Triforce! - Triforce! #202 - New Year, New Dad chat

Episode Date: January 12, 2022

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Hello, everyone. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to 2022. Welcome. That's right. Oh, yeah. It will be. It will be by the time this goes out. It is just a scant two days until it will be the new year. Man. Oh, man. I can't believe it. Oh, I can't believe how quick time goes.

It's insane. Where does it go? It sounds like the future. You know? The future is here. Jeez. It's amazing. Generally speaking, I'd say the only real way that I keep track of the progress of time

is when we save the podcast after and we have to put the date on the file. And every single time Sips goes, February 2nd, fuck me. Like every time. Man, yeah, I know. But it's just like, I can't believe how quickly time passes. Like the older you, like when I was a kid, man, it felt like just every day was an eternity. And now it's just like every day is over in a heartbeat. It's crazy.

Do you think if we had... Like, as human beings, our memories are very limited in a way. Like, we can recall amazing things, but I couldn't tell you really much of what happened over the last year. Although if I look back, actually, I did quite a lot this year. Well, we're creatures of habit, right? Like you get into routines and then those routines just become your norm. But much of that time is just nothing.

It's just nothing happening. Unless something big happens, like for instance, like, you know, your wife has a baby or like you know, like, there's going to be big milestones peppered throughout the year, I guess. But for the most part, you're just doing the same shit, right? I don't even know anymore if anything real has happened to me. Like, OK, I went to a hot pot this Christmas. Nice. It's pretty weird. Yeah.

I've never really done one before, but basically they had two gas burners on their Christmas table. So it was like a Christmas meal. And two big metal pots of boiling hot water bubbling away. They had the doors open, like the kitchen doors open to the outside. So cold air is blustering in, but it's so hot in there anyway

because of these constantly boiling hot pots of water. Yeah. Right? And they throw in, like, everything, like tofu and some pak choi, some mushrooms. I bought some, like, fake chicken. We threw all that in. Right.

And you just basically, we had two pots, one for vegans and one for meat eaters, right? And so their pot was a lot greasier and looked a lot tastier ours was mostly like a slow a really slow cooking piece of radish you know they just threw meat into into boiling water into boiling water yeah yeah yeah well bacon my meat that wasn't hot dogs because like uh for me it's only hot dogs that get boiled like uh so they bring it's very very thinly sliced so you basically the whole point is it's not just boiling water it's got all is it like an asian thing is it like a korean barbecue kind kind of deal where it's

like you put like some stuff in there if you want um but it's all very flavored like sometimes they'll have a big pot and it's divided down the middle with a metal divider and one side is very spicy and the other side is more just savory right yeah it's also you you add all flavors and stuff and you put the meat and the veg in and the meat you don't have to put it in there for very long and then you pull it out and you eat it and it's very hot and if you have the spicy one very spicy and delicious some of it will be done like instantly like you put it in and it instantly melts and you pull it out straight away again so they got like these very thin sheets of like tofu and things like that that they're rolled up and same with like bacon and stuff and so but you can put like like

more thicker things in there and they'll slowly cook like a big piece of mushroom in there and that will cook over like a couple of minutes and then you can just grab it but it's a very communal thing very social so good anyway it was obviously boiling hot but also cold um and so i think i'd taken my jacket off and i don't remember i don't remember this or whether this was i don't remember this actually happening but i think this was a dream this is what i'm saying about memory i had like a really cheap thin t-shirt on right right and you could see my the outline of my nipples like very weirdly prominently right keep talking yeah i'm almost there and i seem to remember someone commenting on it at the dinner table when we talked about it or had a laugh or something like that but i can't really remember

it happening and and so i this morning when i woke up i asked my partner did that happen or did i dream that and she was like oh yeah yeah that happened And she was like, oh, yeah, yeah, that happened. So I was like, okay, good. But sometimes I wasn't sure whether it had gotten corrupted up in like a sort of a weird nightmare memory, remembrance of the thing, the event. And that was only something that happened like a week ago. So that's how I feel about memory.

And I'm not sure. I think you have to check with other people who were there. And even their memory is going to be all hazy. It's all messed up. It is messed up, yeah. Hey, listen to this, okay? I had a dream the other night. What does this mean?

I know you guys like to analyze dreams and stuff. None of them mean anything. Okay, tell me what this one means. Because this one was an alarming one, okay? So I was inspecting a house for some reason and it was just kind of this old dingy house that had a basement and uh so i looked around the house and it was all kind of pokey and old and it looked like one of those houses that like an old couple had died in you know of old age sort of thing it just hadn't been touched for decades and had like all the old electrics and it was just a bit just a bit grubby you know so i went down

the basement and the basement was really stuffy like really gross and hard to like breathe in and stuff and uh in my dream i got down there had a quick look around and i was just like yeah okay whatever i don't need to look at more of this it's kind of gross down here like i gotta get out of here i walked back upstairs and then you get up the stairs of the basement and there's like a bit of a landing and like a hallway that leads back out into like another hallway but when i got up to the landing i couldn't fit through the hallway like i i had to like go on my side to like shimmy through oh i hate those dreams but it was way too narrow and i just could not get through oh and i was like oh fuck what the like i can't i'm not gonna fit through this saying you're too big and you're trying to fit into no i

didn't no nothing like that happened though like it wasn't like i didn't become big it wasn't like alice in wonderland or something like that you know it was just so i think maybe subconsciously and i don't like i said i hate to read into dreams but this feels like is there anything currently that has frustrated you in the last few months i would say just to do to do with how big you are oh no not nothing like that literal i think it's always just a there's something is frustrating you or has frustrated you and you're still processing it so i mean just some doter but like i i wouldn't have thought that that would manifest into a dream like that i don't think it's it might not be doter

it might be something like dream and born you had your problem with the uh the garage was oh yeah oh maybe lingering frustration in the back of your mind yeah that's kind of sorted out now though like i don't know maybe i could be but like it was it was just such a i remember just feeling like not even i wasn't panicking i was just like oh crap i'm like gonna be stuck in here now and then i just woke up you know because i didn't want to go back in that basement because it was just it's a very it's a very dad sort of i just woke up you know because i didn't want to go back in that because it was just it's a very it's a very dad sort of situation just giving up just going oh well i guess i'm i guess i'm gonna work from here now yes this is me now just like crouched like a kind of goblin

very small hallway so i'm just uh i'm just looking back at my my google calendar for the year and there's a i thought i'd done a decent amount this year. But January, I did nothing. I did a Magic the Gathering stream and nothing. Well, that was the Capitol riots in January. So, you know, that was taking up a lot of your brain power. Yeah, I remember. That was a big event.

Big time. I remember Flax was just like hitting the books hard. He was reading. Up to date. He had like 20 screens on in his room with all the different news outlets reporting. I remember Flax was just like hitting the books hard. He was reading up to date. He had all the, he had like 20 screens on in his room with all the different news outlets reporting and stuff. He was.

February I had my, do you remember at the start of the year I talked about the, the ablation, the procedure with the heart thing, the very. Yes. That was February, but that was it.

March. I don't, I don't know what happened in February. I can't say. March apparently I did we did that remote play thing Sips you did that oh yeah

with Slacks right yeah and Lewis was in that too wasn't he yeah I think he was actually yeah Lewis did that too that was where the Ever Given

got stuck in the Suez Canal a big event that was my March that was hilarious oh I mean like world news like stuff happens

around the world that was the funniest bit like world news like stuff happens around the world That was the funniest bit of world news that I've seen forever. Yeah, that really was one of the highlights of my year Well, that was the whole month for me I just did I had my birthday I did a couple of streams But I did remote play and I did a charity stream and that's it. April went, did nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, I think we went away for a weekend. Yeah, didn't you go?

You went to Spain this year too, didn't you? Yeah, that was quite recently. May, just looking at May. Well, it's still this year. It still counts. Like the year's not done yet. Did nothing in May. I don't think anything interesting happened in April either in the world. June? Did nothing in

June? Absolutely nothing. Eurovision Songcast happened in May. That was interesting. Okay, come on now. July? Oh, I went down to Bournemouth one day in July. You got vaxxed, I guess. When did you get vaxxed? In June or something? Yeah, June or July. Probably earlier, right? Because you actually had COVID

early on too, didn't you? I did, but I got mine after no that was this year wasn't it covid jab 15th july there you go so that's when i know no you you got your oh i had it yeah i had it in december last so a year ago yeah uh i actually had my booster on the 23rd i think and i felt we we spoke about it le Yeah, we spoke about it on 23rd. I literally had nothing for exactly 12 hours. Like, had the jab at 9.30. I was literally fine. Bang on 9.30 p.m., almost exactly 12 hours later,

hit me like a truck. I spent the whole next day feeling shitty. I had a really bad night's sleep that night. Me too. But I've been talking about other people, and other people have had no impact from their booster at all. My eldest had her booster, because they gave it to 12 year olds she had it she was like i feel a little bit bad but i'm fine i felt a bit shitty and then for about a week after i couldn't smell or taste anything i

was a bit bunged up wow and i thought maybe i had covid but i tested myself every day and i and i never came back positive so and now i feel fine so I don't know I don't know if it was relating to the booster or if it was just general because there's just been a ton of sickness going around generally from schools and stuff you know did I come did I did I come down to see you guys in July I've got me we did we did the boat action video oh so that would have been mid-July I've got Bristol on my calendar for like five days. I guess I came down. We need to keep better diaries of our year.

Maybe we should. Maybe that should be like. You know what? My whole year, my year is an easy one because it felt like half of the year was waiting for the baby to be born. And then the baby was born mid-July and the rest of the year has just been dealing with born baby. Yeah, God, that has been the year.

That's been the year. Oh, I had my 20th wedding anniversary. We had that. Oh, wow. And then we had a party a few days after that. We renewed our vows. Nice. Where we got a bunch of the people that were at the original wedding

and a bunch of our friends and stuff that we've made since. And we had a big party. That was really a lovely day. A lovely day. It really was. That was really a lovely day. A lovely day. It really was. That's really awesome. I did go to Romania. That was true.

Oh, yeah, that's right. You went to TI. Yeah, you've done quite a bit, Flex. I actually have. You've done way more than I have. Like I said, it was really just waiting for baby, baby, and then after baby. That's it for me.

I didn't really do, I didn't go anywhere. I didn't do anything. Well, you did do something. You made a person's pretty true yeah that's enough i guess for a year well his wife did the majority of the making sips sort of bought some of the materials she needed my maple syrup though for it to happen so yeah i mean it's just it's as important as the pancake but you know yeah i mean she baked it for nine months and you just, you know, provided the yeast. Jesus.

Well, somebody's got to step up. Way to make it unwholesome. Yeah. Well, there's nothing really that wholesome about, you know, getting a sprog going. By the way, thank you for the lovely Christmas

family stuff,ips sips sent me like a little photo well i mean again i didn't actually send it but very cute you know thank you thank your kids for sorting out i will i will i will thank them they spearheaded the whole operation and thank you likewise for the gifts and stuff you provided the paper yes and all the work and mailing and everything else yes i was the chief financial officer of the whole uh the whole project yeah very nice yeah that's it no i remember there was a time when i was like last week i spoke to you and you just said i'm i'm going out every day to buy something for baby or family it's just like every day oh yeah it for baby or family. It's just like every day. Oh, yeah.

It was insane. Yeah. Like, it's been nice, like, with Christmas. Like, thank Christ it's over. But at the same time, it's kind of nice because when Christmas hits, everything's closed. You can't go to town to get anything else, right? And then a couple of days after.

So you just have to wrap the baby up in tea towels or whatever. Yeah. And then a couple of days after, everybody's just so burnt out that nobody wants to do anything. So it's been actually kind of nice, you know, like a recovery. Because the lead up to Christmas, it's just a, it's like a zoo, right? Like every time you go to town too, fuck me. I don't know what people are doing.

Like there's so many people rushing around trying to get stuff and everything and you just think oh my god this is not worth it it amazes me like if you think about especially given the amount of online shopping that people do these days i don't i still don't understand how every year there are that many people for whom shopping on the last day possible to buy things it's still their go-to shopping day like surely once is enough have some chill about it as well like i mean if you're in that situation i mean clearly you've got better things to do if you've left it to the last minute but if you're in the situation where you've left it to all to the last minute don't have a meltdown in public

you know like it's nobody else's fault or problem that you've decided to to do this at this time right so like i feel like at least they could just be reasonable about it but so many of these people are like honking at you because you're taking too long to park and stuff like that and you just think come on like what are you doing like how has your life become gotten to this point where you're you're you're actually behaving like uh like you're having like a tantrum like a child in public because your your time keeping is bad you know what i mean like it's just it's crazy i don't understand how people become like that or or start like that or whatever you know what i mean like i think it's a vicious cycle right like i'm the same like my time keeping gets worse if i'm more depressed and then like

it gets and then that causes me to get even more behind every every time you know like if i just actually sat down and did my taxes i wouldn't worry about doing my taxes every day do you know i mean i just shit i haven't done my fucking taxes well this is what i'm saying this is what i'm saying it's frustrating sorry to remind you well what i like to do is when i get stressed to the gills like that i like to leave my house and go out and make it everybody else's problem uh by acting like an asshole like i find that that's the best therapy you drive into town you beep at people yes yeah i make it everybody else's problem uh i guess it's like a deflection or something maybe it's a cycle maybe you eventually become that arsehole in the parking lot you know maybe like at one point in your life

you are the guy being beeped at and then at another point in your life you're the beep you know you're the beeper and no longer the bp yeah exactly exactly. And one, yeah, I think that maybe is the best way to think about. We're all just part of this same planet, you know? Yeah, sure. Part of a shared organism. Yeah. Like hairs on the top of a head, a big head floating in space. That's what we are.

Hey, listen, I want to share with you that I just watched the end of season two succession and man what a show oh wait dude season three is even better okay well i mean season two was insane like yeah season two is fantastic every episode was some sort of social gathering or something but it was so good like the like it really fleshed out how insane everybody is and stuff man connor is hilarious eh fuck he's so he's so fucking stupid like he's so fucking insane yeah but he's so sort of uh uh well written in the sense that like you just know that there's people out there exactly like him a hundred percent like honestly honestly season three i i loved season one and two season three was next level like it's there was a there were a couple

of episodes that just mind-bogglingly good oh so yeah it's a really good show i just need to do something i will be one second carry on carry on oh okay go for it well anyway lewis if you haven't watched it yet i would suggest it it's a good one i've got it i've got it um ready to go it's already in it yeah it's definitely on my uh it's the next thing have you ever watched the italian crime thriller gomorrah the tv series because the fifth and final season just came out i haven't watched it yet but i'm a big fan i can't wait to watch it i haven't i haven't i tell you what i did which i watched don't look up oh yeah i heard that that's meant to be pretty good it's got dicaprio in it right it's not bad it's enjoyably goofy but uh it's kind of depressing as well when you think about it it's weird didn't you think

lewis it's it's a lot like idiocracy do you remember that movie what's the whole what's the premise of the thing it's like the end of the world but like nobody even cares or something yeah so dicaprio and jennifer lawrence this is we're not going to spoiler it for anybody that hasn't watched it okay jay law and and jay law uh discover that there is a comet and they quickly do the maths and it's headed straight for earth but they're the only people who realize that this is the thing this is they discover it first all right they they go out there and they they tell the the people that they think should be told you know the the department of whatever you know the the guy who's in charge of this kind of thing there and they tell the people that they think should be told, you know, the department of whatever, you know, the guy who's in charge of this kind of thing.

Yeah. And they take it to the president and they're given this meeting with the president and they're left waiting for the whole day. And they're like, oh, well, sorry, the president's got a crisis with,

you know, they've got to choose this Supreme court nominee or whatever. And they're like, no, this is going to be here in six months. Like, this is important. And they're like,

yeah, don't worry. You have to come back the next day. And there's just like no this is going to be here in six months like this is important they're like yeah don't worry you have to come back the next day and there's just like no urgency and they're like deciding whether to time when they release it there's some other president it's basically the president is a kind of donald trumpian kind of laissez-faire well is this going to help my ratings or not kind of thing but that's meryl streep she's really good as the president she's really it does it really well kind of as a as a ignorant kind of just kind of i don't know like a modern day what you a modern day president right yeah it used to be presidential used to be this kind of accolade yeah and now it's kind of this sleepy, political, kind of like weird sort of role. It's changed a lot, right?

The decisions are not for the good of humanity. They're for the good of the rich or the kind of getting reelected. Yeah, or themselves. It's very bizarre. I feel like attitudes towards the president have changed a lot, too, because in the 80s, it was very much all like, Mr. President, get down. But like nowadays, I don't think anybody would say, Mr president get down but like nowadays i don't think anybody would say mr president get down i don't think anybody gives a shit right i'd be like okay well

joe i gotta go see you later like i'm not you know what i mean like i don't think anyone's getting down for the president anymore or or helping them get down i thought it was brilliant you know there's this great bit in it where they do a poll and like like 25 percent of people don't even believe there's a comic you know that's that's the kind of attitude towards this comment right and the the the reason it's called don't look up is they have this slogan you know saying uh these these people are lying to you there's no comic coming or this kind of stuff and then there's like uh there's a sort of elon musk sort of character sort of he's kind of like um he's he's in charge of this huge like apple kind of this weird crossover between tesla and apple

this super rich company has got all these weird high-tech plans and it's it is interesting it's it is very silly i would say there are the the one issue i have is that this is obviously quite a serious take quite an obvious take on how people are ignoring things. You could just replace the word comet with the word COVID. It would be very topical and all that kind of stuff. Sure. Yeah. It's quite frustrating. And it's also, you think, wow, this probably is how it might be. And it's also a lot of stuff about climate change you feel is in there and stuff. So

it's made from a very liberal point of view, which is this is the truth and you guys just aren't listening. And since I am on that side, I certainly feel their frustration. But at times it's played for laughs and at other times it's quite serious. And I think it kind of veers between those two tones a bit too much at times. But it is good. It is a bit. A lot of people say it's a bit too smug but actually fucking i i thought it was hilarious and i loved it it was very it was good

i enjoyed it it's definitely worth a watch for sure i'm gonna watch that yeah so so don't look up recommend recommend i will watch it um i also if you want a complete change of pace from don't look up i finished watching The Terror, which is a 10 part series on iPlayer. It's made by AMC. It's got Jared Harrison, who was the scientist in Chernobyl, if you remember, who gave the presentation. He's also Harry Seldon in Foundation.

Oh, is The Terror, is that the one about the ship? Yeah, the two ships, The Terror and the Erebus. Right. And they set out in the sort of around 1850. I watched this earlier in the year. It's really good. You recognise a lot of the people. But yeah, it's very Northwest Passage.

It's very... It's grim. Mrs. F found it too grim and bleak. Too grim. Did she? Yeah, she did. I love that. I love it.

It's really good. I said the grimmer and bleaker, the better. And I love that i love it's really good i said the grimmer and bleaker the better and i love that setting that era of sort of you know just the late era age of sale when they've almost got technology i was talking about it on stream the other night about how when it comes to medicine they were so close to actually getting things right but they still were like well this tonic will relieve dropsy of the knee you're like lots of tonics and stuff like that because it's like that pre-victorian era herbs yeah yeah and so they were they were starting to do things like anatomy and science you know the scientific method was really starting to kick in but they still had these weird hangovers from the 18th century where they were like this curative will solve your problems yes

and of course it just doesn't so and they didn't four drops of bull feed eight times a day right that's what you need to the infected toenail this will drive out the uh evil humors you know evil humors yeah the palsy yeah it was always they didn't quite understand uhurvy. So as I understand it, obviously scurvy, vitamin C. And in fact, being stuck in the Arctic Circle for as long as they were, vitamin D would probably also have been a big problem. But I guess that might be easier to come by because you can eat oily fish, I think, and give you vitamin D anyway. What was the theory?

I think the theory was that a lot of theories have been passed around about what killed the Franklin expedition on the Northwest Passage. And obviously this is a fictionalized account of terror, so it's all very supernatural. Right. But there was a lot, I think we mentioned this before, but they had a water,

a fresh water production thing in the ship because the ship was one of the first steam-powered, kind of turbine-driven ships, right? Right. And it had, as part of that, it had a thing that generated fresh water, but apparently it put a lot of lead in it it was also a chat that a lot of the food was done in tinned and it was like the cheapest bidder and that was all poison yeah it was all the lead soldering if you like on the uh the lead soldering on the on the tin the other

thing that possibly was thought to have maybe killed them was um when they when they kill i think when they kill seals and eat the liver it's like massive amounts of vitamin a or something like this i can't bloody can't remember at all but one of like eating seal meat if you're not careful can just kill you right um yeah yeah so seal livers and stuff apparently the silent killer yeah like this load so if you're stuck in in the frozen north eating only seals, just avoid the liver, I think, is the answer. Right. I don't know.

Maybe that's the tastiest bit of the seal. Yeah, maybe. Maybe you're missing out on some delicious seal liver there. When I'm getting ready to chow down, I'm looking forward to the liver most of all. Do your own research. That sounds pretty grim. I mean, it sounds interesting though i'll probably check it out i watched um the movies that made us on aliens which was kind of interesting

oh that was a good one yeah it was a really good one i like that was a good one yeah the guy that was originally going to be hicks yes i can't remember yeah he's gone on to have a decent career but yeah just just decided to do some heroin while they were filming and got caught doing it as well. I thought my favorite part was the differences between the American and the English crews. Yes. Was that the Americans, like the way they did things was very different. Obviously for the Brits, tea breaks are factored into any production. So the bit where they, James Cameron being a very precise director, he didn't, he came across as kind of an asshole, but at the same time, sometimes you're smoke that he wanted just so and he got it just so and then the doors opened to

the studio and in comes the tea lady anybody wants a cup of tea yeah and all the smoke started yeah yeah i just thought that took them all day to smoke up the room because it was this huge set huge room and uh yeah she opened the door and all the smoke went out and he already was like very annoyed with the with the tea break the regular tea breaks and stuff because he'd sort of come from this uh working environment where it was just like all right everybody hands on you know we're gonna work seven days a week 24 hours a day to get this done uh no breaks and stuff so he was like i don't know it like it driven i guess and maybe a bit insane but i mean i guess he got the job done too like he made some pretty iconic movies it's a great movie yeah

james cameron's avatar 2 is only a year away oh my god i'm so excited man i'm gonna be kicking my legs in my bed every night before i go to sleep. I'm so excited. Does anybody actually give a shit? No, I don't think so. Is there an Avatar fan base out there? I guess there must be. There is for everything. Yeah, I think there is. But I really, I've yet to meet anyone who talks about things they're looking forward to,

and Avatar 2 is one of the things I honestly... I know, it's just, it's kind of one of those things that's ticking over in the background. I need to see Dune still. Like, I heard it's really good. It is very i just haven't i haven't gotten around there's gonna be three avatar three new avatar movies is there's meant to be a bunch of dune movies as well right there's gonna be like well i gotta finish the bloody rest of the yeah because i then they do like a third of the book or something isn't there like 20 books though there's like yeah but they won't go into those no the other rest of the books are pants really well they're okay but it's just more more

guppings in the same year as i understand it paul paul turns into a sandworm in one of the books i finished watching uh season two of the witcher as well oh good yeah the witcher every episode of the witcher i was like frustrated at the end of it i was like this is written so badly it felt like game of thrones where people just teleport around the world randomly people are all over the fucking place no one's clear about who's working for who they're all loads of little minor factors that don't even matter yeah no one really fights he kills like one or two bad guys per episode but it's not even clear they're bad guys like i don't know it's it's kind of very um it's all right i don't again like i don't have any investment in it you know it's just like whatever like i just yeah i don't even know what uh i love watching

gerald and siri go around and they're great but everyone else can fuck themselves yeah it's it was just fine you know it was all right i like it wasn't it it's it wasn't like life-changing but it's not the same as the same as the first season yeah pretty much yeah it was just all right it's just just more of all right yeah yeah i thought it was fine yeah it was okay yeah i love the terror p flex um second season of it is set in a japanese internment camp so it's not it's one of these anthologies whoa where it's completely different. Whoa, there's another series of The Terror? Yeah, season two of The Terror is completely different.

Actors, different setting, different... I shouldn't have even called it The Terror, but I think that... It's kind of like that American crime story format, right? Where it's like... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. When is this out? It came out like two years ago.

Are you serious? There's another series? Oh, man. Yeah, but it's not in... It's not oh man yeah but it's not it's not in that's not again obviously it's not i fucking love when that happens you know when you're just like you you don't realize that there's more of something that you liked and you find out and you're just like oh shit yeah i know exactly what i'm gonna be doing later just uh binging like crazy like i remember that happened one one time with um hip-hop evolution the uh the

documentary series i was just browsing through netflix and it was like new season i was like holy shit yeah i just watched like the whole thing in one go oh i had no idea that's exciting i i also watched uh i was in the mood i don't know why i love the idea of uh of especially like men trapped on a ship undergoing some terrible event it's a good setting it's a good setting for a story though isn't it it is so i watched crimson tide oh yeah yeah i thought i love something what about das boot you should watch das boot i've seen das boot many times there's. There's a TV series as well on Sky Atlantic, I think. I'm not sure if it's HBO or something, but there's a Das Boot TV series, like a long-running one. It's meant to be quite good.

They serialized the original movie ages ago. They turned it into a TV show. I'm not sure if German viewers may be able to correct me, but as I understand it, Das Boot that we saw as the film Das Boot was originally a TV series in Germany and was longer. I might be wrong about that. I'm not sure. Or they took the movie and cut it into bits

for British television. I can't remember which, because it is quite long. But I know there's something. Someone will know. Anyway, I can't remember, but let me know. But basically, Das Boot, for anyone who doesn't know, is about a german u-boat captain jürgen protch now i think yeah and his crew and their mission to go out and uh you know fight in the atlantic as as the wolf pack sort of thing yeah and it's great it's a really good submarine uh movie and it's a lot a lot of the staples of submarine sort of world war ii stuff i think were came from man i would

be shitting my pants working on a submarine like no i'm claustrophobic because it is but being underwater and they're like we are passing 150 meters captain the shit the hole is going clonk clonk yeah i don't know how i think the weirdest thing like i think about that and then i think about you know space travel or being in a spaceship or even being in an airplane but the difference is that when you look out the window of into space or or out of an airplane you can actually see stuff you know like you have some concept of where you are but when like underwater there's no windows and even if there was windows you wouldn't be able to see shit anyway right it just is just the extra layer of, of,

you know, sheer terror that I don't need. And I don't want. Here's an, here's an additional layer for you. I watched, there's a, there's a guy,

I think it's smarter every day is the YouTube channel. He does, he does videos about science and sort of experiments that he's, his name is his name, Derek smarter. I don't know. Cause is his name derek smarter i don't know because if his last name was smarter that would be so fucking good right smarter every day no that would be yeah but i've sadly i don't think he comes across as a very nice guy very smarter a little a little too nice a little too sort of over the top yeah i'm suspicious yeah

yeah but anyway he he goes on a nuclear submarine in America. Sorry, an American nuclear submarine at the North Pole. What they do with this is that this submarine is practicing being underwater at the North Pole because it's quite a good location to be for a submarine. It just sounds like he's just one-upping himself constantly. He's on a nuclear submarine in the North Pole on Christmas. It's just like, what else can this guy do at the same time? I don't know how he got the clearance, but he did. I think he's got a lot of fans.

I think some of them worked for the Navy. And this science experiment sort of thing that they're doing up there, not independent of the Navy, looking at the movement of ice and how the sub can break up through the ice because it just crashes up through the ice and then they chip away at it, open the hatch and they're like, hey. Anyway, they have on these big submarines, a piece of string that runs the length of the sub and it starts off quite slack, sorry, quite taut.

And as the submarine shrinks under the pressure of the water, the rope gets slacker and slacker. That's sort of a little measure that they've got for how much the hull has crushed. Slackness. And everything in the ship, if you imagine if you had an office, you wouldn't have cupboards like right next to each other. There has to be some gaps because as the submarine literally shrinks under the pressure of that water, everything gets a little closer together and everything has to be on these sort of movable bays so that there's room for them to be crushed as the ship literally

shrinks, which I thought was just incredible. I had not anticipated that the ship would shrink that much, but while they're underwater, you can see that the string goes from very, very loose to very taut as the ship sort of shrinks. I thought that, oh sorry, very tight to very, very, very untaught because the ship has shrunk that much. It's incredible. That sounds pretty cool, actually. The engineering on these things is nuts. Like, it reminds me of these...

I watched this channel on YouTube called The B1M, which I think is just one guy making really well-produced engineering and kind of architecture videos. And he made this video the other day about these billionairesaires row in New York where it's like all of these incredibly fancy developments, right? And what they do is they have to buy a bit of land,

which is obviously really expensive and really small. It's always in Manhattan as well, right? Yeah, yeah. And then you have to buy the air rights to the land adjacent right so you have to buy basically if you buy a block you then have to buy the nine blocks uh the eight blocks around it in like a grid um and get the air rights for those and if you can secure those then you can build your skyscraper right because the the point is it's not just the air rights for the land that you have got you have to make sure that if they wanted to build on their square it wouldn't obscure yours right so you need

to secure like the views and stuff anyway they built these things and there's all these stupid rules so for example um if it's a mechanic you're only allowed to build so high but mechanical floors don't count and also what's a mechanical floor so obviously a mechanical floor is one like if there's this one called 432 park avenue which 25 of the floors are mechanical floors where they're basically just empty um and they allow the wind to blow through to stop it oh right yeah yeah yeah so these things have like that there's a there's like rules about ratios but they're allowed to go above the ratios if they do certain things. Right. And so anyway, this,

this, this, this one has like one of the worst ones. I'd say worst. They're like super slender. They're like this stick. Basically they're one to 26 is the worst one, which is it's,

it's 26 high and one wide type ratio, which is crazy. Right. It's like, it's, you know, it's, it's like a, you know,'s it's like a you know two one

and a half thousand feet tall but only like a kind of um 100 feet or less than that like 80 feet at the base it's like super super slim wow um and obviously they have hardly any space right they like this this one is obviously 85 stories right 25 percent of them are mechanical floors with this huge and they've got this huge pendulum in them as well. Right. Which means that that's how they basically stay up. These incredibly awful, the looking unstable looking skyscrapers. They have like a mega pendulum in them. So if they start tipping to one side, the pendulum kind of creeps and keeps them in place.

There's a whole bunch of buildings in, I think, Singapore. It's like an 800-ton pendulum. Yeah, they do the same thing. There's like these gigantic pendulums inside. Hang on, hang on. So they must have a mechanical thing to push this pendulum the other way from the way the building's leaning. Otherwise, it's just going to make it worse. worse so that's just that's just held by gravity so obviously you know if it starts to lean to one side the pendulum obviously is still pulled by gravity to correct the building and so it it leans it back where it was it gives it it gives it like

because if it's too rigid it's a problem so it gives it like the the most efficient flexibility or something right but hold on so i've got a structure let's just imagine i know i know lewis can't imagine pictures in his mind but you can draw it if you like all right imagine a rectangle with a pendulum hanging in it yeah the building starts to lean over to the left because of extreme winds the pendulum is is that not now also so i see what you're saying is that not now also? Oh, I see what you're saying. Is that not now pulling it? Yeah, it's pulling it the wrong way. Or is it that the downward force of the pendulum helps to,

because it's independent of the building, its main angle is downward? Yeah, no, it's the downward force. If you look at the calculation, I think it's like F equals G over 5, 2 to the power of 3. Repeating, of course. Okay, well, it's not actually a pendulum.

It's called a tuned mass damper, a harmonic absorber, which is on springs and has something. It's complicated, P-Flats. I'm going to read it up. I'm going to read it up right now like in some buildings like when you see this thing it looks like the room in the building that's like the Gozer shrine you know like it just looks

fucking crazy like it looks it just looks insane like nothing you've ever seen before they have them in F1 cars as well they've got them in a lot of buildings to kind of keep them. The Burj Al Arab, oh, that's not the one I was thinking of, has 11 apparently.

But yeah, this is like one which is 730 tons in Taipei 101. Yeah, Taipei, and there's a bunch in Singapore as well, right? Really tall buildings in Singapore where they've used the same. I think it's just like the way to do it now, you know? Yeah, it feels like... So anyway, there's tons of these buildings and they're ludicrous because they're half empty, right? Because people buy them as like an investment, right?

But like almost like... So for example, these buildings are so they're so thin that you can't buy individual flats there's no hallways the elevator opens into the middle of the flat um every flat is an entire floor but some of them are two floors so that that's quite common in the in american apartments is that the elevator opens into like you that's why you need a key to get to each floor you don't just push button you know 15 and you're on yeah you go in the elevator you go in the elevator it takes you to your house specifically which feels like hackable af um but i'm sure it's picking lawyer up there yeah today we'll be breaking into the penthouse apartment of jennifer lawrence well that four three two but that's but

that's empty right like a lot of these things are so expensive, but they're also kind of, because they're kind of very robust, apparently the idea is that they're more liquid, so people can trade them in a tokenized way more easily because they're so consistent. What, the buildings? No, yeah, these super rich, super... They're basically just like a form of currency

amongst the super rich to be able to just trade up or, you know, quickly dump a lot of money into property and then get it back out again. Kind of, I don't know. I know that, I mean, a lot of the... Obviously, London, prior to Brexit, there was an awful lot of apartments being built, especially if you go to Canary wharf and around that area there's all this like dozens of huge skyscrapers

and like in the east end too right like the dock that is that is that is uh yeah that's canary wharf is in that area in docklands so that that's that's east london in general um i mean the further east you go the shittier it gets and it's still pretty shitty but all around that bit that is essentially around the jubilee line and the dlr that quickly get into the city east you go, the shittier it gets, and it's still pretty shitty. But all around that bit, that is essentially around the Jubilee line and the DLR that quickly get into the city if you need to, or into Canary Wharf and all that. Those buildings are all luxury apartments, you know, like huge blocks of luxury apartments,

all with names that imply that if you live in here, you will be literally a sky king or queen, lording it over everybody else those are those kind of names yeah like um cloud city for amazing people you know yes uh the paradise apartments in the in the heaven that those kind of having it's like having a throwaway thing to mention a dinner party if you're super rich it's like oh where where are you staying i'm staying at the 432 you know it's like's like, oh, you know, it's kind of this scene is like this accolade because they're worth 20 million, 30 million. And they're so consistently valued at that price.

But a lot of them are bought by foreign investors. Staying at 420 Weed Place. And also companies buy these apartments. Oh, yeah. So that when they have people over, they can say, we'll put you up in our penthouse, you know, and then it helps liquidate the deal a little bit more, lubricate. Yeah. Plus, plus it's tax avoidance is a huge, huge thing. Right. So a lot of these apparently a lot of these buildings are built here, but then they build like 100 units of affordable housing in the Bronx or somewhere. But then they build like 100 units of affordable housing in the Bronx or somewhere. And then that way they can avoid paying like a certain amount of tax. And so, you know, the average if you if you own like one of these mega rich skyscraper,

it's almost it's almost certain that you are not going to have to pay any property tax on it at all. Apparently, it's like one of these things where companies can get away with it as a tax tax. apparently it's like one of these things where companies can get away with it as a tax tax avoidance it's the whole it's a whole thing where the government have kind of encouraged you know housing to be built in the city or in manhattan and so as a result there there's all these these loopholes that people have exploited in order to build these and they wouldn't have been built without it you know these super tall slender mental buildings they look mad they actually look mad it's like when you think about it's like why would you build something so with such a small relative

floor space right because it's like compared to like the um one world trade center the you know it's obviously this roughly the same height but it's got like 100th of floor space or something like that because it's so skinny. Wow. And it's like. I feel like the skinnier would be worse because apparently those big buildings can move by up to a meter and can give people motion sickness near the top end. And that's with the dampener. Well, a lot of people were saying like there were a lot of problems with these these buildings that they built complaining about the dampener and the noise of it and stuff and the springs and whatever creaking and clunking away in the wind they said it was intolerable yeah but i mean like it doesn't make any noise but it has like a little voice box where it activated dampening

activated dampening dampening and it just keeps turning itself turn that thing off i'm trying to sleep oh man happening yeah that would be it's like one time i was in a hotel and slept in like one of the suites that was right next to the lift shaft it was just constant clonking and banging and i was like oh my fuck yeah i couldn't believe it you were just mad that the clonking and banging wasn't happening inside your room am i right definitely or else i wouldn't have noticed the clonking and banging yeah true yeah yeah that'd be such a good flex to put on like trip advisor or something right like i noticed a lot of people complaining about the noise of the elevator i have to say i didn't notice because i was having loud sex all night long i couldn't hear anything else because i was in the throes of passion. The suite next to mine would have been even noisier.

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So just checking my Nextdoor group for my area, which is always funny. Nextdoor is basically like a Facebook group on a separate website called Nextdoor. I mean, these things already exist Oh yes, yes, yes. Nextdoor, yes. As I've said previously, there are several kinds of posts on Nextdoor that are always

there. Whose dog is barking? Whose cat is this? I have lost my cat or dog. Has anyone seen those sullen teenagers in the street? What are they up to? Hi, I'm new to the area. It seems to be mainly foreigners that new to the area and it seems to be mainly foreigners that do this introduction uh nobody else seems to bother it always seems to

be hello my name is you know so so from poland and i just want to say hello and two people will say hello and someone will be like why don't you go back to poland or something like that like that's next door in a nutshell why don't you go back It's true. Warnings of scams is a very popular thread. So there's one where someone's warning about an Amazon scam. People complaining about the post office or some other public services. All the buses or something is a very, very popular one. People complaining about cyclists or electric scooters. People complaining about the bin men.

And that's pretty much, I've just loaded it up. And those are multiple of the top posts that feels just had a call from amazon it's a scam blah blah blah and suburban hell this is it isn't it's basically all the small talk that some local busybody would tell you if you're stuck with them it's literally what it is or something like that yeah yeah so there's someone here complaining about the parking in this area it It's basically inside the mind of a local arsehole. Typical small-minded shitheads. And then there's a post about a guy complaining about the complaints.

He says, I'm going to have to leave this app soon. It has so many people with nothing better to do than moan about utter nonsense. What else do you put on there? He says it's like having not one but hundreds of these really annoying neighbors who sit at home all day complain about the tiniest inconvenience i've started i'm scared to fart now in case i suddenly see a post that has ruined someone's day 140 comments well that's exactly the case though like what how do you make it positive like oh you should definitely smell the flowers at number nine.

And then the person at number nine is going to be like, don't you fucking smell my flowers. Yeah, get away from my flowers. Yeah, loads of creepy people coming and sniffing my flowers. Then someone's saying that you cannot win. There is no such thing. All property is theft. And then it goes from there.

The electric scooters is a thing. You know, you see these around. You can hire them. I've seen them with an app. And you get on the scooter and you drive it. Now, have you ever used these? I have, yeah. Yeah, I used one recently.

I used one in Portugal and feared for my life every time. But it was fun. But it was dangerous as well. I do have a question. They're always, like, at a station somewhere, like a docking station where they're charging up. You go up. I guess you connect with your app and it goes

and unlocks one you take the scooter you ride it off when you're finished do you just leave it? yes no you have to scan it again and then you usually

have to take a picture of where you've left it to prove that you didn't steal it yes and so the next person can find it as well but you could just leave them anywhere

yeah no you can't you can yeah you can't well it depends you usually like even over here now you can only park them in specific places oh yeah i mean otherwise you could just leave it on the fucking beach some people some places and some people do yeah and what they do is they go around with a van and collect them all up so some people yeah you could get paid to go and collect up all the ones at the end of the day that have run out of charge and yeah um taken back to the depot.

So, yeah, that does happen. But, yeah, it's weird. And, I mean, I reckon they cost so little. You know, I think they cost like probably 100 quid max, you know, to get one made. Like if they buy them in bulk, probably even less. And, you know, they cost like, I mean, sometimes it's like

five or ten quid for a quick ride on one at least in my experience and so you know you get 10 people using one suddenly you're in profit for that thing and you know it doesn't matter that they get knackered and lost and so here's a here's a question i want to go shopping yeah right i come down to bristol in a few months time i decide i want to go shopping find the nearest bank of scooters head up to cabot circus on my scooter because it's it's a fucking schlep getting up there otherwise get to the get to the shopping center where do i put my scooter there'll be loads of places to stop around so if you look at your app it'll tell you on a little map where you can put it but yeah like sip says a lot of cities you can just dump it anyway but again i think that a lot of cities

have their own rules for how these things could operate. But how do I get back? I want to get back. You want to get back. Yeah. So I want to save my scooter. Can I just say, I'm parking it here. I will return. No one else take it. Yeah, because if somebody goes to scan it and it hasn't been checked back in yet, it'll

say on the app, right? They can't activate it. Yeah, I mean, your timer will keep running. Right. But I'd be paying. You can leave the timer running. But what if I'm happy to pay? Well, someone else might grab it and go off on it

because it's already activated. Oh, it's because it's already activated. So they might nick it. That's my question. So I would need to park it there and say I'm parking it here. But if I'm in Bristol, I have to park it in a specific place. But if you park it at a bank, though, and there's tons of other ones, you just check it in,

and then when you come back, you just check out another one. So if I was going to a mate's house would i take it inside and that way i've got it and it's just well yeah i think i think so again you'd have to keep the timer running yeah yeah which is expensive um so it does fall down if you want to ride back if you want a one-way trip no it's got a little stand so it won't fall over no i mean it i don't mean like she falls down i mean i think you're looking at it i think you're looking so it won't fall over. No, I mean, I don't mean she falls down. I mean, that's really bad. I think you're looking at it from the point of view of, like, somebody who was born, like, in and around the 80s

who had their own bike and, you know, used that as a primary mode of transport for a lot of their life. I don't think they're used like that now. You know what I mean? I think it's just, like have to get to like uh the theater and i don't care how i get back like i just need to go one way we'll cross that bridge exactly yeah okay all right i got you it's not like you're not like hiring the thing for a day and using it like you would have used your bike like when you were a kid sort of thing it's like you're just using it

to get from a to b and then you figure out the rest of it after i think is the is the way they designed it go yeah definitely definitely give it a go that's my my tip just get on there yeah give it a give it a little scoot around okay fun because i know when we were when we were using them in in lisbon that we we just did the same it was like do you want to walk there or oh hang on there's two scooters here let's just take these and then when you get to where you're going, you just check them in and you're done sort of thing. And then when it comes time to go back or go home or something, you just figure it out.

Either there's a scooter around or you get a cab or walk or whatever. Yeah, they don't go fast enough for you to really injure yourself if you come off one. I'm sure you can i'm sure people have died falling off them and get hit by cars and stuff plenty of times but i mean people ride them on the road which i always think is that there's no difference to me between that and the old people i see on their mobility sort of moped scooter sit down what are they called it's like it looks like a tiny tractor you know those things the mobility

skills i see old people on the road when When I was in Bournemouth last weekend, dropping my mum back after Christmas. It was like a convoy of old people. There were a lot. But there was an old person on the dual carriageway on this thing. Like, they will fucking treat them like a car. You've got to be careful not to take a wrong turn. Just insane.

I'm sure there's speed sub scooters on the motorways, but God, you don't want to see that happen. Wait, wait, wait. That's the door. Let's do... All right, we're going to stop. Oh, you don't want to see that. Wait, wait, wait. That's the door. Let's do... All right, we're going to stop. Oh, you want to stop? Yeah, we've got to stop because I've got a meeting at 11.

Oh, okay, fair enough. All right. I'll come back to you. We'll do it next week. All right. All right, thanks, everybody. Thank you. We'll see you next week.

See you later. Bye.