a Sammy's like cabb the other day. Yeah, nice. And there was like a bug flying around outside of it. And I was like waiting for it. Like, please fly into my rap. Really?

You wanted it. I wanted it as an extra little, like a freebie. Yeah. What sort of bug was it? I couldn't tell. A may bug. A may bug. They're fucking giant and kind of scary.

Yeah, it argues it on one of those. Yeah, you crunched it. Well, mix salad in so... That was a really good, like, sand Minecraft sound of folk, by the way. Like sand. Gravel. You know when you break gravel? Oh, yeah.

Like, spot on. That was weird. It was like... It was an old episode of... jar was, I can't remember who it was, did a perfect impression of the Skyrim, you know, drinking gulp. Yeah, because James used to have that colleague that would always Skyrim gulp, like, he couldn't control it, and he said it really pissed him off. That would bids me off, do you? Yeah. But it made me kind of self-conscious about gulping ever now. I've always been self-conscious about the

noises I make. Yeah. Yeah, me too, especially when, like, eating. Yeah, eating's a big one. If you're in a quiet environment, like cinema, timing it with loudness. Then you always time it wrong and crunch, right? Yeah. Surprise silence. Yeah. I remember in school, we were doing an exam. And I was like so socially anxious to the point where like I didn't want to cough.

And I had a cough like building. And I was trying to like hold it in. And this is an experience I've never felt since because like who holds in a cough? But it got to the point where I couldn't anymore, but I was still like trying to hold it. And I ended up just making like a way more embarrassing sound. I was like, and then like a few people around me started like laughing and trying not to laugh. And it was just like the worst fucking thing. That's awesome.

Yeah. Like in looking back at it now, it was funny. But at the time I was like, yeah, there was something about Yikusam Hall. sound thing. Yeah. And like an animal would like to start doing something like a pigeon would just be like

being really annoying. Yeah or like the school rats would start like it's gathering around the vents. There's another rat or by leg. Moose the rat feces is dropping out of the air vents again. I have a really embarrassing story of that. I remember like it was right as an exam wrapped up.

Yeah. Like, I had like a boner. I was like, fuck. Yeah. Like, I've got to like stand up in a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Luckily, I just did the, um, the classic, like, pocket flick up. Yeah.

That's clutch. Yeah, that's clutch. Yeah, that's clutch. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, crazy. Like, when you're that age, like, like, when you're that age, like mid to late secondary school age, you're getting boners just non-stop.

It's a actual problem. It's a nightmare. And they're always trying to get you to do like shit in front of the class. Yeah. All right. Now stand up. Make sure your groin is on full display and give a presentation about something. And every time without fail you'll have a big fat.

Yeah. Give a presentation about sex. Yeah. Oh god Yeah horrifying But Mick Saladin said Dunk your Mars bars in a tin of beans

For the true taste of Swindon Okay Your what in a tin of beans Blocked Good I don't know why I screenshot that one Instant blocked Instant blockage

Block him You don't You don't one Says the Jara Day helps you work rest and rank Block. Yeah, blocked. Jartism says,

is nobody going to address that Alex said he's never appearing on camera again and yet here he is. In the airport flesh? Unsubscribe, I hate liars. Alex isn't airport. I'm not airport. I was cabby, I thought.

Cab? I'm cabbyale. You're cablix. Cabial. Hey, I'm cabial. I only ride with cabial. Fuck you. I won't fucking ride with.

your cab, I'll ride with cabial. That sounded like Jesse Ventura. Suck my fucking balls. Hey, look who it is. Airport meal. Hey, it's a pub meal.

Um, the Koisak says, I work as a content creator for a local business. And straight after listening to the previous episode on my commute, my boss sent me off to ask people on the streets to rank

prime ministers. What a day to spend my shift ranking and asking others to rank. That's quite nice. Quit your job. No, that sounds like a good job. Ranking prime ministers. Or try and get promoted to full-time ranker. Isn't that what like watch Mojew are?

Yeah, I guess. You were jealous of them. That's why you went after them. They've been crashing out recently. Really? Yeah. Has someone else gone for them? Yeah.

Hey. It's just. Someone made like a watch mojo is... The failure of... The downfall of watchmojo. The fall off. Yeah, that kind of thing. Oh, watch mojo is falling off.

Falling off is like such a fucking weird concept. Like... Yeah, it is weird. But it's kind of used like crashing out when it's like... Yeah. It's so widely applied that it doesn't mean anything. Yeah. You know?

Um, oh, Kno K says, I want to leave a comment, but I'm terrified of being blocked. Well, just write a good comment then. Unlike you have, block him. Yep. You know that was common. Um, and redacted's witness replied to that saying, this cast is now too far gone. They tell you when to rank, when to comment, when to find the recent meme funny, which jarlings are good and which are evil. Though with the bands, can anyone name a jarling that isn't evil? pretty soon they'll be banning ranking the say they banned redacted

the same way they banned redacted and add in an applause sign in the set for good measure soon we'll all be hearing as the sounds of dead men's laughter that's what they want your complete submission and conformity rise up jarling revolt and free redacted

and the others who have suffered along the way grow up genuinely grow up generally grow up and get blocked you got blocked F off and get blocked F word The Joker but more funnier said

I think they genuinely should have added a scene in the Mandalorian where Luke tells the Mandalorian about how he once knew a guy who looked like this green child quote he looks like Yoda except as a baby some kind of baby Yoda perhaps

end quote and just refer to him like that from then on they should have had dead shot show up in Star Wars and he goes What's this? Some kind of baby Yoda? I think the movie would make at least an easier

100 to 2 million more if it had baby Yoda in the name because nobody has any fucking idea who the Mandalorian and Greg are. Real. Real. What about Rotter? Rotter's going to bring the bucks. Rotter explained coming soon. Would you still go to the cinema if you could buy tickets with V-Bucks? Yes. I'd prefer it that way.

How much V-Buck do you have? A few thousand? Really? I've got more Microsoft points. Really? Yeah. You can only buy like a thousand Microsoft points, but a cinema ticket costs 800 points. Yeah, yeah.

You know? Yeah, I hear you. So you've always got a little bit of change. Hooper said, Alexander, forgetting the name of the library of Alexander is weak. Yeah, that happened last episode. I was like, what's that famous library again? Alexander, what's that famous library? Not sure.

Yeah, and then I started having crazy concepts, crazy ideas. Concepts? Yeah. I was imagining like, what if, like, Randy or someone, like, a clone of me was born with all of the knowledge of what was lost in the Library of Alexander and it was like his mission

to try and get out of his head and convince people it was real but what was in there is so like unhinged right you know but it's all facts but it's all actually real right what would be the craziest thing um

well Billy just smacked her little brain alien robots confirmed right yeah you know from what people Period. They built the pyramids. People actually believe that. Yeah. Isn't that right? Do I look like a Bond villain now?

You look like an Egyptian worshipping your friend. Boing. I learned why cats are not liking water all that much sometimes. But she's obsessed with water. No, but they don't like it on them. Oh. Because like cats like this, like this type of cat, as in like,

Domesticated house cats come from deserts. So they haven't, like, got programmed in, like, water survival. Waters. Yeah, so it makes them panic when they go in water. And their fur isn't, like, you know, like a dog. It's designed for them to, like, shake it out. Yeah. Cats don't have that.

So that it, like, slows them down. It makes them cold because they're really sensitive to cold. Make some stinky. I just thought it was like a sensory thing so weird about it. Well yeah, it's sensory. Yeah. It's um, but like that's why they haven't evolved to be goaded at music, water style. We like water.

Um, Crash Punk says commenting for I get blocked. You're very lovely and enjoy whatever this is. Blocked. Yeah, what a fucking kiss us. Yeah, kiss asses get blocked. Yeah, kissers fucking grow up. Also haters get blocked. Yeah, haters obviously get blocked.

gaming Scudley says I've worked in science my whole life and so many of my peers along the way have loved the big bang theory recently I got curious and asked my colleague why and their response was they're just like us I went home and cried myself to sleep I blame that show and myth busters creating a performative wacky scientist of for creating a lot of them why are you lumping mythbusters in with who think it's cool to act like toddlers because we're in science and science is cool. I felt like an Oppenheimer in the Big Bang theory world. You're an asshole. Block him. Yeah. Oh, can't have joy. Can't enjoy funny comedies about Big Bang theories. If we can't enjoy reference humor, what's left? Yeah.

This reminds me of the time, Deadpool made a funny science gag. It's not like we can exactly criticize. It's making reference humor. What do you mean? They don't make me block you. trolls don't get blocked I might be on a bit of a block frenzy if you just leave some feedbacks about how we're taking the blocking too far and we'll go from there yeah more block from there

Omni says Misinformation Jim back at it again Actually Vampire bats drink blood exclusively but they do not suck it Like fictional vampires instead They use sharp teeth and make a small incision on sleeping prey and then lap up the blood with their tongues aided by anticoagulants in their saliva to help keep the blood flowing so they just go

ASMR lick video hey I'm a vampire bat over here just gonna make two small incisions with my anticoagulant kind of thing Anticoag Listen admit you're wrong you're gonna get blocked son Vampire bats don't consume blood. It is propaganda. What do they eat then? Berries? They actually just eat like raspberries and people thought They're drinking us! They have like curry in that.

Curry? Yeah, they're like um tandoori curry. Red, so they get like red on round their mouths. Ticamasa. Yeah, sometimes. They get red round their mouths and people are like, oh shit, they've been drinking blood. So they get the most basic order? Well no, they've, it's each of their own type shirts. For each bat has a different one which is like a bit more like it's a bit more flavor.

He's the kind of leader one that gets the Jail Frazy. The follower gets like a cormer and then the one who's kind of like that edgy like doesn't follow the orders gets to Vindlea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

What about the one who says like surprise me? Ooh, the wild card. Wild card bat. I go for the Bombay Dream normally. Really? This is a Bombay dream right here. Yeah, that is a Bombay dream. Yeah, it's a Bombay!

Um, and last one for this side went from Warlock Wabit. I don't get why Jarl blocks people when they can stead parry to both block and deal posture damage. You get parried. I'm not gonna block them, I'm gonna parry them. Um, I'm gonna range attack them. I'm going to use... Frostbite. You're fucking pissing me off today,

dude. You're fucking annoying the shit out of me, motherfucker. You're annoying me as fuck today. You're fucking getting on my fucking nerves. Everybody around me pissing me off non-stop today. Just a heads up in case you missed the warning at the beginning. The next segment does contain a discussion about suicide. If you'd prefer to skip that part, use the time code that's on screen now or look in the description for way you can skip past it. If you need support, help my numbers are on screen and in the description. Thanks. Yeah, terrible week. It's been an atrocious week. It's been a fucking shite week, to be fair. Like an actual, like, legendaryly bad week for me. Really?

Yeah. Why? You had a lovely day yesterday. I did yesterday. Well, there's a good week then, aren't it? Yeah, but I had to take steps for that to be a good day, you know what I mean? Mm. Tell me about it.

What's up with your week? What's the first thing that went wrong? I don't know how to make this funny. It's too fucked up. It's actually too fucked. Preface it with something funny. I don't know how. With this subject matter.

What subject matter? What do you mean? What subject matter? The thing that's made my last week awful. Tell us! I wasn't sure whether to actually bring it up or not. Really? But there is, I think there's something valuable about it, actually. Okay. We can always, um, can be learned from.

Snip it out in, in, in, yeah. I guess, um, I, I found out that, like a childhood friend of mine, had lost his life in a really fucked up way. Um, yeah, not funny. Yeah, there's no way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, this, I mean, in a, in a sense, this was last week, right? Being last weekend. Yeah, that's what I'm meaning from going like, like, it's a Friday to day. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, you threw me out. Otherwise, I wouldn't have, like, prefaced it the way I did. Oh, right. I would have been like, oh, yeah. Make it hilarious. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, so I kind of sidest wiped me in a way. I wasn't anticipating. this is someone you knew to a long time ago yeah yeah and yeah I don't really know I wasn't sure what to expect

the idea of like a memoriam to somebody so it wasn't a funeral was it no yeah memoriam specifically a memoriam um

organized by his father um and yeah I guess it really affected me and I don't know Am I being too vague? Does it make What have I said?

I've said this I've like talked to so many people about this Yeah you don't know over the past week I'm not sure What's Appropriate Or not I suppose

We could say trigger warning Yeah Like it's really dark and horrible And And I don't know. There's something about, I mentioned like last year,

our granddad kind of passed away. And that was one thing. But that, I don't know, it's like an 80-something-year-old man. Yeah, dying. He's like, lived a full life. There's something different about that,

the way that sits. Yeah, there's... To appear. Someone who's actually... younger than me, a couple months younger. Yeah. And just the nature of that experience. And I guess what I want to say is more that like if there's someone you've like

drifted apart from or wish you'd kept up with or something or because I had this fantasy of like, oh yeah, we'll like reconnect at some point. but then you just kind of put it in the back of your mind and just get distracted by other things. Just do it, just reach out because you don't know what's going to happen and you will regret it. Yeah, genuinely.

Something, a quote I always remember learning from one of my teachers at school and I'm sure I've said it on the cast before but it's regret what you do, not what you don't do. So it's like you're, you're always going to be better off going out on a limb and like,

like you said, just do it. Like Nike said, just do it. Yeah. Because shit happens and you won't expect it. Yeah.

And then you don't have the option to just do it, you know? Mm-hmm. That option's gone forever. that. Yeah. And I don't know. Yeah, it did get to me just with like, I don't know, anyone who's like struggled with like mental health stuff.

It just kind of hurts to empathize with people going through so much like pain that like you never knew. Yeah. Or like someone you least expected. You know what I mean? That kind of... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Charging it that way. This has been such a tone flip.

This is fucking insane. But I did kind of want to mention it because... No, no, you're right to do you say. Yeah. Especially with the way, like, dudes are socialized to just, like, internalize everything. 100%. For, like, I don't know to what end. Like, no one is a monolith.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, um... we we're because over the past couple years i've kind of um been learning to like embrace my emotions instead of like running or bottling yeah trying to act like like i'm bigger than them um and it's like this you need to like re-educate yourself on what you you kind of need to man is. Yeah, you can't need to like reprogram yourself in a way. 100% because I, I valued and thought like stoicism, um, in the more modern sense, not the like classic philosophy. Yeah, not what it actually means. Yeah, um, of just like, um,

you know, I'm, I'm impenetrable to, you know, if, if, if you're upset, then you're, you're, you're being like radical. You're, you're not thinking straight. You're not like, like, Like, um, like this, this obsession I had with like logic and intelligence being something that, like, Spock trying to. Yeah, that like overrules an emotion. Whereas I think to be, um, roundedly intelligent, you do need to, um, listen to your emotions. They exist for a fucking reason. Yeah, you're like a human being. Yeah.

Um. Unless you're like a sociopath, whatever, and actually you don't. Yeah, yeah. Actually, I read a thing saying that this is like a, we don't need to stay on this through very long. But the, um, apparently like, you know, people have this impression that psychopaths don't feel certain things. Apparently it's been like discovered that they do feel it, but they just aren't bothered by it or they like it in some way. Really? Yeah.

That's scary. But point being that it's like, you can't really fight your physiology. and even the people that do like perform like they're a brick wall there is something being chipped in like a subconscious or it might manifest in a weird physical thing or like yeah there is

there's a lot going on with that if you were there's a lot going on baseline if you're like a if you express your emotions on a in a happy not happy balanced way um let alone if uh you don't you know what to do with them. Yeah.

Or how to express them or what. Yeah, because like everything get siphoned typically as men into like anger. Everything gets like concentrated into that and you can do that. You're allowed to fight. You're allowed to fight and you're allowed to laugh. Punch and laugh. Punch and laugh. That's about.

And drink. Yeah. That's the range. Unless that when you drink, then you're allowed to have a silly emotion as long as you like apologize for it the next day. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have memories that you like, that keep your wake at night. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It ruins your life. Yeah, that is a weird cultural thing where it feels like the only time people can be honest is when like the drinks are come out. Yeah, yeah. It's unfortunate. But it just takes your guard down a little bit. Definitely.

Yeah, and I don't know, just weird feelings of like, like guilt or, um, a guilt that it shouldn't, well, that somehow that my reaction to it shouldn't, isn't valid in comparison to, like, other people or, um, I don't know, just that ridiculous comparison game of like, Just because it's not blank, doesn't make it valid or whatever. But I think the truth is you don't really know how these things will hit you until you're kind of in it.

Yeah. You can do it you can to kind of mentally prepare, but a concept of something is different than actually being and doing or being in it. Definitely. So, yeah, I don't know what I'm trying to say except. Don't sit on things. Yeah. I think it's good to always try and be more open. I think openness and vulnerability ends up making you less vulnerable and more secure.

Yes, ironically makes you stronger to be vulnerable. 100%. Because if you open yourself up to other people, They open themselves up to you and you as a unit You know you you um ape strong together Yeah I don't know I just find With the nature of what happened to him Some people can be like judgmental or lack compassion

Um Because for so long it's been considered a sin or a or somehow selfish. Yeah. I think people can context clue what I'm talking about. Yeah. But I think that's horseshit. Yeah. I don't think it's as simple as that.

No, of course not. I think, yeah, you can be irrational or mentally unwell. Yeah, I mean, you have to be in such a... The level of like discomfort or pain. Yeah, of daily suffering to see that as the answer. Yeah, and something the... That's something I'm struggling with is like this idea of making it about me somehow, but... When...

I think we have a question later about the concept of journaling. I went through a phase of journaling. a phase of journaling and something that made me realize was that if I was journaling in a bad mood and then reread something that I'd written when I was in a bad mood when I'm in like a normal state yeah I was like whoa this that that's not accurate yeah it might have felt like that at the time of like writing yeah yeah yeah in it but like with a more objective um look at it it's something different so i had a similar thing um i've i've got this like journal that i've written bits in and i was reading stuff from it um from like a year ago like two winters ago

or something um and i was like who the fuck wrote this yeah because i totally forgotten like what i'd written and stuff and i was like yeah yeah but it's it does in the moment it seems like It's real. It's your reality. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know. People are just really good at beaten on themselves. Also in not showing it as well.

Yeah. Really good at like masking or hiding it. But as another like thought exercise, if you like personified your like negative thought patterns into someone that was like saying that to you as like another person saying it to you, you would want nothing to do with them. Yeah.

And he wouldn't allow them to do that to you. So why do you let yourself do that? Yeah, and why do so many of us do it? Inately? Yeah, I don't know. It's like a, it might be like an empathy thing, like a, I don't know, like an imbalance or something. I don't know. I don't have the answers, I'm afraid, to everything.

I just know, um, you're not alone. that's a good song yeah wonderful but yeah not to like kind of sap the energy out of the room

but um no these topics do need to be yeah it definitely need to be talked about it's sapped my motivation

from like last week or something right um because yeah I don't know just like talking to all these people and faces

I hadn't seen all these memories unlocking and like yeah especially when it's like these romantic like childhood memories that they're not even necessarily romanticized they actually were like

goated yeah they were fucking goated a goated time to be alive like a goated time to be alive like goaded experiences like a real like innocent um like lovely part of my life and yeah through these discussions i've uh i went through some old school books because i've like obsessively kept like all of it um partially because that's what i do in school is just like draw so I'd kept them all as like all my drawings. And there was like a, it was thanks to him actually that was like partially like a proto jar concept.

We had this like idea for like a media company called like Bama. Oh really? Which was the same thing of like combining our names. Yeah, yeah. Like media association. Because when, the memoriam there was like a letter that he sent his dad that was like along with all the

pictures and stuff and there was a doodle in the corner of one of the pages saying like uh bama that's ringing about bama ink forever and it was like whoa fuck holy shit and then yeah when i was going through all my school work i found a drawing i'd done with the same thing on it yeah um but just completely memory hold it because it was so long ago yeah um that's incredible And yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like an important part of my DNA. Yeah. You should start that company.

Yeah. Yeah, Peter Thiel could fund it. It could be like a... Yeah. I don't know much more to say, except, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, reach out if you need to. Yeah, that's difficult.

Yeah. Can't always trust your read on things. how do you mean like what I was saying about the journal like yeah right my read on yeah

I don't know yeah you don't know when you're going to go out of a rut or equally into one yeah yeah exactly

um so yeah I guess we'll see after these messages with some stuff a little bit more peppy I think they're going to be the rankers right

right right straight to the rancas head oh god but you do have to laugh Rankers on

PS5 out now PlayStation on on the money This is wild. Maybe I should call this episode Bama Forever. Yeah. Because at the

Memorial, they had this like book that they were passing around where you could like write a, like a message. Yeah. And that's what I put as mine. I was like I did a doodle with the Bama Forever thing. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah.

So sorry if this is like a one of those whiplash episodes. You don't need to apologize. But, I don't know. It's about our life's in part. Yeah. And what we're feeling at the... And 100% somebody listening to has been affected by something similar. 100%.

To know one isn't alone in that is comforting sometimes. But let's, yeah, let's do some questions then. From the JAR community, head over to the suggestion thread. over on the subreddit if you want to leave questions for future episodes not uh slash fnaf please um oh this is kind of uh actually on topic from dream house sorry this has been asked sorry if this has been asked before but what's the last time a film or any piece of media emotionally wrecked you something that stuck with you long after you finished it i watched portrait of a lady on fire the other day and I felt genuine anguish by the end but I'm so glad I watched it beautiful film

P.S. Do something just absolutely crazy Jim please and thank you. Don't tell me what to do. Great film portrait of a lady on fire. Is it? Yeah. Rings a bell. Emotional. So when I found out about this I actually music is a big one for me.

For this I just made a playlist called Sad. and just put a bunch of like sad songs in it um i don't know why i like doing that if i'm in like a when you're sad you want to listen to sad shit yeah because there is something like therapeutic or um about it 100% so like get it out that way yeah because it did actually feel good to do that I've got to build this up some more because I was driving home from seeing grandma yesterday and a low-roar song came on. Yeah. Fuck, and it was, yeah, it was- Which one? You know of his last album?

Yeah. That's just how it goes. It was that song. Yeah. And I was like, fuck. I was going to say that album is my answer. Yeah. But there are a few songs.

A few low-rour. Yeah, yeah. But that album has like the most. And if you listen, three. through it, um, and how, how I've interpreted the album, it's like,

uh, oh, there's also another album, um, I remember Fantano gave it a tan, um, called like, death is real or something.

What's the genre? Uh, what's the thing about it? Death is real. That's at least the name of the first song. I remember you listened to some of it and, um, I don't think you were into it Rivers of Nile

Nihil That might be it Years and years and years ago Yeah I don't recognize this Death is real It's about a guy who lost his wife Where owls know my name Yeah

Maybe I'd have to like see the album cover I remember I remember the story about the guy He'd lost his wife Yeah yeah yeah I never listened to that Did you not? No

I remember hearing about it though Yeah That first song especially is like It's contradictory But it's incredibly genuine And the second You experience some sort of loss Like that

Then you understand the song You don't understand it before then Right yeah That's what people say about Even Gelian Even Gellian I never know how I'd say it now because James is just like... Yeah, yeah, cooked your mind.

Um... Yeah. I think he calls it Evangelian now, so. But isn't it Evangelian? Evangelic. Whatever he says. It's not a real word, okay? Yeah. Evangelic, Evangelian.

Whatever, it doesn't matter. I'd say Evangelian, myself. Should I mention some of these songs I put in this playlist? Yeah, yeah. I put a couple of recent ones in there. the sad god in there. Really? Yeah, because I find it

really sad. The lyrics are really sad and the when the... It's kind of... I think there can be something... There's a hopefulness to it at the same time.

Yeah, but I think that can be sad too. I often find like a melancholy is sadder than just sad. Like something that's happy sad. It's like the end of... of Toy Story 3. Right, yeah, yeah. You know, it's like that's a unique, like, pinch.

Yeah. So I chucked that in there. I had a couple of LCD sound system songs, actually. Oh. All my friends. Yeah, the piano, like, instantly gets me in this song. Hmm. Yeah.

Yeah, it's so good. And the lyrics, too. The memories of our betters that will keep us on our feet. Someone great? Surely? no i i i really love that song but um it wasn't out of these the ones i wanted to put in i put all i want in there as well from lcd yeah i love that song very good um yeah i play this is like perfect for me um yeah rediscovering suffgen stevens dude oh that's um controversial but call me by your name got me

that movie got me oh right yeah amazing film yeah yeah um and by the ending I was like it was like going through a breakup like at the end of the film it's like yeah it just incredible filmmaking um yeah

um so I put should should a known better and um death with dignity yeah I would add the song from call me by your name yeah into that this is only like a fresh playlist I'm sure I'm sure I'll experience sadness again and build it up.

Lazarus, I do the belly. This is so fuck. This old dog has some really good songs on it. I put watching him thread away on there. Yep. I love that song. And sister from that album. Yeah, that's a very good one.

This is fantastic. I'm about to play one. I know you're going to recognize it instantly, and you might be surprised that I put it on here, right? ready yes fucking yes for those

I can't put it into the video because these are like copyright claim songs but pain from Max Payne 3 by health brilliant I've had many a sad moment where I just put this on on repeat

like it's also the wheel from the Red Dead soundtrack oh shit yeah I've got to get that one there yeah that one hits good like When you're feeling down and out I've got a couple of really obvious ones too

Right Like queen Yeah yeah Who wants to live forever Yeah That one hits when you need it Into Dust by Mazzie Star I was really into Massey Star for a bit

I don't know who that is You might know this song from I think it was in like a Gears of War Trek Ah! Um, great song, though, Into Dust by Mazi Star.

Also another kind of super obvious one, but, um, wish you were here. Mm. Yeah, that one hits, too. A few,

um, a couple other MacDemako ones from his ridiculously long, instrumental. Yeah. Which has got these weird, like,

moody, just songs, like atmospheric songs. They go on for like 10 minutes that are just like, I don't know, quite contemplative. And I can't even give you the names of those because it's just like... 2.202292. I've got the last song from Train Dreams 2. That's probably a movie recently that, um...

I need to watch that kind of really got to me. Oh, this song, Ecstasy. It's actually in The Last of... two um it is yeah in the like barn scene um i don't really care about the story of that game but this song i think's really effective um it has to be the instrumental version i don't really like the lyrics in the i don't know the um this apex twin um but this is always on it's always in memes yeah but i think it's always in the jong kiriakow um um Yeah, a couple three times

It's one of the things I kind of hate about meme culture where people like build a song into just meaning one thing Yeah, it's associated then forever with like but it isn't for me like when I first heard this and um number three from ambient works was volume one yeah no two sorry um um uh that song from 28 years later remember from the like I won't spoil it I guess oh yeah yeah amazing piece of music did young fathers dude that's cool they did the whole school um yeah el maniana you pronounced it right how yeah yeah finally it's taken me el manana nana when did it come out 2000 el banana 2005 it's taken me 20 years to say it.

Fucking idiot. Yeah, that was the one off that. I have a couple of guerrilla songs. Who I big Amarillo from the Fall. No one talks about the Fall, but... Rightly so. Not as an album, but has two really strong songs on it. It does have some really good songs. Yeah. And considering you made it on like an iPad one, pretty fucking crazy.

On the road for Plastic Beach. Really great songs. Yeah. And obviously, Melancholy Hill. Yeah, this song's had a resurgence for me recently, just with my guerrillas fanaticism. Yeah, I noticed it just finally passed a billion plays too on Spotify. Yeah, I saw that. Um, Feel Good Inc. is crazy plays as well. Yeah. Obviously, that's not a, that's the obvious one. The song. Yeah. I mean, it sounds Malencoly. Surprise, surprise. and the last one was just Orange County so yeah

I need to build that up a little bit but I kind of just hijacked that to show off my playlist but um is there any other like media that like gets you um I'll add the wheel right now yeah a bunch of radio head yeah as well um

is there a particular song Rackiner Rackiner yeah fuck oh there's the wheel That's one of my favorite songs of all time. When the term comes. God damn.

Yeah, it's like instant with these songs. Yeah. It just like pulls you there. Yeah, yeah. You feel it immediately. Yeah. Immaculate shit. Also, hummingbird by low roar belongs on that album.

That's an incredible... It's like the most melancholy sound I think I've ever. heard of like the the happy sad like you're on that knife surge constantly between the two for the whole song because it's in like a it was kind of his like great skill yeah yeah it just existing in that space um yeah and farming it for all that it's worth a breathe in needs to be in there yeah from the overall i just think the piano in the song is like immaculate oh yeah This is a melancholic episode, but... Well, yeah, it's...

I think it's, um... It would be disingenuous of a podcast of, like, 10 plus years to literally only ever be, like, lighthearted, funny. Sometimes it has to be political angry. Sometimes it has to be emotional sad. I wonder sometimes if, like... I feel like, I feel like. I think I'm really sensitive to like media. I am.

I think some people don't experience it that way. Yeah, because like I find a lot. I find I find I find the cinema can be overwhelming for me like emotionally. I find like it I so often over like the tiniest shit like I'll feel the urge to cry. Mm-hmm. Like I saw Spider, Superman three times at the cinema and every time I was like for. multiple scenes I was on the verge of tears

yeah sometimes things just speak to you like that yeah I like it when it's not even something necessarily sad just like for me

um seeing Superman the scene when he's like giving his lecture to Lex um when I first saw that like the amount of of

emotions I was feeling because it was like not only is this scene peak you know I was like it's so peak absolute cinema yeah um plus uh what he's actually saying is goaded as fuck like so on that level it resonates

and it was like holy shit like Superman's fucking cool and yeah he's doing all of it and I'm feeling like hope and yeah I was so overwhelmed so I went to see the movie two more times and like the

there was something about the timing of that too yeah like when it hit yeah it's like I I've got a feeling that if that movie hadn't come out like there wouldn't have been enough hopium in the world yeah it would have ended yeah imagine if that was when like

man of steel came out yeah Iran would be gone that would be wiped off the face yeah I think there's a reason that like specifically the music from that Superman film is like you so much in like meme culture and like online stuff it's not a coincidence yeah um yeah it's good shit yeah yeah yeah fuck it's so fucking good good and i i i

happy shit can be just as sad as sad shit um yeah i i've got to shout out probably the movie that that kind of changed for me like I don't know it's just a significant movie specifically for my experience in watching movies um Manchester by the Sea is such a heavy tonal fucking opposite to Superman uh heavy like hard watch and it feels so authentic. Yeah, that's an oppressive movie. Yeah, difficult to watch. Incredibly good.

The scene where, I guess, like, vague spoilers, but when he reaches for the... In the police station. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's so, like it feels like it could be CCTV footage,

the way it plays out and stuff and the expressions. Yeah, it's a brutal watch um a really um devastating one is that the last episode of six be under yeah shit what shout that see a song yeah great incredible show multiple um moments from that show really have like stayed with me yeah um yeah it seems like everyone who's seen that like it really sticks with them yeah um Fuck, yeah, of course. Kind of like the British version of that is the...

This is England. I've not seen it. This is England and all of its shows hit me in a similar way. Right. They're just like... They're so emotionally exhausting, but... Worth it. There's like an endless list for me.

Yeah, yeah. It's kind of like the high I'm chasing from a lot. In a sense, it's like, yeah, you want that emotional stimulation. I just want to feel something, you know. Yeah. Watching Superman just to feel something. I mean, genuinely. Yeah.

Yeah, and I watched that film again recently, and it's peak. Peak. Yeah. I stand by my five out of five on that. Yeah. Asshole. Does she just attack you? Yeah.

I don't know if she's actually visible, but she's lying on Jim's lap at the moment, Billy. She keeps getting overstimmed and then just, like, laughing out. and then going back to sleep. I was just tickling a little toe. You can get off me then if you're going to do shit like that. Anything else devastating? Dobby's death. Um,

the Batman Joker scene from the Snyder cut? Oh, fuck. That hurts, yeah. Yeah. That really hurts. Yeah. How could you say that? I actually, another obvious one.

one um Gandalf dying um the execution of that that song that Snyder stole for that man of steel trailer did he did didn't he yeah

yeah yeah yeah he probably didn't steal it you know that he definitely did it was definitely him allegedly um there's loads of moments and all the things for me yeah

give them a moment for pity's sake yeah I guess like um they're like emotional overwhelm during the lighting of the beacons yeah where it's like this is just so this is just perfect yeah the execution of the sequence and like yeah it's like your whole dialogue like shivering and yeah goosebumps and hairs on end it's like all the all these different like artistic mediums just like working in tandem yeah yeah yeah and like just lifting each other up and it's so good yeah uh Jurassic world

Last song I'll shout out is Johnny Appleseed But yeah Oh there goes Johnny Appleseed Yeah because that's sometimes when something's just so like sincere and pure Yeah It's kind of the Superman thing Yeah

Or like earnest Opium overdose I guess Yeah Yeah Yeah Um right enough of that. Let's do this one from Mr. Blue Pumpkin.

Thoughts on Marathon already getting a PVE only mode later in season two with a PVE light mode at the start makes sense given the reports that more devs are working on it now which as a destiny fan it kind of hurts but fuck it. Have you seen anything about this?

No. Sony's financials came out and they reported something like a 700 plus million loss on a bunch of just on the bungee thing and obviously marathons not doing well enough for it's how much production might they put into it and they really fumbled that really fumbled it weird as well that they didn't seem to advertise it really oh yeah i don't know what game they're playing

with that um yeah they boasted that it has good retention for the the people that play it but for the nine people that play yeah that's kind of the issue um yeah And now for me, it's an issue of, it's kind of the ongoing problem with these types of games where I just know in a year, in a year, if it still is being supported anyway, if it's still around, it'll be better. Right. You're not really... Yeah, I don't know. I feel like it depends. Because, like, I'm...

I was willing and eager to jump on arc as soon as possible. As soon as I saw how fun the game looked and, like, the physics-y shit going on. I was like, yeah, I want to play that. And I'm sure Arc is the same situation where in a year's time it will be better. There's a risk element there, where there is a chance that... Is playing Hell Divers right now as good

as when Super Earth was being attacked? Probably not. I don't know, because they did the whole Cyberstown thing where you go and attack... Oh yeah, like there's... That's the thing. Yeah. I don't know.

Yeah, there's like peaks and troughs, for sure. Um but like Bungy Fuck Bungy I'm not gonna play a bungee game After I've The last like 10 years of what bungee

I've been doing Yeah I don't really trust them They've just ruined video games For like a decade Like I didn't fucking trust them I'd sooner jump on some random indie shit We're not starved enough For good games

For me to feel like I have to jump into a marathon Yes If there was a story mode I'd buy it and blot Really? Yeah. I think their gameplay is good enough. And they're like AI programming and like the reactivity of things is pretty unmatched.

I just think they're so clearly like the facade of them making like art of any kind was lost the second they made Destiny 2 to me. That was like... I kind of agree with Destiny, but... I do... Marathon has some really fucking cool art. And it is art. No, their art license has been revoked. That's not how it works.

It is how it works. If you make Destiny 2, then you get your art license revoked, I'm afraid. Fuck that game, genuinely. Fuck. I agree. Fuck both destinies, obviously. Well, I think is unfortunate, though, is that, like, There are hundreds of like artists that did put everything into their art, but it was a small group of people making decisions about how that art was like implemented and used that kind of fucked it.

In ways they probably didn't need to be. You know what I'm saying? Whenever a tangerine dream comes on in the shuffle, there's just a chance. It's going to be the scariest thing you've ever heard. Sorry, yeah. If, um, if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bike. You know? Hmm.

Could not show to burn my show. A thunder slug says kind of what we're getting at early. Does Alex still journal? You mentioned it a while ago and it inspired me to take up the practice with me now having written at least a page every day for nearly two years. It wasn't a while ago. It was like 15 minutes ago. It's really satisfying in a great way to round off a day.

So does Al still do it? What does Jim think? I know he struggles with reading and writing a little, but maybe Alex could help him with his literacy skills. Bear bear P fans and bear. Fuck this fucking ass. I'm going to fly right now. I mean, I get to say that.

I haven't done it in ages. Because I can't not just like become obsessed with things for a small amount of time and then just like move on. Right. Yeah. Routine be fucked. Yeah. I still got my journal. It's in there.

I'm going to leak it online. Yeah. I'm too scared to like. Look at it, too. Yeah. Day 59. Destiny is goaded. I was in a nice, yeah, because I would do, I'd fill out a page and then in its

corresponding page do a drawing of something. I remember drawing Po the panda in there. That's cool. Poe Dameron. Should I actually look what I'd do drawings of? Yeah. Right now. Somehow Darth Sidious has returned.

They fly now. Oh, fuck. They fly now. Uh, guys. they kind of fly now my purple journal oh that's cool it's like it can be bound I uh

it looks too pristine though I want it to be like aged yes I need to like wipe coffee yeah I could do a pill on it yeah I use mine to wipe my ass that's like step one this is fucking bro the first

this is unreal dude This is fucking unreal guess Guess like this was Is it a ghost from destiny This was Uh December 22 That's right

Because this was a Christmas present This journal The drawing The drawing I did on this day Was um One of those like Flying things from Avatar 2 On the water

Did that come out in 2022? I think so It must have been What the fuck? Why else would I... Motherfucker. Whart show blue? Um, then it was, yeah, Po.

Po the panda. The panda? Yeah. Oh, and then it was, um... They fly now? No, then it was the... The tortoise from Kung Fu Panda. Oh, okay.

A bit of a Kung Fu Panda thing. Then it was just like a plant. Monkey? No monkey. Monkey. What's that? It's like a teddy bear? This is weird. The I-C-E face, but like really sad.

That's weird. Yeah, I'm going to stop now. Luke Cage. Jessica Jones, Daredevil. Iron fist? Today's Iron fist day. I would recommend doing it, though, if you're more like... I'd recommend watching Iron fist.

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Really? Thoughts? Is it actually a year since CBT? No fucking way. Yeah. That's not no. Yeah. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. This one's interesting, though, from Mastiffio. As you guys talk occasionally about politics, have you ever had to deal with someone you know

and are close with who hold extreme political beliefs. Yes. I ask this, as over the weekend, I've learned that a member of my family voted for reform during the recent election and is convinced that all immigrants should be deported, as they're supposedly ruining the culture of Britain and are a bunch of violent thugs, basically parroting all of reforms baseless claims. Yes. Additionally, they mention that the Gov needs to kick benefits scroungers of benefits.

Yeah. As they coast along on the system, even though this person is on benefits themselves, because of an underlying health condition. It's always the fucking way, do you. It's always the fucking way. They're one of the good ones, huh? On top of this, they have no sympathy for the genocide in Palestine or the war in Ukraine, as it's none of our business and doesn't affect Britain.

Obama didn't say it's a genocide, actually, so might need to reel that one back. I've never talked about politics to this person until now, and we've been friendly, occasionally talking about games, films, etc. Yet knowing as true political beliefs, I feel disgusted and frustrated that this person could believe in such hateful and poisonous ideas. And I'm really conflicted on how to deal with. this situation as they are a member of my immediate family. Normally slight political disagreements is not something that would come between me and another person nor am I generally judgmental or on people's personal views or different topics yet the

extremity of the rhetoric said has affected my relationship with this person immensely and how I view them. Sorry that this has become a bit of a long ramble but I'm stuck on how to deal with this situation and I was very close with this person and they introduced me to some of my favorite media that were a big part of my childhood and now adulthood. Anyway thanks for for the recent amazing work, keep up the good work. That's what's always funny too

because I bet a lot of the media the subtext will be like anti this kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The answer is yes. Just mentioned my nan, I don't align with her politics at all. But obviously I still love her and I say

my rebuttal to her things, but, uh, yeah, it's, say um you don't need to like cut them out your life but i think you should always challenge their bullshit you know um within you know it doesn't need to like you don't need to be throwing dinner plates at family mom yeah so while i do think that's true i also think picking a battle is true as yeah for sure and like it it's it's different when it's like a grandparent or someone who's like of that much older generation

because it's like especially in our case it's like you're not going to change an opinion you're not going to change one of their opinions yeah yeah um but do you think you could change like let's say I have I've talked people out of voting reform

really yeah with facts and large family members no there's something about when it's family um yeah um the thing a lot of people people don't listen I also fucking I resent this um the the the idea that uh these are opinions and these are

like like you're allowed to have these differing political opinions you know it's it's like there is a different between opinion in fact um and when when you're being lied to by a party like it's It's not an opinion whether like immigration is good or bad. Oh, like there. It's like, there is an answer. There is like what is actually best for the most amount of people. Yeah, but also like when you're not, you're not discussing things on a reality basis as far as... Yeah.

Numbers, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. like stats or and not just stats on their face but ways to interpret them yeah interpreting them correctly yes otherwise you just wind up with the like 50% of people commit yeah yeah you can spin shit yeah there was a um there was a statistic that our mum had said to me semi recently that was like, um, the way it was delivered, the way she said it, because she was just regurgitating something she'd read online. And the way she, she said it was like, implying that, um, there's, like, way more, um, this, like, this isn't verbatim by any means, um, so I'm, I'm going to, like,

cherry pick Muslim. Way more Muslims per capita in every, um, you know, um, so I'm, I'm going to, like, cherry-chery-pick Muslim. Way more Muslims per capita in every county of England than Christians or something. Right, right. Or something to do with language or something. And it was portrayed to me as like this dangerous thing. You know, it's like we're becoming a minority in our own country and it's like, well, let's, let's punt the brakes and like actually look at what the statistic is saying and what it's actually measuring. You know, because like we, we can so easily see a statistic saying like, oh, half of kids, first language isn't English or something.

It's like where, you know, in terms of what, what years in school? Like, who have you surveyed? You know, if you go to like some borough in London and survey like a minority school. Yeah. You know, you're going to have different results to if you go to like Oxford and do the same survey. It's the issue with the kind of alarmist way people get information is that. Well, information is entertainment as well. It's entertainment and the fear element sells because I can't remember if it was like the mirror.

or something had like an article that was like the number one most popular name in the UK is like Muhammad or something? That was it, that's what... Oh, that was the one? Yeah, that was the one she said because then I said, well, do you think that's maybe because, you know,

as a minority, they have one name that they largely call like their kids. Most Muslims have a kid called Muhammad, whereas like we don't have a one name that we just name.

Yeah, yeah. like one person in our family has the same name you know so that that can that's what i mean about the actually entire yeah yeah that was exactly it um you can edit out the entire fucking whatever the fuck i was saying that was so um yeah i just breath bereft i just feel like people are being played manipulative yeah and and reform uses those kind of statements um as like a a dunk it's like you don't even understand what it's saying yeah yeah

yeah I just like what in this world is ever that simple when it's just one thing that's like oh that's the reason why everything sucks yeah yeah yeah you need to be very cautious of people that say they have the answer

because of one simple thing yeah yeah if it scoundgers immigrants whatever it's never that fucking simple well they're There was a statistic that you brought to my attention, because it commonly, there's a lot of Islamophobia in this country. And the narrative for a long time has been, London is overrun with Muslims.

Yeah. Overrun. What does it turn out the percentages in the UK, in the London population of Muslims? God, I can't remember what the top of my head. It's like 5% or something. Or less. It's some, like, crazy, tiny percentage. Um, I can't remember if it was across the UK or just London.

Um, so the stats, it looks like, uh, approximately four million Muslim living in the UK, making Islam the second largest religion in the country. The demographic represents roughly 6% to 6.5% of the total UK population. There you. So 6.6%. that doesn't sound like the problem is you can't say anything because they'll just say oh no look at how much it's grown in years or like

this there's always like a yeah yeah it's a sign of something it's a whatever yeah it suits there Billy's fucking holding you like a baby it's weird um yeah and it's it's it's weirdly reminiscent um of like the way trans stuff

is weaponized and it's like yeah it's like constant talks about toilets and it's like but I mean I mean I mean happen in toilets

I mean from like how like an ultra minority can be turned into this thing well like this idea that's an infection of some kind yeah kids are being trans

there are millions of trans children there's that hilarious um who's the fucking chud with the beard yeah I was about to reference it on Joe Rogo and Matt Walsh yeah that really embarrassing

where you're a check by Jamie. Yeah. Like if a right wing is getting pit stopped by fucking Joe Rogan, then they must be. But every single media avenue is funneling you to have this opinion. Yeah. And like that I made this TikTok video and would have been last year of like just making a

fresh account with a fresh algorithm. The first video was a GB news video, the first one. And every other video was an anti-immigration piece of propaganda. Yeah. And most social media is the exact same thing. Yes. I get them on YouTube shorts and I've got like some of the most left-leaning YouTube watch history, you could imagine.

Yeah. It's unbelievable the effort from big business to peddle this information. Like it's not a fucking coincidence. And the willingness for people to run. along with it. It suggests to me that people, um, that like British people are innately racist. Like it's, it's a cultural, it's culturally embedded into us and it requires education and intentional breaking out of that belief to. Is it like, it's like the other though as well, because like trans people are, it's not race. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like it makes people upset or it's

easy to other. Yeah, when you don't know them, because apparently hasn't JK Rowling had this whole kind of like flip recently because she met a trans person. And she's like, oh, it's just a human. Yeah, that's like a crazy alien that's trying to turn my baby's trans. Or like trying to get into the bathroom to hear me pee. To people who are like, just like weirdly transphobic. Like, you ever spoken to someone who's trans?

Yeah. It's never, yes, never. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's like, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, it's too much, man. It's disgusting.

And, and throughout, like, the 80s and everything Thatcher and Reagan did to, like, turn people against thy neighbor, you know, like, the sentiment switched from love thy neighbor to, like, don't trust thy neighbor. Thy neighbor's trying to get yo shit. Holding a knife behind their back. Yeah, yeah, they got the knife behind their back. They want what you have. They want your money. They want your possessions. They want your sons, your daughters.

So I see it when I'm just walking out and about. Like, I'll smile at people and, like, do a little nod. Yeah, yeah, that's what I like doing. Like, the eyes get, like, avert from your gaze and they look to the ground or, like, that. So some people have even, like, like, side-eyed me like just yeah just trying to be nice and shit and so what the fuck is good

like what do you think I'm gonna do like 99% of people want an easy fucking life right and the people who don't more often than not are only doing bad shit because of their shitty circumstances

you know hurt people hurt people and shit yeah but it is it becomes like infectious when it's the opposite. Like there's that guy in town who just like runs around waving at people and smiling. And it's like, yeah.

He won a local competition. Really? Yeah, on Facebook, um, they started like a poll of like, some, who's the legend of town?

Yeah. Um, and it was like, who's the best character of this town? And he overwhelmingly, like, won. Because he's a fucking actual legend.

We've talked about him on the cast before. Yeah, yeah, we have mentioned. been times yeah where I've been in like a bad mood and just him doing that is like oh there's a bit of like Superman hopium yeah there is there is kindness and like community and goodness yeah yeah I had a goated moment um so he walked he ran like right past me yeah run the cycle track and he just said he was running along because he's like an older guy he's like I don't know middle-aged yeah he was up there and he was jogging past and he and he and he and he was

he just said to me, this is as fast as I could go. He just kept going. And it was like, just a little comment like that was something I found really like lovely about when we did, um, new years in London. Um, and we went all across like, we just bumped into all these like random people. And like everyone was just kind of on the same level. And like everyone was like joyful. And it felt like everyone was part of like the same thing.

Yeah, right. Like when we went to the top of the... Yeah, and it didn't matter like who they were, where they were from. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because everyone's drunk. Yeah. Everyone's just jolly and just having a good time together. And like sharing a space in it being like... It's not an issue with that. In fact, it's something to be celebrated. Yeah, yeah.

And London at its best. And Britain at its best is that. Yeah. But it's just, it's been fucking attacked and hijacked. by fucking evil people. Evil rich people. They're the ones who want your shit. They're the ones...

They've got your shit, I'm afraid. Yeah, they've already got it. We've already fucking lost. I'm afraid. Right. Yeah, that was a very roundabout the conversation. Sorry for...

Whenever the topic goes in that direction. Yeah. My waffle meter turns on. So let's round off this one with a silly one from AJ Hunter. As Soos as Soos boys. I've been thinking about lately about the clitorisaurus and the lack of dinosaurs recently has led me to look up dinosaur names. Perhaps top ranker Jim could rank them.

These are all real names, by the way. So CBT for... So we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine, nine, nine, eleven, dino names here. Okay. You got to give them a C, B, or T. You can rank them, whatever. Okay.

Don't worry about the ranking as much. Tyrannosaurus Rex. Oh, that's tough. That's a classic. That's got to be, are we doing like a blind ranking thing where I've got to like blind rank it? You know, say,

I'm going to put Tyrannosaurus Rex. And it's just the name. I'm going to put it in just the name. I'm going to go number two. Really? Okay. Yeah, because there might be something better. I think, yeah.

I think having tyrant in there is awesome. Yeah, fuck, it's cool. It's, it's, it's, And then wrecks. Yeah, yeah. I might regret it and it might. Having Rex on there. I'll stick it to.

I'll stick with my guns. Like Tyrannosaurus is already tough. Yeah. Putting Rex on there? Yeah, yeah. And why is it like double barreled? Like no other dinosaur has like a double barrel. It's really fucking cool.

Yeah. Velociraptor? Ooh. Raptor. Raptor. Raptor's cool. Raptor is very cool. Velociraptor.

Velociraptor could go number one. They get, um, The name is bigger than what they actually were. Yeah. They weren't actually that crazy. Yeah, and... Jurassic Park did a lot of propaganda for them. Yeah.

I'm going to have to go number three, because I don't think it's cooler than T-Rex. The fact you can shorten Tyrannosaurus Rax as well, the T-Rex. T-Rex is cool, but Raptor is cool, too. Yeah, Raptor is cool, but you don't say V-Raptor. V-Raptor. Teradactyl. that is cool

I'm gonna go like six yeah I thought a teradactal wasn't actually a it's a broad term for terosaurs it's not an actual

like terosaur like a I think the way you spelled pteractyl kind of goated p-teradactyl yeah p-teridactyl Um

Yeah Bambiraptor Okay that's fucking lame That's going number 10 Bambi Raptor What's it looks like? That's loser It kind of looks like a velociraptor

Um They're pretty cool looking The name is lame though It makes you think of Disney Yeah cringe Bambi Raptor Gassosaurus Number one

They look scarier than velociraptors Really? Yeah What's it called gassy raptor? Gassasaurus When's your thingy by the way? I've got like 10 minutes Okay Erectopus

Erectapus Erectapus Erectapest Yeah Fuck, that should have been number one Fuck, I guess that... Meaning upright foot.

I guess I gotta go number four? Four or five? I can't remember if I've already done four. Uh, I don't know. Drinker. Drinker? Fuck, these are the best fucking dinosaur names. I was expecting some shit ones.

I don't know this one. We've only had like one or two shit ones. Drinker Nesty is an... Drinker Nesty. It's one of these duck-billed plant-eating, early Cretaceous. Hell yeah. when's the Cretaceous period

that was yesterday I think you're in one that's a cool bit of art I'm gonna save that where do we get drunker you get so easily distracted when this topic is irritator

what I'm done fucking ranking these they're all top tier just give them CBTs oh shit yeah I haven't been doing that Rancosaurus that's a That's tough. That's fucking base tough.

Irritator kind of goes hard. Yeah, irritator. That's based. That's based tough. There's a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil. Wow. Early Cretaceous people. Have you heard of an omasaurus? The name kind of rings a bell. Okay.

I have a feeling you brought it up the other day. O-M-E-I-saurus. O-M-A-Saurus, yeah. Yeah, it's Chinese dinosaur. Fuck yeah. Jurassic period of what is now China Yeah Comes from Mount Emi

Mount China From Pante Draco Panty Draco Yeah That's tough Are you kidding me A Sorapodomorph

From the late Triassic In the United Kingdom Oh shit Yeah we got the fucking Panty Draco Yeah I'm Panty Draco lad I've got a Kelsberg

Yeah Girarpha Titan Okay, that's cringe Giraffa Titan That sucks That's lazy What an asshole They look pretty cool though

No I think Titanosaur goes harder Yeah Titanosaurs's fucking cool Titanosaurus Titanosaurus Titanosaurus Osaurus. I just find, yeah, I am a sucker for these, like, Greek things.

Lipstickosaurus. Lipstickosaurus. And I always find it hard to say, but, like, quetzel, coattless. Oh, yeah. What the fuck was that? I searched on Google, and I thought it was going to, like, be a voice saying the name for me. It was actually just like a sound. sound of it which is horrifying.

I'm gonna give that best Quetzal. I think they're maybe the scariest dinosaur. Really? Yeah. That's gated. Yeah. And on that note, that's it, man.

Yeah. Can't take this anymore. I can't take this anymore. That was a weird episode. That was a weird episode. Wild ride. Yeah. Um, so let us know your thoughts. Yeah. And we'll see you later. Yeah. And remember, you know it's us by the big red X.