Triforce! - The Goonest Generation | Triforce #337
Episode Date: November 12, 2025Triforce! Episode 337! The grey filter has taken over Britain, Pyrion compares his phone to supercomputers of old and we talk about how scarily easy it is to get guns in England. Support your favouri...te 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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Pickax
Well, hello there, everyone, and welcome to the Triforce podcast.
Oh, hello.
It's so good to be back with you today on a lovely, cold, rainy day in Britain.
It's raining there, is it?
Let me check the weather here.
Yeah. It's just, it's just gray here. It's not raining, but it's, same. It's gray.
The gray filter is on today. It is. The gray, the gray, U.K. filter is on today.
The gray filter has been applied, but it's not cold and it's not raining. So there, there are some positives to be gained from the gray filter.
Some people find that beautiful, the gray filter of England. But unfortunately, it's not. Yeah, it's beautiful for a day.
And then I think it's always the, the backdrop of like, industrial.
ruin, you know, like in the 80s and stuff.
I think that's what people always associate the gray filter with, you know?
It's all these scenes of like, uh, we've had call up here for, oh, gosh, my grandfather
worked down pit and his grandfather worked down pit and so on all the way.
There's always those shots of like crappy roads with big puddles and kids walking along
with clothes that don't really fit.
And then like all those row houses with.
like the backyards with the little alley at the back,
like to stick to their own round here.
But we do talk.
If someone needs help,
you know,
a scrape of butter or a chrome of bread,
then you know you can rely on your neighbours.
I don't give much truck to neighbours around here.
Close down.
I can afford half an ale a week.
Good enough for me.
And then you see them going off to the bookies
and smoking a very small cigarette right to the end.
That's those 60s and 70s videos of Britain.
It just looks like.
shit.
Yeah.
So I've just posted a picture in the Discord.
That is weather in Twickenham today.
A high of 16, a low of 8.
Look at how exciting it is.
It's just gray.
It's just the default gray cloud.
The default great cloud emoji and there's like gray rain drops.
No wind.
Even the moon is gray in this image.
It's bizarre.
It's like, I know.
Mine is very similar.
14 degrees Celsius, mostly cloudy.
And it's like that all day long.
It gets worse.
Don't worry.
It will get colder and more and more horrible.
Well, you know, Monday, apparently, it's going to be, you know, my favorite symbol
that they ever have is the black cloud with the sun peeking around the side of it and a fucking
lightning bolt.
Oh, a rare one.
And I'm like, wait a second.
We're going to have rain, sun and thunder and lightning all at 1 p.m.
Jesus.
I always think that just means rainbows, right?
So they should just put the rainbow there instead, right?
Because I'll cheer for one up.
It's too fucking woke though.
It would do great for everyone's mental health if they started putting
rainbows in the weather report.
Do you know what I'm saying?
It's just a bit too warm.
It would be getting people outside.
They'd be like, oh, rainbows.
They're putting fucking LGBT shit in the sky now.
Look at this.
What's that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The old generation.
No, I like, it's amazing how stuff does affect your mood though and like the idea of it.
You know, I think you have to keep reframing your own mind that you're like,
yeah, well, look.
It can still be beautiful.
You can still have a nice beautiful walk, even though it is gray.
It doesn't make everything miserable.
I think we just kind of block it out, in all honesty.
I don't.
Sometimes, if I'm feeling a bit glum, I'm looking at, look up and say, Christ, this is not helping.
Like, it's just that diffuse gray with no texture whatsoever.
It feels like the sky has been replaced by the dullest wallpaper imaginable.
I don't mind walking when the weather's like this.
It's just if it's like raining, I don't want to walk in the rain.
I don't think anyone really does.
But also because it's a rain, dude.
I don't know why.
That's crazy.
It's bizarre.
And also because it's an island, it gets very windy.
So on days where it's like nearly a hurricane, obviously, you don't really want to be walking in that either.
It's harder to walk.
It pushes against you.
Yeah, it does.
It's got all this force to push against.
Do you guys refer to yourselves as islanders and us as the mainlanders?
Yeah.
Yeah, they would say like islanders, yeah.
Yeah, and then we call you guys the mainland, yeah.
Go to the mainland.
I'd like to, of course, big island and little island.
I think we'd be better than that.
The way the Hawaiians have got that right, I think, right?
Yeah, if the ferry's coming in, it's coming from either France or the mainland.
Yeah, they definitely would refer to England as the mainland.
And is there a lot of, is there any anti-French sentiment in Jersey, in a general sort of simmering?
There used to be, but.
Yes, there used to be.
I mean, it is a very sort of.
of French-influenced Ireland. Certainly, I think there were a lot of qualms about whether it was
English or French for hundreds of years. Oh, I'm sure. I don't think they ever had any real
battles over here as such, but there were a lot of fortifications and a lot of things put into
place to, as a deterrent, you know, they didn't want the French landing here. If you look at where
Jersey and Guernsey are, there's actually no justification whatsoever.
for it being part of the UK.
No.
Yeah.
It looks like it should be part of France.
And I think at one point it was part of France.
There's an ancient dialect here called Gierriez, which is, it's like, it's like farmer French.
Like if you, you know, you can, it sounds like, you know, I'm trying to think of like another
example.
It's like it's not quite French, but very French at the same time, you know.
You can see that it is, it is French, but it is French.
It's like, it's hacked up a lot, you know?
Right.
Like Quebec, Quebec war.
No, I mean, that is like a straight up French, but it's like a twang.
It's like, it's like Texas French, if you like, you know.
Oh, I got you.
Yeah, like they're like a little bit, they don't sound as like as like as Parisian, you know,
like as the French do sort of thing.
But, but yeah, Geriaz is like just an old, old language that they used to speak back in like
the, you know, Neolithic days or whatever.
that is still kicking around a little bit, but it's more like a, you know, like a traditional
heritage sort of thing, but not, not spoken. But it was spoken by a large amount of the
population during World War II, which was great because when they were occupied, they had a
language that they could speak that where the Germans were just like, what the fuck are they
talking about? What is this language? And like, only the Jersey people knew it. So like my
mother-in-law, for example, her parents used to argue in Jerry's.
and they would be if they were still alive in their 90s now.
So it's like not that far, like not that far away, not that far back where this was a spoken
language and it was quite sort of, you know, a lot of people spoke it to in modern times
just being almost completely forgotten.
Like it is just, it's completely dying out now.
But there's a couple of people that are still, you know, trying to like keep it alive,
archiving a lot of information and stuff.
Oh, there'll be some YouTube video about.
Yeah.
Yeah, there was.
I'm sure there was one.
But now, it's interesting.
But more recently, the, I would say probably like in the, in like the 60s onwards, the attitude towards the French was a little bit different in that you had a lot of French migrants coming over to do mostly like farm work, you know, like manual labor and stuff like that.
And there was there was definitely a sentiment of, no, what are they doing here?
Get out of here.
But that's kind of modern times for you, really, isn't it?
There's a lot of that.
I mean, especially nowadays, that that sentiment has just gone like turbocharged.
But I think it's always been around.
Farmer French.
And then it gets kind of...
So I've written a sentence here in English that I think Cornish Frenchman, a Cornish farmer might say.
Right.
Yeah.
But in French, it would sound like this, right?
Right.
On sang, Jean-Gie, the tractor is on Coron Pan.
Donniemo on blue grab beat on the wheel.
That's great.
By the way, I think you pretty much nailed it there.
If you look at Guernsey, Jersey and Aldenny, and then look at the Isle of White.
And imagine that the Isle of White was French.
People would be frothing at the mouth.
They'd be going mad.
But the British get away with it because the British Empire was just so big at one point.
So was the French.
It was never, it was, yeah, but the French had lots of interests elsewhere and stuff.
And I think past a certain point, they just thought, you know what, fuck it.
It's not even worth fighting.
for over this.
You know what I mean?
It is what it is.
Let's just move on.
But yeah, it's a weird one for sure.
You look at Gibraltar, which is a bizarre place that I've been to.
There's really, I mean, that's literally attached to Spain.
I know.
I wonder how much it would affect the, well, apparently the culture there is very, very British.
It is and it isn't.
Yeah.
Like having been there, I tell you what it is.
It's bizarre, though, isn't it?
It is weird.
It is bizarre.
It is bizarre because like a lot of these places,
They've gone down the mega sort of nationalistic, like, we are British and their flag is everywhere.
And all the roads are called, you know, queenness and conservative aisles, that and everything.
It's like really, really, so British.
But then they're all called like Pepe and stuff.
And they all speak Spanish.
Yes.
So it's very odd.
But yeah.
It's.
Javrolet is so tiny, though, actually, when you look at, when you.
when you go there.
Yeah, but it's there.
It would have been such an important strategic location back in the day.
And maybe now as well.
I don't know.
Like, it must be somewhat important still.
But I think a lot of it will be like you said, you know, it's that nationalistic, you know, people identify as being, being British there.
And they'll just hang on to that for as long as the generations keep passing that down sort of thing.
But I think back in the day, it was, it was.
It was pretty vital, wasn't it?
Oh, it's huge.
I mean, strategically, first of all, attacking it is almost impossible.
Because to approach it, you have to come down a very narrow bit of basically a sandbar
that leads from the mainland to the rock.
Yeah.
And the rock itself has, if you go there, you can go into these little sort of, you can do
a little tour, you go and look and they've got the old artillery sort of slots that they've
dug into the rock and so they can have massive guns sticking out.
So you've watching the whole entrance.
If you look at that narrow point as you enter the med, imagine having a big fucking
cannon there that can shoot ships coming in.
That's huge.
I mean, World War II, you know, have Gibraltar, the rock, the fortifications of the rock
and stuff.
Yeah, it was, it's an important point.
And of course, we're like, well, we're not giving that up.
No.
So we kept it.
Yeah.
I think that's exactly how they felt about Jersey Guernsey and Aldernie.
Yeah.
Even though they were occupied.
Well, I don't, wait, was the rest of it.
I think the rest of them might have been.
I don't know.
My history of Guernsey and Alderney, I'm sure Alderney was definitely occupied.
They're right there.
Why wouldn't they be?
Guernsey must have been.
But I'm not sure.
I don't know a lot about Guernsey, but I know a little bit more about Jersey.
I mean, Jersey certainly was occupied, but it was occupied for a very long time.
And even after the war ended, it was still occupied for some time.
It took them forever to finally liberate it.
Wow.
Well, the Germans thought they could keep it.
No, I think it's just they just didn't know what to do.
Everything had fallen apart and they were starving and eating actually eating dogs and cats.
Yeah, yeah, it was bad.
Pheriting the dogs.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, none of the shipments were coming in.
And, you know, it's not an island that can sustain itself for its population.
There's not enough space to grow the amount of food you'd need to feed the population here.
So they relied on a lot of stuff coming in from the mainland and other places.
Specifically, like, meat and stuff like that, which they just didn't have throughout the whole occupation.
And they had to make like all these kind of like shitty recipes with just stuff that they had, you know,
stuff that was going bad and they had to be really thrifty.
But they used these, they had those little crystal radio sets for, they weren't allowed to have them.
them, but the, you know, the underground resistance or whatever had them so that they could get
news on what was going on.
But same old as anywhere else, basically.
You had people that little time radio there.
Yeah, that's it.
You had people that sympathized with the Germans and would help them out.
And they were then sort of ostracized by the community for being traitors after the war ended.
Some were like flogged publicly and hung and all sorts.
But it was just such a crazy time, I mean, for everybody, but it's certainly for a very small island with a very small rural population, if you like, at the time.
It was, it was pretty crazy.
But yeah, stories of like my mother-in-law's parents, because they were young during the occupation, just basically starving.
You know, like, and a lot of health problems in their later years because of the malnutrition from the occupation and stuff like that too.
Yes, it was wild.
I mean, it's had such a huge effect on people.
The plan was, though, that these channel liners would be like a kind of very defensive
position where the Germans were hoping to really, I think give us a bloody nose was the phrase.
Yeah, it was part of the Atlantic Wall.
It had the same ideas in the beaches in Normandy, you know, big wall, lots of turrets.
But I think here's the thing.
If we'd had a leader, like a more populist leader, you know, like Trump, you know, he would have, you
know, fought tooth and nail to get them back. And that would have been, you know, a terrible,
terrible plan. You know, tons of people would have died. Whereas we had at that time,
I guess, very smart, very intelligent leadership, who were very cunning. And they completely
bypassed channel lines. And they weren't, they were in fact, I think the last thing to be
liberated. Yeah. After Berlin fell, they were still, you know, German holdouts.
I think it would have been a mess if they tried to do anything with the, with the Channel
islands. Like, they were ready. So fortified. Yeah, it was. And, but I think it's an example of
something where, you know, a leader like Hitler would have used it as a propaganda thing.
You know, it's a matter of national pride to get them back.
You know, it's an easy trap on these, on this world stage for sure.
Because you can imagine Britain would be like, well, you know, we're not going to stand
for our boys being all God, Germans, bloody taking them over.
It's not one inch of British soil will be given up.
But at that point, we've given up Singapore and, you know, bloody everything.
I mean, it was just that it was such a vast conflict.
You know, like you hear about like the more centralized aspects of it.
But when you read about how much of the world it affected, it was, I was insane.
But also, I mean, even today, what Jersey has like 40,000 people on it or something.
No, it's got like over 100,000.
It's substantial.
It's quite a big population.
Well, Gibraltar's particularly, I think maybe Gibraltar is like 40 or 30.
They're not big, these British concessions, right?
Whereas, like, Hong Kong had like, has now, I think, about seven or eight million people
in it.
Yes.
So does Singapore.
These places are comparatively massive compared to, you know, the smaller bits.
But, you know, that was just what it was like when we were colonizing the other side of the world.
You didn't have to settle for one little tiny, little rock of Gibraltar.
You know, we're obviously lucky we clawed that off of Spain.
But I think part of this sentiment comes from Spain.
of rumbling that they want it back from time to time.
Yes.
There are, and when you are a populist leader, like the military junta that came into
power in Argentina, you know, that sparks this new desire to get the Malvinas back.
Also, it's just really easy, it's a really easy sell to your supporters to be like, hey,
you know, we're going to go after Les Malvinas.
Fuck those British bastards, you know, it's like, it's like an easy sell to say, hey, don't worry
about actual problems, we're going to worry about
some bullshit, and you can be
a part of that, you know.
And the thing is, they can sell it like, oh, this is
going to say, this is going to solve your problems.
Are you unhappy? If we get the Malvinas
back. Think about how amazing
that would be. You're not going to, think about how happy you're going to be.
You can live on the greased
island. Yeah, look at the sheep we have now.
Forkloners are so miserable.
You think there, you think the weather there is
gray 24-7, 365,
I would guess. Yeah, it's,
it's, I mean, they might as well call them
the fucking miserable shit
islands. Yeah, that's
what they should rename it. Officially.
Right, right, pretty
close to Gulf of America, which has
also been renamed.
You can rename, why don't they just rename a bunch
of stuff? Like, you know, like, put
a little bit of like va va-vum
into some of the names instead of this
fucking boring old fucking shitty names.
Just name it like it is. Yeah.
Yeah. Can I just say, but... It's right next
to fucking Antarctica. Jesus.
We had a funny, a funny,
I know this is not a mailbag, but I had an email.
This is from a listener who said, a quick one to say,
one of the things that makes me giggle is every time someone mentions a topic,
it's quickly followed by tippy tapping on the keyboard to Google it.
Yes.
You do know.
We like to make sure that we're giving you the most informed take.
Most accurate and informed take.
The top Google search result every time, mostly just AI now that comes back first.
Oh, God.
Do you know what I was looking into this morning?
For no reason, I was thinking, you know, I'm sure everybody has this thought quite often.
I think like, man, my phone, like I was looking at my phone, I thought, think how powerful this is.
And I saw an Instagram reel for the ZX spectrum.
Someone's made some movie about the history of the ZX spectrum.
And I was like, I remember that being a good computer back in the day.
But obviously, my phone now is like a thousand times more power, probably 10,000 times more powerful.
In fact, I'm so stupid, I don't even know how many times more powerful my phone is.
and the ZX spectrum, someone could email in with the answer to that.
But I then got into thinking, how far would I have to go back for my phone to basically be a
supercomputer by comparison with their actual supercomputers?
So when and I looked on Wikipedia, you know what flops are.
It happens to everyone sometimes.
Gigaflops and terraflops and stuff.
Floating point operations per second, which is a measure of how many floating point operations
a computer can do per second.
Right. And I guess the fact that we know them as gigaflops or teravrops means the original
flops were probably a little bit under, like the original computer. It's like horsepower, do I mean?
So, I mean, for example, in 1961, the IBM 7030 stretch can perform one floating point
multiplication every 2.4 microseconds. Wow. Okay, so 2.4 microseconds.
And you know why they probably had to be in a building like the size of the Chrysler building
with like cooling
So the IBM 70-30 stretch
I'll post a picture now
You know in Star Trek
When they have those panels
Behind on the ship
Look at the size of this fucker
Yeah that's a big boy
So I want you at home to imagine
You've gone to your granny's house
It's the science station on the enterprise
It just needs a couple of lights on
But in terms of size
It's the sideboard in your granny's house
Which has got all the good plates
And glasses
But it also looks like it's covered in braille, right?
It does.
Those are tiny little buttons.
Every time I see a cartoon like this, I think of an airplane.
Because all airplanes look like this as well.
This is true.
A million switches.
And you just think, the joke is always like, oh, none of them are important.
Just start flicking them and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, this computer, if it could talk, would definitely say,
working, like that level of early computer.
It's like a doctor who is.
That's a visual visualization of Craigbot, now recording.
Now recording.
So Craigbot, by the way, listeners, is a Discord bot that you can use to record audio from multiple people in the same channel.
Craigbot records it.
And when you start it, we make fun of it because he says in this really weird robot voice, now recording.
It sounds like he wants to, he wishes that he was dead.
Like the tone of voice is so odd, you know.
Very sad.
What is love?
Yeah.
Why am I?
What is my purpose?
You record nonsense, Craigbott.
Kill me.
Yeah, pretty much.
So the interesting thing about this Wikipedia page is that it lists the U.S. dollar cost for per gigaflop.
So a gigaflop, obviously now we're into gigaflops.
So the cost of a gigaflop now, May 2023, which is AMD's RX-7600, which is a GPS, which is a
a GPU, it's $1.25, so $1.25 per gigaflop. Okay? It retails for $269.2.21.3 teraflops is its peak
performance. So a gigaflop is $1.25 May 2023. How much do you think a gigaflop cost in
1945? It wasn't possible, but if you had used the computing power of the time, and built
something capable of doing a gigaflop level calculation, how expensive do you think it would be in
US dollars.
So what is this when they built that very first?
This is the ENIAC.
Yeah.
In 1945.
So how much adjusted, adjusted for 2024 inflation?
A gigaflox is a billion flops?
Who knows?
It doesn't matter.
Don't matter.
How much was the INIAC?
It was probably insane cost, right, at the time.
So, sorry, it's $1.29 for a gigaflop in May 2023.
That's with the RX-70.
600, AMD's RX-7600 GPU, which can do 21.5 terraflops.
Okay, so $1.29, May 2023, $22 trillion in 1945 to have the equivalent computing power.
Wow, 22 trillion.
Yeah.
Isn't that insane?
Well, remember, though, like, it was all being done for the first time, right?
It was all very...
I'm not flaming, the ENIAC.
I'm just saying...
The interesting thing is...
It was probably doing that to itself if it's trying to do some gigaflops.
Yeah.
So just 16 years later, the IBM 7030 stretch, that massive sideboard of a computer,
it's already gone from $22 trillion to $196 billion, which is a heck of a lot cheaper.
That's a bargain price by comparison.
Three years later, the CDC 6600 to $23 billion.
So we've gone from $22 trillion to $23 billion in less than 20 years.
That's pretty incredible.
Like, that's the acceleration of computing power.
So I think that any time I look at my phone and think, I wonder how powerful this is.
I mean, the cray supercomputer, whenever I think of supercomputers, I don't know about you, sits.
I always think of the cray.
The cray.
Yeah, Kray supercomputers was like, that's what they talked about in the 80s, like the Kray.
That sounds like such an evil.
It does.
I'm not familiar with the Kray, but I think I know what you mean.
Like the double seven.
They're using the Kray supercomputer to hack into the nuclear satellites.
Yeah.
Well, how about this?
The 216 processor bow-wolf clusters with Pentium Pro micro processors, $58,000 by 1997.
So my phone now, the Sony PlayStation 4 was $29.26 per gigaflop cost.
So, you know, it's just insane how quickly the price fell off and how amazing computers are.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, yeah, the power that you have in your hands at any given time now is nuts.
Just with your phone.
So the way that they measure, sorry to keep going on,
I found this very interesting this morning when I was drinking my coffee,
is that the way they measure the scale of computing,
the milly scale of computing,
which is 10 to the minus three of flops, you know,
flops per second,
so floating point operations per second,
the milliscale computing is the average human
multiplying two, 10 digit numbers
with a pen and paper with no assistance.
That is mili scale,
which is two times 10 to the minus three,
which is not an impressive year score.
Then it goes up Decker scale, then just scale computing, which is like 1941, 1941, 1945, that level, 1.2
ops per second, like very straightforward, Deca scale, hector scale, kilo scale, mega scale, giga scale,
Terra scale, etta scale, exa scale.
The next level is Zeta scale, or Zeta scale computing, which is 1 times 10 to the 21 flops,
which is such an insanely big number, it's incomprehensible, to give you some
idea of how powerful this would be, it could accurately just predict the weather on a scale of
like two weeks and just like, yeah, there's your weather. This is exactly what it's going to look
like. It'd be about 2035 that these computers will be around. So the computers that we're looking
at now, so like think 2011 level computers, a Zeta scale computer could generate more single
floating point data in one second than was stored by any digital means on earth in the whole
of the first quarter of 2011.
And for all that, we still don't have flying cars, which we were told we would have probably
for sure in the year 2000.
And I mean, that's 25 years ago already.
Almost 26 now.
And we're not even anywhere close.
They've got, they're doing floating flying cars in China.
Flying cars in China.
No, they're not.
They are.
I saw one the other day.
Maybe when the motorways break down and the cars go flying off the end.
They're very vertical in China.
There's lots of like.
They build up a lot, you know?
Their buildings have loads of, like, train monorail things going through them and stuff.
And there's like, there's buildings that are like hundreds of floors tall and stuff.
It's crazy.
Right.
This actually isn't funny.
Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show.
Oh.
Two flying cars crashed into each other at a rehearsal for an air show in China, which was meant
to be a showcase of the technology.
This is from September.
Everyone's fine.
One person was injured, but they're okay, apparently.
So they had these flying cars.
They look more like giant drones.
Yeah, they do.
They look like a big fucking drone, but a drone that you could fit a person in.
Be honest, that's just a helicopter.
That's not a flying car.
I've never been in a helicopter before.
I've always been too scared to go in one because...
I've been in one one time.
Were you scared?
Yeah, especially because we were told, like, the thing with an aeroplane, a helicopter is,
it builds up a huge amount of static.
Right.
Like a lot of static, because the blades are like, all that friction against the atmosphere.
Right.
It builds up a lot of static.
So you've got to be careful getting off and on them and touching things and all the rest of it.
The thing we were told is do not wear any synthetic underwear, like some, you know, if you're wearing wifference and polyester full.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think that would be so uncomfortable to have like a hundred percent polyester underpants.
Yeah.
But they're getting shocks the whole time as well.
They told us that it would literally, you'd be like, right in the pants.
Oh, man.
So, yeah, I was like, damn.
But then we, it was a, it was a sea helicopter.
And there was a small helipad out on a little destroyer or a frigate or something.
This was in Portsmouth.
When I was in the Navy cadets, Lewis, we had to fly from land out to the ship.
And they took us by helicopter, landed us on the back of the little frigate or whatever.
I know.
And then we had to get off and, you know, they showed us around the ship.
And then we had to do some work on the ship, like pretend we were naval ensigns or whatever.
and they'd sort of, you know, take us around and make us do some shit.
I can't even remember what.
And then we got in a little, what do they call, like a ribby boat,
like a little dirigible, rigid speedboat back to shore.
I thought this is the coolest thing ever.
And when we flew, you buckle in in the helicopter.
You have like a harness.
And the door is just open.
So when it banks, you're just looking straight down like a roller coaster at the ocean
and the crowds and everything as your helicoptering out.
I thought, this is fucking cool.
But also, holy shit, this feels dangerous.
Yeah, yeah.
I just have to go get some Kleenex because my nose is running.
I'll be right back.
Oh, damn.
Oh, no.
He was excited by...
He's got the thing.
He's got all the gross, sick, everything.
Zeta scale computing got him a little over-excited.
It happens.
I can understand.
What's a Metroyska brain?
I'm just reading about this now.
Oh, good Lord.
Matroyska brain is a hypothetical megastructure of immense computational capacity
powered by a Dyson sphere.
It was proposed in 1997 by Robert J. Bradbury.
It's an example of a class.
B stellar engine, employing the entire energy output of a star to drive computer systems.
Good God, you power an enormous star-sized computer.
So that, a Matroiska brain, which is purely theoretical, is 1.12 times 10 to the 36 computing
power, which is mad.
Then the next one up for that, approximate ested computational power necessary for real-time
single human cell simulation with ab initio accuracy.
God, this is getting complicated now.
Sorry, I'm back.
I got the sniffles a little bit.
Thank God.
I know.
Sorry about that.
I hate having the sniffles.
Got it.
You got the, you got what's going around.
Yeah, it really ticks me off, having this sniffles.
You know, you got constantly blowing your nose.
You know, and it's just like dripping out of your nose, but it's like, it's like the consistency
of water.
You know, it's like, it's not like big green boogies.
It's like clear water.
just like dripping out of your nose constantly.
Oh, man.
Do you guys remember?
I haven't seen this as much now that I've become older.
But I remember quite often when I was a kid,
there would be an old man on the bus or somewhere in the post office or whatever.
And it would look like you have a dewdrop of water hanging from the end of his nose.
Yeah.
And we saw that a lot in Canada because it's cold.
Yeah.
It would always be some old dude with just like a drop hanging from the end of his nose.
I guess it was either condensation.
that had built up in his cavernous nose
or it was just he had a runny nose
and those old people's noses and ears get so big, don't they?
Or they shrink and their nose
and ear doesn't keep up or something, I don't know.
But yeah, they're comically large on some people, aren't they?
They sure is heck on.
Yeah.
And then add into the mix a drop forming at the end of your nose.
Damn.
Was his honker like bright red at the time too?
Yeah, like one of those old dudes that just,
they never, like a, not a glove.
love wearer, not a hat wearer, just an old lad whose, his face was probably, you could smush it directly
into snow and the snow would get colder from his face, you know what I mean?
Like that level of just a with a weathered face.
It's like a statue to come to life.
It's weird to think that like a lot of those people that you would have seen as a kid are
like all dead now, like long gone probably.
Yeah?
You know, all those old people.
All those old people, they're gone.
That generation is gone.
Well, that generation would have been more the, I guess, the World War one generation, right?
If they were that old when we were kids.
Let me say, I moved to Bournemouth, like 1984.
I remember my branny, I think she died.
Let me think.
She was 76, 77 when she died.
I was not old.
I think she died in the early 90s.
When would she have been born?
I don't know.
I felt she was post-World War I.
Post-war one and maybe not old enough to have served during World War.
War II? Probably. My mom's grandfather, so my great-grandfather was a World War I bomber. So he flew
a two-man plane, him and his mate, and he dropped bombs out of the back by hand while the other lad
flew. And in the early days, they didn't have like a gun. They just had shotguns and they would
blast at each other with shotguns. And then, you know, the planes got better and everything. But he had,
there's all these photos that he took. He had to do aerial reconnaissance and drop bombs. And you can,
I've spoken about this before.
You can see the bombs that he's dropping by hand in the pictures.
And he's just like literally with an old black and white camera just taking pictures out
the side of the plane.
So he was my great grandfather.
So that era was First World War.
And I remember when I met him, he was fucking ancient.
Like he was in his 90s then.
And that would have been the 80s.
So for sure, I think the old people that we saw then would probably just after the First
World War when I was a kid, unless they were incredibly old.
What generation is that considered to be?
The generation that would have been born in or around the time of World War I or shortly after?
No, so I think that's the silent generation.
Is that the silent generation?
Or is that the greatest generation?
If you were born, when is the silent generation?
Silent generation was 1928 to 1945.
That's when they were born.
They lived through the Great Depression and World War II.
That's the silent generation.
Right.
So the greatest generation would have been 1927.
2001 to 1927 was when they were born.
Right.
So that would have been people born just around like the first quarter of the 20th century.
Yeah.
And they came of age during the Great Depression and they fought in World War II.
So that's like the greatest generation because they basically defeated the silent generation.
And then after the silent generation is the baby boomers, right?
And that's...
Then the fucking boomers.
45 to...
It's the calm before the storm.
Silent generation just chilling.
And then you've got the boomers.
Yeah.
And then you've got Gen X, which is, I think, that's definitely my...
generation.
Yeah.
It goes up to 1980.
I'm just in Gen X.
Okay.
And then my wife who's a year younger is a millennial because she's a millennial.
She's a millennial.
Or Gen Y, apparently is what it was called.
And then 1997 to 2012 is...
So Lewis, you're a filthy millennial.
How does it feel?
Of course he's a millennial.
It's interesting.
So, but your kids, P-Flax, are Generation Z?
Yeah, they're all like Z.
They're both Zomers, yeah.
And your kids are all...
all, or is your oldest
at Zuma?
My oldest was born in 2011.
Yeah, your eldest is a Zuma.
Your other two are Alpha.
My other two are Alpha.
You got a couple of 2010-2015 and then 20-21.
Skibbidi.
Yeah, so they're alpha.
What generation does Skibbidi toilet belong to?
That's the, that's the new ones.
Isn't it?
That's the Zumas?
No, this is the new, they do.
No, but Skibati toilet is, that's not Gen Alpha, is it?
Because they would be, they would have to be seven,
eight, nine, ten.
They'll have to be like between like seven, let me say, hand, seven, 13 and two.
Yeah, my son is 13 right now.
Right.
So he's just on the Zuma cutoff.
Right.
He was, yeah.
But I think that the Skibbitty toilet stuff, is that a Zuma meme?
I feel like it is.
I don't even know when that came out.
But there's, there's like stuff in stores.
Like there's like, I saw, I think a toy that said skibbitty toilet on it.
And it was like, I don't even know what it was.
to be. I just thought it would be like a little toilet, but it's not. It's like a dude's head.
It doesn't need to say it. It just needs to have the words. I don't know what it is. Yeah. I feel so
old. But like at the same time, I'm kind of glad I don't know what it is. Yeah. It's just,
it was a Gary's mod video. Oh, was it? All right. And it's the, the, the, um, the, the, um,
the, the, um, the, the, um, the, the, um, the, the, the guy that's like, um, whatever is it.
Gordon Freeman.
No, that's the doctor.
Dr. Kleiner.
Good morning, Dr. Freeman.
Yeah, like, that's, that's Kleiner.
But this is the sort of the smoking agent in the background.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
From X-Files, right, that guy.
Who, sadly now, I presume, we're never going to find out what the fuck,
because they're never going to make Half-Life 3.
So, although they are apparently working on.
They made Half-Life Alex, the VR thing, but.
Yeah, but it's a continuation of characters.
VR has not really taken off that much, has it?
I wonder why.
You never really hear about it.
But I think there's tons of porn games for VR.
Yeah, of course.
A friend of mine, I'm not going to name them,
said that actually it's quite good, the VR porn.
VR porn.
Yeah, he was like, yeah, it's really good.
Like, you know, if you get a good one,
you've got the headset on.
Yeah, you can really, as the kids say,
you can really goon to it.
Have a real hard goon session.
Have a good hour long, two hour of goon session to some VR anime porn.
So what's the deal?
Like you can look around.
It's like, yeah, like, you know, you can look wherever you want to look.
It's like VR, but there's this hot woman there.
And I guess you're shagging her.
But it's not like interactive.
So you're just lying there.
I presume with your auto fleshlight, just going away.
And you're just lying back.
Terrible mode.
Letting this virtual woman ride you, presumably.
Who says romance is dead?
what happened to just taking a girl out for a nice cup of tea then maybe to the pictures
and now you're locked in your cupboards with a virtual reality headset on it and a
automated flashlight gooding your brains out what's wrong with this generation
the good generation the goonest generation that's hilarious man i watched that uh the double
episode of 24 hours in police custody.
The young man who killed his mother, his brother and sister in Luton.
It was only last year that this happened.
Yeah.
I don't remember here about this.
And then had plans to go on and kill children at a elementary school after he'd done that.
Yeah.
It was terrible.
If you haven't seen it, it's on 4-0.D.
It's a police procedural documentary, in my opinion, the best one.
That's good, yeah.
It's really good.
It opens with, it always seems to open with the initial call to the police.
And then it's like the investigation and the interrogation of the suspect.
It gives you a timeline of what they, what they're thinking at the time, you know, the challenges.
But so this guy, so the call comes in at about five in the morning that there has been a huge argument or some fighting.
And then a series of gunshots are heard.
And so people start phoning in, the police go out.
They get to the apartment and they find the mother and his siblings who are like 15 and 16,
a brother and sister.
And they're all, they've all been shot.
And he's fled the scene.
So they're trying to track him down.
And they catch some CCTV footage of the building and they see him after the murders just kind of strolling out of the building.
Doesn't look, you know, like he's in any rush or anything.
he just sort of walking out and his he has such an odd walk so the next day um during the daytime
they put out some information to the to the police to say we're looking for somebody who's who
vaguely matches this description and at that point all they have really is the clothes that he's
wearing but they know that he didn't go back to the apartment uh and and they say just generally
be on the lookout for anybody who's acting a little bit odd as well you know like just just just
just take them to one side and and and and and just ask them you know how they're doing or whatever
you know just just as like a like a as like a precaution you know yeah and so immediately
they find this guy walking down the road and he just looks he just looks insane doesn't he
the way that he's walking like his arms aren't moving and his fists are like down like
pointing right down to the ground and stuff yeah yeah so they immediately stop him because
they're told to stop anybody who looks
a little bit weird. This guy
is like the fucking poster child for
weirdos walking down the road.
He also has blood all over his t-shirt.
Yeah, yeah. So they stop him. But he's covered in blood.
They're like, oh, hey, you know,
how are you doing? Can we ask you a couple of questions?
And his opener is,
it was a murder.
It's unbelievable.
He's like, it was a murder. It was a murder.
They're like, all right. Well,
uh, uh,
uh, well, you're going to come with us now.
On our men immediately he was walking down the road.
I was watching it with Mrs. F, because we always, we love 24 hours in police custody.
And I said to her straightaway, I said, this guy is 100% on the spectrum.
Oh, yeah.
100 million percent.
Because I recognize some of his behavior, the way he spoke, the questions he asked, and the details that he asked.
Like, he asked hypothetical questions of the police that you think, now is not the time.
You know what I mean?
Like, he's like, what if I just jumped and attacked you right now?
You know, stuff like that's the sort of thing that he would ask.
Just weird questions.
He had a routine that he wanted to stick to, like all the classic hallmarks of someone with ASD.
So I thought that was, and I immediately thought to myself, this guy's a gamer.
I guarantee you this guy's a gamer.
And, of course, he plays Roblox.
He plays Minecraft.
He's balls deep at the internet.
Yeah.
He's obsessed with Clem from the Walking Dead.
Clementine from the Walking Dead Tell Tell Games.
He's like, obsessed with her.
He's a Pido as well.
Let's need it be said.
Basically, he is, yeah.
But yeah, so his plan was to be the biggest mass shooter in Britain and America.
Yeah.
He had enough.
He wanted to beat the, what is it, Virginia Tech record.
Well, the Sandy Hook, it was all modeled on the, on the Sandy Hook shooter as well.
Yeah, but his number, his number was from Virginia Tech.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the
community. Anyway, I don't want to spoil too much. It is a really, really good episode.
It's really good. Normally, once they caught the guy, it is sad. But normally, once they've
caught the guy in some episodes, you're like, well, they've caught him now, and now he's just
going to say no comment to everything. But this guy is genuinely horrific entertainment, if you
like. You're just mad, you're just blown away that this guy existed. Yeah. And that he,
that he was allowed to fester in the worst corners of the internet, turned into this terrible
The thing that amazes me is that he so easily in the UK just bought a shotgun in ammunition.
Like, it didn't seem at all tricky for him to do this.
He just went online, organized the sale, met a guy in a parking lot with £650 and just
bought a full double-barrel shotgun with tons of ammo.
I've said this to, when people talk about how you can't get guns in the UK, I've said
this for years because I remember when I bought my air rifle, which I bought because we had a
squirrel problem, and I thought this would solve it. It did. There was a shop on the high street
near me that sold shotguns and air rifles. I went in there and I was like, oh my God, there's
the shotguns. He was like, yeah, yeah, you need a license, but you can get one. You just get a license.
You just get a license, yeah. And I mean, I think you need to show a reason why you would reasonably
have one. For instance, pest control, farmland, vermin control. You know,
that kind of stuff. Farmers can have shotguns because apparently they need them to shoot
badges or whatever. Like, you know, they're allowed to have them. But I don't think people
realize how easy it is to get a gun in this country if you really want to. Obviously, the thing is
owning one illegally is a prison sentence. Like, if you get caught, you are going to fucking jail.
He just forged up this document. He obviously downloaded a fake shotgun license from the dark
web, went down. This guy met him and was like, yeah, a piece of paper, you've got looks fine.
There's no national database, I guess.
And one of the coppers was like, even I didn't know it was this easy to get a gun.
Like, he literally just met him, it was really surprising.
Showed him a piece of paper and the guy.
And the guy was like, the guy who sold him the gun was distraught.
He was like, oh my God, I thought it was a legit sale.
But the way he was like, yeah, yeah, I'll drive to you, implies that this happens all the time.
Yes.
The guns are trading hands in private hands all the time.
I am genuinely quite surprised.
I presume that there's no restrictions on it other than you need a piece of paper.
Like, if my car MOT, you can look up my license plate and it'll say, yes, MOT, I actually got it
MOTed yesterday.
Bam, there it is online.
Oh, yeah.
So now, I see, you're so courageous now that you know that you're covered.
You're like, yeah, you can check me out any time.
You can look it up.
Look it up.
And it's right there on life.
But there's no equivalent for shotgun licenses, I guess.
Because otherwise, this guy would have just done that.
He wouldn't have needed a bit of paper.
It seems crazy.
But you're right, Lula.
You're very quiet.
just he's absorbing
absorbing
I'm still not sure it's okay
for you to be shooting squirrels
you can
yes you absolutely can
you can
but I don't think it's
it's okay
I mean it was one particular squirrel
like one giant dump in front of everyone
is I can do that
all right so legally
speaking you're allowed to fire an air rifle
on your property as long as the round
I'm getting very nerdy into this
No, as long as the shot or the round doesn't leave your property, that's fine.
You can shoot an air rifle on your property, no problem.
You were allowed to, squirrels are classed as vermin, especially, I'm not shooting them just because
they're in my garden.
This one was coming in the house.
Wow, right?
Constantly.
It was coming in the house.
It was coming in the back door, coming in the cat flap.
I'd come downstairs, and there's a fucking squirrel in the house.
It was just this one.
So I was like, all right, this bold motherfucker's got to go.
So I got the air rifle, and I shot and killed the squirrel.
That's the end of it.
Okay.
What did it, it's so, hang on, walk me through this.
I ate it, raw.
It stopped.
What did it do?
Did it just stop long enough for you to, to shoot it?
No, believe it or not, it was, it doesn't feel like a,
did you have to leave the shot?
Like, was he, was, were you tracking him?
I don't know if the listeners, I'm sure there are listeners out there who were horrified
the idea that I would shoot as well.
Did it make that sound when you shot him like, that you're hearing caught like that?
Yeah.
No, it didn't, it didn't make the tick sound from a con hit.
So here's, here's how I did it.
I just sat in my,
office, which in that point was at the back of the house in the old conservatory, with the back
doors open. And I had my air rifle just rested on another chair with a cushion on top.
You had a sniper nest. Yeah. And I just waited. Right. I literally waited for him.
You got like a gilly suit on. I left out some food. Were you like whittling some wood and
like smoking your cigarette while you were just waiting for your prey to turn up? I just, I put a little bit
of food out. I knew he'd come. And of course he did. He sees me and he starts coming towards me.
Right. And he's, he was literally a foot away from the barrel of the air rifle when I shot.
Right. It was the easiest shot. Impossible to miss. And he just went and keeled over dead.
So what did he feel weird picking up his dead body after you'd killed him? No. What was weird was him living in my
fucking house. That was what I didn't like. Did you pick him up with your hands or did you use a dustpan and brush?
No, I just, I think I might have put on some rubber gloves. Right. I bagged him up. Right.
And I threw him out.
What, in the bin?
I put him in the bin and then put him in my rubbish.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which bin?
Just my regular garbage.
How long, what was the lead time between you putting the dead squirrel in the bin and
then the bins being collected?
I can't remember, but it certainly wouldn't have been longer than a couple of days.
Right.
So every time you went to throw out a bag after that, did you think that there's a dead squirrel
in there?
No, it's just a dead squirrel.
It might contain disease.
It's just a dead squirrel.
It doesn't bother me.
Doesn't bother me.
It's just a dead squirrel.
I'd feel so weird killing a squirrel.
I saw a dead squirrel in the park the other day.
I didn't run home.
If you could catch one with your bare hands and ring its little neck, would you kill
it that way or would you prefer to do it with a gun?
It's a quicker, cleaner kill with the gun.
If you could catch it with your bare hands and then stab it with a knife, would you do it like that?
Again, it's a bit, getting your hands in there, you know, knives for a pro.
I'm not saying I'm a pro.
Guns fish are knives for a pro.
I'm not a pro.
I don't even think I could actually kill an animal, you know?
Like, I'm not even just saying that, like, I think I would just, it would, it would, it would, it would, by the way, this episode is now going to go down as I'm a psycho for shooting a squirrel. I apologize. I've never known anyone kill a, like a, like a, a squirrel. A living thing before. It's just, it's, it's, it's, first, I mean, they are, they are, it's just a squirrel. Like, they're not endangered. Was it a red squirrel? No, God, no.
Okay, it's not. They're not even meant to be here. Brace squirrels are an invasive species. Did you know that? So you've decided to.
to enact your own vigilante style of justice only.
One time only, and only because he crossed the line and kept coming in the house.
Now, it was impossible, given that we had cats for me to just bar up the cat flat because
they needed it.
What kind of stuff was he doing when he got into your house?
Just coming in, eating food, like looking for shit.
If we had anything in the house that he wanted, he would just fucking come in and eat it.
Jesus.
How did the rest of the family feel about this squirrel execution?
This was pre-children.
Right.
Oh, really?
Yes.
You sound like you were wild before you had kids.
Do you think kids calm you down a little bit?
No, I just got to take care of business.
So this is a long time ago.
Did you have a full hair of head of hair back then?
I think I might have had hair by then, yeah.
So I was a hairy, wild huntsman.
Okay.
Would you do the same thing today?
In the same circumstances?
Absolutely.
Right.
You don't feel it.
Why hesitate?
Well, I mean, listen, now you know it works.
It's effective.
But I understand that it's uncommon in this country for this to happen.
Anyone that is listening to this that lives in any kind of rural area, this is no big deal.
Like, I realize it's unusual to do this in a London suburb.
I understand that.
I also understand that probably no one else of the yggs other than perhaps Tom would be comfortable shooting.
Or Duncan, actually, I would put Duncan in that.
You think Duncan would shoot a squirrel?
I reckon he would.
I reckon he would.
Why does Duncan get like this, this, this badge that he's like some outdoorsman when he only goes to Glastonbury like once a year?
I just said I reckon he would.
You know, he's a hunter now?
Like, come on, man.
Do you think you deserve this badge instead?
I don't think I deserve it.
I just know that Duncan doesn't deserve it, okay?
I'm not saying he's not taking anything away from me here.
I just, I'm calling in a question.
Why everybody just assumes that he's just like some, you know, he's like fucking bare grills out there.
He's not.
But listen, I think that, Jewel, I think you probably have a point, Pflex, and I think people
with dogs or cats don't care about the amount of birds and mice and other stuff.
They, rats, you know, that they kill, you know.
I mean, yeah, I was playing down to the other night.
Someone's cat came in with a bird, right?
Yeah.
I was like, if your dog caught and killed a squirrel, would that be like a problem or, you know,
a wild rabbit?
It was that a problem?
I'm sure it happens, right?
It depends.
The dog put the squirrel in the bin after it killed it.
What would you have done with it?
Have a little funeral pyre like Viking style.
Put him in the river near me with a little boat surrounded by nuts.
I wouldn't.
I don't appreciate you trying to turn this on me to make me look like I'm a weirdo.
You're the one who shot a squirrel.
There's nothing weird about that is my point.
I don't love the Viking funeral barrio either.
What am I supposed to do?
fucking launch a flaming arrow at his little canoe.
Exactly.
That's what I'm saying.
That's going down the river.
Like I'd miss that.
There's no way I would hit that.
Like the canoe would be so small.
Like it would be like this tiny little canoe with a squirrel in it.
You want to throw it in the compost.
Even compost.
No, you can't compost.
You can't compost the dead remains of a squirrel.
That's not compostable.
Yeah, you're not meant to put meat or anything like that in there.
Well, really.
What the hell, Lewis?
You would do that?
I think you could just bury it.
No, we got one killing squirrels and we got another one suggesting to put him on a compost
pub.
What does that, what's going on here?
What needs to cover out of this?
That's all.
You guys are fucking cooked.
Like, what's going on here?
What's happened to this podcast?
I thought I knew you guys.
Yeah, I mean, I killed one squirrel one time and I think it was justified.
Period.
You're going to be in the next episode of 24 hours of police custody.
They're going to see you.
walking down the street, and the police is going to stop here, you're going to say,
I didn't murder him.
It was a lot.
Yeah, I was broken up.
It must have been about 6 o'clock in the morning.
I heard the faint sound of an airsoft rifle go off.
I'm a little concerned.
It's not air soft.
Wait, well, it was a very different.
An air rifle, sorry.
Yeah.
I mean, you could kill a small rodent with an airsoft, though, if you hit it in the head or something.
I don't think so.
They're really not that powerful.
I mean, it's not enough.
You could, you could probably.
kill one with a paintball gun.
It was a small. I mean, it was a little mouse or something.
Maybe, yeah, I guess.
Like, a little.
Maybe if you knocked it off a building, I don't know, like, I don't think it's, I don't think
that's absurd.
Who's doing that?
Who's going to, who's going to knock a mouse off a building?
Like, stop fucking Dr. Seuss.
We're like, we're not going to knock a mouse off a building here.
Like, we survive that.
Yeah.
Well, look, hey, I just want to say to any of our listeners that were put off
about the fact that I shot a squirrel, please email in.
I'd like to hear some of your takes on it.
Don't open up that one.
You know what's going to happen.
No, I think, I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised that I will get supportive emails saying,
yes, of course, vermin sometimes, you know, they've got to be shot.
Some guy will, it's probably a vermin control expert that's going to email in and say,
I do this for a living.
I've killed 100 squirrels a week since I was 18 years old.
They call me the squirrel murderer, you know, whatever.
I'm sure we'll get some supportive emails.
I'm sure I'll get some people saying, you're terrible man.
Even though squirrels are literally listed as vermin, you can kill them.
Yeah, I know.
And it was humane.
It was humane.
It was one shot kill.
You know, that woman that does the YouTube videos where people call her up
when they have like a really big bee or wasp infestation?
Yeah, she's great.
Okay, imagine she just turned up with a flamethrower every time.
Like, it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be fun to watch, would it?
Or maybe for some people it would be.
But, you know,
there's literally dozens of videos of people
flame throwing wasp nests and hornet nests.
You watch those?
Yes.
Fuck those things.
Yeah, I mean,
fuck a,
but like,
if you had a wasp nest,
if you had a massive hornet nest
in your house,
you'd want them to go in and offer them.
I would never step in the house again.
Hornet,
let's parlay here.
What a little it'll take
to get you guys to move out?
Perhaps this vat of honey,
if I put that in the nearby park,
you could move there instead.
And the hornet's like,
Z, no deal, humans.
Like the Ferengi.
What would you do, Lewis?
If a lad turned up, if a lad turned up and was like, he was like, listen, Mr. Sitz.
And it's infested with wasps.
And there's a huge wasp nest in your house.
What are you doing?
I got any petrol.
My God.
You can acquire petrol.
Well, you're not going to, inside your house, you're not going to burn out a wall.
No, no, no, apparently if you get petrol in a little layer of petrol in a bucket
and you put it under the wasp nest.
And then you set fire to it, it'll fuck them up.
No, and then you just put it under because the fumes are vaporized so quickly.
Right.
It just kills all the wastes.
So you're gassing them to death.
And somehow that is like, oh, that's the humane way to do it.
Just fucking torture them.
They're going to be dead in a second.
Dead.
Yeah, well, listen, I've got some articles here to read to you.
So first of all, do it.
Former Syrian president, president,
Bashar
Bashar al-Assad, isn't it?
Bashar al-Assad.
He is reportedly spending his exile
in, which I assume is in Russia.
Yeah.
Playing video games.
I wonder if he's a doterman.
Video games.
Well, they.
What kind of games do you think he would be into?
I bet he's a doter man.
He's in Russia.
Apparently he has hour-long gaming sessions.
Hour long?
Just an hour.
One hour long?
Wow.
Sometimes he visits a more.
A shopping mall.
Right.
There you go.
That is what he's doing.
He's playing online games.
On online games.
I wonder what games he's playing.
Yeah, I wonder too.
Maybe he's playing like a custom game in Roblox or something.
This is a daily mail article, you scum.
He's big into it.
It's all game rant.
It's not one getting it from.
He lives in a lavish apartment, apparently.
Right.
And a nice apartment plays games all day.
Cool.
I wonder if he gets Flamed.
playing cod.
You know who I am?
And we'll have your kill.
And then he snaps his thing.
He's like,
Death Squad, take him away.
And then he's like,
oh, wait,
those days are over.
And then he does like
the fucking Pablo Escobar
thing where he sits on a bench
by himself
and in the pool.
He just quietly leaves
and leaves the lobby.
He's getting Xbox.
Probably DMs
calling him a cunt.
And there's a little tear
in his eye.
I could have heard you
killed, baby.
I miss those days.
As if that doesn't need any more whiplash.
This is an article from Kutaku.
One of the biggest YouTubers in the world has asked fans to stop paying him.
Apparently, this is what it takes now to get the news.
And honestly, I applaud it.
Most critical, you know.
He's made 35 million bucks.
He's a rich guy.
He's rich, yeah.
He's turned off.
YouTube memberships and super chats.
He hasn't turned off to which subs, though, for reasons.
Now, listen, voice critical, I applaud you and what you're doing here.
Fantastic.
If you want to give back, you can donate that money yourself, please.
You could maybe run a charity event or something like that.
You know, there are lots of ways that you can, I know these streamers are that most of them are far worse than he's one of the best ones, honestly.
I think he seems like a pretty good bloke from what I've seen in him.
I don't know if he's got some terrible past, but he seems like a good book.
If you are serious about, you know, being charitable, there is a lot you can do with your platform beyond just, you know, turning off YouTube memberships and saying.
I think he's stepping back because he just wants, he needs to, he wants to free up some more time to kill squirrels.
I was just saying he was going to, he was going to do a charity about shot squirrels.
Over 13 squirrels are killed every year in the UK.
By me.
Hi, I'm moist critical.
Every day.
Every day.
Every day.
Every 65 squirrels are slain by my hands.
Every day, the blood of defeated squirrels sloshes around my feet as I stand over a tiny pile of gray corpses.
The streets of our great nation because I can't stop killing them.
Stop me before I kill again.
Stop giving me money.
Stop making. Stop enabling me.
All the money you've given me is gone towards funding my squirrel killing.
All the money I've ever earned has gone into revising a net.
work of assassins and machinery for the murder of gray squirrels in the Twickenham area.
And my work is complete.
You may now stop sending the money.
So, yes.
Amazing.
It's great news and I want to hear more of it, please.
So a cosplayer who dressed up as a frog has been the new face of ice protests in Portland.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
I think we've all seen this.
This poor guy,
so it's an inflatable costume,
which has like a little intake fan,
you know,
to keep it inflated and to get air circulation.
Man,
somebody fucking pepper sprayed the fan.
Oh,
Jesus.
But apparently this guy is kind of like pepper spray proof.
Like it doesn't bother him.
So he was just like,
whatever.
But like,
if that was me,
I'd be fucking dead.
If somebody pepper sprayed,
my air supply
fan
that is
that is quite a funny attack though
to spray into the airhole
of your fucking cosplay frog
worrying as well though
I mean these people are sworn
to serve and protect like that
I don't know what
these are ice agents
yeah they're not
they are not sworn to do
whatever the fuck anybody was
they just I mean I've seen
so much of the news
about these guys
fucking terrifying
I mean fucking go in there as long as those fuckers are around, I tell you that much.
No, I think a lot of people feel the same way.
They've moved along to there's lots more inflate of all costumes out.
Lots of, it's, yeah, it's, it's good, good on you.
Apparently, the, uh, the next big deployment is going to be to San Francisco, and they're
just like rubbing their hands together because like all these, all these guys are going to
like put their latex on and go out and protest, like, looped up and in the,
the nude and stuff so that should be
high Ashbury yeah
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