Triforce! - Triforce! #181: How to get Whacked

Episode Date: June 16, 2021

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Triforce Podcast with me, the number one member of the Triforce Podcast. the number one jabroni in the land it's uh lewis lewis brindley everybody he uh back once again uh for another podcast this has got to be like our millionth podcast by now like this has been going on far too long honestly who knew we well the secret is we just say the same old shit you know i realized i realized last week you guys want to talk about global warming today i'm gonna say 20 was rehashed stuff we're doing climate change chat aren't we like it's been a while no okay we'll think of something else um i have i'll tell you what i had a great

weekend lads nice a great weekend i went out into london two days back-to-back days wow one day i went out we saw a friend of ours um and then i met up with some other mates of mine who live in london went out all day like got pretty drunk went out in the evening had dinner and everything and then the next day me and messes f went into town and had lunch and everything and it was just it's fucking great to be out and about again it really was like really really it was great it was just fucking great to be out and about again. It really was. Yeah. Really, really. It was great. It was great. Especially with the sunshine. Oh, yeah.

I did the same. I had a really nice time. Went out. Go into a place I hadn't been to before. You know, had some experiences. Wow. It was like the whole world has opened up. Yeah.

Everyone seemed very happy. A lot of happiness. Hey, over here on Monday, no more masks, baby. We don't even need to wear them anymore. Really? Yeah. Wow. Strip them off.

Get naked. Oh, yeah. Free the chin. Yeah. You only have to wear them on buses, apparently. That's it. Right. Because they're still gross.

So if you're going on a bus, you've got to wear a mask. But otherwise, you don't have to wear a mask anymore on Monday, which is really good timing because I'm getting my second jab on Friday. Oh, shit. I've got mine coming up. I've got a weekend to fully immunize. And then come Monday, no mask and be out there pissing and spitting in other people's mouths and everything. Oh, it's going to be awesome. I can't wait.

I've kind of gotten used to wearing a mask. I'm kind of quite, it feels quite comforting and closing. Like,'t wait. I've kind of gotten used to wearing a mask. I'm kind of quite, it feels quite comforting in closing. Like I feel like I'm like sealed off a bit from the world. Like also, the other thing is,

I noticed this guy, he posted like, he was like, I cycle to work every day and I have this mask. It was in Bristol. And he has like, it's not like a full face mask.

Is it one of those ones with the air filter stuff on it? Yes, it's got a little hole in the front, a little pollution filter. And man, he was like after 10 hours of use, and it was like a white handkerchief that turned into like a dirty, like six-month-old grey dish rag. I couldn't believe how much pollution you breathe in every day. You know, when surgeons use those masks, they wear them once.

I don't think they're designed to be worn for 10 hours at a time and then washed. You know what I mean? I think you've got to wear one maybe one for an hour or something. These are ones with a little plastic frame and they have a replaceable filter in. So they're a little bit higher than the standard ones you see in the street. But it's, yeah, I think it's pretty pretty common to in fact like it made me think fuck if i'm cycling around in town i should be wearing a filter because i i used to cycle around a lot and i was thinking it's crazy i mean when when they bring in uh what is it they say that there are all kinds of cities promising

that they're going to be electric car only and stuff like that and there's a whole bunch of about taking over if you if you can't look at the rise of things like asthma and and not accept that there is a lot of air pollution and there's a lot of asthma in kids and it's fucking awful and you're breathing it in like if you could just show people like that no this is what i breathed in in one day no so i'm gonna stop you there in my local paper there was a really interesting article submitted by a reader of the paper who said that this is simply just a natural warming cycle of the earth oh yeah i don't know if he's a scientist or not but it sounded believable to me he sounds like a scientist he sounds he seems like he knows what

he's talking about so i'm just gonna have to to disagree with you there yeah i don't think there's anything to the natural warming cycle of the earth and nothing else to worry about to be positive though i think actually in city centers these the pollution is certainly you see apparently in china as well like the city pollution they've really made like leaps and bounds to get rid of it i mean mean, it's still bad, I'm sure. Where did you hear that? Well, I saw a thing. I saw some pollution. I saw some charts on, like, pollution charts on Data is Beautiful or something on Reddit, and it was really interesting. Like, I'm sure it's city-centre pollution,

but it's still bad, obviously. So, I mean, in a positive note, and in a negative note, it's still there, but it's getting better. I am taking this approach now. I am staggered that people are against cleaning air. Why wouldn't you want cleaner air? We all have to breathe it.

It's crazy to me how you could say... A lot of people have been fleeing the cities, actually, in COVID. Because they realised that... Because of the realised that one of the big advantages... Well, one of the big advantages... You don't want to be in the city. Well, one of the big advantages is all the pubs and clubs and bars and all that stuff. That's like a big allure for people living in Slackbang in the middle of town. Allure.

Allure. An allure. Oh, the allure of the city the pubs allure yeah the clubs the park bench where you watch the man pooing into a mcdonald's container oh man oh man oh man if uh so too close to home that's too close to home for me but um yeah i don't know um i'm i'm i'm glad that things are relaxing i'm glad that people are are are thinking about getting back to normal and stuff but um i'm also um i'm also interested in some stuff i've been reading about people not wanting to go back to work in offices and stuff oh man discuss this at length before

we all know how we feel about working in offices but it feels like there's almost like a mini revolution now people are like no i don't want to go back i don't want to have to deal with you people anymore like the weird silo power builders and stuff like that like they're the only ones that want to go back because that's their whole life they're so sad but most normal people who have a life don't want to be around those people all the time so i say keep them home if you can work remotely why the hell not like it's a lot better yeah for everything it is yeah i love it um i think that i know that there are uh there are people at mrs f's place that uh have moved way out and they sort of keep having these meetings where they're saying so how

often do you want to come into the office and everyone's like once a week and they're like i'd be happy living the rest of my life without ever seeing you again to be perfectly honest it's just that's what they're thinking obviously it's specific to certain industries and there are a lot of people out there who have to go in sure and it sucks but i know people who at the start thought oh this is gonna suck and now they they realize i never want to go back to work like why would i want to go into an office why the hell would you want to why would you i mean honestly but i did also read another thing on the internet there on the other hand oh yeah that said that uh that it might be bad for people's sort of uh promotion prospects within a company if you're not in the office and some

oh yeah chuck in sales is in there every week written by a guy you probably just spent 50 million on a new office refurbishment so he's like he's getting in there early well counterpoint to that argument he's sweating he's like mopping his brow i just Really just ponied up a lot of money for this office. A counterpoint to your argument, young man. Yeah, that's it. You know how much a sofa costs? It costs a lot of money.

Buster, I don't know. You'll never see this kind of money in your life, but geez. You know what? I would like the idea of someone who'd refurbish the office and liked it so much that didn't want the employees messing it up.

They just had this beautiful office. It was all beautifully laid out. Stay home, guys. Don't come in. And they're just lounging around. It's got the whole place to themselves. Perfectly tidy office. I think it's probably a mix, isn't it?

I think that is probably a factor because it is whoever gets chummiest with the the people who are in charge who gets you know the edge isn't it you know well i mean here's the thing i was thinking about that and i was thinking that that's kind of a that's like the way people get promoted in movies where you know they're in the right time in the right place like in big when tom hanks just bumps into the boss he goes it's good for the boss get knocked on his ass. And then he gets up and he says something to him like, oh, your toys suck and I can invent better ones.

And he's like, hmm. And then he just says, hey, come, why don't you sit in on a big meeting with us, with all the executives and talk about toys? It's like, that doesn't really happen. Like the idea that your manager is so fucking clueless that they're not actually looking at the work you're doing and the productivity and you know all the other stuff and that they literally the only way to get promoted and to win their favor is by being there yeah and saying the right thing fuck off i mean how stupid like your option it didn't it didn't traditionally happen but ever since people watched the movie big

and then grew up to then become big time hot shot CEOs themselves. That was something that stayed in their mind. So nowadays, that is something that can happen, right? Because they have that idea, the seed of the idea planted in their mind. That's exactly how people get promoted. You just happen to be there. Go in and say that your toys suck and I could do better. And just enjoy swimming in your bathtub full of money baby like it's it's awesome i always thought promotion was this sort of bizarre concept anyway right because most jobs i mean i can't i

can think of a lot of jobs right where can you name three getting promoted means you don't do the job anymore right like if you're a teacher you're teaching people yeah you know you then get promoted to i don't know head teacher right that's a nice jump you end up you end up teaching what about deputy head teacher that's got to be a good job right i don't remember the deputy head teaching very much like head of year i think that i think in a larger school you might have head of subject so or maybe that might be a university thing like we had there was a head of there was a head of our year yeah and still do the same but you need people that can manage you need people that can manage management it's not this kind of it's not this kind of 10 or 20 rung system of promotion it tends to be like you are either a person doing a job or you're you're either a junior like shit like a noob doing a job, or you're either a junior, like a noob doing a job badly,

or you're the guy doing the job, or you're like a senior guy who can tell other people, tell the noobs how to do their job properly. Noobs. That's what they call them. It doesn't feel like there's this, I don't know, like this Hollywood idea of, ah, well, wow johnny's done well in

in tack attack company let's promote him to chief tacking officer right so it's like where does it go from there ah you finished the tax i'm gonna promote you to carpets it's like it doesn't go to like are you are you questioning the structure of of every business is that what i think so he's gone and he said your business sucks and i can do better see what i mean the seeds planted that's it that's what this is the power play that's that that's happening right here right now i suppose once you're in that bureaucratic bureaucratic that's why i feel no i like that yeah managemental manage mangling you should do a talk where you put put the word bureaucratic up and they're like, someone puts their hand up.

Yeah, sorry, questions are at the end, but can I help you? And they're like, yeah, it's bureaucratic. And you're like, is it? Or is the system broken? Man, and you get up on the table and you go like, more like bureau crotch it, and then you go honk, honk. You like, you grab your junk. Yes, see, TED Talk is taking shape.

But no, like, I just, I don't know whether that still exists outside the realm of just a bank that has just too many layers of management going up to the stairway to heaven. It's just everyone's a vice president or an executive vice president. That's very American to have a load of vice presidents. Yeah. I know a lot of folks have that. Vice president of sales. In charge of coffee. That's a good one. a load of vice presidents. Yeah. I know a lot of folks have that. Vice president of sales. In charge of coffee.

That's a good one. I understand what you're saying. You're saying that when you promote people who are doing really well, they're no longer doing that work that they were doing really well, and now they're doing something else. And that's not good for them. No, but they can also say, I'd like to keep my current responsibilities. But, for example, you might have a system,

and I know a few companies like this, where you do get bumped up and you're still doing that work but now you're also expected to do more work yeah like you're also expected to do project management and stuff like that so the thing is if you have someone doing a fairly simple job shall we say and they're doing it well you might expect them then to be able to not only do their job manage their job but also be able to manage other people and like you want that because that's sort of like in hearts of iron for example well right now we're talking you've got your generals you also have like the the field marshals right who have generals underneath them and all the benefits from the field marshal go down the line to all the other generals so if you're really good at doing your job you can

go and help people out and suddenly they become better yeah you train them up that's the system right there's something to be said for people who who do the same job for too long as well right there's definitely some complacency there's probably a little bit of resent maybe some bitterness like uh like i'm not i'm not uh targeting like older people or whatever but is it there's certain people that have been in their jobs way too long and need to change up. But they were never good to start with, right? I think people who have been, like, you know, like,

imagine you start, okay, let's do a proper promotion structure. Okay. As a pub, okay? You get a job in the pub as a dishwasher. That must be the worst. All right. Or the guy who, what's worse than a dishwasher in the pub? Probably. The guy who just cleans the floors. The guy who has to clean the toilets as a dishwasher. That must be the worst. All right. Or the guy who... What's worse than a dishwasher in the pub? The guy who just cleans the floors.

The guy who has to clean the toilets on the floors. Cleaning the toilets on the floors. Cleaning the toilets, right. So you go in as a toilet cleaner, and they're like, man, you cleaned those, period, you cleaned those toilets spick and span. I'm promoting you to dishwasher.

Oh, thank you. So now you're dishwasher. How much more do I earn? This is actually like a repeat storyline in EastEnders, by the way. This whole process that you're going through. Cleaning the pub. And then he gets demoted back to toilet. And then you get to serve the pints and stuff.

Over the course of three years, they're owning the Queen Vic somehow. And the calf. And the archers. Yes. Yes. See, this is the process isn't it so yeah then it goes from dishwasher to the fruit stall as well and the clothing i love the the things that you need in eastenders world because you never see

as far as i remember you never see someone just going to the supermarket where do they get all their dvds from i don't know where do they get their dvds because they're always they're always going on about how it's time to watch a dvd because there's been some upset but like there's no dvd stall that i know of in the market maybe there is that's where they get do all of their shopping clearly when do they mention dvds all the time when they're like oh no you know dot dot's had an aneurysm it It's okay, love. Put on a DVD. Don't remember this happening. That's it. That's the line.

Every time. It's always put on a DVD. Maybe it's changed. It's been a while since I watched it. Yeah, I'd say maybe 15 years. I haven't watched an episode. When my mum's up, she watches it. She watches EastEnders, Emmerdale, Casualty. What else does she watch?

I think she watches Coronation Street. If anyone's in touch with these soaps Do they mention Amazon Prime? Do they mention Bitcoin? What do they talk about? Ah well love Bitcoin price is plummeting She's buggered

She loves those Cryptocurrencies She fucking had Monero. She was into Cardano. She was buying a lot. He had been convinced to buy Ethereum, and he's just plummeted 50%. You my bet.

He's strangling him. Everyone's in the Queen Vic. Something getting you down, love? The price of Bitcoin's down 15% this week. I'm going to have to sell the calf. Cheer up, love. Put a DVD on. No, no, it's a Blu-ray now.

This Blu-ray says how to get rich with Bitcoin. It's making me feel worse. Yeah, what a show. Man, what a show um i don't know if you guys have you guys probably haven't really watched any of that stuff casualty especially since the lockdown since the pandemic um have been they've been filming throughout it's been not like as regular as it normally would be but one one thing that we've noticed in Casualty is that none of the actors are within two feet of each other,

like, ever. So if there's like a... How are they doing any, like, when the doctor's having a poke at them, is he doing it, like, with a little broom with a scalpel? Well, I think they do, like, these weird camera angles and stuff.

I think he's dead. So, like, the doctor looks about three times bigger than he normally is but you see the back of him there's like a lot of that and then same with like uh same with like intimate scenes like with kissing and stuff i think um i think they've been like uh like close up recording like people kissing like their loved ones and then they sort of like cut that in like to the to the kissing scene oh man yeah yeah because like well i guess you know they gotta they don't want to get the uh the rona right so they

have to like surely they're all getting tests and things i mean i i would have thought so i mean it's probably not like that now because of like the easing of restrictions and whatnot and uh you know people getting vaccinated and everything but for a while like it was it was kind of noticeable it was pretty funny i mean i guess they had to or whatever but it was good it might have just been old like you know stuff that was recorded like early on sort of thing that's just only now being aired like after it's been edited or cut up but it was interesting it's funny that's funny speaking of um weird medical stuff for the friend of mine who has had the magnet installed in his finger oh yeah i know who that is they said on twitter now by the way this um they posted a video of themselves picking up a paper clip well done you got a

superpower now so they have been doing wait do we know this person is this somebody i don't know them but you might not know them anyway they have been doing cold showers, right, every morning and extolling the virtues of these cold showers dramatically. You haven't tried this, have you? Because it's really awful. Well, he made it sound like it was the fucking best, the hottest shit. But Lewis, he has a fucking magnet in his finger.

So my point is, what do they know well what do they know if someone had a horn implanted the middle of their head and said to you it's really handy i can hang my hat on it when i need my head free like would you listen to them just because they have done one thing that you think is bonkers when they do something else and also say this is amazing it's also bonkers he's trolling you he's got to lower his body temperature or like there'll be problems with the magnet so he has to have a cold shower every day you don't have a magnet so you don't have to have one so i wouldn't listen to him honestly like so this is what this is what he said uh so i've been doing ice cold showers started off with 30 seconds a few days ago now i could do two

minutes comfortably uh it's really good this guy's not washing properly i recommend everyone tries it uh just 30 seconds at the end of a hot shower feels like i've had a shot of coffee and adrenaline first time in my life i've felt so energized and happy how long does that last though well 30 for the whole day yeah apparently for the whole day he's worked his way up to two minutes of happiness per day i want you to try it for the next week and report back on the next Triforce about I tried it this morning just because I thought

it would be an interesting thing to talk to you about I turned it on to ice cold I went I started like hyperventilating I had to like dive out of the shower I only lasted like five seconds. Yeah, it's fucking cold.

Okay, but did you just have a normal shower after that to like properly wash and stuff? Or is that you done? So I had my regular shower and then I flipped it to freezing cold at the end. So when your body's got used to being warm, you're then whacking it on max cold and freezing yourself. I bet you that water wasn't even that cold.

It was probably just like normal temperature because i'd imagine that you like you create a sauna in your bathroom when you have it's like having the plunge pool though you remember them are the icy plunge pools that they have sometimes like where you go out for you go in the hot jacuzzi and then you plunge yourself for the i have one at center parks and i jumped into it and my son was like laughing his head off he just thought it was the funniest because it was actually super cold i know but the thing is with that you kind of is you made a choice and then you have to deal with it right whereas in the shower you could

always just move out because you know it's optional so there's a lot more willpower to like force yourself to stay in that fucking thing so i couldn't do it you ever have those lapses of like you know when you kind of go on autopilot like you know sometimes you just put your like toothpaste on your hairbrush and stuff like that you know like the the things you do every day you get used to doing them sometimes you like mess them up because it's just like your brain's not paying any attention do you ever do that one where you get into the shower but you've forgotten to turn it on and like warm it up for a couple of seconds before you get in and you have to then turn the shower on while you're in it and the the first like two seconds

is like super cold water and it's annoying do you ever get that no no i always turn it on first you always do it first that's my habit that's my habit is i turn it on from outside so i've i've we got like a sliding door and i reach in turn on the shower close the door Sometimes I'll use the toilet and then go in the shower because that way I know it's it's ready to go but I can get nice is definitely something which Makes the shower go cold for like but I don't flush the toilet until I get out of the shower Yeah, so what someone else is flushing the toilet in there, you know? Well if that happens no the bathroom is occupied at that point and nobody else should be in there you know well someone just no well if that happens no the bathroom is occupied

at that point and nobody else should be in there doing anything that's how i feel about it as well i'm not into that i don't want to see anybody pooping or not everyone i've lived with feels like it's okay they like oh he's the shower they i could just go in there and no no it doesn't bother me but look i feel if i don't bother other people when they're in the shower though i don't go flush the toilet when they're in the shower i do i'm not that kind of guy i'd rather than go down like we've got a downstairs toilet so probably i'll use that one but at the moment i'm just like i need a wee do you mind i just plunged them into freezing cold yeah i'm happy with that no so apparently you're supposed to like take a deep breath

and like slowly exhale and like just then once you're over that initial shock it's quite apparently like something you can do and then i mean i remember like taking a cold shower when i was really hot you know like when you're on holiday or something it doesn't work though boiling you go and take a cold shower it doesn't work cool off yeah it doesn't really cool it doesn't work but it doesn't feel it doesn't feel bad you certainly don't want to take a hot shower when you're really like overheating but yeah i mean god it was something it was so fucking nice it's been hot this week it's gonna be hot next week this week we i've done a lot of i mean i'm still going to the gym and i've been going i've been doing our garden yeah we had to because we had the nice the garden done but this week the big thing was spraying the sealant on the stones to sort of oh yeah

it deepens the color a bit protects them and all the rest of it um oh yeah and so i've been doing that over the last couple days moving all the stuff around and everything in the heat sweating i've enjoyed it it's actually nice to just be doing stuff oh yeah it's quite satisfying i got some potatoes growing now they actually do it the shoots have come through they They burst through the earth at the top of the buckets. And it looks like all four seedlings are now going to make me a whole bunch of potatoes, which is exciting. My kids are super excited too. So here's one thing.

You haven't planted them like in the garden bed. No. Okay. No, I got big, like I got two big 40 liter buckets. You got a bed in the garden? I filled them up with compost. Like, I put like maybe like a couple of inches of compost at the bottom, put the seedlings in like where like the little like, you know,

seedling bits are like face up. And then I covered the rest in compost and then just watered it every day for like two weeks. And now, boom, it's all growing it's getting there man you should see this stuff we planted some potatoes in the back bed one time yeah we were getting little potatoes for years yeah yeah oh yeah just never go away you'll just keep getting little potatoes because when you harvest them you'll miss a couple and then they'll grow into potato plus just continual stream of potatoes. Yeah, yeah. It was a disaster. We've had the same

with strawberries. Like, I planted a whole bunch of new stuff in a pot that had strawberries in it last year. And the new stuff has not grown and we now just have

more strawberries. Like, they've just regrown like tons of them. Yes, with nature. It's just the power of, you know, what happens. Incredible.

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defrosted and they it's still going like it's pretty nuts what is it what are you talking about i will try and find it's like a little mouse or something no that would be something no it's like a little uh it had a weird name rotifers rotifers the white called the it's a little it's a creature you would never have heard of it's called a rotifer i'll try and find the the article that i read so it could live for 30,000 years or it was it was asleep essentially here we go 24,000 year old microorganisms found frozen in siberia can still reproduce wow so this is a microscopic worm-like creature. So not that interesting. No. But they've been around for millions of years.

They never have sex. They're all female. They just reproduce. Yeah. And they had one in ice, frozen in the permafrost in Siberia for 24,000 years, carries on making new rotifers. And they're super resistant to everything.

Radiation, dying, starvation, low oxygen. Why did they thaw this thing out? It was frozen for a reason probably this was the soil cryology lab we're done so they just found some we're dead we've we've opened pandora's box we have it's over yeah that's actually the end of the article uh we have opened pandora's box god help us all god help us all what have you done you fools and transmission that's the last they heard from the scientists so yeah it looks like a little shitty thermometer or something it just looks shit is this the first thing we've cryogenically unfrozen basically ever no there wasn't wasn't there like a mammoth one time it was dead though sepsis all right there's a difference

this is alive right so it's a zombie is what you're saying we've zombified a bacteria no i'm saying that this was frozen and when they unfrozed it it was still alive and carried on reproducing and living its life the mammoth right had been dead a long time and was frozen so this is not alive there's no live tissue on him whatsoever the mammoth is is dead he's dead yeah sorry to report that uh to any mammoth fans out there my huge man i just noticed sorry there's a on the on the problem page on this uh article i'm reading there's a obviously a any uh they've had a message from a trifles fan uh my girlfriend and i are extremely happy together but she told me that two of her exes had a bigger penis than me p.s love the podcast oh shit So I'd be out in the sun,

and there was a bunch of Triforce random people who came up to me and told me they had a tiny penis. A couple of different people told this piece in the street. Never gets easy to receive that one, though. It never gets easy to hear it. Hey, I got a small dick. Jesus, why are you telling me this? I don't want to know this.

Now I just sort of smile and nod. Yeah. But no, they're very nice. I met a couple of very nice, Now I just sort of smile and nod. Yeah. But no, they're very nice. I met a couple of very nice, very smartly dressed, very nice people. One person asked me for a shout out. I said, we're not going to do shout outs to his mum, Lisa, because that's the policy of the Trafford's podcast. There's no way we could ever possibly do that for your mum, Lisa.

I mean, that's... Tell your mum, Lisa, sorry, but that's just not the way that we roll Yeah, we would never say shout out to that guy's money to Coventry Lane West that's why I told him West Bishop's Gate Yeah, and snow. Sorry we say so yeah had we had some nice people. What guy was a maths teacher? teaching teaching kids another guy was a Another teacher and I I think i read i was like talking to him about it and i think one of them said that apparently kids have lost 100 hours

on average in the in the in the lockdown and that didn't sound like much to me actually because i suppose 100 hours in a game to me isn't very long at all jesus still a noob in doha come on yeah yeah that's like barely enough time to you know know, finish Gone Home, which I did finish this week, which is okay. But yeah, like 100 hours of, I suppose, depends, doesn't it? Like maybe that's what 100 hours in maths is what he meant. But I don't know. Like it still seems like a lot of, how much, how long are kids in school? Five hours a week?

Still a long time. Five hours a week. Five hours a week. Five hours a day? Yeah, they usually just go for the. Four weeks worth. They pop in for lunch. Yeah. No, it's week five hours a day yeah they usually just go for the uh four weeks worth pop in for lunch yeah no it's like six hours a day it's a long time man it's like it's more than a full-time job it's less than a month worth of school that kids are behind apparently due to lockdowns which i suppose is pretty bad but yeah i think i think it's okay i think um countries are

dealing with this differently though i'm i think that in the Netherlands and Finland and Norway, they've pledged something like 500 per child, or in some cases more. It's like 1,250 pounds per child to get people caught up on the education that they missed out on. I think we should just cut some stuff. I learned Latin for a year. I don't think I need to do that.

On the scale of this, where all these European countries are spending all this money on children and stuff, the UK came in at the bottom with a pledge of £50 per child. Well, let me give you some idea. I think it was, is it Rishi Sunak is the chancellor of the East Czech Republic? I think that's his name, something like that. Anyway, there was a bill proposed by the education czar to catch all the kids up. And it was about, I think it was about a 15 billion pound sort of bill, right?

And he said no. But he did approve a 25 billion pound tax cut for big companies. Well, that's good. That'll help the kids. That's going to help the kids big time. There was a good bit of news in the in the news this week though which was that um apparently the big countries have got together to agree to actually tax um the tax avoidance this is a bad thing because i'm gonna have to probably pay some corporation tax now

all right i see although i don't know if it actually applies because i'm uh i'm like a local resident i don't have like a a sister company that's declaring all my profits here like multinational i do feel like the majority of people watching your content are not watching it in jersey it's not like you. It's not like your entire Twitch channel. Shut up, Lewis. Nobody wants your opinion on this, okay? Well, you're operating from a tax haven. But you do live there. Yeah, I do. I do.

I legitimately live here. And I pay my tax. I pay my income tax and stuff. Like, come on. Oh, you do pay something. Anyway, I thought that was interesting news. The other thing I keep seeing spammed on the front page of Reddit all the time is the super stonk. Have you seen the GameStop attitude?

No. So I think basically there's a big community of people on Reddit. It's really interesting because they think that GameStop shares were so heavily shorted. Wait, wait, wait. We're not running back over the gme thing again because we've definitely talked about this before well yeah we are but like i think it's like a bit different so they they there's this big community of people who think that the hedge funds and all these big companies have have because originally the plan was to short gamestop into the ground

so it would go bankrupt so they'd never have to pay back or actually buy or cover their shorts right they never have to source stock um so that so that what they did was they created all this synthetic stock if you like this this kind of like fake game stock yeah it was like more than existed with some shit right yeah like and it still is apparently like a lot more than existing apparently a lot of the shorts who were short have never paid it back now i think what's probably going to happen is they're just going to delay the pain as long as possible then when they finally do have to pay it back they're just going to declare bankruptcy and they've got all this time to prepare themselves to declare bankruptcy right so that's what's going to happen because i think they've worked it out that if if all the shorts did have to cover now and buy actual

shares on the market that would cause the price to become ludicrous right it would it would go up to like millions because it's broken right it's a system where there are literally literally aren't enough shares to buy to cover man every time you say shorts i think about how many pairs of shorts i own like how many do you want track shorts like seven eight pairs do you own more shorts than exist do you have any naked shorts no no but i do have a many many pairs of shorts i got some new ones recently as well mine is really and they look like they look respectable they don't look like lazy dad shorts you know they look like those ones that people might wear like um with like some penny loafers and like a collared shirt you know to go yachting

in or something like that but they're they're still made of like track pant material they just don't look like they are right so that's pretty good so anyway i'm gonna order some new shorts on amazon right now actually do it man do it do you remember the original sort of massive peak of gamestop when it went up to like 300 i think so um and then it and it fell back down to. Well, it's back up at 300 again today. Right. It's gone up hugely, really. And similar things have happened this week with other very heavily shorted stocks like AMC, which is the cinema chain, BlackBerry. There's another couple that they've been, so-called meme stocks. Yeah, companies that used to be big and are not now, right?

to be big and are not now right and there is this rabid community of people on reddit who are convinced that this is happening and it is and it's very convincing actually when you read through all of the stuff that they've sort of dug up um about how all these companies work and all this dodgy stuff that's going on and and just just seeing like how corrupt and it almost they've clearly it feels like to me like reddit have clearly identified something that is um something that has been happening that's illegal and they've taken advantage of it right because this is you know it feels to me like this is something which could break the system if you like do you know what i mean because it's like this kind of weird thing which exposes some some thing that all basically it turns out that all of these the

companies who are doing this kind of own the whole system from start to finish so they're supposed to be like separate people who who are the market makers who other people who who make basically do the transactions and create the synthetic shares right but it turns out that the hedge funds own those mark they own their own market maker. They own their own middleman. They own their own company. And they're all called different things, but they're owned by them. And it means that they can just make their own rules. They can do whatever they fucking want.

They're like, oh, that's nuts. They're self-regulating as well. So it's like, oh, are we doing this okay? I think we are. It's kind of crazy. So there is a lot of self-regulating industries, especially in America, where they convince politicians that,

well, the best people to know if what we're doing is appropriate is us. We know what we're doing. And they go, oh, yeah. But of course, they don't just go, oh, yeah. They go, ah, give me a load of money and I'll agree with you. And they do.

It is incredible. Can you imagine anything else where you would just self-regulate? I mean, you know, we have independent regulators yes can you imagine it's incredible anything else where you would just self-regulate i mean you know we have independent regulators for a reason it's ridiculous it's like it's like having like no police essentially and just saying well we'll just get the drug dealers to make sure they don't sell and you know shoot each other and uh and sell to kids we'll better than drug dealers the mafia was great yeah people are like people are like i wish the mafia still ran things what was i what was i doing recently where people were actually no non-ironically saying that

um there was a documentary where people were like oh i wish the mafia was still in charge of this industry because once all the corporations came in they ruined it well it's bloody vegas it was talking about vegas funny but when the mafia was in charge a lot of the unions in america were in had were very very powerful um the teams is union and all those kind of unions because and like the you know the waste disposal unions and like all these unions were all mafia backed um so whilst they were bent as a nine bob note they were also had a lot more power than they do now. So I'm sure for some people,

those are the good old days. Like back when the mafia ran things, they didn't fuck about. It's funny to think of. Yeah. So I guess there's a movie called, I think it's called Money Machine or something like that. I watched it on Amazon.

It was a bit of a mess, but it wasn't very good. But it was like a documentary about the, partly about the shooting that happened in Vegas that everyone's forgotten about. Oh, God, no. So awful. That's awful, yeah.

But also about generally Vegas and like the attitude and the sort of commercialisation and just the whole money machine of the whole structure. But there were a lot of people lamenting how the Mafia weren't in charge anymore. Like, you know, when the Mafia were running things, at least no one was being killed. And I was like, yes, they were. They were being buried out in the

fucking desert. You just never really heard about it. Yeah, they just disappeared. I don't know if the Mafia generally only kill bad people. Like, do they just kill other Mafia? Or are they killing their joke mechanic as well? No, of of course not they kill people that they take advantage of um for uh for money when uh when they no longer are able to give them the money

that they're owed and stuff like that it escalates to the point where then they get killed or it's usually it's usually they they prey on people who are weak who have like you know vices like gambling addictions shit like that that always need money um and uh and or are geographically isolated like the perfect the perfect setup is somebody who has those kind of weaknesses but are in charge of something that they can then have an inside guy on hand to sort of mold things their way. It's like insider trading. The minute those guys stop paying or become useless to them or whatever, they then kind of have to kill them because it's a loose end, right?

It's somebody that knows a bit about how they operate, who they are, who they're affiliated with and stuff, and they just have to get rid of them because they could potentially spill the beans on them agreed so spill the beans is a mafia term as well the lesson here is don't borrow money from the mafia that's it that's all you got to do there's just don't borrow money from them and then you probably won't be really affected by them uh indirectly you might be there's a lot they still have their hands in a lot of pies like uh surprisingly to this day it's crazy but um but yeah direct involvement if you can avoid it you'll you probably won't get killed by the mafia or your your chances of getting killed by them are far less tips tips yeah tips tips yeah is that still a problem i i don't know like so anyway i felt like

um this whole financial i'm really interested in the financial finagling and all this garbage i'm not invested in gamestop or any of these things or i haven't got any cryptos at all but it's really interesting just to see this like that just how i'm just so interested i guess i've always been interested in like the financial crash and stuff like this i'm just sort of from the outside looking in and like just i i'm cheering for these guys honestly yeah it's hard not to it's hard because they're the underdog as well right like um if when when these with these big companies make so much money from just it just feels like they have all the tools on the inside

you know they can they can trade like outside the market hours they could just do whatever they want and then justify it somehow or get away with it uh and then if anybody else tries to to sort of out hustle them then they start to get angry and uh yeah and then all of a sudden it's against the law but banks as much as people hate them they are very important like we do need banking and we need uh these things for our economy to function like regardless of what people think you know mortgages and business loans and all this this is important stuff the problem is that it's not enough for them to make some money from those things they want to make as much fucking money as possible every single year even if that means doing something shitty and bending

the rules and that's the fucking problem is that's where the mafia always fell down as well though it's that human greed that like always brings these people down yeah it's like like and and like just taking risks as well that they think they can get away with you know i'm in a similar situation myself um oh yeah i got some guys coming in to put some shelves up in the garage and it started with just one shelf i asked for one shelf now i'm getting like seven who did they talk you into that shit no no i talked myself into it because did they come around and they were like no he's like i'd like a shelf and they were like well how about seven and you were like yes no no it wasn't like that at all it's like i'd like a shelf and they're like yeah okay no problem we can put one here

and then i was like you know what that sounds kind of easy actually let's go for like seven like can you fit seven in this space? And they're like, yeah. So I'm getting like seven shelves. Interesting. It's going to be awesome. I'm the same. Like, I'm the same. Like, when I buy like Warhammer models, I'll be like, I paint one model.

I'll be like, oh, I really like this. I'm going to buy 10 more. And it's like, oh, no. Now I've got too many shelves. I went totally overboard on some of these. Oh, man. Talking of models, I've been, this is the nerdiest thing that i watch on youtube and i watch a lot of nerdy shit on youtube there is a tabletop world war

two miniatures game called bolt action oh my god oh yeah i know about it you should not be admitting to this i mean i don't care dude you got a little bit of street cred left i would i don't have any street cred i watch videos like an hour and a half long of the full after action report of some skirmish between French fighters and Luftwaffe or Fallschirmjäger or whatever, you know, it's sort of like, I love this game and I love the miniatures and I love World War II stuff.

And I'm like, I want to play this game. But the more I look at it, the more I realize there's, I don't know anyone in the area who plays these kinds of games. And if there are people in the area that play those kinds of games, they're probably going to piss me off. They're going to be super grognarty, nerdy. I don't know if those are the who plays these kind of games. And if there are people in the area that play those kind of games, they're probably going to piss me off.

They're going to be super grognardy, nerdy weirdos. I don't know if those are the kind of people you want to know, really. Exactly. What I'm saying is, Lewis, can you buy all the stuff that we need and then when I come down, we can play it? If you buy a Paint and Army, I'll paint along with you. Yeah, that would be great. Every model you paint, I'll paint one as well.

That would be great. We could do a vid or a stream or something where I'm going to go for British forces and you can be the Nazis. Lewis would love that. Could I be the Soviets? We never fought the Soviets, though. Oh.

I mean, it would work. I don't mind. I'm just saying, historically, it's not accurate. I don't want to do Nazis. They're very black. They're very black uniforms. Excuse me? I don't want to do that.

That's the sort of Gestapo. I don't like painting black. The regular Wehrmacht and the SS forces wore grey. They didn't wear black, did they? I think you were thinking

of the baddie in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. He had a black jacket on. He was an SS officer, I think. He was Gestapo. I could do grey.

You could do Russians. You know what? It doesn't matter. It'll be a fictional what if. I just wanted to do some snow bases and maybe some red flags. Yeah, yeah, do do it did i have any red bits on the uniforms russians they're they're just pure red and they they all have to carry a hammer in one hand and

a sickle in the other like red shirts if it was warhammer that's what they would be the the russian soldiers would have a literal hammer and sickle i could get some red cloaks and stuff surely i mean you can have a commissar you're uh you could definitely paint some how you could have a lad carrying a red flag like the soviet flag like that as part of a unit go ahead and look at some of the armies that are available you'll need to do probably two or three squads of lads you'll need a vehicle or two machine gun mortar i'm sure there's a officer and maybe a fixed emplacement gun like an anti-tank gun or something

there's these lads I watch on YouTube who have like a video a board game shop in Singapore and they play all of these

sort of very niche-y tank like tabletop games and they get about a hundred I need to give them a shout out honestly

I think they're called blitz battles right on youtube or something like that oh shit it's not called dang let me find it you just shouted out you just shouted out their their primary competitor you're trying to do a nice thing damn you they're rivals damn those blitz gaming a-holes they keep winning they pay their tanks so well how do they do it yeah i Yeah, I'm going to do it. You know what? Let's fucking do it, dude. The thing is, I don't have any terrain. Do you guys have, like, terrain? You can easily make some.

Go to, like, a model railway shop. There's got to be one around. Like, that's, like, a very English thing. Yeah, get some little houses, like, those little rubber trees. But the thing is, I definitely don't have room to store the tiles. Like, those foam tiles. I did a Jurassic World challenge with Lewis onewis one time and lewis can probably tell you that i'm pretty good at actually making terrains out of i made the beach out of

like breadcrumbs and um some grass out of um some marzipan and stuff like i'm gonna do this i was on i'm gonna i'm gonna bloody i'm gonna order my army right now they're called blitz minis there you go that's who they are or action british starter pack blitz minis there you go this comes with look at this this comes with loads of lads machine gun mortar tank my god a gun oh very exciting stuff well i've worked a little bit on i'm still working on my own version of a tabletop miniatures game like a generic one oh yeah did a bit of work this week felt felt nice to actually come up with some sort of ideas. I've bought a little hexagon, plastic hexagon stencil.

I'm going to spray paint some sheets to try and... I don't know. I've got some plans. It's exciting. It's nice to make things for once with my hands. I don't know. I feel like everything I do is digital. So it's nice to do something physical for a bit, even if it's just very briefly. Do some gardening.

I can highly recommend it. Gardening is very relaxing. It's really great. even if it's just very briefly. Do some gardening. I can highly recommend it. Gardening is very relaxing. It's really great. Yeah, it's something else. And when the stuff starts growing, oh, Maron, look out. I'm going to have some tomatoes and everything. I was thinking of buying some Ethereum this week, actually. Yeah?

Just because I heard there's this thing called Ethereum version 2. Right. And they have an unusual way of mining the Ethereum coins, right? Which is different to how it's been done conventionally. I think it's more like, oh, it's complicated. But it's different. Anyway, I thought it was interesting. And the other thing I saw, which I thought was interesting,

is you know NBTs, right? You know we talked about those before. They're like these non, sorry, NFTs, non-fungible tokens about those before they're like these non sorry nfts non fungible fucking token bizarre yeah yeah but i was thinking what what so what someone on super stonk suggested this is not a podcast about gamestop uh but it's weird it is i just it tickled me and it's weird and i wondered if anyone had seen it or thought anything about it or whether it's just dumb and it wouldn't work. But there's this idea someone posted on there where in order to...

Basically, because all these people have sold their shorts, right? They don't have the shares. You could issue... How many pairs are we talking here? Loads of shorts. Shit. So GameStop could offer a dividend.

Okay. And that means that everyone who owns a share would get given some money. Now, the hedge funds would have to pay that dividend extra because they're shorts right but if you on top so but that's one option but option two is you could offer as a dividend a non-fungible token okay and that means that these hedge funds wouldn't be able to get

hold of those non-fungible tokens so they would have to sell this they'd have to close their short positions so that would cause the the mother of all short squeezes right right right which the gamestop people are hoping for the moass the mother of all short squeezes which i love because it's like such a call of duty thing i mean uh and uh yeah anyway i thought i heard that and it just blew my mind that that's the kind of crazy shit that could be done i think what's interesting to me is that whatever happens with this gamestop stuff there is a group of people out there on the internet who are organizing and their sole motivation actually that they have two one of them is to try and make money but the other one is to fuck over these companies i think it's really interesting that the biggest driving factor is can we fuck these guys over yeah at the very worst it'll raise awareness about these exploitative practices that definitely shouldn't

be allowed right but all the all the like there was loads of stuff in the press all the financial guys coming out and saying oh these people are ridiculous all these games of rubbish and this is all fine and these poor companies and i'm thinking this is this is people power man you know this is this is the the people stepping out and telling them to fuck off i'm on their side 100 yeah the other thing it feels like is like you remember on eve online when people would actively seed spies into other guilds to, like, fuck them up and steal their guild bank. Yeah, yeah. Like, it feels like that's the case here as well. Like, there's so many bots and, like, shills

and, like, sneaky insiders, like, all... Because it's all public, all this stuff, right? And there's people just have infiltrated the community. So there's this kind of low level of paranoia as well, where, like, every other post is, like, you know, stuff's being like very knee jerk, downvoted. If it doesn't tow the party line, it's very self-policing to the point where they've become this kind of really amplified echo chamber of weirdness. So, yeah, I just think it's so interesting seeing it all happen and watching it from the outside kind of thing. Like I said, don't just look after yourselves. treat be careful i'm not invested and i'm not

i'm not i'm not involved in this at all what scares me when people say remortgage my house for this guys and post a picture of how much they've bought and i just think please don't don't do that like if you have the money that's fine but please please don't don't do that i respect the crazy gambling nature i do not but my god the risks they're taking yeah i've known too many gamblers don't do it don't do it yeah or else we'll come get you and bury you in the desert yeah right yeah just on a good old day when we ran hedge funds are gonna start doing they're gonna start burying people in the desert sending in the hitmen the economic hitmen yeah god it's only a matter of time before some gamestop investor

gets bumped off by a shady god i better be careful i'm gonna get i'm gonna get i'm gonna you know too much i mean you're you could be in trouble make an example of lewis spring i know way way too little target he knows too little we need to take him out he knows too little this guy doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. I hate this information. Yeah, me too, boss. Information. Yeah, so a lot of stuff that I've half read and half understood,

but I just find it fascinating. Fascinating. All right, that is enough of this podcast. Thank you for listening thank you have a great week new episodes

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