JAR Media Posdact - The CUTEST Place YET - BroCast #1

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

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Well, I'm too melancholy to stop this. I'm not doing an American accent, though. Flip-flop too much. There's that one cowboy voice I can sometimes get. You know, the one that's like... Well, gosh, darn it. You know, that kind of one. Gorge!

See, I think too much about what I'm going to. say? You need something ready. Yeah. Yeah. And like my brain is just empty, 90% of the time. We do things a little bit differently down here. This town ain't big enough. I'm big enough for the two of us. This town ain't big enough for two of us. Here my. Do you hear my?

Good afternoon, morning, evening all night. and gentlemen and welcome to episode 372 of the jarb media podcast I'm Jamie joined by the host with the most hats the biggest damn hack you ever

saying yeah yeah joined by Alex with the most hat you've ever seen joined by pisser day I was that was never me

I'm the only one that's never been in Pacific Well bro I'm done about you I'm tired I'm lagging I'm on like a 3752 ping right now I'm lagging dude I don't know

Is this the cost or is this a brocast You should probably decide Because we don't know when James is going to be on again um cast is in both names so we can say cast and you know retroactively figure it out i guess it's like an era an unexpected era shift was suddenly in brocusts for a while let's wait and see let's wait and see my dude let's wait and see my sweet summer child that was frightening so part of

why we're so tired is because we have been in Las Vegas Nevada baby Nevada hell yeah we're in the city of dreams the city that never sleeps I said you fuck

I swear the city that never sleeps is just like every city yeah pretty much but especially Vegas god damn I don't know if we even like properly mentioned that we were going No

On the cards before we can't We'd alluded to it In the past But uh Gosh sorry for that win Yeah we alluded that we were going at some point But I don't think we specifically said when But that is why we bulk recorded

The previous episode And the one before Yeah the funny Like ages since we've recorded It has been long time And a lot has happened And I guess Those jarlings that hate

When we talk about Trips or whatever this ain't going to be the episode for you my friend but hey stick around you don't know what you're gonna hear you know it might get crazy this is Vegas yeah and again bro I don't know about you I've never been anywhere more out of pocket anywhere more crazy I thought I was trying to think of the perfect way to explain it and I think I found it right okay you know how in North Korea they build like fake supermarkets to try and trick tourists into like how hiding the fact that there's like a fascist government like oppressive government going on

yeah imagine that but scale up to an entire city and instead of it trying to hide the fascist government it's just how much money can we get yeah it's like the the most product of corruption environment that you can like live and breathe in it's kind of like it's taking a bunch of things to its like logical extreme isn't it like of course there's at some point when you're like making cities there's going to be one that's going to get the reputation for the city of like the bad shit you know what the city of vices so i was taught i don't know if this is common knowledge so for people listening they might think well duh everyone knows this but i was talking to a family friend before coming here um and he was

he kind of touched on like the origins of Vegas and apparently like some guy was just driving through it some rich asshole I guess was like driving through it and then he stopped and he was like I have an idea this is the place yeah let's just give this a well and see what happens you know it's like he was probably kicked out from somewhere

and he did like the bender my place is going to have blackjack and hookers I'll write bender from future yeah yeah and um and he did it he pulled it off it's like it's crazy

it's an ultra American thing um to have like pulled off yeah but also I think it's so American that it's beyond America yeah

well we kept joking about like how cyberpunk the place is it's like the most cyberpunky and I guess we've never been to like Japan or some places like that I'm sure that's cyberpunk but I feel like in a different way because like there's the

the angle of cyberpunk where it is about the kind of more cede type stuff um which i don't know i haven't been to japan but Vegas has that in spades the kind of seed like the amount of out of pocket shit we're hearing from like taxi drivers alone look the first taxi driver we had from the airport yeah he was like a cartoon character was like in a suit with like a hat on like a fedora on yeah he had a fedora on and it was like a suit jacket like suit you know so he three pieces suit is what I'm saying three piece suit fedora you know

like he looked like he could have been in the mob like he was he was really nice yeah yeah it was perfect for like the introduction it's like the start of GTA yeah straight up like

CJ getting off the plane because it was like night time as well and the route he took us took us past his perfect like skyline yeah of Vegas the whole outline

and it's like this doesn't feel real like yeah everything feels like a film set everything's designed to put you in this like haze and that and i'm not exaggerate like i genuinely felt like i was in a six-day haze i don't know if it was a combination of like the jet lag which i'm sure played some part of it um and also like there's just a drinking and the smoking and all of that and then pumping the oxygen into all the casinos and stuff there is something about it it does put you in a weird haze where you're in a time

out of time like a place that doesn't exist like the rules are different yeah the people are different like nothing is real it's it's also the most like multicultural place i've ever been to yeah like all race religion creeds interacted yeah with like what mexicans native americans i saw yeah to indians You hear other Brits You hear like Yeah everything Australian You know literally pick anywhere

French Those French guys Yeah One of the tables Yeah Yeah definitely what Basically the craziest place I've ever gone I would say

Like easily Like I've seen some crazy things Without a doubt But there's something about The, it's the scale of it Well that's yeah Because I was saying to you When we got back

because when we arrived I was immediately put into almost like an anxiety like this is too much there's too much information for my brain to be absorbed I was scared of that before going yeah like by honestly by the time like the night had ended and I was going to sleep like I was used to it

it was fine but in those first moments it's like Jesus Christ and in the inverse when we got back like driving into Wiltshire it's like this is like tiny we're in the wilderness so quaint in comparison yeah

whereas like just we stayed in the Virgin hotel like right there on strip and I guess I don't know when you plan a trip with Adam YMS like he does

he loves organising it and I hate doing that kind of thing and I'm shitted it so like a lot of what I saw on what it organized as like this sounds awesome, perfect like I did some research on the hotel and whatnot but just being there

is different when you go through the doors and they're like these elaborate huge doors with big crystals on them and it's so decadent and so like I just feel like a man I just don't belong here but that's nice to experience every now and again and with every casino

being like a every building Every enormous building is a hotel casino, which we learned pretty quick. Yeah. And we went to, we must have gone to 10 plus casinos. Easily. I reckon we probably did around 10 in one day. Yeah, yeah. We're doing an average of like 20,000 steps a day, sometimes more for the whole six days, pretty much.

So yeah, it was exhausting and we were busy, but I was glad for it. I feel like we got to experience a real good slice of it. But I think what I would take away from the six-day stretch we would do, I feel like in my heart three days would be perfect in Vegas. You know, it's enough time to see a show, do a bit of gambling, enjoy a bit of the excess, then maybe head on over to the Grand Canyon and had to a different state,

maybe fly somewhere else in America, do it that way. I'm glad for my first Vegas experience. I had six days, though. We also had the luxury, though, of being in, like, a group of people that know Vegas. And we're, like, taking us around to, like, cool spots. And, like, here's that restaurant. Here's Walburgers. Here's a Taco Bell you can order booze from.

He's, like, all the crazy Vegas things you, like, have to see. And here's, like, a good recommendation for a bar. Here's what you can get a hot dog in a beer for two bucks. That, like, we just never know. You know, you weren't. And those hot dogs were like good glizzies. Mm-hmm. Decent glizzies.

They were damn good. For one dollar? For one dollar. Because the beer is a dollar. Papsed. The Papsed. Papsed. Papsed.

Yeah, I hate that word. Papsed. It's so awkward. But yeah. So huge thank you's to Adam for sure. Hell yeah, yeah. He's, yeah, I've done a few trips with them now, and each time it's just amazing. he's a very experienced traveler

and just the all-round lovely man yeah so it was your first time meeting him in person I guess yeah and it was all kind of converging with this like fairy convention that was going on in Vegas which I'd say we kind of popped our little toe into how did you find that well see

you'd already experienced of Adam, yeah, he took me to one in Seattle, which I'm told is like the worst one or something. That's all the other fairies were done with me. Yeah, because they can get as big, asking like all questions about these different cons and stuff, they can get as big as like, what are they saying, like 14, 15,000 people. And some of them in these like really remote hotels in America where they like, they just take over like an entire entire town. or city pretty much um and that's kind of what had happened at this hotel suite where the this con was where i'd never seen a hotel quite like it again with the scale where it wasn't like built up it was built kind of like a neighborhood yeah it was it was like a neighborhood of flats

so the the vibe i seem to get only from the small little toad dipped in to this world is that that important it's more the event that everyone is coming to meet for and it's more about like the hotel room parties and like socialize yeah yeah everyone meeting up over this thing was it's i guess it's like any sort of con like the same as comic on to a degree where it's like it's you can go there and just know that you're going to meet like minded people yeah you feel like you're safe in a safe environment yeah free of like any um any like criticism or yeah like the the social um norms are almost flipped on their head in that regard to me yeah yeah because there aren't there aren't many communities more like chastised than

uh-huh than the furry community yeah and i had some real good conversations with some fairies about that yeah if it bothers them if it's if there are some unexpected kind of shields that come from that being the case and this kind of thing um yeah there's it's just like a subculture they're so interesting to me um it's like my little slice i've experienced of it everyone's been just so nice yeah that's that's the key part of it um because the the easy knee-jerk reaction is to to have that criticism and be like how can these people do this but like I mean, well, I didn't have a single negative interaction with anyone that... Yeah, me neither.

And, like, they do these, like, quirky things with these room parties, right? Like, I wound up in one that was, it was all Fallout themed. Kind of the theme of the con, I guess, was, like, Desert Apocalypse, Mab Max, New Vegas. Being in Vegas. Yeah, obviously, being set in Vegas. And they just went in, had a full bar, just making drinks for people completely for free, just holding up these like $60 bottles of like spirits and just like liberally pouring it and just like having a good time, not giving a fuck, just like making these crazy drinks like that were thematic as well.

Yeah, I'd happily do that anywhere at any time. I missed out on that because the part of this trip that we haven't mentioned yet is that I had a, um, Perfect timing. I know. Wisdom tooth infection, which I got pills for the day of the flight. The antibiotics, like, yeah. So we arrive in Vegas at what time, like 10 at night?

Yeah. But our bodies thought it was like, what, midday or something? I think it was like 6 a.m. Or 6 a.m.? Because also the clocks changed in England while we were away, so the time difference increased. when we're coming back Yeah not only were we jet lagged

Because then we stayed up till like Two in the morning With Adam like going to casinos and stuff Two three in the morning So jet lagged With an infection And boozing Um

Yeah Like Like I had to call And every environment Like is Yeah smoking indoors and you never have an excuse to stop smoking pretty much Yeah, I don't think

I think a non-smoker would go to Vegas And like come back with a cough Yeah, pick up a nicotine, a slight nicotine action Yeah, yeah, yeah, you just get a little bit irritated all the time And you don't know if it's the loss of gambling or And even those nights you had to retire early I wasn't far behind you with the jet lag And it's a tight

it was just like a different type of tiredness where you're like normally I'd be able to let power through some kind of tiredness but this is like I'm just gone your body is so because I've had it back home for the past couple days your body is so confused yeah like it's getting daylight when it shouldn't

and it's like the signals are just fucked you know your body doesn't know what to tell you to do so then like you're just permanently in this grey yeah yeah but we did

we managed to at least have one night where we basically didn't sleep and like it was awesome that moment where we were in a casino in old town from on what it fremont how do you say fremont uh where there was yeah a cool casino there that we've we'd frequented a few nights we got a good cheap five dollar table and every seat was taken up by our crew it was like this this rocks and we're just there for like man it must have been there they're fighting four or five hours yes and to not uh like i only made money that night too and it was like the last night and it was like this is perfect you're just getting drink after drink just yeah making money chatting making money is being with friends like it rocked yeah um yeah we were getting pretty lucky that we were pissing off like the the dealer the various dealers because we were We were going through

Like a roulette of These same like three or four dealers Because they switch every Yeah yeah Or like half hour or something And because we were sat there for so long It just kept going around And like they were clearly getting like annoyed

Because Like You're supposed to lose Well yeah You're supposed to lose And a bunch of us were just Making the wrong plays And winning

Yeah Like a shuner have been working yeah i was kind of expecting like to leave and then for some like mob boss to come yeah yeah kick my teeth in it was the splits wasn't it kept splitting yeah and it just kept working out in like just these ridiculous yeah and doubling down in the wrong places and like just doing shit that shouldn't have worked but it did yeah oh yeah that was awesome um i mean the whole thing was awesome it's like overwhelming even trying to organize organize my memories um of all this stuff luckily i did put some notes of like the major things um let's try and go in a loose kind of chronological

order uh let's talk about this escape room we did we did an it chapter two themed escape room um i don't think you've ever done an escape room before have you no too stressful i'd done one like doctor who themed one in 2019 i think um in birmingham which was like cute but this one's like on a completely different scale i get that's kind of the vagus thing you figure out pretty quick it's like everything they do there is yeah they got out there everything else yeah yeah makes me think of um that peter gabriel's song big time it's like the city's describing in that. Yeah, so this, it was like a horror escape room as well.

Yeah. I've never done an escape room and my first one was a horror escape room. What I did like was that like we had characters with us. Yeah, yeah, we had like all of the stereotypes kind of. Yeah. I don't know if they were like characters from the, I've not seen the movie. So I don't know if they were like based off of characters. Oh yeah, yeah.

So at least one was. Okay. I didn't recognize, like, the other ones. But the, the context of the movie didn't really matter that much outside of the joint hands and chanting stuff. Uh-huh. Without the context, that might have been a bit confusing. A couple, a couple of people in the group commented on that. Like, I don't know what we're supposed to do.

Yeah. I haven't seen the movie. There was extra, I didn't really get scared. And Adam did say that the part one escape room is a lot scarier. But they did get me a couple times. There are a few, like, tense environments. Like, I'd never been in a, what they call it, a hall of mirrors before.

Yeah, that was the standout to me. There's a moment, yeah, they pump in the fake smoke stuff. Yeah, they're like dry ice or whatever. The dry ice stuff. So you can't see anything and you're kind of funneled into, yeah, the hall of mirrors. And it's so disorienting. And, like, there's a clown, like,

chasing you and screaming at you. Yeah. And there was, like, a couple, like, funny movie moments where, like, the clown was about to grab me and, That's right, yeah, he was like, reaching through a window. He's like, just pushed me out the way in time. And he's like, just saved you from the clown. Yeah.

And having one member of the group had clown. More, yeah. Yeah, more. There's a clown phobia. Uh-huh. So, like, that added, like, another layer of, like. Yeah, because we were fine until we got to, like, the clown room. Yeah.

And it was bound to happen, like, it's. it was going to happen at some point yeah um yeah we got to the clam room so he checked out we kind of had like our characters yeah yeah losing a character each bit like someone getting scared adam's boyfriend was being hilarious like he was like so on edge he's like jumping out of his skin yeah the actors like got me with the for each two or three rooms you'd be with like kind of a guide yeah as you say he's kind of playing a character yeah and they'll like there'll be a point where they swap over to the next one and in that so you once where this girl just came running out screaming and I think I was at the front of like

yeah group so oh man she got me good and I was like what yeah but I find I don't get as scared of these things that I know I don't know it's kind of like with movies where that I know at a certain degree I can intellectualize my way out yeah but also I think um Adam especially, but you as well, both having that calm, chill, I mean, like, especially Adam, like, he was so just chill, matter of fact, like, let's get these answers, let's get he was on a mission, like, in a real horror movie, like, if I was in a situation like that, I'd want to be with him. Yeah, yeah.

Because he'd just be like, let's figure it out. But I think if I was in a group of people who were susceptible to that sort of thing, I would like feed off of their terror and be well. more on edge and if i had to take more of a lead or if like i was imagining having to like do that by myself i would have been terrified that would be really scary yeah yeah the whole idea is i guess it's testing your your communication and you yeah yeah it's like a teamwork yeah team building exercise it was fun i'm curious about adam really recommended the saw one and the it chapter one one i think a saw one would be really that could be like really funny yeah fun yeah

and silly um yeah so that was a good time um yeah what else did we do went to sugar factory that was crazy yeah we had the um sponge bob burgers we did have the sponge bob burgers not like like the ones when he makes his own burgers all the different colors so i had like again i saw like that we're going to sugar factory and i didn't really put two and two together but i had heard of it before it's like a famous place in Vegas that like loads of celebrities go to and it's like in episodes of keeping up the Kardashians and shit like that oh right um yeah because there were photos of so they were like photos all over the walls snoop dog just really happy yeah yeah a bunch of like sundays and yeah it was adam's birthdays sorry adam's boyfriend's birthday

and he really wanted to go there and he got this drink this cursed drink maybe I had a scene enormous glass which speaking of dry ice they like poured some version of dry ice in and it's like blue

full of like gummy worms like all like soaked in like was it rum some spirit vodka and it looked extremely strong I tasted it I mean it tasted kind of like gummies it was one of those danger one of those danger drinks you know where it's like yeah this is so strong it's just so sweet yeah it's gonna go straight to my head um luckily it did some like

savory stuff because i didn't really i don't know i didn't want like sugary starts to my day when i'm doing all that walking and stuff and he's something's going to sustain me a little bit more yeah we had the burgers had the but like the colorful burgers i i showed a picture to my partner and and she was like ugh it looks disgusting and that was part of it to me though was like I'm here for the excess of this if I'm not here for the excess what am I even doing here but also no joke they were delicious they were good the like purple green blue burgers delicious they were the stand up yeah yeah that was funny and then I guess I'd never tried like Jello shots

before they're horrible Adam would like keep buying them yeah maybe this flavor won't suck. Yeah, because it's like, oh, that little hint of watermelon, that's quite nice. Oh, no, it's just like 90% vodka. Yeah. And you've got to swallow this, like, viscous jelly. Let's go back to the casinos for a little minute.

And just like, when you find the right one and then you get into that casino meta, there is something danger about that. Time goes, you're getting drunker and drunk. with these free drinks. Dude, I get it. I get it now.

I get it. I didn't get it before going. I get it. I 100% get it. Yeah. We both kept talking about like, we don't really have the bug, but we can feel that pool.

Yeah. We can feel that pool, especially with watching Adam and the way he plays. Yeah, that was like the most stress. He's getting his crazy plays and I'm like getting stressed for him. It's not even my money on the line.

But again, chill as hell. Yeah, yeah. It's just like, the definition of stoic um yeah it I just had so much fun just sat at those tables

like it I can imagine going to Vegas as like a kid and finding it a casino so boring you know yeah yeah like the idea of sat at like a table where someone's dealing cards and people meet chips

but like we we never did any high-stakes shit by any means No, no, no. We kept it. No, because that's what I mean about the casino matter is like, you want to be staying at least even with what you're gambling, at least. But even if you're losing 40, 50 bucks, you want to at least have gotten the drinks to have added up to buying those drinks.

Yeah, which in Vegas is really easy. Yeah. There's like two drinks is like $60. Yeah, so it's like layers to it at that point. um and yeah you have like oh it's so addictive like yeah especially when you get a dealer with the perfect like banter level yeah because sometimes we'd like meet up at different times in the day so sometimes we'd have like a few hours to kill or whatever so we'd just chill in the casino and attached to our hotel and yeah there were one or two dealers there that were characters

especially this one guy he's like what was his name I can't remember his name. I remember reading it multiple times, but... Was it like Lou or something like that? I feel like it was one syllable. I think that was a different guy called Lou. We met so many different people. It's hard to...

Yeah. To keep it all straight. Yeah, this one guy, it was like a stand-up routine for him. Like, he was just throwing out one line is... Because that was something like I hadn't considered till I was there. And literally, like, the second we started talking to locals, I started asking questions. Like, do you live here? Like, how long have you lived here?

And, like, the taxi driver was, like, been in 35 years. Yeah. I'm like, wow. I guess people do live here, huh? Because I guess it's cheap. Yeah, apparently, sir. Like, rent is cheap. Yeah.

I don't, I don't know how you could do that, personally. Like, live there. Yeah, especially live there for 35 years and the guy was like 60-odd, he told us. And he looked like 40s, maybe. maybe. Yeah, I don't know what his skin routine is. He's got to share it. So he lives in the desert in Sin City.

Yeah. Booze, drugs, prostitution. Uh-huh. And we know he liked his prostitution because he was pointing out how to get like which massage parlors to get happy endings. Like no shit. Like he was saying that.

Yeah, he was like, keep your money in your room so you don't spend much on gambling. And then like at nighttime, just go bang whores. Like that was his Vegas method. Yeah. No. taxi we got in and this guy just I don't know where he's like looking for

a snow bunny tonight. Yeah. We didn't say shit and he's just on Easter. Oh fuck I didn't even It was Easter Sunday he said that. That's even funnier. Yeah. I should have tipped him more. Yeah. That's hilarious. Fuck me.

But yeah. There's just like this overbearing kind of seediness to the whole place. Yeah. it's you can't know without experiencing it like yeah because you you see it in the hangover you see it in all these movies and referenced in all these stories and whatnot but yeah nothing can capture it the scale the feeling the weird head rushes you get from that oxygen every like 20 minutes yeah it's completely surreal and like painting the ceilings to look like

skies one second you're like in italy and there's like gondolas and then the next minute you're in Paris under the Eiffel Tower and it's like what is even going on as you're getting like more drunk more high more just like it's just mad hyperventilating water from the oxygen yeah with like mad American food whatever they be putting in like all this like weird stuff we're learning about like the iodized salt iodized salt it's just like What is this place? I was happy I didn't get heartburn once. That was cool.

Yeah, I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I was like really anticipating that. That's kind of the one thing I associate with America is heartburn. And Adam did take us to the heart attack grill. Just have a look. Yeah. Like he didn't really convince us.

He kind of did the opposite. Yeah, he was like, the food sucks. It's just all about the excess, I guess. And they like spank you if you can't finish your food. i don't know if i want to pay for them to get me um we uh shows incredible so so lay uh keep forgetting like which version it was called or whatever it was in the mgm yeah it's it's it integrates this like enormous hydraulic platform um which can only be performed in Vegas whereas like Cirque I guess is in different places comes from Montreal yeah

it comes from Canada which they do in a tent but in Vegas obviously going back to that scale thing it has to be the most like insane biggest thing you've ever seen and it kind of was like there are points where like again with nothing feeling real it was like watching a dream you're like in almost like a trance because it's like this is so insane like this is so incredible like what i'm seeing the spectacle of it and it's like all these different disciplines and types of artistry coming together with the engineering of this platform yeah with the timing of everything and like the staging with the strength of all of the performers with all the acrobatics

with the timing of the music and like different elements of the music being like so being performed live and yeah the musicians and then having singing as well they're like singing live and it's just like it's like an overwhelming display of like talent really yeah and you just know it's a bunch of people who have dedicated their life yeah yeah yeah to like this yeah it's completely just incredible um that like blew my mind yeah i i imagine any because i've i've been to a circus before not that long ago I think it was late last year and I saw some pretty

impressive stuff that but like this this thing in Vegas and I'm sure every Cirque de Saleeb I'm sure each show is like Beatles ones I'm sure that Beatles one is cool yeah so I reckon if you get the opportunity to check that out

like it's a no brain of it I liked like there was kind of a theme and a narrative going on I didn't really get what the story it was but it didn't really matter because each like scene was so expressive in one way or another and you could like pick up the emotion of what they were doing um there was like a weirdly there was kind of a more quaint part of the show where um this woman just with these batons is just going nuts as far as the scale compared to all the other parts of it

it is kind of smaller but like the the music that it was time to and everything was like This is like, it's not really emotional about this. Yeah, and for me, the, um, the, like, hand puppets. Yeah. In front of the light. Mm-hmm. Like, it's such, it's like the most simple, it must be one of the most, the oldest forms of performance.

Yeah, yeah. Like, you can imagine cavemen doing it. It's like a little character moment where, like, there's no big action scene, no big bombastic moment. It's just two characters sitting down trying to kill some time, doing these extremely elaborate. Yeah. um shadow puppetry yeah yes it's like straight up beautiful yeah yeah and it's so like

varied and you never know where it's going next and it's uh it does that thing you want to see in like action movies and stuff where they just keep outdoing it itself like yeah yeah and when it peaks it ends and it's like jesus christ like yeah one experience yeah i've never seen anything like it and i'll be kind of surprised if i ever do again honestly yeah And the other kind of big show we saw was we had to go to the sphere. Yeah, of course. We had to check it out because Darren Aronofsky, director of Black Swan, the wrestler, Noah.

Oh, he did now. Yeah. He's put together this special, sorry for the audio listens, by the way, my hack, I keep smacking it into the mic because it's such a big hat. But yeah, he's put together this specially. made film for the sphere which is yes it's like a big dome with a screen a high quality screen kind of encasing the entire outside and inside of this big dome and there's this yeah the experience i guess that darren put together is this kind of it's kind of a high concept like sci-fi thing

and for like the first 10 minutes i don't know if what this is about uh but it basically turns into two sci-fi humans on a spaceship that have come out of cryofreeze and now it's time to catch them up on what earth is because they don't really know and i guess they're like terraforming or something yeah they can't remember because they were asleep for so long yeah so then it kind of shifts into sort of like a montage of uh big landscape shots of places on earth for the most part um and yeah the the aspect ratio kind of envelops the entire sphere. I thought that was really cool where it starts like a cinema screen. Yeah. And then it starts zooming into the earth. And that... Yeah.

But it turns into more that earth is just coming at you. And it like comes out of the cinema screen. And it really tricks your brain when you're flying over the Grand Canyon, or a desert or over a city or whatever, like you... It gives you that kind of roller coaster rush feeling. Yeah. Especially combined with like they got these big wind machines that are, blasting air and whatnot like timed with what's happening on screen yeah um yeah i thought it was

really cool especially when it was focusing on like the environment and the animals i thought that was sick um i guess i i didn't really even feel the need for the whole like framing of the sci-fi people and it kind of turns into this environmental message and then when it gets too Dara, it's like, nope, we're going to just quickly make this really cheery because this has to be families type thing. It's got this, like, really... It can't have an actual message because it's, like, for a product, you know? Yeah, yeah.

But as far as, like, what that screen can accomplish is something I guess I've never experienced before. And, yeah, it just, it kind of made me think about, like, you know, movies where they put the headset on. they're like there. Yeah. You know? Like they put the headset on and they're in the desert.

It kind of felt like the closest analog to something like that. Yeah. Yeah. To me it kind of felt like that same moment when I first put on my VR headset. Yeah. Oh, we can like do this sort of thing now. Yeah, yeah. Where like I just totally believe it.

There is like a tech flex element to it. And I feel like there's, there's a lot you could do as far as, like, putting on a performance. I've think seeing live music there could be extremely cool with the right band. Because it's only you, it's only you two and this Darren Aronofsky thing that is playing there for, like, ages now. I think we made the road choice. Yeah, I don't really care about you two, but maybe if there was one day a band playing there, um, of which there was some cool ones I saw signs for, like Gary Newman was playing. King Wizard and the Lizard Wizard had signs up and I was like ah the dates didn't line up

but that would have been cool um top golf and atomic golf I'd seen a bunch of like I guess like shorts and TikToks of people at top golf but I'd never put two and two together that that's what it was mm-hmm it's just like a Vegas driving range and it's like Vegas spin on a driving range it's because top golf is like a country wide thing right top top golf itself so it's kind of like a bowling alley but yeah it's got the same like vibe

yeah but it's fun like it's something I would like do often yeah it's a good it's good like activity to hang out at yeah get some drinks maybe a little snack or something I think that's some

an aspect about living in a place like Vegas that would be cool where like instead of going to a pub and you're like you're it's cool to have a chat and stuff but like being guys just being

dudes like you want to be like doing something yeah it's why like playing video games like smash bros or whatever yeah it's like a good time because you're like chatting while doing something yeah and like so mistakes aren't too high it's just like

a bit of fun um I yeah yeah that was nice we did the competitor to top golf atomic golf which is fairly similar but they had I didn't actually get to use it in the end it was like a machine gun

that fires golf ball cannon extremely American make it a gun yeah and it's just there because it can be like there's no like

game or anything to do with it it's just so you can shoot a golf ball out of a gun yeah yeah yeah um any other major things you want to throw out i don't want to miss any other bits um i had i'd forgotten i guess that derrick savage lives in nevada um um and wound up meeting with someone who used to work with there i can have some interesting conversations um about that uh i'll save that for now um lots of like we've talked a lot about like american roads right american cars and stuff we've we've actually specifically complemented their grid system yeah i take all that yeah but bro get if you're not in a car getting around sucks like even if you're in a car

well yeah true like the way it's done it's like I get so frustrated about it because we've solved this problem over here like we've solved it you put a circle you put a circle and you give way to the right I guess I'll be left in America

problem solved why are you sitting there for like five minutes everyone like you're walking in a straight line and it's great you know they're so oh no I've got to cross the road twice well there's half an hour gone like not even joking

yeah just straight up One of the nights, I had to, um, so the, the, the hotel we were staying in and the hotel Adam was staying in, were, in, in, in, in. With no traffic, you, you could walk there in probably three minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but on the other side of both of the hotels. Mm. Um, because there was like a cross junction, I guess they'd call it.

Um, an intersection? An intersection. Um. so that in three separate parts of the intersection was that each hotel and a pharmacy and I needed to get some salt water

like mouthwash for my infection which meant I had to cross one road and then another road and then the diddy other road between those two to get to the pharmacy to then go back across the ditty road

and then across the ditty road and then across the road to the hotel. So that's one, two, three, four, five. Five times I had to cross the road. I got very familiar with that little bit. Yeah. Well, yeah, because you're, we must have spent like five hours there in total because it's just insane. So stupid.

So that that whole thing to get from these two locations that three minutes apart with, again, if there was no traffic, it would be. a two minute diversion Yeah That must have taken me Like near half an hour Plus because I asked the person In the pharmacy If they had sea salt

And the person I asked Didn't know what sea salt Yeah I mean like I understand That I've got an An accent Yeah Like a foreign accent

Yeah So I think she was hung up On the way I said salt Salt Salt You got any sea salt then sea salt do you have any sea salt i i guess because i wasn't pronouncing the tea soul soul soul soul sea salt and she was like right see

huh so she was very confused and and so the way i described that was like you know see the ocean salt put on your fries and she was still confused so i guess she didn't know i mean like you live in a desert fair enough um so you don't know what the ocean is but eventually like we figured it out and i got some yeah there are a few of those funny like culture clash moments where it's like yeah i was asked if i was australia and a bunch of times whenever i had to try and explain like where we're from in the uk yeah like i'd go through like a system of like saying yeah we're kind of near stonehenge no american knows with stone hensers uh we're in wiltshire no one knows where whicher is uh i don't know we're kind of near

london oh london yeah yeah i know london it's it's all england's got man like yeah yeah no one knows anything else yeah like but yeah they it wasn't that they didn't know where stonehenge was so they a lot of them didn't know what it is didn't know that it was a thing yeah which to me is kind of crazy

like yeah but do we know it more because it's like our one Stonehenge is like world famous it's like a big deal yeah

I'm just trying to give any benefit of the doubt I guess I didn't know yeah but I mean I guess when you got like Mount Rushmore and shit like it's more impressive true

Big faces It's taken ages We saw a dancing cowboy Last night that was pretty cool That was awesome It was this like Like dad band Yeah

Playing like the The classic American songs Yeah But no one else was dancing No one was dancing Until the cowboy got out This guy with his hat And all of it

The white hat Yeah This way doing all this shit It's like this is a lyr he was really going in as well yeah he was he was probably wasted i think he was he was carrying the show yeah you know yeah i hear that i hear that yeah we we stumbled across this it was kind of like a cowboy shop yeah like just by complete accidents so we're like we got to go in we got to yeah left wing now right wing back band

and it was all the people in there were the exact type you'd expect right the store owners and stuff like the exact attire you'd imagine I was kind of like corking everything like oh my god I've never seen so many hats I've never seen so many boots and you like go around the corner

and there's like little cowboy boots for like babies it's like this is hilarious yeah and like the boot with the American flag on it and all these like cowboy jackets I wouldn't shop anywhere else if I live there like man All of my clothes would come from there.

They were badass. They were so cool. The jackets were very cool. The jackets were cool. They were straight up just Arthur Morgan jackets. Yeah, yeah. And like they had jeans and stuff, and I bet they're good-ass jeans. Yeah.

And the hats, awesome. And, like, some of the jackets had, like, branding on them with, like, a little cardboard gun. Yeah. And you're, like, look at it, and it's like, special pocket just for your gun. Yeah. I don't even, like, have a gun, but I'd want that jacket. It's hilarious. It's so.

yeah it's so cool so I thought yeah that this hat would be a cool souvenir put on the wall or something yeah yeah I got a little hat to display yeah but like speaking of the the guy at the shop um say what you will about Americans man but like they know how to interact especially in in that the like back and forth customer yeah customer service yeah broadly yeah just oh yeah it's shit's all over us straight up yeah we're fucking awful at it yeah we're terrible we are yeah we are cold we are so fucking yeah like from from both sides because like when we went to chick fillet twice yeah once for breakfast once for like yeah and like

because i'm preparing when i go into a fast food place to have like the british mcdonald's experience yeah whereas like you're a subhuman like yes it's minimal human contact and when you get it, it's like a glance and then, like, maybe an okay. Yeah, yeah. You know, that's what you get. But, like, I walk into Chick-fil-A. And, like, it's almost like they want to talk to you.

It's really peculiar. Yeah, that's quite a culture shock. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you asked if I'm having a good day? Huh? Yeah. I had multiple just, like, nice little conversation.

or interactions with people um yeah just more more time i guess to yeah i don't know what it is i don't know where it comes from or like what it is it feels like a camaraderie it's it's really like one of the times i was walking back to the hotel by myself um someone did something stupid in a car right by the sidewalk and this old dude was like like what the hell are you doing you stupid like yeah yeah he was like what are you doing you idiot like yeah yeah these guys and he was saying to this person walking past him and he looked at me and he was like did you see that yeah yeah these crazy people and i was like yeah what a duna us yeah it's more like expressive yeah i feel like we hold a lot of stuff

in at least in uh you can't say the same about the north of england but the yeah where we reside we're very just like I'm going to hold this in and like never show it to anyone yeah you know and so it's like breaking point yeah so you scream at someone on the tube or whatever yeah that was interesting loads of really cool cars though loads of cool cool last cars way cooler yeah some like sick muscle cars yeah like ridiculous amount of muscle cars and young people driving them yeah yeah it's the weirdest bit that guy literally looks like 70 17 years old driving like a dodge like what is his fucking story

Jesus yeah and then you look to the other side of the red and there's another one yeah yeah 17 year old nearly got squashed by a couple trucks you know the mega trucks yeah when they're like 20 feet off yeah and everyone's so impatient as well these intersections they're like looking for that little gap it's like man it's so fucking stressful it's shitty um Man, I don't just want to make sure I don't forget anything Any other

Things come to your mind Bro? We saw a couple of cyber trucks That was cringy Should probably mention The trash room, right? Yeah, the trash The trash party

Um So one of the nights I guess when it was It must have been like 10 o'clock or something 10pm Uh huh She was starting to get a bit rowdy She was getting

Yeah, yeah Adam was kind of just like Walking around with us in a group just seeing what was going on yeah i think it was my first that day was my first experience yeah

um and we're just kind of walking around this area going around some pools and seeing what's up and it's just this guy there and he's like he like runs out yeah he's like sprints out he's like the trash party's over here

he doesn't even say that he was like guys there's trash the trash come with me come and see the trash and like my knee joke to that is like this guy's crazy everyone was like

trash let's go yeah yeah so we have to see it now and I'm glad we did because like methodically and systematically this room had been covered in like clean trash

like carbon yeah just I guess from a bunch of like Amazon parcels and stuff they've just saved all this cardboard so that on this one night in Vegas. It was full of just cardboard. Yeah.

People like rolling around like two fridges just full of booze. Yeah, yeah. They just like crack up in a beer and I'm like, this is crazy. Yeah. Not just this is crazy.

Like this rocks. Yeah. I'm so happy I saw this. Uh-huh. I was just having so much fun. yeah yeah yeah i feel like there's some other anecdotes but i'm struggling to to pull at them because i was told like stories of like some of the stuff people do like the elaborate nature like some of the things that the people turn the hotel rooms into

like they're bringing like a full DJ setup yeah we saw that one room on them the penultimate night um um um um um um that had just like turned into a nightclub yeah then like completely kitted out like blasting music yeah they had like a alcoholic punch like section yeah yeah they had ran out of booze because it was so popular um yeah like apparently people set up like um slushy machines yeah yeah poor booze in them and they like yeah boozy slushies it's just like so much fun yeah yeah i didn't realize the that community goes like so hard uh-huh with um it's it's like about the partying which i never knew yeah yeah before this experience um yeah i rate it was uh crazy trip like one i'll never forget for sure holy shit yeah um

It's just a mad place. A couple culture shot moments, like, obviously we're bringing up the guns subject a few times with some Nevada locals with some Americans. Because it's like a nice mix of like some Americans, some Canadians, as Brits, just throwing in there. So you get all these different perspectives and like we had a moment when we were talking about guns and the energy kind of went down. it's like yeah it's always a good idea to know your exits and if yeah if shots start firing like get down on the ground and crawl because it's a better chance and it's like oh my god well yeah it's not really something that's ever on my mind as a uk resident um maybe occasionally in london if you're there for like a big big event or something but like for the most part that's

not something that's on my mind i'm not thinking about like my cousins having to fear something like that happening at school or something yeah um yeah i don't know how long i could put up with that in the back of my mind like yeah that would mess with me we were waiting in a queue at some point and i caught myself like looking around to see like yeah is is there anywhere where someone could like hold up and just go for it it's it's a it's a weird thing to have a realistic thought about yeah and yeah I guess the statistical odds are low

but it's still just like way higher than here man I don't feel this when I'm in Canada let's just put it that way or anywhere else that I have been in my life so yeah but do you still check out

Vegas if you ever can I would I don't know who I was saying it to but like I'd happily go back in like a decade or two to see the further evolution of it because stories i've heard about it from other people who have been like 10 years ago or whatever it's like the progress since then yeah is insane well like our parents went i think in the 80s yeah um and that like we were showing them pictures and they're like yeah this is like different so different i guess like 40 years

of tech of these LED lights all this so much has changed yeah yeah yeah so like when they went it must have been yeah like old town was more like new town probably yeah yeah it's very weird but very exciting it is very exciting so we have a choice now bro we can we can wrap this up and just have this be the vegas episode which i'd be happy to do um we could save these questions and just do a bumper next week which i'd be fine yeah we could do a question one um I think we're both pretty tired yeah um and anyway if you need any more jar there's uh last last episode was pretty long yeah yeah yeah just have another loop of that and by the time you're done with that there'll probably be another one anyway so yeah sorry uh for those people that hate the travel

ones but tough yeah tough sorry sometimes some of the episodes are for you some for me yeah okay yeah yeah like i want to be able to in five years go and listen to this and be like all that random detail from the trip that i thought the cow the dancing cowboy i forgot about yeah yeah forgot about the trash party yeah then a little kind of flooding yeah yeah hmm well i think we're done here my bro what's bye bye in cowboy chow for Take it easy. Is that what they say?

That's what I say. Take it easy. I had to remove take it ease from my like... Take it ease. I used to... That's like an Italian-American thing that I heard. Take it ease. Hey, take it ease.

I thought it sounded cool when the guy said it. But I realized when I say it, people just get confused. Like, what? Oh, they didn't pick up. Take it ease. like it doesn't make sense right because ease is is a word yeah you're right like you're freaking right yeah I'm freaking people out with that one anyway take it ease