Triforce! - Mid, Cheeks, Buns, Unc | Triforce #370

Episode Date: October 28, 2026

Triforce! Episode 370! Amazon has access to all our information and we're seeing what it knows about us (after an excruciating display of technical illiteracy from Sips), Mrs Brown's Boys is somehow s...till going and we're trying to understand what could possibly come next (a Monopoly and Settlers of Catan adaption?!) and we're talking about AI deconstructing and merging games together. All scary stuff. 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

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Starting point is 00:00:03 Pickax. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us once again on this of all podcasts, the Triples podcast. Welcome. Zips, hello. Hello. Tell me what you've been up to this week, lads. Let's get it.
Starting point is 00:00:29 I've been playing video games as usual. What about you guys? I'm addicted to so many different games and I play most of them, if not all of them. I played a needle in the haystack simulator, which... was weird. I played a police chief simulator this week. God, which is as bad as it sounds.
Starting point is 00:00:51 Get me, Cullock. Yeah, it was a terrible. An interesting one for sure. And today I will be playing a game called Car Park Capital, which I'm really looking forward to.
Starting point is 00:01:01 Oh, it's a micropros game. Microprose game in 2026. How about you guys? What have you guys been up to you? I've been watching the traders as well. The new celebrity traders, very good.
Starting point is 00:01:12 Art being, in business, business, business, business meetings. I've been in calls, I've been in emails, I've been in Discord chats. He's been in emails. I've been scrambling around. Have you been there? Have you been on to the lawyers, Lulu, about the misuse of Yog's property? To which, diggy, diggy hole.
Starting point is 00:01:34 I've been sent a reel about 10 times already. There is some teacher playing diggy, diggy hole for his kids in a class. Stop him. Stop him. Stop that Belgian theme park. Stop that band. Stop it all. That's happening? Yep, we're calling the lawyers in. We'll send all the legal, the Lensklai Krabbs is coming into. Get Mr. Krabbs in there. Yeah, we'll shut that guy and his really wholesome teaching his kids to eat hole, shut them right down.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Scum. Good Lord. I hate that. Good Lord. I don't know. I don't play. I don't do anything now. I live in a limbo. I went and I went to physio and they had a look at my wrist and they were just like, you're a baby, there's nothing.
Starting point is 00:02:20 Wait, you had a bad wrist and you went to the doctor. You're a baby. Yeah. And they just told me I was a baby, basically. Fair enough. It was nothing. So I'm rapidly approaching 33. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:02:32 Already. When is your birthday, Lou? 20 seconds. Of this month? Yeah, coming up. So your birthday is quite close to Mrs. F's. That's interesting. That's good.
Starting point is 00:02:42 October babies. You're both as nuts as each other. It's my partner's birthday as well this month. Right. And my mom got me two cinema tickets for ghosts. Right. The movie about the BBC sitcom ghosts. There's a movie about the BBC sitcom ghosts.
Starting point is 00:03:05 They've made a movie. I don't think it's about it, is it? I thought it was just a movie extension of the show. It's off the Ghosts movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it was a movie. It's not an amount. In the ghost's, in the ghostiverse.
Starting point is 00:03:16 In the ghostiverse, yeah. It's a good little season. It's a good little show. I just noticed on I have played that ghosts, there's like, they've sold it to everywhere. There's like an Australian version, an American version. It's, I like it. It's very kind of chill. You know what?
Starting point is 00:03:32 It occurs to me, Lulu, that your birthday implies that you were conceived on Valentine's Day. Oh, my God. Just running the numbers. Yeah. I've heard that before. Yeah. October babies Valentine's Day. So that's quite sweet, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:03:47 That means that essentially you were conceived because of an invented holiday. It's a very indoors time, you know? Yeah. There's not much to do. It's wet, it's rainy. You're stuck inside forever. You've done all the puzzles by, you know, you've beaten all the Christmas stuff. By the time February rolls around, you've got nothing else to do.
Starting point is 00:04:06 Yeah, but most people do their fucking outside anyway, as I understand it. Oh, my Lord. Who? Maybe they used to do that. Who's doing it indoors? What kind of loser has sex indoors? Yeah. What are car parks for?
Starting point is 00:04:21 What are laybys for? They're from parking your car. What's a picnic area for? Giving your car a rest from all of the fucking that you're doing in it. That needs some rest at some point, for goodness sake. Jesus. I feel like if this were happening, we'd see it more on Reddit. Do you know what?
Starting point is 00:04:38 We'd see it more on ready. I've read it. I don't. Everyone's got camera phones. If everyone was fucking outside, I don't think anyone on Reddit has ever had sex before. Like, I think that's part of the problem. R slash virgin. I bet there is a virgin.
Starting point is 00:04:53 Virgin Reddit. Let's look it up. R slash virgin. There it is. Slash R slash am I a virgin? 52,000 weekly visitors. Wowsers. Weekly.
Starting point is 00:05:06 That is a lot. Be cautious and be careful. Good Lord. This is about 30 male. No girl has ever liked me. Yeah. No girl is ever. ever liked him.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Yeah. I think people, people get online and they decide that they're going to be alone forever. Because you read a lot of other people who are alone forever. And you think, well, that's me,
Starting point is 00:05:20 that's my tribe, the lonely tribe. It's got to be a chemical thing, right? Like, none of these people, um, yeah,
Starting point is 00:05:27 he smells. Well, I mean, it could be a smell. It's a pheromones thing. It could be a smell thing, I guess. But like,
Starting point is 00:05:34 what's, what makes people so repulsive? Like, just to, like, you know, just to look at these people, they don't look like too dissimilar to
Starting point is 00:05:42 any other person, right? Like, I mean, we're not... There's no evidence, though, of this. Maybe someone did like him and he just didn't like them because he felt he was too good or something. You know, I think a lot of these people are assholes, sips. That's the big issue here. These kind of statements, no, they were like me.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Shut up. You're lying. Really? Somebody out there has liked you. You're not being, you're not telling us the truth. I've known some people who... Or you didn't notice them. Don't have anybody. But one of the posts on R-slash Virgin is just the wicker man.
Starting point is 00:06:12 So it's all people talking about how sad they are that they're virgins. And then one of the posts is about the Wicca Man. Right. And he says, anyone been watching this on TV tonight? The right kind of man that comes of his own free will, the power of a king, a virgin and a fool. It's quite unsettling to realize that I'm this kind of man. Because because they're a virgin, they fit the bill for being sacrificed in the Wicker Man, if you've seen the movie. Right.
Starting point is 00:06:33 I haven't thought of it like that. No. From 1973. It's a great movie. Edward Woodwood is in it. Edward Woodwood. Edwood Woodwood. It is interesting.
Starting point is 00:06:42 the power that virginity has, historically in magic, you need virgin blood for all kinds of shit. So virgins sell that shit. It's apparently valuable. Sell it to a wizard. Sell your blood to a wizards. Sell your virginity to a wizard. Yeah. I'm going to look for, oh, here we go. There's a subreddit for dogging. Right. This is about sex outdoors. There you go. 10,000 weekly visitors. 10,000 weekly. Yeah. God, people are, I didn't realize dogging. I thought I didn't realize dogging was so popular, actually. I always figured it was just like a fringe, like a very fringe activity. That sounds like almost everybody's in on it. I like the way you said it's out of control, but a minute ago you were saying that
Starting point is 00:07:21 there'd be evidence of it. Nobody is fucking outside. So you've gone, I guess you just found it. You've gone from scalding hot to freezing cold in one, in one fell swoop, you know? How have you done this? Well, I think the thing is about all this stuff is it's the dogging in that. It's all very in specific areas. It's not just in a random park where anyone can see with the swans next door. It's kind of at specific times of night
Starting point is 00:07:47 surrounded by cars. I know it's very, you know, clearly delineated, so it's not crime. Well, the dogging suburb is filthy. Don't look it up. It's absolute, it's smut, unbelievably, it's smut.
Starting point is 00:08:03 Right. Tell me more. I won't be looking at it. I'm looking at it right now. Did you guys see this thing this week about you? Your Amazon About You page. No. Right.
Starting point is 00:08:17 Are you at a computer? Oh, yeah. Do you know what? I did see this. And some people are pissed off because it said like you have no friends and you're, you're, you're sad all the time or something. At the top, if you go to Amazon.com. At the top where it says, hello, you know, whatever your name is, accounts and lists.
Starting point is 00:08:35 Yeah. You see that? And a window pops up. So now you're going to click on where it says it has a little avatar and your username. Just click on that area. Right. And then go to privacy and information. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:48 So here's what you're going to do. Go to that. You're going to click on your avatar. I go to hello my name. And then it should pop up, who's shopping and whatever other accounts you've got or maybe just you? And then click view and it should pop up your profile. And it'll have clothing and shoes. It'll have interest.
Starting point is 00:09:04 It'll have sustainability. And then at the bottom, there's about. you and it'll say manage your information. So click on that and mine shows, for example, product preferences favors hypoallergenic pet food formulas. That's really nice. Prioritizes sugar free and low calorie beverage options. I've clicked on hello my name. Yeah. And now I'm in this huge menu. No, no, I didn't say click on it. Oh, sorry. I said mouse over it. Right. And then go to go back to the homepage, mouse over it. And then on the letter, a little window pops up that says like buy it again and everything. So.
Starting point is 00:09:37 There's an avatar and your name, and it should say, like, account holder. Do you want me to share my screen? Do you want me to share my account holder? Louis account holder. It's like you're teaching an old man. I know, I know. It's unbelievable. So then click on that.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Just click on that. And then it should put up. It should have your account. And they should need the word view to the right. Right. Click on view. That says your profile. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:01 And then scroll to the bottom there of that list. And about you is one of the options. about you. Do you see it? In the little pop-up list. No, no, no, no. I'm going to share my screen. About you, beta.
Starting point is 00:10:14 It says I'm a beta. Can you see my screen zips? Hang on a second. I'm just trying to figure this part out first. Hang on, I'm looking at you. Can I see you? Can I see your screen? Can you see my screen?
Starting point is 00:10:28 I'm sharing it on Discord. Stream is running. I'm sharing my Amazon window. Oh, I can you see it. Oh, hello there. Can you see that? Can you see that? It's great to see you.
Starting point is 00:10:38 Can you see Sips? Nice to see you. Are you watching the stream? I'm watching it right now. I'm so lonely. So you click on that. No, whenever you see the window that just popped up. I see it, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:49 So then I'm clicking this. Your name is Papa. Your name is Papa. You click on that. Yeah, you click on Papa again. View. Right. Scroll down about you and there's your information.
Starting point is 00:11:00 All the things you like. Home and family has two adults. About you. Okay, yeah. Manage your information. Just click on it and it'll show what all the things that it knows about you. Oh, my God. Okay.
Starting point is 00:11:12 Owns a cat. Owns a dog. Oh. Likely owns. It says about you. We haven't saved anything yet. What? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:20 No way. Yeah. Okay. It says we haven't saved anything as you shop on Amazon or chat with Alexa will save helpful information to personalize your experience. So you don't buy shit on Amazon? Look at this. Well, I do.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Do you want to see what my, my. previous purchases were. Yeah, give me, give me the last five purchases you've made. Right. I bought a sticker for my car that says GBJ. Right, right. Yeah. I brought, I bought a, um, a kit, a European travel kit for my car that includes a breathalyzer and some other stickers and a high vis vest and stuff. Uh, I also bought, what is this? Um, gifts for girls. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11 year old birthday gifts or girls age 4 to 12. This is something else. It's got hats that you can really glitz and glam up with stickers and water bottles.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Right. So can I ask you a question? I got an Alain Partridge 2027 calendar. So does your wife also have access to the Amazon account and this is stuff that she's buying? Or are you buying this? Not this account. So this is all you, baby. Yeah, this is all me.
Starting point is 00:12:29 I see. The last five things that I got were a pair of, So some tartan, red tartan Dr. Martin's shoelaces. Right. Oh, my God. Of all things. A bento lunchbox. Right.
Starting point is 00:12:42 We rented the backrooms movie because my wife hadn't seen it. How much do that cost to rent? Let me have a look. Invoice. Invoice. I'll click on. 449. Oh, that's not bad.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Okay. So, I mean, people may complain about that, but I would say historically, that's a very low rental price. I mean, that's about right. That's how much they used to. It cost about that much to rent a video back in the day. No, no, no, no. It definitely cost me.
Starting point is 00:13:07 $2.99? I think it was more than that. I think it was really, yeah, I think it was expensive. I think we forget. I genuinely think it was expensive. I mean, the cost of going to the movies is insane. Rental price. Surely it was more.
Starting point is 00:13:19 2000. Let's see. Blockbuster rental price. In 2000, a typical blockbuster movie rental cost, uh, three to five dollars for new releases. Right. So you've got to adjust for inflation. And a dollar to $3 for older catalog titles.
Starting point is 00:13:32 And the thing was, six bucks a night in 2000. One to three dollars for older catalog titles, but you could have them for a week. Right. New releases you only got like for one night, didn't you? So if we look at, let's say, five pounds in the year 2000, and we calculate that up to now, that's a tenor. Now. Yeah. And what can you get for a tenor nowadays?
Starting point is 00:13:55 You could rent the backrooms twice. Two Freddos, basically. That's it. Two Freddos. They've gone up a lot. God. I mean, you do have to take them back and drive them back to the, you know, there's a whole rigmarole of actually the effort of going there and picking it out.
Starting point is 00:14:11 That's when you get the next one. That's the whole thing. I mean, actually, you are right. Like, we have lost perspective on, well, I feel like I've completely lost perspective on prices, given that how much I've spent on this house already, you know. Yes. Not only the house itself, but like just paying a guy to do a day of mowing the lawn or whatever. You know, and or basically I've had some, I've had the roof,
Starting point is 00:14:37 been having the roof done obviously kitchen work. You know, I had to build a concrete pad in the back garden to put. You had to build a concrete pad. How'd you start? I had to. The first thing you did was he took his shirt off. Hell yeah. That was like 4,000 pounds.
Starting point is 00:14:53 He put some gloves on. Do you mean? Oh, yeah. It was like a week of work for two guys. Yes. Rubber gloves. Oh, yeah. Did he bend over?
Starting point is 00:15:02 Yeah, like all the time. It's not exactly accurate, basically, this Amazon thing. It's kind of saying stuff that it says things based on the things you buy. It says here prefers plant array for premium rum. Uses fudge for hairstyling. What? Consistently repurchases is interested in pest control. Pates on canvas regularly.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Has an air fryer. enjoys anime. Boo. Bo to all of that. It is eternally lobed. We can only deduce that this man must be 100% lubed at all times. Seems to be building the world's largest collection of special dildos.
Starting point is 00:15:56 Oh man. It's obsessed with anises. But, I mean, relatively. like I think sometimes that just I don't know, having some of the things I'm spending money on puts everything into perspective because hiring actual people to do actual work is really expensive. And materials are really expensive. And yeah, it's it's hard to swallow.
Starting point is 00:16:20 If you voted, if you voted for for Brexit to happen, you've also just shot yourself in the foot on those prices. Yeah, well done. So that's cool too. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So what do you guys think is going to be the next thing to hit us as a species? As a species. Numonic plague.
Starting point is 00:16:42 What do you think? Bubonic plague. Some sort of plague. No, pneumonic. It's different from new monic. Yeah, that's the one they've got in Russia, which apparently... What's the next... What's the next? So you're saying after AI, what's the next big tech? Neumonic plague. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:56 You can... No, a big changer. Is it going to be, you know, what's all we're going to do? What are we doing as a species? I think the next big thing. Are we genetically engineering ourselves? It has to be unlimited energy, like proper fusion would be the thing. That would be the next big game-changing step, I can imagine.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Because computing power is going to keep growing to a point. But the thing is now what we crave is power. Like, actual energy is so expensive and hard to get. Oh, I see to power all of the data centers. So I mean, the next logical. The first step is power. Power. You need mega fusion power.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Do you think that's going to, is that, where are we on fusion? If you're a fusion power. I read about it all the time. I read about it all the time. The Chinese are close to a big breakthrough. They just had truth, like they actually managed to get fusion to run. But the problem is, at the moment, we're not at the tipping point where it generates more energy than it requires to get it started.
Starting point is 00:17:54 But it's closed. The gap is closing all the time. Now, I know people are saying fusion energy has been a, a decade away for the last 50 years, right? That's what people... That's the joke about it. But it is genuinely getting closer and closer and closer. And I think if you certainly look at things like the mathematical problems that are being
Starting point is 00:18:11 solved by AI right now, I can well imagine that the artificial intelligence as it gets better, the actual good stuff, could genuinely help tip the balance. And once you get fusion, you get free power, you do away with all kinds of fossil fuels. Oh, I see. You do away with all of that. Okay, this makes sense because if you're the AI, you need power to survive. Of course. Sounds like a big scam to me.
Starting point is 00:18:35 Sounds like... It's in your incentive to build fusion power because then once you have the power, you can then get the money and then get the women. Then you get the women. Did you get the power? Then you get the money. Then you get the money. First you get the power.
Starting point is 00:18:52 The money. Then you get the power. Then you get the women. That's what you say. Yeah, exactly. I only got two things in this. My word and my boss, and I don't break him for nobody. Leverda.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Leverda. Revenger! AI is basically a virgin anyway, right? So its end game is just to... I don't even call it AI anymore. I call it super intelligence. I call it S.I. now.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Me too. It's all it's super intelligence. It's the smartest intelligence we've ever had. All these other countries are very jealous of our super intelligence. I know about this because of my time at MIT. I'm one of the smartest guys in the room, but not compared to super intelligence. It's very smart. It's super smart.
Starting point is 00:19:39 In fact, it might be the smartest thing we've ever seen. So smart. Super. And they say intelligence. It's a great word. Intelligence. I love it. It's almost as good a word as groceries.
Starting point is 00:19:48 Another word I love. I don't know where. I love the word groceries. How smart do you have to be like, Grocery is very smart. MIT's smart. But honestly, that could genuinely be one of his fucking speeches. It is it's very hard to make up a Trump speech on the spot that's funnier than the dumb
Starting point is 00:20:07 shit he fucking says when he just rambles. They asked me, Mr. President, what's wrong with the boat? They said they wanted to be all electric. I said, let me ask you a question. You were in my boat, an electric boat in the water, and there's a shark in the water. Which would you prefer? I swim right towards that shark. It's electric in the water.
Starting point is 00:20:24 Fuck, shut up. He's safe. It is the most insane word salad of all, every time he speaks. Like, you just think, how could he possibly top this one? And then he's gone and done it. There he goes. The next time, the very next time he speaks, it's more stupid than last time. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:20:47 I think my favorite thing is when he just gets something really wrong. And it's almost like a punchline, you know. Which seems like everything. Where's the Eiffel Town? Where has he ever gotten right? It's like what? He doesn't do anything right. Like everything he touches just turns, crumbles and turns to shit and crumbles.
Starting point is 00:21:07 Like there's nothing. It's insane. It's funny. Fortunately, he's very old though. He is, yeah, he is very old. It's true. But, you know, AI might make him live forever. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:21:22 God. wouldn't that be something? We're going to have an AI Trump president when he's dead. AI is going to take over and do. But the thing is, AI might not even be able to replicate the word salad. The early ones did. The early ones were shit. But now, the modern ones, they couldn't, they couldn't quite, they might not be
Starting point is 00:21:39 able to grasp. I don't know if it would work well with them either because I don't know if, I don't know if Trump would ever be, turn around and be like, oh, my bad. I made a mistake, you know, like, AI. He's never said that. Yeah, no. AI is like all about that. So how would that work?
Starting point is 00:21:55 But it's going to change, right? Because it's so, changes so quick. Everyone is different. It's coming for comedy, I reckon. I reckon it's going to make real, it's kind of...
Starting point is 00:22:04 You think the AI can be funnier than people? I think so. I do not. I do not think so. You don't think so? No. I think, first of all,
Starting point is 00:22:14 it's really, there are very, very few, like, successful comedians. Have you watched the Big Bang theory? Never. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:22:20 but that's not funny. Brown's boys. Right? I've never watched that either. Those three shows are all really popular. Yeah. I know. That's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:22:30 It's funny for those people, but I don't think AI has a sense of humor. Who is it funny for? Who watches Mrs. Brown's boys? Old women. People love that show. It's hilarious. Old people.
Starting point is 00:22:41 What is so funny about it, though? Because it's like, oh, it's like that style of humor. Is it? When you just have to, you know what I mean? Like, someone says something and the audience goes, Like, that's it. That's the show. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:56 Like someone comes to go, like, there'll be a gay character. And he'll say something to like, you know, oh, look at his boom. And the audience, oh! Isn't it done now? Haven't they stopped like a passing line? Yeah, I think so. But they still have a live show, right? Don't they do a live show?
Starting point is 00:23:10 Mrs. Brown's boys, fucking I'm Googling. Everybody fucking hates it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Mrs. Brown's Boys is a television program. Doesn't say was. 57 episodes they were
Starting point is 00:23:23 believe it or not and apparently it's still going 57 episodes have you ever watched Not Going Out starring Lee Mac I don't really like Leamack I have Le Mans
Starting point is 00:23:33 come up a lot and I've managed to avoid I don't know to think about it I've just not not clicked it I don't find him funny I think he's
Starting point is 00:23:41 he strikes me as quite an unpleasant guy in his act I don't know if he is in real life I don't know if I've ever seen his act I've only ever seen him on panel shows and... Yeah, but that's the route now, isn't it? As a comedian, you go out, you tour,
Starting point is 00:23:54 you play the Apollo or whatever, and then suddenly all you do is panel shows, and you can just basically retire from the grind of touring and stand-up, which is a nightmare. He just do endless panel shows. It's like print money, no problemo. And then occasionally you'll go and tour and it's not funny. Not going out.
Starting point is 00:24:11 Is the second longest British sitcom, running British sitcom behind Last of the Summer Wine, it's had 15 seasons. It seems to be on like, it seems to come back all the time. Like, just when you think, I wonder if not going out is finally run its course. It's done. It's like I was on, I player the other day and it's like new season of not going out. I was like, what the fuck?
Starting point is 00:24:35 I have never watched a single minute of this show so I can't judge. Maybe it's hilarious. I've never, I've had it like, it's been on in the background. I'm aware of it. But I've never sat down and like, you know, watched it. So it's meant to be that a British version. So it says here, in May 2013, a British remake of Everybody Loves Raymond, starring Lee Mack and is it, it says tape. The woman that plays his wife in it was in the original office.
Starting point is 00:25:05 She was like the, she was an intern, but I think her dad like own the company or something like that. Oh, yeah? She was really young in the office. Now she's, you know, like a older. She looks way too young for Lee Mack. I'll say that much. Yeah, I'm not sure how old she actually is now, but I wouldn't have thought that she's as old as Lee Mac.
Starting point is 00:25:27 So, Lee Mack is 58. Right. Sally Bretton is 46. I recognize her, actually. Yeah, I do recognize her. Yeah, she was, I only knew her from the office. She was in the office, but. She went to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Nice. And then she's baking not going out. Well, that's where I know her from. Yeah, there you go. I knew her from my course at the Royal School of Academy of Drama and Speech. Me too. Do you want to hear the titles of the specials that Mrs. Brown's boys have made?
Starting point is 00:25:58 Not really, but go. Series run, series two, then they've got Mrs. Brown's boys Christmas crackers, because they do like a Christmas special. Yeah. Mrs. Brown rides again live tour. For the love of Mrs. Brown live tour. She's Irish, right? So all of the things are going to be Mrs. Brown's big feckin Christmas and like Mrs. Brown's big feckin Christmas cracker and it's going to be shit like that.
Starting point is 00:26:24 They do like specials called things like Mrs. Brown's boys, Mammy's tickled pink. Mammy's big feckin Christmas Cracker. Christmas crackered big box. Cracking Christmas. Cracking big box. Christmas box, really big box. Christmas surprises. Merry missaps.
Starting point is 00:26:42 Very Merry Christmas Bundle. Holly jolly jingles. There's not even an effort here. It's just the word box over and over and over again. I know that he gets quite upset. I've read interviews with him where he's like annoyed that the BBC or whoever doesn't want to make this dog shit show anymore. Right. And I think he gets quite upset, which is fair enough because his show's getting cancelled.
Starting point is 00:27:03 But these dog shit shows, these guys get upset because they think, oh, yeah, you can't say anything these days. they want some woke comedy on not Mrs. Brown's boys telling it like it is. I think they're part of that bracket of comedians. Right. Who think that somehow modernity is killing the show rather than their audience died because this is a show for people in their 90s and now nobody wants to fucking watch it. That's what I think it is. So they haven't catered to the next generation of Mrs. Brown's boys.
Starting point is 00:27:33 What would you call the people that enjoy the show? What would be a cool day for the dickets? What would be a cool name for people who, like, what would you call them like? I guess you can't. I was going to say brownies, but maybe you shouldn't call them brownies. The brownies is a fine organization. No, that's true, actually. Yeah, you know, I didn't consider the brownies.
Starting point is 00:27:57 They're part of the Girl Scouts collect the group, right? You've got rainbows, and I think that feeds into brownies. That sounds fucking warm. If we're talking about woke, I mean, I would never enlist my children into something called the rainbows. The rainbows. Well, wait to hear about the beavers. It probably have to share bathrooms and everything there, like animals. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:21 And it's in a house of God invariably as well. Jesus Christ. Anyway. Yeah, I don't know. Mrs. Brown's boys I've never watched before. I know of it. And same with not going out. But I feel like these shows are like, my son would call.
Starting point is 00:28:38 them either mid or buns. I feel like that's, I feel like that's, that's what these, these shows are, are pretty much, right? Yeah, they're cheeks, your cheeks. Chopped and unc, all over the, mid. No, they're chopped. They ain't mid. They are, they are chopped. Chopped and unc, for sure.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Call it unc. Do you think, do you think with the popularity of the, the traders, do you think it will eventually be seen as mid and chopped and, Unk as well, you know, like. I mean, my daughter fucking loves the traders. I know what everybody does right now, but I'm just thinking like in two years time when something else comes along, or we're all just going to look back and be like, oh my God, that's so cringe that I like the traders. No, I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:29:24 I think maybe something like Big Brother, big brother, maybe. This format is going on. Yeah, the social social format is kicking off all over the place. You're seeing loads of this stuff. I mean, then again. Big Brother is pretty cringe now. still, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:38 I think they're making a... Channel 5 have it on life support. Are they making another thing? What more are they making, Lily, that's in this style? They're not making blood on the clock tower, are they? We're doing that. Well, I mean, I feel like there is this idea, though, that... You know, they're making a set of a Catan show, aren't there?
Starting point is 00:29:56 Fuck, why would they choose the worst board game to make a fucking... Well, because it's a huge global brand and people have heard of it. Like, you know, monopoly and things like this. I think, like, you remember we had this talk a couple of years ago, go where period you were like, you know, they're going to make all of these, you know, all of these video game adaptations. It's this huge, running thing. I think the board game feel like they're the ones to do it next, you know, Monopoly.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Maybe. The movie Monopoly. The movie is the big one, right? Dude, do you know, that is, first of all, there is going to be a monopoly movie. But second of all, I saw a- Right, but I saw a trailer. But I just assumed. I saw a trailer last night.
Starting point is 00:30:35 Do you remember Matchbox cars? Yeah? There's a Matchbox movie. John Sina, it's basically fast and furious, but with the brand name Matchbox. Right. Which is ludicrous. I mean, they did a Playmobile movie. My wife's first question was, are the cars really little?
Starting point is 00:30:51 Because that's what Matchbox cars were. You can't just have normal cars and call the movie Matchbox. I want to see John Sina riding around on a tiny little matchbox car. Like a little clown car. Yeah. He's full size. There's big legs going. We don't like the clappers either side.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Yeah, that's why I want to see that too, actually. Yeah, I don't know. There's like, I mean, that's the kind of age old. Like, we'll take something that we know the demographic with the most disposable income loved when they were kids and make a movie about it. And hopefully they'll take their kids to it. That's that's the matchbox movie and the Playmobile movie and probably all the Lego movies and everything else that we grew up with that they just want our kids to also be into so that they can just keep. selling the toys and making movies. I don't think Matchbox is made for kids.
Starting point is 00:31:41 It looks quite violent, you know? Yeah, I mean, there's still a lot of, like, I'm sure we've spoken about this before, but like, Ninja Turtles are still around. All the He-Man toys have made a big comeback. And like, these are toys that came out when I was like, you know, in my single digit years. This is it. Yeah, look at this. So Lionsgate first started adapting, trying to adapt Monopoly in 2015.
Starting point is 00:32:03 Yeah. They enlisted Golden Globe nominee Andrew Nicol to Peniscript. He did like Gattaca and things, I think. Then they've spent, you know, tons of time working back and forth with people. Because remember Ridley Scott did, oh no, there was battleship. Remember Battleship? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:32:20 Unbelievable bad movie. But my favorite thing was how they actually managed to fix, to sort of fit in the core mechanic of the game battleships into the movie battleships. They actually did work it in. It was crazy. They were literally like firing in the dark and going like, miss. It was like, I'll try this area. That's insane. It was so funny.
Starting point is 00:32:43 I was laughing. I was laughing. They actually need to fight this alien ship that's turned up. And in order to do that, they use a broken down old World War II battleship that's at a museum. They just get on it and they get the old crew out of retirement to man the fucking ship. And it's just, it just works. And it's still got all the ammo on it, by the way. And they just leave port and blow out the aliens with this.
Starting point is 00:33:09 It's incredible. You've got to see it. That sounds crazy. I mean, there's loads of this stuff going on, right? I think we are living in an age of massive abundance of, there's too much money with too many companies making too many things. And, you know, from fucking everything, Minecraft movies, all the sequels of that and the Mario ones.
Starting point is 00:33:31 and, you know, there's like a Jack and Daxter video game. Yeah. There's all this. And then where's all the harvest jamborees? Like, there's not even one. There's not even one of those. Jamie, Jamie Lee Curtis is doing a murder she wrote movie.
Starting point is 00:33:48 I mean, it's everything. It's too much. Grandpapa. Grandpapa, Sips, where did it all go wrong? Oh, I stopped doing the harvest jamboree. They never even see. They never have a three. haven't had a fruit.
Starting point is 00:34:02 He never started. Nobody thought to give away hot chocolates for free. My big idea never took fun. Hot chocolate is free at the jamboree. I used to sing and no one joined in. It was a very sad time. That's what went wrong. What did my idea ever grow wings and fly?
Starting point is 00:34:19 Crazy. Crazy workaday world ain't got room for a jamboree. Worker day. I like that phrase. In this work a day world. Work a day world. What a world. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:30 Do you know what? My daughter had to give a speech at school. It was like a thing, Jack Petchy, I think his name is. It's like a thing that schools do, where the kids all have to give a speech about a subject. It's like, you know, it's like a one-minute speech or something. And it's like one of those things that all the schools do it. And it's like an annual thing.
Starting point is 00:34:49 And I'm sure there's some kind of competition and national whatever's. But who cares? Her speech was about movies because she loves movies. She's like me. And she said in her speech that she thinks audiences are going to start craving something new, and that that's going to be the next big genre. And she said, as obviously the target audience, she's 14, so this is like the audience, a lot of these trailers and all this shit is aimed at her.
Starting point is 00:35:13 But I think having grown up in the age that they have, these kids are quite canny a lot of the time, more than you'd think sometimes, a bit more cynical about it. So she was like, I think that if you look at the movies that she really loved from the last of 12 months, the backrooms was an original idea, like the guy that came up with that idea, you know, took it and grew it and made it into a movie. That was a hit obsession. That was not based on anything. It was a horror movie.
Starting point is 00:35:38 You could say the whole monkey's poor idea isn't like bang and original, but compare that to Fast and the Furious 15 or another superhero movie or whatever. I think she's right. Like, that's the kind of thing that everybody wants to go and see these movies and they make a shitload of money. Low budget, new director, bam, go for it. Make your fucking movie.
Starting point is 00:35:58 It's don't base it on shit. just fucking come up with a movie. But I was telling her why that can't happen. In general now, is because did you guys see this thing that Matt Damon was talking about with DVDs? Yes. Yeah, I did see that. So for anyone that didn't see it, Matt Damon was saying...
Starting point is 00:36:14 They used to just make a shit ton of money off... Right, but so the mid-range movies, like the example I like to use is Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day was obviously a mid-range movie. It had a known director. Oh, did it cost a fortune? No, it was the best movie. ever made. Of course. I'm not calling it
Starting point is 00:36:31 mid. I'm not calling it cheeks. I'm not calling it buns. I'm not calling it chopped or unk. It's a great movie. I love that movie. But they don't make movies like that as much now. You might get an indie, maybe might make something like that. A new Bill Murray movie coming out soon. But this had an established actor in Bill Murray, an established director
Starting point is 00:36:49 Ivan Reitman, I think, directed it. And it had like known stars in and it was obviously done with a decent budget. I think it was like Ivan Reitman, yeah. Yeah, like location shoots. It was a proper film. Harold Ramis. Oh, sorry, it was Harold Ramis. Yeah, that was, that was, uh, that was their falling out.
Starting point is 00:37:07 It was their falling out, yeah. Yeah. So that kind of movie. From the original Ghostbusters. Of course. So that kind of movie you wouldn't get made these days because the problem is you have to build the theaters. Because the secondary market doesn't exist.
Starting point is 00:37:21 DVDs don't exist. So, and there's no reruns on TV every year. Nobody gets, nobody gets a shit. Everybody's watching on streaming. The speed at which stuff comes, is available to you at home is insane now too. Like I mean, do you remember in probably the mid to late 90s?
Starting point is 00:37:38 Because I would have been in Canada, but I would have been visiting the UK at the time. And I remember stuff would come out in North America months before it would come out in the UK. You know, like I'd get to the UK and I'd be like, oh, I've seen that already. And they just started their, you know, their advertising for it to hit theaters.
Starting point is 00:37:59 And it was like, this, this has been and gone and is probably going to be able to, we'll be able to rent it in Canada soon. And like, and they're just getting it in cinemas. But now globally, I think it's all. It's like, oh yeah, it's all at the same time. And then once the movie is out of theaters, it's like, you know, three weeks and you can get it on, you know, iTunes or whatever. It's nuts. It's crazy. So, I mean, that's pushing people out of the theaters as well.
Starting point is 00:38:24 And then you see it for rental, like on prime or something. It'll be like a tenor or sometimes even 15. quid to rent the movie. Yeah. So you wait a month and suddenly it goes down to a fiverer. And then you wait a bit longer and suddenly it's just streaming for free. I do like the cinema. People's patience is actually, you know, out, it's greater than their ability, their willingness
Starting point is 00:38:41 to spend money on movies. I still like the cinema experience. But I don't know if it's because I like it for what it is or if I like it because I just went to the cinema a lot when I was a kid. So when I go there now, there's some nostalgia. There's like, there's that comforting feeling. There's that excited feeling. when you were a kid and you went to go see a movie, you know, a lot of that kind of like
Starting point is 00:39:05 floods back, you know, when you go and do these things that you're familiar with doing or, you know, they take you to a happy place or whatever. I don't watch a lot of movies now, but I have watched tons of movies in the past. And I'd say that I do enjoy movies overall. And I like going to the cinema as well. It's, I don't know, like some of the, some of the ways that things are changing is not, it's annoying, isn't it? Like, I don't know, I wish they were, I wish there was just more scope for, you know, movies that even, even back then, you know, they took, it seems like they just took some more risks, you know, and, and we got great movies from the risks that were taken. I feel like they're less likely to take a risk now.
Starting point is 00:39:46 And that's why you have so many movies based on old IPs, you know, tried, tested and true stuff. But like, that, that's kind of a risk as well now, isn't it? Like, a lot of these, movies don't really do that well. I don't know. At least they don't do nearly as well as they should or they think they're going to. So like, why not just try it, try something different and new if you're just going to piss money away? Because they're very scared. I think they're, I think the studios are terrified because if you want to make a movie that
Starting point is 00:40:15 is going to put Bums in seats, it has to cost $200 million. Yeah. Like that's just it. Because they, their thing is people aren't going to go to the movies to see something if, if you could just see it at home and it's just as good. I suppose. It has to be spectacle. The quality of television programming now is insane compared to what it used to be as well,
Starting point is 00:40:36 I suppose. So you do have options. I think all of this is all driven by people who want to make money. I think you need to forget that there's not one person necessarily who's deciding all this. It's usually filmmakers and writers and people pitching ideas because they want to get paid. They're like, well, this is my job. do this. So I need to raise money to do this project.
Starting point is 00:41:00 Yeah. It's the same thing with a lot of video games. A lot of these video games are made by people who are like, you know, we need a video game. Let's take pitches and then, you know, people pitch and then these people are like, well, in order to make this video game, I need this amount of money, this amount of time. Like, they're not making it because it's some sort of, you know, some indie games are labours of love. But the AAA games are very formulate they're based on proven systems or building on things that worked before
Starting point is 00:41:30 sequels and that's a lot of the movie industries that too. It's safe. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They're scared. They're really, really scared. So it takes to make something truly original, I guess, like, you know, I'm not going to say an example. I don't know backrooms if that's
Starting point is 00:41:47 an example, but it takes someone pitching and raising money from someone and those people expect their money back. 10 times over, right? That has always been the case, though. Yeah, that's always been the case. But I think the issue now is it's much, much harder to get that money back.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Like, the reason that horror is popular as a genre is that it's low budget. Like, you can churn out horror movies and they do really well for the cost. It's just the best. We literally spoke about this two or three months ago, so we should. Yeah, we did. Let's talk about... I mean, Backrooms was made for like $10 million. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:20 Made 500. But it could have just been a big flop, you know? Yeah, but a big flop, the case. It costs now, relative to the fucking new Spider-Man move, that I'm sure costs something like $250 million. Yeah, sure. That's a bigger gamble. Anyway, I want to talk about the fact that, have you seen this, this AI modding games thing?
Starting point is 00:42:38 No. Oh, yeah, I have. It can merge games, right? You can get the AI. You can give it executables. Right. Like literally, executables, you don't have any of the source code or anything like that. It can reverse engineer it and then recode it so that the two are combined.
Starting point is 00:42:53 For example, Super Mario in Minecraft. Wow. Call of Duty in Elden Ring. Right. Like, literally. So you can play the game, and it's a mashup of the two. So the fact that the AI now, you can give it an executable, and it can go, hmm, let me have a look at this. And just pull it apart and give you the source code is insane.
Starting point is 00:43:19 What does that mean for any software? Why would I ever, ever make a piece of software now when someone could just disassemble it into source code and just post it up for free? And now you can open source it and change it as much as you like. I mean, how hard is that for the games industry now, I wonder? I wonder what the fallout is from it. Well, it finally means that we're going to get, we're going to be able to merge great titles such as Power Wash simulator and League of Legends, for example. What a mashup that would be. You could finally make Dudesim Alaska happen.
Starting point is 00:43:53 Well, I mean, I can make that happen. I just got to tighten the bolts and, you know, I got to put my helmet back on and dust myself off and get back in the game. It's just waiting to be made. I just have to make it. So here's a link I'm going to post in the Discord. Have a look at this. Is this an A-I-A-Skin? For anyone at home there wants to check it out.
Starting point is 00:44:17 Melty, M-E-L-T-Y-Y-D-G. Right. And if you want to look, this is what the mash-ups look like. Right. So, you know, you just combine any game in your library and play with your friends. How crazy is that? We've mashed up. Look at this.
Starting point is 00:44:32 This is bizarre. Skyrim. So there's Minecraft in-rim. With porn. Yeah, yeah. In 2026. No one thought of it before. But the computer has decided.
Starting point is 00:44:42 Teddy's in Skyrim. No one thought of that. Oh, my God. It's so, it's absolutely crazy. It can just make these games now. So you just give it the code and it just makes it. And yet again, a very typical AI, you're giving it something that people have made and it's creating something from it and being like, look what I made.
Starting point is 00:45:01 But you didn't make it do. You matched up two things that a human had made. Make something original. How about that? The AI needs to actually come up with its own fucking ideas. It's weird, isn't it? Because, like, obviously, it's awful in many ways. And it can't be complete.
Starting point is 00:45:16 and it must just crash after two minutes. And do you mean, but, but it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I'm frightened. I'm frightened. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, definitely AI's changing, right? Like, from back in the day of the Will Smith eating spaghetti to it being, um, you know, wrong and doing the too many fingers to now it's sort of, then it was all sycophantic, wasn't it? Um, and, and now I don't think it is necessarily that anymore. And it's, and certainly there's new models coming on that are very different. Every model is like, behaves differently and is useful in a different ways. And I don't know, it's, it is impressive, I think.
Starting point is 00:46:13 And that's, I think that they must, I don't know. I don't want to talk about AI. Fuck me. Let's, let's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's too much. I don't want to see. I've got to lose news. How many lose news are we talking here? I want a good, fucking fill me up with your lose news, baby.
Starting point is 00:46:30 Okay. I want to fill up at the pump. Yeah. Until my mouth overflows and it runs down my cheeks and settles in that. A viral TikTok. Part of my chest has occurred. A viral TikTok challenge has happened with a streamer who has locked himself in a homemade jail
Starting point is 00:46:48 until his mom. Kill all streamers. Until his mom can beat the first boss of Eldonring. How old is his mom? Well, he looks pretty old. Drake Cummings. That's the lawsuit against him, isn't it? So yeah, he put himself behind.
Starting point is 00:47:08 bars while his mom, the challenge ultimately stretched to around 24 hours. His mom died 240 times before finally defeating Margit ensuring her son's release. Oh my God. So the first boss of Eldon Ring took his mom 24 hours. I bet she was satisfied that she did it though. That's pretty impressive. That's good mumming right there. That's got to feel pretty good.
Starting point is 00:47:32 That is. That's pretty good mumming. And I was surprised that I don't even own that game. I think I must be the only person in the world who is either never played that game or even I've played it. Even I played it. Because it's such a popular game. Chris, hear me out. I'm going to do your community of favor here.
Starting point is 00:47:51 Sips is going to play Eldon Ring, start to finish. He's going to start next week. I just don't think it's my kind of game, you know? I didn't either. It's great fun. Right. It is genuinely great fun. So, Pokemon fans are trading cards because the prices are so high.
Starting point is 00:48:08 and that some fans have given up the market entirely and are selling their cards to Jonas Brothers fans in return for concert memorabilia instead. Well, hold on, hold on, back up, back up, sorry. Why are they only selling it to Jonas Brothers fans? I don't know. This is made up. This sounds insane to me.
Starting point is 00:48:30 Jonas Brothers merch and actual tambourines used on stage are worth the same as a Charizade. I'd still keep the charizard. What can the tambourine evolve into? Nothing. Videos have been circulating online of Jonas. Some of the actual Jonas brothers selling their stuff in exchange for Pokemon cards.
Starting point is 00:48:53 God Almighty. Joe Jonas is the middle one of the Jonas brothers is a big Pokemon fan. Joe Jonas. He's been giving away. I want pictures of Spider-Man. Jonas Brothers merch. That's Joe Jonas, isn't it? Sorry.
Starting point is 00:49:09 That was such a confusing article that I don't know what the fact happened. Yeah, that sounds like it's AI generated. It makes no sense whatsoever. Okay, hackers have hijacked Microsoft X account to do a scam featuring everyone's least favorite tech mascot Clippy. Cyber criminals briefly took over Microsoft's X account and used it to promote a crypto currency-themed scam to make matters worse,
Starting point is 00:49:39 they tried to make it seem as if it was legit by, you know, saying that Minecraft had recovered its account doing a fake, a fake apology using Clippy. Glory, everybody. It's got a scat. Looks like you've had your back account empty.
Starting point is 00:50:01 Swerking Clippy. I actually, do you know what? I think that there would be a good retro market for like a Clippy app that sits in your desktop, like just minimizes to the tray and occasionally pops up and says some dumb shit. It would make me laugh. But I was like doing something,
Starting point is 00:50:16 a Clippy popped up and said it, and just, it looks like you're doing, and randomly generated something. Looks like you're doing your taxes, and you're like playing out and ring. It looks like you're looking at Skatboard again. No, Clippy, it's a picture of my mom.
Starting point is 00:50:31 Oh, I'm sorry. This is the 17th time I've seen you Jack off at your today. What's going on? I'm doing my taxes right now. How dare you? Do you reckon that anybody's fetish is taxes?
Starting point is 00:50:50 Oh, I'm sure, yeah. Like we talked about people fucking bicycles and pavements and everything, cars, people that are into planes in a sexy way. Is anyone in there like, oh, yeah, taxes. Oh, deductibles. Like, is that someone's fetish? Let us know.
Starting point is 00:51:04 Yeah, there's got to be. Email in, period, forax at gmail. I'm sure. Anything you can imagine somebody out there is into it. What's your weird? We don't want to know that, do we? Probably not. All right. So the number one song, everyone online claims they've never heard before. Do we have to guess the song? There was a song that has spent 24 weeks at number one, breaking Mariah Carey's record.
Starting point is 00:51:31 Sorry, when? And the internet's collective response is that no one has ever heard it. Right. What did you mean currently? I think it might even be number one right now. Number one. It's been number one for 21 weeks. What is the song called?
Starting point is 00:51:45 It's, I'm asking you, it's called Choose in Texas. Oh, I've heard this song before. It's on the radio all the time. Who listens to the radio? I think the song is about she lives in Florida and she suspects that the person she's in love with is physically in Florida, but is basically in Florida, but is Mind is in Texas. That's what the song is about. Right. Okay. Or something like that.
Starting point is 00:52:11 Okay. It's not that far to Texas from Florida. No, but it's still far away enough, you know. It's a big country. I wish I was in Texas right now. I'm still, I'm stuck in for it. If you've never heard the song before, pull up the lyrics and sing it how you think it goes. Let's see how accurate you can. Whelan, what was it called? Wheelan, Wieling and Dillon in Texas. Shoes in Texas.
Starting point is 00:52:35 Chumes in Texas. I'll come up with a Not choosing Not choose in Texas Choosing Choosing That's a different That's a different song
Starting point is 00:52:43 Okay so So it's a dolly part I believe it begins Just when I thought I got him to fall in love with Tennessee That one Yeah
Starting point is 00:52:50 It sounds like Just when I thought I got him To fall in love With Tennessee I should know better Than to take him Back to Abilene
Starting point is 00:53:00 I put him right back Into her arms I wasn't a match For that kind of spark She's from Texas I could tell, by the way, he's two-step around the room. Is that how it goes? Exactly.
Starting point is 00:53:10 My God, you nailed it. Holy crap. He's choosing Texas. I can tell. He is choosing Texas. I can tell. Sorry, sweetheart. I'm choosing Texas.
Starting point is 00:53:20 Oh, y'all. I'm going back home to my mama. You know, you've got priorities, right? Well, the thing is, normally you guys talk about stuff on this podcast, and I've never heard of it. And I feel like I'm the only person who's heard of this. And that's because I do. do spend a lot of time in my car with the radio on.
Starting point is 00:53:39 Because I have three kids who all need to be places all at the same time mostly. You don't Bluetooth your phone and listen to Spotify or something? I do. Yeah. But my kids don't always appreciate my Spotify playlist. Driver chooses the tunes. I know. I know.
Starting point is 00:53:56 But it's, you know, I do like to just sort of. Put your fucking foot down. Don't let the kids run the car. Who's dad's driving. Dad chooses the tunes. End of story. Yeah. There's no,
Starting point is 00:54:06 no must and fussing with that. I know. But the thing is, like, we can only listen to enter the 36 chambers so many times
Starting point is 00:54:14 before everybody just gets really grumpy about it. So, um... Can you please stop playing the song about protect your neck? It's just driving me mad. Dad, I don't feel like bringing the ruckus today.
Starting point is 00:54:27 I'm sick of bringing the ruckus. I cannot, I cannot bring myself to bring the motherfucking ruckus even one of the fucking ruckus. even one more time today. Can we please just listen to the radio instead? I have too many dollar dollar bills you're already.
Starting point is 00:54:44 Do you know what? I really don't like the classic punk playlists. I don't like punk. Man, I love punk. I grew up listening to punk. I still like to listen to punk. But I feel like in this modern age, especially like the younger generation,
Starting point is 00:55:01 they do not appreciate punk at all. I don't know. I guess it just hasn't aged well. It's not very, I mean, it's not very, it's not very good. But the point of it was that it wasn't very good, you know, there was lots of mistakes. It's very low-fi. Yeah, that was the whole thing. But like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:55:19 I still love it. I still listen to me a lot of it. I feel like the whole point of punk was that it was for the angry youth. It was, yeah. It was like during the Reagan years, right? The anti- Reagan. I think it was the 70s that really the punk got going to more than the year. 80.
Starting point is 00:55:34 There's a, there's a huge in the, in the US, there was a big sort of like underground punk scene from like 80 to 86. And that's where like a lot of bands like, you know, like black flag and I'm just not angry enough to be in. Mine of threaten all those guys. We're sort of touring around in that day and age. Yeah. And then, and then, you know, punk evolved a lot, I guess and became probably not punk through its, it's, it's, evolution at certain points or whatever. But I don't know.
Starting point is 00:56:06 I mean, again, this conversation we always come back to. I don't really. Punk doesn't like to be defined. I don't seek out music or listen to new music. But I wonder what is happening in the world of punk in the year 2026. It's probably still going. Yeah. Still thriving.
Starting point is 00:56:22 And like Lewis just said, it's not, it can't really be defined. There's probably a lot of. You can probably get the exact same music you used to listen to as a teenager being done brand right now by people who love that music and are touring with it. You can listen to it. There's loads of it. Everything is, this is the world win. And this is even before AI, you know, once AI is really gets going.
Starting point is 00:56:45 I think you'll be able to listen to exactly what you want. You just type it in. You'll be able to make dudes Sam Alaska. A lot of people have been saying. I've said this before, though, but I think my issue now is that I'm almost 50. And I don't really want to listen to, um, you're ready to go. an 18 year old who's who's angry about stuff now and angsty about stuff now. I feel like there's like a bit of a disconnect there, you know, like, I.
Starting point is 00:57:07 Well, you don't have to. I can listen to people who were older than me when I was younger still and be like, oh, yeah, that message, you know, like I can listen to like, you know, like rage against machine and like those, those guys are older than me. And when I was listening to them, I was, I was younger and they were older and it was like, okay, you know, this works. But like, I feel like it's hard for me to listen to like a younger band now that I'm so old and the message that they have.
Starting point is 00:57:33 I'm sure it's an important message, but you know what I mean? Like, I feel like it's weird somehow. I don't know if you agree with that. I know. It is weird. I listen to lots of music. Yeah, I know you do. Lewis does not.
Starting point is 00:57:45 Next up. Lewis listens to mashups and, uh, and he listens to video game soundtrack. Video game is a fair. There is, there is a bear called backpack the bear. It's a brown bear. It weighs more than a thousand pounds. It has been crowned champion of fat bear week. Oh, it won? Backpack one?
Starting point is 00:58:05 Shout out. Backpack the bear won fat bear week at Catmine National Park. The competition is a genuinely serious annual vote celebrating bears getting gloriously enormous before hibernation. Get out of vote, people. This is why certain bears that should win are not winning. Get out of them. It's not good enough anymore. It's 2026.
Starting point is 00:58:25 You have to choose a side. Get out there and vote. And don't give me this. They're both as fat as each. other. Some days are fat than others. Yeah. So backpack is quite famous. He's called that because he earned his nickname
Starting point is 00:58:40 when he was seen riding on the back of his mom, Holly. No, it's because he ate a backpacker. I would love to ride on the back. He narrowly defeat hiker and jogger. Yeah, so he is a big fat boy. He's getting as much bare fat on him as he can. There is a live laugh, lard.
Starting point is 00:59:00 mean about him I have to write that up my stairs in my house live Lard That's so good Lard You don't hear lard
Starting point is 00:59:16 used much anymore No I use goose fat But I don't use lard What fat is lard Tubba Lard? We used to We used to call people
Starting point is 00:59:27 With tub a lard Back in the day You fucking It's just being. It's pork fat. It's pork fat. Oh, it's a pork fat. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:34 It used to be used in everything. I don't know if it's used so much now. It's really good. He used to be able to buy like a brick of lard back in the day. Yeah, yeah. They'd just be like, you know, I got the lard. Hey, boys, come over to my house. Just got some lority.
Starting point is 00:59:49 I'll bring the bruise. Oh, man. Put the toast on. Yeah, no, sure. And there's one more. Open AI have entered a Starcraft bot tournament. I saw this. I saw this.
Starting point is 01:00:04 It's insane. And it was going really badly. But rather than accept defeat, the model reportedly mid-tournament, mid-competition, downloaded a top human-made bot and started running that instead. Fair enough. If at first you don't succeed, just search the internet, find the best bot, and install it and run that instead. that's fascinating stuff, isn't it?
Starting point is 01:00:30 Yeah, that is. That's what we're dealing with. How about that? So if, you know, take that on, everyone. Just cheat. If you're not winning, cheat. Yeah, the AI is just going to cheat. I just did random Wikipedia article.
Starting point is 01:00:42 What do you think I got? Oh, yeah. It's probably some Ecuadorian politician or a sportsman from Indonesia. It is a list of Nazi publishers. So it's an overview of book publishers that mainly published Nazi books until the end of the Second World War. Literally, that was the random article. That's pretty wild.
Starting point is 01:01:02 The next one is BCA Research, which is an investment research company based in Canada. There you go. There you go. There you go. There's two of the favorite topics here on the TriForce podcast, Nazis and Canada. Are we up for a third? We've covered it all. List of Machinima works.
Starting point is 01:01:17 What the hell is Machinima? Machinima. You don't remember the YouTube network? Machinima. Machinima. This is a list of notable works made with machinima. Machinima. It's an animation technique used.
Starting point is 01:01:27 real-time screen capturing and computer graphics. Or Macanema, depending on how you like to pronounce that word. Wasn't Machinima one of the old YouTube networks? It was, yeah. It was one of the big ones. I think I was with them for a bit. Maybe you were. And then they went to us, didn't they?
Starting point is 01:01:42 I think we've all been with them all along, you know? Are we still with them? What about the Lithuanian women's handball league? Do you want to hear about that? Not really. No. All right, well, thank you everyone for checking our podcast. Eggul Vilnius, Eggulnius's days are old.
Starting point is 01:01:57 They were the most dominant team in the late 90s, early 2000s? I had a nice time. Yeah, I don't know if I had a nice time. Guys, you enjoy yourselves. Yes, what happened? Left and right before crossing the road. Let us know what happened to Eggley Vilnius.
Starting point is 01:02:09 They were the number one women's hamball team. Right into Flax's Gmail account and let him know all about it. Who are these young upsets? Give a family member a call. You know, give them a kiss. And we'll see you all next time. Goodbye. Bye.
Starting point is 01:02:23 Bye! Bye!

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