JAR Media Posdact - I DO Declare - JARCast Episode 273

Episode Date: May 10, 2022

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/jar-media-store Twitter: https://twitter.com/FourFunnies Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 05:39 Housekeeping 15:24 Jim asks 'What is the self?' 29:29 JAR Tried Elden Ring Coop 53:43 Alex Talks About Salesmen 1:08:21 r/JARMEDIA Questions 1:08:32 Update on all JAR Animals 1:09:49 The Hedgehog Question 1:11:46 Thoughts on Mr Bean 1:13:27 James & Glasses 1:14:54 Mullet Update 1:15:37 The Best Way To Get Your Question Answered 1:19:09 Vinesauce 1:20:05 Teacher Update 1:21:47 Finnish James 1:25:00 Patron Segment

I do declare base boosted to the whole episode. No, I do declare that we will base boost this app your shoulder. I do I declare Sandy's in trouble of it. So I've kind of, uh, nah, nah, nah, I do declare Sandy is the throat goat of this here year. It's not funny. That's pretty funny. say um you do declare it to not be funny that's it you have to declare it not to be funny

James Gislett forest gunk I do declare I'm up to no good I do declare I do declare Bear bear I do declare the new regime of bear

God, no, that's... That was the worst thing you've ever done. The regime of bear a bear a bear. Bay up, bearer. You've got the cadence perfect there. Yes, all about that delay. There's... One of my most things I hate most...

about Jard is when you two are on the same wavelength of comedy. When we find a new one, you mean? Yeah, and I can't do it. Because I discovered this when me and James were in Sainsbury's one night after going to MacD's. And I just kept saying,

I do, declare. I just, it just really... You've never done that. No, do you remember? Because I kept laughing. And you were, like, embarrassed to be near me. Yes. Because I, like, whispered to you,

I'd do declare. And then start giggling and... shit and you were like stop it it's not funny it's not even a good one yeah and it's not which is often a sign that it's actually a great one yeah you can't my response as a way to judge how you literally just got up and started

walking away you were so in so emotionally captured by it it was atrocious no because the best ones are ones where either James is really into it or really against it and what do you think of bear bear bear do you not like bear bear bear bear then bear bear bear bear's not good

bear bear bear bear fell off a few Not true, man. Bear Bear Bear's only just beginning. No, you said yourself that you've killed it off. This is a unique one because it's kind of come back round for me. The way Jarlings have taken it and the way they're using it is really reinvigorating. No, they are. They sign off with it and they introduce with it.

So many comments we get, they end with like, bear bear. Yeah, and it's cool. They need to go. We need to call the Jarmeiji fan base that identify themselves of Bear Bear. No, they're the real ones No, they're not the real ones They're the fake ones Because they're not

They're attaching themselves To something that's fresh It sounds like something's fresh and good Like a fresh strawberry Yeah, but not like Nothing beats a good bear bear Like an old whiskey You don't want a new whiskey

You want an old whiskey That accent It keeps making me think of Kevin Spacey from House of Cards Oh Good, yes Or the bird from Futuroma I was thinking of

the Sully from Monsters Inc. But in a different movie. Sully? That actor. John Goodman? John Goodman, yeah. Oh, yeah, like in B movie

he's doing that voice. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I do declare, Mr. B. That I'm up to no good. Oh, and get bredded, yeah. Breaded. No, no, no, that's a long ago.

I do declare that bredded is back. You know it's me By the big red X I hate your humor It's not humor You know what One day I'm going to get sick And I'm going to move away

I'm going to move away And you'll never know You love role plays You come round to it I do love role plays But we can't tell them that Do you declare That this is

the afternoon, morning, evening or night? I do. I do. To which? It's night. It's actually night. Good afternoon, morning, evening or night, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this episode of the JAR Media podcast. What kind of English should we do for this one?

The Queen's English. Good afternoon. Good morning. Evening. Or night. Or canite. Did you like that one? That was nice one.

This is episode 273 of the Jarkas. Would you believe it? We really made it to that number, bro. Yeah, that number. We're almost just a magical 300. It will take us... Five plus five plus five plus five plus... It will actually take us. It would close to take us another five years to get us of 500.

Five years? Well, yeah. Well, there's what, 52, 53 weeks in a year? What did David Bowie say about five years? That we have that many? bear bear we got bear man

before we get too deep into the show let's go to the housekeeping let's clean up some actual to be honest I think we should clean what is going on at the moment or what has gone on so far don't mind about our last episode

we need to clean house on the last five minutes no no that's rich because you know what the comments are don't you that's why because James has got a what have you been doing over there, a little giggle-puss. James, we've got to address some things from last week, from last episode.

Shoot. Some of the jarlings are pissed at you, man. Okay. Especially Jack. It's going to start us off here. Damn. James has been real passive-aggressive this episode. Straight up rude to that county's question guy.

Yeah, I read this. Do you remember this? Yes. What was the question? It was something about... So you're just like, oh, what, do people in the UK or something relate to their county as much as people do in America? And of which, obviously, there's no comparison because of the size difference. But people realise that I'm not angry at the person asking the question.

It's like, you're the one asking me a question. So my reaction is based on. So you're saying I was the stupid one. Yeah. That does make it better. Because it's like I'm taking away the person asking the question because we are in the room talking. So it's like when you say that, I'm reacting as if you've said that to. me without that, you know?

Just the way it is when it works when you're in person. Yeah, I vaguely remember trying to jump in there and address it in some way, but... The thing is, James... James does what he wants. Stop telling him what to do. Yeah. Well, Jeff M has some good advice. Great cast, but could you just not talk so much in the next one? It's too loud and I'm trying to sleep.

We could do a little, a few minute silence. Should we sing a lullaby? Yeah, no, it's do an ASMR section. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I wonder I do declare

Just how you are We were talking about A Kalash Is that you say it Um Well Kalashnikov No not not quite Kuru left a question

Or a comment saying A Kalash is a Czech Pastry Filled with fruit Or something sweet A Klobosnik Is a Czech pastry

filled with sausage or something savoury. People in the US frequently call both Colashes. Oh, and someone underneath that, I've probably just pronounced it awfully, CBT, TV says Colashis, it is pronounced Colacis. Sauce, I live in Texas. But if it's, if it's

Czech, do you trust the guy from Texas? Really? I do declare. Maybe he's a Czech in Texas. How do you say it? How would you say Kalash? Well, I don't know, I haven't read it. A Hindu frat replied to that saying,

Alex getting names wrong for things is my favourite Jarmedia thing. The Mojave slip-up in that one Corncast episode was amazing. Wait, I thought you cut out the Mojave. No, I'm pretty sure I sent that. Because, no, because you cut out me laughing for like 10 minutes there, didn't you? I'm pretty sure I left some of it, huh? Because I was off for like a good 15 minutes. Yeah, yeah.

That's really tickled, James. Yeah, that one got you good. Because you must have said Mojave. Yeah, I did. because when you're reading through the names I'm like not even necessarily sometimes you are just reading like syllables yeah yeah because

people just put like A E I E A-E-A-I-E-A-E yeah I know that I've never ever experienced or witnessed anything as funny as that I was laughing I was I was remembering that for like weeks after and I'd fucking shit myself I just have a fit

because it's so fucking funny because it took me out of nowhere because I was on that video and because it was in the corncast and we were playing Gmail I was in the floating boat just drifting around this thing for hours and then Alex came out of nowhere with that and it fucked me up.

I feel like that whole just time period is a delirious like just maelstrom of fuck. Yeah, none of us were like working at 100% capacity. No. Oh no. But that is a recurring thing but I'm just bad at reading, especially usernames.

Always get them wrong. Or if they're from anywhere that's remotely different and isn't anglicised. I'm just going to fuck it up, you know. All of these seem to be about you this week, James. Like this one from Logan's Stevens. James has a fantastic take on fashion.

He nails it on the head when he mentions that individuality it can bring. That's sarcasm. How do you know? I haven't even finished it yet. I think at its core, that's what fashion should be about. And James is also spot on identifying that fashion and fast fashion and quick trends as underlying issues. I thought that's common sense. I read that comment and I took it as.

is like it's a, James is pointing out the thing everyone knows. It's like a, it's, it's mocking me with a sarcastic approach. That's how I read that. Don't put yourself down, bro. Yeah. You're getting a compliment and you're, you're going to. I'm not getting a compliment. There's no reason to compliment me.

You're going through mental gymnastics so that you don't have to take a compliment. Do you think that's the problem with like, just the ultra triple down, especially our generation likes with like irony? And it gets to a point where it's like what actually is the truth. Well, especially in text form. it's yeah yeah 100% with text form but you can just like interpret yeah yeah it's very easy

because I didn't read it that way at all when I read it I was like yeah so we're talking about fast fashion and it's a good point I tend to take things rather literally when reading text see that's the that's the problem though because I take it so when you two message me on the group chat I will take whatever way I see it

is like the actual 100% truth and that's when it causes issues I think you're mad at me because you'll just meme and say something really dry and I'm like he's being dry to me again I'm gonna have a fit yeah I feel like the way a text is quite dry but I feel like it's not to try and intentionally be dry it's to just get to the like

you're being efficiency yes it's efficiency yeah well me apparently I'm dry I'm like you're not dry you're vicious yeah true okay what's the difference there between dryness and vicious dryness is just apathy

viciousness is viscosity but mine's about like the timeliness thing which just like let's come on let's sort this you know let's do this it's like a robot yeah it's like an actual fucking automaton yeah yeah it's like an android of some alien

creation that's a stupid fucking I generally think that I'm texting is not my preferred form of communication what is your preferred form of communication in person? Yeah I hate texting I absolutely hate it I love using things in the wrong way

I like that I use ellipsies a lot and it just like doesn't work you know it's like it's like you're trailing off but like on the irony thing like I was so anti- emoji for a long time then and then the then it started yeah but then it started

with the ironic usage and then it just becomes I'm just using them now and what's even the difference. Like, you're just using them. Yeah. It's the same thing. It's the irony. I love emojis.

They make every conversation better. They're actually really important to texting. Yes. 100%. I think if you don't use them, you're missing something. The way your message is missing something. Yeah, well, I mean, don't use them 100% at the time. No, if you're really happy about something.

There's a difference between like spamming 15 on every message. Yeah. Or five or, you know, that exaggerated way of, messaging to using one when it's actually it works in the immune the emotion you're portraying through your message yeah unless you're really upset because if you're like really upset and you actually use like

crying emojis and sad faces a sad emoticom very different to a sad emoji sad emoticon is genuine sadness do you mean the keyboard emoticon because I remember back in the day they were like asky yeah like colon bracket yeah I they

See, I would say they're the purest form Because if I use the happy one It's a genuine like, I'm happy I would never use the smile Yeah, it's like a genuine smile But if I use the sad one The default emoji smile Is only used in fake

Yeah You know But this is it's not expressing This is where it just is ridiculous though Well Because I think this is an old school thing though Because we grew up in a time The usage of emojis wasn't a thing

so having the asterix old-school motives was the way you did it so now it's like i use them generally if like if you're having a serious conversation of someone and they were applied with just a sad face you something's gone fucking one there's some big beef going on down you know there was some beautiful asky art in the um in the yahoo answers replies a lot of the time really yeah so people would troll on yah answers like just leave replies of like an asky image of someone like holding their temple or something yeah nicholas cage

Yeah, or Jackie Chan going well, whatever, you know Yeah, yeah Polar Bear Bear says I hate how anti-old Jar James is Embrace the past Long Live Purple Triangle Um

I am anti old jar For like good reason though Because obviously everything before the rebirth Is kind of just like old I don't relate to it So that's gonna be against it Because it was an era where I didn't enjoy as was ever done through the videos it was obvious there was you know what is the self what is

identity what what is consciousness what is would you agree that people can change and people do change well yeah that's a fact are you the you you were 10 years ago no i'm not the you you were five years ago i think people can change Yeah. But it's not, a lot of people just aren't interested in self-improvement. You have to have some drive to want to self-improve. Because there are people that, they're like 60 years old, but they have the mental capacity of a 15-year-old. Like, they've never, you know?

Yeah, definitely. They've cut themselves off and they're like, yeah, I'm just going to stay at this level. But what does that make you if you change? An automaton. Yeah. Are you some sort of. android from an alien. I feel like

you started with a genuine question and just took it somewhere tired. No, you were like an automaton, so you clearly don't want to talk about this actually thought-provoking deep topic and you just want to make ignorant attempts at humour.

Shut up, poohead. What is the self? What are you, James? Take a selfie and find out. If you're not who you were five years ago and you've changed. Yes. But that's a different case because it's like there's context to it, right? I'm not the person I'm five years ago because I had a huge life event four years ago.

So I'm different now because of that. No, but people are changed. Everyone is changed by the events of their life. Yes. We're constantly built by experience. Yes. Right? Yes.

So what is the self? and is there the self is just your identity and how you view yourself there's nothing there's nothing else about yourself self is how is you that's an obvious thing what is what are you you're you are you but if if things are subject subject to change do you like from outward um like yes intervention intervention things happening to you what are you you? A human being. Yeah, but is everyone that? Like, if, if James had my exact position in life, would he just be me? No. Because he would have had the exact same experiences as me. So this is kind of a free will thing. I don't think it's a free will thing. No, that's like

a determinist kind of thing. What I'm saying is... Every human is, we right now, we're a result of everything we've experienced white. So the things I enjoy my interests my issues and the problems I face in life all because of what I've experienced so far but also what those above you experienced and above that have experienced yes it passes it's not just lost because like what like socioeconomic conditions you're born into whatever like yeah life experiences you've had where you lived in the world what culture you grew up in there's so many different things if you if you take everything of jamie and put it into me but I

grew up in the same environment, I would not be me and I would not be Jamie, I'd be someone completely different. Why? If you have my life experience? No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying I'm, have you, your character, everything about you, but you grew up in my life. But when you say grew up in your life, do you mean... With the influence of my parents and the environment. So you're... Let's say, swapped at birth. Yes. Swapped at birth. Pretty much. We, not... I, us too now would not be the same. We'd be two completely different so now this is like a nature versus nurture thing yeah um yeah it's a good question i guess

i'm sure there have been studies on this exactly i just think the human condition is too complex to be able to dull it down to simple things like that there's so many levels to who what creates the way we are and who we are that it can't be just simply down to the events you've experienced but that is a major factor that's why parenting is so important yes both there's more to it than that. There's so many factors on top of that. Yeah, because it's not like everyone in the world who's had bad parents are like hopeless. It just means there's like another struggle. No, but no two people experience the same thing. Mm-hmm. Yeah, like we had the same living conditions. We've had very different experiences. To an extent, we, we had different

like parenting experiences just based on you being the older child and me being the younger one. Yeah. yeah that's just dynamics so it's like if if we swapped yeah would I be just like you and you'd be just like me no

no because your character that plays a part in it yeah your character can change your character can change but it's like what about your genetics though but what genetics you've also we are not like

clones of each other but we have we have the same parents yeah and we're different entities yeah but I'm not talking about

in a realistic sense swapping I mean everything is identical apart from the biology I feel well obviously from when you're born you're naturally you are you you have your own stuff

you have your own character and that's not entirely done the character is built I don't think you start off with like a character trait, let's say, is that you can fly off the handle and get really angry. People with anger problems. Yeah. If anger management therapy works, then that character attribute is being changed. Nothing about a person is like set in stone.

I believe anything is set and stone. I think something is set and stone. Like you can't change the way my problems of texture and food You can't magically change how I get freed out of certain foods I think that's just a me thing I think It's possible that it could be Okay well about my interest

What about my interest but I mean Do you think it's just coincidence that you happen to be really into cars When your dad is really into cards That's the thing hobby's always done through influence For your parents Yeah But not always There's nothing you could do now that can change that

Because that interest I started when I was young Like two free But then you can have like interesting scenarios Like with us and our dad Huge into sport loves it Huge part of his life Yeah but our mum really against it Yeah

So it was a toss up between like which one Were we going to obtain And we both happen to get the But then yeah This is where there's a thing Because neither of you've been Super being into sport But we rode a lot

We were doing bicycling a lot as kids So that is a sport And we were doing that And we had stupily good cardio As a result It's not like a sport sport No But it's just exercise

It's like our dad It's like a big rugby fan Huge rugby fan That's football Love cricket, loves all of it That's tennis Love watching it But like I truly believe

If for example we'd stayed in New Zealand for the majority of our lives up until like this point we would both be radically different people yeah I do think about that a lot like what the multiverse

version of like us that stayed New Zealand would be like yeah it's like the thing is up until a point you don't get to choose who you are and then like what about things that are out of your control that do dictate certain things in your life like if you just happen to be born

at a certain time where there is like a financial crisis there is some kind of war there is something totally out of control yeah and then that's going to have knock on a fit for generations potentially your character all these things like you're not just you because that's who you are you know but i think that i think there is part part that is part of it that's part of the like that is part of the human condition, though, isn't it, is trying to find meaning and identity. And it's why people have war, it's why people can't agree on anything and why there's so many different belief structures, so many different religions, so many different ways to live life. But I mean, the fact that, like, I think what a lot of people, how they view what I am,

is how I react to certain stimuli. right how do I react if someone is confrontational what's my go to like people react in totally different ways when it comes to that but that seems to all come down to life experience yeah well I you know I've like recently gotten really into orangutangs

yeah it always goes back it always goes back yeah it got me thinking you know we always saying well to live like a dog or whatever my famous saying live like a fucking orangutan i'm changing it i'm moving it oh no i don't agree of this no no i know i don't agree so much of it just seeing how they learn and how pockets of like different orangutan communities like they have handed down like bits of advice and techniques to like open certain fruits and stuff that only grow in like certain places in the world and

humans genuinely like basically do the same it's a simplified version yeah you know we're just like handing down and we're learning from each other and it's like a cooperative thing we should see it as as opposed to like a competitive thing because humans never would have got as far as we have if it wasn't a cooperative if we weren't inherently cooperative yeah i disagree i think people being cooperative comes from a place of greed and being selfish you think so yes every society ever to a certain extent obviously there's going to be historical examples that proves against this, but

it's like two kingdoms in the medieval ages they're joining together in a coalition that benefits them both. So that is a selfish thing of, I'll gain from this. Well, if you consider fighting to survive, like an inherently selfish, which I don't

necessarily do. I don't think it was fighting to survive in that year. It was just a case as money. But I mean, what, what another philosophical question what isn't selfish what is humans are kind of innately selfish but how is it possible to do something

that isn't selfish to be selfless how can you do that putting someone else's needs above yours yeah that's that but you gain from that how it feeds your ego you think i don't think it's an ego thing no but it does it makes you feel good about yourself therefore making it not selfish is that not like is that not like the brain reward mechanism it's like yeah it feels good to help out fellow man

and that has helped us get to the point where we are where we dominate the earth. Safety in numbers. Yeah. It's a real thing. But there is this idea that nothing is selfless.

A man cannot be selfless. I think that is selfless. Doing something for someone else that doesn't do anything for you. Just help someone else. That is selfless. Like, but give an example of an act. helping an old lady cross the street

yeah and the tendency when somebody does something like that they tell at least one person yeah I think it depends how the person what the person does after doing the selfless act because if you tell anyone it's like how many times do I walk past like a someone or a homeless person

I give them money I don't tell people that yeah because why but you know you've done it you know you've done it and your brain will say you're a good person well done for that you're great it's like a feedback loop but yeah surely that's a good thing to want to strive to be good in somewhere yeah i'm not saying it's bad but i'm saying it's not selfless i think it depends how you think about it even even giving your life away in like a war you get to die a hero you know or a martyr or

whatever yeah yeah so your i think like a selfless selfish selfish selfishness depends on the person doing the act and depends on what their motivations are of doing it because if I do anything nice on I don't ever think of it ever again it's done I gain nothing from it I've just helped someone out and I move on it yeah it kind of stops being a nice thing

if it becomes like leverage like oh but I did that I did that nice thing for you why you're not doing it for me yeah well I bought you that Starbucks when you're buying your own with diamonds yeah yeah yeah we're learning a few things exactly

this is all been circling around to make James have an epiphany about him fucking forcing me to buy a MacD's how the fuck did we get here Philosophical Philophilophilophil Philophical

Philophical Phyphothothosol Okay now put it this way Let's just say you're playing Aldermain You have a jar on your head and you've got two katanas and your whole thing is

helping people be a boss that is selflessness is that selflessness what's he gaining from it apart from a huge reputation and there's a huge figure on that a statue a literal statue

yeah but that's because we reward it is because it's like you're now a legend you're actually like a legend but even before all that shit he got really stuck at this boss so to to make

it like to make him self feel powerful he created this he gooned it he gooned it so he could kill this boss over and over and over and over this thing that was like lording over him for so long he managed to defeat it and then he's doing it again for ever people and like the orangutan that learned how the first orangutan that learned how to open that fruit and pass that down he's now doing that with all the elder ring players yeah he's he's like the old wise orangutan are there any orangutan enemies in that game A Souls game hasn't used Arang Tenancy over there

Well you can't have them be enemies You can't fight them Well they have all sorts of like ape enemies In Secura and stuff That's different And they're cool and creepy No but like a gorilla is more threatening Yeah

But then like little gibbons and stuff They're not inherently is that threatening Gibbons are terrifying Well like a gigantapithecus or whatever That's pretty fucking intimidating It's those giant orangutans you know okay so moving on we we did it we as a collective we as a group took the plunge into elding co-op because obviously you played it before you've talked about it i've not finished it

but yeah we've we talked about alderming and how we wanted to play it so we i did because i think i was always the biggest naysayer yes because i tried to Dark Souls won, I didn't get on with it I found it frustrating and difficult and I was playing it with no guiding influence at all because I played it before you even got on Dark Souls so I was an early adopter and I gave up on it

so when the whole idea of Eldering I was like no I'm not I'm not going to play it and then I took the plunge and we've been playing cup so what your thoughts yeah my From Software thing

was yeah I played Dark Souls 1 around the same time you did um but it was on my Xbox 360 I didn't run that well I didn't know what I was doing uh just just gave up fast forward years later played Sekaro um that was the one that got me through gym kind of pushing me to get through because what what would always put me off before was like just certain it watching you play dark souls one a lot in certain areas and like like the frustration I saw from you and like the tower with the archers and that tree boss and just this stuff where I was like I'm really struggling to see what part of this is like enjoyable um but jumping into eldenring now yeah like I totally understand everything everyone's been saying about it

um I've had a frustrating experience specifically with co-op just because of the implementation of it in souls games we've had a weird thing of co-op because we we we're We're progressing through the game as a group, so we'll do one a year, get to a lost grace, or do a boss, and then we'll do it on the other person's world, so we're always, we're all progressing and we're tripling the XP. We're all level up, great time. But every time we join Alex's world, Alex will get invaded. Specifically mine. Yeah. So all three of us are hosting independently at different times.

It's me, for whatever reason, keeps getting invaded. And this is, we're still on basically the starter. yeah we're like six hours six eight hours in yeah like early early early still in the opening area like type stuff and we're getting invaded by these people that like bearing in mind six hours in is us going through areas three times yeah so this is equivalent to three hours in basically uh huh with yeah in that like eight hours of gameplay we've had like probably one to two hours halted by invasion and like bugs and disconnects and random stuff like that yeah The game isn't a co-op game No And playing it this way Is a different game Yeah entirely

You guys are getting a different experience to me Is that, but is that a bad thing? I wouldn't I wouldn't want to trade my experience I've had Yeah I would say if you finish your co-op You haven't finished Eldon Rue It's something else Yeah it is something else

But the game The game is almost telling us that with the invasions it's like yeah you can play this way but you're going to be punished for it yeah kind of

because the thing I've really appreciated with Eldon Ring more so than any other Souls game is interacting with strangers and I think that's the design intent for all co-op in all the Souls games but they're giving

mixed messages by letting you have a password with a group so you can co-up with certain people. Yeah. So if the intent was truly to make you interact with strangers, they wouldn't have that. And I have no problem with that. The only thing I have a problem with is that when we're invaded, they're people that have gear that is not scaled in any way. So when you're in fights, you're like, we should be like not having any issues, right? It's 3V1 every time we're invaded. but like you hit them and you like do a tiny tiny slither of damage and they've got like some crazy spell or a huge weapon that like takes two thirds of your health and one hit or more like builds a status yeah and but the worst one was like there's pressure plate lifts in the game yeah the first like castle yeah there's like a castle you go to the to get into there's a pressure plate lift and we got invaded and basically the invader figured out if he just stands at the top of the lift like by the pressure plate there was not a nothing we could do to progress. And you can't call the lift down while he stood on the pressure plate.

So he, and he just stayed up there knowing that's the direction we wanted to go that we were trying to clear and just to be a dick. I just had a thought. I wonder if he was waiting for us to cool the elevator down, but being too stupid to realize that he needed to step off the pressure plate. It's possible. But why would he have waited for so long? Because we ran off.

We ran off for like a good hour and a half And there was like We should stop playing now And it's like I can't leave Because he still stood there Yeah Yeah and the likelihood is he was being petty Yeah

But yeah that's the thing Like You were saying about like Ages ago you did this stream Of like angry tweets From when you were playing Dark Souls 1 And kept being invaded The thing is I still

I don't believe I don't think invasion are a problem in Eldon Ring. No, no, just to clarify, this is just the co-op way we are playing it. I'm still going to do it. We are opting into this shit, right?

We're choosing to play in a way where, like, we run the risk of coming across assholes that want to just pound low-level characters. Yeah, that was the problem also is it wasn't running a risk. It was literally every single time

we were playing. It was like, yeah, the gameplay's like flowing really nicely. We're having fun. There's a nice kind of amount of challenge. or whatever, we're learning the game. Oh, we're invaded. Fun's over.

Yeah. Now, yeah. But we are opting into that, by the way we're playing. With Dark Souls 1, it's every time you use an item that turns you human, the only way to stop being human is to die. So if you use a humanity to go human, and then you're just playing the game,

could be playing for a couple hours, beaten bosses, not even co-opping, right? But you'd use this item ages ago, maybe to co-op like three bosses ago, but you haven't died since, you're still human. And then you just randomly get invaded by a guy that's like

min-maxed his character, stayed a low level, so he can invade lower-level characters. That's what gets me. And the net code was so fucking bad. You'd be facing the guy, and then he'd be like strafing around you. You're looking at him.

He walks towards you, he backstabs, he kills you on one hit. Yeah, the net curve wasn't great in an end of them ring either. But, I mean, it's leaps and bounds ahead from what I've seen. From what I've seen, experience. Yeah. Dark Souls 1, in all my experience with, like, people that understood the game, if I attacked, they could one hit me. Mm-hmm. Because they understood the game.

And the frames, when I couldn't do anything, they could get behind me and backstab me. Because there was, like, such a big lag. so I genuinely think you should be able to co-op with the remaster because the PVP is no better with the remaster you should be able to turn invasions off just patch it and give an option or something yeah because it's busted it's totally broken yeah so here's my thing am I not a true

dark source player for playing a cup because I have no as of now I don't have any interest in playing that game solo absolutely I just think about because you don't have an option to play a co-op in Sakura that was the one of the first game right you can't someone yeah and if you didn't force me to get past that guinitro boss or whatever over that hump and like learn the systems properly force you to like rewire your brain because you're so used to that that different type of like design that's just way more forgiving yeah you need to be like beaten down

I reckon. Yeah. Yeah, totally. But also you need to read when Eldon Ring teaches you different lessons. Where you need to know when to stop and go elsewhere. Which is a different lesson to Sekiro.

Because if you play Sekiro and you get to Ganituro and you're stuck for like three hours, you still have to jump that hurdle. Whereas with Elham Ring, the lesson is just go, just leave. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you kind of have more options, don't you?

Yeah. But no, I don't think... I think your experience with the game is a valid experience. And that's your experience with the game. And to be fair, so this is basically the first time I've invested a decent amount of time

into any Souls game. Mm-hmm. And the first item I took was the... when you're building your character is the item that gives every enemy's aggression is on you I took this thing

so we're never in a fight everyone they all just fucking they go for me I'm just being chased and I can't do anything and I'm just leveling up health because by doing that I'm being put in a horrible situation so I'm like guys I'm gonna fucking die and then by dying

we've got to do so much hassle to get back in again so I'm making my experience miserable So at the same time I am getting a Dark Souls experience When I'm just being killed And like we At the end of a run yesterday

Um We ended on a boss And it killed us Yeah It totally wrecked us Yeah it killed all through us And like You're still getting that

Horrible Dark Souls and misery But For some It's clearly not That's not like the way it's designed though the way that you're supposed to experience it it is something different it's totally different

and it's you miss out on unique moments because like I have this memory where I was it was like really late I was in the first big big ass castle of the game

and I was like it was too much for me it was daunting as fuck because like I was a bit under leveled the enemies were give me loads of grief so I summoned this guy who was called Dex and he was like we were working together to kill these enemies and he was showing me all the secrets of this castle and he was doing the emotes and stuff and it was like we built up this little relationship and he was sort of guiding me

around the castle and then he died and then I couldn't find him again it was like a whole little story yeah for me it's moments like that that make that sort of co-op so fucking isn't that what like that was Miyazaki's design intention right yeah yeah that's yeah he said like a whole van story his old plan was the fact that he was stuck on a snowy mountain some guys came out of nowhere just helped him and walked off no nothing that's yeah yeah it's just like two people on their separate journeys just happened to come together yeah for a bit it's the yeah it's the help you it's one of the thing it's one of the best things about video games it's one of like when you happen to get into that like lobby in a multiplayer game with the dudes that have

the mics and they're just, it's just clicks, just for 15 minutes, whatever, you just play again, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You just help each other in some cooperative way or go against each other. And there's just a mini interaction and then it's done. And you might never ever talk to them again or you might even find a new friend. But with, with, with the way Dark Souls does it with the restrictions on communication, like there's no mic. Yeah, like journey or something. Yeah, it's, it makes it so much more like, it makes you feel closer to that person because they, you know nothing about

them. They could be from any country they could speak any language. Yeah, you can just project anything onto them, can't you? Yeah, but we all understand these same like basic versions. Yeah, yeah. See, my counter arguing to this is that I think us free playing is special in itself because

Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. It's just different funny. No, it's not that it's not fun, it's just different. It's something else. Yeah, but I value that as much as anything else. And to be honest, I think, in works because it's so huge. It's such a huge game you're discovering stuff you didn't

on your play for it. And we're discovering that together and we're sharing those moments. And you might even learn that like tens of hours in once you have a certain level of confidence that like maybe I will just jump in to like that castle by myself and you know? Yeah, that's the thing as well. Because that means you'd never like be able to use the horses or anything or all the other stuff that's Yeah, the game is not designed to be co-opted.

100% of the time. That's just like a fact. Because we managed to beat one invader. How many times do you think overall we've been invaded compared? We're probably talking more than 10. I'd say like 15, 20. Yeah. So not the best track record so far.

But the sense of accomplishment when you beat that one, that first one. No, but we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, destroyed him. We humiliated him. Yeah. Because he was in that area because he wants to beat noobs. And then he got absolutely demolished. He didn't even hit us once. We just fucking just fucked him up. But it wasn't like in a ganky way. And the whole idea of ganking, like, if you're a soul's PVPer and you get annoyed by ganks. Can you explain what gank means? Ganking is when the host of the world has summoned one or one.

more people. So the gang is you're having to fight multiple of them and they've only got to fight one of you. Okay, yeah. But the game is designed for you to have every enemy in the area doesn't attack you. They only attack them. If you're invading, yeah.

Yeah. Two, you're opting to engage with this. The reason it's designed the way it is an Eldon Ring where you can only invade when someone is actively looking for co-op. is because they want the invader to be at disadvantage

because the devs know it's fucking annoying if you're trying to play through the game and some asshole just invades you the odds should be in your favour yeah the invaders just not at disadvantage though are they what do you think it would fix it do you think if they were agrobed by enemies that would help what do you think that would just be too fucked it would just break it me well there was an item I don't know if there's the same thing in aldermring

there probably is but there was an item in dark source three that you could collect at Firelink Shrine every so often um that when you used it it made it enemies agro to the invader oh really yeah so they can do it so if if if they did a thing where they like ran off waiting by like a bunch of enemies and they were like yeah come on then then you just use that item and then suddenly they've got all these enemies attacking them but I think what you said is the the best thing they could possibly do. Put a timer on it. Yeah. Yeah. Because that was what was most

annoying. Yeah, because they were stopping our progress because we, before trying to get to this castle, we'd played the day before. And we would, we got to the lost grace in this castle and we're like, tomorrow we'll do this and we will hide. Yeah. You know, during the day, I was like, guys, you need to out of me. I'm so hyped on this. Then we started to start playing and it's like instantly got into this hurdle where this guy was just like being a twat. Yeah, he had an attack that would one hit us. Yeah. But they play in the most cowardly ways they like run then they run away as soon as like they're in any kind of disadvantaged state and yeah because they've got these like flasks and health bars that are so

ridiculous like they're just they're so tanky like the fight's like it's so it's weighted to one side so it's so strong it's the opposite way that the devs intended yeah so do you think it's fair to call out for that then on those grounds yeah i think even though we know it's obviously not the... Because it's such a big game and there's like so many options that they couldn't design a system that couldn't be abused. Yeah.

Yeah. I think it'll just be a case of by the time we're more familiar and a bit of gear and stuff, it'd probably be more fun. Yeah, it's just like a, it's like a Stallone thing. We need to run up the stairs and do star jumps and shit. Because if these people are generally, they generally get absurd over

ganking, if we kill them every time by gang king we just pissed them off so ultimately we went and yeah then you don't lose anything but if you truly want a PVP every Souls game

has an area where if you put your you can put a summon sign down just like the co-op ones but when somebody summons you it's to have a fight are there like have the fight clubs

started popping up yet yeah there's like a location where everyone goes to duel yeah and that's cool I think that's a really a really neat idea It's just yeah It's just the like power and balance thing

It's like come on you fucking loser dude Like yeah The gamer meme from that South Park episode With the guy You know It's just like there's something different Because like going out of your way To like fight people

And challenge yourself With people on an agreed thing It's cool Going to literally the first fucking area in the game Out of the little castle Just because you know Everyone's going to be

Yeah, because everyone's coming out there level one And you'll literally level fucking whatever With top gear, you are like the biggest pussy Ever Actually a loser Go touch some fucking grass, honestly But it's this You teach me about the slow walk thing

I can't get over the slow walk thing That is like the ultimate Personification of the cringe of it I saw it first hand because you two lagged out and I was left I was left in this world but this guy invaded as you left so I was basically fucked

and it's this narrow court hallway and it's going down into a little dungeon and I was like guys I've been invaded and I could just see him slowly walking up the stairs and I'm like fuck no shit! Yeah when they kill you and then deliberately turn the character model the other direction then start

slow walking this is this has given me a flashback to a brutal lesson I had to learn from Dark Souls 1 where I actually managed to beat someone in PVP someone invaded me

and then there was an emo where you like put your arms out and you were like it was called like come on then or something gladiator you like you like take two steps forwards and you're like is that all you got sort of sort of thing so I did that after I killed him

so I was like fuck you I actually got one fuck yeah and I was so hyped and then I started carrying on and then he invades me again and he's gone in like full fucking beast mode he is he is the power power of a thousand sons raging behind his eyes and he

is going to kill me and he does and then he starts messaging me on Xbox. Really? And he's like, that's your lesson to never use that email again. Yeah. It's like actual playground shit. Yeah. Yeah.

It's like, but you know what? Never used email again. Is that he just goes around teaching people like because it was it was just him he must have been like invading people then in leaving worlds that weren't mine so you using that emo has such an emotional impact on him it drove him no because that's what these people are looking for they're looking to kill someone and it gives them a little ego boost so then when you like just a shit player it was my first playthrough i had like the worst build i didn't know what the fuck i was doing and I killed him right yeah so not only did a shit guy kill him

but then a shit guy was like I just don't understand it because it's like to me what is fun about competitive multiplayer most of the time is when there is like some level of any sport some level of fairness

that's what was so fun about the fight clubs yeah yeah yeah I watched you and Ducks was through a bunch of those yeah and I remember hosting them sometimes because it was just fun to watch two people fight like two different builds two people of different skill they weren't necessarily the same level

but some people were like good enough where their skill could carry them to a win even though they were using like worse weapons just watching that dynamic was so fun and then like it was a community thing where there were no rules in the game but everybody knew the rules if you healed

that broke the rules if you healed everyone would just rush that guy and kill him so it was like a fair self-governed no heels if you were just etiquette you knew the yeah yeah if you were just a really low health butter you don't heal you just still try and win and it's possible that shit was so fun man

it's getting repaired uh tomorrow okay good that's fucking that's yeah do we mention that on the cast that um no no I did have this noted down I just noted down in the notes, just salesman. Because it's happened too many times now. Salesman. Just the bad experiences I just have again and again were salesmen.

It started with the conservatory man. Oh, yes. I didn't think I ever told about the conservatory man. I think you did. To be honest, it was during COVID time, which was extra weird. Yeah, super weird. I guess someone around where I live was getting a conservatory installed. and like when they do that

they'll often send one of the people like round the local houses to knock on doors and be like oh we'll give you a free quote for a conservatory or whatever no big deal it's a typical thing it's like if you're in the area you're doing business you might just try and get them more business yeah it's good so this yeah this mate head he knocks on my door and he's like

yeah do you want a free quote for a conservatory and I'm like yeah okay cool sounds good um the guy like books me in or whatever like for the next week and shows up

it was like during peak COVID stuff you had like no no mask no nothing like that it was really weird he came in um

and I tried to make sure over the phone that was like this this is like no commitment like it's just a quote right like

it's not a big deal this turns into like this three hour fucking ordeal where I don't know what it is about me Do I just look innocent and like I'm just an idiot and like easy to manipulate? I think young homeowner.

Yeah. Oh, that's stupid. They'll fall for my thing. Yeah, so they're just like, and they just won't take no for an answer. They won't fucking do it. They won't let you. They try and like, they create an atmosphere with that. It's attrition.

It's a war of attrition. They're trying to weigh you down. They're trying to weigh you down. And just so, just so you say yes, so they leave. Just they want to create an environment so awkward and uncomfortable. that they'll trick elderly people and saying yes. And it's happened time and time again now. Like James was alluding to this gutter.

One of my gutters was destroyed by a scaffolding company when they were taking down the scaffold. They like destroyed one of the joints and just like drove off. So now's my problem to get that repaired because there's this like really loud stream of water every time it rains and we're in the UK. So it's obviously fucking constant. But yeah, I get like,

the gutter guy coming over comes into the garden and he's like ooh oh I don't know about these all that joint oh they haven't done them joints

for years they're gonna be hard to locate they are how's that how this is a new fucking house it's a new build which I already know is weird

because I'd already looked up the part I found them online and they're like two pound yeah it's just joint it's a fucking gutter joint but I didn't

say that I was just hearing him out or whatever just to hear like what he was going to say it was like yeah so yeah that one joint I don't know about this they don't do it anymore it's going to be really hard to locate there's no resources at the moment I can I can repair that one bit but it's going to be 150

you know what I can do for you though I'll replace the whole thing give it a good clean make it look good as new 450 Jesus that's actual bullshit because no I I've said this to you but like my dad will do it for free and it'll take about two minutes.

Yeah. Anyone with a ladder can do that job. It's like... Oh. And then I get another quote from someone over the phone who hasn't even come to see it and he's like what's wrong with it then? I was like, oh, one of them little joints has been knocked down. He's like, oh, that's nothing. Um, I'll come do that and I'll clean all your gutters,

what, 60 quid? Just over the phone. Yeah, that's the difference between like an honest workman and someone who's just trying to take the piss. It's a useful bit of advice for anyone who's going to own a house or anything like that. It's like... Well, just anything when buying a car, when buying... Anything.

Just do background research on it and kind of find out the process. Because obviously, I work for cars. I know that. And it's like, you can take a car to damage and they'll be like, you need to replace this as well. And it's like, no, you don't. Just if you know what needs to be done or you have a trusted person, you know who's knowledgeable and you can be like,

what needs to be changed on this? They'll give you an honest answer. and then you will save hundreds a year, minimum. Like, if you didn't know anything or didn't do your battle track, would you have fallen for that guy asking you for $400? Well, that's the thing. That's maybe. Yeah.

Just never rush into anything like that. But that's what is always what's so suspicious about it because they try and lock you in and get you to like, they'll say that, yeah, I don't know how long I can keep this quote for, like, but tomorrow things will be different. And yeah, of course that's true in like some circumstances, but it's also a business tactic. because they all fucking do it.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a limited time deal. It's like the thing, it's like, you always ask your dad. Because usually if it's anything manual label it, if you kind of ask your dad and be like, what's this, they can just give you an answer. But with the guttering one specifically,

I was like, it's guttering, you know? Like the complex mechanics of a car or whatever, like, yeah, that's over my head. But guttering? It's plastic that funnels water. It's bolted onto a house. That's it.

There's no mechanical. there's no engine it. It's like one, like it was one screw that was knocked out. That was it. And it's just the fact there's three stories up,

I can't do it myself. Like, mm-hmm. It pays. It pays to just be a little bit cautious. But that's the thing though. So for a stretch, you can't, it means you have to be

so wary all the time when you're like buying shit, when you're dealing with shit. You always have to like, second guess everything. Be like, is this actually a deal? You're just trying to fly.

police me right now trying to trick me like using the fact that you're not an expert in everything that like you you don't have the time to learn about all the different types of guttering all the different types of conservatory oh what's the different type of glass this type of glass blocks heat really well but it costs this much extra of it but only if you buy it in this many meters you know it's like fuck bro what at what point am I supposed to it's like jargon they try to overload you with shit you don't understand but like you say when it comes to guttering. Yeah.

It's a tube. It's just happening time and time again. I'm getting sick of it, man. Well, I mean, don't let him in. But, like, I gotta get my gutter repaired, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, like, I can't see you letting in, like, door-to-door salesman for quotes on shit anymore.

Yeah, fuck that. I'm just never doing that again. Fuck that. Awful fucking experience. And also that guy. And he was really, fucking rude. He probably did more damage to himself than he did good. Like he did he did some really cringy business businessman shit like at one point he

showed me his WhatsApp group chat. So this is the conservative. The conservatory guy. Yeah not the gutter guy. Um yeah he showed me his WhatsApp group chat where they were talking about like their monthly turnover and it was like what why why is that like that's dodgy is that's obvious that's a wet flag. Yeah like why how how? What about that would convince me that buying consensual... You're literally overcharging all of your customers and you're making a load of money? Oh, I must go.

It's like the Dark Souls Invader, because you said no to him. He... Ego's hurt. So now he's got to show you how much money. Yeah, is that part of it where, like, certain salesmen will see it as a challenge? Yeah. Yeah, anyone I can whittle down and get them to accept my offer.

Yeah. It's just the obligation of it. It's like, I see what you're fucking doing, and it's so fucking obvious. not as smart as you think you are and it's exhausting. Next time have a blanket all over the floor with mouse traps underneath.

So then when they walk in they get loads of mouse traps. Or just, yeah, don't say you want a free quote from a random Yeah, lesson learned. Yeah. Just don't talk to people. It's my mind. If you never talk to anyone,

you never have a problem. No, it's extremely fucked up. It's like paint like car paint. Stupily expensive. Go to any normal, I've worked in them. They will fleece you for every ounce you've got. Yeah. But then I go to my paint guy and he's like,

uh, well, that's the like mechanic meme, isn't it? They're like, they'll just say, oh yeah, that part, whatever, oh, I don't know about that one. This is going to be a big job actually. If we change that bit, we're actually going to have to do this bit and this, and you don't know, and this is someone like you.

Yeah, I've, I've had like discussions that's arguments of people because they believe it's just like, well, this expert knows, so I'm happily going to do with them. for this price because they're certified and it's like you were paying them 5K to fix your motomoto

and there was a discussion on Facebook obviously and this guy was like no my accident repair center says it will be done for 5,000 for my motomoto and it's perfectly certified and then I've replaced that very motomoto I did the job they were phones and I was like mate it's like 200 quid

it's like 4,000 pounds yeah that's interesting from the inside what were the kind of the economics in terms of like marking up. Oh, it's insane. Like, were the actual resource labor and part cost compared to what they're charging. Oh, it's insane.

So, for example, because the company I worked for that we did a lot of insurance shops. So obviously, when you were crashing your car out, it's going to these dedicated places to get it done because it's all insurance approved. For every hour, the car was just being worked on. They were charging the insurance company $27. If the car's in a car park for two hours,

They're charging the insurance company for those two hours where the car's not even being worked on. So people wonder why insurance quotes are so high now. Because these people who claim insurance are getting mugged by these companies. Because it's a case of, oh, you've got a dent, a whole new panel. And they could just pull it out and paint it. And then it's new brackets. It's new everything. So if you think a bumper on a car, right?

Bumper, then you've got all the lights, then all the brackets are lights, all the bolts. everything that goes into that bump replace all of it and then people wonder why we've got like huge climate change issues and pollution and it's like oh this this slight bracket slightly bent bin it

I see it in my own job it's like it's why I can be quite doomer because obviously people want to be eco-friendly but when we're filling multiple dust bins a day full of recyclable stuff that's being put in the bin

Just one company. One company in Wiltshire. What do you think it is on a global scale? I could make a business selling bubblewap because that's how much if it goes in the bin. Because in my work, I've got a big work bench, wooden, fat big bench. Every drawer is filled to the fucking boom of bubble wrap

because it's going in the bin. Perfectly usable. They don't give a fuck. Nobody cares. Bottom line, man. and just do background research and everything and you can save yourself money but that's the thing

the inherently kind of predatory nature of it where it's like every business every service any place you go to to have work done will try and fleece you yeah because they know chances are you're not going to be an expert in whatever the thing is so

they have all the power they do and it's like when I I go something a lot of people do is you get tyres changed right you go to a place to get tires as well because I've checked your tyres

because they were saying oh I need to get your tires a place I was like no you don't you're fine and I've gone to a place a place local and it's like a quick fit way so instantly loads of people like don't go there as quick fit it's expensive yeah

but I go in there and they're like the most because they actually like cars so I walk in there and they're just like oh yeah we'll jack it up and they were like they asked me about some adjustment they were going to make

and they're like oh it looks like this but that looks like that's intentional so we're going to check it with you and then I got really good doing it and it was like 30 good for an alignment and a tire change really good They, it's just because I knew.

I knew what I had the knowledge. Yeah, you knew what you wanted and they couldn't fuck you over. Instantly, just, and it's not like it's difficult to find out about this stuff. Google, honestly, it's like when Jim or any of you ask you about cars, the first thing I do is a Google search. Oh, James, my car's making this funny gear in second gear. Oh, yeah, it's probably your clutch. And what happened, Jim got a clutch replaced because it was this clutch.

Google Search is your best friend. Yeah, well, that's, Basically, they'll save me with this gutter bullshit. It's like these, like, there are websites now that will, you just put in your details and then they'll just send off to a bunch of different, like, companies and then give you different quotes. Yeah. Because that's all you can really do.

You generally don't have to do anything anymore online. There's so many places to get all the information you need easy. And you can get answers to every question you have off Google. It's just a, yeah, it's just a time thing. It's like, man, there's not enough time. Every time I've sat there, like, comparing quotes online. I'm just like... No, doing quotes is the most infuriating thing ever.

So every year, we all have to do, like, home insurance, pay insurance, human insurance. It's like... I can't be fucking hard. Yeah. Because going through it and then loading and then it's like, oh, if you slightly change this, you might be able to get a better doing it. Yeah, that really gets under my skin, just how much wasted time. So much wasted time.

I hate it. And it's like, it's like why for car stuff of me, it's like... I can't do use those anymore because I just can't get insuranceally normal people. It's like, I know two companies and I call them, I'm like, I need insurance. And they just, I just sort it, don't even care. Can't get quotes, just pay. Easy. More expensive, but it saves a lot of time.

It's an exhausting world, man. Yeah, you come in. Everyone, when that phase of capitalism were, every second, they're trying to take your money. and they're trying to fleece you and you've just got to not do anything. We've got to be more like our own things and actually help each other. Yeah, straight up.

Be a good person. Yeah. This is the part of the show. We answer questions from the JAR Media subreddit, which is growing nicely for non-FNAF related reasons. Sven, as our first comment.

Can you give an update on all the JAR animals? Argy's currently licking feet yeah um Gaius is alive Pais that he's alive Billy is replacing Argy

yeah um so yeah Argy that is he had his surgery or whatever um he had his x-ray he had his vaccine he's kind of just been in the vet constantly for the first few months of this year

he's made you reach breaking point um actual breaking point pretty much um there might be a new jar animal joining the crew. Yeah. I had a scary moment the other night. What happened? Um, I stepped

outside in about half past 11, 12-ish so pretty late. And I could hear something going Oh, another ghost. And I was like, what the fuck? This shit's scary.

Anyway, it turns out hedgehogs. Oh. Like snores. really loudly They're really cute This is actually They're incredibly cute I never saw it

Because I thought That shit Like could be a badger But this is actually crazy You brought this up Because Sven left a comment Saying hello job boys I just learned that there are

Hedgehogs in the UK How have you not mentioned this before How common are they Do they come into people's homes Like rats, how sharp are their spikes Do you have any hedgehog stories Someone from a hedgehogless hemisphere I didn't know

There was anywhere that didn't have hedgehogs Yeah they are they are common they are common in the UK they're not as common as I would like I've seen them quite a few times there's a lot you mostly see them splattered on the room

unfortunately yeah but when you're if you're walking around like at night yeah no they are nocturnal so no the opposite of nocturnal they sleep during the day and they are yeah nocturnal yeah and so if you go out in your car at night

you've got to watch the roads because they are they are just wondering about they're cute as fuck and they are slow. Yeah, the way they walk is hilarious. They're like, they are dbys. They are dbys, but they're unbelievably cute. And I like them. So, even on your state, I'll see them.

On my state, I see them. You just got to be, if you're going out of night, be careful. Just look. Not hard. They're cute. But I love hedgehogs, and I want to protect them. Because they're innocent and nice. Yeah, I'd often see them walking back from Alex's.

Yeah, they're loads in this area. Because obviously, we're near the countries. I remember someone. bringing in some baby ones to primary school. Really? Everyone had a little look at them. Yeah. That's cool.

They, um... What was the noise it made? Like, piggy... Yeah, it's like... Yeah, like exhaling really loud. Mm. If I did that right now properly, just fucking...

Shit would go everywhere. Yeah, we see them. They're nice. We like hedgehogs. Yeah. And no, they don't... They don't go into people's houses. No.

Yeah, that's really not a problem. They tend to avoid light. Like, if you see something scuttling and you shine a light, they're going to go in the opposite direction to that light. Oscar Man 97 has one for us. Hello, boys. I write this question with tears in my eyes, tears of disbelief. Alex, how could you give the 2007 masterpiece Mr. Bean's Holiday

a one-star review on Letterboxed? Surely the captivating and emotional performance from Willem Defoe alone was more than enough to warrant a six out of five. I'm disappointed and need answers. Willem Defoez in that movie? Yeah, that's what caught my eye Most too, because I don't remember much about it Except wasn't, isn't the guy from

Ghostbusters 2 in it or something? The guy from Ghostbusters T? For some reason, I've seen the Mr. Bean movies Like a bunch of times. There's multiple? There's two, I think. Right. And I just don't, I don't have full memories of them.

Yeah, Mr. Bean's holiday. isn't a good man I have fun memories of the TV show those VHS tape him going to the swimming pool he gets a chicken

on his head that shit's so scary that is pretty scary the swimming pool episode that's funny one just you know the Robin Reliant

falling over and stuff you know in the green mini yeah to your best Mr Bean impression oh

oh James what's your Mr Bean impression I can't do one I generally do a Mr Bean impression honestly I probably haven't seen it since around that time though yeah so hearing Willem Defoe is in it is tempting to revisit

but I've got to be honest I've got too many Jared Lotto movies like chapter 27 to to check out you know stick them up says I really want to see James with a pair of glasses on for old time's sake honestly don't believe we've seen post beard James with glasses on at all Yeah, so the whole glasses thing was the I don't actually need glasses My eyesight is perfectly fine What? The only problem

The problem in my eyes is one of them is ruined because the cat incident When I was a kid So my depth of perception is pretty much Close to non-existent So it's like I've got to have max magnification on just the left eye And

I gave up I just I thought they looked I just gave up I didn't care enough so I did the golden of glasses my eyes still as terrible I just getting worse as you get older yeah probably

what's the last time you got an eye test you got to stop man Jesus he's like sloppier yeah are you please it's quite fucking like obsessive

in a way. No, it is. It's really obsessive. Do you think he'd do that if you just put your hand in there? No. Or is it specifically like a salty feet thing? I think he's messed up. Can we put him out of the room?

Yeah, no, please Alex. I can't stop this. Jara 500 says, Hello, JAR boys. Is the mullet thing still on? We need to see the mullets. No. I said both types of mullet, mullet there.

Bear bear. I'm gonna say No, I'm not gonna do that I've seen too many Mullets in the wild since this came up on the cast and thought every single time that doesn't, that wouldn't work on me

and I think that's kind of where I stand I'm not, I'm not going mullet Okay, well But if we go to America I will don't the mullet I'm not doing it Why? I saw a picture of what they look like I'm not doing it

Ooh. I'll stick them up, actually, left one that might be useful. Okay, bear, bear with me here. As far as I know, the cast are usually recorded between Fridays and Sundays, and the suggestion thread is left up until the next cast is published. Does this mean that people posting questions in the last couple of days have zero chance of getting their questions read out? Maybe I should send this to the jimbus,

or I could be thinking too far into it. so um the truth is there's there's there's not actually like a dedicated day that's consistent um sometimes we'll even record on sunday so it's more of a case of you'll have a better chance if it's earlier in the week probably just so it's in there um but also you can if you do just leave it on a sunday you can put it again in the next thread if it's a weekly throne you know some people do that just answer the same thing every week until it gets answered

then it will get answered. Some people do employ that strategy and sometimes it does work. If the question is good enough. So I'd say four weeks. Ask the same question. To tell the jarlings the truth on the jar dock I literally have

I think about 150 pages of unused questions. Wow. Yeah we're saying them for this extra jumbo special long question of It would probably take like 10 hours to go through all of them. I hate the word jumbo. I like you do.

You don't like jumbo jet. No, like jumbo sausage roll. Don't like it. Jumbo sausage roll, extra don't like it. Battered jumbo sausage from a chippy, extra don't like that. I don't mind that. But I hate it. Jumbo sausage just makes you feel inadequate.

I'm rocking a jimba sausage Jimbe Zossi Yeah Jumbo The way you feel about Jumbo is the way I feel about Fizzy drink It's not bad because Jumbo's a decent shop Jumbo

Excuse me I don't know It's just something about it Jumbo Did you get called Jimbo as a kid. I get called Jimbo now. I got called

Jimbo as a kid and I still get a cool Jimbo now. But Jimbo and Jumbo like... No, it's just totally sound. Jumbo's quite

close to Gumbo and Gumbo's kind of gross to me. Gumbo, like slop? Yeah, like fish slop. Fish slop? There's meant to be

some fine-ass gumbo out of it. Yeah, you can have some yeah. I've never had gumbo. I'm not going to judge gumbo. The concept of

Gumbo doesn't sit well on my mind. But maybe I'm just being unfair to gumbo. You are? I think you're being unfair to gumbo. Shall I Google it? Yes. Should I at least give it a Google image? Yeah, the finest gumbo in the south.

I'd do declare. Gumbo. Actually, yeah, some of them aren't pretty good. See? A stew popular in the US state of Louisiana. Yeah. gumbo I bet you can have bad gumbo

though like Oh yeah You can have good and bad Everything Oh Why'd you have to do that Yeah why'd you have to do that Ah

When's you have to do that Ah Um Breen Siener Had a quick one Just wondering why James thought Vinnie VineSource Is this

Is part of VSource When they're two Completely separate entities And this should have been A housekeeping But I'd notice this When you're saying because I know who VineSauce is

but I was confused because I was like I was double questioning I was questioning myself because the V-Sorce link I was like wait what They're not connected Yeah They're not That's the joke is that they're not

But Breen's seen as confused You know Well I'm confused And I'm confused to be honest So I thought Vinnie was the hot one Where I was thinking Vine sauce Vine sauce

What is Vine sauce? It was a joke it was I was purposely there's no connection between the two I was just being being classic Vinnie yeah Elvinnie that as they say

right two more uh JH says update on teaching my class of jarlings remember this one they were saying about how they were sneaking stuff into the to their room

I've got them saying bah if they get something right in lessons I did an activity in which I taught the dibby to children and got them to draw their favorite dibby this is fake lots of minions and two pogs fake i also showed them shark tale last friday because it was a recommendation for sardonicust i'm afraid i'm at a standstill and what else to indoctrinate my jammy with any suggestions fake boys he's lying is that your leading theory now then yep they're just lying

it always was a little bit lying for attention do you think what do you what's your take james do you think it's fake you think it's fake yeah well uh j h it's kind of on you then you know unlock yeah I mean it's just been pushed too far like drawing your favorite dibby

I get that because that's like kids love dibby's yeah they do but yeah and true and like our mom is a teacher um

and like when I've I've been to like one of the schools she's taught her and seen like minion shit like plastered all over Yeah, well in secondary school, I had a teacher that fucking put minions. In secondary school?

Yeah. He loved minions. My man loved minions. He did. He had a count the minion thing. Like, if you could find every minion, you were the guy. Oh, you're right. I forgot about that.

That was Mr. E. All right. Let's do the final. From Romulus. Hey, boys, the one and only finished jarring here with a little jar-related story. story regarding a friend of mine. A couple years ago, I was starting up a secondary school in a new city with a new set of friends. At this time, it was also when I first got into Jawa. So as I was doing my best to socialize and find new friends, I stumble upon this one guy that

seems oddly familiar. I'd never met him before and at first I had no idea why he seemed so familiar, but then it hit me. I'm not kidding when I say, he is the Finnish James. He loves cars, has the same color and type of hair, talks in the same manner, and most important, does the James Ba. When I realized this connection, I was convinced I had stumbled upon a wild fellow Jarmillian. I don't think I've seen that one, but Jarmillion. I was still not 100% sure,

so I tried to figure out the best and least weird way to find out if he actually was one. So I casually started talking about podcasts and whether he listens to any particular ones. To my disappointment, he said he'd never listened to a single episode of any podcast in his whole life. So either this is just a weird coincidence

or he's just a closeted Jars sexual. I guess we'll never know. Anyway, sorry for the long comment. Just thought I should share this game on. Liar. Fucking liar! Yeah, this is the name. Is this the new comment matter?

You're fucking liar. How dare you? Do you prefer game on or Bebe? Bebe. Game on, you can't replace game on. Bear bear does not stand a charge. But Game On's old jar. Ooh.

Bear bear. Bear bear's a little what. No, a little wet. Game on. No, it's a bear. Game on. Game on. It's double bear.

And it's been iterated on quite well. Like, Jim was eating some gummy bears earlier. You put two in his hand, and he just held, you just held two of them in front of me. It took me a while to get it. You didn't get it, I had to tell you. I went, bear bear. A bear, a bear, a bear, a bear, I do declare.

Who's sitting over there? Who is that sitting over there? Well, I think it's a bear bear. Well, I do declare that there is a bear. bear is that two is that two bears sitting over there I do declare

that is two bears sitting over there it's like bear bear oh I think that's probably a good oh ho ho

I think that's quite good that's probably a good place to end it to be honest I do do do close Bear, bear who's sitting over there I currently think that maybe Argy should be not in this episode He's not

Look at him Being really fucking cute Really fucking ugly Who wants to lead I think I'll go first You want to be blue Yeah

I do to Claire, you're going to be blue I am feeling Kind of blue Don't you like it? No, I hate it What's wrong with it? Oh, look, funny little gimmick What do you mean?

Can I just start whenever? Yep Well, make sure you introduce it or whatever unless James wants to do it Or I want to do it Good afternoon, morning, evening or night Ladies and gentlemen Welcome to the second half of the show

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