Rural Concerns - Power surges, Triple Chocolate Crunch & dongles

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

Sunil shares a hot recommendation that could leave you blind, Producer James tries to stop the horrendous doxxing and Chris’ elite gaming PC is on the fritz (again!) The lads also discover what lengths one of our listeners will go to for the unbridled joy that is Dune 2. Triple Chocolate Crunch is also available from M&S (UK). Sunil’s top tip: Do not buy the high protein variant. You can also buy tickets to Chris’ Edinburgh Fringe run: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/chris-cantrill-easily-swayed. Thank you for listening to Rural Concerns! You can now support this silly podcast via Patreon. For less than the price of a pint, you’ll get bonus episodes and access to The Creamery, our Discord hangout.  Our music is by Sam O’Leary and our artwork is by Poppy Hillstead. Rural Concerns is edited by Joseph Burrows and produced by Egg Mountain for A Lovely Time Productions.

Welcome to Rural Concerns, the podcast for city folks who dream of a world where strangers say good morning and £5 is still enough to get someone beaten up. Great. That's exactly as I envisioned it when I wrote it. Brilliant. Welcome to the show. I can't, I can't not say that I'm not pissed off. It's not letting me do both at the same time. Oh, this is your stupid gaming PC, which has broken down. I'm on the iPad. I've got a temporary setup. But I have to tell you, I'm absolutely losing the will to live as a PC power user. When we started this podcast, I was having to figure things out

because my setup was in a funny spot and I was trying to figure out how to, my computer equipment. I think there was some sort of power surge living in the middle of nowhere. A guy I met reckoned this happens to farmers when the fields get hit by lightning. So like it blew my network card out. So I've got a temporary dongle type thing.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why haven't you got a surge protected thing? I do now. Oh, did you buy it off a farmer?

Yeah, it was steaming. It was like that. And he said, that's when you know it's good. Well, it's hot out, hot to the touch. What were you saying, Sunil? You know how much I care about power delivery to devices. I'd say it's your number one passion. In the 13 years we've known each other.

It's the only time you see light behind my eyes yeah yeah yeah i mean it's really disappointing that's all i've got to say i know and i did basically it got i survived and then we moved to the new house i was like great but the new house is basically a this victorian house that's being slowly rewired. Dog piss paradise. Dog piss paradise. Dog bordello. So there's lots of, basically, the wiring's all a bit insane. I left the computer on. I flicked on a wallpaper strimmer,

and it blew the electrics out in the house. Basically, I think this computer has survived two massive power surges, which I've done a little bit of research and it's looking like that might not be great news. I thought I'd got away with it, but basically it's like the computer's got like a disease and now it's got, it's like struggling to process Photoshop. It was fine. You've blown out what, half the motherboard or something? Well, yeah, I had to get a separate dongle because the ethernet connector on the motherboard had been blown out.

I'm glad your stupid PC blew up. Okay, I want to get into this and find out why. Because you put LED lights inside the casing so it would just like blink away in your dark little study and it just looked stupid and it was completely unnecessary they came with the pc and when i was getting the network card fixed yeah i paid them an extra tiny bit of money to disconnect the lights because they were giving me migraines you've got a see-through pc case so you could look at it and look at the insides of it yeah water cooled but now i'm in a really tough spot where basically i've got a see-through PC case so you could look at the insides of it.

Yeah, water-cooled. But now I'm in a really tough spot where basically I've got a really good-ish PC. I mean, time moves on. It's probably not as good as it used to be. But when I bought it in lockdown, it was quite reasonably high spec and it can play loads of cool games. That card game. It can play Bellatro. But basically, I feel like an idiot because i've got

this expense and i've never been a macbook person because i thought those people you can't even use this ipad you're using right now the camera is focused from your nose down that's because i'm on a that's because i don't have a stand for it let's delete the recording and i'll is it an actual ipad or is it like your nan says she's got an ipad but it's an amazon fire yeah it's my ipad samsung i got one of them samsung ipads during lockdown we moved up to this area and my son met his schoolmates doing zoom classes which was terrible but But there was always one of the teachers was a slightly seedier lady who was headed towards

retirement at the time. Me and Nicola just always used to call her Galaxy Tab A, because that was her name on the screen. But let me tell you about this PC. So I just want to tell, I just want to talk, I feel sad. And I want to talk about why I feel sad.

Just write a eulogy for the PC, get it done with, give it a proper ceremony. Do I go, I don't want to go MacBook because people that like Apple products are dweebs. But now I have this iPad and I can see how it would connect. I could say I could just send something from my phone, my Apple phone to my iPad. So you've got an Apple phone? No, I've got this iPad. This is my one Apple product, but now I've got the Apple products.

I've got friends who've got Apple products. It's like you can airdrop things and it's a lot less stressful than... Email attachments. Yeah, but I don't mean to brag about my little internet videos but i am recording those at too higher definition i i i said my uh sam o'leary who does the who did the music for this podcast is among many things a director and i sent him a little video i was working on and he went wow that's big but i don't know how to do it any other way. I'm just trying my best.

Yeah, no, you're doing all right, man. You're doing all right. I'm sorry about your PC. I'm sorry you slagged off your little lighter PC. I've just got all this like stuff on there. I don't know what to do. It's just like, I'm going to have, in the short term, I'm going to have to pay someone to do a bit of design work for me,

which is stressful. But the thing that I don't, the thing that makes me sad about this PC is I've got a friend who's very PC literate and I've just sort of been messaging him. I'm like, it's doing this. I don't understand why. And he's like, I suspect your motherboard's fried. And I suspect that replacing that is what you need to do. And he sent me a little bundle of a motherboard and a RAM upgrade for like 340 quid, which is money, but it is attainable money. And he might help me put it together. But basically it was like, that should be the problem.

But the thing with a PC is like testing and running it through, that might not be it. So if we'd replaced the motherboard and the RAM and that's all working, then that would move the problem to somewhere else. You know, like, oh, it becomes the drives. Oh, the graphics. And it's that sort of thing that made me think, why have I bought this powerful thing that I don't understand?

What you're telling me is that you're refusing to take it to a PC repair shop for some reason. What's going on there? Why won't you just take it to a chapter taught out? No, no, no, no, no. There's nothing on there. There's a highest resolution A3 poster you've ever seen.

Yeah. What's that noise? Is that your PC? I've got the air ambulance outside. Really? that's alright we can work around that what are they there who are they there for

yeah sorry about the air ambulance break it just it does happen and whenever it happens I look on flight radar app just to see

it's the same helicopter every time is it yeah gems it's called like a really posh person talking to me yeah

no it's quite nice having the air ambulance nearby it's good to know just in case just in case just in case that i can't be asked to drive there how far are you away from from the hospital without wanting to dox myself yeah let's not that kind of is the vibe of the podcast whether i'm doxing myself by exposing, I'm saying exactly what cul-de-sac James lives in opposite David Cameron. I'm telling everybody that I've got a broom above my door and everybody in the Discord group has definitely figured it out. That's the vibe of the podcast.

It tells you exactly where you live. We're all going to have to move soon due to the popularity of this podcast. Yeah, when it goes big, which I expected it will. Do you know what I mean? In a couple of weeks, I reckon. I'm going to have to take the boom down. My wife is very keen for the boom to come down, so this is just extra evidence that she needs to...

It can't. It can't. I think it's the people of this podcast want it to stay up. Exactly. And it was put there to keep away evil. So if I take it down and I'm inviting evil into my house, and I don't know about you, listener, but I don't want that. Have you found any more secret passages or cupboards or anything in your house? No.

Speaking of evil. No, no, we're not. We're slowly ticking through. We're basically at a stage where we're we've done quite a decent amount of decorating now a few rooms at different stages the boy's room is fully finished down to carpet so he's in there happy as larry we're now working on mine and nicholas bedroom we just had the plasterer back in for that, which is an expense, but oh my, how delicious when the new plastic goes on.

So that's good. And the living room's kind of done. We haven't re-plastered the living room. We've done sort of like filled stuff. You don't need to with the telly, do you? It's not pristine, but it is looking finished. Can I have a biscuit now? Yeah, go on.

Let's have a biscuit break. This feels like it needs its own sting. Can I have a biscuit now? Yeah, go on. Let's have a biscuit break. This feels like it needs its own sting. Can I have a biscuit now? Let's have a biscuit break. Do you remember when we did the recording a few back when I was eating greasy sweets and had a coffee at 10 o'clock? Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking.

That was the worst night of my life. How was your toilet? Bad stress. It's just like, come on, greasy sweets and coffee at 10 o'clock. What are you doing? don't know what i was thinking that was the worst night of my life how was your toilet bad stress is just like come on greasy sweets and coffee at 10 o'clock what are you doing is nicola away this week yeah so she's back at she's back overseas two times before edinburgh because she's basically get cramming cramming as much money into July as possible so she could have like a more chilled out August. So you're so, so Chris, you're solo daddo. Solo daddo.

I have one job this week to keep him alive. To keep the switch charged. To keep the switch fully charged so that this boy doesn't tear through my life. No, he's a good kid. I'm feeling very paternal and want to give him lots of cuddles at the minute because he's growing up really quick, you know, and there's lots of stuff going on in his little life and his little head.

And then he just wakes up and he's twice the size that he was the day before. Do you know what I mean? And you're like, oh, I know it's tough, lad. It's not that tough being twice the size the next morning it's pretty good i don't know you just stop fitting your trousers anymore you're bending your head to get through door frame he's like well i might you know what i mean how old is he yeah he's coming up on eight so he's but he's just a he's a he's a big lad he's just like that he's yeah but not long until he can absolutely tear through the parents race on

sports day yeah well let's not let's not go back there thank you okay sorry can I tell you another thing though

about that if we just talk about it really quickly I just want to point out that he obviously got done for

for cheating well by not having a child and I reported him wow that's it we won't say his name again good there is a book

there is a kids book that you know like a you're growing up Osborne book that we've got which is called it sounds like it's named by what happens

to a supervillain it's called What is Happening to Me I don't remember having anything like that when I was going through while growing I don't remember any books

telling me what was happening didn't you have that one with the robot on it like inside your body with the nuddy pages no it was just it was just like it was just you know

just get on with it just you know all the boys are going through it it's just it was just like it was just you know just get on with it just you know all the boys are going through it it's just just don't talk about it bury it move on you buried him so deep i haven't seen him since i've known you in yeah 13 or so years we've talked about charging cables yeah we did that's that's enough isn't it and i sort of imagine that you had a lot like there's just no way in which you weren't born with a full beard and bad eyes. You knew me before the beard. I know, but it didn't make sense until the beard came in. I looked at a video of the special we recorded in February.

I'm pretty sure I've told you this, but I got a bad beard trim the day before. Yeah. And it's a real, it's a shock. They went, they cut my beard, they hacked it off and I had to film and that's it forever now. It's going to be out there.

Yeah. It's a shame, but it also doesn't matter. It matters. It matters. You just said it doesn't fit me to not have a beard. No, but a little bit of a beard.

Did I take it into skin? Is that the thing? You need a bit of length on it coming out. Yeah, you can see skin and then I got head like bull. Well, personally, I'm very excited to see these videos now. Although maybe not for the reasons. When are you releasing these videos? I've got to do a bit of work on them before I send it through to the brilliant Sam O'Leary.

AI stuff, some AI stuff. Can I AI like a different size head onto my head? Have a word with your bank people. See if they'll give you the vectors. How is prep for Edinburgh going, Chris? Oh, fuck off. Thank you for getting us back on track, James. It's all right.

There's something in there, isn't there? Right, so Edinburgh Fringe Prep's going well. It's taking a big... I was just about to send my posters and flyers to print, but now my computer's obliterated that ability, so that's a temporary hurdle. But I believe that I can put it back on track quite easily. So now I'm just getting ready to do the show.

And I've been around a bit recently. I did one in London. I did one in, yeah, I did one in London. I've been to Sheffield. I've been to Manchester, Leeds. All the big cities. I tell you what, actually Sheffield wasn't, would have prepping for Edinburgh. What I did was a spot

i was a guest on northern news which is obviously ian smith and our very good friend amy gladhill's podcast and you know what i did when i was on there so now you promoted the podcast rural concerns i mentioned that i had a podcast i just mentioned it um to their audience insane insane really why would you say that, Chris? What else did you mention? I talked about a story. Well, you can go everywhere. People can go and listen to that.

But yeah, okay. Did you promote your Edinburgh show? Big time. What's it called? It's called Easily Swayed. I know that because I looked it up yesterday on the Ed Fringe website so I can plan my visit. Oh, that's nice.

Are you going to buy a full price ticket? I can't make it. I haven't got time. Right. No, I'm there. I'm only, I've had to shorten my trip, so I'll be there. I've got you down for the 10th of August. Oh, brilliant.

What date are you there? Probably a bit doxy, that. But what was I going to say? Yeah, so, easily sway swayed I'm billing it as a tale of high fantasy middle age and fine silks

but I'm cementing a trend of being very very bad at self-promotion one of my first shows that I did my first Edinburgh show that I did on my own

was in 2015 it was called Welcome to Tiddalminster I saw that I enjoyed it it was a very humbling experience performing in a 60 seater room to six people every day so it was very humbling but I was very

proud of it by the end but I'm very bad at promoting so the show it didn't have my name on the poster i build it as an interactive powerpoint presentation yeah i remember you having a giant picture of me with my balls out in it oh yeah i i did for that show because i did used to i do less of it now oh no i don't i the show was very multimedia lots of illustrated element like i illustrate painted loads of stuff for it built it and it was me taking people on a tour around an island and i don't know why but i just like you like the real life you into the character without

consent yeah which i don't feel great about but well it's, it's a crime now. It's a crime now. Is it? Well, I imagine putting in nude drawings of someone is some sort of crime, isn't it, without their consent? But it could have been that other Sunil Patel, that doctor. Well, he pointed me out when I was in the audience. Oh, right, okay. Yeah, that's pretty criminal.

It's not like it's out of character. Nothing if not a born prankster. Do you know what I mean? Cheeky imp. But I found, do you know what? That show's so old and was never recorded. I've got the PDF of the script and it's rubbish,

not rubbish, but it's so, it's so early days in terms of structure and stuff like this, but I don't mind. I'll put it put it i'm gonna put it on the patreon i think just because otherwise it just i'm not good at maintaining data do you know what i mean my computer's probably gonna get at this rate it will get hit by lightning again and i've lost everything is that your way of saving it? Is that instead of Google Drive? Yeah, I'm running out of space on my Google Drive. I'm running out of space fast. Sorry, you should just print everything out

and stick it under the floorboards. So I insulate my house and I've got a permanent record of all the ideas I've had over years. Yeah. How was the Leeds gig? Leeds was like, right well that's not technically true because i'm um from bradford whereas leeds is adjacent that's like salford of manchester

though isn't it no not at all there's actual distance between them no there isn't i've looked it up i've seen it as part of a general metropolis the leeds bradford odian it's like the it's like the bit adam and god bit on the old um ceiling the leeds bradford odian is in bradford it's just that there's a thing that a lot of people there's some bad people that are from the bradford area that they'll that i don't know they try and they go proximity to leeds you know sometimes when you make people out you go oh where did you grow up and they're like from the Bradford area that they'll, I don't know, they try and bring up proximity to Leeds. You know, sometimes when you make people out, you go, oh, where did you grow up?

And they're like, Leeds. You dig down, they've got a BD postcode, and those people should be ashamed of themselves. What do you think about the Bradford identity as being erased by the association with Leeds? Well, this is like, my dad years ago said to me that he really believed the EU. The EU were like, basically

wanted Leeds to be the big metropolis. So, you know, it was getting all the funding and focus and stuff. That's what he believed? Yeah, I believe so. To overtake London, you mean? No, to overtake, I don't know. To overtake London, you mean? No, to overtake for... I don't know.

To overtake what Leeds was. What's Pudsey then? Which one's Pudsey? Pudsey's Leeds. Right. What's the full-neck Moravian settlement? That's just popped up on my mind. Never heard of that in my entire life. The full-neck... Sorry, are we talking about local government funding now? What about Tongue?

Oh, I don't know about Tongue. I think Tongue's... What about Cockersdale? I used to work at Tongue Garden Centre. And my friend Zach, my friend Zach also worked there. But I worked on tills. And Zach worked in the aquatics department. And the boys who worked in the aquatics department

were all from the Bradford Grammar School. He was one part of that gang. And even though he's like my very, very best friend, when he was with those guys, you know, like we didn't talk all the time. So the words that we sort of had for that group was, we called them, get this, the aquatics twats. But I think I remember him saying that they used to feed,

you know, like aquatic sensor. No one's really there. No one's spending that much on fish all the time. They just used to get little, you know, like goldfish or whatever, just feed them to like the, you know, like the mad fighting fish type thing. And they just used to drop stuff in and just be like, this is wicked. But that's the type of hobby you can indulge if you don't live in a flat in

London though, isn't it? This is like, out there, everyone's at it. What? They've got like animals and the like, aren't they? What, sacrifice,

fighting animals, is that? Yeah, yeah, fighting, yeah. Sacrificing. Everyone's... They've got the space for it. Yeah, you've got the space to sacrifice, to sacrifice things

to a fighting fish, to an angler fish that you're keeping in your front room. One of those coffee table fish tanks. Yeah, but I did two shows back to back. Yeah, so I did Leeds and then I did Manchester. And I keep having these shows. Aren't the shows in a good place? I think we're like 75 75 to 80 percent there

there's loads of work today we've got a month this is i think i'm further ahead than i were with my last show but i didn't love my last show so i feel broadly happy the panic is setting in and the hard work begins but we're getting there but so i did leads leads was magical i think there was a few people a couple of people from the creamery in there. Big shout out to the Discord. But I left the show being like, yes, we're nearly there. It was like messy bits, but we were laughing for an hour. I'm doing the shows about me and my oldest friends

and sort of being friends in your 40s and what that means. But because I'm sort of changing names, basically. So my friend lol who came to the showing leads basically was pieced together whose pseudonym was who and then she just laughed really loud at one bit and she went i said you figured out who it is and yeah she went oh yeah he lost he lost his virginity to me and And I went, yeah, I know, I was downstairs. So that sort of fun of a local gig, do you know? Right.

I don't get that in London. But then I did it in, and if I'd have left there, I'd have had just a great time. But then in Manchester, it was a bit more, you know, like a slightly different audience. And I was like, oh, it was just, I've still got work to do basically yeah so you know that's that's pretty that's part of the magical process of previews i've got a uh i say i said at the top of the show that you know a lot of the stuff that you do during these it is shit can

like you you figure out with stand-up you figure out if you can do it while you're doing it which is just one of the reasons that being a stand-up is the exact opposite of being a pilot you know i was like you've got it it's fine i'm having a laugh so did you have anything else to say about have you just sort of gone boots in on bradford today they're good people working hard just thought it was in leeds i genuinely thought it was in leeds i thought it was in Leeds. I genuinely thought it was in Leeds. I thought it was part of Leeds. Oh, you thought Bradford was a suburb of Leeds? Yeah. Like, I thought, like, it's the Croydon, Bradford's the Croydon of Leeds.

What is Croydon? Is Croydon the Croydon of London? Yeah. I mean, that's, yeah. Yeah. But I always think, you know, when you look at old literature and stuff from the 1800s or whatever, and it's, when you look at like, you know, the idea that Highgate in London used to be out of London. You know, it was like a...

Yeah, it's a little village outside London. Yeah, like it would be a trip to leave London to go to Highgate. But then London's just expanded and expanded where that is very comfortably within London. So then I can't get out this image out of my head that London is basically, I'm a leg of the tumor that's getting bigger and bigger. Do you know what I mean? Like spreading, sucking resources.

Then that'll happen to Leeds, won't it? Yeah. Bradford will be just a bit of Leeds. The thing about Leeds is I had such a great time doing my show there, but the general cultural difference between Bradford and Leeds, basically people from Bradford, proper top chillers,

proper having a laugh lads, people from Leeds kind of up their own arses. That's a broad split. They think they're somewhat, they think they're somewhat, they're not. They've got Harvey Nichols there, haven't they?

And they won't let you forget it for a single second. Croydon is to London as Stockport is to Manchester, is what I mean. Like if someone's from Stockport, they're from Manchester. I feel like this might be, we've had a good one with this podcast, but I think within the last five minutes, we might have just absolutely obliterated any goodwill we'd built up absolutely yeah cut out joe don't cut any of it out joe leave that in and leave in the bit where i'm having to go a

biker gang don't leave in biker gangs all i'm gonna say is you won't hear this but no you don't beat me i went after a biker, which I'm not naming now. And James is too scared to put it in. And I was actively trying to stalk a gang war. Well, look, let's have something we can keep in. Sunil, on the notes, we've got Sunil's guide to triple chocolate crunch. What is this? Triple chocolate crunch is a cereal from M&S. Last time I had it, i had to stop because um

what it's just like what i don't know this is just making me laugh already you had to stop what eating cereal you had too much cereal i had to stop eating triple chocolate crunch i think it's the sugariest cereal in the country oh yeah i had to stop because i lost vision in my right eye so i haven't had it since then mid bowl no well you know the next morning i was like what have i lost vision in my eye and it's something to do with the fact that like i um i think i got dehydrated because i had too much sugar in me or something like that well it just went blurry it just went a bit blurry that was just a bit of a dry eye but i'm back on it now just sort of teasing myself in and it's basically i just like to recommend it to anyone it's possibly the best cereal available that's my update from london

are you combining that with a full fat milk i'm combining that with a full fat milk or a barista blend oat milk oh that is yeah that Yeah, so it needs to go with a creamy milk just to make the most of it. There's no point having it with skimmed milk or semi-skimmed. It's just pointless, isn't it? It's like having caviar on a Warburton's white slice. Yeah.

I'm in. I'm fully in. I'm going to get some. There's an M&S in Carlisle. I'm going to get some tomorrow. Right, remember, there's triple chocolate crunch. There's also high protein triple chocolate crunch. High protein triple chocolate crunch, not sugary at all.

Triple chocolate crunch, it's essentially, it's just shavings of chocolate and it melts. It's a pudding for breakfast with a few oats. We were contacted this week from John. Can you see that one, Sonal? Yes, I can. Hello, boys. That's how it starts. I like that.

Yeah, yeah, I like it. There's an omission. Oh, no, no, no. I was nearly wrong. Keep going. Yeah, you keep reading. After following Chris and James' work for a few years, I was delighted to find that Sunil was involved

in this new comedy trio, and I've been enjoying it very much. James, that's nice. That is nice, but worrying, because my work has been in offices yeah yeah that guy that guy behind printer that's just lawmen lawmen oh yeah i suppose so yeah now i wanted to share with you my recent experience of settling into audrey dune 2 on the big telly while my wife and piglets were away for the whole night step one check internet speed 64.7

down 32 up so far so good that's good stuff mid-league mid-league it's good stuff it's all right you know we don't know where he lives exactly now step two google how to watch dune two online open amazon prime on the tv step three log on to amazon by zapping the TV with my phone. Yeah, I like that. Step four, get told to change my password. Step five, wait for OTP and enter it. What's that, a code? Yes, you get that code through on your phone, isn't it? Step six, wait for phone code, don't get it.

Step seven, verify by email. Account locked for suspicious activity. Step eight, set up new email account. This is where I think you've gone wrong. Set up new email account. Set up new Amazon account. That's step nine. I think you've gone too far at this point. Step 10, get locked out for entering the same phone number as previous account. Okay. Step 10, sorry, step 11, find Dune 2 on Google Films on phone. Step 12, card declined. Why does that happen? Step 13, other card accepted. Good. We're nearly there. Step 12, card declined. Why has that happened? Step 13, other card accepted. Good. We're nearly there. Step 14, connect phone to TV. Step 15, no picture because TV is not an

Android TV. Step 16, find Chromecast dongle out of battery. Bloody hell, this is going terribly. Step 17, plug Chromecast into TV and PS5 to charge. Step 18, log on to Google on Chromecast. Step 19, change password by email. Step 20, start Dune Part 2 and fall asleep after

10 minutes of the film starting. Another cautionary tale from the twilight age of physical media. Yours with the warmest of wishes and thanks, John. Oh my goodness. Blu-ray wouldn't have thought out. There would have been a step 7A

throw telly out the window from me. If you told that string of events, if you went in the past to someone like at the turn of the century, like a Victorian or something, and he said, listen, this is the future. He'd throw himself in a volcano, wouldn't you? Well, he'd also know what a film is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But if you, yeah, that's a very good point. But basically, if you, we are living in hell, but because we're like, we're living in the dystopian future that people wrote nightmarish fiction about in the 50s and 40s like it's going to be like this and what they think like this is as scary as 1980 this is as scary as 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 it's absurd how much you how much time you waste trying to give a corporation 14 quid to rent a film nowadays. But the fact, yeah,

I won't be drawn into the 14 pound rental because all the stuff that, I was very anti-physical media, but now it's like, if I pay Amazon 15 pound to own a film, one day they'll just decide I don't own it and turn it off. Thank you, finally,

coming around to my point of view. I know. It's taken a long time for me to get there are you just working your way through cinema just getting a full set yeah i'm trying to get older classics that i can't find that i haven't seen you know but yeah anyway look i will of course be buying june and june 2 on 4k hd but then you've got to maintain the piece of equipment that will play that back that That's a very good point, James. Chris, I can hear you deep breathing into the microphone

as we talk about Blu-rays. It's disgusting. I'm sorry. We're getting into the reeds of deep. I'm getting a bit excited. I don't know what it is. It's even worse because I can't see your face.

I don't know what you're doing. No, I'm just in the document. So I can't dual camera with the iPad set up. I'm back. I'm back. Good. Clothes still on. Great stuff.

Yeah, my hands are here. Let's just talk about June 2 4K Blu-ray 10 edition. We can't talk about June 2 again. We can't keep talking about June 2 on this podcast. Well, what we need is a new film to come on the play set. And I'm looking at the summer release schedule and I'm sorry I'm not inspired. I'm going to go and see the Quiet Place prequel.

Oh, yeah. There, I've said it. Okay? They're good. Yeah, I do enjoy it. I do enjoy those films, but I'll tell you what, my friend pointed out to me, they're launching these films now.

Like, is it, what's his name? John Krasinski? John Krasinski. He's done a film like a kid's film or something like that. I think he, if, and it says from the mind of John Krasinski. And I'm like, come on, mate, quiet place. And it's, spin-off films are great, but we are not yet at the place where

you can claim that like that's reserved for Tim Burton in it you know and Shillamal, my M. Night Shillamal, yeah exactly I watched one of those M. Night films the other day and I'm like this is amazing just like pure

bollocks but I really am enjoying I really am enjoying it I I really am enjoying it. I'm quite looking forward to that new one. It's basically, it's basically, it's Josh Harner, who has a very strong producer, James Energy, living a life as a normal man, but it turns out halfway through the trailer, he's actually a serial killer.

The fact that Josh Harner looks kind of like James or has James energy is like the very tip of the iceberg of overlaps with this film. And even though I'll be upset

that I didn't stop here, I will take some pride in having spotted it. thank you so much for listening to rural concerns you can support this podcast via patreon where you'll get bonus episodes every two weeks as as well as access to The Creamery, our mental Discord hangout. I didn't want to say mental there, but that's what it's written down. It's our Discord.

You'll have to know that I still don't have access to that. Thank you. I'm going to give you the link at episode 100, I think. Fuck me. And please, we're just like to say, we are a small independent podcast so

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Love all that Chris does on stage and podcast. Two thumbs up. Both white. Is that you, Chris? No, that one's not me. That one isn't me. I am in, just for full disclosure, I have done a review of his that's on the Apple list.

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listening to the end here's an inspirational quote from action bronson shut up and eat your pudding what do you think of that all right i'm gonna try and i'm gonna try and apply that in my everyday life. It's not hard. What book is that from? It's just a general quote from him in life. I mean, I've got all his quotes in front of me here. I've written them down in my little book. How about this one?

I like every girl, every kind of girl that there is. I like. Is that where he was? He doing a Borat impression. If we, I tell you what, if we had a few more men like that, maybe we'd have a few less Andrew Tate. That's a good one to end on, isn't it? Something to go home and think about.

There's a hyperlink in your document. I can't believe you hyperlinked to another Google document. You fucking dork. I'll tell you what i don't what i like about this podcast it's like figuring out systems and efficiencies to make it that's always because nobody stops you talking