JAR Media Posdact - Skillful Dodgers - JARCast Episode 249

Episode Date: October 18, 2021

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/jar-media-store Twitter: https://twitter.com/FourFunnies Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 11:34 Housekeeping 25:15 Zodiac Gary 32:06 Mid Break 33:00 Talking About Seinfeld 41:00 Who is the Villian of JAR? 41:54 Favourite Bond Film 45:05 Danger Stairs 47:48 S U G A R 52:35 Gambling 58:06 Lego Eternals Harsh Thoughts 1:00:23 Is the ME3 vid still happening? 1:02:03 We Can Be Heroes PO Box: IHE PO Box 4268 CALNE SN11 7AY

Good afternoon, morning, evening or night. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 249 of the Jiam Media, Posdak. I'm a host Alex, joined only by Jim this time. Hello! We've got some craziness going on in these days, in these weeks of just pure chaos. uh james predicted it the chaos is in the air and as a result he's gone yeah where is he he's gone i'm back from my adventures yeah i must have brought back some kind of tapeworm or you know it's like a yeah it's sort of to be expected when you uh you're going all across

the world a human immune system is not prepared for all the various especially the kind of ghosts and goolies I was like chasing well yeah exactly and you're you're dealing with artifacts from from many moons ago and potentially many universes a past yeah if I if I was more organized and I'm less ill right now I probably would have bought my my hat um which I wore while adventuring if I could just conjure some kind of imagery to get people to

ride along with the story because I didn't really take pictures or anything. Yeah, yeah. Imagine, who's that really famous character? He's like an explorer. He goes around the world. He's got like the brown hat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Johnny Thunder. I don't think he's not the one with the whip, is he? He's cooler. Johnny Thunder, I thought he had a gat. I think he's got like a cool, like, a biplane with that Gatling gun on it. Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, yeah, just channeling my Johnny Thunder sort of... Favorite artifact from your travels, go. The Sasquatch Temple Idol. Ugh. Yeah, there was a whole hot air balloon adventure. Hot air balloon. Yeah. I've got to just throw it out there.

I've got to apologize for the... It's just the, our voices, you know. Speak for yourself. No, we're both a little bunged up, tapeworms up in the nose and shit. Yeah, obviously a bad time of the year to go adventuring because I feel fucking awful, bro. I feel horrendous. And I've had COVID twice, you know? This shit sucks.

And this is worse than both. Um, no, having, the first. time i had covid it was worse than this okay but um with covid it was more the whole you like have to lock yourself in a room and you can't go anywhere yeah yeah for like a long time 14 days whatever it was yeah with this you can still just get around like spitting in people's mouths and shit yeah yeah i've been doing this new thing where like i try to go to the most bustling place is possible right center of swindon take the train into bath london find like big mega building right with like an elevator in them

yeah yeah try and wait for like a crowded part of the day and 4 p.m. 5 p.m. sort of time when everyone's like leaving sneak into that elevator with my mask on yeah shoot up to the top

shoot up to the top and then as soon as it's packed in there just whip off the mask and start spraying wreak havoc I suppose it's sort of a form of terrorism in a way bioterrorism I guess yeah don't out yourself um yeah i don't know why i just went down the line well i do know why it's because like the other day i

was like scrolling on social media and i saw someone who i had actually done that really it was like security footage in an elevator of someone who it was like a packed elevator and someone came in and then someone commented oh it's quite full in here maybe you should wait for the next one in in anger he pulled the mask down and like spat and coughed on him oh my god but then the guy it was like an guy he like kick the shit out of him really yeah yeah he really beat him up beat him up had and left and it's like you know that's the lamest thing you can possibly do after the past two years like I I would prefer to be slapped in the face at the moment than coughed or sneezed in my face there's just something so it's like invasive yeah about that it's like an

extra layer knowing the situation we're all in right now just like everyone's already on edge about this kind of thing it gives that act a bit more of an umph than normal which ain't no fun which already was a very heinous act to spit in the face yeah yeah but i feel like it's not something you would conjure to your mind to be evil in the same way it wouldn't have been as effective in like 2017 as it is now it's got a different yeah yeah um added depth yeah yeah speaking of added debt I listened to last week's cast with you and James because that was uh I don't know what James was on about saying like he'd never done a cast of just me and him that was that whole era where we did loads of cast together did he I thought he said um he's never done a cast

without you um that's also untrue I'm pretty sure yeah I'm pretty sure that's untrue as well because I'm pretty sure yeah we definitely did ones without you before yeah but um yeah I gotta say it was a good episode really thank you

I was laughing I enjoyed it was like a taste of the past you know because it was like no structure really that's what I was trying to capture because as we all know I'm a big fan of a normal episode and who isn't

apart from half idiots Yeah, the half idiots. But whenever I cast myself back to that, that fateful day and listen to that episode, it's like, we, we really just had nothing. It was mics on camera on. Yeah, the process of like just setting up the cast was the prep for it. Yeah, because that took us like three hours. Well, like in the background.

my PC I had that like old windows had that like notes app thing yeah I had like three topics like they were there for like two years or some shit um yeah yeah I enjoyed it it was a good one um had a nice balance of like the comedy and then getting some serious stuff in there some serious topics yeah I wasn't expecting it to go that way that's always the best type that is when you're able to like weave in and out of that yeah yeah kind of emotions and those different that different kind of feedback. And there was loads of really good feedback in the comments. I don't know if you saw.

Yeah, I've read a bunch of the comments. I didn't really screencap many for housekeeping. I don't know how long we're going to go for this one. Currently, I've just had like, well, we didn't say it were drinking. I'm drinking a cup of tea right now. Just PG tips, like English breakfast. No, throat coat.

No, I did think about throat coat, but I needed the caffeine. Other way, like I was, before we started recording, like i was like i'm i'm drinking a uh calvin klein coffee yeah and i also popped a couple of them uh osmosis jones bad boys you know yeah yeah the heavy duty the night nurse uh o j yeah yeah the the fucking tablets i got ided for when i're trying to buy yesterday so last night i was like in chippenum um trying to get some like meds so i could like sleep or whatever but I'd forgot my wallet.

So, of course, it means... Yeah. Hey, you need to have a license for everything in the UK, including buying... But, yeah, buying... I tried to buy a shot of CBD and a pack of the night nurse paracetoma, hope you sleep bullshit. And I knew...

I already knew it had been decided pretty much. I went to, like, the self-checkout bit, scanned it, saw the thing come up saying, Proof. You need proof you over 16 to buy this one. And then I looked at who was like working. And you can tell pretty quick, like based on who's working. If they're going to take it there, you know. I don't mean, I don't want to sound like a douche, but it's always old women. This was actually an old man. Really? Mm. Mm. I don't think I've ever been ID'd by an old man. because I've I've worked that exact job so I know exactly what it's like

and I was way less stringent than some of the people working that stuff because at a certain point it's just like just put two and two together right I was like standing there with my iPhone car keys in one hand like

he didn't even know what CBD was he was like looking at it like hmm but yeah once they are If you don't have it, like, it's over. Yeah, it's a question of if the question is coming. Yeah.

Do you have idea? Yeah, yeah. So I went back to the car and I was like, you know what? Fuck this. And went back in and just went to a like a different checkout. Yeah. And it was like a young lady who was just like, oh, have you got the man flu? And I was like, yeah.

She has no idea, nothing, just then gone. But you only need to be 16, right, to buy you. I don't know about CBD, but. CBD, I'm pretty sure it's 16 as well. Really? I was wearing a mask, but even then it's like, come on, bro. Yeah. Just as what, like, I understand for the CBD, but it's like, night nurse that, like,

I just want to sleep, man. That's the thing as well. Like, who's, who's getting hooked on CBD and night nurse? Mm-hmm. What's 16-year-old is like, you know what? I'm going to risk it one, but I'm going to get fucked up on some CBD and some night nurse. I'm gonna get a really good sleep tonight I'm sure someone has figured out how to do it

like I've been like having some of this cough syrup stuff right and that I've always heard about that like people abusing cough syrup and shit yeah I guess I can see

how it works because like I feel quite weird after it does have like ethanol in it and like weird shit ethanol yeah I was looking at some of the ingredients I don't know how much you'd have to ingest to actually get

we see of it but what about mouthwash do you get ID for mouthwash if you're chugging high alcohol content mouthwash I'm sure that will get you feeling something I think it would make you feel a bit more than just

yeah yeah uh no you what we're talking about yeah housekeeping in the last cast

and everything yeah it was a good one um there was actually a really comment i spotted if we move into housekeeping uh for jlc 2718 oh shit oh that was close thank god there was only like one sip left ooh that was horrible for those listening i just like the cough syrup's gone to your head yeah yeah just i was daydreaming about going back to that cough syrup um not sure if anyone has already said this but can i can i joint point

I didn't catch that one Can I joint point How much of a guerrilla obsession this podcast has had over the years First there was the TGI Friday's Zookeeper Gorilla Then Harambe for a little bit Gorilla Grodd Of course the band Gorillas The Gorillas from Sing

And now Gorilla versus whatever And Tarzan Shagging Gorillas Which has lasted months worse Of the cast at this point I think you guys should definitely rebrand is the world's number one gorilla podcast. This is an amazing comment. It's an astute observation.

Yeah. I've never put this together. I thought it was just a recent thing. The guerrillas. Yeah, same. The guerrilla thing. There is so much guerrilla defatuation. Yeah, we are hooked on guerrillas.

Can you really blame us? Like, really? They are fascinating creatures. I could genuinely talk with anyone about guerrillas. for yeah as in the animal and for a long long time it's i'm going to be honest it's after i watched like that video of robin williams with that like really smart gorilla yeah yeah like killed that cat or whatever um i like really want to interact with a gorilla yeah like really bad i feel like that would be a life-changing grounding experience

maybe not like silver bat like yeah that's the only thing because I think fear would overpower me I would love to interact with a gorilla but they're just so scary so you wouldn't do it of one of the like what if it was like younger

yeah maybe then a young yeah but even then I feel like a young gorilla could be the shit out of me oh for sure but they're they're they're not like just going to take you down

They're not going to, like, as soon as you turn your back, like, get you in a headlock and break your neck. They're, you know, they're distant ancestors, they're peaceful a lot, you know, they're... But you can, like, accidentally threaten an animal. Hmm. There's certain, like, body languages that we don't understand, but they do, and vice versa. Certain energies. Yeah, they could be saying, like, dude, back the fuck up, I'm going to... I'm going to mess you up.

But from your perspective, you're like, look, it's just funny gorilla, you know? Well, yeah, funny gorilla. But, like, I'm thinking more like they're curious beings as well. You see these videos of them. They, like, want to interact with you. They want to, I saw this crazy video of, um, someone accidentally dropped their, uh, their sunglasses in an orangutan enclosure. And the orangutang is just straight, just puts them on. No way.

Yeah, just puts them on. I saw a video of a chimp. I saw a video of a chimp behind, like, a glass screen. And this person's got Mountain Dew. And the chimp is pointing at the Mountain Dew and then, like, going over to a different screen and then pointing to a hole where you can, like, pour a little bit. And then they do, and then he's, like, slurping up the mountain dew.

Like he's had it before. He recognized their Mountain Dew bottle, and he's like, oh. And you load up a day pan to the switch and put it down. I got to say, though, as far as these great apes are concerned, I'm pretty sure I've discovered my favourite animal, and I think it is a rang attack. Really? I think they're like the coolest, like, wisest-looking animal. They look like ancient.

They look like something out of a fantasy story. Yeah, they do. I really love that, and I love, like, the oval face thing. and all the like wrinkles and shit. One of those, a baby one of those I'd like to interact with or even one of the older ones, fuck it. I feel like an orangutan is less threatening

than a gorilla. You think so? Yeah. The plate face thing. The plate face thing does make a difference. Yeah, it's just like, it's... Well, yeah, when we lived on Jersey Island, like, we saw, we actually would see the gorillas

and the orangutans and the lemas. All the time. Fairly often, maybe that's where the Lima, Madagas. scar appreciation thing comes from it had a bunch of madagascan lemurs there including the this could explain the whole thing to begin with we go to that zoo all the time yeah it's a great zoo to be fair if you ever find yourself in jersey check out jersey zoo yeah and it's not like um as far as i'm aware i'm gone as an adult but i'm pretty sure it's more of a um conservationist sort of facility as opposed to

that show off the elephants and guerrillas sort of thing, which is always nice to hear, because I don't know if I mentioned, like, I went to an aquarium in Bristol semi-recently. Yeah. Didn't like it. Really? I found it quite depressing.

What sort of animals? Even though there was nothing, nothing over a certain size, it was still like, just watching the fish, like, bump up against the glass and like clearly it's like it's not enough space for like

some of these creatures. It's just not right. See we should be building like under water things like under the ocean like for humans to go and look. Yeah but it would have to go so far out to avoid all the like human

shit and like dirt you'd see. Yeah. Or like waste probably in the bottom. Just plastic floating around. Yeah just loads of Lucas bowls or whatever. Yeah. In the future, I'm sure it's possible.

Underwater City, let's do it. Well, that was the, one of the many messages, one of the deep messages packed into Aquaman, if you remember? What, littering? Yeah, it was one of the things where it was like, as far as motivations go for characters. Like, the villain's motivation was like, fuck those ground dwellers. They're destroying the ocean. Yeah, they're like, we're leaving their land alone. Why aren't they leaving our ocean alone?

Yeah, a lot of nuances in that movie that I think went over people's heads. Most people missed, yeah, if we're being real. Yeah. Just too distracted by the... The giant shark going... The crab. We got this one from Will. We left a weird one.

Question for the boys. rather be known as the artful dodger or the skillful pooper serious answers only please I don't artful dodger is almost too vague yeah what are you good at dodge you're dodgy person then you got at dodgy yeah are you dodgy or are you like max pain because like being a skillful pooper like it's not it's not anything big it's not anything grand or I don't no it is if you can master that aspect of your life i feel like but if that's like your main title it's a bit like that's your thing yeah i see what you're saying the artful pooper maybe because then it implies a sort of artistic merit to the expression of what they're doing or

even skillful dodger would be better than i'm trying to see how artful dodger is comparable to skillful pooper um there's no answer to that will definitely did not think about it enough for uh so we're definitely not missing anything we're not reading between I reckon we should like just start rejecting hypotheticals unless they literally write like a 15,000 word like

like an essay essay just giving us all the rules so every time we don't have to keep going down these caveats you know They're like, what is actually the fucking truth? That's like 40% of our podcast. We can't have enough. We can't remove that one. Ian Franco said,

Alex is searching for the island of Matanui. Did you find it? I did search, of course, but bionicle, not real. Damn, you're dropping the hard truths today. So you don't believe in bionicles? Oh, I believe in bionicles. fuck hero factory hero factory

yeah oh do you not know about this no so idiots let go idiots um of course they have bionicle everyone appreciates and knows it and likes the law and everything and just how cool it went

and how cool it's been then for some reason they're like oh fuck bionicle let's do hero factory same shit different name all that law gone I'm sure there's a new law so bionicles are called

Hero Factory now no no there was an era of hero factory before bionicle came back because they tried to re-figurate the old bionicle but I'm not sure if that really worked either

maybe they did that just so people would be like oh come on bring bionicle back come on hero factory you're making it sound like it's factory produced heroes Yeah

Which is not cool That's like a villain backstory Surely It's like Revenant From APEG's legends That's what I picture I picture just the Current Marvel

Yeah Oh Zing Nice one bright Speaking of Venom's out today Today is the release day Of Venom

In the UK I don't know why The original Venom came out like Way early in the UK but now this one's like way after so everyone's like seen it in the rest of the world

we had to wait for Woody Harrison's carnage so I'll see that this weekend probably at some point but also the Eternals do you really understand how close that movie is when's it out? Early November oh

that is near too close for comfort as some would say some might might say. Yeah. You see, Eternals is one of those things that, like obviously through you, I've known about it for a long, long time. But I never truly believed in the Eternals. Yeah, because it's just like, it's so vague and based on a bunch of heroes, no one knows. Yeah, come on. No one fucking knows the Adternals. Here's the question, though, is it going to be lit? Well, um, there'll be a a question in the question segment

which I might expand slightly on this which we can get to later let's end this segment then with this one from Pegfan too I knew someone who would butter wheat abics like a slice of bread and eat it thoughts so this is in reference to the last couple

episodes wheatabix has been brought up specifically dry week specifically eating it dry yeah which is like a bit of a fun challenge if you want to do that at home like see how many dry wheatobics you can eat without drinking anything yeah also maybe don't do that because I feel like

it's an actual health risk no do it it's a fun little challenge put on tictock or something um buttering do you think that like adds just enough liquidity for yeah that potentially but also it could just cause even larger chunks of dry wheatabics to be sort of molded together making it even harder to swallow unless you butter is quite a viscous texture

you know it's it's not very it's not very liquid you know but to I'm not about telling people what they should and shouldn't do if you enjoy doing that

okay I'm just going to think you're a fucking terrible person. Yeah, it's wrong. I'll judge you big time for that one. Yeah, I'll judge you, but I won't tell you not to. I'll just point in love.

Oh yeah, do what you want, but like, okay, maybe don't do that. It's a bit odd. Yeah, actually stop. It's horrible. Speaking of things that aren't liquid, we've got a couple of topics. Um, I just want to bring this up because I'm still like, is this like real? Um, like, apparently they like found us. Zodiac killer?

Yeah. He's just like some dude. Was, like, was his name like Brian or some shit? Then he's Google him. Wait. Is he alive?

No, apparently he died. This guy, he's talking about. Apparently he died in like 2018. Was David Fincher correct? He was none of the ones in the movie, I don't think.

It's still not like fully confirmed i i don't think how can you fully confirm it though like the DNA like i think they wanted to like do DNA tests on like the back of the stamps or something that like was sent in on all those you know the story wait so they never did that no because the the technology was not at a point but why didn't they do that the second the technology did reached that point like 20 years ago um i assume manpower like why would they prioritize the i guess zodiac killings if it's not like a current

yeah yeah just vanished and he didn't keep murdering as far as they say i'm trying to find his name uh because it was something like is it art vandalay fuck oh i can't find it i can't fucking find it The case of the Zodiac Killer took another twist this week after a team of investigators claimed they had unmasked the man who has fixated the public and amateur sleuths for decades.

On Wednesday, a team of former law enforcement members, prosecutors and intelligence officers that call itself the casebreakers, said they had determined the identity of the killer responsible for a series of murders in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 60s. Why do they not just say his name? Should they say his name? I saw his name everywhere. I should, I, I didn't fucking note it that, there we go, Gary. Gary, Gary, Gary, Gary, F, post. Fuck, no, no way is his name Post. Gary?

Post. The Zodiac Killer had Post in his name. Wait, yeah. Oh, this is the sun I'm looking at, to be fair. Oh, the previous one wasn't. if it if it if it does become real i mean not because if it is revealed to be real then would it make uh finch's movie worse um the movie's interesting enough to me because like the identity in the movie of the killer is never shown is it it's heavily

implied this it is heavily implied but like during like the murder scenes and everything, it's always obscured and always could be anyone. But it is kind of lame, like really dissatisfying if the killer is just like not even in the movie, you know? Yeah, yeah, it would mean like, I guess they were just on a wild goose chase. Yeah, it's kind of gross that we're even, I remember thinking when, when I saw this movie, like, should this movie have even been made? like this is kind of you think it's a moral well I don't know

that's the question I'm asking but I'm not taking a stance because I think it's it's the whole thing of true crime isn't it because yeah I see what you mean about he wanted

the Zodiac killer wanted a movie about him well people were digging up like they're going through because yeah his name was Gary Francis Post who died in 2018 and people have been digging up

like his Facebook page and shit and like his like friend like posting on Facebook a picture of him with his arm around him and he was like he of my mate Zodiac question mark it's like what the fuck and there's another one where he'd like reviewed like the movie Zodiac

on something giving it like a five star yeah no apparently he'd reviewed other like famous true crime film yeah he did like the Ted Bundy one yeah and said they were like shit yeah yeah yeah Does it sort of set a precedent

That Like if you are fucking mental And you want a movie to be made about you Just become a pretty good serial killer Um You'd hope easier said than done, you know Yeah but still Do you do you know what I mean

So you think in his mind He just saw it all as like a reward It's like yeah Yeah sort of And then he died He had no consequences He just got this movie about him Which

bloated his ego even further because he's like, I'm not even in this film. They're saying it's that guy. Who the fuck is this guy? Yeah, the whole Zodiac killer, like who is the Zodiac Killer thing? It's just, it's been like a cultural meme for fucking so long now. Yeah, high profile murderer.

Just weird. It's like not really what you'd expect to wake up and see. You know, trend in. Yeah. Yep, we've maybe found the Zodiac Killer and he's fucking, But it could be, it could be total horseshit. Mm-hmm. I kind of, part of me hopes it is.

Because, do you remember, like, uh... He has got, like, a really identifying scar or something. Which apparently was described. I didn't think he ever showed his face. Didn't, um... It's been a while since I've, like, read about it or seen that movie or anything. Did, did someone not survive an encounter with him? I thought you always wore a mask, though.

I can't remember. So yeah, I'm a Zodiac killer. He's back. He's back and he's dead. And a movie revealer. Did he have any other hot takes? Yeah, a weird one. He threw out there that, um,

Fortnite's one of the better games at the moment. Really? Mm-hmm. That was his last review. Then he copped it. Maybe you throw it out there right before the bad update, you know? Yes, the bad update. I don't know what I'm talking about at this point.

We'll see after these messages. Too much cough syrup. Oh, not enough. Guess what we got in store for you today, lads? Join in your t-shirts, eh-oh. Check the description below. Welcome to the second half of the cast We answer questions from

Where do we answer them from, Jim? Uh, uh, Mars? The questions from Mars? Uh, we answer questions from Redite. From the reddit. That's an accent on the E? Yeah, accent. Um,

yoho Yeah, leave your questions for us To answer on sequential episodes Before we actually go into the questions I kind of wanted you to bring up something Oh Seinfeld Yeah, I kind of did

I said Art Vandalay Yeah, I think that's that planted the seed And I just couldn't ignore that importing exploit Yeah Here's a hot take I think Seinfeld might be the best TV show ever created Really?

Yeah, I think it's actually I think it might be perfect Yeah Well now I haven't reached the ending yet Because that was controversial But I know the ending Did you not watch the ending when I watched the ending?

Yeah, but I hadn't watched the whole show Right, you didn't have the whole context Because it's like, yeah Yeah, it's all like an in-joke thing Mm-hmm but like it it's weird for

it seems like something I shouldn't like because it's it's like so similar to friends yeah and I've never really fucked around with friends

no I like I just can't bring myself to with friends but Seinfeld I think it is just the the first of all

the four characters the show has perfect it's the perfect they all like compliment each other so well yeah you can have combo of them you can have any assortment of characters and it works humor just like unbound no but there is there is a correct answer for the best one of the four there yeah there is and i hope we agree well the thing is if someone said another character i'd be okay with it you'd appreciate it

you'd understand it. Yeah, the answer is George. George Costanza. George is the funniest character. Yeah. The actor is so,

so good at what he does. Mm-hmm. But it's also that fucking material. Yeah. Holy shit, is it funny? And it's like, we've aped the whole, um,

like a podcast about nothing because that's like the whole premise. Like, it's about nothing. Yeah, Because I just finished the season where they make the show within the show. That's right, yeah, yeah. It's been a while since I've seen all of it because I just went through the whole thing. Yeah, it's all like a total blur.

And it was, yeah, 20 odd or something. Yeah, I had a great time because I was always put off like laugh tracks in, like, comedies. It really puts me off. It's like so distracting, but. you just works in Seinfeld I don't know if it's like the weird

the way the kind of stand-up starts a lot of the episodes I think they stop doing that yeah it feels like because because of that stand-up segment like

and the fact that Jerry is a comedian the character is a comedian and it's like the laugh track it's like an extension of the intro yeah like life to him it is all just material for his yes yeah exactly yeah and that's that's

like the structure of the show like he at the start of every episode there's his comedy routine and and at the end and at the end he always uses something that he's like learned from the episode yeah yeah for that material so like in in that way it works to me there anything in particular stood out to you like about it because your thoughts will be way fresher than mine

I've always just found it funny and that whole like painting of Kramer comes to mind yeah and Art Vandalay of course Rampan Delay and the whole

Kramer is the other character by the way that is viable for best character yeah yeah whenever he comes in it's like yeah all right

yeah it's a guaranteed watching from the beginning because everybody knows that when Kramer enters people cheer and clap but it's interesting seeing when that like first starts yeah because obviously he needs to earn that position and then by season two people like yeah yeah it does feel owned though it doesn't feel like uh oh like we're making Kramer into the he's gonna save the scene type thing it's like yeah yeah he's he's just naturally likable every every character is likable but also awful but

and I think it just comes down to charisma of the actors yeah and the worst one is Jerry if we're being yeah um he does he does still work in the show and he's just the worst actor like he's yeah he's a because all the others are really consistent incredibly so and really, really talented with the way they balance the comedy and the, like, how serious they take it. Yeah. Whereas Jerry, like, I think you said it almost as to the humour, like, his weird, like, almost indifference in the way he, like, delivers things. Yeah, he's sort of always the same. Yeah, yeah.

Everything's delivered, like, the half smirk. Yeah, he, the guy can't act. But also, that, that plays into how much you like him. he's relatable in that because most people can't act most people if they were given these lines they probably do a worse job than than Seinfeld oh damn straight yeah well they definitely would but yeah the show is magnificent it like and it's so tame but still manages to be funny I really respect that and like that's the thing with friends but you know they're not going to do anything risque.

Yeah, yeah. Have you ever checked out Kirby Enthusiasm? I haven't know. George is based on him. Yeah. I've seen a few seasons of it. Is it good? It's good from what I've seen.

It's just more been access because I don't watch like TV while it's on or whatever. I've seen snippets of it. And it doesn't seem to. to you, it's different. It's not the same as Sanfield. Yeah. Mom's calling me.

Mom? Man. Anything else? If you haven't watched Seinfeld, what's Seinfeld? This is what I mean about access. Put it there on Netflix, suddenly, if I... Yeah. Everyone who hasn't seen it, has seen it.

also I love short episodes of things mm-hmm and shout out to a Newman as well so that's name God yeah that's another fit all the like side characters memorable and funny yeah there actually loads of like really yeah yeah Brian Cranston shows up

yeah and Skyler from a oh really yeah she's Jerry's girlfriend for like one episode that's funny they're both in there that's weird I don't remember yeah and the parents of of George and Jerry Oh yeah

God damn yeah It's all flooding back to me now You might be convinced me to go through Yeah yeah yeah Yeah they're really funny as parents Yeah Yeah I'm gonna have to go through it again Because

Yeah comedy sitcom To this day Yeah Okay let's do some questions then Let's do this one From T-merchant of slough. Who is the villain of Jarre? Tank Dempsey is the villain of Jha. Where Randy? Uh, he's not capable enough to be a villain. I think... The villains's has to be

capable? What villains aren't capable? Can you think of an example of a villain that isn't capable? Well, I didn't come prepared for this one. that's not, there has to be one. There's something there in the back of my mind that's like, yeah, that's like an incapable villain. But, who achieves everything like accidentally or something. Yeah.

Despicable me guy? Yeah, I don't know. Who's the villain of, uh, these nuts? Yeah. Skelly Dude 11 says, favorite James Bond film. That's another film. I was,

I was planning to see that James Bond Yeah, I want to see James Bond During that week But I've run out of it So What's the favourite one you've actually seen then? We probably have the same answer Cicna Royale

Oh Spector is a trash film Skyfall is an okay Goud finger Quantum of Solis I've only seen the I've seen quantum ugly man one

But you've only seen the Craig ones Yeah Daniel Craig ones I've seen all of his, apart from the latest one, and Casino Real is the best one by far. Yeah, Casino Royale is probably my favourite one. Quantum Solis sucks balls. Awful film. Yeah, it's not good.

Skyfall is like... Skyfall, they brought it back a little bit, but then lost it so fucking hard with Spectre. That film sucked. It was really bad. Like, awful bad. Yeah, it made it really seem like, are we done with this now?

it was like oh this yeah and they did that classic thing where it's like let's just cast a guy that people know play a good villain and not actually like right yeah yeah like a good character yeah because that it was christoph waltz wasn't it in that one just like man how do you fuck up like a character for him yeah they were like let's not write a character let's just get christoph waltz then the work is done right yeah yeah and uh rami malix in the new one which is one of the main reasons wanted to see it to be honest yeah he's a good ass actor so i i'm i feel like i'm a a british traitor like all the all the classic like british things you're supposed to like your doctor

who's your james bonds this kind of shit i don't care that much yeah um yeah i don't i have seen some of the older james bonds but like i just don't remember them i don't i remember the gal whole thing, you know, pussy galore and all this shit. But like, gold pussy galore. Golden pussy galore. I don't know. I'm excited to see this new one there. You never said that is your answer to Casino Real. Oh. Um, yeah, if it's my favorite, for sure. Because that is a straight up good ass movie. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a really good action movie. It's just a solid ass. fucking yeah really memorable to Hannibal's in there

really good villain that scene where he's like strapped to the chair it's like so yeah it's just burnt into my brain for whatever reason a lot of scenes from that movie are actually yeah obviously the the parkour bit at the beginning

yeah and like being poisoned and stuff yeah yeah it's awesome and it's like the one James Bond film I've seen where I don't feel kind of grossed out by the character himself. Yeah, I know what you mean. For whatever reason, they managed to make it work. Mm-hmm.

His nature. Yeah. Lewis Memes 7 left a bit of a... A bit of a story. Talking about falling up and down the stairs. I've done both quite recently in painful slash damaging ways. I work at a nightclub, and it is multi-storied, so there are three flights of stairs in total.

I was working on the middle floor and I needed to go to the loo and the toilets were upstairs. I decided the best plan of action would be to quickly stride up the stairs at least three stairs each step. I'm tall and have long legs. And once I got to the top, I decided to jump up. But as I did, I caught my shoe on the final step and completely stacked it as I got up. And I finally ended up falling on my knee and I honestly thought I broke it. And as it has been swollen for about two weeks and it is very tender whenever any way it's put on it. And recently I fell down my bedroom stairs.

I live in a house with a loft bedroom, which is my bedroom. And one time I was walking down the stairs and my dog thought it would be a genius idea to run under my legs, which tripped me up and I lost balance as I was going down. It ended up with me slipping and sliding down the stairs and into a wall at the bottom of my stairs. The wall is made out of some sort of weak wood, maybe plasterboard, I'm not sure. But I ended up hitting the wall on my side and denting it because most of my weight was put on it. anyway i thought you might find my stories amusing i've been a listener for four years or so now and my monday evenings i spend listening to the podcast while playing a game thanks for all the

entertainment you've provided over the years thank you for your stair stories man gotta be careful on those stairs yeah stairs aren't something to mess about with i feel like the older you get the uh more concerned about the stairs yeah the less you mess with the stair yeah after after that tumble i had the other week I'm like so cautious now Yeah it's like Especially with Paisley Because they're idiots

Like on the stairs Like they just get They just get so excited about everything Yeah yeah And it's the same with a cat Apart from it's like the opposite thing It's the lack of excitement That's the scary thing

Because if Billy's like The surprise factor Yeah because she's If the lights are off She's a black cat Invisible Silent and cats do that fucking thing

where they wiggle around by your legs so if you're just going even two steps at a time slowly you touch that cat you're going down you need to put like a glow in the dark coat on it

or something I'd be down to appear in a glow in the dark here well maybe a cool cape like that cat picture I keep sending yeah but like vibrant yellow glow in the dark vibrant yellow

well we have one Um, a bit of feedback, um, or just referencing what you and James were talking about, about working out in the last episode. This is Adam Exchanger 1 about the workout talk in the latest jarcast. As someone who started working out this year, it was very refreshing to hear your workout stories as I'm very much in the same boat as James. I've always been very skinny with close to strength. So working out was mostly to gain more strength. Unfortunately, I did fall into these body standards present in media and started thinking I had to cut. out everything unhealthy. Luckily, I've started coming out of that and realized that I should just eat what I want, but still be happy. Something that did happen when I completely cut out anything sweet for good for a month or two, I stopped feeling the crave and began liking foods I never thought I would. Even veggies started tasting better. While I definitely approve

of eating what you want, I would suggest at least trying to cut out sugar from your life for at least a short period of time to see what effect it has. Cheers. When was the last time you cut out sugar? Okay, that's the door this stuff. Yeah, it's been quite a while since I have. Because I did this a few years ago. It must have been 2018, 2019, where I just totally cut out processed sugar for a whole month.

It's true, he's correct. Yeah, he's totally correct. So I did the same thing more recently than you. Mm-hmm. It takes crazy discipline, but the payoff is huge. Yeah, and at a point, the discipline isn't required. Mm-hmm. You're just like, I don't even really want, like, to eat four cookies.

And things that wouldn't have scratched the same itch suddenly start scratching the itch. So, for example, fruit. Fruit. Taste where nights are, even, like, veg and shit, like, as they were saying. Yeah, yeah. It does get a nicer taste, but it is the discipline part. sugar's so god damn addictive and it's such a joy from being real um yeah there there's nothing this plays into me watching Seinfeld there's nothing better than just eating cookies watching

sainfield mm-hmm and these are British cookies too yeah I had the gooeyest of those biscuits they got I'm specifically referencing last night where I had four white chocolate and raspberry like gooey soft fucking mm-hmm tasco-finest cookies Do you find you actually get like a sugar hangover? Because I genuinely, if I like binge on sugar of an evening, like, I feel significantly worse the next day in a way that is noticeable. Like lethargy. Yeah, like the sleep was worse. Like you wake up more tired.

Your body's just like, I need just like something real, you know? Yeah. Um, but it, it's just that pure discipline. I have to really want to be able to, I have to want to do that. Yeah. It's the same with any addiction. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. And also, like, these fucking sodas and shit. Yeah. They make you want sugar more. Like a Coke zero or, yeah, like the, um, sugar-free variants. But you can't win, basically.

Mm-hmm. unless you just cut it all up which I don't have the willpower for at this very moment yeah that's the thing I find whenever I get ill or something that always breaks the

like if I've been working out consistently then that obviously stops so you can let your body recover then it's like well eating healthy yeah man I just want to lounge feel sorry for myself and eat trash yeah exactly

which is which probably like doesn't help the healing process no no you should be eating like veggies and meat yeah full of vitamins and mushrooms and shit yeah I'm the same and my diet's been terrible no I'm gonna be real with you I ate those four

white chocolate and raspberry cookies last night as well as an entire pack of Oreos not the American pack of Oreos that would just be ludicrous but the British was cheap oh is the default American pack there's like It's like four cheves. Really?

That's like the default one. Yeah, I believe so. Huh. And I also had a little pack of Harry Bow shoes. Oh, fuck, you did go in. Yeah, I went crazy. I went mental and a... Oh no, I didn't have the popcorn.

I still got that. And kind of on the same lines, actually, Ork Tooth left this thing. On the subject of struggling to keep addictions at bay, I've always had one weakness, and that's gambling. I've hardly ever... ever actually gambled with high stakes in a casino or at the bookies, but I am an absolute

sucker for the sunken debt fallacy. This is one of the biggest traps for people who end up with gambling addiction, so I've made a personal vow never to enter a casino or bookies. I know for sure that if I were to ever dip into a habit of serious gambling, even for a second, I'd never come back. It's rather a creepy feeling when I notice the same behavior replicating itself when I'm playing a game that has some sort of risk-reward system, like pills in the binding of Isaac or turnips in Animal Crossing. Although at least that's a safe environment for someone to realize that

that's a potential danger for them thoughts. Yeah, gambling addiction is really bad. It's, uh... Yeah. It's something I've never found myself like being pulled by the... Yeah, me neither. It just doesn't attract me for whatever reason.

Well, I was specifically put off, um... when I worked in retail I worked at the like kiosk where people would buy the lot of tickets and yeah yeah like over like the months you kind of see

the familiar faces and see how just how much they're like spending on these scratch cards and like yeah yeah some people coming in and buying like 50 quids worth of like lot of tickets every week and it's like you see like you're not paying out

like anything like yeah the thing is like with gambling that you know when you're buying you're when you're giving it money the the odds are intentionally stacked against you why would they have a business model where like

yeah you're likely to gain from it but that's also how they get you that's why it's addictive is that's that small chance thing yeah because when it when you do get a payout it's like that rush of endorphins. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rarity, brains love rarity.

And it's why I think it's especially interesting when you apply it to video games. Yeah, it's the same thing. Because I think you brought it the other day when I was talking to you were talking about just like the

Battle Real game mode in video games and how it kind of feeds into that addictive nature. Yeah, it's the exact same philosophy as gambling. Because a Battle Real, you're going to lose more often than you win making a win more like you get more from it that good feeling and it's like multiple layers of randomness stacked and off each other like in apex like you have random packs

when you land on the map there are random like crate things that you open to get loo and every weapon on the floor is random there's nothing you can rely on so then in every circumstance the outcome is random and rare the likelihood of you winning is is low yeah so then you're you're addicted to the fact that like well you keep playing shit match after shit match having a terrible time but because you know there is a chance of you winning you keep chasing it it's a very weird thing and that that I have like been addicted to not in like a long term scenario but it's like when you start playing you can't stop Yeah, I've definitely been addicted to, like, gameplay reward systems and video games,

but I've never taken it to the point where, like, like an apex with the packs shit, for example, where, like, people can get addicted to just buying the packs. Yeah. Yeah, that part doesn't interest me. But whereas if, with something like, because honestly, destiny springs to my mind. I remember, like, reading about the early development of destiny and how they, like, employed these. psychological like experts to

to literally build the game to be as fucking addictive as possible every single system in that game is designed to get you fucking hooked and get those claws in and make it so like this is your life now

I think that's maybe why I've always kind of gut rejected it despite the addiction side of it I've always felt weird about certain elements of that game and how yeah I don't respect

that philosophy there's something gross about it especially with how specifically with that game that side of it has gotten worse and worse but yeah it's complicated too

because like where do you draw the line with that because I would say like with Apex like that it's a really fun gameplay loop but for what reason am I addicted I guess I think the reason Apex gets away with it for me is because the moment to moment gameplay it feels so good. Like, I forgive the, the frustrating moments of,

I've done, like, say I've just won a game, and then I go into the next game, do the exact same thing at the start, but because of one of those random elements, not aligning, I just have a terrible time, yeah, yeah. Hmm. Let's do this penultimate one here. I'm Syruk

Is Alex getting any of the Lego sets for the Eternals movie? This is the question I referenced earlier about the Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have secretly lived on earth for thousands of years reunite to battle the evil deviance. That must be the updated

description. Yeah, that's not the same. Yeah, that's not the same. So I hadn't really properly looked at any of them. Of course, I went straight for whatever set has cameo in his character king go he's only in one of them because it's such a huge cast like they've split up all the characters across all the sets he's in um in asherom's shadow has she a picture with the main point i find the box really funny because of what they put in the

corner it's like this weird arrangement of all the it's like um artist's impressions of like all the characters or something yeah well in a little because there's so many characters in that damn movie I guess they don't know there's no one face

you can put mm-hmm you can't just have like a Darth media yeah yeah yeah um so all the the kid looks

yeah that's what caught my eye immediately that kid looks creepy as hell but um yeah the set it's like this giant red robot thing

um the Lego set seem to imply and I guess it's not too shocking to hear that there's going to be like lots of fights like monsters monsters? Monsters or robots? Because why's

they're a big red robot? Are they like the Power Rangers? That's their robot? I don't know. When the other sets there's like a Lego bird monster thing and one's like a bird wolf, no not a bird wolf a wolf thing. A wolf bird? There's like a tease of what

it sort of looks like in one of the trailers I remember like a weird CG wolf thing Yeah, I don't know about this. Just get a Lego Camel off. I was going to break flink it, yeah? Yeah. Thank you. I was going to say eBay, but, you know, to each they're right.

Ooh. Actually, these are two really short ones, so we'll just do that. Goozers Goss. Says, hey, gentlemen and James. I was just curious if the Masspet 3 vid is still happening. I recently finished the trilogy, love the games in your vids on the subject full homo from Australia um I mean it's still happening it's been recorded for like it was recorded so long ago wasn't it before the

sofa was even yeah was it before I can't remember if that was the mass spec 2 one or the mass 5 1st 3 1 um it was so many months it was in summer basically when we recorded it uh but it's like three hours long so we were torn like kind of didn't have footage for it um i think we've decided at this point just to basically upload it as like a podcast thing yeah i don't see any other way we could um is to just be too time consuming i think otherwise but yeah it's i'd like to put more in but like she's it's fucking nearly the end of the year you know it's like god damn this time is just eluding me um there is like a weird one-to-one thing that our little videos on it have like lined up

with the way the games were kind of made yeah that's true it's like really weird with the like the the second video we did it's like way cleaner way more organized yeah it's like concise yeah yeah points and stuff yeah and then the third one it's like delayed it's fucking we didn't want to do with it yeah we got uh the guys upstairs breathing down our necks telling us what the deal yeah yeah yeah and finally from a revert to monkey has Alex in the process of reviewing 2020 superhero films watched Robert Rodriguez is I can't say Robert Rodriguez we can be heroes I just found it randomly on Netflix and as someone who grew up with Spy Kids it was really funny bad nostalgic yeah we actually

watched it yeah we recorded a trying to watch for it um yeah so I'll save any deep commentary for that but did you have any memories of it I remember it quite well I remember the kid who could like stretch his neck that's the most memorable thing yeah it was like specifically his neck yeah I mean if

it's kind of creative I guess no I don't say that it's specifically the neck thing oh just the neck stretch yeah the neck stretch like I guess it's creative in the like why would anyone think of this but this guy did

you know a Spy Kids re-skin set in the shark girl and yeah that's right sorry wrong way around sharp boy and lava girl yeah

couldn't even get Taylor Lawton the back what what are you doing mm-hmm guy guy gets into Twilight and suddenly he's too good for Spy Kids

I fucking love Spike Kids if you've never seen Spike Kids 3D check that shit out that is the one great film straight up just a great movie yeah yeah that Elijah wood moment

will never leave it yeah imagine being him like being in that position where it's like you're just so connected and ingrained into like that system

where you're just like offered by like Netflix so you go have like fucking 50 million to make this shit and then you're just like in a weekend yeah yeah and they just come to your garden

and you make this like lazy ass you're mandolorean can you just hop over make some shit i'll give you like 2 mil hey um guy from fucking logan want to like doing this movie

hey mr robert yeah that's like the funniest thing about it's just who is in it yeah and he always gets these like great actors yeah yeah it's amazing like Sylvester Stallone is in Spike Kids 3D he's like the bad guy and yeah he plays like multiple characters

yeah he's doing like an Eddie Murphy so It's such a good movie that he's fantastic Yeah, Antonio Banderas as well Yeah And all the actors, they're like all in on it as well They like know exactly what's up Yeah

It all just compounds to be this perfect piece of media As long as it spike is three Yeah no this new one I've, yeah, nah Too long Not too long is this podcast though It's just about right Yeah

Too long I can feel it do you listen to that one do i listen to it yeah um i not in a long time i used to do i like to you listen through all of too long yeah when i when i was like 16 i thought it was a great song and it's got like a breakdown in i would never call it a bad song it's just never find i listened through the whole thing you should give it a go yeah i can be a lamb yeah it's actually kind of giving me i kind of want to listen to it now thanks for uh listening to this one Any final thoughts?

Zodiac, uh, uh, what was his name again? Gary. Zodiac Gary? Gary, Gary Post. That is weird that his last name is Post, if that is true. Yeah, that almost... It definitely is him, isn't it? Gary Post. That's what inspired him. He, like, wrote his name down and I was like, hang on a minute. Yeah. Post.

Look at my movie about this. So fucked up. Let's just have our final thoughts.