Triforce! - Live peaceful, be chill, become Sips | Triforce #352

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

Triforce! Episode 352! Lewis has complaints about his £20,000 AGA oven (he's just like us, guys), we try to discover how to live a chill happy life like Sips and we get scammed with some bad AirBNB reviews. Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/TRIFORCE. Promo Code TRIFORCE Support your favourite podcast on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2SMnzk6 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickax. Hello everyone and welcome to the TriFulse podcast. We're back. Feeling good. We had a couple of roasting hot days here. Oh my God, didn't we just? Holy, holy. Everyone has lost their mind.

Yeah. All it takes is one hot day and everybody just melts down. Why? What happened in Bristol? It's like it's just everyone goes outside and just starts everyone's walking around naked again. Non-stop pride parades. As soon as the weather warms up, they're out there in their in their, in their, in their, in their, in their, in their, in their, in their, in their, in their, in their, it's nice. Wonderful to see.

It's the best time of year. I saw a guy. I did actually see a guy. I was in town yesterday. And there was a there was a guy painting a phone box, a rainbow colored. But he was doing such a terrible job. He was clearly just an amateur, amateur LGBT fan. Right. I mean, not, not an expert painter of things. No. It was like, I was like to say, oh, I was, I thought, I thought that needs a second coat. It's like such a dad thing to think. Yeah, well, now that you're homeowner, you can, you can weigh in on stuff like that. You can, you should have gone up to him.

You're like, well, you didn't use enough primer. Yeah, exactly. How many base coats on that? Geez. Do an amateur hour here. God. And yeah, if I went out and tried to paint a union jack on the same surface. I'd get arrested and thrown in prison by Starmers and fascist stasi state would night.

Exactly. Precisely. So, so yeah, like, it's lovely to be, it's not summer at all, though. You know, it's back to, you know, cold weather against. It's still spring. It's a nice reminder that you don't always get what you want. And spring is like, hey, I'm still here. This was just a really nice day.

But also a forewarning of what's to come, a preparation that the summer. It might be a spicy one. Yeah, exactly. It's going to be a hot one, I think. Yeah. It's going to be a cruel hot summer. But I think you'll get the air consorted. Yeah.

Do you know what? Actually, unprecedented in the month of April. I had my air conditioner on the other day because it was getting toasty in here. I had to condition the air. Yeah. Oh, well. I got an air conditioner last year. Great move.

It's a little portable joby. It's very good. I've got, I'm not. I'm not going to have stuff done because now everyone's, everyone has rung up all the people. It's like, oh, bloody hell, that was hot. We better get ourselves sorted for summer.

I haven't got time now. It's like mid-April. I'm like much, I've got, in my money pit, I've got an oil-fired argar, okay, in the kitchen. Right. Is that meant to be the house heater? Is that located in the conservatory? Or is it?

Which? wing of the house. Let me consult my vast library. In-house, of course. I don't know if I've done if I've complained about it on this podcast before, but it's, it's lovely, right? It's really cool to have this Arga, but, and I thought, you know, we'll see what it's like, because, you know, I've been here, like, four months now.

God, already. And it's, and it's nice. It does warm up the kitchen, and the kitchen is like, I think the kitchen was like an extension, so it has not as good, like, insulation in the walls. You get that with extensions because they're built after the house is built. You have like a heating setup for the house, but it didn't take into account the fact that you've added an extension. So you'll have a room in your house that's just a lot colder than the other rooms, right?

This is it. And so that's why I think it's got this agar in it. And obviously on the couple of hot days we had there, the Arga is still on just chucking out heat. Now of course, I don't want to, I have to call a man to get it turned off because it's powered by oil, right? This thing is just constantly providing like this base level heat, which again, it's, it's cozy, it's lovely. But I think it also like actually guzzles oil. Like, one of the things that we happened when we moved in was that the oil was like, the oil tank was like empty. Right. And it was like this big panic to fill it up before the auger sucked up a load of sediment

and, uh, and crapped out. Yeah. And so. So you're pretty desperate for Hormuz to start Hormuzing again, once again, right? Because you're looking at the oil prices and you're just like... In the state of Hormuzed, yeah. Purely for economic reasons. So, obviously, heating oil is a kerosene, it's jet fuel, right? It's the same thing. And so the price of jet fuel doubling, obviously affects a lot of people...

Get your own jet fuel, if you want some jet fuel. Get your own. Melt the beams. Get down to the streets of Hormit, Hormnoult, get down to the streets and get your own oil. Nato was terrible. I've told you before Donald, do not trust Nato. Thanks, Waddy, Wanny. Be glad.

Oh, fuck. So, no, I'm in a situation where I was thinking of like, you know, doing away with it or replacing it. I don't actually cook food in an aga either. I think I've used it like twice since I've got here. You know, I'm not an oven cooker. I cook on like the stove and I cook on an instant pot pressure cooker and I've got like an air friar, a microwave. Do you mean, like it's not really ideal this arg to the state of modern living, you know?

I want to be able to turn it on and off, which I think is basically, have you seen the price of an arg for though? No. If you look on the website. No. Let me see. Hold on, I'll do it. How much you think it'd aga?

Five grand. Five grand. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. Holy shit. Eight. More. Ten. Is this looking for, wait a second.

10.5. Products. 10.7. What are we looking at specifically? An aga era collection, cast iron, conventional. My arga is 149, 150 centimeters in size. No, no, no. What series is it?

What is the product type? I mean, mine is 30 years old at least. So let's go Aga era, which is the large capacity, cast iron. It's a big bastard. Okay. Maybe it's 14 grand. That's a substantial unit. An electric replacement to mine is currently 20 grand.

Jeez. Jeez. That's a brand new one. Well, I was looking at getting it converted, though, because it's still in good Nick. You can get what's called like an electric hit, which is basically like they rip out the oil bits and they just put like an electric bit in. Because I think a lot of the argum is the cast iron bit. But this is, I don't understand why it's so much. I'm just looking it on the website.

I know. It's 18,000 of 725. Yes, but it can't just be expensive. It can't just be expensive. I know. Why is it expensive? I know. How much is a fancy car?

It's so expensive compared to normal ones. Because they go incredibly fast and have ridiculous. performance. Come on, my scenic can get up there. Like if I put the pedal to the metal, yeah. How many, how quick can you get to 60 in that bad boy? Oh, like, in like under one click, two parsecs. Oh, I take it back.

That's pretty fast. Yeah. It's like, you know, these things are also ridiculously over-engineered. But what is the argor is just a big metal thing. I mean. It's just a big metal box. I think that's what you're paying for. How does it work?

What goes in the box? Food. Uncooked food. Right. Uncooked food. And from that same box comes cooked food. Incredible. Well, it does it though, because I don't know if I've said this to you guys before,

but the nice thing about this auger is how old it is. It's obviously 30 years old. And it doesn't quite get to the right temperature. So the idea of the auger is each got, my one's got four ovens on it. And each of them is for a different thing. Okay. So the coldest one is like a plate warming oven. The next one is like a kind of sauce oven or whatever.

How do you control the heat to all of those segments? You don't. They're all fixed. Right. So the hottest oven is always, again, there's no controls on this thing. This auger has nothing. It's just a big metal box. It's just hot all the time.

Exactly. So I think that should be without controls and stuff, I would take 10 grand off of that price tag straight away. Like if there's no controls. So the oven, for example, the main oven that I have used is what's called the, I don't know, it's called the simmering or the baking oven or whatever it is. And in, you just put food, it's supposed to be constantly at about 220 to 240 degrees. Jesus Christ. Which is like the hottest oven, you know, you need for stuff. That's like a pizza oven, right?

So it's supposed to be a pizza oven that's ready to go. And the idea of it is, it's like, you come home, you're like, oh, I want a pizza, whack it in. The og's already hot because it's been heating the house. the kitchen, put the pizza in, 10 minutes, job done. You have to wait for the oven to preheat. That sounds great, right? It's like an already preheated oven, ready to go. So this thing is on like all night as well.

It's on all day, 24-7. It uses 425 kilowatt hours a week of energy. It uses a huge amount of oil, yes. The average standard gas oven and hot uses 2.6% of the Arga range cook's consumption. So you are at. destroying the planet. Yeah. Well, it precisely, the straight of Khormuz, I mean, I'm the one drinking.

Thanks for the pronunciation there. I think we all appreciate that. He needs Khormuz. Finally, somebody pronouncing it correctly. So anyway, I was looking at getting it. First of all, I turned off. But if we get it turned off. We said we were going to do a special boat trip.

Maybe we go down the streets of Hormuz. Try for a line. On a freedom flotilla, loaded up with oil. Louis. We'll get some oil for me. If we get stopped by the Iranian Coast Guard, what are you doing here? We'll be like,

we need oil for Mr. Lewis Brindley's auger. It's frightful. Okay, you can have the oil for an auger. Thank you so much. I have a tiny penis. Very tiny penis. Listening for 10 years.

Where does your auger fit into, like, the whole. like green renewable energy debate thing. Like you think it's the worst. It's the worst. It is the most wasteful. Yeah, but he's a homeowner now and it's going to cost money to change. So he doesn't give a shit. That's how it goes. I'm a, I'm a countryside living cunt. I do you care about the environment? Cajum can't. Self-proclaimed, yeah. I'm from Cunchum. But I just, do you know what I mean? Like in a sense, okay, here's another thing that you've got to consider.

if I, you know, get rid of it or get a new one, is that just going to cost, is that going to damage the environment even more? In what way? In what way are you thinking? Like a big massive spilling? You know what you sound like? Imagine if I had a giant factory spewing smoke

and coal fumes and everything and someone pointed out to me that it was polluting and you said, yeah, but if I shut the factory down, is that going to stop coal being pumped out into the atmosphere? The answer is clearly yes, but you're just asking the question to avoid having to take. take the tough choice here? Not really.

More the question is that the more of the question is we've built a coal-fired factory that had a lifespan of, let's say, 30 years, right, or 40 years, and we want to shut it down after 10? Yeah. You know, is that actually just a bad idea? Because the amount of fossil fuel emissions that you would have to spend to build an equivalent factory powered by something else, do you mean, is that going to... What if it was powered by laughs and giggles, though?

Because, for example, a nuclear power station, yes, it doesn't produce carbon dioxide, but you have to make a lot of concrete and things like that to and put all that down, and that does. But there is a difference of all, you're not going to replace your argo with a nuclear generator. And second of all, the oven that you would purchase, the oven that you would purchase, has already been made. It's sitting there in a warehouse ready to be purchased. Again, that is not as a faulty as well, P-Flax, just because it's a lot of it. already be made, if I purchase it, that means another one will have to be made to replace the one

that I purchased. No, they're not going to make a difference. They got stockpiles of this stuff all over the place. It's made already. That's the wrong thing, you Pflex. All right, I'll give you the final answer, all right, on this. Go on. Is that you're talking about, all right, you're right.

If I buy a new oven, they're going to make another oven to replace their inventory. But I'm replacing a regular oven with a new oven, which is just standard oven emissions. You're talking about replacing something that pumps out 50 times more pollution than the average oven with a regular oven and questioning whether that would be worth it because a new oven had to be made. How much would it cost to get rid of that bad boy? The cost difference is much greater in your case because the oven that you've got now is so titanically terrible for the environment. Well, here's the thing that you should know about this argument. It's not just terrible. It doesn't cook properly.

It doesn't get hot enough. Because it's so old, it only gets to like 180. I put a thermometer in there. I put some frozen chips in there. They took 45 minutes and they didn't even go brown. Like, it was, it's rubbish. So not only that, right? But I have to have a second oven.

The kitchen has a little face. I have, because obviously the auger goes off in the summer. And if I want to cook anything in the kitchen, I have to have an oven. So there's a second oven in the kitchen. Now that, is also... Just get rid of it.

Take it apart and get rid of it. So I don't know where the... Lord Brindley, the chips you ordered... After 45 minutes, there's still not even brown. Not brown, jeep. What's the blooming point? I want my brown chips right now.

Well, let me bother us. Why are we bothering to open up the shade of Hormuzza? Lady Brindley, Jeeves has just informed me the most frightful news. The chips you wanted for dinner are barely brown. After 45 minutes.

You're not a curse it on. Exactly. This is what I was saying. Like, what's the point? Yeah. Do you have a, do you have a gas line into your house? No, there isn't one. Right.

So your options are just getting an electric stove, cooker stove. Or oil, yes. And oil is obviously always an option. Sips, don't forget about oil. In this, in this day age, yeah, I wouldn't, listen. That's not even an option. As much as I enjoy the idea of being self-sufficient, I feel like oil is not that.

I feel like maybe the preppers out there might think, oh, oil's great, you can get a big tank of it. It's yours. You can store it up. Yeah. It doesn't actually sound all that good. Do you know what? The sun is chucking energy out at you for free.

No, it's hot. And the wind, the wind blows. You can't close the straits of windy, the way you can close the straits of Hormuz. It's just windy. It's windy, and when it's windy, it can turn a windmill and you can get energy. Honestly, all of this shit about energy, insecurity and prices and everything, how the fuck are you against renewable energy?

Because from a strategic point of view, everyone should be on board with this. We don't have to depend on any other cunts. Well, I don't know. I've heard this thing either. One of the latest things that's caught on. Comes out of the sky. Well, exactly, one of the things that's catching on, it's best. Apparently in Germany, you could buy what's called a balcony,

solar panel. And basically you can just plug it into your... I'm getting solar panel. I just kind of gone. And you just plug it into your plug, like the, and it will give you free electricity. You need like a battery or something, right,

to store some of what you're capturing. Because otherwise it just goes back to the grid. And the energy companies aren't going to pay for it either. No, but that's fine. They want to. to put up a solar panel and then they just want to like siphon off the extra power for free. I think it just means you draw less from the grid so you pay less. When you're not using it, like if we all had this though, like the best way it would

work is people have these and when you're not using the excess power, it goes to the grid for someone else to use in a cloudy area where they're not getting as much solar energy. Over here they buy back some of what you produce. Not a lot, but like it's something. But I think generally what people do over here is they'll have, and I'm sure everywhere else, you'll have an array of panels like on your roof or whatever. And then you'll have some sort of battery on site that stores what you've, what you've collected.

Yeah. And then that gets used if you want by generally your house or some people just use it just to charge their car or whatever as well. No, I, so I heard, again, this is just, I'm not an expert, but this is a couple of things that I saw that were coming along. now's new technologies that I think are really interesting. And the first one is, like you said, car charging. And apparently you can, if you have like an electric car,

some of them now are coming with basically an inverter on the car. And so the car functions as a kind of battery. And so you don't have to buy a battery that's installed in your house. When your car's plugged in, it will power your house from the car. Right. When it's, you know, and then at nighttime, your car will charge up because it's cheaper, right? Because people aren't using electricity like that. The downside is you have to park your car in your living room and leave it running all the time.

Yeah. But also there's like I said, these balcony soda panels. And I read somewhere that like a million people in Germany had bought them or whatever. And I mean, you have to have a balcony. But I mean, you could just, and it's not great. I guess you could just put them in your back garden or whatever. But I don't know. It's kind of a, it's kind of a fun hobby, I think, to like try and do this stuff. Right. It feels to me, maybe because I've reached. a certain age. And I just, I just feel like solar panels of the way. Now, my house actually annoyingly, both the roofs slope east and west, which is not ideal. Yeah, you want south, right? Because you need one that's sort of pointing south. So, but you can still have the panels installed on them. And I might look into it anyway. Yeah. But maybe Sips, you know, Pflats, like you said, some sort of windmill system might be a cool idea. Yeah. What about, what about those ones that like use like heat from the earth. Geothermal energy. No, they're not just it's it's not geothermal. It's like um it just goes like under

the under the ground. I can't remember how it works. I can't even remember what's cold, but it's like geothermal energy. We'll just say it's geothermal energy. Yeah, why not? Because I can't remember what it is. But it's basically like a pipe under the ground. You'll talk about a ground source heat pump or something like that. Yeah. Um, yeah. What if we found the gates of hell? Down there? Okay. Down there. We keep digging and down deep underground, we start to hear.

And we used it as a power. Lamentations. The closer you get to it, the more mad you're driven as well. It's one of those like, you get a lot of mental anguish. Like the closer you get to it. Hair on the back of your neck begins to stand up. This is literally the plot of the Doom video game. I love that.

Because the guy finds the hell or whatever and starts. I've never even played that game before and I've come up with the plot. You've never played Doom? Of course I've fucking. Watch a good game. Oh, okay, thank God. I'm the first person to ever to ever use floppy disks to use hard drives to recreate the music from Doom on YouTube. Oh, was the first one to do it.

Oh. Bhaban, bra bam, brabaw brabba. What fucking tune. What about Hellmarch from Red Alert? Oh, my God. Oh, eat my butt. Say hot. No one has ever done it better than Hellmarch from Red.

I don't know it. From Command and Conquer. Eat my part. I loved Come on and Conquer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's classic. Classic. You'll love it, Flex.

If you ever want to go down a real-time strategy rabbit hole and play some of the old Command and Conquer games, you are in for a real treat. So I loved Command and Conquer, but I read a alert, once it got to that stage, it got more complicated. I genuinely love the original. This is a classic self proof of you being a specific age because that is, it's, it's, it's, it's the one you played first that's your favorite. If you ask people that about Zelda or anything, it's, it's the one they played at a specific age or first. That is their favorite Mario or Zelda or game genre or, you know, they look on it with such a nostalgia that it kind of over, I'm the same. You know, people will say to me, well, what's your favorite video game?

And I always say like, oh, you know, Mario 64 and the original. X-Com and stuff like this, right? Because I don't think that's true, but I certainly have a great deal of joy from that era of gaming. Maybe they actually are good. Real-time strategy games are so good back in the day. You like the original Warcraft, Warcraft 2, the expansion, Superclan. World Warcraft 3 was.

That's where Dota came from, right? Warcraft 3 and like that, those, you know, Dota was a natural evolution of making those games more playable, right? Because even playing trying to play StarCraft 2. like age empires, empire, empire earth, like all those, all those. Even the new RTSs is, yeah, like trying to play age of empires. I just find it's so difficult because it's so, there's too much I want to do and my body can't keep up.

I don't think it ever could. Like, you really have to be, even when you see the pros playing StarCraft, they can't do everything they want to do. No. You know, and that's the nice thing. I've talked about this before. Before we continue, a word from our sponsor this week, which is Aura Frames. Now, if you are in the US, Mother's Day,

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Part of me is really jealous because I'm an ex crack addict. And I spent so many years playing Wow that part of me always wants to play while, is always drawn to it. I genuinely feel that. Like I feel like I am, this is the truth. I know I joke about it, but I think I was massively addicted to Wow back in the day. And it's still, lose me. I'm massively addicted to it right now. I mean, it feels like, it does feel like some, you know, some like beckoning me back.

Yeah, no, it's good. It's, you know, it's to that place. The new expansion, though, is actually really good. And a lot of the new, you can't say these things. A lot of the new systems are really nice to. I got my chip. I know, but. I've been to Powerholics anonymous.

Part of it. I'm not dad. I'm not dad. No matter how good the expansion is or whatever, though, you can't beat that like cozy, familiar feeling, you know. It's a game. you've played so much and that you have like a lot of memories of like having a good time playing that it's I yeah that all floods back to you as well there's like a ton of nostalgia just it's really hard to resist I obviously want to play games and stuff but and but currently I don't

have an office I've just sat here on a laptop on my kitchen table and I feel like well you're in a transition period with the move and everything but once you're settled you'll you'll find a good groove and then I'm sure you'll go back into that wow I'm sure Azaroth will be there waiting to welcome you back with open arms. But it's frustrating Sips because I hear buzzing in the corners. Like Ravs is like,

oh, I'm gonna go raid with Sips this afternoon. I'm like, oh, I want to do that. Yeah, we've been raiding and everything. It's been really good. And guess who else

has been playing recently? Hitler. Duncan. Duncan's back. He's been playing. He's all leveled up and everything. We were doing some mythic.

We were doing some mythic dungeons with them the other night. It was fun. And just like a lot of a lot of old people. A lot of like old old old yogs people are kicking around as well. There's some old, old names, old familiar faces still still active.

So it's nice. It's been good. All these people I didn't like particularly much 10 years ago are still back playing. They're all still crack addicts as well, aren't they? Yeah. Mostly. It's funny though.

Everybody now has like a serious adult life and children and stuff though. So like everybody you talk to you, you're like, what's new? they're like, I've got like three kids now, but I still play a lot of wow. Yeah. Yeah, they're like, you know, I guess it's the same as any addiction. You're thrown into this, if you're addicted to crack or alcohol or whatever, you're

thrown into these situations in the pub or in the back streets where you meet these people. But because wow is not like a physically damaging to you, everyone's still alive and still the same and still, you know, it's still got all their teeth. But they've managed to, you know, eke out a realistic, a fake person. life. Yeah. But behind it, all they're still

addicted to wow. Yeah. You know, it's like, I got kids now, but I secretly am still addicted to wow. I'm still a blood out

female mage in my spare time. That's been good. I'm in a real crack hole recently, though, because I have been playing a lot of wow, but I've also been playing a bunch of satisfactory on a, like on a multiplayer server with, with some other friends. Yeah,

it's, I talk about satisfactory every other day. about yesterday as well because I was like, we don't want this to be, just with me and me and Brea are working on a game. And I was like, don't you hate it in satisfactory when you get, you accidentally end up with some middle ingredient and you can't, you don't want to chuck it on the ground, but you don't want to try and find the place in the factory where you have to put it back in. Well, that 1.0, the dimensional storage stuff has solved a lot of that. It's really good. Oh, yeah. You have you, you can access storage by basically by like Wi-Fi and you can upgrade like

the speeds. And you can actually, from your inventory, you can upload stuff to it as well. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. That actually is a revolutionary. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, I'm, again, that game sunk thousands of thousands of hours. Yeah. Well, I tell you what, though, I've never played it to multiplayer before. This is the first time I've ever played it multiplayer. So, normally when I play solo, I got to do everything. This time, multiplayer, all I'm doing is power. Everybody's like, you do the powers. Okay, fine. So I, I've actually had time to, like decorate the power plant and like make like these big structures and stuff. It's amazing.

It's been really fun. That's weird. It's, it's nice not having to like having all the responsibility, you know? I mean, I guess it's enough responsibility doing the power. I don't know. You've got to tell me how it goes in a few weeks time because I noticed there's a lot of gaming experiences like this, but used to play a game called Eco. Yeah.

I played that. I played that. It's a neat. It's a neat idea, Eco, but it was a bit janky. I think it's still early access. It's basically the idea is that it's like, oh, is it still early access. It was updated yesterday. I mean, they're really, they're really passionate about it, the devs.

It's a really interesting experience because it is launching, oh, my God, it's launched, I don't know, April, update 13 is launching or launched yesterday with logging machines. But basically it's, you know, the idea is this, this world that you're supposed to, as a community, work on. And it's got a lot of community functionality where you can have town notice boards and assign plots of land to people. And it's also got a time. Like there's a 30-day real-life timer going before the world ends and gets hit by an asteroid. And so you've got to like save the world before that happens as a community. And you got Aerosmith playing in the background the whole time and the lead singer Aerosmith's daughter makes an appearance in it as well.

That's right. You don't want to miss this thing. is in it. And Echo the Dolph is there and it's going to go extinct. You can hunt them, in fact, to extinction, I think. One more thing about games, because I know Flacks probably wants to move on. There's a game out now that I want to try called Roadside Research where it's like, it's a sim game where you run a gas station, but it's a front, you're aliens and you have to study humans in this front of a gas station.

It's just every old supermarket sims except it's got one little shableness. stick thing on it now called with aliens. Check it out. It's funny. Is there any power washing in it? I don't think so. It's pretty basic. I'm not sold it anymore. Like Eco, give it a go. You'll like it.

Yeah. But like I really, I'm interested because the thing about Eco is that it feels like you go away for a day and they come back and have done loads without you. And I'm worried that the same thing is the situation with your power thing. Like it involves suddenly this pressure to, A, play the game to support the community. And B, you feel like maybe other people are like one up. you? Nah, nobody, nobody's more committed than me, though.

That's one thing I've learned. Like, if I'm in a group or whatever, I'll always play more than everyone else. Yeah, so there's never, I never, there's never a risk of people like doing too much without me or moving on unless I'm like, you, you like make a server. I mean, people, everyone's listening knows this. You make it Microsoft serve with your friends. You know, you play for an hour and then you come back, you know, the next morning. And suddenly everyone's got a fucking palace or whatever.

And they finished and you're like, oh, I was just going to make a pick act. And everyone's quick. And I start working on my diamond armor today. It's like, it's weird. And I don't know how to handle that dynamic because it doesn't feel to me to be very fun. No, I know you mean. As a creative experience. But I guess we have to look at things a different way because we're content creators and you're a streamer.

And at the end of the day, Sips, I think like you are your attention. is being pulled every which way, right, between Zomboid and Wow and satisfactory and, and, I don't know, I can, I can focus. I get just get horribly addicted to things and then, but like I usually burn out on them after a month or so. Like it's, I've never had a game where I'm just like, you know, like nonstop playing. Like I couldn't play a game like Flach plays Dota, for example. Like it's, I think that's actually, I don't know how you feel about that, but I think that's generally is something, it's a human trait to, throw yourself into something with like both feet, like really to just like absolutely go crazy for something and then I enjoy the experience.

I eat too much. You know, it's eat all the cheese and then it have so much cheese that it makes you feel sick. Oh my God. We've all been there. I'm sure we have. I mean, I was just there like over the weekend for Easter. I ate way too much cheese.

Like I really should cap my cheese intake somehow, but it's so good. You seem quite happy. Especially when I'm eating cheese, yeah. Is that right to say? Are you generally, did you ever feel like depressed or do you think you've ever been like depressed or anything since? No, I don't think so. I feel like I'm a fairly happy person. I'm a content person, I think.

I think I think the way that my life is structured and the decisions I make around my life have just all contribute to me being a fairly content person, which I think is. Where does that come from? Like, do you think, I mean, obviously your wife and family are incredibly supportive of you and, you know, do allow you to sit in your shed all day playing video games. Yeah. And obviously, being the breadwinner for the family is part of that. But a lot of your work does cut. You do do a lot. I mean, when I visited you a couple of years ago, I noticed you did a lot of driving around. You were always doing some errands. I still do. It was like, when you were not playing games, you were always on an errand. Like, there was never a, a moment of downtime where you, like, well, there was in the evening when the kids were in bed, but it felt like you were kind of just constantly doing something. Doing something. That's a good balance.

Often unasked as well. It was like often like you're, you wouldn't have to, you know, it wasn't like your wife was saying, oh, we need this. You would just be, oh, I noticed we needed this and I'm, I'm going to go do it now. Yeah. It was kind of a, um, just an always role. Did you think that the reason that you're quite jolly is that you're always busy? like there's something always going on in your life and like yeah i think it's just about it's like anything

it's just balance like i think life is just is just a uh a big balancing act right like you you don't eat uh eat too much but don't eat too little don't eat too much of uh the things that you like don't don't eat too little you know like i like i play i do i play games i love playing games but then i have a bunch of other stuff i need to do as well and i balance that all out and i i try to teach my kids that as well because I think I think especially like in this day and age the uh the sort of the lure of just doing what you want to do all the time and never balancing it out against anything else is I think leads to a lot of like you know uh like poor mental health you know like I think you I think you have to have like a good balance of like uh of doing things you

want, but then doing things that you have to do that you don't necessarily want to do, and then going outside and being inside and resting and not resting. And, you know, like, I just, I don't really try to balance things out because it just works out that way. But I think that, I think that's like the best advice I would give to anybody is just try to have balance and everything, right? Like, like you'll, you'll, you'll feel better for it, probably, hopefully. That's a healthy attitude to have.

I mean, I, I don't know about UP flex, but I, I certainly don't have. have the best mental health often. I find that I worry that I'm an asshole to various different people in the office or my personal life or whatever. And I definitely, I have noticed it before because I remember Ben said to me once, he was like, oh God, you know, you've been a bit of a prick this week, Lewis. Like I, you know, like I thought we worked that out, you know, because I think he sort of said, you know, you used to be a bit of a dick and then you got better. and now you're becoming a bit of a dick again. And I was like, I don't know how this is, you know, I sort of felt it though.

I was being like kind of affected by things, situations that happened in my life. And that made me behave differently in different things. You know, like, I think it is a thing you, you're subconscious. Yeah. And a very human thing, though, isn't it? Like, you know, like sometimes, sometimes I'll snap at like my, at my kids and it's like nothing to do with them. I'll be pissed off about something else.

but I won't realize that I'm even really that pissed off about it but then I'll find myself being like short with them and I'll be like oh, you know, like now I realized oh, I'm pissed off about this but I'm taking it out on other people or whatever like that's again, it's hard to know it's hard to be self-policing to that extent though, right? It is. It's not.

I mean it sucks because you don't, your ego doesn't want to admit that you're ever at fault for anything either. Right. So you're, well, this is it. Me and my partner had a big argument about like door knobs or whatever in the kitchen the other day. And I was just like, why do we, why do I care? I don't care actually, you know, but also I don't think she cares either.

But I think it was just one of those moments that like boiled over from, you know, you're stressed out about like three other things. But then like the funnel point is a conversation about doorknobs. That's pretty typical. Yeah. Do you know what? And then I've been honestly, I've become fairly convinced over the recent years. the best way to deal.

It's certainly in the short term with mental health, and I'm sure people will email saying this is incorrect. Suppress, suppress, suppress. Drive those feelings down. If something makes you sad to think about it, don't think about it. Ever. Just get rid of it.

Push it out of your brain. Don't engage with it. Again, I think genuinely, it's hard to say. To spend 25 years worrying about something that happened. Just pushed stuff to one side. And like the time is the best. healer for mental and physical health and damage, right? If you dwell on those things.

No, that's not true. No, it's not if you dwell on these things. That's what I'm saying. The best thing to have is to distract yourself. And this is why I was so addicted to wow and these other, and I have done video games before, being pulled into a safe virtual adventure where I go to another planet and do these things that are, you know, completely immersive and distracting from all.

those annoying issues that you've got going on in your life. Anyone that tells you that it's unhealthy, I would say if you're going to things like therapy and stuff like that, this is something that my youngest, she's gone to therapy a few times, and she found, and my eldest found this as well with therapy, is it quite often it means talking over some quite sort of hateful and hurtful things that you would rather not have to spend a few hours a week retelling and going over and bringing back into your mind, because then you go away and that's what you're thinking about and that makes you sad again and then you think there's no way to go back and change what those things did or what they meant to you or how

hurtful they were. There's no way to change it. You either come to terms of it and just say, well, do you know what, I'm just going to ignore that and move on or it will forever define you. And it doesn't matter what that trauma is. But if you let it define you, that's what leads to depression, I think. That and I know that Mrs. F has a very, very good system for the kind of stuff, if something's not nice to think about it, she doesn't think about it. Like, that's it. Yeah. And me and my youngest see that as kind of a superpower that I wish we had, because I'm a

dweller, and I'm someone who sits there and worries and frets and ponderes and thinks what is the worst scenario? Like if someone that I'm with goes out, I'm thinking, I better say goodbye to them in case I never see them again. That's the way my mind works. Yeah. But we're also fascinated by disaster, you know, and Armageddon and, you know, and Armageddon and these, you know, constantly.

Yeah, we're fascinated by this. Right, but fascinating, but also, every time something happens where it thinks maybe we're actually inching closer, that's then all I can think about. And what are you meant to do with that? Like, there's no healthy way to ponder Armageddon and the end of humanity. There's nothing I can do to prevent it. So it's like helplessness and just a feeling of sadness that this is where we are. But we're surrounded by that.

We're surrounded by this in the world. Right, but you don't have to engage with it. Right. You don't have to engage with. What can we do? And like we're so powerless. It's like we're told that it's our fault that things are. Right.

Or it's this group's fault or is that group's fault. But it's like these bastards in charge. I know. They're going to take fucking Winston Churchill off the money and put a beaver on there instead. Fucking. I fucking love that. Fucking wokeies. Fucking.

In the beaver on there. Unbelievable. No, but I don't know. There was an interesting thing that happened for me the other day. We went to this wedding a couple of weeks ago, which was good, good laugh. I told you about it. I don't know if I told you that we stayed in like an Airbnb nearby. Yeah.

And you didn't take your suit. You told us. I forgot my suit. I forgot my suit, which was disaster. But it worked out fine in the end because fuck it. I'm, you know, I can afford to get, you know, get a new suit at the last second. It's fine. Yeah.

Anyway, we stayed in this Airbnb, you know, just a couple of nights there just so, you know, we could have a few drinks in the evening and, you know, take our time a bit because, you know, We had to be there quite early, and I don't know. Anyway, it was worth doing. But Airbnb is always a little bit of a risk because, you know, you're going to get sometimes some weird people. There was a couple of red flags when we turned up at this place. Right.

There was this sort of handwritten note in the kitchen that looked a bit like a hostage sort of, you know, takers note. It was very, you know, quite nice enough place, but the note was like clearly it had been it was a bit knackard because it had clearly been handled by a lot of people coming through the house. And it was basically said, you know, don't use the chopping board. Don't just cut things on the surfaces with the knife. And it was such a specific request that I just thought.

Maybe they've had a lot of trouble with like scrapes and scratches on there. Exactly, right? But it was this kind of thing. And then I found another note by the bin, which basically said, all bin waste and recycling goes in this one black bin. This is just the rules of the recycling here. And this was like Buckinghamshire. and, you know, my partner, you know,'s family, like, live around there.

And she knows that this isn't the case, you know. It's just a lie, basically. Or they're doing it wrong. And there was a few more, like, little red flags around the place that indicated to me that, like, they're kind of quite angrily written these notes as well, like aggressively written. Almost like they were pressing the pen down hard when they were writing them. Do you know what I mean? It sort of had that vibe to you.

Yeah. So I was kind of on Tenterhooks a little bit with the place anyway. We were leaving and we did a podcast. We normally do the podcast from 10 to 11. And they said we need to leave it 11. So I stopped the podcast at like, you know, like 5 to 11. And we packed up and we were leaving, you know. And she came in, you know, at 11 and was sort of quite shirty with us and saying, you need to leave it 11.

And we're like, it's 11. What do you expect? Like it's 11 right now. Look. And so she was quite, I have to get this place cleaned up by one, you know. anyway, so I was like, okay, okay, fine. Anyway, my partner made the mistake of leaving them a nice review, to which point they left us a negative review.

What? Jesus Christ. We weren't out in time and all this and stuff. We'd be so careful as well. What happens if you get a negative review then? People can like deny your booking or something? I don't, anyway, I don't think it. I don't care.

I've been on the internet long enough that I don't leave reviews for people ever. It's a trick to me. I don't leave, unless it's, and I'm never, first of all, I'm never going to leave a negative review because they'll leave a negative review on me. But I'm often rarely going to leave a positive review unless I've already been left a positive review, okay? Like, I'm not, I'm just, there's no point. It's a trap, right?

Yeah. And my partner's obviously never encountered this trap before where, you know, if you're not, Because now she can't change that review that she left, the nice one. She said, I'm going to change it to, you know, to be a shitty review. Well, you can't now. I mean, you just have to suck up this thing. But that's sort of quite upset her and throw her for a move almost. What if you book another trip?

Turn up with a pair of fake nose and mustache and glasses on and stuff. And then you can take a big shit. And then you can leave a negative review. Yeah. Take a drop a large one in there. Scratch up the surface. Yeah. I feel like, look, good idea.

I stay in a lot of their babies. I think they're quite good. But you do roll the dice. Not only on the place, but what is the owner like? Like, you've bumped into a bad owner. It happens. Exactly. And I said to my partner, look, this is going to happen.

Like, you're going to, 10% of things you buy are going to be losses. A supermarket incurs some degree of theft. We are going to, you're going to buy sometimes things on Amazon that aren't as described. You're going to get tricked. You're going to get scammed. You're going to get a person who is a child. coming around and doing a bad job. It's just inevitable. Nine out ten people will be fine. Yeah. And you just have to accept that the one in ten is not going to be good. And you can't

dwell on it. You can't let it ruin your whole week or ruin your wedding. Or do you know what you mean? Like put it just to move on. And it's hard to do that to work that out in your brain. But it and because it dwells, it's like one of those little things that makes you angry and bothers you right? If you don't, if you let it. And I think that I, I, I've come to understand that if I'm driving in a car, there's a chance that someone might crash into me or I might crash into someone or something like that. That is a possibility. But sometimes it seems like people go through life assuming that that will never happen. And then there's completely blindsided it by it when it does happen. Because they're like, I thought this could never happen. And I'm like, well, you're driving a car. Like, do you not think that sometimes, you know, you might hit a rabbit or something? You know, these things, a bad example. Sorry, if any rabbit fans listening. But you know what I mean, though. It's like people are oblivious to reality. It's like I am prepared, not for everything, obviously, but I'm prepared for things to go wrong.

You know, the boiler to break, you know, it's not, and I'm not, it's not like I'm preparing for it in a sense that I've got a phone number that I'm ready to ring. You know, I'm like, it's on my speed dial. But, you know, I'm aware that life throws up issues. You know, people will be ill and people will be all assholes. Man, I had a, I had. At a moment the other day, it was really funny, actually.

Like, I've been, me and me and my wife have been married a long time. And we've been through, you know, a lot together. We've had children. Basically, I think we know each other inside out at this point, right? As you would, living with somebody for so long and being married to them and whatever. We were in the garage and we were trying to find something because my daughter did the classic, you know, like, remember that toy I had 75 years ago? And you're like, oh, okay, yeah, I'm sure it's around. We'll go out and look for it.

So we came out here and there was a, there was a bag full of like fake food, like plastic food that was part of like a, like a, you know, like a toy cookery set, right? So there's all these little like mini pots and pans and like all like. Anyway, three hours later after you played with it. So I picked the bag up and it was just it was just in a bin bag because it was all earmarked to be pitched. we were going to take it to a charity shop or get rid of it, right? I pick up the bag and the whole bottom comes out

and all this shit spills on the floor and I actually did like the I looked up at the sky and it was like oh my fucking God! I was going crazy. I was so fucking annoyed. And my wife's like, oh my God, I've never seen you react to anything like that before

like in this whole time. We've been married. It's like, I don't know what happened. Like it just triggered me so hard. Like just off the planet. I was just so fucking annoyed that's just so funny

that was just your natural I feel like you would do that as a joke I would do it as a joke but this time I was like deadly serious I just lost my mind you become the mask yeah that's what happens

you've become like joke angry dad I know yeah yeah it was so funny it was funny yeah I can imagine that would be quite stressful for your wife though if she saw that happen no she was laughing

She thought it was ridiculous. She thought I was joking. I was like, no, I wasn't joking. I see. Oh, fuck. Well, that's the thing with you. I'm never quite sure. That's the nice thing I think about you, Sips, is your actual moments of rage are so funny.

Thanks. Thanks. You don't get upset. Nobody feels overly, you know, like a fear of me. That's good. Yeah, exactly. It's very reassuring. Yeah.

Oh, my God. I don't think I'm an overly angry person. But put me in front of Overwatch for a period of time. And oh, my God, you'll see a real nasty side to me. I don't know, Sibs. I've seen some clips from your stream where you're getting angry and I actually feel quite scared. Really? I feel really bad.

I'm like, geez, if I was in the room for that, I would go home. Oh, wow. Like, really cross about some game mechanic or something. Yeah. I'm just like, just stop playing it. Like, that game is dog shit anyway. It's a fucking power wash simulator. It upsets me to see you getting angry about power.

wash simulator. I don't know if I've ever gotten angry at power wash simulator. I think that's your end game, actually, because there's so little to it. It's hard to get across. I mean, I've definitely gotten angry at games before, though. It's frustrated. You're frustrated with yourself, but you just, you know. I get angry with other people, which is much less cool. But I really tried to stop doing that. But it's, it is hard. Yeah. I think I told you guys about this when I talked to my friend Sir Action Slacks about it because he's a, believe it or not, he's a neuroscientist. And he said that when you're focused on something like Dota is taking up such a huge part of your brain,

the sort of primitive part is left over to deal with emotions and things. So you stop analyzing how the things you say affect the people you're saying them to. And I think, I mean, it's mainly when I play Dota that I get really mad. I have noticed this. It's like so much focus to play that game. If I'm like doing some sort of really complicated puzzle game and my partner asked me if I want a cup of tea, I'm like, I don't have time for it. Shut up, you bitch. But if I'm playing like something that's like, you know, like a board game online where it's like not my turn, you know.

And I'm, you know, I can't ask me a cup of tea. I'm like, please come and talk to me. I'm so, I need attention, you know. But I think it is easy. It is that. You're right. It's exactly that. because when you're hyper-focused on something, the distraction of another person fucking up

or doing something stupid, your immediate reaction is just to sort of viscerally lash out rather than just go, don't worry about it. The kind of people that never get like that and are still good at things, that's the dream. But I mean, I know that. They've been there, though. On the journey to be being as good as they are, they've definitely had moments where they've broken keyboards and raged out and stuff like that. I don't believe for a second.

The pros get so angry. When you see them fucking up. Again, I have, I do remember a bit of it because I remember back of the day playing Dark Souls or whatever. And I got to a point where, and I did this on Eldon Ring as well at one point, I got to a point where I actually found myself so angry that I threw the controller down. And I was like, I've never done this. Do you know what I mean?

It shocked me that I was like, it made me feel that way. Yeah, like, and I just thought, because, you know, it's just such a sort of childish, careless thing to do to, like, throw something on the floor, right? Yeah, yeah. But, but, and I just didn't think I had it in me. Just, just, just, just, just, because, just shows we're all human. Yeah, just. We all human. We all are, yeah.

Why could, you can even say it. Does that it be funny? Just keep, get, get, give, d'b, we're all human. I still love gaming so much, though. No matter how angry I get at it, I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm, I'm, always back. Do you want some lose news? Yeah, lose news. Yeah, yeah. Hit us with the news.

And the old thing, I had a few people, like those of few people say they were sad that we missed a, missed an episode. Well, you know. It's rare, isn't it? So rare these days. We're only human. We're only human. Okay.

These are all a bit old because we've had a break. But basically, the first one have is, I don't know if you saw that there's a load of officers have been leaking the locations of their aircraft carriers. Yes, yeah, because they've been like, they're jogging and stuff on the aircraft carrier. Are you serious? And they can't help but like put that on the app. Yeah.

They log their jog or whatever and then this is now giving people location coordinates of a aircraft carrier is. Certain aircraft carriers and stuff are. Lordy, Lordy. This is the modernity of that we live in, isn't it? You can basically just track down anything anytime by looking at their Instagram. Yeah. So, so fucking obsessed with it.

Next up, the world's oldest living land animal is alive. Is that me? No, a giant Seychelles tortoise. Yeah, we talked about this. Jonathan, remember? You did this already. 193. What the hell?

No, I brought it up because it wasn't covered in a previous lose news. And now you're bringing it back up and re-exhers. covering it. It was an April Fool's hoax on social media that he died, but he hadn't died. Right. Sorry. Move on. But he's been caught in a crypto scam.

Yeah, that's. Is it? Yes. Yeah, the hoax was asking for donations. Oh, I see. Move on. Sorry. I can't remember that from last week.

This is it. I'm old. I just can't remember. A Pokemon player, Firestar 73, who is a seasoned Go player and has competed in tournaments such as the official Pokemon World Championship was apparently barred from the first place finish due to an unsportsman-like reaction that he had to winning. Right.

So fellow Go competitive player shared a clip at the moment on X, right? Twitter, which shows him standing up, taking his headphones off and fist pumping to the crowd. Right. It's all very tame. You might call that celebrating. Exactly, but apparently the throwing the headphones into the crowd

was, he used force that was too hard and so he was stripped. So can I ask you a question? Is this an official, some kind of official Nintendo event? Well, no, because Pokemon Go is not an official thing. Is it from Nintendo? Isn't it like, uh...

I thought they owned Pokemon. They do own Pokemon. But I think Pokemon Go was like licensed or something. So here's the clip. They're playing the Pokemon Go championship. He's the, the one on the right. He's just a

normal 30 year old looking guy with a beard. Right. He stands up. He looks like a typical Pokemon fan. He stands up, chucks his headphones.

The judges there in the background look terribly shocked and he's stripped of the title because he's celebrated too much. Right. Look, the thing is the world we live in.

I'll be honestly with it. I think if you are either Nintendo or Nintendo adjacent, or you don't want Nintendo to come in and say, you can't do this anymore, they essentially expect people to be like the people in the adverts that just smile and use products and are not human beings. Exactly. They don't, I mean, they hate anybody doing any, like, if you're a fan of Smash Brothers

or whatever it's called, the melee smash and all that, they hate the fact that that's in e-sport, that people play it competitively. Yeah. They hate that. Like, they do not want that. They just want it dumbed down. They want kids to just sit there and zone out and play their games. They want everyone to just grin and smile and nod.

They don't want human beings. So someone having a human reaction not allowed to do it. It's weird. Baseball used to have a similar thing for a very long time that if you hit a home run and stood there watching it from home played, the next batter up for your team would get slapped with the ball by the pitcher for you daring to look at a home run. And if you flipped your bat or celebrated in any way,

they were going to fight you, they were going to throw pitches at you to hit you, to hit you. It's bizarre. Like this whole, you're not allowed to celebrate thing. What is this?

Of course you're allowed to celebrate. I'm not saying getting someone's face and call them slurs. It counts as celebrate. Obviously, there's a line.

If you're delighted to have won something, fucking let the guy celebrate. There's the whole point of winning. I mean, yeah, exactly. It could be a lot worse, couldn't it?

And, you know, and it is in certain sports. But I do draw the line at the knee slide goal celebration that's currently endemic in football. It drives me mad. Pick another celebration. Love the knee slide.

Running into the knee slide. Few reasons. First of all, when it goes wrong and they just topple over, looks ridiculous. Second of all, think of the poor groundskeeper. And thirdly, quite often they get injured doing stupid knee slide celebrations. It happens. So it's okay to celebrate as long as it's a celebration that Peerian Flacks likes. Exactly right.

Exactly right. Yeah. I'm given good reasons, I think. Groundskeeper, injury, overdone. Pick something else. Yeah. So next up, the fun, finally. a Filipino woman has been worshipping a green Buddha statue for four years.

She placed it in a prominent spot in her home altar, and it began worshiping daily, offering incense, and praying in the hope of receiving blessings. However, a visiting friend noticed that the colour and facial features of the statue were quite familiar. Is it Shrek? Yes, it was a statue of Shrek. I'm sorry for stealing the punchline.

was just literally trying to guess. I did not realize that was actually it. I'm sorry. Four years wasted. But where are you? Now I worship Shrek. He's been a very benevolent deity. Thank you, Shrek, for looking out for me.

That is hilarious. Look at that little guy. The J statue of Shrek. Oh, hail our Lord and Master Shrek. He does anything. The gentle expression and round shape. Well, hang on, hang on, I've got a question. Mary rode to Bethlehem on a donkey.

Was it donkey that she rode on? It could have been, yeah. Oh, wow. I think we've might have stumbled onto something there. But before we don't have time to... Biblical apostrophe there, the book of Shrek. It's the time of the end of the podcast. Thank you, everyone.

And we'll see you all next time. Goodbye. Bye.