Triforce! - Triforce! #163: Post Sedation Podcasting

Episode Date: February 10, 2021

Triforce! Episode 163! Pyrion went into surgery to fix his achy breaky heart, Sips shares his Marie Kondo-esque ideals about 'stuff' and Lewis tries to destroy the Triforce itself. Go to http://expr...essvpn.com/triforce today and get an extra 3 months free on a 1-year package! 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 00:01:15 Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Triforce podcast. Good morning. Morning. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Wherever you are. Yeah. Sips. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. Yeah. Sips. Yeah. How are you doing on the island? Oh, man. Just great.
Starting point is 00:01:30 How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic. Oh. And P-Flex, fresh out of hospital from having heart surgery. Holy shit. How did it go, Flax? I take it you survived. I did survive.
Starting point is 00:01:43 Good, good. It was quite the experience. I haven't you survived. I did survive. Good good. It was uh, it was quite the experience I haven't right I haven't the last Operational procedure that I had of any note was when I have my tonsils out and that was when I was like 13 So I went in to have a mole removed from my back. It took like two minutes So other than that, I've you know, I've not really had the full Operator
Starting point is 00:02:03 We could do that with scissors, right? Right. I mean, they did. They just maybe bend over in the waiting room and just snip it up. In fact, that's the recommended way of doing it. Yeah. But this was a whole trial, really. I headed in at about, I got there for about midday and I got home at about 11 p.m.
Starting point is 00:02:22 So it was only about 11 hours total. And I got home at about 11 p.m. So it was only about 11 hours total, but it was a lot of waiting around. And then about two hours of genuine humiliation, discomfort and pain and at times fear, I would say. So to give you guys for anyone that maybe is listening to this episode in isolation, I had and have uh something called supraventricular tachycardia which is when your heart races out of control like upward of 180 bpm so mine is 200 to 220 when i have an attack and i had three of these that required an injection of something called adenosine that stops it you'll have to see previous episodes to find out it's not like when um you
Starting point is 00:03:05 know something happens like the doorbell rings in the middle of the night or something and your heart's pounding it's not your greatest fear a house visitor yeah oh my god someone's coming to my house yeah um yeah no this is this is faster than you could conceivably ever get your heart through anything really like you know i've done exercise i've had sex uh my heart still doesn't you have i have at least twice uh in fact just to confirm what's it was twice it's it's pretty good it's pretty good nice nice nice but uh it's your heart rate you know that this is would you say anything's anything's better than it than sex or a massive heart rate than than sex yeah there's loads of things that are as good and maybe even better than sex or a massive heart rate than dead sex yeah there's loads of things that are as good
Starting point is 00:03:45 and maybe even better than sex the older you get i guess definitely like um like for example just like sitting down and reading a newspaper in silence and really good cup of tea like honestly just having a cigar you're right there are certain things like like having a drink of water yeah after a long uh after a long walk on your zimmer frame yeah after having sex yeah having a having a much needed drink of water i mean i do think sex gives you a satisfaction level in your bones almost it feels like you know yes like the goal achieved because it's like that's the whole purpose of us as as living things really is to have sex regardless you know our body doesn't know that uh you know there's not going to be a baby as a result of this sex our body's just like well job done we can now die happily and you get a deep
Starting point is 00:04:36 sense of calm and peace maybe that's just me i don't know i just feel like i've done my my role as a no it is absolutely um like hacking your hormones or whatever. There's this thing, isn't there, about how you get certain hormones from cuddling and certain hormones from exercise and certain hormones... Different hormones from
Starting point is 00:04:55 nutting on someone's face. That's a whole different set of hormones. But it's also supposed to be the drugs thing, isn't it? Like heroin or whatever is supposed to, you know fuck with that hormone so it's kind of that's why people get addicted to it because it's very much like this thing that you can't get from other sources necessarily yeah i think i could be talking shit sounds right yeah
Starting point is 00:05:17 no but you're supposed to yeah a lot of people talk about how they're supposed to try and hack their hormones do you hear about this like movement almost no i don't read as widely or as deeply as you do apparently well into the corners of the internet it's like you know there's like different things that you're supposed to do and try and you know like keep your body in shape in order to i think there's this like list of like four or five hormones that you get from different locations you can get them from and you're supposed to try and you know like this is why you should try and do a little bit of exercise every day and also i don't know hold hands with a dog and just i don't know do stuff like um that humans should do man i love holding hands with dogs like that's the best yeah
Starting point is 00:05:59 like makes you feel my dog doesn't like it when you hold her paw she sort of looks at your hand holding her paw and then she looks at you and then she tries to pull it away they don't like it when you hold her paw. She sort of looks at your hand holding her paw and then she looks at you and then she tries to pull it away. They don't like it. You have to train them. You have to train them to like it. Okay. I will try that. It's the same with humans.
Starting point is 00:06:16 You just got to convince them that it's the play. That's the play. Wear them down over a long period of time. That's right. Break their spirit. But yeah, so anyway, so I went in and I was there for a couple of hours while they, you know, they wanted to make sure that I wasn't eating anything, basically, because the way the procedure goes, you're conscious.
Starting point is 00:06:35 Like they give you local anesthetic. And so they need to keep you awake. They need to induce an attack of SVT. So they want to sort of get your heart racing. So because this was a procedure called an ablation, which is basically they're going to burn part of your heart. Right. So your heart is covered in these tiny nerve clusters and lines and cables and everything. And that's the route that the electrical signals take from the top part of your heart that spreads
Starting point is 00:07:00 down in a sort of expanding pattern to make it all beat in the right sequence. And the problem with SVT is that as the electricity goes down your heart, it sort of hits a circuit breaker and comes back on itself. So part of your heart is going like crazy, which is why you start to get lightheaded and you get numbness in your sort of extremities. And your blood is not pumping properly. It's a very shallow, inefficient beat. So to fix it, they rewire your heart a little bit by burning these troublesome nerves and hopefully that it all carries on from
Starting point is 00:07:33 there so the only way to do this is to essentially go in through the veins in your like left and right of your junk basically the big veins in your groin because they're nice and visible on top there and there's nothing in the way you can get right in there and then those go straight up to your heart right so what they do is they cut in a little bit and they put these massive uh cables up there like they put them all the way up through your veins right and then through those cables they have very fine metal probes and things like that. And one of them, the big cable, has a little fucking burner on the end. So they make these and they cut. The doctor said to me, this should be the only bit that's uncomfortable
Starting point is 00:08:14 is when I'm giving you the local anesthetic in your legs. So into my thighs, right at the top, right near my junk, they're going to put these injections. So I'm wheeled into the operating room. So it all up you can't feel it upper leg yeah because it's honestly that the holes that they make are quite quite big like they're probably um let me think what they'd be comparable to geez i don't know they're quite big like a small snake going into like a yes you could like the the width of a thick earthworm so quite quite it's like the width of a thick earthworm. So quite, quite, quite. It's like some kind of sci-fi horror, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:08:50 Well, you wait, you wait, because it really does get pretty horrible. So I'm wheeled in there and they say to me. I'm already clenching. I know. The fact that they're messing around down there. I know. Is already like making me clench my butt. You'd think that they're messing around down there is the worst of it.
Starting point is 00:09:04 They say to me, Edward, we are now going to have to shave quite extensively, like, you know, because I'm quite a hairy dude down there. And they were like, we're going to have to shave quite extensively your chest. Jesus Christ. It's a jungle down here. Get the shears.
Starting point is 00:09:16 Get the machete. We need the explorer's hat. They're shaving my chest, which I'm used to. I've had that like three or four times now. So they shave all patches of that and they're sticking all these EKG things on. It's a jungle in here.
Starting point is 00:09:27 It is literally a jungle. I think I've found some lost treasure. Indiana fucking Jones is going to pop up. There's a pyramid in here with a pre-Columbus civilisation. Well, the worst part was that they cover the rest of you with a sheet but they've got a special sheet with
Starting point is 00:09:43 like a letterbox sized hole that went right over my penis and testicles so they are just hanging out um visible like a klu klux klan suit like that but instead of just covering just their eyes show and it's just their their their cock and balls they'd like so they're just hanging out there in the middle of the operating theater right sex show it was great and there's like nine people in this room. And the most awkward part was like, they keep coming over to see how I am and to help out with the procedure and everything.
Starting point is 00:10:11 You know, they're all there for a reason. They're not just spectators. And every time they come over to talk to me, they'll sort of talk to me and then they'll look at my nuts and my balls and my cock and everything. And they'll sort of look. And then they'll look back at me
Starting point is 00:10:21 and then they'll carry on with their work. I'm like, you don't have to have a fucking look. You know, imagine you're at the urinal and you know you know you're not carefully peeking at everybody's junk well it felt like they were a little bit obviously what they're looking at i am i like to i like to compare i like to see what's out there you know i want to make sure that nobody is that's good for you you should work in a fucking operating theater man maybe i should you get to see a lot of dicks in there you can't help looking at you really have to work hard for your eyes not to just pop down there if there was like a completely nude woman in front of me and i was i would have to work so hard to not just
Starting point is 00:10:58 yeah but bear in mind especially if i was a medical doctor they usually they cover like cover over everything though give you like no it was just there like i could feel the feel the breeze yeah so it was like the reverse of clothes like honestly in any other situation i would have clothes on that one part if i could choose one part of my body to have clothes on it would be my private parts so So, sorry, currently I feel like you are wearing a cheap Halloween ghost costume with a letterbox with your cock and balls and just your head. Your balls fucking egg at the top.
Starting point is 00:11:33 My head, there's an egg. If I were to walk into a room, a white room, all I would see would be a floating egg and a cock and balls. Yeah. Partially shaved. It's a dream. I assume. Covered in this, they put this sort of orange uh disinfectant
Starting point is 00:11:46 paint on there uh like they slather that all over there so they've given me this bright orange crotch and and there i mean to be fair that you know they've also then shoved cables up my my groin veins do you reckon the orange is like um works doubly as a sort of hat like a water like you know how road workers have to wear the orange jackets the fluorescent stuff do you reckon like it keeps them aware of where the cock and balls are at all times frankly you couldn't miss there's never any chance there's nothing else so the doctor's like he injects the local and at this point i'm just thinking well whatever i mean you know, geez, I don't care if there's like nine people staring at my junk. I just want this over with.
Starting point is 00:12:30 And I think this isn't going to be too bad. And they've got an x-ray machine, which is like a robot. So no one's like manually controlling it. They'll just adjust the angle and the whole. It's like a big arm. Is it loose? Is it like talking to you and stuff? No, thank God.
Starting point is 00:12:44 Morning, Mr. Flags. And then it's like looking down at your balls it loose? Is it like talking to you and stuff? No, thank God. Good morning, Mr. Flags. And then it's like looking down at your balls occasionally. It looks back at me. Mmm, icy. Yeah, and it sort of... It's like a jungle down there that someone sprayed with aged orange. Open new file, smallest penis on record.
Starting point is 00:13:03 Uploading to Twitter feed. But it just lurched up and down it just lurches up and down so sometimes it's coming right at my head and other times it's going like all over the place right so i was just like well i'll just hold still and there's a big widescreen tv on my left luckily not showing a giant close-up of my junk but instead showing the x-ray of my heart. And they push these cables, they're about the thickness of a mouse cable. So the cable on your mouse, slightly thicker than that, is being pushed up through the veins in your groin all the way to your heart. So when they're inserting these cables, you can feel it going inside you and bumping past things. And as it's
Starting point is 00:13:44 going past them, you'll feel these weird sensations like imagine if you kind of needed the loo a little bit and someone pushed on your kidneys you'd kind of feel like you needed a wee right yeah and if someone pushes in your stomach you kind of feel that so imagine this cable sort of excuse me just bumping past it feels like it was really weird and that i'm quite uncomfortable so when it went past the part it felt like my back hurt because it's obviously bumping against some spinal thing and then when it went past my my stomach i felt hungry and it was bizarre and then it got up to my heart and at that point they fed all these cables in and your heartbeat is normally obviously very steady
Starting point is 00:14:21 it start they start basically zapping it with electricity to try and make it go freaky and see which bit they zap to make it go freaky. So they want to induce an attack with electric shocks and chemicals. Holy fuck. It's like a rogue American cop is loose or a normal American cop is loose in your heart, just tasering everyone.
Starting point is 00:14:40 Literally. And just for no reason. At one point they had the current slightly too high. So other bits of my torso were like freaking out and like clenching and flexing like they were getting minor electric shocks and i was like oh and the doctor said are you all right i said well the right side of my body is just like vibrating and he's like oh the current's too high tom can you bring the current down a little bit and he was oh yeah sorry so the other guy on the control desk is sort of pulling all these levers
Starting point is 00:15:05 and things he's got like fucking testicles on his arms held up charge the electricals he's alive i was already alive he's still alive so then they've got the x-ray and i can see all these cables in my heart in the x-ray. They've got them lined up, and they start, and they're like, oh, there it goes, and my heart suddenly goes like 200 BPM. And then they're like, right, stop, and they stop everything.
Starting point is 00:15:36 They're like, right, let's try and do that again, because they've got to be sure that they found the right bit. And they do it again, and they're like, right, that's the bit. And they were like, you're very lucky, Mr. Forsythe. I was like, why is that? And they were like, well, it has to be, the easiest way to do it again and they're like right that's the bit and they were like you're very lucky mr forsyth i was like why is that and they were like well it has to be if the easiest way to do it is if the the problem is on the right side of your heart in an easy to reach place otherwise they have to puncture through your heart to get to the left otherwise i'm gonna have to go to this other machine and shrink down uh to the size of a of an Exactly. And to drive this little taxi,
Starting point is 00:16:06 which will also be shrunk down, and I'm going to have a cop with me. He's going to have a taser, and he's going to have to come and taser your heart. So it's very difficult to get to. I know this sounds complicated, and you're on a lot of drugs right now, but don't worry.
Starting point is 00:16:20 It's all perfectly normal. It felt like that. But we didn't have to do that bit thank god um so because that would have been staying in overnight in a special drain because all your heart bleeds and everything like that so thankfully that didn't happen um and then they drain yeah they put you in the sewer what kind of hospital is this you go all kind of back alley hospital i never said it was a hospital you just went to you just went into a back alley and ats break and break and tire master oh it's the illegal garage down the road
Starting point is 00:16:52 yeah mate we'll rewire your fucking art in no time right back son get his cock out john look at that yeah paint it orange john paint it orange oh yeah look at that what's this for oh we just think it's funny mate so then they send up the big lad
Starting point is 00:17:10 which is the ablation tube and that sort of goes up and then that one was really uncomfortable and I can see
Starting point is 00:17:16 the doctor like straining to like push it up there like he's unblocking a drain and off it goes so Christ sorry sorry
Starting point is 00:17:21 so the taser tube was a different tube to the burn tube the taser tube was a different tube to the yeah the taser tube is how they they there's like that's got sensors on and electrical thingies to make your heart go nuts and then the um ablation thing is like a tiny little burner i don't know what it looks like i didn't get a look at it i didn't look like a little lighter on something
Starting point is 00:17:40 like that literally and they go up there and then they start burning and then they'll make another attack i bet you it looks like the fucking cigarette lighter i honestly think it does i Something like that, literally. And they go up there and then they start burning and then they'll make another attack happen. I bet you it looks like the fucking cigarette lighter. I honestly think it does. I think it looks like a miniature one of those. Yeah, in a car. A car cigarette lighter. People will remember those from 30 years ago.
Starting point is 00:17:56 From the 80s, yeah. So they basically burn a bit and then they start an attack again, then they burn a bit, and then they start an attack to see if they've got it. And we got very close to this one part of your heart that is like a really important cluster right and if they burn that then they have to put a pacemaker in and just you have a pacemaker for the rest of your life and the doctor was like we don't want to go down that route because you're
Starting point is 00:18:17 he said his words you're a young man which i was the highlight of my day wow yesterday to be honest with you he said you're a young man. We don't want to give you a pacemaker. And I was like, oh, doctor, you flatter me. So they stopped. Man, oh, man. So they stopped. But it's not 100% perfect fix, unfortunately.
Starting point is 00:18:36 He was like, unfortunately, we were still able to induce an episode. And ideally, when they've done all the burning burning they can't anymore um but they still were able to get it but it wasn't a full attack they could sort of it was like previously it was like starting an engine and it goes nuts now it's like revving an engine so it goes like that so my heart will accelerate up to a very fast rate but then just stop again so he said when your heart heals like when all the burning and everything is healed, the ablating, then you might, it might be fine. Uh, we might have to, you might have to be on medication like permanently basically to, to slow it. Uh, or if I start to feel an attack, I could take beta blockers or something. I don't know, but it shouldn't be hopefully as bad as it was.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Right. And it should be maybe less frequent. so i'm hopeful but yeah it wasn't the it wasn't a goal we basically we have we have to call in var and we're still waiting for the for the result we're not sure if it crossed the line but it doesn't look like it did right so unfortunately uh not not the best but um so now i i've come home and i can't have a shower for three days uh which isn't ideal because i've got quite a lot of blood on me and i have two very large injuries just to the left and right of me uh me crotch basically where they went in and a lot of bruising and i feel a bit bit weird right but other than that yeah did you do you feel like somebody has um like invaded you it felt very violating at the time because you could feel things wiggly
Starting point is 00:20:06 It was like having snakes in your stomach like wiggling about it was like that But to anyone out there who needs to have an ablation bear this in mind the the pain I would say I've had much worse pain at the dentist The injections if you can handle an injection honestly That's the worst part of it the rest of it just feels weird And it's sort of like the pain of like imagine if you were sitting uncomfortably, but weren't able to move. It's just that kind of pain, not actual sort of like, ah, you know, sort of pain. And I mean, afterwards, once the local wore off, there's very little pain.
Starting point is 00:20:38 It's a bit stiff, a bit sore. Walking is a bit trickier. You know, you've got to take it easy, but it's really not that bad. Nice. So I would say if you are in line for an ablation don't be worried obviously for dramatic effect i have made it sound worse um and if you have a massive hog uh go for it you know you can basically everybody has to stare at your massive donger so if that's a thing you'd like go that sounds perfect for me that sounds i need that We've been on lockdown for so long and stuff. Like I just need somebody to just stare at my big Johnson. Like, right.
Starting point is 00:21:09 I'm at that point. Anyway, I'm glad that you went through the experience of having a chestburster. You now know what it feels like to have a chestburster from Alien. Well, again, I don't want to put anybody off the operation or procedure who might be going through it. But it's not as bad as a chestburster, I'd have to say. Well, it didn't burst out of the chest, just back out of your balls area. A ballburster. A ballburster.
Starting point is 00:21:36 Well, I mean, the other thing, like maybe, you know, a little bit like what it's like to have a baby growing inside you now. I knew you'd think something ridiculous like that. What? Because you feel it like pressing on your organs and stuff. It's weird. No. You know? What, for like the split second that he had that for
Starting point is 00:21:52 as opposed to like the nine months? And the fact that it's a living thing that you've created and love and all that. And then at the end of it gets the joy of passing it through their vajazzle as well. Yeah, okay. How about we do this? How about like they had like an inflatable balloon on a worm and they put that into your gutty works. And they like just inflated it over the nine months that your wife was pregnant. So you were both pregnant and you could both experience that joy together except yours was just i'll be honest with you a fart i would really hope
Starting point is 00:22:30 that my wife didn't insist that i also went through the as you put it joy of pregnancy um because you need somebody you need somebody who's who's physically capable of bending over to pick things up and uh whose don't swell up. No, I think you should both be like two massively oversized balls wobbling around hopelessly together to share that experience. And then finally you're lying there next to each other at the end on separate hospital beds. You turn to her and say, I know what you went through now and she'd fucking punch you in the face so hard but you're passing some really painful gas like you're farting out the experience and she's laughing because it's funny and that releases endorphins
Starting point is 00:23:19 and that helps the pain get relieved i hope you're never put in charge of anything close. And then you have maybe a robot baby. You get given a robot baby. This is a series of awful ideas. This whole thing is like one of those things that your kids comes up with, eh? Imagine in Minecraft you get a villager and then you put dirt on him and then you fly in the sky. It's just going everywhere. It just going everywhere recounting their dream yeah yeah that's just how i want it to be sorry before we recorded today
Starting point is 00:23:54 mrs f said to me now don't go telling people uh that this is like awful and traumatic and everything because you i i personally hate it when um and i see this a lot and any ladies out there who've been pregnant uh might be able to back me up when a woman is pregnant other women who have had babies insist on telling them their horrific birth stories and how terrifying and awful it is and like veterans who are coming back from the front and you're one of the replacement that's a big no no you're not meant to really do that you don't do that and i definitely see women do that and it's awful um so i definitely did not want to tell people about some awful procedure it really wasn't that bad everyone was very professional and uh they were all very understanding and helpful and it was it was as
Starting point is 00:24:40 as as discomforting as it was and as sort of in a sense it was a little bit humiliating and uh dehumanizing well i mean that's the nature of uh operations so you do feel like you feel violated after because you especially if you've been under anesthetic or whatever you wake up and you know some like part of your leg has been um shaved and there's like markings on your right on you and stuff. You just feel like you've been treated like a piece of meat, you know, like,
Starting point is 00:25:09 and you weren't even aware. Which essentially you are. You're just, you're just meat that they want to send home in, in similar or better condition to the way they received it. That's pretty much it. But it's, it's pretty incredible the day and age.
Starting point is 00:25:18 Oh yeah. I think they have to have this distance though, in a sense. It's part of their training to, to kind of see your problems as yeah things that need to be fixed but they also i think especially the nurses like in a way the doctors especially the the like in the theater they only see you come in they do the operation you go the nurses are the ones who have to deal with you being scared or anxious or being in pain
Starting point is 00:25:43 afterwards they've got to deal with you pressing the buzzer a few minutes and saying, I need water, you know, all this kind of crap. So they need to appear very caring. They need to be very pleasant right off the bat. And then they need to forget about you when you walk out the door because they can't build up in their head concern for all these people coming in and everything.
Starting point is 00:26:01 You know, it's very tough. But they were all incredible. They were incredible, really, all the people that were there. And you know it's it's very tough um but they were all incredible they were incredible really all the people that were there and you know what else surprised me um actually it didn't surprise me at all but i think people need to think about this when people talk about foreigners coming over here and taking their jobs i don't want to get political i i really don't want to on this podcast because i know people don't like it. I saw out of probably the 30 people that I dealt with at the hospital yesterday, two people, two who were white and English. Everybody else was either English and not white or had come from another country.
Starting point is 00:26:36 Wow. And it was literally all the people in the operating theater, apart from the anesthetist, in the operating theatre, apart from the anaesthetist, were not white. And I thought, you know, in some people's minds, all these people should be sent back where they came from. No, no. They're crying out for health service. We wouldn't have a fucking health service. We're not producing enough here. They have to reach out abroad to get people who know what they're doing in its market forces right so for example I know that the Philippines exports if you like a lot of nurses three of the nurses I saw yesterday were yeah because I think they
Starting point is 00:27:15 have this it's almost like a kind of cultural thing where they have a lot actually a lot of nursing schools in the Philippines. And you go there and you train as a nurse and you go away as a temporary or worker to a foreign country and you work there. And it's partly because there's not many jobs there locally, but also I think relative to income levels, it pays quite well, even though I'm sure we pay the nurses not very much at all. But it's this thing where almost the Philippinesilippines is not a country that you think of in the global stage as this large place yet there are filipino nurses all over the place yeah and there's something also it's something like i think nail salons are the other thing that is it
Starting point is 00:27:59 vietnamese people like something like all of the nail salons in america or some huge amount like 80 percent of nail salons are runica or some huge amount like 80 percent of nail salons are run by vietnamese immigrants so it's one of these things where they actually they have a big culture of it in vietnam and it's something which they've got a big community of people doing in america so there's a lot of support for it and it's like oh you know i know someone who's opened a nail salon we could tell you how to do it this is this is exactly like the guide you need to it's almost like opening a franchise of mcdonald's i guess or something you know um it's it's kind of this strange phenomenon right so i think you've got to understand that when there are
Starting point is 00:28:33 people willing to come here and work for not very much what's the incentive for us to pay them or what's the incentive for us to to train up and be be paid not so much you know You know, I think like it is the market that's caused this in a sense. And it's a strange phenomenon. But I don't want to criticize what we – I think that we need to pay these people properly and fairly for what they do. And I sympathize with both sides. I think that teachers and nurses and these kind of jobs for a long time were, especially before the pandemic, were looked down on a little bit. Whereas, in fact, I think they're some of the most important jobs in society, you know, and they are hard jobs too, right?
Starting point is 00:29:19 Oh, yeah. Like, you know, you can imagine like... It's a calling. Teaching every day and nursing every day. God, that's like a hard job, you know you can imagine like a calling teaching every day and nursing every day god that's like a that's like a hard job you know not like sitting on the fucking like like like spending half an hour in the photocopier room like smoking like pretending that oh the photocopy is broken you know just hiding in there you know or browsing your phone it's like it's like in the toilet where you're you know where your boss is not not there for the day it's like it's like i don't know
Starting point is 00:29:44 it's not it's not the same is it. It's like, I don't know. It's not the same, is it really? It's like you can't slack off as a nurse or a teacher. That's a really important one. It's a tough one. Okay, so this week's sponsor for the Triforce podcast, it's ExpressVPN. Wow. That's right.
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Starting point is 00:31:06 VPN remember stands for visible penis no i like that expressvpn.com slash triforce thank you thank you um we'll carry on well would you like some uh change of pace news change of pace what's what's next on the list of things you've done yeah go on give us the Give us the next news. Oh, no, I've done nothing. This is just something that happened. Logan Paul bought $2 million worth of Pokemon cards. Wow. Sure he did. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:32 Okay. That's fucking ridiculous, isn't it? Well, he's rich, though. He's a ridiculous person. I mean, it's... But if he wanted to, like... I just can't think of anything... Like, it's so many things at once that I hate. It's Logan Paul.
Starting point is 00:31:48 It's rich people blowing their money on stupid shit just because they can. And then, you know, also telling people that if they're poor, they need to suck it up. It's buying fucking Pokemon cards without money, which is, which is also ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:32:00 And it's doing it purely for content. There has to be a cheaper way to create content than blowing two million dollars on fucking pokemon cards it basically it's all my all my trigger points in one in one news story so because like when i heard that i thought that must be a lot of pokemon cards right but no apparently like sometimes there's like one box it's like half a million dollars yeah it's ridiculous because this has got some really rare stuff in it it's like fucking i feel like when like 10 years ago i should have gotten into bitcoin and dogecoin and fucking pokemon cards you know these things they just they i feel like
Starting point is 00:32:41 it's i feel like it's too late now right it's too late but that's what i thought 10 years ago i thought 10 years ago i thought uh they're making documentaries about bitcoin it's not gonna go anywhere like jermaine and all these other things and i don't know i you constantly go through life seeing things that you think oh if only i'd kept my things i was i was too old for pokemon cards right at school at school when pokemon cards came out yeah stuff i was in sixth form or whatever so i was kind of like past it at that point and then i they were never something that i was interested in but i guess logan paul maybe was secretly he's a nerd or something um and now he's just because he's just so ludicrously rich he can just do that
Starting point is 00:33:26 as an investment and they're not gonna lose value right pokemon cards pokemon's going nowhere you know don't see pokemon ruining its reputation anyhow do you they're not adding like anything too weird like a dick pokemon or anything you know it's all gonna stick around forever it's not gonna offend anyone well maybe some of the old ones will actually but do you mean it's like it's it's pokemons gonna stick around for 20 years they're gonna keep making pokemon cards people love card games more than ever you can't know that i mean look at it feels like you can't go wrong though it felt like a huge thing who the fuck cares about pogs yeah i mean it's it's you're either into it or you're not right like you can't you can't look back and be like oh i wish i would have like gotten into that or done this or whatever. It just just doesn't serve you in any way. Right. Like you just have to like move forward. No regrets. Do the wait. Wait for the thing that you actually like to, you know, to to pop off, as they say, or not. I mean, like, you know, it doesn't matter who cares exactly people make it people
Starting point is 00:34:26 have bitcoins that are are worth a lot okay cool like if you were if you understood it back then and you and you invested in it and you got into it and now you you're lucky it's it's it's paid off for you cool like i mean i'm not at all interested in that i would never bother with anything like that like it's just you know what i mean like i'm not there's just other things i want to do like um yeah play minecraft and stuff so i mean also think about all those people who bought star wars toys when they first came out yeah kept them in the boxes yeah never touched them they must have been adults at the time who thought if i wait 50 years this stuff will be worth a fortune sure carefully bought and saved all that stuff, kept it in mint condition.
Starting point is 00:35:05 I mean, it's sucking all the fun out of life. If you treat everything that you purchase as, is this going to be an investment? Is this worth storing in a vault somewhere? Just do it with regular stuff. Buy some wine. I don't like this sort of emphasis on stuff as well. I try not to like...
Starting point is 00:35:23 The only thing that I have that that like i would miss if i didn't have it is my computer because i use it all the time but i don't have anything else valuable like you know that stuff you know i haven't i don't collect anything i don't have like anything that's overly sentimental you know what i mean like i i'd rather just go through my whole life not worrying about stuff and just concentrating like on you know maybe people or whatever you know what i mean like yeah yeah i would never just buy something with a name to like oh this is gonna be worth something one day i'm gonna sell this like i like for some people i get it that's fun and and and fair play to you but that it's it's it's not for me and And I would never... I agree with you, but I am slightly different
Starting point is 00:36:07 in that I do hoard things that mean something to me. So I have a lot of comics and a lot of books and role-playing stuff and old games and things that remind me of being younger. Yeah. And I hold on to them. And I also have some fucking DVDs. Like, I don't know why I still...
Starting point is 00:36:22 And CDs. Yeah, I mean... But these CDs I had at university. Yeah. And I i just there's an attachment there for me that you know that i i hate throwing old things away i haven't added much lately like i don't buy that much in terms of comics and stuff like that but the stuff that i did have yeah like my old version of car wars and all the old auto jeweler quarterly magazines i still got loads of that yeah i'm not saying i don't have any of this stuff i do like right but and and like i'm just as guilty like i wouldn't say i'm a hoarder but like if i get something it just goes into the a pile like next to my shelf or whatever and you know
Starting point is 00:36:56 occasionally i get angry that it's there because it's like in in the way at certain points or whatever and it's not stuff that i ever go back and look at again you know what i mean like i'm not going to go back and like organize my dvd collection or anything like that like right i know i have it i might watch it again at some point or whatever but the likelihood is there's that that thing is just forgotten and is just occupying space somewhere yeah but that space is kind of written off anyway because because I'm too lazy to do anything about it. I wouldn't go out of my way to chuck all of this stuff out. But at the same time, if I was going to be sort of regretful of anything, I would be of the mind like, why am I not just chucking this stuff out?
Starting point is 00:37:37 Like why am I so attached to this stuff? Why do I need it? I don't ever look at it. You know what I mean? Like I don't ever think about it. It's just there, you know? So you're sort of a Marie Kondo-ish, if it doesn't bring me joy, I'm going to say thank you and get rid of it. Yeah. But that's not like, it's not at the forefront of my mind sort of thing. I'd say now I'm more like, if we're, if we go to town and we're, we're shopping or whatever, and my kids are like, can I get this? So can I get that?
Starting point is 00:38:03 My mindset's different. Like, I'll be like, yeah, okay, sure. But for me, it's like, yeah, I'm going to throw that out in a week, like when they're done with it. Like, this is going to be fun for them. They want to just like acquire this thing, and that's the fun. And then they'll get home and play with it for like an hour or whatever. But next week, I'm going to chuck it out. Well, my mom's way of dealing with that for me i remember very well is anytime i wanted anything new she would make me chuck something out right right so i would always be like wrestling with myself because i feel like as a kid i didn't have that much stuff you know to me it didn't feel like a lot but to her it sort of was a lot of mess and so as a result
Starting point is 00:38:42 i was always wrestling with that i guess like i'm the same and i guess the extreme end of it is hoarding and never throwing anything away um and you see those kind of people and you can see the rationale for that right where you think oh well you know it's horrible to have that feeling that you think oh i really need that thing but i threw it away but so i i'm the same i don't tend to chuck stuff away i tend to build up stuff and put it in put it in boxes in case i'm gonna play that board game all that yeah and the other thing is like actually it feels bad to throw these things away because you want to take them to a charity shop you know i've got like a whole i've got like three full bags of stuff like old books and yeah
Starting point is 00:39:20 like books and game games and stuff like that if i wasn't going to use them um yeah i would just give them to like a charity place but like need to take those most of the stuff that i have is like old wires and stuff like like old like old adapters for like stuff i don't even use anymore hdmi cables and like i've got boxes full of this shit it's so satisfying to think oh shit i've got this thing that needs to charge or whatever and i need a cable for it i wonder if i've got one and you go in your fucking cable drawer and full it sure it's full of like snakes it never feels good though because you always feel like you're compromised like i've got this i've got the cable but it's about 10 feet too
Starting point is 00:40:00 short but i'll make it work because i got the cable like rather than just fucking throwing that out and just getting a new one that actually will like you know perfectly cover you for the purpose yeah or it's gotta go through an adapter or something it's got like two cables into each other and you're like well maybe this will work i don't know there's like there's a bunch of things like that but like i i like the idea of separating yourself from like material stuff as much as you can obviously it's like it's you're i'm not saying like become nature boy and like go and smother yourself in dirt and have no no belongings whatsoever like i like to have some stuff but i like the idea that i can be sort of divorced from from stuff generally you know what i mean like that i think it's not important to me buy
Starting point is 00:40:45 which suddenly gives you lots of stuff is like lego yeah like that's that's the thing where suddenly you've got this thing that you've spent a lot of time assembling it feels like a pain in the ass to disassemble it i feel like my kids are the same as me in some ways too because even with lego i know and i know some people will buy lego they'll put it together and then they'll display it somewhere or whatever but my son's not like that with his lego like the the the fun of lego is is building it for him so like he'll follow the instructions he'll build it he'll play with it a little bit take it apart and like remake parts of it or something or change things around or whatever and then he's done you know what i mean like it's not like he doesn't have to like set it up on a shelf when it's done
Starting point is 00:41:29 and all this stuff you know like most of it just gets wrecked and then goes into the big bin of lego where you know there's about 10 different sets worth of mixed lego in there now i wonder at what age that will change over though and he'll become proud of his creations and not want to take them apart. Because that definitely happened to me. I don't know. I mean, maybe it'll come, but maybe it won't. I was never like that.
Starting point is 00:41:50 I was always very much like, I used to build Lego. I used to play this game with my friend where we would build, we had tons of Lego between us. We'd build these big elaborate bases. And then you'd have like a like a power generator like in the middle and once you built your big base you could build like little vehicles and stuff and we'd like set them up on opposite ends of the room like against each other and then we'd make like a like a little brick that was like a ball and throw it like back and forth and try to like break each other's bases like you had to like hit like the power generator sort of thing it was really fun did you guys did you guys ever play a game called crossbows and catapults um i've heard of that
Starting point is 00:42:30 actually so this was a this was in the 80s i loved this that was the sort of naming convention for board games right that's sort of it feels like dragons and crossbows and catapults. It feels like the pre... Because if the iPhone SEO was kingdoms of battle and wars... Throne of games. Throne of wars. War of thrones. Yeah. It's now... It used to be blah, blah and blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:42:58 So crossbows and catapults, you had... It was red versus blue. And you each had a catapult that was powered by an elastic band, and a crossbow that was also powered by an elastic band. It was generally you had to play it on a smooth floor, so either a hardwood floor or the kitchen surface or something like that, or on a very large table.
Starting point is 00:43:17 And you had bricks and little ramparts and stuff, and you built your little castle, and they built theirs, and you had to launch these little disks, little hard plastic disks, at each other's walls with the objective of knocking their wall down. And I think there was a goal, like a particular standard
Starting point is 00:43:33 or something that you had to knock over to win. It was a fucking banger of a game. I loved it. Nice. I loved it. See, I've looked at a picture of it. The walls are made of basically fake Lego bricks. Yes. And so, I mean looked at a picture of it. The balls are made of basically fake Lego bricks. Yes.
Starting point is 00:43:47 And so, I mean, as a kid, I'm sure, Sips, you probably saw adverts for this fucking game on TV or somewhere. Maybe. We just did it ourself. It was just a fun game that we used to play all the time. Like, if we were just at somebody's house, and we, like, into our teens as well, sometimes we'd just, we were just at somebody's house like and we like into our teens as well sometimes we just like be at somebody's house or whatever and we just bust
Starting point is 00:44:09 out lego and just play play that game like it was always like the sort of staple thing that we did i can imagine it getting quite sort of deeply strategic like the matter but the whole like lego talk thing came from that because i remember so many times we'd all be just like hanging around building lego not really concentrating on what we were saying to each other or like singing dumb songs and not you know like you have those moments where you're like you know changing the lyrics to a song while you're building Lego because but you're not paying attention and then suddenly you're like what did he just fucking say and then you're just like all laughing but you're like deliriously tired
Starting point is 00:44:42 from like building Lego or whatever it was just lots lots of that like it was good times but um sort of just like reinforcing the point that like i never built anything in lego for it to you know last and be displayed or whatever it was very much like you built something no you played it like sort of amongst your friends in sort of a little gaming yeah yeah it reminds me of ben's story about how he and his friend used to play learned how to play go and um played that with each other over the course of like a year and became kind of both of them became what they thought was really really good and so then one day they went online and they were like together we're gonna go and play
Starting point is 00:45:23 online and see if we can um you know because together we we'd be unbeaten right because we played this game for ages and they made like two moves in a go game against this online opponent and he just said have you guys ever played have you sorry have you ever played the game before you knew they played so they so weirdly and like badly well yeah but i mean when they didn't even know like basic yeah i know but when you play a game in isolation like that the there's like your your meta between you and your friends is so different isn't it to like what the like a larger you know sampling of people are playing right so like i can see also it's more of um a globally like chess i guess you
Starting point is 00:46:06 have to in order to be good you have to understand what's what strategies have come before you can't just look at a chess yeah a brand new chess player needs to study a century of chess as it would be like if you're starting items in dota i mean we we actually like i do the in-houses on it on a tuesday where we get new players in and they play for our amusement. And in the last few weeks, we've had brand new players in, like brand new. Like there was a guy who had never played a game before and he bought two magic ones, sorry, two magic sticks.
Starting point is 00:46:37 So that's not a thing. Like the moment you see that in Dota, you're like, okay, this person has no idea what they're doing. Very simple. One very simple one very simple thing and you would automatically know yeah or just like what the items they build are and what region they bought everything and how they level their hero it's the same deal like there's just a way to play certain games that is it's not even min maxing it's just like it would
Starting point is 00:46:58 be like if your second move in chess was to move your king forward it's like what what like what are you doing exactly i would imagine that like ben and his friend had some real insights into the game you know that they'd learned but it was kind of trumped by the fact that you know century that someone who just picked up one go book and read it for 10 minutes probably knew basic opening that they didn't know right imagine like if you were a footballer i'm sure as a footballer there's loads of stuff to read right and you have to study right but it feels like you could become a footballer and just learn the game figure it out get good at the physical aspects of it and never have to pick up a book or go through a series of lessons yeah i'm sure the modern game
Starting point is 00:47:42 does require that and probably would benefit from it but it certainly feels different to how you know the like there's like a raw talent there right whereas i think that the these these games where you have full information um like chess are it's something you just have to put such an incredible amount of work into it's because i because i was talking to various people about chess this week and people are so interested in chess you know it's we talked about it a couple of weeks ago as well and um i've been trying to i've been playing a couple of games and every time i'm like i'm so fucking hopeless at this because i i just i just don't see really obvious stuff that is like i don't even see one move ahead almost like i can't
Starting point is 00:48:25 and i can't like i try and look at it and it's like i i think of myself like beth harman or whatever from that the netflix show and i'm like i need some kind of drugs to just help me like pass that what i'm looking at this complexity it's just it's just too much you you you need to put a lot of work into chess. Like, it's like anything. But in the same sense as, like, playing StarCraft is frustrating because I feel like there's too much, right? I feel like at StarCraft, I'm constantly feeling like I'm not doing enough. And when I'm playing chess, I'm constantly feeling like I'm not smart enough. I'm not considering everything that I want to try and consider.
Starting point is 00:49:00 Right. Even, like, to a satisfactory level. It's like I'm not able to really like like get my head around anything for me that there is a fundamental difference obviously between chess and starcraft in one of them if you if you start off playing chess games with a long amount of time to get the hang of it it would be like um like you give yourself time to think and you just play enough games and you start to see the same kinds of patterns and stuff like that. I'm not saying I'm a good chess player. I am not a good chess player. But I play pretty much every day against the computer and I'm playing against the 1200 opponent
Starting point is 00:49:33 and I beat her maybe one time in three. Just playing against these computer opponents gives you some practice. Whereas in StarCraft, I'm never going to be good at it because, like you said, I don't have that level of micro and macro. I can't click that quickly. It would be like trying to learn chess by playing just three-minute blitz chess. And just like, it would be insane. So you can just step back and play a much slower game.
Starting point is 00:49:57 And that helps. Try that. Because it is a really good game. Also, there's no books. You can't buy a book on chess and sit down and read StarCraft. Oh, StarCraft. Yeah, you can just learn openings and counters and stuff if you really want sorry for being a little low-key today i was quite heavily sedated no no no no it's fine it's nice to just sort of um have a have a nice
Starting point is 00:50:17 chat i'm i'm like also a bit low-key today i'm just like it's just one of those days tired you know it's empathy sips it's it's empathy yeah something happens to one corner of the triforce the other corners also feel i'm i'm like a chameleon like i'm i'm sort of oh i'm reading the room i can detect i don't think of some low keenness so i am low keying myself having corners i don't think triangle has corners i think it has like apexes or vertexes or vertices something like that i don't think it has like apexes or vertexes. Vertices. Vertices, yeah. Something like that. I don't think it has corners. I wouldn't say like a 60-degree angle is a corner. I don't think he was aiming for like, for technically being correct.
Starting point is 00:50:54 I think he was just, you know. You've just actuallyed me about a throwaway comment, but let's figure it out. I think it is a corner. Let's talk about the corners. They've got 25 wickies open, P-flax. I just wouldn't have used that to i just don't think of the trifles as having corners i think if you've been i'm thinking if you look at if you look at a triangle three triangles can fit into the angles like where each of those angles
Starting point is 00:51:15 has a triangle in it like if you look at the triforce you wouldn't say that for instance if you drew a triangle now and fit three smaller triangles inside it, there'd be a hole in the middle. That's the power of friendship in the middle there. And then you've got, I believe, Lewis is the top triangle, Sips is the bottom left triangle, and I'm the bottom right triangle, right? So we are tucked into the corners of the inner triangle, the larger Triforce triangle. We are the three corners.
Starting point is 00:51:39 So what I mean, because you and Sips and me and you and me and Sips all share a side, but we don't all share a corner. Each corner is unique to us. No, you are absolutely right. But you're going to tell me why I'm wrong. No, you're not wrong. But in my head, for some reason, I only like a corner if it's like a 90 degree angle. A 90 degree angle.
Starting point is 00:51:58 I like putting a square sofa in a corner or whatever or a square table up against the corner. So you're thinking more of furniture arrangement rather than... I don't know. Maybe. Well, let us know in the comments what you think. Not that I give a shit. I have to respond to some bullshit already. People listing...
Starting point is 00:52:13 After last week, I said that the British film industry, I said, give me examples of films made in the last five years with British money that were basically made for British audiences. People were listing me films made... One guy listed Trainspotting. It was made in the fucking 90s. In the 90s. Yeah, it's hard to find more recent examples.
Starting point is 00:52:30 Like for me, particularly, I just don't watch a lot of film anymore. Like I tend more to watch TV series and stuff like that. Of which there's plenty of examples of good British stuff. Yeah, yeah. But actual films that get released into theater and stuff like that, I'm just not into them much anymore. I don't really sit down and watch full movies anymore.
Starting point is 00:52:55 I'm good for like an hour. I watch a movie like every day, I'd say. I love it. No, I mean, I could probably watch the equivalent of a movie every day in terms of following TV shows or whatever. But I just I don't know what's coming out. I don't know what's come out. I've missed a whole bunch of stuff.
Starting point is 00:53:12 I feel like being somebody who's not really into it. I feel like there's so many superhero movies coming out that I'm just not interested in. I just not I'm not into them at all. Yeah, I think they peaked like yeah when when when endgame yeah um it feels like every movie that comes out is some marvel you know wank fest and i just right i get that people like it what and i'm i'm happy that they do but i i just don't and it just like i'm not saying that's the sole reason i've been put off movies but that just seems to be what's big right now you know like yeah that's what's coming out and i'm too stupid
Starting point is 00:53:45 i guess to like find other stuff that's coming out or just not interested enough so i just watch tv instead i mean if you look at the marvel stuff i think you had all these great i personally really loved the mcu build-up from like you know when you had like the the new iron man movie came out and that seemed to change their approach and i think iron man and was such a great character and robert downey's union was so good and then you had like the captain america movies but yeah yeah their approach. And I think Iron Man was such a great character and Robert Downey Jr. was so good. And then you had the Captain America movies.
Starting point is 00:54:07 Initially, I thought Captain America, they'll be boring. But they were really good and then the Avengers movies were really good and the Thor movies were really good.
Starting point is 00:54:14 And I thought, wow, this is really something. And then they kept adding stuff like, you know, new movies like the Guardians of the Galaxy and everything. As a collection of movies,
Starting point is 00:54:23 honestly, I can't think of a string of blockbusters with a single theme and coherent characters like that that was as good or successful or rewatchable. Like, it was incredible. But all those actors then got sick of playing those characters and wanted to go do new things, which is understandable. And then the supporting cast who replaced them,
Starting point is 00:54:41 essentially, they didn't want to do a reboot. They didn't want to say, right, we're going to start again from scratch with all new characters, because it it's like you can't do that it's taken 15 years or 20 years or whatever to build up this catalog of films yeah yeah so they took some of those supporting actors or characters who perhaps weren't that interesting or that important and made them the start of new new sort of series i'm just like no i don't i'm out like i'm tapped out i've done it like. You've already done what I thought was
Starting point is 00:55:05 a really good... I mean, these were blockbuster movies. You can't analyze them as art house flicks. These were huge, big budget movies with big name actors and stars and everything. And the fact that they had this plot that ran over all these movies and wrapped up nicely, I was astounded. I thought it was a really, really impressive
Starting point is 00:55:21 achievement for Hollywood. But now I'm done. I am finished am done no more superheroes thank you yeah like yeah i know i i get it like and again and i like i i understand why people like it so much and follow and stuff but it's just um like i think you i don't hate superheroes i've watched you know like daredevil i enjoyed that on netflix i think there is a little bit of burnout with it with all of that stuff i think i think i went through a bit of burnout with it with all of that stuff i think i think i went through a phase of watching trying to watch the best movies ever you know and if you watch these highly rated movies they tend to be like they get pretty heavy pretty quick
Starting point is 00:55:55 and it's like you know this movie's about aids this movie's about autism this movie's about a teenager with cancer this movie's about a dad whose child's being abducted this movie's about pedophiles this movie's about i don't know do you know i mean suddenly it's like you're in this like pretty there's not that many kind of comedy movies that aren't just zany and hangover and wacky kind of throwaway garbage i don't know like most movies are to take themselves a bit more seriously and i don't know sometimes i don't want that and sometimes also it's a little bit the same with a book like you read a bad book and it puts you off doing it for a while you know yeah um and so you have to kind of overcome that but actually there are some
Starting point is 00:56:33 really amazing movies out there coming out all the time oh yeah and i know like independent film and stuff like i'm sure there's tons but i i i feel like you just sort of have to be into it which i'm not really it is also more of an effort to actually sit down and try and watch a movie, you know, because you tend to have to pay attention. Yeah. And as a result, like, you can't just have it on in the background while you do something else.
Starting point is 00:56:53 I mean, I've been watching, like, The Expanse recently, which I've enjoyed. It's fantastic. Actually, I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it. But I, again, with, like, pacing the way that I do, I don't even watch, like, a full episode. I watch, like, with like pacing the way that I do, I don't even watch like a full episode. I watch like half an episode and then the next day I'll watch the other half and then sometimes bleed into a new episode or whatever.
Starting point is 00:57:12 Like, but it's just, just, just the way that I have time to do it and the way that I consume stuff, you know. I feel like TV is like that now though. But I mean, TV is, TV is more, it didn't, it used to be episodic for reasons you know broadcast but now it's people just consume it like you do sips i think that's a very and they design that in mind the episode kind of breaks are more just for yeah you know like i just timed with real stuff you know like i i just watch stuff when i have a chance to you know like if i'm just you know putting the kids to bed or whatever and that's fine um i think if they if they it makes sense for everyone to break it into chapters in the same way that a book's broken into chapters and in the same way that they've always made it in episodes
Starting point is 00:57:54 and different writers can write them and different directors can direct them and as a result you end up with this you know large production which is a lot bigger group of people working on it rather than a singular two-hour vision you know which is kind of more of a movie certainly like but i'm constantly being recommended tv shows i'd never fucking heard of like this week um they were talking about mythic quest which is um all right the the um like robert mckellery the guy from always sunny did like a tv show with ubisoft yeah that's right um about a game dev company and apparently it's pretty crap but one of the episodes is really really good at the middle somewhere which was written by you know someone they're written by different people and you know it's all that's how it works and some of them are probably better than
Starting point is 00:58:44 others but yeah apparently like that's something which i'm gonna watch because it's certainly interesting to me um but i didn't even know that it existed until this week and i guess like because there must be so much stuff out there that we we probably would like but we don't yeah you just need to be recommended or like i mean like again like i would never watched again, like, I would never have watched. I love Dark, and I would never have watched it had I not been recommended it. You know, like, I'd browsed past it numerous times, like, looking through Netflix, and it just didn't appeal. They try and get you by changing the thumbnail. All the time, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:59:16 Oh, yeah, they change them constantly to make it look like it's a different show or there's a new season or something. It's called A-B testing, P-Flex. A-B testing. Okay, do you remember when The Boys came out? or there's a new season or something like that. It's called A-B testing, P-Flex. A-B testing. Okay. Do you remember when The Boys came out? And for ages, Amazon had ads running on Twitch that said The Boys, new episodes available now. For like a year after the first season had come out
Starting point is 00:59:40 and had run its course, they ran the same ads. It made me go back and check multiple times that there were new episodes of the boys and there were not there were not right so i think they need to be more careful with their well yeah i mean maybe they're not reading their your data as much as they should because quite honestly like i constantly get recommended adverts for shows on amazon prime i've already watched on amazon prime it's like i've finished all the episodes and it's like new series of the expanse i'm like i know i've The Expanse. And I'm like, I know. I've seen this. You don't have to
Starting point is 01:00:07 show me the ad for it again. Fuck's sake. So read my SEO better, Internet. Get my watch history on boards. Are we asking for them to take more of our data? Is that what's happening? You should be watching me closer, Internet.
Starting point is 01:00:23 Still my data better, you chumps. Jeez. I've painted my cock and balls orange. I've taken a picture of myself with a white sheet. Now, make sure you scan that and understand. Post it on the internet.
Starting point is 01:00:38 Send it to your girlfriend. Send some dick and titty pics. And do it well. Tit pics. Well, I'm glad to hear you're you're you're still with us p flex i hope you get to have a shower in a few days yeah that's weird isn't it it's grim yeah can you have a sponge bath like around just problem is the area that needs the most washing is the area that i can't wash you gotta have one of those like really deep hot
Starting point is 01:00:59 red dead baths you know like that they're just like absolutely steaming like that's what i'm gonna go just like a full with the hand job yeah with the hand absolutely steaming like that's what i'm gonna go just like a full with the hand job yeah with the hand job as well nice that's what i'm gonna go for after so on i guess probably sunday evening or monday morning i'll uh i'll do that but yeah for the time being i just gotta let everything heal and i can already see the bruising forming so i'm just gonna chill yeah uh just have a good for the weekend have you seen this uh this new game that's out called valheim have you seen this i did it actually looked quite interesting because i thought that would be you know play that with the lads will be kind of bants but uh i'm so deep into tarkov i'm up to i'm
Starting point is 01:01:34 i've almost i'm halfway to my goal of 100 million rubles this wipe wow you're at 50 million i'm at like 52 and once i log in and sell all the bitcoins and stuff that have been made while i was away probably closer to 55 and holy crap that's crazy i'm just constantly like hovering around 1 million like i just haven't been ratting i've just been trying to like take gear out and stuff and it is not working some crazy runs i've killed a lot of chads this wipe a lot of chads what just with like just with like basic crap like with like the the ppsh or i've sort of start i ran the push i've been taking some very little like mp7s uh or mp9 submachine guns in and just trying to burst down one chad uh i've also god the other day i killed
Starting point is 01:02:20 all the raiders like the entire set and glue oh that's nice that's a great so it's just a lot of money like and and because people are like what are you gonna do with all those guns i just sell them so like yeah every time i come back with three or four guys i left away the other day with i'm not kidding seven guns uh that i've taken off i came into this this was this was i look one of the things i love to do is a sort of colombo style crime scene put together i'm like all right chief what do we got well looks like this guy came in here and killed the raiders, and then this guy surprised him when he was looting them, and then this other guy came in and thought he was going to clean up, and that's when
Starting point is 01:02:52 our shooter turned up, and that was me. I love that. I love when you turn up to an area that you could hear the whole time being hot, and it's so corpsey, and there's just like all these scraps left over on them. But this time there was one guy left. Like a vulture turning up. Yeah, that's it. I left over on them. But this time there was one guy left. Like a vulture turning off the vulture.
Starting point is 01:03:06 Yeah, that's it. I literally vulture it. But this one guy was left looting. He obviously thought, oh, I got it all. And I killed him with the papush. And then I had everything. So I just went over all the corpses, taken all this stuff.
Starting point is 01:03:18 I filled a nade box with grenades. I have two full money cases. I have to get a third money case. It's ridiculous. I've just got so get a third money case it's ridiculous i've just got so much fucking money but it's not like i'm just going in with a with a hatchet like i'm i'm i could i you know i'm just keep wearing chad's armor back in and trying to get the stuff but yeah i still don't have any chad oh no no no no p-flat yeah i love taco oh it is great yeah i've been playing it too i actually just sold a whole bunch of in my inventory while we were podcasting it's nice it's like my my weekly um inventory clear out it's a butt clear
Starting point is 01:03:50 yeah that's it yeah all right well i hope you guys are all doing all right cheers the lockdown continues yeah we're just out of lockdown now we've just come out of lockdown again like stores and stuff are open again congrats yeah well there's only 80 active cases here but around christmas time there was over a thousand so it's gone down like crazy it's like everyone well shout out to the isle of man who have zero cases yeah well done guernsey guernsey had zero for the longest time and now they're having like a big outbreak they're like 300 cases or something yeah i love how i love the rivalry i love love the like we know little island. Yeah, it's a local Darby, isn't it? Fucking good. See if you ever be to Guernsey. Yeah, of course I have it's like there's they're talking about building a tunnel from here to Guernsey
Starting point is 01:04:33 No way. Yeah. Yeah, they want to build a tunnel. Yeah, okay as opposed to a bridge Yeah, they got nothing better to spend all the millions that they they r in. Tax-saving money. So they're just going to build a tunnel. Genius. Between Guernsey and Jersey. Amazing. Wow. All right. Let's call it a day.
Starting point is 01:04:50 Well, I'm going to go play with some Pokemon cards. All right. See you all next week. Bye. See you later. Thanks, mate. Bye. Bye.
Starting point is 01:04:56 Bye. Bye. Bye.

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