JAR Media Posdact - Kermit Comes in CLUTCH

Episode Date: February 16, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 08:17 Housekeeping 26:56 Doug Walker CBT 34:26 Mid Break 39:21 Question Segment: Feedback on Patreon 42:34 MIBI on Sardonicast 44:19 Jobs that Ruin Hobbies 46:50 Media You've Soured On 52:10 Silent Hill 57:05 Dry Air 57:54 Rankers needs to STOP 58:08 Marmite. 1:00:04 The China JARling 1:02:37 What to do on Purge day 1:05:17 Questionable Slang 1:08:08 The Tactics Game that Has Everyone Talking 1:10:11 Why does everyone HATE Frodo? #BroCastS7E6

Did somebody say fucking rankers, is it? Ranking and being all friendly today. I can't really do a Kermit very well. Maybe you should be Kermit. Hello there. Maybe Kermit. Can you tell a bite every line? Yeah.

Good afternoon, morning, evening or night. You seem to give me a fright. I'm just going to have to do my Jordan voice, huh? Yeah. No, that's cool. You woke moralists? Because I can't do Jordan. Maybe you're only allowed to do one or the other.

Yeah, yeah. He's the only one that's blessed with, like, the perfect amalgamation of a bit of a bit of Kerm and a bit of Pete. You ranking, moralists. Quit ranking, you moralists. Good afternoon, morning, evening or night. Everybody? I'm Kermit, joined by

Jim. I'm fucking Mumford, mate. Oh, Mumford, is it? I'm Mumford's son. Oh, you're Mumford and son. I've heard that before. Oh, Mumford. This is nice.

Um, Alex couldn't make it today. So, uh, uh, Jordan, I mean, Kermit is here in his stead. In his stead, I said. Hamdala. Hamda-l-Lah! Um, so I was asked to take his place because he's got a sore, uh, he's got a sore area. Area.

His area is sore. So he needed someone to come in and, uh, take down those moralists. Which area, Kermi? I, I'm not sure. Um, that sounded like a B flat to me. I thought it wasn't a K flat for Kermit. The new house. Um, I guess you're not gonna really be picking up on this unless you're a, uh, watching.

Um, because I'm Kermit. I'm real. I'm real. I'm as real as I ever am and ever will be. Got any questions for me, Jim? No. Oh, it's a little bit notable that I'm here at all. Don't you believe?

Rots wrong Um I feel like we've We haven't thanked um Oh yeah sorry I've not done this before I'm still learning You've got it, Kerm Just believe

Do you like your nickname Kerm Is it? Sounds a bit too close to come I don't like that Just keep ranking Kerm So the first question is What is

Rankers on PS5 What is Rankers on PS5? I don't understand a single thing you guys talk about. Listen here, come, you're fucking slag. You're fucking Slag. I feel like I'm on season 88 of something I've never understood. Season 7 episode fucking Oh yes, it's

um... Season 7 episode 6 of Rankers on PS5. Does this have a different name? What? Because we're not brothers. Um, Kerm?

The Kerm, the Kerm, what, what was it? The Kermit, the Kermit, the Kermit, um,

catastrophe, crew. Oh, Kermit comes in clutch. Kermit, the KK-I-K. Um, before we get too deep into the show,

we need to shout out those JARMedia patrons over at the patron. Hooray! How much long should I do it for? The whole thing. Well, if you've gone too long already, so you can't start. Okay, let's just go away.

Yeah, I guess the patrons, they make the show an audio version possible. You got the raw, unfiltered MP3. Over on Patreon and free! That's not all there. If you're a patron over there, you get your names read out in the first or second week of each month. We did it last week, so get those names in ready for March, which is when I was born. I mean, Alex was born. Alex isn't here.

It's Kermit. But holy moly, mother of God and matrimony and alimony and testimony. We, there's after hours. The supplementary show we do every week. Probably the best content out there. Doesn't get much better than this. Wait, what was the line when... What was the line?

Yeah, yeah, the, um... Now this I like. Now this I like. Yeah, come it gets the lightsaber. Now this I like. Damn, there's a whole growing playlist over there for Jaffer Hours. Last week we did the Epstein rant. It's like an hour-long discussion,

which people seem to be enjoying, a bit therapeutic for everybody involved. That's not all there. We did the 28 years later Bone Temple, which you could have got a week early. It should be up by the time you're hearing this for everybody. But there's the weird Reddit mod video, all the various creepy.

Pastor readings trying to know what was it like the donkey Kong show the Neo robot breakdown so many different videos over there a few chances loads of chances too many chances So many chance Cermitt's chance Yeah, let's see Cermit's chance next I need a chance and last but not least the Jarminia group chat Which is a group chat where you can leave a little bit of this little bit of that and also if we reach our stretch goal We're finally going to start our dream of, um, starting a milk delivery service. Jar milk.

Jar milk. Fresh from udder. Who's udder? That's what you're paying for. The mystery. It's like a JJ Abrams mystery box of milk. Another one. Yeah, it's like a mystery animal milk delivery service.

Yeah. What animal's milk you're going to get? Might not even be a mammal. Snake milk Pigeon milk Do you know about pigeon milk? Is that kind of like a real phenomenon? It is

So when a bird Like vomboms into its baby's mouth It's got like the equivalent Milk Like You know what milk does for mammals It gives you like immunity

It gives you You know Vitamines Like pigeon milk is their like stomach Gunge that comes out with their Vombom, is there equivalent? You heard me a gunge. Yeah. You heard me a pigeon milk. So let's do some housekeeping then. We round off conversations

from the last week or so, starting with some I plucked from the bloody. Can you sometimes just drop like one word in the sentence will be like a Kermit, a petus and like Kermit, one, just one word in that intonation. Like one word from the Patreon chat. Yeah. You know? Yeah, but can you like pause and then say it and then pause and then go back to your normal cadence?

So like, let's do the housekeeping segment where we go back to last week and round off conversations. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That just flows like... From the previous episode. Or something. many words. It can only be one. No, it can't only be one, but it just has to be correct. It has to feel right, and that felt wrong

to me. Well, um, Vecna dropping the needle on his Imagine Dragons record said that Epstein rant was proper scran, fellas, keep it up. And Mr. Blue Pumpkin said, have you guys been keeping up with the recent invasion of Cyberstan? The lead-up was

very cool with the automaton. This is Held Iber's thing, by the way. Automotons, hacking the major. order screen urging hell divers to attack each other and fudging the reinforcement count to be less than it was i've played that update and it's probably the best one since the invasion of super earth the bots are my favorite faction so them getting new units is pretty cool um no i haven't played it i haven't played helter divers in a long time yeah i don't really like juggling more than two games yeah currently it's it's still night rain and hades two for me um i'm really trying to finish

Hades too but it's slow I try and just do like one 20 minute run a day just like chipping out it type thing awesome game though yeah I really need to jump back on it's just when like I'm someone with a big backlog of games so it's like as much as I love the

Helldivers like in universe stuff going on I feel like the second I missed one event I kind of fell off and then like started a backlog game and I know if I get back into Helldivers, like it's going to swamp everything else.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Um, Antonio Phillips says, favorite cities you've visited slash worst. I didn't realize how nice Tokyo was until I went back to work in London the next day.

Loll. That was a quick way back. Doesn't it take like 14 hours to? Wait, you just walk back to London? Yeah. It's walking distance, isn't it? Tokyo. I took a walk to London To Tokyo

Um Worst city I've been to probably London Birmingham I've never been so Birmingham's my least favourite I've been to the UK Um My favourite I really rate

Porto Okay Really cool city Yeah in Portugal Um Athens was really cool in Greece Barcelona was cool

Barcelona is very cool yeah that's a good shout Not Sydney You bloody Australians Yeah get out of here with your Sydney nonsense Too hot We've got the opera house Ooh

It's scorching hot Oh guys Come over here we've got the biggest scariest spiders And then smaller ones that will kill you yeah no i'm good mate no i actually desperately want to go back to australia yeah so um

uh i don't think i really do cities thinking about it like well uh Reykjavik in Iceland It's fucking cool Yeah I really want to go to Iceland Really cool when it's like icy and shit

Um When are we gonna do our jar in Iceland Expedition Geisland Jisland For the music festival Yeah that would be so fire I'd like I want to go in summer

To Iceland Contrast it a little bit Inverse Because then you get Instead of the 20 hours of night You have 20 hours of day And four hours of night

of night. Yeah, that must be a strange thing. Yeah. And like all these purple flowers come out. Really? Yeah. I've seen photos and shit and the guy we stayed with when we went was like describing it and it sounds beautiful and yeah. Yeah. I mean it's beautiful and it's icy as well. Any other in the UK? I like Bristol a lot. Yeah, Bristol's cool. The last time I went to Cardiff was so long ago I don't want to speak on it. Yeah. I haven't explored Cardiff enough to really have a strong opinion. Yeah, I rushed around it.

I don't think I really like cities in general. To be honest, there must be one you like. Bristol's probably my favorite one. Like that vibe, it doesn't have the like, the bustle that's like that comes with cities. Yeah, it's a lot smaller. You can walk everywhere. Yeah, I love that. I love that. I hate, I had to use a bit of, like, public transport on the, that used buses today. Just a little bit. And it fucking sucked. What in Bristol? Yeah, then it's obviously bad, the buses. They're really fucking shit.

Because they were privately run. And I was asking, like, oh, how do you get here? And they're like, there, don't know. Don't know. Oh, right. Well, like the bus driver. Yeah, they were like, I don't know. I don't know where that is. I don't know where I had. And then, yeah, and then on the way back, I was like, hey, just to double check, does this bus go to, it's called like Arno's Road or something? Arno Road, some shit like that. And he was like, never heard of it. And I was like, oh, what says on Google Maps, the bus, and he's like, never heard of it. I don't normally drive this bus.

Where is it? And then I was like, oh, okay, I'll just risk it then. and he was like, okay, where are you going? And I said, well, on his road. And then he said, he said again, never heard of it. I was like, what? Did he have the Bristolian accent as well? Yeah, he did.

Never heard of it. That's awesome. Yeah, and I was just like, okay. And then he was like, where is it? What city is it? And I was like, it was fucking Bristol. We're in Bristol. Because this was the bus that goes to Bath.

And then we're on the bus, going along. literally like four stops and then it pops up like on the voice thing. The next stop is Arno's, Arno Road.

It's like, the next stop is Rankers on PS5. Yeah, but it was like five stops away. And he didn't know, he'd never heard of it. Yeah.

He's like, what the fuck? He wasn't even a bus driver. It was just some random guy who just hopped in that day. Yeah, the bus driver was like dead on the floor. In the car. He was like,

hit man. Like, You had him stuffed in to the storage container. I was thinking about that. Is there like a Hitman map that's like a analogous to like an Epstein Island type? Yes. There is. Yes.

Yeah, I've seen memes of it. Like it's been memes. It has to be done. There's two. There's like two maps. There's one that's like Epstein's Island. It's perfect for it. Yeah.

And there's one that's like, um... That's so fucked. I mean, obviously it doesn't have like the trafficking connotation. connotations. Yeah. Same vibe. And there's also one that's like, like you've infiltrated the Illuminati. Right.

Oh, that's such a good idea. Yeah, yeah. That's so fucking funny. What a funny game. Oh, it's so fucking good. Yeah. A quick advert, quick plug for Hitman. Yeah, it has to be done. Every now and again. Play Hit Man. Dylan said, what do you guys think about the fact

that they're developing Wankers 2? Even though the original Wankers development team got dissolved into various different projects. Will the game be a hollow shell of itself Without any of the people who made it special Being involved in its sequel? You Yeah, I think you have to

You have to follow like the original creative Team Right Listen to your heart Mirror Mirror A reflection of Kermit Yeah Come on there

Um No, in all seriousness I think the truth successor to Rancers is going to be what the original people are moving on and there are whispers There are whispers

There's a story developing in the background Yes, there are whispers of maybe a smaller scale project But a project nonetheless led from behind by the Rancers' original creative team But I mean

We'll see what happens with like trailers and stuff and who knows maybe rankers too will be like decent in its own way but yeah I wouldn't count on it though yeah I wouldn't count on it but let's hold out hold out hope it's all we got

it's all we got um and perfectly run that's the last one from the group chat nice bear bear wankers thoughts on moving out of home for the first time I'm currently in the process of moving out of my girlfriend to a new flat and shit's daunting

and exciting at the same time. Gay? Thoughts? It's daunting and exciting. Yeah, I'd say it's kind of a little bit daunting, a little bit exciting at the same time. Both at the same time in a way. Uh-huh.

Just think to yourself, What would Kermit do? Or what would Rammett rule? Or what would Jordan do? Yeah, always ask yourself, what would Jordan do? Is there angel and devil on your shoulder? Yeah. Hmm, I'm really fancy going to Russia

to get an experimental treatment stick to beef um no is it congrats um that's very cool yeah big change um kind of gay to move in with a girl yeah doesn't get much gay

gay what are you some kind of homosexual even though it's okay to be that um did you see last week's thumbnail yes yeah because um in the comment section

1F1N 1 said immediate top 10 thumb now it is good you were cooking with that one I think it was quite a good one it was a collaborative effort you know yeah with the whale facts jarling dropping some some whale facts giving us some kind of wailing facts not whaling facts but whale facts you know

whaling's very bad Kermit doesn't like whaling Kermit says no to wailing I stand against wailing Lingling. Do you like practice that shit in the mirror or something? I don't know. I used to, um, it used to be like one of my vocal stems.

Right. So you've like got it down pat. I wish I could do like Shaggy and Scooby D. Hmm. You could do like a pretty good Scooby from memory. Yeah, but I can't get the laugh fast enough. It's why I morphed it into like a slow, like a really, Like creepy skews

Yeah, yeah And I can't I can't be shaggy Um Andrew Miroslowski says Hello Basts I'm an artist

From the Great Beneath Australia And I've made a pact To draw For the entire duration Of every new episode from now on I make abstract Detail pen

And lead Pencil drawings I wonder what Fucking nightmares Your Discussions About Venomised Wider London or something shall render.

Problem is, I'm a rather introverted dibby, and I find it extremely uncomfortable to put myself and my art out into the... World! It's to the extent that not even my family has seen my art or knows about my music. Any advice on how to overcome such crippling fear? P.S., I've been subscribed to Jal for many years,

but have only recently started binging the last few months' worth of premium Nosh, catching up on all the redacted episodes that one of the most exhilarating journeys I've been on in a long time. Proud of you. I like genuinely miss him, and I'm not even joking.

Bring him back, you hards. Drop bear, drop bear. What's the hard? Bastard. Oh, okay. Mr. Bastard. Yeah, no, I get that now. Yeah.

Drop bear, drop bear. You got that one? No. The Australian... Isn't it like a thing they do where they say like, oh, have you... You heard of the drop bears?

It's like a koala meme or something Oh right okay Do they remember talking to our cousin about it When she was here? Or maybe only I did It might have just been you Yeah Um

Girlfriend Love says Oh yeah we didn't even answer it Sorry I'm in like a weird rush for some reason Even though there's no rush A weird sort of Kermit type rush Maybe like yeah I'm gonna be late

Pige you ask me Come on, let's go! Yeah, how do you get out your show and share your, your deepest, darkest creations? Keep that shit locked away because people will only use it to hurt you. The ultimate self-defense is to never share anything. Push it down. Remember what I see, kids. Push it down. Find it away.

You got to think, right? You have a limited time on this earth. You have a voice. Use it while you can. Well, yeah. But also, I think it is okay to do stuff for you. Mm-hmm. I would say little by little, like, introduce maybe something that you don't hold so close.

Make something with the intention of it being imperfect. maybe. And, um, because like, I think, uh, criticism is probably the hardest thing to take on board without taking it personally, you know, especially when it is like creative shit. Yeah. Because it is like, you're, like, you're like slicing a bit off yourself and like giving it to someone. It's like, what do you think?

And if they're like, well, that's shit, it's almost like they're saying, your shit. It's not true, though. It's not true. And... Hey, but wrong was it building a day. The thing is, you're not going to have the confidence. It's a catch-22. You're not going to have the confidence in yourself to share stuff if you never share it.

Because it's like the same way we, um, we like see ourselves. It's all it's like through the perspective of other people as well, you know. Yeah. Stuff gets affirmed, you know, and you need a bit of affirmation. So maybe just, just make something with the intention of sharing it and share it with someone who you really trust. Yeah, perhaps that's partially what it is, is like you haven't found someone you're comfortable around to share it. Yeah, yeah. What do you think deviant art is for, brother?

Yeah. Yeah. And also start, start dabbling in pregnant, um, pregnant, venomized characters or pregnant, pregnant venomized anthromorph, anthraplanes. Yes. Or pregnant, um, venomized master chiefs. You know, something like this. Yeah, just pregnant some things as long as it's pregnant. Yeah.

There's VOR options. There's, uh, inflation type. Dipe type beats. Oh, yeah. inflation venomized I might start wearing a dipe you're not already brother miss piggy

give me a dip yeah girlfriend love says solidarity for you and your sore throat Alex last year I came down with a throat infection which led me with a randomly left me with a randomly itchy throat for literally over three months

what was even more annoying was that it would go away for a week or so and then just return still does occasionally and others i know have experienced the same thing curious curious hmm weird well you know some people are fucking born without the ability so like just be thankful you even have a throat check yourself man yeah check yourself man um we talked about woody harrison last episode and de boost said Woody harrison's dad was a literal convicted hitman who killed several people opposite of a nepo baby that's fucking bad asses I wish my dad killed people.

Maybe he has. He's from New Zealand. You know how vicious they are over there. No, that's Australia. In New Zealand, they're all pussies. True, they don't really have like the Bogan's. What's the equivalent? Lewis Capaldi on PS5.

New Zealand on PS6. fat louis capaldi on xbox i'm sorry louis i didn't mean to call you fat did you that's really horrible unless he's fat and ugly i'm a bit fat and ugly these days i'm a bit chubby that's the truth is that everyone is

i don't know everyone's hot and sexy yeah everyone's hot and sexy but i'm fat and ugly me i'm fat and ugly me huh I'm just fat and ugly um we got CBT to do man oh really yeah because uh I I've created a mega thread on the JAR media subreddit so an always existing thread where you can leave your suggestions for CBT the recurring segment cringe base tough where we take

somebody a a writer a philosopher a YouTuber a star child of sorts. Star Child, Star! Our favourite character from... Yes! PS5's Concord. Star Child, on Concord, get the figure! Do you remember which one's Star Child?

Um, the one who gives you the three endings at the end? No, in Mass Effect, but there's a character in Concord called Star Child. Yes! Oh, Star Child! Oh! Ah, yes. So yeah, we got we got some quotes to pull out from someone notable.

Can I guess who it is? Yeah. Is it Star Child? Maybe. But you don't know if it's the Mass Effect one or the Concord one. Oh. So yeah, I got some quotes here. You definitely know who it is.

Okay. So let's get into this. Quote number one. When will we learn? Is that the whole thing? That's the quote. Okay. Baste.

Yeah? Yeah? I'll give that based. I used to like watching scary films and feeling tougher for having done so afterwards. Hmm. Yeah, I can't argue with that. I'll give that based. Nice.

Everyone makes mistakes. I just make more of them than the common person. That's cringe. That's some sonic shit. Make cookies Not war Cringe That's cringe as fuck

Because if you don't have moments Where a character is just a character Why are you following them You know If they're doing nothing But saying story And exposition And stuff like that

There's no reason Is this the nostalgia There's no How the fuck did you get that I've watched a lot Nostatic What did you recognise Um

Make cookies not war No all of it It just made sense like yeah because I was trying to specifically pick ones that were like

not that obvious no because when you started reading this one it was like oh this is like one of the like when he's like rounding down yeah one of his

monologue like end monologue bits when he starts getting real yeah um well this suggestion is from the sharing

him hey Doug for Doug Walker you got it right but we still got to go through what's left yeah yeah um

did I finish that one or do I need read it again. Because if you don't have moments where a character is just a character, why are you following them, you know? If they're doing nothing but saying story and exposition and stuff like that, there's no reason. There's no way you can attach to them. I mean, yeah. I'll give them based on that.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's go dog. Let's go dog. I think people do underestimate what it means to so dedicate yourself to something. And then when you finally pull out of it, or you make a choice to pull out of it for something you've been attached to for so long can have physical repercussions and it can make you woozy it can make you sick you know that

line died of a broken heart i mean it's not that really happens that often that that's some that same kind of idea that you can actually allow yourself to get ill when something is missing that actually is based though yeah that's nice yeah nice one dog Doug cooked Hmm Nice one Doug's diner I think what projects it into that special level of awful Is you probably notice that I'm really protective of kids

I don't think we should just throw away any shit Sorry Like throw any shit at kids These are written so fucking weirdly I don't think we should just Like throw any shit at kids You know I really want them to get the best that we can offer

Because they're That's when they're the most developed And you can, you know shape them into something good. No, that's what, oh my god, this is so fucking weirdly written. Because they're, that's when they're the most, I think it means this might have been written wrong. They're not the most developed and you can, you know, shape them into something good and strong and proud. And you're, you're going to throw garbage pale kids at them.

Shame on you. Do you have any clue what that was getting out? Wherever I got this wrong was like really weirdly. I think I think I get the gist and I'll like yeah yeah like protect kids agreed based on that cringe on um on the rest okay there is something to when you're pushed against a corner and you'll just say or do anything and it can sometimes really pay off okay that wasn't going where where I was expecting I'll say that's kind of tough from Doug That's from Real Thoughts on the Sonic shows. Nice.

Curious what you think of this one. If Marvel is humans becoming gods, D.C. is gods becoming human. Yeah, I've always kind of agreed with that, kind of. Hmm. Apart from Batman. Well, even then, like, he's kind of a god because he's a billionaire. Just do whatever he wants.

It was Bruce Wayne on the list. Um, And last one. My grandfather had a saying. If it's more funny than it is hurtful, it's worth saying. I mostly stand by that. No matter what, somebody is going to be offended by a joke as all humor is based on misery. But when humor is being used to spread more misery as opposed to lift it, that's where it starts to backfire.

It's a thin line and every comedian has stepped over it once or twice. But it's a necessary part of finding out what spreads joy and or provokes the mind. But people like to feel good. and will return to anyone who can continue to make them feel good. That's when a comedian knows when he or she is doing their job right. Was this when Doug was trying to get on the Joe Rogan podcast? What is it? Is the war review him going too far? Yeah. Yeah, becoming too offensive.

I'll give him a cringe on that because he used the word comedian. Oh, hush. What do you think of those then? Um You know what Don't get more base than I was expecting Hmm I quite like most of those actually

Yeah Yeah Spoken to the heart of the mystery At the center of the universe I remember it so Well You don't have to Um

Do you have anything else Before we go to mid break Um Piss my little pants Yeah I gotta piss I gotta piss my I gotta fuck I mean don't piss in my dape

Rankers on PS5 out now PlayStation You sounded just like Anakin Well it's not every day Then That's a really good Anakin impression Say the force is the way

Obi-1, you're my master tonight What's the context there? What the fuck? Hooby-1, you're my master tonight. Quangangian, you can be my master. Welcome to the second half. Why? Why?

Rye. Rot. Rutt? Get me out of this rut, rot, rot, right. Rui. Roo, rot, rare rye. The answers of every writer. This is the second half of the cast where we head over to the suggestion thread over on the jar media Subritted and get questions which you can do as well

And calmer if you're lucky Perhaps a little sprinkling of karma if your questions just didn't know A bit of a sprinkle of karma Carmar Carmar I was um Because I've been um spoiler alert I've been watching Fallout.

Uh-oh. And Walton Goggins... I hope you didn't like it. By the way, I'm not spoiling anything. I'm just saying that Walton Goggins is in it. And I've been just doing his voice while I drive around. The aura farms every line. He does, he does, and he cooks in that show.

But I was doing his voice. And I feel like I was doing a pretty good impression, I think. But I couldn't say the word here. Here H-E Like I'm here Like I don't know how Because in like the American accent

Typically you'd have that really strong R like here I'm over here Waiter I'm here Like that I'm over here But with Like there's a similarity

With like a Texan accent Like a southern American accent. He's got like, da-da-da-da. Yeah, but that accent has the English kind of ours, so the non-pronounced

ours. I say, I say, I'm over here. Yeah, that one sounded right. That sort of thing. Yeah. That was more that like the WB chicken fucking thing. What's he called?

WB chicken. You know, like bugs. Oh, that fucking asshole. He's like a Texan. Yeah, what even is he? I can't remember his name. Who is he? What's he in?

Isn't he called like Rocky Rooster or something? Fucking... I'm a Confederate rooster. Yeah. Rocky Rooster. No, that's, um, fucking chicken, that's Mel Gibson. I don't mention Mel right now.

I don't know what he's called. W.B. Rooster. There's someone out there going... How do you not know who he is? You like, first you like fallout the show? No, you don't No, even Romstead rooster Oh, of course it's Foghorn, Leghorn.

Uh, I say, I say Why, I do declare That, yeah He's in like Space Jam, isn't he? Of course he is. He's funny, though. I smell a bit of basketball on the loose. Yeah, because that's something

Um, Walton Goggins always does, is with the, the S's. He always does the Yeah I smell a bit of smell A stinky smell

Is that your diaper I'm smelling Yeah That's one full Dipe you got there If you got this If you got this while Comment

Make cookies Not warm Dude so much wax It's just pouring Off that plate That's fine Do you see it? Yes

Like dripping Yeah Sorry, that's not very podcast of me. Do you just for once be a little bit more podcast of an evening? I'm fucking sorry. You could just dedicate yourself to a podcast just for one goddamn, you motherfucker. It's not very fog, horn, leghorn are you, motherfucker? I'm trying to podcast over here.

So this one we can start with from I Like to Dangu. was a bit of feedback from what we're talking about the last episode. Hi, I just wanted to respond to Alex and the listener who said the amount of pay-walled content is fine because of the years of free content. I pay for the Patreon. Paid episodes is all good with me. But my problem was reviews and other potential popular videos never getting released publicly. The Wall Review hit the zeitgeist and part of the reason it blew up was it was released so quickly.

Imagine if that video became public six months after you made it. The podcast has become increasingly impenetrable, with inside jokes and reliance on discussions with the audience, and the more palatable and non-community-driven stuff is payward. The smaller community is charming, but I find the increasing reliance on fan engagement with the core audience has led to the same people, dominating episode, which I found less and less amusing.

I've gone to the channel in 2019 because I enjoyed the wall review so much that it onboarded me into the podcast. I don't think it would have otherwise. Releasing movie reviews after a week sounds like a good compromise. By all means, do whatever makes stuff easier, just my two cents how does that strike you baby boy

I have actually thought about this really yeah and I do like the I get what you're saying about there being like a small group of people but at the same time like that's almost cooler to me I do um

there's definitely a balance there Yeah. And I will prioritize people who are names I don't recognize. Right. There is a slight bias towards them. Mm-hmm. And I do think there's still like a nice variety. For sure.

Churn of people I see, but I definitely hear what you're saying. And I think the compromise is the, I think the weak thing is good. Unless it's like the draftor hours we're doing today, that won't ever be released publicly, for example. Yeah, right. Yeah. The 28 years one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's definitely going to go up.

And I think the media ones definitely need to be... Yeah, 100%. About a week is good, I think. Yeah. And it's a thing where, like, if I had more time, I would love to, like, just do more stuff that, like, can come out. So there's more of, like, a regular trickle, but it just is that, like... Mm-hmm.

Time... It goes away from you. So the order you get, the less time you have. Sort of slips through your fingers there. Have you been practicing as well? Yeah. Because that's spot on. You started watching the show before me, so you had that time to really iron it in.

I appreciate the feedback, though. Yeah, for sure. No, and like that, that insight is like, like, you, why don't you make content? Like, you sound like you know your shit. Uh, pull on face says, does Alex plan to eventually recommend men in black international on Sardonicast? Um, you haven't already? It's not going to fucking happen, bro. Why?

Although, um, on Adam YMS's highlights channel, he, uh, one appeared in my, uh, subscription feed saying, Adam discovers um he because like in the beginning of the videos him like he's he's something like oh Alex is like obsessed with this guy what's this all that um he's like watching a clip and he like you can barely make it 30 seconds is it the Kanye clip yeah it's that scene yeah that is a struggle that one out of cackling yeah and I saw that um i don't i don't think there's what is there left to say you know did you just use his name the whole time you didn't redact it just now yeah did i didn't even say his name i didn't say it once did i you did right no oh no i did i did like when naming the

title of the video what have i done don't worry it's fine anikin will use the forced to memory wipe you or whatever he does. Yeah, yeah. He's going to force choke you. You were Natalie Portman. He was crazy in that film. He killed a bunch of kids and then domestically abuses his pregnant wife. It's fucked up.

That needs a trigger warning. We'll just beep it. Okay. Bionno Beezer says, Alex, says the fact that your job is primarily focused on movie criticism. taken any of the joy at the movie watching experience for you when you have to watch something you don't really want to for sardonicust does it feel like a chore or is it a nice excuse to broaden your perspective um i kind of have the opposite thing for sardonicust where like it's it's kind of forced

me to watch some stuff that i probably wouldn't have got around to otherwise you know like the six hour long films or yeah yeah like and i think that doesn't has forced me to have different perspectives and broaden my horizons. It's very useful for me because like you're my filter. It's really like if something fucking goated comes out. Yeah. Like you let me know. Even if it's something that came out ages ago and like somehow, um, you end up like watching

a facade. Because we didn't, I showed you, it was a while ago now, I showed you Kayoni Scottsy. Yeah, I'm, I've, which we didn't really talk about. anywhere. Yeah, I guess we didn't. We just watched that for the experience of a film. And it rocked. Did you find that to be a valuable? Massively. It's of art. Yeah. It was better on a rewatch for me. I feel like it's, um, it's like the best lesson in cinematic like storytelling I've ever seen. It's like how much you can do with just no dialogue, no single way. No dialogue, music and visual. Yeah.

Like. But there's a coherence. There's like a... But like, yeah. But beyond the intro of like, uh, up, you know, because that, that famously is like, pretty much a silent film. Like this, this movie has no people, right? You see people.

Maybe like, but not, not, yeah, there are not, yeah. A perspective character. There's no main character. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But there also kind of is. Yeah. There is a narrative to it. Yeah, and it's genius. Yeah. Yeah, it's quite incredible. It's a sensory experience.

So I hope I'm saying it right. Keone Scotzi. Is it Russian? No, I'm pretty sure it was American. Huh? Um, Super Slam says, Bear Bear Mingus, Super Slam here.

Have you ever experienced a piece of media? TV series, film, video game, which you enjoyed in the moment, but disliked the longer you've gone without experiencing it. As an example, I really enjoy the Spider-Verse films in the moment, but find more to pick apart the longer I go without

watching it. The Spider-Verse is like inverse for me. Yeah, fuck you. Block them. Block them. Yeah, you're blocked. Yep. And remember, don't get blocked. I feel like something like interstellar for me.

Yeah. Um, is that one? I was gonna say like the Dark Night. Um, no. No, I love watching it. Like, it's great to watch, but it's a film that the more you think about, the worse it gets. How so? Because of the, um, Patriot Act stuff.

Yeah. Like, poor, poor politics. Um, and... At least it has, like, some representation of... It has a character that does find it grotesque that it's happened. at least it's not just like a complete glazing yeah yeah yeah like this is fucked like yeah i know the narrative is kind of yeah justifying a use case also it's it goes like beyond just that one thing there's a bunch of stuff in the movie you can like criticize on on that um it's much

more um glazing of like rich people yeah because whereas like the new batman is i feel like how they had to address it is how you approach that character you know you have to now um and I think he's he's like Batman has gone through a huge shift culturally and like how I feel like he's way harder to do now

yeah especially post everything that's happening now in American news it's like how do you frame yeah that is true someone who is positioned in that class as it's like Batman and Superman have swapped around yeah it's weird It's really strange Um

Yeah, I'm struggling to think of other Uh Maybe It must be like a game Yeah, I'm trying to think Maybe something like lost The TV show I mean that was like an event

Like when it was coming out Yeah It was live Like Game of Thrones Like Because I remember being hyped Right up until the ending And then

I was like It's not that bad It's not Okay It's kind of about, it's really bad. And it's been bad for a while. The entire sequel trilogy, that realization. Trying to do a video game.

Yeah, I'm struggling with a game. So I find now, um... I do have a one actually for game. Go on. Bioshock Infinite. That, that did jump into my mind. Um, but I actually still really like that game. So, um...

I think I'm probably... clouded by nostalgia to a degree. But it did come to mind. The thing with games for me now, because they require so much time, if I'm not enjoying it enough, I'll just stop. Like, it just goes. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

So even stuff like, um, like dying light to, I was playing and I was acknowledging like okay it has these issues like the story is like comedically bad at once like I'm laughing at it but like it feels good as fuck so I can forgive like there's like a clear dividing line for me with that with games where like you can definitely enjoy a game just for its gameplay loop yeah and that's like night

you can just completely hand wave the narrative stuff yeah yeah yeah which is a little bit harder for something like a that's the thing like a book or a TV show or movie

yeah maybe like the last two Mission Impossible films I probably that's a good example that yeah yeah yeah they didn't really have the stuff for me

I just can't see myself like revisiting them if I'm gonna watch one it's gonna be fall up That's a good litmus test for me is like with a movie is like, would I watch that again? Mm-hmm. And if you're like making excuses like, eh, not really. I can't really be asked with that or, oh, that section was like really dull or something.

It kind of brings your mind to those places. Yes. Yeah. Whereas like, I find the best of the best, even like, like the brutalist, which is like three and a half hours long or whatever it is. I was ready to just like, I've seen it twice. like it I could put on right now type thing

you know yeah um past confusion says I know Jim's a big fan of the Resident Evil series so I just want to know will you guys ever play a Silent Hill game

I definitely don't think the Silent Hill 2 remake is anywhere near as good as the original for the padding above anything else which if I'm downboated that's probably the reason why but if you can get the enhanced edition on Steam deck

is one of the best experiences in all of gaming it's one of those backlog ones for me where like I've got Nothing against playing it. I feel like I should at some point. I just haven't got around to it. The enhanced edition of the original?

Yes. Okay. Because I'd heard that the remake was really good, but I, I'm no expert, so I've heard like mixed things. Yeah, I think it's one of those depending on like how into the franchise. Yeah. Yeah. It was what, Bluber team, didn't they do it?

I don't know. The remake. I saw a really, really good video that highlighted such an, an excellent point. with remakes and remasters that I'd never thought of until they said it and I think they were talking about

the Demon Souls one because they made quite a lot of artistic changes but kept the game feel the same for the most part from what I understand but it was a very negative like review and they said

when they make all these changes to like the art design and stuff it's like the implication is that they thought it only looked that way because they couldn't make it look better so it's it's like removing the fact that there were conscious choices made yeah in how games looked back then it's like the the Halo 1 yeah I was just about remaster is a great example because it's like they didn't make the the the forest like really foggy and shit just because they just because of the draw distance it was also like a vibe yeah you know it was like an atmosphere thing a mood thing yeah um yeah so much can be lost when a remake

is made and they they don't like consider whether it was a choice or a limitation and sometimes a choice because of limitation is the best choice for that medium. You know, like, that is the Star, that's why Star Wars worked, I reckon. No, it definitely is because it was restricted by certain things. George Lucas couldn't put, like, a five minutes, song,

fucking CGI, monster. Yeah. No, there's a, um, there's like a film philosophy that I think it's from the 90s called Dogma 95. Right. Which was like leaning into that sort of concept.

It was like, we're only going to use real sets only natural real light and like stuff like this as a way of like restricting yourself to try and keep that sort of thing in check as like an experiment yeah right yeah and it produced some really cool films as a result and I was thinking about that with that Halo 1 remake because I was really thinking the other day I'm gonna play that I'm currently on uh I don't think I should support that mm I like Yeah, like not even for science type thing. Just, just like, like, miraculously, it got like a, like a 95, like unanimous praise type thing.

Um, which I don't, I don't think it's going to happen. I'm seeing like a, I'm foreseeing like a 70 meta score. Yeah. Like, yeah, it's okay. Yeah, it will get glazed for like a month. Yeah. And then people will be like, mm. Uh-huh.

They're doing the Disney thing of like. We've got this opportunity to make this small burst of money now. Yeah. Putting it on PlayStation. Yeah, right. Without the long-term thinking of like... Well, we could use that splash to actually build like a multiplayer band base on a different console that's going to be a new audience that are going to... You know what, do you fucking...

Rip off Helldivers? Yeah. But just make that type of game. Yeah. You know? And you could probably do it in like an engine that's way better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. plan for the future.

Like, oh man. Yeah, it's pretty fucking cooked. What was the question? How did we get there? That was about the Silent Hill 2 remake. So we're talking about remakes. Yeah. It's hard to beat those Resident Evil ones, though.

They seem to be the... That's how you do it. That's how you do it. Yeah, they start a whole trend that no one else... Can do quite that same degree. No one else can copy it. Like... Uh, Tanster boy says bear squared.

Alex, you mentioned that you've been having issues with clearing your throat during the cast and recording. I had the same issue in my house. It was caused by dry air with the low humidity causing inflammation and giving me the same issue. Maybe check the humidity in the room. If it's less than 30, definitely get a humidifier. Um, yeah, I was kind of thinking about this after I read that.

You have a humidifier, right? Uh, I do somewhere. It might be something to do with when, like, the heater. is on. That dries out. It dries out my skin. Like, maybe it's something like that. Do you drink plenty of water? I try to, yeah. But this is a new one for me. I've never had this. What about candles? Um, the candles dry out. The world. I don't know. I don't know. Revert to monkey says, wankers is my favorite running joke maybe ever. Wankers ain't a joke, man. Yeah, why are you making a joke out of, uh, a passion?

A passion project. The Big Large says, Game on Jarl Kings. Last year I asked you boys about your home country as I was planning to visit a friend from the UK and after the trip, which was easily the most perfectly done vacation I've ever had, I only have one question.

Nice. Are you lovers or haters of the wonders of Marmite? The friend I was visiting told me it was an incredibly divisive flavor but I actually loved it, especially on a buttery crumpet with a cup of black coffee. Grinch. Upon bringing some home to share, however, I haven't met a single person who shared my enjoyment of the taste.

Vecna on, pit-pop boys. And on a final note, the beaches at Bournemouth are gorgeous and at Alton Towers rocks. Um, I like Marmite. Vecna on. Uh, I'm pretty sure that whole Marmite thing was like a marketing scheme. It is a weird flavor, though. Yeah, it's like beef bovril, right? Yeah.

But like I... I brought a couple of jars of marmite when I went to Canada. Okay, one to joke and one to Adam, yeah. Yeah. What do they think? They seem to like it, yeah. Yeah. See, I find it's just like, yeah.

I like it, yeah, I don't really have it on toast. Yeah. It's nice for, if you're making like gravy, if you put on it in. Yeah, that is true. That is true. It's good for, like, cooking some certain things. Yeah. Um, it's just not something I, um, tend to go for.

Our father's big into veggie mite. He's specifically into the New Zealand veggie mite, isn't he? Yeah. Like he's got like a red top or something. He's got to like import it basically. Yeah, he smuggles. He gets a smuggled over. Because then there's the Australian veggie mite as well, which is different.

I didn't realize that. Yeah, yeah. Right. There's like, cool. There's a whole world out there with all these mites. Yeah. I thought this one was far. You're going to be.

with this bro. You're gonna be shivering with glee. Comfortable iron says, hi boys, only Chinese jarling here. I moved to China from the UK for a year abroad about six months ago. I was listening to an episode from December and you mentioned how it'd be crazy for someone to be listening to the cast in China. So I guess I'm just writing in to say that it's been done. It's been a pretty crazy but extremely eye-opening experience. I wrote some of my thoughts about it, but the paragraph was so long, so instead, I just wanted to ask.

A couple weeks ago, Kiyosthama visited China and bargained visa-free entry for UK residents, which is revolutionary as the current visa process is pretty invasive and intense. This is happening at the same time

as China becoming trendy among Gen Z. Granted, I live here, but all of my feed is filled with young, mostly American people, idolizing China. I read this as a counter-reaction

to the absurd shit that has been happening in Western politics the past few years, but what are your thoughts? Should we go China? I think we should. I think we should.

Record Jaron Chine? I don't know, yeah. I have criticized China in videos before. So I don't know if they've got like AI that can like scan your face. Yeah. Why did you say this about the CCP motherfucker? Why are you being anti-Chine? I didn't mean it. America forced me to with their propagandas.

I was joking. It was a prank, China. Let me in, please. No China for you. I'm held back by while everyone else goes through into the pearly gates of China I mean I do find that meme quite interesting

because you're saying that the other week about like memes representing some like kind of cultural energy some kind of thing yeah yeah I think we're ready for the the Chinese takeover I think was what America's been like lately like yeah yeah yeah like we're done I'm playing with you, America. You know, Woody in the bin.

Cowboy in the bin. Pick up that, that Timo toy. Ooh. Yeah. Weezy penguin Timu toy. You know? That's what I'm feeling. Give it a whizy penguin taboo toy.

Yes. Via. Yes. Come, dally laugh. uh fetal free act says it's time for the annual purge and all crime is legal for 24 hours what do you do is to survive do you participate or do you just binge watch signfield and smoke fat stogies in your goon cable day i guess you could legally smoke some um some cannabis really one day of the year where it's allowed yeah oh finally that's fucked i can't believe you've done that

I'm sockling on the teeth of Guinness. Do your Irish accent? No. Well, I guess I need to start spitballing, huh? Well, so next question from Timu Weezy Penguin asks. So, what day is it this week? Well, let's look into it. yesterday might have been a Wednesday

tomorrow perhaps could be sorry about the intrusion of sorts what's this music you're playing is fucking fantastic it's just one of those jazz playlists but it's it's like yeah it's like Duke Ellington type like big and brash I call this one bold and brad um yeah what do I do to survive

I just go into the woods That's always your answer To bloody everything Well maybe it's a good answer I'm going to escape I'm not ranking in the woods For the bed Yeah

Would you be like a scary monster man in the woods To scare off I'd be wearing exactly what I'm wearing now I'd have a weapon Yeah Would you be ranking as well Oh of course I would You're allowed to do anything

On the benching Ranking Kerm Ranking is legal in that one day. Yeah, yeah. So you get, yeah. You can smoke cannabis and rank. Ranking in the woods.

Found a da da da. Do you remember that? Was that, um, Keeam? Yeah. His song. He's banger. Ranking in the woods. Yeah, I kind of remember.

What a time to be alive. Um, R slash Jal Media is an interesting one. Do guys get bothered by the resurgence of terms that are demeaning or straight up bigoted towards minorities in the form of internet memes and lingo? For example, the use of the word zesty to insinuate that any gay or effeminate behavior from men has a negative connotation to it. There's also the frequent use of pause whenever something suss is said slash done. Again, uh, same, something. that would negatively be referred to as gay in the past. The one that drives me nuts is saying no Diddy in the same way no homo used to be used.

As if someone who's vaguely zesty is somehow comparable to a sex pest simply because there's rumors that Diddy also abuse men. We'd love to hear your thoughts and I recognize that this is slightly more serious topic, so thanks if you answer it. Yeah, it's weird that isn't it? That is like, yeah. It's like no, we've got to filter it down. for sensors, but then we just wind up saying the same thing, the same meaning. Yeah. So then it just replaces the original meaning and we're back where we were before anyway.

Yeah, and it, it's kind of like worse now. At least on my feed, like the stuff I see, it's like, this. Because I never liked no homo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I always found that weird. Yeah. It's like, what, you can't express like affection to a man without like having to address that? Yeah, yeah.

Like, what's going on in your head, right? Yeah You gay Wait, you think you gay But no, Diddy is just like crazy Yeah, that's horrible That's too far Yeah, that's fucked up

But yeah, a lot of shit I see is like Oh, the joke is just racism Oh Oh, the joke is homophobia Which is gay Yeah Gay is fuck Zesty and no homo alert

Yeah Fuck off man Yeah, be gay Be gay And if you think that's not gay enough Be ten times gayer Be triple gay Be a million

Be gay a million You think bottom G is gay Gay 3,000 Gay Iron Man says gay 3,000 Bottom G is obviously gay Rue Do you think Well

If he is that would not be okay Because we're a no homo podcast Yeah No you know what Let's Let's hope to God that he's gay, because if he's not, then he's... He's taking all the ladies. True.

Let's be real. With those moves. Yeah, he's stunning. That voice. Yeah, yeah. He kind of makes me want to say, no, homo. He makes me want to just say homo. Beep that.

No. I don't think so, brother. Oh, this is a really good one. Glugi says, have you ever played Wanker's T's Tatsy? Tactics. I know it's a D's exclusive with quite different gameplay to the main series, but I think it's genuinely great. And it's a really good story. It also provides additional context for Wanker's Requiem. I'm replaying it after finishing tactics.

Made me re-contextualized the whole thing. Now, I know you don't like Wanker's tactics, but it's my kind of game. You know, it reminds me of HALA Wars back in the day. Yeah, that shit stinks. It doesn't. I don't want to, I don't want to be the fucking the fucking loser. You don't want to be God. You don't want to be the general of the army being there. No, nobody gives a shit about

my wanking pawns. Nobody gives a shit about the general of the rankers. I want to be the ranker. I want to be the ranker. I want to be the one if I'm there on the front lines I want to be the one ranking. I don't want to be sat behind everyone saying. You're ranking on the front lines. Oh, go everyone else go rank.

Everyone else go rank. I'll sit back here in my cushy unranking bloody office where I just command all the rankers. You know? I want to be on the front lines I want to be leading the rankers You know I'm boots on the ground

I'm fucking I'm I'm a man of the people I'm not rankers Rancers tactics No Rancers Reckerykraine That's fucking crazy That's crazy work I went there

That's fucking crazy Might be a hot take but No it's like Rankers Rankers Requiem Rankers tactics Right

for those listening, rankers, just the original rankers way higher than everything else. And the other two are like at the bottom. Yeah, but I'm more like realistic. You're being like more like... No, it's how I fucking feel. I'm allowed to have my own fucking opinions and shit. Not on YouTube, you're not.

On Spotify, you're allowed. Well, let's say what the people say. Okay. But they're going to be on my side with this one. Fucking rankers tactics. Let's end on this one then from Secure Mirror 272. Hello Jabros, long-time listener, first-time commenter here.

There was a semi-recent discussion on the cast regarding the unfortunate reality of the Lord of the Rings being co-opted by right-wingers. This led me to reflect on a debate that has persistently confused me. That is, the opinion among fans that Frodo is a whiny and useless protagonist, often culminating in the claim that Samwise is the true hero of the story. I myself have never understood this perspective, as I feel as if it purposefully misses one of the key themes of the story, being that each member of the fellowship contributes to the eventual defeat of Sauron, and that the ring is a corrupting force

on essentially anyone who carries it. But friends and family that I've watched the films with hold strong to be anti-Frodo. It is a common hot take I see online as well. As Lord of the Rings, fans yourselves, what is your perspective on this debate, and do you think it is a justifiably common takeaway from the novels slash films or not i'd love to hear your thoughts happy 10 years of jarcast and cheers to many more bear bear in game one i've seen this before there's always been a lot of frotidate and honestly i've never understood it like if you're engaging with the story i thought it makes it exceptionally clear that he's actually really strong for being this like tiny little hobbit and you know he steps up i think i think where the the layman may um

pick holes is like they it's established that Bilbo has had it for a long time it's it's extended his life and he's like fine at the beginning of the film for the most part like he doesn't want to give it up and shit um I think it's his precious yeah and it it does require some like understanding and input from the viewer to be like okay this the story is based over a long period of time a B, I'm pretty sure it's a thing with the ring where like the effects worse and the closer. Yeah, the closer it gets, it gets more intense. Yeah. Yeah. And that is established. Yeah. This may quite clear. But they're big long movies, like lots of dialogue. I don't blame again the layman for.

And on his face like obviously Samwise is a hero. Yeah, he's more conventionally the hero. Yeah. Like he he, he spoiler alert like gets the spider. You know, he does he does he does he. He does. He does. He does like the cooler shit for sure but i think that and he's he's got the like cool speeches and shit yeah but i love i love the way they characterize frodo through that yeah we're like yeah me too there's a really kind of melancholy angle to it especially with like how it wraps up where he's like yeah once he manages to achieve that goal and like made that sacrifice there's this like gaping hole in him but like yeah he's also what affected by when he gets stabbed by the um yeah he's he's put through so much yeah why are people such assholes

to him yeah yeah you would be you wouldn't do what froto fucking does if you had the ring you'd be an evil motherfucker you got some froto ass looking feet right now oh i hope the copro's not picking that up yeah um no that's that's never bugged me i've never been anti froto i've always understood the implication of the ring and like if sam was the one holding it he would have gone through like a similar journey he would have been brought down to that same place was the kind of impression i got um yeah i think that's one of the things that gives froto texture as a character yeah yeah and like um all the scenes when like gandalf is like hell no he's like his mega fucking wizard guy and he's like fuck

no dude don't stop trying to give it me I will close the apocalypse yeah yeah stop it and like the ultimate elf woman she's like hell fucking no yeah she's like I want to be the fucking ultimate princess fucking god yeah give me that shit I will like

yeah yeah um and uh... Arragorn's goated for his shit he's like um and you know Barramere he's he's like he's a he's established as like a cool, you know.

Yeah, it's corrupting force. He's like the character that is... He's not even holding it and it like brings him down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the idea of it alone, let alone like the actual effect it would have... With it being like around your neck 24-7. Yeah, I think it just makes him stronger as a character. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. It's a very surface level read to see him as like his struggle as like a slight against it. Yeah. Oh, he's weak. Yeah. I feel like they're the same people who, who would be like, you're addicted to heroin. Stop. Well, the same people that are like, I hate you, Skylar White.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That one piss me. That one might piss me off more now. It's like, oh, you're just openly misogynistic. Yeah, yeah. You just hate women.

That's a really weird one. It's like, yeah. I, I may have like had those kind of thoughts when I was, like, like a 16 year old watching the show when like if you're an adult that holds those beliefs of Skyla Jesus Christ like take a long lot of people like it's a very human response like they have kids together

like he's objectively like endangering their entire life yeah she she makes a mistake I guess especially it's the thing where like a man is allowed to literally kill people and like start a drug empire. Yeah. Yeah, and become a straight up like psycho.

But if a woman dares like have sex with a guy, then she's way worse. Yeah, that's wild. Crazy work. But I'm looking forward to, I got the 70s copy of the Lord of Rings trilogy from Hail My. I'm looking forward to going through that.

yeah i need some some cool copies of lull the rings i think you should start with the hobbit super easy read yeah really short really charming i mean maybe i should um audio book them yeah there's a couple of good versions there's the one where um who is it isn't it the guy who plays bilbo

um oh no way there's like a a radio drama version of it there's that one and there's a version where andy circus reads it So you got some options. Andy Circus, the director of Venom too. Oh yeah. And the Animal Farm movie. Woo!

And the Gollum movie? We don't talk about that one. Homer's looking a bit wrinkly. Homer's looking a bit wrinkly, Frodo. Moisturizing, will you, Frodo? Come on, Frode. So I think that's the end of this episode. Any final words for those ranking out there?

Um, remember, always rank for the right reasons. Ranking for the right reasons. RR, R, R. R. Yeah. Uh, uh, uh.