JAR Media Posdact - the RANKING episode

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 04:05 Housekeeping 16:25 Dinner or Money with Jay Z 22:57 Jim Guesses the Most Streamed Songs of all Time 41:07 Jim Guesses the Freest Countries 56:49 Mid Break 58:48 Question Segment: What time is it? 1:02:39 A Clayface Movie 1:13:14 Scientology Building Speed Runs 1:14:58 PO Box? 1:16:55 A Bit Stuck 1:17:25 Jarling of the Week heats up 1:18:39 Should a JARling admit? 1:21:06 Turkey Jim 1:22:23 Recent Vinyl Pickups 1:25:51 JARolitics #BroCastS7E17

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urine you're in you're in it's like a punk band yeah yeah you know I'm on jaw harp you're on everything else

yeah I'm like the I just do a jaw harp solo and just leave yeah booy yoy yin and then go bang some hookers yeah

as I'm known to do yeah you actually do have a problem with that I would prefer if you didn't share it. You're addicted to prostitutes. That's fucked up. Hey, a guy's got to do what a guy's going to do.

Yeah. What a guy can't get his rocks off these days. Good afternoon, morning, evening or night? What? Lady and gentlemen. You're recording? You're recording this? Yes.

I've secretly been recording for the past 10 years. And you didn't notice that happens. I thought we were just hanging out. Nope. Fuck. Nope. Uh, I'm Alex joined by Jim. I'm airport, Jim.

But I'm not airport Alex. No, how no. Maybe I'm cabby Alex. Hey, I'm walking here. Hey, I'm driving the taxi here. Hey, want to know a little secret about these streets? What? Tell me, cab driver.

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nowadays. Yeah, hell yeah. We chuck it on there. That's not all there. If you're a debbyterer above, you get your Patreon names read out in the first or second week of each month. That'll probably be next up. Which after hours, though, is the big one. Supplementary show on Patreon. Oh my God.

Oh, my God. The deals. The deals are insane. So many options over there. We did huge chunky. I think it was our longest invincible conversation yet. Really? Wow. Have we done one for every season?

We definitely did one for three. I don't think we did one for one, did we? I don't think we did one or two, actually. Maybe two? I can't remember. But you can find the season three one that should be on the channel already, but the season four one is over on Patreon alongside other variety stuff,

like the planet sounds, scary guessing game we did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I've actually got a little anecdote about that one to bring up in a second when we're going to housekeeping. But there's also the Dark Souls 3, as they say, 10 year anniversary. It just happened to line up perfectly with the anniversary of the game. So check that one out. Did we finish it on the anniversary?

On the actual day. I've got a feeling we did. I'd have to look at my steam achievements. That would be wild, though. I've got a funny feeling we did. Or we missed it by like a day. It was in that window. for sure.

Yeah. And that is cool. Yeah. There's all sorts of creepy pastures and variety stuff on there. Check it out. Huge playlist that's growing and pays its chance, of course. JAR Media group chat as well. Last but not least, it's a group chat.

You can leave suggestions. We'll put some in housekeeping, if relevant, and the questions at the end as well. I don't have any from there for the group chat this time, but what I do have as we move into housekeeping, we round off conversations from the previous week. Is this? This was like a full post on the first. the subreddit. It wasn't even left in one of the threads because this was so, uh, debilitating for this person, right? This is Dobby. Dot EXE left a little bit of a story. Okay.

Called JAR workplace accident. Huh? I recently got into a workplace accident last week and JAR played a pivotal role in it, so I thought I'd share the moment, quell your expectations. Here's what happened. I work for a video production company and I was tasked with wiping these old Macs of their data. They had old videos from old clients and for security purposes we thought it would be best to wipe them. Since they were so old, we decided that it would save us time to just pry them open and take the hard drive out rather than figuring out how to factory reset them. My boss provided me some tools and I was off to prying them open, which proved to be really tedious, a perfect task to put in my

earbuds and have jar on the background. Of course. Especially since the new draftor hours was out. Quote, scary sounds in space planet guessing game. All was going well until it got to the point where in order to get to a screw, I needed to rip off this plastic chip thing, but it was very stubborn. However, I felt it bending, so I thought it would be safe to just pry it off with my hands. I put both of my thumbs under the plate and pushed up as hard as I could, which did the job. But before I could register any sensation, my hand began profusely raining blood. Oops. Me and my boss went into a brief fight or flight mode, and he ran to the bathroom to grab a hand towel to stop the bleeding.

Turns out, when I pried off the plastic, I dragged my thumb on a piece of the max metal frame, which ripped a two inch long gash on my inner thumb going towards my palm. I pressed the towel to my thumb with my other hand to stop the flow of blood. And it was at this point where whatever spurt of rationality I had began to fade. I had a really embarrassing phobia of, I have a really embarrassing phobia of blood, needles, and anything related to the sort. It's so bad I warn doctors and nurses that there's a slim chance I might be. pass out before doing trivial stuff like shots.

So you can probably imagine what it felt like when I looked down at my hands drenched in blood. I started feeling really lightheaded and nauseous, so I sat on the floor against the wall of the studio while my boss fetched a first aid kit. I tried to close my eyes and breathe, but it turns out that I never stopped the episode of scary planet sounds, which means that it must have been playing in one year throughout this whole fucking ordeal and didn't realize it until then. Closing my eyes, I tried not to panic and just listen to Jar to calm down, but this

had the opposite effect. It wasn't long before I got to the quote, the big bang sound, which had a very irritating noise followed up with Jim making a fart with his mouth which pissed me off so fucking bad to an irrational degree. I just wanted Jim and Alex to shut the

fuck up and the random space sounds were possibly the worst white noise to have in the background of this situation. I was incredibly stressed and what made it worse was the fact that I didn't want to take the earbud out either since I was so terrified that I'd start bleeding again if I used my left hand. So I had to sit there trying to calm myself down while random ambient noises and the boys' comments berated my ears.

This lasted for maybe three minutes before I couldn't take anymore and asked my boss to take my earbud out in the middle of cleaning the wound. After that, we got the wound temper bandaged up and made my way to urgent care. Thankfully, the injury could have been a lot worse. So now I'm off to a speedy recovery, I'm sure some parts of my mind dramatized the event. But in retrospect, the annoyance of not being able to just turn off jar. was probably what kept me from fainting. So I want to thank the boys if they ever see this. If I just listen to music,

I don't think it would have had the same effect. Hopefully some jarlings can get a kick out of my suffering. Keep ranking on. Rank on, dude. Sorry to hear that, man. Any like hand injury or anything is like a gash. Hands are so like creasy. Yeah.

You know. But you're welcome. Like, you could be, it could have been fatal, if not for us. Yeah. I feel like, Spider-Man, like,

another one for the books. Another guy saved. Friendly neighborhood airport gym. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get better soon, man. I'm flying in. Yeah.

No, Gigi. Maybe maybe be a bit more careful next time. We were talking about the idea of this Alderman movie and the Bloodbourne thing. And Zee Boo Boo Boo left a comment saying, I feel like Dark Souls would work really well

as an animated TV series like Love, Death and Robots, different animation each episode and random stories each time. When I read that, it kind of like clicked on my head and I was thinking, that's actually kind of a fire idea. Yeah, I'm thinking about all the different like characters and stuff that you could... Like just do their story as an episode. I'm telling you, look into Havel's Law.

Which one is that? I don't know... He's the big rock guy. Oh, yeah. Awesome, awesome fucking law. Really, yeah. Awesome fucking law. I think that could be really cool.

He, like, waged war against the gods. And that's why he's, like, locked up in the chamber in Dark Souls. Like, check out the Havel Law. Like, that could genuinely be, I think, um, is he called Hawkshaw? Must he look like in Dark Souls 1? No, um, there's a YouTuber. Um, might be, sounds like a... Hawkshaw?

Yeah, it does. Um, it might be based off a character. Hawkshaw. H-A-W-K, like the bird. S-H-H-A-W. Yeah. Hawkshaw, yeah,

welcome to Hawkshaw channel for going in depth on Dark Souls' Law. Yeah, search Hawkshaw-Haw-Havl. And it's not... Does Vattie not have one? Vati's... Dark Souls 1 video is really old. He hadn't, like, found his stride.

Quite yet. Not that they're bad or anything. Yeah, yeah. Hawkshaw is doing, like, still doing them. Yeah. For Dark Souls 1. And they're fantastic. That's cool.

So yeah, I agree with that. That's a cool idea. Yeah, and there was another one on the same topic from Barry Lang. Closest to a Dark Souls movie we have is some combination of the Northman, the Green Knight, and Ridley Scott's The Last Dual. Northman has a full Dark Souls boss fight in a Viking tomb. Green Knight has the aesthetic. And Scott's Last Dual has the unreliable narrative around a conflict no one can agree on, who was hero or villain.

Yes, airport, Jim? The Northman is an Outerring movie. It's not a Dark Souls movie. You think it's closer to the... Yeah, it's Norse. It's not... Yeah. I get what they're saying, though.

Yeah. I did think more of the Green Knight, though, when thinking about the Adam Ring movie and kind of a... The Green Night is... Not like a... I don't want it to be like that. I don't want it to feel like that movie,

but there's something about the way that movie presents its world that I want it to mimic. You know what I'm saying? Definitely. Yeah. I've only recently watched that movie and it's fantastic. Yeah. I think I mentioned a few others back.

Fantastic. I still haven't seen the last duel. It's apparently Ridley Scott's like best. Really? Modern movie in the... When did he make it? It must have been what, 2017 or something? Oh, okay.

Yeah. Yeah, he makes some stinkers for the most part now. Yeah. What was the last thing I saw of his? Gladiator, too. That was... That was like a joke of the film, yeah. Dan Zanek, though.

He was pretty funny. He was the best bit. He normally is. Dance Eagle says Airport Dan here. Airport Gym needs to come clean about the origin of Airport Gym. Airport Dan out. P.S. Can you explain the different jar sets and reasons for changing over the years? Change for the sake of change, really.

Yeah, you know what they say? If it ain't broke, fix it. Yeah. And the origin to airport gym is Yeah, so that's Yeah, yeah, that's that, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's such a good story, but It's actually, yeah, to be, it's one of my better stories.

Yeah, yeah. Ah, yeah, we're talking about this Palantia manifesto last episode. Yeah. Litch King, servant said in response to that The Palantia manifesto sounds like the kind of collectible document you'd find in the umbrella lab at the end of a Resident Evil game. So fucking true.

So fucking true. It genuinely does. Yeah, you get to the law room in Palantir headquarters. Or it's like in Spider-Man, you know, when you just find the, like, PowerPoint presentation with the evil plan on it. Yeah, yeah. They want you to know this. Yeah, it's fucking crazy, man. Famous Zaggy says, Alex in his ranking off-screen arc.

ranking off screen. I'm not to rank off screen if I'd like to. Because we've been like talking about Invincible and stuff and like obviously Invincible's in the, it's in the culture at the moment. Yeah. I'm getting a lot of like comic book like podcast clips. And obviously with comic book stuff, there's a lot of ranking. Oh my God, so much ranking. So I saw a clip of the creator of Invincible ranking, ranking the seasons of. of invincible and they

whenever they say rank it's like it's right it's like it's like it's genuinely this is one that's actually done the most damage in my personal life as far as like an entire concept being ruined yeah like quite a useful concept that is used very often

super useful um like it really common as well especially with tier lists and stuff like it's everywhere everyone's obsessed with ranking yeah And Lampy said, Alex, get back on screen now. Can't rank these days, huh?

Yeah. No, stay off screen. The views have gone up since you. Milam Burtz said, get Dave Rubin in here to clear things up. I mean, I've been trying to contact him, but for some reason he's not replying. I don't know why. Like, we used to be in pretty good contact. We used to be pretty tight, tight, tight.

He used to be banned. He used to be kind of bants, you know. Yeah. Then he changed. We used to call him, what was it we called him? We called him the Archbishop of Bantabry, right? Yeah. Yeah.

The Archbishop of being based. The Archbishop of based Bantabry. Yeah, he was a legend back in the day. Proper comedy funny. He is a comedian, too. He was. And ranter. He's actually a professional comedian.

He's a professional ranter, yeah. He's a ranter comedian, not a comedian. And a very upset Charlie Bannter. Boardman is our last one, saying, stop talking about bloody Halo all the time. And a redacted's witness replied to him, saying, I know right, can they instead have a redacted section for the redacted fans, me and you included? Maybe they could talk about how handsome he is, or maybe how strategic he is, or just his love for everyone, wouldn't you agree?

He is strategic as well. Should we rank how strategic he is? Yeah. I reckon he's ass-tier strategic. Have you seen the, um, Camel shows up in the boys? I haven't seen it. I've seen a clip, yeah, and Seth. Really?

Yeah, Seth had already been in it, there. I've only seen the first two episodes, so I don't know what's going on in that. I haven't seen any of it yet, so. Yeah, I might just wait for it to end or something. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm going to wait for it to be spoiled, and then I'll watch it. Yeah, yeah. Housekeeping's dumb, man.

Yeah. LeBron James type shit. Who-hoo! Speaking of Danzel, I saw a clip on my YouTube shorts, so he was... We weren't speaking of Danzo. LeBron is a different... Why know, because it's linked to LeBron. But being African American.

No, it's linked to a short that contained both of them. Like, Denzel's just sat in the crowd of like a basketball game. Oh, yeah, yeah. And he just like stands up and just walks over to the other side of the court where LeBron is. And just like, hugs him and then just leaves. Really? Yeah. That's cool.

Only he could do that. Yeah, but would you take the million dollars or the dinner with Jay Z either? Um. Ooh, that's hard. And I think it's 500k. It's not a million. Oh, was it? Yeah, it's 500, or 250K or something?

I thought it was a minute. That's on my mind, because for some reason, like, I looked at the Kanye subreddit, and there was this hate thread on Jay-Z, just like, named some, a rapper uglier than Jay-Z. Yeah, people find him incredibly ugly. And he is kind of ugly, to be fair.

To be fair. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I remember, like, seeing him in motion for the first time and being like oh yeah he is like kind of ugly which it makes him being a billionaire hurt a little less um what's that he addresses it in a song doesn't he doesn't he isn't there that line um there's no such thing as an ugly billionaire i'm cute or something

yeah that's right thank you thank you shut up dude um did you see any of that like recent interview that he did no man I listen to most of it he's a fucking asshole I hate that guy did you get um

but do you have the knowledge to make millions now there well that was all like all the comments were like either wow this guy is like incredible jzy is just the best and all the other comments are like wow the interviewer really chose the dinner that meme is so

penetrative. It is a really good one there. It is a good one. It is a good one. That deserves to be mocked. But he's a fucking, there's, there's some shit, um, he said in it that, the, the, the, the shit that really got me where he's like, too many people view shit as like stuff happening to me. And I always say it's not happening to me. It's happening for me.

Right. You know, it's happening for me. Because he's like a god and can control, like, the flow of energy. Well, it's, it's like, yeah, I was, uh, yeah, I was, uh, yeah, I'm. meant to get here, all of my hard times were to make me strong enough to get to where I'm like. And it's like, so the, the person in like, I don't know, some, some genocide somewhere getting fucking butchered or their family gets butchered. And they hear like, oh, it's not happened to me.

Yeah. It's happened for me. It's to motivate me. I'm a billionaire. Yeah. It's like, what the fuck you're talking about, dude? Like, you've been, you've been too far away from. struggle for too long

now. Yeah, yeah. Like, I do quite like his voice, though. He's got a fantastic voice. And I think a lot of what he has to say is like kind of valuable. And it can be valuable just from the perspective of like

someone of his position actually talking. Yeah. But like some of the shit he says is also so disingenuous because they touch on like how people don't like him because he's a billionaire. And you can't be an ethical billionaire, right? And he's like, well, does that mean if I have 900 million, 999 or 99 million?

Right. 999,000, 99, then am I ethically okay? It's like, no, you know that's not the point. Like, you're not a fucking idiot. So why are you making a stupid person? That's pedantic, yeah. You know, it's like that's besides the point, dude. Why was he doing the interview?

Was there some Um, was there some damage control thing he's trying to do? Was it like a press? Kind of. You trying to sell something? No, there was some lawsuit that had ended. And. Lawsuit?

Yeah. I really don't know that much about him, to be honest. I really like a couple of his albums, but. He stays pretty like out of the way for the most part. And. Inverse Kanye. Yeah. But like, bad in different ways.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't like him. He's just a capitalist one-on-one. You know, he's a capitalist through and through. He always has been. And he talks about how like, I haven't, he says, back on the, there's no ethical billionaire's thing,

because, like, to be there, you have to essentially have abused someone, someone's labor or whatever. And he's like, I've never done that. I've never abused anyone's labor. I've never done it. I'd have to look at how he actually is a billionaire. It's not just from his music. He's not just from his music.

He's fucked over, like, people in the music business. Yeah, I'm sure. To, like, I believe it. I think, is it Rock Nation that he owned? His, like, business partner. He, like, he kind of did the Facebook thing. What's the scene with Andrew Garfield. Yeah, yeah.

I'm pretty sure he, basically did that to like his business partner he Andrew Garfielded his business partner and he's like yes you did you fucking liar don't like anyway watch the interview make your own mind up

I just think it's a load of it's like steam being blowed up his ass yeah I mean they've all got these insane egos when they're like yeah yeah and they it's obvious like the interviewer is a huge JZ fan

and is like Jay-Z is in control. You know, that's very clear. That's incredibly clear. The best type of interview. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know you're getting nothing of substance. Yeah, it's like the Trump, Joe Rogan. Yeah, yeah.

It's exactly that. Yeah. Just less fucking evil. Shit. Well, all this talking of ranking actually just made me realize that the two topics I have are actually, they're both to do with ranking. One is to do with songs, the one I mentioned. last week we were going to do

and one is to do with freedom which do you want I'll see how long it goes before committing to both oh can we do both I'm intrigued by it depends like yeah how long it goes you can see

do the music one first you want the music one yeah so Spotify released a like a graphic right with the top 20 most streamed songs of all time, right? Ranked. So I kind of wanted to see how many you could guess.

We can be fair, and you don't have to guess the song, but you can guess the artist, and I can give you clues from there. Okay. Because some of them were, like, really obvious, and others were like, that's on there? Ed Shear and Shape of You? Instant, yeah, number two.

Yeah. Bruno Mars, something Bruno Mars is on there yeah but maybe not the one you would expect because it's actually a co-lab with somebody

oh yeah I don't think you know it to be honest is the collaborator a male or a female female a pop star who I actually like who is it who is it Lady Gaga

I die with a smile really? Yeah that's a super recent song How the fuck is that top 20? I don't know. That's ridiculous. It's got like three and a half billion plays. To be fair, that chorus is crazy.

I'm sure I know it, but like, it's a fucking everywhere. It's, um, I'm sure I know it. It is a crazy good chorus. Yeah, I wouldn't have picked one so recent. I would have said like, uptown punk. There are some older songs, not older than like, not like 70s or 80s.

It's all pretty contemporary. Right. Um, really? So no like Michael Jackson? No. Uh, Drake has got to be on there. Uh, yes, he is on here.

Is it, um, God's plan? No. Is it, uh, uh, oh, fuck, I'm blanking on the name. Kiki, do you love me? No, it's not. This is one even I listened to when it came out. Hotline blaring?

No. Around the same era, though. What is it? One don'ts. I mean, I want to have... Yeah. That's number eight. I got these ants in my pants.

You said it's... When you guess that somebody right, um, I'll mention if there's another one. There was another Echioran one. Oh, okay. Um... I could only name shape of you from his stuff, so...

I'd, I... I'd probably, um... Is it the one about his, like, wife? Were they all about his wife? I don't know enough about it Sheeran honestly to answer that. Yeah, I don't know late names of the song. Um, perfect. Right, okay.

Is it number nine? Is Justin Bieber on there? Bebe is on there, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Once. Okay. You've got one song on there. I don't know if you'd know this one.

You might know the song. I don't know if you'd know. Because it's another like co-ab one. Yeah. Stay? Stay with Justin Bieber. We got one dance. You got Shape of You.

What that artist? Think TikTok. BTS? No, actually. Really? No K-pop shit? There's no K-pop on here, I don't think. There are a couple I don't know who they are, but I know most of these.

Okay, think British band. One of the biggest British bands. Oasis? No, no. I guess you said this reason. Like, well, I know Oasis are active, but like making music still. we both really love one of their early albums Gold Player

Yeah, yeah Of course Yellow Is it, oh yellow, of course I don't know why I were, you're supposed to be guessing Yeah, yeah, yeah I was going to say the Um,

Dewee, Woo, Will, Will, Bill, That's, Yeah, that's up there,

but um, nothing's got it on yellow. Um, staying on Brits who else we got here, think someone who was in a boy band was gone solo. Um

Like contemporary He even had a He's been in a film with Camille And was it in a British band What are you talking about? Maybe band is a bit loose A boy band Right

Yeah In a film with Camille What the fuck That's made it more confusing In a couple of films actually What genre is the film? do I know the film? Yeah, we've like mocked it a lot.

Really? What are the clue? He's also in, this will give it away. Oh, Harry Stiles? Yeah. That's a fucking stretch in a film with QAL. He's in Dunkirk as well, right? He's a bad actor.

He shouldn't be in films. No, I thought he was perfect in Eternals. He was perfect. like actually amazing in that he's the highlight of the films but he's bad I think he's bad in Dunkirk it's too distracting that Harry Styles

it's distracting and also he's kind of got that thing where he's always smiling a little bit yeah it's too cheeky for World War II yeah yeah in World War II like Barry Keegan works because mandem is man damn's JZ type I shouldn't be saying mandem I don't know why I'm doing that

um J. Z. He's crazy. Killion Murphy works because, again, he's like Jay Z type but with a twist. But he's so ugly that he's hot. He's a full circle.

Full circle. Yeah. Anyway, give me some more clues. There's Barry Keegan on there. It was as it was, by the way. Yeah, duh. Nobody knows any other Harry style song. Let's go. Let's see if there's any more.

Has Beyonce on me? There's staying on the British Another British Band Um You don't like them specifically Um I'm okay with them

Um I don't like them Yeah I don't what other clues They're Think apes Not gorillas Arctic monkeys

Yeah Yeah I want to be yours By Arctic monkeys is number 12. I don't know that song. You still haven't got number one. What do you want to save that for a little minute?

Taylor Swift? No. Is she on here, though? Somehow she's not. What? Yeah, she's not. What? That makes zero sense.

When you see who she's up against, it kind of does make sense with some of these. You're missing, let's go to Americans. Is Kendrick on there? He won't be of Taylor, isn't it? No, no, no. That's crazy that Drake does in Taylor.

doesn't. That is interesting, isn't it? I didn't realize Drake had reach like that. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, Beyond Taylor. One dance is played in like every supermarket, every McDonald's, like in the world, you know? Yeah, but surely a Taylor Swift song is as well. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's crazy that he, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, solo woman, American, young. Sabrina Carpenter. No. It wouldn't make sense. One that you'll kick yourself.

I don't think you like her music. Very much inspired by like Lord, I think. Like the evolution of Lord, kind of. American? Yeah. Evolution of Lord? Yeah. She has a movie coming out that James Cameron directed in part with her.

Which I saw a trailer for the other day. Is that Billy Oliver? stylish yeah she has two songs on here two yeah yeah pro she is um she is like huge she is huge um um is it uh is it the eyes one eyes eyes i know then no ocean eyes i think the same is oh no it's not ocean eyes I don't know if you could name you. Bad guys? No, it's not. Birds of a feather is number 18.

Yeah, okay. That's a big one. And, um, lovely with colored. Okay. At 14. Okay. So there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Ten left. You're halfway. Um, who else can you get off here? Oh, this is a good one. Um, maybe the band we have mocked most. Maybe ever. Shit. Definitely in the top two or three.

American or American? Like genuinely so bad that it's like... Oh, fuck. I'm blanking on their name. What's there? Dark Souls. The enemies. Yeah.

Dragons. Imagine dragons. Yeah. But which song they? It's such a good. It's so hard because they're all the same. But somehow get worse each time. Yeah.

There's a really cringy clip of him doing this into... Yeah, I knew the one. I knew the exact one. Do you know what it's called? No. What's he doing in that clip? Make me a... Believe it.

Believe it. That's 11 of the most streamed songs of all time. Wow. We cook, dude. What the fuck? Like a lot of these other ones are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense, makes sense. Yeah. And that one's like, fucking out you.

Um, God, what else can I get? This is a fun one that was kind of surprised to be on here. Um, it was made by a huge American pop star who I don't give a shit about, but I specifically love this song because of the project is attached to a movie. American pop star made a song for a movie for one of our favorite super heroes in fact this is one of those like kick yourself ones spider-man spider-man is it post malone yeah post malone has a fucking top 20 of all time sunflower from spider's sunflower the song sunflower is the seventh most streamed song all the time okay no that's fine there

I retract my statement. That song is Goathe. Yeah. Seventh. So that's above Drake, that song. Yeah, let's go. That song is fucking great. Um...

I'm running out of like, think... Do you know who Vance Joy is? Nope. Yeah, I don't. They have a song called Riptide, the number 19. I might recognize that if I heard. I'm sure you'd recognize.

knows um do you know someone called lord huron nope and number 16 they have something called the night we met um do you know the chain smokers i've heard of them halsey howlzy they're in a song together closer and number 17 um so there are five left okay do you know louis cabaldi yeah funny guy funny guy and um is he the pitch perfect one that's really boring. What do you mean by pitch perfect? See the one that like... He's got a great voice.

He's like a music savant. And like... Maybe I'm getting mixed up. I think you're thinking of that twat with the fuzzy hair. Lewis Capaldi's like a Scottish, like chubby, funny guy. Oh, is he kind of like a big booming voice like a... Yeah. I'm only you...

No, not like that. More tender. Yeah, that's not who I was talking about It's just he He always jokes that like his music sucks But it's kind of true Like he jokes that Yeah yeah

And he's genuinely quite funny in interviews Like he's just like a Scottish guy Who's like somehow made it And like I say he's got an incredible voice I just find He makes like Radio One music You know he's just designed To get there

Yeah, he's not like Makes him much up Well, his number six entry So above Sunflower and One Dance Someone you loved Loved Yeah Used to

Someone you loved And I don't anymore I don't know I don't know the song Someone you loved Um so four left Oh by who By him Louis Cabaldi

That's the song Oh sorry I thought I thought you was saying number five is someone I love. Oh, no, no. No, he was, his entry was someone you loved at number six, because we didn't guess the song. Number six.

Okay. Do you know the band Glass Animals? Nope. Oh, maybe I do. I think you do. I think I have one song of theirs. Yeah. It's like a meme song.

Um, heat waves. Number 30. Yeah, yeah, that's the song I have. It was like a meme, but then I was like, to be fair, this chorus kind of. They're got some good songs, actually. I listen to them, like, way back in the day and did that thing where have you ever done that where you like forget about

someone go on their page and then and then like the biggest thing fucking hell they've like popped off yeah yeah yeah um yeah so three left two of them from the same artist um and one of them's number one yeah there's one three and four are left i don't know if you'll be able to get the other one though that do you know the neighborhood no yeah i don't know they are either number three is sweater weather from the neighborhood I'm sure it's another one we know that song title rings a bell but this last one is a like kick yourself

oh obvious number one and number four from the same artist but one of them is in collaboration with one of the goats where my goats I don't know if you consider them goats French goats French goats

This This guy's This guy's co-lab With everybody He's been on like Kanye albums Uh Boney there No

Like he's He must be Taylor Swift tier Like famous Bigger than Bruno Mars Big than a cheering Um bigger than the previously most listened to artist and the currently most listened to artist on Spotify

who is what Ed Sheeran was the previous most listened to artists I think he might have actually taken over I think it's bad bunny now oh shit yeah I think you're right he has been number one before for sure right Bruno Mars was for quite a while yeah he had that crown

post Ed Shearin yeah I don't know I you do know he's on multiple Kanye albums he's on Pablo he's on Donda singer I don't really like him but everyone loves him A singer?

Yeah singer solo act He's got a TV show That was really cringy Mark Wahlberg No the weekend Oh oh really? Yeah Blinding Lights is number one

I didn't realize the week was that big. You didn't know that? No. Yeah. Bro, he's like one of the biggest. He's like always in the top five. I wouldn't have thought bigger than Taylor Swift or... Yeah, it's crazy. Bigger than Drake. But the other one, the goat, the French goats I was talking about is Starboy, the weekend are punk. Oh shit, of course. Yeah. Damn. So what do you think of that list? Top 20. Because there's also a graphic of, um, which I don't have on me of like the albums, which are different. A lot of like crossover of the same people, but like, the albums are different. Maybe you can do that another time, but, uh... Yeah, right.

Ah, I don't get it with the weekend. I'm gonna be honest, I really don't. I don't either, but I also kind of do. I don't know. Because a lot of people say he's like... Michael Jackson. No. He's not.

I don't feel that way. Not too. But, um, I've, I've heard that a few times before, so... Like, I don't know. I, uh, I, uh, I, guess it's just not my scene um yeah it's definitely not mine i just thought it's kind of interesting into the world of the the normals you know what i'm saying yeah what the normals are doing you're gonna bring it back there every now and again just scout out the normal world

send out an envoy to the yeah to the real world for a minute um so what do you want to do you want to do this other thing too? Yes. Would you want to do these questions? No, I'm intrigued. Okay. I thought this, I was just like doing some googling. I like, sometimes when I can't sleep and it's like one in the morning, I just start going down rabbit holes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. As one does. And I was thinking on the topic of ranking. Yes, yes. I've just been looking up like world rankings of certain things. Oh, yeah. And I was thinking, is there like a, has some

organization or some thing put a ranking of freedom on countries right right yeah and then I was thinking about that like right that's America's whole thing right they must be the most free

they must be the most free on the on the world press freedom index which is a real thing that's fucking stupid the world press freedom index is an annual ranking of 180 countries combined an annual ranking

compiled and published ranking only once a year that's monk type shit and published by reporters without borders since 2002 based upon the assessment of the non-governmental organisation as well as surveys of professionals

around the world of the country's press freedoms records in the previous year it intends to reflect the degree of freedom that journalists news orgs and netizens have in each country and the efforts made by

authorities to respect this freedom. I didn't know what that was either. I'd never heard that term netism. It's fucking weird, a weird tech hell whole future thing. It means a citizen of the net or a net citizen so someone involved in online communities or the internet in general. Oh, what the fuck? So if you're a jailing, you're a netism. Because like, I guess you're a citizen because you're in a civilization. Like the net doesn't exist in the same way. Yeah, of course. It doesn't really roll off the tongue. So it's specifically about like discourse in an open, like, a digestible...

Freedom of press, you know. Yeah, yeah. Journalists and I guess freedom of expression to a certain degree as well. But if it's all people on the internet. It's not all people on the internet. That was one of the categories. There was also... Are we netizens?

What the fuck? We are, yes. I'd say probably most. people are at this point. Yeah, that's what I mean. So, like, people on the internet, like, you're kind of existing in a space. Yeah, it means like, I guess, Twitter would count as... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can say, like, anything on there. Um, yeah. Uh, do you want to hear about the methodology or just go straight to the... I thought you should... Do a brief overview, yeah. So, like, it's based on a questionnaire. The questionnaire is sent to partner organizations,

correspondence, researchers, and human rights experts who are all evaluating the country in which they live. As a 2013, that included 18 freedom of expression non-governmental organizations located in five continents. It's 150 correspondents around the world and journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists. Political context, the category aims to evaluate the autonomy of media and the degree of support to the media to give government and officials to keep them accountable. Legal framework, the questionnaire takes account of the legal framework. for the media, including penalties for press offenses, the existence of a state monopoly for certain kinds of media, and how the media are regulated, and the level of independence of the public media. It also includes violations of the free flow of information on the internet. Do you do any more than that?

No, no, that's satisfied. I actually find this kind of useful, kind of interesting. You're poo-pooing it a second ago, but... Poo-poo-poo-ing what? Especially the concept of doing this, like a ranking of the... a freedom ranking. Well, I think in this context, it's like, specifically what do you mean by freedom? Because, like, how do you...

Yeah, yeah. How do you ask China and say, how free are you? Oh, we're the freest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So see if you can guess anything in the top 10, because what they say are 180 in the rankings. What would your instinct say is number one? Number one.

For WordPress freedom. The freest press. Somewhere European. Yeah. Scandinavian? Yeah. Really? Sweden?

No. Norway? Yes. Really? You get a score out of 100. And Norway has a score as of 2025 of 92.31. Bam. Which is very good.

So they're doing something right over there as far as in regard to press. And nationalized oil. You said Sweden They're number four Germany No Sweden's number four with 88.13 The Netherlands

are number three 88.64 Finland is number five 87.187.18. Is Poland much lower? Much lower. They're not in that bracket.

Denmark Denmark number six 86.93 Yeah Switzerland is number nine 83.9.

It's almost as if they're doing something right. There's a little bit of a trend going on there. These places. A couple of standouts though. There's another European

country you might not expect that you haven't brought up yet. France? No. Is it a biggie? It's a biggie. Like one of them Like one of the big ears

Is it a main character Or is it Side character Um They definitely have been a main character In history Spain? No

I think I've said all the main characters You're missing a big one I've been there You haven't been there Uh Italy No Where the fuck else have you been Portugal?

I was gonna say Portugal But how the fuck were they ever A main character What do you mean? They're having to There's a Portuguese empire. Yeah, lame like that shit. Their

ranking at number eight is 84.26. Wow, okay. So in the top ten... They are quite left, though, aren't they? Yeah, I guess. Like, with their drugs, decriminalization and stuff.

Yeah, true. And my jokes about main characters and stuff is a joke. I'm anti-imperialism, okay There's only two more in the top ten I don't think you'd have a guess to be honest Number two China

No Fuck Is it a fucking idiot Estonia is number two What the fuck really With an 89.46 Yeah

So nice one Estonia Okay fair play I don't even know where that is Number 10 is the Czech Republic Really? Yeah That tracks In 83.96

Yeah They're in forces of Motor Sport 5 So that fucking makes sense What So a lot of Europe actually In the top 10 there Wait is

Oh no you're missing number 7 Yeah shit Is he European again? Yes In the European Union Israel What? yes

I thought he said it in Eurovision oh no very very very very very close to us Ireland yeah really

number seven with 86.92 super interesting that so then like where else do you want to hear that is number 11 is Germany 83.85 okay

to be fair I did say Germany and it's just that at the top time? Only just, yeah. They were in number 10 last year. I mean, 24. This is all 2025 numbers. What other like places do you want to hear?

Number 16 is New Zealand. Oh, interesting. With an 81.3.7. What about Australia then? Australia is way down at 29. How many countries? Rupert Murdoch.

75.15 is their score there. Um, where do you think we are in the UK? How many countries are there? 180. We're sub a hundred. Sorry. Sub a hundred?

Yeah, like less than a hundred. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, I think globally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, less than 50. Yeah. Um, I don't know, like, around 30 maybe? 20.

20. Dead on 20. Exactly on 20. Okay, okay. See, I was just thinking in terms of press monopolies. Yeah, yeah. Where's America then? I'll get to that in a second.

But right next to what? The one underneath us is Canada. Underneath, interesting. Interesting. I would have thought they'd be... Maybe it's just like American influence. Yeah. There must be a lot of money coming from that.

I don't know. Yeah, yeah. So you want to know where America is Do you? Try and like estimate Wait, where do you think? What does your gut tell you? Out of 180?

Realistically, again, sub 100. Yes. Maybe if I was saying Britain was 30-ish, I'd say America's probably around 50. Very good guess. 57. Okay. 65.49.

out of 100 sandwiched in between Gambia and Sierra Leone So that's pretty funny Freeest country Yeah Yeah Because that was like the main reason I searched it out

Was just to see where they were Yeah yeah They're like Very very interesting man But Italy is a standout from the European countries That's a lot lower 49 they are 68.

They did invent fascism. Yeah. Anywhere else that like you're curious to get to you, Iceland? Where do you think Iceland would be? Hmm. Below 20? Yeah. I don't know, like 15?

It's just after New Zealand at 17. Okay. With like basically the exact same. Yeah, yeah. Score it's them. What about like Asian countries? countries. Um,

places like, um, Thailand. I did just spot, uh, South Korea. Yeah. South Korea is actually below the US. The US was 57. South Korea is 61. Oh, wow.

Um, right next to Ukraine. That's a corporate hellscape, isn't it? South, South Korea. Uh, oh, oh, Japan is even lower. Wow. Japan is, um,

66 with a 63.14. I know very little about the press and media, to be honest. I mean, China. What is China? I'm going to have to control left for this one because I haven't seen them yet. Three. Oh my God, dude. I guess. 179. You nearly got it, they're 178.

Fuck! Guess he 179 is, though. Could have been fair to. It's not Russia It's fucking North Korea Yeah What's 180? Right next to

I don't know I don't recognise where this is Eritrea Is that you say it? I don't know Anthem State of Eritrea It's where the video game's based

Oh it's in Bordid by Ethiopia I don't know where Ethiopia is either Wow Iran as well is 176 Russia is 171 right next to Egypt

Okay Russia's doing all right Well I have 180 It's got a score of 24 No I mean like compared to what they were China's got a score of 14 Point A North Korea's got a score of 12 Why do you think Chinese people are so much happier

though Yeah man They don't need the ground news subscription Saudi Arabia 162 India India 151 Wow I hadn't thought Yeah

By India yeah Yeah Where is Pakistan Compared to India Let's see I haven't spotted Pakistan Wait isn't There it is 158

Right 29.62 Right next to Turkey Wow Yeah, I thought that was kind of interesting. That is interesting. Makes you think. I think it goes to show that, like, Scandinavian countries are at the top of all lists.

Yeah, they are. If it's like a list about a good thing, then Scandinavia's at the top. Happiness, social safety nets. Yeah, yeah. Like efficiency. Um, what was it? There was something, yeah,

the authors also found a significant correlation with the United Nations Human Development Index scores, which is kind of interesting. So, yeah. That was a whole, like, ranking kind of episode, you know. Yeah, this is the ranking episode. Should it actually be the ranking episode. Yeah. I think it kind of has to be. It should be ranking month.

I swear, ranking month. Fuck. It is the start of a new month. Is it? I feel like we're just chasing the dragon. man and like just yeah it's like that it's it's just like that it's like um let's just say maybe we've been having talks behind the scenes of some big changes yeah um yeah let's i don't want to leave there that yeah yeah um i guess we'll see after these messages

rankers on PS5 out now This is wild. Why, okay, politically, why do you think Plankton is struggling? Um, he's not populist enough. I think that's the issue. Yeah, true. Mr. Crabs got the crew. Mr. Crabs got Carriz.

Mr. Crabs is like the ultra-capitalist. Yeah, but he's got charisma. He's got people like... Plankton's kind of like the inverse. He's like, he wants everyone to wear the bucket and like... Yeah. The end of the ultimate model of everything. Where does the chummer?

bucket land on the freedom scale. They're ironically, the Chum Bucket and the Krusty Krab are right next to each other and they just swap every year. Yeah, right. They just swap their rankings. Yeah, every time Squibbwood gets that big fat bunder when he eats all the crabby patties. Oh yeah, he does, doesn't he?

That's crazy. That shot is insane. I forgot how I've had that completely. He's like normal size and then it zooms out and he's got this thing. It's like actual fetish out. People pay for that shit. Yeah, real. It's an incredible episode. The shot when his teeth

that gets to the burger. And then he loses his mind. To be fair, that that's like when a vegan tries a fucking McDonald's triple cheese for the first time. Yeah. Oh my God. Welcome to the second half of the car.

So we head over to the suggestion thread over on the jar media subreddit. We can leave questions for future episodes. If you got this far, comment um protein tubes yeah comment protein tubes with that white sauce um i plucked a few here from the

charm media group chat um to get us going Dylan said what time is it I always wonder if you're recording at 6pm or 11 p.m and does it affect the vibe of the cast it's like 10 to 8 right now 10 to 8 it's a little bit earlier yeah then but I mean to be honest we do it It varies a lot.

It completely varies. So sometimes we'll do it in the morning. Yeah. It's rarely the morning. Probably most common is like evening. Like. Yeah. We finish just after dinner type thing.

Probably a bit later than that. Yeah. Like I feel like we normally finish recording at around like 9, 10 on average. Yeah. So. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Starting at like eight, half seven, usually.

Yeah. Like most, but like you say, sometimes it will be, you know, 11 in the morning. Sometimes it will be like 3 p.m. Sometimes it will be 12. And it definitely changes the vibe. Yeah, for sure. Like the beverage you have kind of changes it. Like, if you've got like a coffee or like a tea, it feels a bit more.

I find those are probably, there's all those comments, like, or every now and again. It's like, do you guys try and tell when they're high or when they're drunk? Oh, right, yeah, yeah. And it's like... They're always wrong, but they're always wrong. And the craziest ones are usually, like, post-coffee. Mm-hmm. I find.

True. Like, if I've had a bunch, like, today I've had a bunch of coffee. Uh-huh. And I'm feeling a bit more, like... You're like, yeah, I'm more amped than usual. It's less like... I'm not Jim landing at the airport. I'm Jim taken off.

Yeah. Take-off, James. I'm taking off of me. Take-off, Jim's kind of scaring me a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's intentional. That's intended. And I think it's important to realize that you are essentially, you're undefined,

you're forever changing, and whatever you are is just influenced by your current circumstance. True. True. Yeah, you're nothing. You are nothing, but you're also everything. Yeah, that's the beauty of it. In being nothing, you are everything, I think. I think that answered it.

Yeah. But also, um... Yeah, also block this fucking commenter. This is a shit question. Don't worry, you've been blocked. Yeah, he's really blocked. Just assume that I've blocked them. Like, it's just a good kind of rule of thumb.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can ask now and again to check. Like, have you blocked this one? Yeah, yeah. Have you blocked that one? I unblocked him just so I could re-block him. Okay, cool. Yeah.

No, I appreciate that. So we're in a good position now. Cool. Can you block him again just to be sure? Hang on. Block, block. Okay, sorry, Dylan, but what Jim says goes, I'm scared of airports, I guess.

Ironically, so am I. I find you really stressful. But you're like the king that didn't want to be king, that, you know, like it makes you perfect for the job. Yeah, right, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, um, the Ben, Ben, Jezeret. Jezeret.

Nice. Holy fuck, bro. It's written in the stars. hunt the beast that was a wild pull that was like to remember that and to have only seen part one of dune once one time five years ago that's actually kind of in that film's favor to be honest that you i'm gonna be honest that's less the film and more you you became obsessed with that tone for a while yeah it's like i've pulled it from the making yeah yeah yeah i pulled it from there not from the film so much to be well but the to be fair to the film again it implanted it into you

Which then carried a great scene. With the box. I don't remember it. Hunt the Beast. Media film. You boys should talk about the new Clayface trailer. I'm curious on what y'all think it's going to be like. Br, I saw a, it's been a very long time since I've seen the Clayface animated series episodes.

Yeah. I saw a clip from it. Yeah. The animation in it was like. Fucking amazing. Whoa, what the fuck? Dude, there's, it's like an anime studio, I'm pretty sure animated it. Because some of those transformations.

Some of them are like the Ghibli studio. Yeah, I think if somebody worked on Nakira did something like insane like that I need to watch I mean I mean two episodes I think so like all the big characters seem to get two episodes like for their right right like two face gets a two part two yeah Clayface yeah because I've been watching a little bit every now and again of yeah um of that show and and it does kind of make me side eye and invincible a little bit more um yeah because i've i've been saying all of the discourse is just about how invincible's animation is yeah um which is it like that's boiled down like yeah it's obviously like critique of the show yeah but also like the comparison it's like a uh the structure is completely

different it's not like one long narrative yeah yeah it's kind of more creature the weak structure yeah it's it's like 20 minute episodes and um and yeah but also like I've looked up before you can go on like the wiki and see which studio animated what episodes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And some of them are bad. Yeah, yeah. Straight up. Because I tried doing that.

I like got all of it and was going through it chronologically and some of the episodes were like so dated. Yeah. So that's why I started looking up that list. Yeah. And it will be crazy. It would be like, um, like a Joker episode gets some shit studio and it just looks trash. And then you get like, you get an episode. with the rat man and it's like the most pristine

impressive animation you've ever seen it's crazy mask of the phantasm has some good animation mask of the phantasm fucking rocks i need to watch that it does go hard yeah yeah i love the scene in that sorry with it with total fucking tangent but when that that like for a kid's film right and it's it's not like a baby film but like it's a film it's a film for kids it's pretty dark yeah but the scene when batman's like

or Bruce he goes to his parents grave and he's crying and he's like I don't feel sad anymore like I don't want to keep being Batman but I promised you like what do I do that's an incredible fucking scene it's giving me like shivers thinking about it

it takes itself seriously but it doesn't feel like lame yeah yeah yeah it's a good our story and Kevin's performance is just next level it's so fucking good the Batman goat

yeah but yeah i i kind of sent us down that road because of the clayface trailer yeah yeah um how's this hitting you a horror movie clayface a horror clayface movie i i um i hope batman is like alluded to like in the joker no nothing like that please i maybe it would be cool if it like ended with quay face getting caught by batman or something? Because it's apparently the same character from... Fuck, was it that animated show?

The Creature Commandos. Is he in Creature Commandos? He's in it, yeah. I never watched that, so... As in Clayface? Clayface is in it. Clayface is in Creature Commanders. Oh, really? Okay.

And it's apparently the same iteration. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's meant to be all in the same... I think it's very cool the... Like, they're going full into... Do like Gotham is a dingy, dark, creepy, fucking gross place. And the body horror. The body horror. Assuming he's going to do the whole acting, like the acting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just feel like, why can we just get a Batman movie with Clayface? Yeah, that's kind of my feeling. And if we don't get that, it's like, what? Eh? Because that's what I want to see. You know, that's like. It has a Mike Flanagan script.

based apparently on his love of those Clayface animated series episodes. Yeah, yeah, but I'm pretty sure Clayface's whole, like that whole Clayface story was rewritten for the animated show. Like it wasn't in the comic. Oh, like an adaptation of the books. Yeah, it wasn't his backstory in the books. I don't know that much about Clayface if I'm being real. So I don't know really what to expect.

Well, it's like the Harley Quinn thing. Like they were just popping off when they were doing characters. It's like they could write their own. stuff and they became the new like the canon basically the canon yeah and when when um comic books later came out they used that version of the yeah i mean it makes sense like the i think i'm being an actor is really cool with the way super cool i love the best thing about batman is the way his villains like represent an aspect of him yeah yeah and like the two face is obvious you know scarecrow's obvious clay face like being an actor is like is like

like Bruce Wayne, you know, he's, he's bad man. Yeah, yeah, the performance side of his life. Yeah, yeah. Bruce Wayne. Hush as well as kind of a, yeah, which is, which was my kind of biggest critique of like, there being a solo Joker movie and stuff like that too. We're like, yeah.

Especially in like a folly adieu where they like tease the, Harvey Dent is like in the courtroom and stuff like that. And it's like, come on, man. Like, I just kind of want this to be what it is. like yeah i get it like they're all terrified of doing batman now it's like no one knows how to do him really it is uh he's not like spider man he does he's he requires a different tact i think uh or modernization you know the fact that spider man and superman are both like their alter egos are like normal dudes

I think Batman being like a Napo baby a billionaire yeah yeah in this current climate makes him so much more difficult I mean they touched on it well in the Batman for yeah I think I think that's kind of the point of the Batman is to make that less of an issue kind of optics fix Batman

Yeah, because a lot of the Christopher Nolan stuff is like, look how cool being like ultimately, like having a private militia type rich. Like how cool that is. You have like access to everything. You can go out and fight crime just off your money. Yeah, the Batman looks into it in a much cooler way. I guess another thing that's kind of disappointing is I feel like, uh, it'll be kind of cool to see Robert Pattinson's Batman go against this Clayface

like from what we've seen I hope like if it if it like didn't connect or is bad or doesn't do well it doesn't scare them off from doing the more like fantastical villains yeah that's like the big you haven't done that really yeah you know everyone's too scared to since the ummer thurman poison ivy shit and all that you know yeah and the the idea that Chris Finnellum

ran with with like what if it was a grounded Batman. Yeah, where I was reading some shit that apparently his Odyssey movie is like he wants to have like a grounded Odyssey which to me was like fuck. The whole thing that was kind of intriguing was that he was taking on like a myth and was like how would you do that? I swear

you see the fucking Cyclops in the trailer so I don't know like how they're going to it was just the angle he looked big like what the fuck? Yeah, we'll see about that one. I don't know, I thought the trailer was good.

Yeah, I like I really like the shot when he like wipes his face Yeah It's just clay It's like he's got like a clay face or something That would be kind of crazy That would be even insane

I hope they don't go with that for the final movie But yeah I'm more interested to see like a Batman movie Obviously Yeah And I feel like with every Every month that goes by The less we hear about this DCU Batman

The more like Is this even going to be a thing? Is it going to be just Superman movies and then like moving on to... Yeah, it kind of feels like... I feel like... James Gunn is trying to use the industry so he can get his Superman trilogy made, kind of. And then just like... Yeah.

Yeah. Because I feel like there was all this hype and shit about James Gunn's DC. And that's all gone kind of quiet. Well, it has one movie. Yeah. It's got like TV shows and stuff. but I don't know. They can't have the same kind of splash, really.

Yeah, and I don't... I don't want them to go the way of Marvel. No. You know? I don't want three fucking films a year. No, hell no. Just one good one of you would be nice, you know? Yeah, the only thing is, like,

you don't really get the ball rolling that way? I guess. Yeah, and you're not like... It's like, I don't understand what they want, you know? Is it just like, oh, we have to be Marvel? We want endgame. like we just need to build to a thing an event

instead of just making good shit yeah I don't know but like I I want a fucking good Justice League I find it crazy that we have an Avengers

because Multiple Avengers movies that are good that are incredible and no like no justice movie credit where it's fucking

that isn't animated when we were kids I didn't even know what the Avengers was yeah I didn't give a shit about them I knew the Justice League I fucking love the justice League. That shit rock. Yeah, they fumbled it. Yeah. Somehow. And I want Mr. Terrific in the Justice

League. I want a Mr. Terrific movie. Put Mr. Terrific catch in... Is he the stretchy one? No, he's the one in Superman. With a team. Oh, sorry, yeah. I was getting mixed up with that. He's like... Plastic man. Yeah, plastic man. Yeah, he's funny. Weird character. Yeah. Um, but Isaac from the group chat said, what are your thoughts on all those kids that are running through the Scientology buildings all the time? Have you seen any of these. Yeah, yeah. They've been like mapping it out. Yeah, I kind of love it. This is like the best use of social media of all time. Yeah, there's something kind of punk about it. Yeah. You've seen they're like they're picking more

targets than just Scientology now. Like they're, they're doing it to the Palantia, like one of the big buildings. Oh, shit. Hell yeah. It's like, um, funny. Yeah. It's like a rogue like. Yeah. Yeah. It's like you're fucking iron lung when you're like mapping out. Yeah, yeah, it's incredible. And just the fact there are so many of them doing it, I don't know what the repercussions can even be when it's so chaotic. I feel like there isn't a leader as well.

Yeah, it's just like viral. Yeah, and people are doing it because it gets, it's the only instance of like it gets views. Yeah. So people do it. It's the only time that's good. Yeah. So, like, how do, how do they stop it?

Like, what are they actually supposed to do? Well, they took, like, the door handles off the, fucking Scientology doors Yeah, they're like full on lockdown Whoa Yeah Because they're scared of being exposed

Or something They'll find the secret hatch to the All the memes Like it'll be like a scene of Tom Cruise chasing something Yeah but like When you get to the top The boss

Health bar appears Yeah And he's like running at the screen Or whatever That's awesome Yeah I'm into that Yeah, some good shit Nohage said

Will the P.O. Box ever be reopened? Did something bad happen? I once convinced a handful of people on the Patreon chat that you closed it off Due to getting glazed-coated items And I can't believe those suckers fell for it But now that I think about it I wouldn't be surprised if something like that did happen Feels like they stopped happening pretty abruptly Did one of the jar cells do something? Will it ever be an

option again is Jim okay um it's not me you have to worry about the we actually I was always kind of concerned about that uh but never had anything um bad I just stopped it because there was some I was doing it through royal mail and there was some weird like thing through them they were like changing something about and I just I'm so shit at like admin stuff I just I am too um I don't know how normal people I know how do the normals actually do it it's fucking exhausting you know I was getting trouble and get fined for things I was yeah because when when um when we're in Bude we both got parking tickets

yeah um and I said to you like why don't they just charge you the like the cost of parking because they want to punish you yeah what why do you but like why does it matter like when you pay it I don't know I think paying for parking is just the biggest scam ever

I hate it so much It's yeah It's crazy It's crazy Um Yeah You literally can't exist Without paying

Yeah It's exhausting It's like Why is no one like Going into towns And like Exploring and like Exploring and spending money anywhere

It's like Because you just nickel and die And by every fucking Everything you want to do Yeah And I can order the world to my fucking dogs. Why would I do anything

ever, you idiots? Seneck dock-doky-238. So my question is my question is fuck. Sorry, I lost my train of thought. One sec. My question is

shit, what was it? Sorry, I forgot. Should we go back to that? one and do another one first. Yeah, sure. There was a particular one I needed to do. That's some time to think. We'll get back to you. Oh, the evil jarling right in.

Just to throw my hat in the ring on the jarling of the week discussion. Final afternoon is a quantity over quality shock value hack. I was unmedicated talking to myself across three different accounts to tell a story and got voted best jarling in the survey. Get real, kid.

Block him. Already done. And actually one of the new ones, Captain Jacks Off, replied to the evil jarly. Oh, shit. You were genuinely good and a trailblazer, and I respect you to hell and back. Oh, fuck. Perfect for 2022. But sadly, your story left a bad aftertaste.

Oh. Your highs were high. Your lows were low. In 2026, we need someone who got their meds upped, you know? And jacking off puns will never be exhausting and stupid and not fun. That being said, we're all here to have fun. this doesn't mean this doesn't need to be a competition or personal

however I am personally superior to all of you except maybe SL okay Jackoff's my new favorite oh you've been one over by that that yeah that was ice cold as far that was tough that was tough oh okay um

there was a particular one I knew I had to do ah this one blue underscore far lu said dear Beltman brothers I've been an avid jarling for seven bloom in years without making a single comment but I'm afraid I'm a might I'm in a mighty pickle and I need your help but like many a jarling I've been forever infected with a rich dialect incubated and spread from this podcast the stimming is

one thing screaming down my halls pit-pot poit and so forth in isolation but the effect this behavior has had on my relationship is where my pickle arises I won't let jar is still arising then the relationship's fine I think you're right I won't let jarisms fly out my mouth unless I'm very comfortable And able to truly be myself. Now that I've reached that level of comfort in the company of my beautiful girlfriend, the infection of jar language has spread from my mouth to hers. I'm in an old, I'm in an age-old dilemma.

There's a fair few of our long-standing bits are racked straight from the cast without her knowledge. She knows about my favorite podcast. She just doesn't know what bits are ours and what bits are essentially yours. The main offenders are pit-pop boy, the shortening of diarrhea to rear, and this one was a risk but she quite enjoys it. Dobby's Jaina. I'm sure many jarlings can relate to the feeling. You let an intimate part of yourself,

your love for the niche podcast, the JARCast, out through a certain expression and the person you're with reacts positively. It's electrifying. Just last week I said, let's get wankered and everyone laughed. Who would want to ruin that with one explanation of a source? Anyway, how do I do it? How do I tell my girlfriend our relationship is just one big lie?

Please, please, please, please, help me. Love you, old, baby, game on. Rank, rank. Genuinely? Blocker. That's always an option. Keep it in the forefront. Yeah.

My guts says, don't tell her. Yeah, she's never going to fucking... Like, take the credit, you know? Just lie. Just like... Yeah. Just take it, you know? Yeah.

Why would you admit it? If we meet you, then you're getting outed. Like if you meet us then you have to fucking bow to us like thrack you know like yeah yeah yeah Yeah, yeah this is what we've given you Yeah don't tell him dude brother brother blue we know this is fake anyway because no darling's got No jarling's got game oh shit um I'm gonna need you to see this image from Martian Twink Hunter Um

Martian what Twink Hunter Okay I just you just need to see it Okay Okay Um Turkey

Turkey gym That's crazy Should we find out Of turkeys As based as they say Yeah Should we do it for the content Yeah

It's such a weird trend. Yeah. I don't want to be a percentage, you know. One of these guys on the plane photo. Yeah, yeah. And the turkey teeth. Yeah. Oh, gross.

You know what? I like the way I look. I've finally, not my midsection, I've put on weight because I keep eating so many gummies. Right, let's wind this down now. Do a couple more. Yeah, hell yeah. Bayblading is a good one. Bayblading is good.

Show Jim, this cool Death Stranding 2 vinyl and then let us know if you've added anything to your vinyl collections, please and thank you. That's pretty cool. I've got a few things recently. I got Heavy Heavy by Young Fathers. Nice. Yep.

Is that the one where they got the fingers? Yeah. Big long fingers. I got that after when we went to Devon. Oh. Because I played it when we're in the kitchen all the way through and I was like, this deserves it, you know. It's really cheap.

I also got Tame and Pala's first album in a speaker. An artist I'm scared who might actually giving enough time might become a cold play type character. Ooh. Yeah. A few, like, awesome early albums. The longer they go. Him selling his old discography's weird. They're like K-pop. Yeah, a few years ago he did that.

He sold it, which is why he now has these weird songs with, like, K-pop people. Why? He sold it to Sony for just, like, a boatload of cash for some reason. I don't know why. Like, I don't get that at all. I don't. I don't know why you.

Like, artists, like, they kill to, like, own the shit that they've made. made. I don't know why you would do that. Like, when is enough enough? I also got Art Angels by Grimes. Sorry. And that was also a nice cheap one from a record shop in

Sheffield. You'd need to pay me to get a Grimes store. You know what I'm saying? And I think the only other one is the mountain I got for my birthday. I need that. I need that. Not to spoil our Mountain Review over at JARMediaPatryon.com.

The only new ones I've had recently are from you, where you've just had like a spare extra. An LCD sound system, the one that looks like the moon rover, but it's like a camera. Yeah, it's fantastic. And today you were like, I've got another Red Dead 2 soundtrack. Yeah. I'll say okay

I'll take it What was the last one you bought? Uh I haven't bought one for ages Yeah Um They're kind of pricey and Like

You gotta get on the Like the thrift grind Yeah but my trouble is Whenever I'm somewhere Where there are like record shops Like in London or something I don't want to buy one there Because then I've got to like travel via train

That is an annoying thing That was what is really frustrating About Berlin is they God they're the coolest records I fucking bet. But you can't, like, put it in a suitcase. Yeah, it's risky. Yeah, I wouldn't want to do.

It's like, um, our dad, he's, he's got loads of records, but they're all over in New Zealand. Yeah. That would be so expensive to, like, ship it all properly and... Yeah, yeah. You'd almost definitely lose some. Like, they'd get broken or whatever. Especially if they're a bit older and everything. Yeah, that is a bummer.

Let's be real, they're probably long lost any. Or like sold or something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Right, let's do one more then from our slash jar media. I mean this genuinely. You lads seem to be very intelligent. Like crazy intelligent.

Like there's no one smarter. I might have embellished this a little bit. And nuanced. No one's more nuanceder. No one knows more about things in a nuanced kind of fashion. I'm being a dick. Like this is not how they wrote this. about your political takes, which I respect a lot.

You're both very well spoken and your parents should be proud of the bear bears they raised. We'd love more political-style discussions, even if it's not on the cast, maybe in bonus Patreon content or separate YouTube videos. What prompted me to write this is the Royal Charlie's visit to the US recently in his address to Congress. We'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that. Many thankies and much love, fellas.

So you'll take on that. There's a general more kind of political sentiment in the past few years of the cast. Yeah, 100%. I see it is more of a necessity now than before. There does seem to be a different urgency, a different temperature nowadays. Yeah, but also like just the shift in myself.

I wish I'd realized sooner, A, the error of my ways and B, that you should be vocal about it, even if it's to then get educated. Like, I was thinking about just today how wrong we were about the House of Lords. Right, right. You know, and like how brilliant it is that because we talked about it, we were then corrected. Yeah, yeah.

If we hadn't talked about it, we would have continued to be wrong. Yeah, that's true. You know, and that's so fucking valuable. What was the question? Oh, Charlie. Doing, and also just the, idea of like we kind of already do this a little bit when there's yeah we I feel like when we get fired up enough then yeah there is one that I want to do yeah um that's kind of like in

the back burner yeah but there there's definitely a hunger for it to um when you look on like the page show and stuff like that I think there's something therapeutic it can be um I don't know yeah There's, I'm not against it, um, but I also don't want it to be the whole thing, you know. For sure. It's hard to be like silly and whimsical like when, at a certain degree. So I like there being. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I just feel like, um, I, I never want to exist in one of those spaces where it's like, oh, I'm, I'm avoiding talking about politics. I'm avoiding talking about politics. And then like you end up breeding this like, yeah, this community that lets anything fly. and you don't want that you don't yeah so you're like apathetic or whatever yeah yeah you need

you kind of want to fish some people out do yeah for sure and it's like I'm glad to be rid of people who when they hear me chat shit about like some billionaire that like I don't really want

someone who's on their side you know listening to us yeah yeah but yeah in terms of the Charlie visit A I couldn't give a shit B

fuck the king just not as much as Trump I like to slay kind of jab that seemed to go over Trump's head yeah about you'd be speaking French or whatever right

what it was more of a diffusing of like just yeah don't say it like we can all play this fucking game yeah yeah yeah yeah but there's there's something really fucking weird about

um a king going to America and being more like reasonable than the guy who's having the no king protests against him.

Some of the shit I saw on Twitter was very scary that were like taking like the pictures of them together with captions like two kings stuff like that right yeah don't like that but like

I hate the king I do I'm not into the wrong family I'm not a royalist I'd I'd go further and say I'm not just not into them I despise them I resent everything that they resemble you know I think what they represent in this country um is pure evil uh it's just old and it seems kind of outdated outdated but but like it it represents this like global um attitude it's like a globe it's like a global it's like a global authoritarianism like it was like as it's like a super hierarchy thing yeah yeah yeah and

to have this guy who's born into this position kind of high-roading Trump is like he it means less coming from you like what the fuck does any of this mean i've begun like trusting my feelings more um which is where i think a lot of like hyper intellectualized debate like misses the mark. What do you mean? It's like the philosophy thing. Like some shit you just can't like get to an agreed like position. We're never going to get there.

But if you actually listen and feel to what's right, it's like the, um, like should you be outraged when you hear America's going to war with Iran? or a conflict. I don't know if they're calling it a war yet or whatever. And it's like, yeah. Like, but to some people, they truly don't give a shit, you know? It's like, that should upset you. Or defend it.

Yeah, yeah. But, like, it's one thing to hear that. It's then another thing to hear an American, like, strategic missile strike hit a school, a girl's school and killed like 150 children that makes me really sad that's a shit to anybody and for like

nothing, for absolutely achieving nothing. Because of a mistake. Yeah. They made an error. And I don't think we should ever exist in a space where that can be the consequences of a mistake, you know? And that fucking upsets you and

I don't think you need to explain why that's wrong beyond I mean you shouldn't need to explain why it's wrong. We all fucking know everybody fucking knows and if they're defending it then they're lying to themselves

they're not listening to any sort of feeling unless they're a total psychopath which I think a lot of those fuck I don't know, but isn't the reason they're reacting the way that they are is because of feeling, but it's like a feeling that's been egged on by something that's perhaps disingenuous or charged. Isn't that how they do it?

They like kind of warp people's feelings and emotions into... If, um... Creating a narrative, kind of. If you're feeling... I don't think anyone can can hear that fact about that. the school and not be upset feel it's wrong. I don't know how I'm sure people are defending it in some way or another. Yeah, 100%.

I haven't seen that, but you know what I'm saying? Yes. Like it shouldn't be everything, obviously. But it's like it should be a part of, it should be something you consider it. Yeah. I just quite like it if just the overall temperature could be turned down if we just like stop going to war for like no reason. It's all just like, it's all money shit.

Like it's kind of as simple as that. just following the money. And it always has been. It explains everything. I think what Trump has done isn't like he's he's not come and stepped in to be this like total outlier. You know, he's showing what can be done within the system. You know, he's like, he's not the entire problem. He's like a symptom, you know, he's not the root cause.

Yeah, yeah. He is, you know, when you don't wash your face for too long and you get a spot, you know, it's not, the spot isn't the problem. You should be washing your face. Right. Like, we should be setting up societies to value different things. We shouldn't have people in positions of power that are, like, considered infallible, like the king, you know? Like, why, why is he there? Why the fuck?

How the fuck is he qualified to go there? It's like an un-maintained garden, you know? Let's say you accidentally, through some circumstance, burn some of the panels of your fence down, right? Uh-huh. Which... Actually, kind of a surprisingly large section of your fence. Yeah, quite big. Yeah, a large fire.

A large fire accidentally caused. Yeah. So then part of your garden is exposed. to bind weed which um sneaks into your garden and starts um overtaking it you got a choice i guess you could like go through the annoying effort of getting the fence like rebuilt we just leave it for like three years for years and just have it like cover everything and make more work for yourself in the long run yeah um and also have it cost more in the long run because like three years ago it probably would have been cheaper because of inflation

I guess what I'm trying to say is don't burn your fucking fence down by accident I guess yeah yeah yeah yeah what am I talking about weedlings fuck the king fuck the king I love the king

I hate the fucking king and his giant hands maybe that's why Trump respects him so he got like inverse ends I'm hoping that um the royal family comes after you create a bit of a jar-a-hama yeah fingers crossed man it would make shit interesting

Bobby at the door I just Where's airport gym We want to talk to it's flown off We want to talk to airport gym About the king He's impossible to fucking nail down this airport He's always flying off places

Uh Yeah so there's Jim's king rant Yeah I mean we should have no king's fucking protest hit Yeah I hate I hate Britain I fucking hate

I hate that we're like Yeah Apathetic That's how Well no it's like Yeah that's normal That's our normal So let's just leave it

That's all people though right Isn't it like Hey Your normal's not my normal I don't like that That makes you feel weird Yeah You know

But this is how it's always been So that's the worst reason For anything to be the way it is. Yeah. Well, it's always been like that. Well, maybe that's why things have always been shit. You know?

But we've always had a king. Oh, but your generation has telly and shit. So why are you complaining? Because it's made us all go insane. Yeah, we're all fucking losing our minds and working like a hundred hour weeks. You know, to afford the fucking shit telly that we can't even watch. And then they don't even have the budget after taking all of our money for fucking Amazon Prime. You're watching Invincible.

There's fucking like glitches in the animation. And there's fucking adverts literally every three minutes. You're not getting enough money. Jeff Bezos isn't getting enough money to throw a few fucking pennies for the animators. That's why you've got to get Captain Jacks off to solve that problem for you, you know? Yeah. Yeah, we just need Jeff Bezos to have a bit more money and then he'll have like some spare change to tip the animators. So they can finish those at.

Jesus Christ, man At least outsources It's South Korea Yeah Joking A fucking sweatshop in China Yeah Chinese animation

I love my My Chinese anime What was that article I sent you That was like We woke up and just kind of Realized that the last 20 years We'd just been Chinese This whole time

What? Have you seen that meme Where it's like Glasses that can let you see. Or like that they live. Yeah. Yeah.

And he puts it on. And there's the Chinese guy. Oh yeah. I showed you that. We did that on a job after hours. Did we? Yeah, on that like AI diddy fucking. On your one, your like, uh, TikTok likes or whatever.

Was it that one? No, no. Don't, don't you remember I showed you the AI video of like, it was like the fucking, um, squid game one. That was different. No, it was three videos. Oh, okay. It was like Lego Diddy. The Squid Game and the...

Yeah, that one's gay. Yeah, because I finally got it on my YouTube show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got the China algorithm. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, so some of that's going to need to be beeped, for sure. Yeah, don't worry. Anyway, trolls, don't get blocked.

Don't get blocked. Stay safe out there, trolls. Just don't get blocked. I'm telling you, man. Don't get blocked. I'm serious.