Triforce! - Triforce! Mailbag Special #46: How to deal with Beautiful Women

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

Triforce Mailbag Special 46! Did you know Lewis is in a slow, boring and horrible game of Twilight Imperium? This is news to us! Meanwhile, we learn exactly how you're meant to deal with beautiful women (like Lydia) and we get some amazing Ali Express and Airbnb emails! Support your favourite podcast on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2SMnzk6 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm sorry. He's launching it. He's so excited. I'm just a professional. You said three, two, one, Mark, and we were ready to go. And then as I'm doing the introduction, you're telling me to do the introduction. Well, I'm just a control freak. I have to command you to do things.

Ho ho ho! Merry mailbag motherfuckers! Let's go! We got mail! You got mail! That's good. You got mail. God.

Alright, well, have we spoken about the campaign for North Africa before? Uh... Right. Have we spoken about it? The board game? The campaign for North Africa? Right, okay, I was gonna say, is this like this like, I thought you were doing like some like a charitable ad read or something.

I think we talked about incredibly complicated board games. Yes, we did. We did. All right. Well, we'll ignore that email then. I don't know whether... No, I'm interested because we talked about this and it was like, it was the most complex board game ever published, wasn't it? Yeah. This guy's email doesn't even come close. It took thousands of hours to finish. So Louis has emailed in and said, we spoke about Freedom in the Galaxy in episode 306, which was an old board game that I have a copy of that looks dreadful.

Now we've definitely spoken about Camping for North Africa before, and it's a 10 player game at the minimum, and you're looking at about 1500 hours to complete the game. We've spoken about this before. It's mental. There is a Hearts of Iron board game coming out. Right. And Hearts of Iron is a game that generally takes hours and hours and hours to play. The Hearts of Iron board game.

I'm kind of intrigued to see how that turns out. OK. But it's like I think a really good World War Two board game is something that I would absolutely love to play. The only one I've really played much of is Axis and Allies. Oh, that's a classic. That is. But the guy that made that made another game that's better but similar. And I only got to play it once on TTS and it broke quite a lot so we couldn't play it but

I really want to play a good fucking solid World War II board game. Okay so let me just give you... okay so these board games that existed they became video games right? Yeah yeah yeah that's what that was like this Europa Universalist board game and I think that's where Hearts of Iron and these map games that we play now came from. Oh of course absolutely. The computerization of them was to simplify them to the point that you could play them. But then it's gone full circle and been made back into a board game because board games are different now to what they were before. People want to play the thing they're familiar with.

Like the Frostpunk board game or whatever. I've got that in the office. I've never played it. I've got a Cities Skylines board game that I've never played. Exactly. Right. And the thing is that there was a Europa Universalist board game recently called The Price of Power. But when I sat down to play it with a couple of the guys from the board game cafe who are very experienced gamers. It turns out the price of power is only 29.99. But 180 hours of your life.

It was not. The price of power was $159.99 and it was 18 hours of money. That's a lot of power. Are you able to harness that much power? It was so much tedium that it made me crave the simplicity of the video game version of Europe, which is an astonishing thing to say. You want to get back to Super Mario Brothers one. You wanted the simple life. Don't get me wrong.

OK, world's war pipes. We won't get you wrong. We won't get I've been playing these these asynchronous games of TI. Right. And other things. Sorry. Yes, I know. Tell us every fucking podcast. I'm still in this fucking games of TI. What every fucking podcast that you've been playing these asynchronous games of TI. What is TI?

We don't know what TI is. Twilight Imperium. The International. What I've discovered lately, this is just my one little insight into it. People are playing this game and you think they have 24 hours for their turn. Okay, so you think they'd be really thoughtful, really strategic, they'd be thinking about it all the time. No, they're not. They just turn up and they're like, Oh shit, it's my turn. Is it? I better do something quick. Bam. They do a quick turn on their

phone and just do something really stupid or bad or lazy. And they turn their phone off again for another 24 hours. It's actually kind of the opposite of playing it in real life. At least if you're playing a ball game in real life and you're sat there at the table and you're watching other people take their turns, you're thinking, well, what am I going to do on my turn? People don't do that on asynchronous when they have 24 hours to think about their turn. Well, you need to get the right people, mate. It's mental. Could you feed the board state into an AI and get the AI to do the perfect move for you?

Well, you could do, but thislessly complicated that like even the discord bot is like so incredibly elaborate. And also these people, because it takes 24 hours on a turn, they're in about 15 fucking games. And so they get to their turn on a game and they've got no fucking idea. They can't remember which game they're in and they have to like look at the ball state and this incredibly complicated ball. Can I make a suggestion?

Mental. Can I make a suggestion? Mental. Can I make a suggestion? Go for it. Find something else to do. This sounds like it sucks. This sounds really, like really hard work. It's weird because though.

Like you haven't said a single positive thing about it. This is the modern day equivalent of I had to pull a plow with my arms and shoulders through a field all day today. I always think about this game design, right, though, because there are certain things in games that we clearly hate doing, but are very compelling games. Even like Elden Ring or something like this,

it's like this thing where you die over and over again, and you grind over and over again, but then that feeling of satisfaction when you finally do it is tempered and is increased dramatically by the amount of effort you put do it is tempered and is, is, is increased dramatically by the amount of effort you put in and how much you hated it. Right. So in a sense, a lot of gaming is I do this thing that sucks in order to feel a way that's, that's almost like I've earned it. Right. Like all these, all this trouble you go through in

grindy games, like MMOs or ARPGs to get to a thing where you kill a thing and you, or you hit a level threshold and you're like, bam, look at me. I've done this achievement that only 1% of people have managed to do. Like, you know, you feel like you've achieved something, even though it's been suffering the whole journey, right? It's, it's a really strange thing to think about. And I think there's a lot of that in Twilight Imperium as well. There's a lot of needlessly tedious things, but it is weirdly compelling. Okay. Like I, I keep coming, I do come back to it and people love the game and it's got a huge community of people who love it.

Right. So it must have some redeeming features, right? It must, it must. Tell you what, if someone out there has an email that they could send in about this community or a good one, send it in. Let us know. Because Lulu is clearly losing his mind. It is, the psychology of it's making me go crazy. But I guess what I'm trying to do is just slowly identify what bits of it are compelling.

How many asynchronous games are you currently involved in? I'm only in one. I'm only in one. I'm only in one. Let's read an email. I'm trying to do it healthily. Let's do an email. This is called meeting Ryan Reynolds, the king, and visiting North Korea. Not all at the same time.

I was going to say that's crazy. So, someone that just listened, that they want to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, will become clear. We made some incorrect remarks about North Korea, apparently. Right, okay. So, firstly, I sympathized with Sips when he was describing his experiences witnessing the King and the celebrities at Disneyland. You saw the King?

Yes. I saw the King, yeah. I live in North Wales and one day went for coffee with a friend to a new cafe in Wrexham. After my friend and I sat for coffee, Ryan Reynolds, Channing Tatum and a swarm of TV staff cameras, mics, the works came in following them. It was hell. The cafe was packed. I couldn't get any silence to chat to my friend whom I hadn't seen in some time.

Not only this, but there was a horde of people outside. I actually spoke to Ryan Reynolds. He was very cosmetic and friendly. Channing Tatum was busy chatting elsewhere. My friend and I decided to leave and we literally had to shove and barge our way through the crowd, mostly comprising of American tourists coming to see Mr. Reynolds and local middle age women wanting to see Channing Tatum wondering if he still had that magic Mike physique. My image of celebrity being something cool was instantly shattered.

I hope to never become a celebrity. It's terrible. Second point for work. I've met the boss, King Charles III, several times. He's a chill bloke, relatively relaxed and has great banter, clearly inherited from his late father. Sips doesn't need to worry about meeting him. His majesty can spark and carry a conversation well with anyone.

Good. Thirdly, I look forward to my conversation with him conversation well with anyone. Good. Thirdly. I look forward to my conversation with him one of these days. Indeed. And it will not be at all awkward. Not in, not at all. What would you talk to him about? I don't know.

Well, I don't think it matters. He's used to meeting people who go, I wouldn't know what to talk about. He's like, hello. What would you do? What does one do for a living? So then this guy has also visited North Korea. They are far more technologically advanced than you three jokingly assumed. By no means are they thriving, but they have a workable intranet, not the internet, computers

and modern gubbins that you and I would recognise. Well, certainly some of them do, I guess. Anyway, I hope you three and the families are doing well, stay warm and safe, etc. You too. Well, I assume they had modern conveniences. I assume they're not completely cut off. They do trade with China and all these other places that are very advanced. I thought they did have computers and internet and stuff.

What is their key export though? What are they trading with? Let's have a look. North Korea exports. Scams, scams, fake currency. I don't know. It's probably, it's probably something real. I reckon they do some stuff. Coles, iron, textiles, tungsten, molybdenum, ferroalloys, refined petroleum electricity, wigs, false beards, eyebrows and eyelashes. Really?

Yeah. Wow. But they, they're, they're so limited in who they trade with as well. Cause there's obviously embargoes like all over the shop. I think the idea is that China is, is just tried to open up these like borderline border cities and open up trade and get them, get things going in and out. I do have a lot of rare metals and things as well, I think. And it's an interesting part, it's an interesting thing in the world. I think it's very easy for China or Russia to trade with North Korea. First of all, they

both have borders with North Korea. Geographically, yeah, it makes sense. But also, if you are the only ones trading with a country, you can set the price. So you're like, oh, we want your tungsten and this is what we think are fair prices. And what are you going to say? No, we want wigs. We want millions of wigs and we're prepared to pay 10 cents a wig. We got millions of baldi's just hanging on for wigs. I think like that Ryan Reynolds thing, that two things strike me about that. One it's either badly organized. Okay.

Or two it's done on purpose, right? They've kind of turned up in order to get this documentary feel of crowdedness of like, you know, a film crewiness. Do you see what I mean? It feels like it's, cause if they wanted to, they could have just booked the cafe out or whatever. Yeah, don't tell anyone and just arrive in a car. The whole point is to try and tap into the local community and surprise them almost. And, um, cause they're filming their show, right? They want to, they want to, their,

their Wrexham football show. they want to get genuine reactions from genuine people. And they they'll do a lot of filming and they won't use 95% of it. But sometimes they'll have a really funny or heartfelt interaction with someone and they'll be like, perfect. That's that we put some sad music on that and then we'll win ourselves an award. You know, it is sometimes about quantity more than quality with these things. Like if you just get enough stuff. Will My Welsh accent is very difficult to do. Jason I'm sure the king is a good person to speak to because he's the king of small talk. He's been doing it his entire adult life, like making small talk with people. He's almost probably the best person to ask in the world about how to put someone awkwardly at ease, you know,

because he's to kiss your ring and then make them bow or curtsy. But just to be like, he probably could even do that as a joke. I would be, if I was the king, I would constantly be joking like, all right, we're going to be head this one for sure. Reggie making note of this one. I don't like what he said to me. Joking like that. This one's about new houses, new builds and why they look like shit,

which is something I think I was complaining about on a previous episode. So this guy used to do energy performance certificates for homes going on the why they look like shit, which is something I think I was complaining about on a previous episode. So this guy used to do energy performance certificates for homes going on the market. New homes are almost always A or B banned due to regulations as opposed to most older houses which are around CD on average. The reason for the small windows, small doors, etc. is to increase the energy performance rating. Suppose I spend it for the environment, but fuck me, they look like shit.

I agree. I mean, I get it. It is important that we build homes that don't just fucking pump out heat and waste energy because we're going to need to be better with that kind of stuff. Especially if we're building, as I think Keir Starmer wants to build over a million homes in this parliament time, we'll certainly get them started. If they're all dog shit for heat, it's going to have a massive impact on, on whether we can meet our target or environmental targets. So I get it. I've had, I had another email about it. I can't actually find it now, but the guy was basically saying that when you're

building sort of modern, modern buildings, we don't have the skill set easily available for laying brick for example. It's much easier to have these big prefabricated things that you just fucking slap together and away you go, rather than have someone come in and build it all and do all the little detailing around windows and doors, because that's quite a high skilled job. And doing that en masse, the cost just goes up. So, for a lot of reasons, it's difficult. ALICE Yeah, you always need, like, Lego bricks, big

concrete slabs, and- RILEY Yeah, or where you just go to the side of a house, it's just a big bump, like those 3D models. ALICE China do lots of building prefab stuff, because they build these skyscrapers in, like, weeks, you know, what would normally take years. Yeah, and they come down in minutes. But they're so quick to build them because they've had all the components just come in and they just slot together.

You just kind of bolt them. You got to bolt them together. It sounds like a smart choice, honestly. I think like that's, it feels like a more energy efficient, cheaper way to do it. I could be obviously completely wrong. So no, no, I think that's fair. As much as I love the idea of someone locally, you know, using, buying the land, using a, the rock that is literally there on the land.

You know, in reality, a lot of these places, they're certainly, if we're trying to build a million houses, they're going to be built on somewhere that, you know, is, is some. Because we're coming from, um, America or something. to build a million houses, they're going to be built on somewhere that is some abandoned parks or something. We're coming from America, Canada specifically, where a lot of the houses are timber frame, where I grew up at least. Not the old, old, old houses, but certainly anything that was built in the 80s onwards was all foundation, usually with a basement that made up part of the foundation.

And then timber frame, because the neighborhood I grew up in, the new part of the neighborhood was under construction for years when I was a kid. And you could just wander into these construction sites and see all these houses. And it was pretty interesting to see how they go up. But in the UK, they still build like these, you know, like it's like breeze block walls, like with cavities, you know, and it's like breeze block walls, like with cavities, you know, and it's all, it's all block work on the outside of your house. And then inside it's just, you know, stud walls and stuff, but it's completely different.

But I feel like the timber frame stuff is, is so much, it's got to be such a, such a quicker turnaround now, because I think that there's places that you can just input stuff into a computer and it's almost like a 3D printer. It can cut all the wood and then all you need is people to basically assemble all of these like stud walls and stuff. You know what the future is? It's like a flat pack house. The future is that you can design a tree that grows into the shape of a wall.

Wouldn't that be something? That'd be insane, yeah. With a window and everything. You could plant like a house seed. Yeah, you just plant it and that be something? That would be insane, yeah. With a window and everything. We'd plant like a house seed. Yeah, you just plant it and a house grows. That would be, uh, that would be cool. We had some stairs put in for our loft conversion, and that was all just done by computer as well.

Like a guy came over, measured, and he had like an idea of what it was gonna look like. Just on his computer, he just had a laptop, he just fed in the measurements, and then it drew up like a plan of what it was going to look like just on his computer. He just had a laptop. He just fed in the measurements and then it drew up like a plan of what it was going to look like. And then when they delivered the pieces, it just all came in bits. It was like a, it was like a Lego set. There was like, you know, all the, all like the, like the, the kite segments and then like the straight bits, like, you know, for the straight parts of the stairs, and then there was these like really, you know, like the, um, like the,

like the bits on the side that like, you know, the, the steps connect into. Yeah. That's like all one big flat segment, but it's like cut all curved and everything. It's nuts. Yeah. And then they just slot it all in, glue it, um, screwed in and it's, you know, it's, it's solid as anything. But so I wonder if the fact that we have that, that capability means that teaching people how to carve that we don't fucking need that anymore. We can. Yeah, you get a big machine to do it. But the guy who delivered the stuff, him and this other guy, they delivered it. And I was like, oh, like, do you guys, do you guys fit these as well? Like, do you turn up and fit them? He's like, no, no, we turn up, we bring the stuff, we glue it together.

And then somebody else has to come and fit it because it's like specialist work or whatever. But this guy was covered in glue, like his boots, everything. You could tell all he does is glue stairs together, ready to be fit 24, 24, seven. And he's like, I'm busy as well. Like I wouldn't even have time to fit them. Like I have to do like 10 of these today. It's like, what? How many people are getting fucking stairs glued together? It's nuts. Like I thought I'd be the only one over here, there's loads of people getting stairs glued. So never think stairs. Who knew?

Yeah. And this guy's covered in blue in glue, just absolutely plastered in glue. Like his pants, his boots, everything. I can't believe I didn't get a response to that. Yeah, no, I am protected. Okay. All right. This is my experience as a kitchen help. Who wants to hear this one? Go for it. I sadly left my job as a kitchen help at the end of September to go study abroad for a semester. You mentioned back in August how kitchen helps have a number six spot in highest amount of work related accidents in the UK.

So I got inspired to write this email. Now this is a job that I've done. I did this twice when I was younger, two different restaurants. And you're basically, it's a fancy way of saying- Were they like chef ones? No, you're like a wash- Yes, chef. You do everything in the kitchen.

Chef. Like, the restaurants I was in were not chef level restaurants. And this one probably isn't either. It's more like a workshop where food is assembled, but not with any love and care. It's more like a methodical thing. Like it was a very low level restaurant, not fancy. And you are doing the washing up, you're helping out as needed. Like you're just there as an extra pair of hands. And when there's nothing- You're cutting lemons, you're taking toast out, you're doing tea, you're doing the lagging

and everything. So, leaving the actual cooks to do the cooking, you're doing tea, you're doing the I worked mostly around a fryer and oven, which often burned me. Almost all the marks are from second degree burns, which is pretty painful. It's very hard not to get burned in a busy kitchen. You're gonna get burned. That's just the way it is. I worked together with three now models and one OnlyFans creator. I suspect that some colleagues who still work there now will become models in the near future. I guess a lot of young, attractive people work in behind the scenes in kitchens and as waiters. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I can I can I can I can imagine that most people like are young in that industry, you know, like waiters and waitresses.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I've certainly been in pubs before. Some of the pubs in Bristol, everyone working behind the bar to me is extremely attractive. Like you look, you think these people are all extremely handsome people. Like they're just working in a pub. I think maybe if you are, I don't know, maybe you're just kind of trying to get into modeling or only fans or something and this is just paying the bills. But yeah, some of the pubs I'm like, damn, this is crazy. Like everyone in here is good looking. Well, I think there is a little bit, I think this is the case to some extent with tips though.

Like, you know, if you're, like, it's the classic thing of if you're a guy out on the street trying to raise money for a charity, you get a fraction of the amount of money that a woman will get on that. Yeah, fucking women have it easy. Preach brother. Well, no, it's just, it's much more likely that men will give to an attractive woman, than women will give to an attractive man. I mean, I signed up, I've signed up to two charities that doorstepped us,

just turned up cold called at the front door. And because both times there's two very attractive young women, I instantly signed up. Like just couldn't help myself. I was just putting in their hands. Yeah. I'm awful. I'm the opposite. I'm just putting it in their hands. Yeah. I'm awful. I'm the opposite. I'm like, do you have any ID? Can I have the terms and conditions? I need some time to think about this. This is a big step. Yes. I'll do whatever you say. But imagine, imagine if you, if you work in a, if you get a new job and you work in a

restaurant or whatever, and suddenly the first day you work there, you get hundreds of pounds worth of tips, you know, from, you know, arguably, possibly men, you know, customers, you're like, damn, I made a lot of money tonight. Like this is something I'll keep doing. And I think maybe that industry that is, that's what I would call like sticky, you know, kind of just as an accidental incentive, you know, I think, I think that I don't know if that's the same with bar staff. I don't think they get tips particularly. No. But I think it is a social, more social thing to work in the pub.

And I think, you know, attractive people tend to be more outgoing. They tend to be out more. Yeah. I don't know. I think it's just, it is somewhat self-fulfilling. It's an exciting time for them as well, you know? You go, you see people working these jobs and you think, I wouldn't want to do that the rest of my life,, you know, you go, you see people working these, these jobs and you think, I wouldn't want to do that the rest of my life, but you know, in my early twenties,

if I'm going to university, fuck that'd be great job. That'd be so much fun. You probably meet so many fun people and it's probably easier to get a customer facing job if you're good looking. Like that's another thing is if you're hiring and you get a bunch of really good looking people coming in, you're going to think, yes, that's going to look good for the pub. You know, I just realized that's why I was always working in the back room. I thought I was lucky. I thought I was lucky. Oh shit, I'm so lucky to work in the back room. Now

I realize why I was back there. Yeah, but Shrek in the back room. Get that fucking ogre off the floor. Of course, there's going to be all the problems of being hit on all the time, which is probably a nightmare. I'm sure attractive people are used to that. Yeah, it's definitely, I think, annoying. I don't know if people are gonna think that this is inappropriate, but just hear me out.

I think that attractive women are very very good at knowing when someone is looking at them, and not returning that look. Like that's a skill that women learn, especially attractive women who get stared at a lot. But I've noticed they're able to completely ignore someone looking right at them and still know that that person is looking at them. I think they have very good peripheral vision for someone ogling them. Yeah, I think so. Because I've seen women in that situation and after it looks like they haven't

noticed this person at all. And after you've been staring at them intently for 20 minutes, you notice that they're ignoring you. No, they'll say like, is that guy still staring at me? And you'll be like, wow, yeah, you saw that. I didn't even see you look over. I mean, I noticed. But you know, I made it.

It's just something I noticed. I do this thing now. I think it's from being conditioned working in an office, where it doesn't matter who it is. If I walk by somebody and I, even if I accidentally make eye contact with them, I do like a smile, you know, like, or like a, like almost like a, like a little hello, but like a silent hello. But when you work in an office, you've got to do it all the time. You know, like if you walk by somebody in the hallway, you can't just ignore them because it's weird, right?

So you always have to be like, hmm. But is it that smile where you kind of just tighten your mouth up a bit? Yes, it's the tight- tighten up the mouth. And a slight nod. I do it all the fucking time. It's crazy. It's like you're pushing your bottom lip into your upper lip a little bit. Yes. Yeah, I do it all the time. But people do it back as well. Like the fellow fellow conditioners out there will know that the...

Dude, everyone does it. It's just a way of saying, I acknowledge you. Yeah, you exist. Yes, you still exist. Only just. Barely. Yeah, it's weird, isn't it? Number three. One of my colleagues would watch porn daily while cutting prep meat.

So while they're preparing the meat, they're just watching porn on their phone, hopefully. Most of the other cooks were Chinese. The only words they made me learn were, God damn it, thank you, and ball hair. Right. Three handy phrases. I've worked together with an accomplice to a murder. I was there when she was called by her parents to come home

because the cops were at her house to arrest her. She was only 17. Here is a link to the article. I'm not gonna link it up. A different colleague, she got fired before I started, was jailed this year for attempted murder. Wow. I will not tell you how common it is for food to be dropped on the floor

and then still be served. You would be disturbed. I mean, that's and yeah, that's a given. I think everybody knows that. We were a somewhat fancy place, very close to the beach. So we had an uncountable amount of times where people with only bikinis on or still wet swimming trunks attempted to enter the restaurant and eat inside, which is something we talked about recently. And almost half of the total people working there at the end of the day would just smoke joints to calm down because it was so stressful. But it's the Netherlands. So yeah, fair enough. Thank you, Daniel.

Yeah. It's interesting insight into the wonderful world of kitchen help. Yeah, like chaos, but kind of fun. Yeah, well, I mean, it is fun. This stuff you can see, they've got people that wear GoPros that work in kitchens on YouTube and stuff. You can see how they function. It is interesting though, because it is, you know, the very high level ones, it's like a military operation, you know, like it's all so organized and they, you know, the very high level ones, it's like a military operation, you

know, like it's all so organized and they, you know, everybody is doing what they need to do and stuff. It is interesting. It's a, it's a really interesting workflow. One of the more interesting ones, because some of them out there, Oh God, I've just remembered something to happen when I was down in Bristol last week. We were at the pub, a whole bunch of us, and it got super late and I decided to head off. And I was going to go get some chips because I hadn't had any dinner yet. And Lyds was like, big Lyds. She was like, oh, I'll get a fucking shawarma because I'm hungry as well.

So we walked up to Baldwin Street and there's a kebab shop there. And we walked in and the guy, it was just us in there. The guy behind the counter sees Lyds, who's very tall and beautiful. And he's like, his eyes light up. Like this is like a vision who's come in to the kebab shop. And we approached the counter and he just looks at her and he tilts his head to the side and he goes, hello beautiful, what can I get you beautiful, you want anything and anything beautiful, what do you want?

And she's like, I'll have, and she gives him her order and he's not taking his eyes off her while he's putting it together He's just staring at it like like just little diamonds in his eyes. He turns to me goes. Yes Makes it chips and then while the foods kicking he comes back and he gives her a lollipop from a big thing of lollipops Like he's I have to have a lollipop beautiful anything and she takes a view a lollipop from a big thing of lollipops. Like he's, I have a lollipop, beautiful, anything. And she takes a beautiful, the lollipops, he looks at me and puts the lollipops back under the counter. Yeah.

I think that's a bit, I think they do, I think it's, I think they, I don't think he's doing it like, it's, you know, it's a routine, you know, I think they do it all the time. Oh no dude, he was, he fucking loved it. The thing is afterwards, Lidsworth's like, he didn't know if, you know, I think they do. Oh, no, dude, he was he fucking loved it. Yeah. The thing is, afterwards, Lids was like, he didn't know if, you know, it would be unlikely, but he didn't know if you were my partner or anything. He does. He does that shit all the time. People always do that.

That's how you get in the trouble. Like, I'm just kidding. If you pick the wrong person, they're chucking something straight through your fucking window. Like, I know lots of nutters that would do that. They would spot instantly. I saw instantly what happened. Yeah, let's knew instantly what happened. You do that to the wrong person.

You're going to get fucked up. Yeah, but I think they develop like some sort of like gauge for six. They can do it. Pussy test. This guy is a bitch. This guy's a little bitch. I will tell his beautiful girlfriend. I know beautiful. She's so beautiful. And he's a little bitch. I will tell his beautiful girlfriend. I love beautiful. She's so beautiful.

And he's such a bitch. Exactly. It's a huge bitch. Huge bitch. You want kabab little bitch boy? You want chili sauce bitch boy? I give lollipop to your woman. I went out to a disco on the weekend.

I fucking did. I went out school. Disco. No, a disco normal disco was the eighties, nineties themed disco. Okay. I haven't been out in like, I haven't been out clubbing in fucking. I don't know how long we went with another couple. It was hilarious. Holy shit. It was so funny. I'm like hung over.

I've been hung over for like four days. Like, Oh my God, handle it. And I got one of those disposable vapes, a thousand puffs. I think I finished it in like two hours. I was out there fucking caning it constantly. And I'm coughing like all the time now. God, it was really fun actually. I haven't been, like I said, I haven't been out in such a long time.

It's been like 10, 15 years since I've gone out like that. And it was, it was really fun. It was really hilarious actually. It was good. Yeah. This is from Toby called Gazza being a menace. I remember you boys talking about Gazza a while back. So I thought you might find this funny.

I watched a two part documentary on him somewhat recently, is interesting. Yeah. This is my mate is a doctor working in A&E in Poole. Poole is in Dorset and Gazza lives in, I think, Sandbanks or certainly in the Bournemouth area. Right. I know. I know this because my sister stepped over him

going into a Wetherspoons in town centre. No way. He was passed out drunk in the doorway. Yeah, he's a fucking liability. Apparently, Gazza, brackets Paul Gascoigne to be clear, we know who fucking Gazza is, regularly shows up absolutely pissed on drugs. Most recently, he heckled my mum from across the department. Wait, told her... Wait, what is this? Heckled my mate from across the department. Oh, god.

Told him he had a lovely face and that he should go on Love Island. Okay. Other stories include him telling a nurse who was inserting a urinary catheter. That's the most famous cup it'll be touching in your life. Wow. Cheers, Toby. Thanks, Toby. Yeah, Gaz is gonna die very soon.

I mean, he's literally drinking himself to death. Yeah, he's not in a good way at all. He's got a very reckless life. So always has really. He's always been a real lad, you know, but like to the extreme is just crazy. But he was really good at football for a time. He was amazing. Yeah. In his prime.

In his prime. In his prime. He really was a brilliant, brilliant footballer. And then he he so he was when he was young and he was at like Newcastle and Spurs. He was brilliant. And then there was this one tackle. I think it was in the FA Cup final. Can't remember who it was against. Was it Forrest? I think he scored a brilliant free kick and then he went in to tackle someone and absolutely fucked his I think it was his knee and his career sort of went a bit on the slide after that

But yeah, you know, he went to Italy He that's right was amazing and I feel like we never got to see enough of a career that we should have Yeah, because he put on weight and he's kind of I think very difficult to have at the club Yes, the liability but I mean what a player. He was just a legend. Probably one of the most naturally talented players that England's ever produced. It was an interesting documentary for sure. I think he has done, it's funny how being a good footballer and being funny has sort of a bit of a clown has kind of given him a bit of a pass to get away with being a bit

of an asshole. I think he's like done a lot of drink driving. He's done a lot of abusive stuff. I think he's been a bit of a cunt quite honestly, most of his life. He's not quite frankly, he's probably a probably should have been canceled. Right? Well, I mean, and deck has done all this stuff as well. And he's still fucking on TV all the time. He hasn't been canceled. Well exactly, he's kind of a... It's funny isn't it how some people can seem to skirt along in a kind of...

Oh, he's a clowny way. We love a fucking clown, don't we? In the UK. We bloody elected one. I feel like, you know... Which one? Which one are we talking about? I think if you're successful, but you don't seem like a serious person, people will like

you more. If you're a man of the people. If you're just a bit of a bozo. Yeah. Yeah. All we seem to get now is a bit of a bozo. Like, where are all the normal people that just don't seem to even exist anymore? I just said not on TikTok, mate.

That's the problem. Yeah. All right. This one's, this one's called Bad Subtitles. Listening to Mailbag 41 where you were discussing incorrect and lazy subtitles, I watch a lot of Spanish and Korean dramas and I agree that some host sites suck nowadays with missing words or complete mistranslations. However, in general I've noticed that when they say, speaks in foreign language, or speaks

in Spanish, it's because even without subtitles you aren't supposed to know what's going on. That's no yeah. As the audience or main character, they aren't supposed to understand because they're sharing some kind of secret information. Yes, we understand. Yes, that is a Fiona 27 gaping vagina. Thank you.

Thank you. Yes, that is definitely a thing. You're not meant to know you're meant to be looking at it from the point of view of the main character who doesn't understand any English, but slowly, as he follows around the band of merry men, he picks up English here and there, and then is able to fully understand English. Antonio Banderas in that one movie he was in. I have had this happen a couple of times. I've watched a couple of movies in my life that had... 13th warrior.

13th warrior, Antonio Banderas. He learns English. I fucking knew it dude. He learns English. They had a couple of... Well he's not, he's learning Scandinavian. He learned Scandinavian in that one. Yeah, sorry Lewis, go on. I can't remember which movie it was. It's all right. And I thought it was one of those

situations where I had subtitles, but it wasn't subtitling these foreign language bits. But then I realized quite a way into the movie that it wasn't subtitling. It should have been. Because sometimes these movies do have subtitles on those foreign language bits, but mine had none on those. And so it was a lot of the movie that I didn't follow. Do you see what I mean?

There was just too much. I was like, you know, it was just too, just a little bit too much. Back in the day, before all these streaming services, I used to, I'll say it, I used to pirate quite a few movies because I was literally the only way. There's any way to see them. But quite often with the forums, they didn't come with subtitle tracks. Oh yeah. You would have to scan around and download the subtitle track.

But sometimes it would be in the wrong language or out of time and you'd have to sync it up. It was a real pain in the ass. Can I tell you something that I've been doing recently, which I never thought I would be doing but have actually had a lot of fun doing? Clubbing? No, no, that is a separate thing but I did yes I did do that. My son got a like a you know like a not not a big expensive one this is

just kind of like an entry level 3d printer for his birthday. Oh hell yeah! And it is fucking awesome man. The stuff you can make on this thing it everyone who's seen it, everyone who's come to our house and seen it has been like, holy shit, this is awesome. You can download 3D art from anywhere. There's all these sites that have these files. You slice them, you feed them into the machine, and some of them are complicated, they'll take hours, some of them aren't so complicated, they'll take a couple of minutes, but this thing is, is, is incredible. It just melts the, uh, the filaments and just creates these beautiful sculptures. My daughters,

especially my son was like, he thought it was pretty cool. He printed like a couple of like Fortnite V bucks, coins for his friends and stuff. And he, you know, he thought it was pretty neat, but man, my daughters have been printing out like puppies and Guinea pigs and like all the, every day I get requests like, can you please find a pirate themed guinea pig fighting another one? Like I've got this whole list of shit I got to find so that I can print, but then they're painting them and everything. Oh, fuck. It's amazing. It's such a cool. How much is the, how much is the goo that it turns into stuff?

How much is it? You get it. It's like a, you get like a spindle of it. It's like, it's just like, it's just plastic, like plastic wire that feeds up into like a tube. It comes like on a, on a roller thing. It's cheap as anything. Does it heat it up? Yeah, yeah. Does it heat it up like a glue gun?

The nozzle gets like 250 degrees. So it like kind of turns it into a glue, but then immediately it solidifies and it just kind of works from the bottom up. How big is it? It's not, it's not huge. It's like the size of a toaster. Wow. So you're just printing out like these little models, but it's like, I think it was like 150 quid. Yeah. I mean, it's a 3d printer. It's not going to be like that, that cheap. No, but that sounds fantastic.

But there's, there's, there's like, you know, there's big, big boy ones that are, can be like a lot more expensive, but this one is, is fine. Like it. Wow. Yeah. Such a cool, uh, such a cool gift. My wife just was browsing around cause we were trying to figure out what to get a 13 year old boy that wasn't just, I mean, all he asked for was V bucks.

Yeah. So we're like, well, fuck, you know, we got to get him like a couple of things. Yeah. Or something to open that's going to be fun. Yeah, of course. So like, yeah, it was such know, we got to get him like a couple of things. Yeah, you're someone who's open. That's going to be fun. Yeah, of course. So like, yeah, such a good shout, actually. It's so much fun. Like and like everybody in the house has just been, you know, you go in at night and this thing is just fucking printing away.

It's like, what the hell is printed now? Like it's all these little statues. Yeah, it's really good. Really good. All right. This one's called AliExpress. So here we go. Longtime listener, first time mail bagger. That's why you get episode 303. We'll see. I want to share a report on some previous AliExpress purchases that were made purely out of curiosity to see if they were legit,

as you will experienced in this episode. So these are the things that stump here. They called stump purchase a shadow, the hedgehoghog T-shirt for eight pounds that says, nice cock. It arrived in two weeks and was decent quality. Fair enough. OK. A 16 inch, 60 Hertz laptop for 12 pounds. Shockingly, it worked, though it struggles and it can't show anything on the blue side of the color spectrum. So it just can't do it.

What? Sorry, what? What the hell? It's just a monitor for a laptop and it just can't really show anything that the blue side of the color spectrum. So it just can't do it. What? What the hell? It's just a monitor for a laptop, but it just can't really show anything that's blue. 12 quid. 12 pounds. A 17p watch, 17 pence, very fancy watch, took a month to arrive, came in a lovely box, but inside it was just a strip of plastic in the shape of a watch

with a sticker of the advertised watch over the top Absolutely a scam It was a hilarious extra birthday present for my brother I loved that so much Alright, now for the funny How much would that have cost a post compared to what's gone amiss That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. I just don't know what I expected from that.

Fucking hell, that's so funny. The fact that something arrived. I know what I'm getting everybody for Christmas next year. It's too late now though, but But oh, shit, that's funny. The thing is, make my own. They could just I could use the 3D printer. They could just keep the money. But instead, they're actually sending across the world.

Yeah. A piece of plastic with a sticker of a watch. I can just like, well, I know what I expected for 17 people. You know what? 17 P. Like, oh, God. So now these are the slightly scary things that they got on. So I bought a 1P plasma lighter slash phone charger. Okay. 1P.

Yeah. Plasma lighter slash phone charger. Despite not smoking or needing a power bank and a £1.20, 100 million lumen flashlight. So a lumen is like, I think, one candle worth of light. I think that's a lumen. So it's an incredibly bright flashlight for £1.20. You bought the sun for £1.20. Yeah.

Both seemed reliable and arrived at the exact same time. Both the lighter and torch were out of battery on delivery, so we decided to test out the portable charger. I can't imagine that that torch would, there's no battery on earth that could keep that bad boy going. I agree. So I test out the portable charger, it charged up visibly fine, and I decided to let it charge the torch.

Came back an hour later to the charger, nearly glowing as it was molten hot. Equipping some other gloves, I picked them both up and took them outside, calling my girlfriend to grab the fire extinguisher just in case. Now, both of us stood outside and it being quite dark, decided it was the perfect time to try the torch. Within a second of turning it on, the flashlight was so bright, it felt like a portable sun. I cannot stress how bright it was.

However, it immediately began to sound like a jet engine and let off a lot of smoke. And then I dropped the torch causing the bulb to shatter. Without much time to respond to this, a small flame about six inches long shot out of the torch lasting for about ten seconds. Me and my girlfriend now were both bewildered and slightly terrified, turned around to find the portable charger, and was getting jealous of the attention, and had decided to also engulf itself in flames. ALICE Good God!

WILL Thanksfully, we had a firing stick in our hand, and dealt with it properly, handing them off to the bin men and giving them the warning, leaving it all a slightly funny, if terrifying, memory. That is absolutely brilliant. Please do not order random shit off AliExpress. It's so dangerous. Don't fucking plug it in in your house either. Yeah. Can you imagine you'd left that for like 20 more minutes? You would you would have had a house fire. Easy. Oh, God.

Oh, that's hilarious. Holy shit. I can't even believe it. No, I can't believe it. That is that is like the Wild West of online shopping. It has to be. It's it's insane. That is. I can't believe it. And it is mental.

I don't know what could have possibly is it. I'm just trying to think, like, is it different voltage? You know, it's just these batteries get so hot. Like none of the parts in there are up to spec. Like they've thrown something together that yes, it will technically work for a little bit. Yeah. But it's just, it's in no way is the battery sufficient.

You're paying for people's science projects, little science projects. So it's like even things like the tolerance of the casing will not be up to code for that level. The battery will put out that amount of power. But for that brightness, think how much heat that's generating. Oh, my God. Yeah. So it's just not ready for it. And the charger isn't like, like limiting itself. Why would you ever need anything that bright?

It's so bright. It's stupidly bright. It's unusably bright. It's insanely bright. I mean, you would literally, if you shone that at someone, I think you would do damage to them. You would burn them immediately. Yeah. Good lord.

Also, like, everyone has a torch on their phone. Not a hundred million lumens! A hundred million lumens is a tough act to follow. I mean, if someone said, has anyone got a torch and you whip that out, I think I'd hit the deck. I think we were under attack by aliens or something. Oh my lord. It's insane.

Good god. This one's called MySketchers Light Up Shoe Trauma. In a recent episode of Triforce, there was some shoe talk and Lewis mentioned how he wished he had a pair of LED light-up shoes as a child. This brought back a now decades old trauma I had relating to this style of shoe, which looking back now seems silly. I entered elementary school in the great state of Minnesota in 2005, the same year as the infamous Red Lake shootings. As a result, we started doing daily active intruder drills in all levels of instruction, including down to the kindergarten level.

That is mad, eh? The teachers took it very seriously, would turn off the lights in the classroom, draw the shades, and tell the kids to stay absolutely silent and hide in the corner. As a young child, it was hard to tell if the drills were real or fake. It was during one of these drills where the dead silence was pierced by another student's Skechers brand LED light-up trainers going off. Not only was there a light display, but for some ungodly reason these sneakers also played a song. This resulted in many other students, including myself, absolutely breaking down,

thinking that this girl's LED Disney princess sneakers would be the end of all of us. Everything of course ended up being fine, but ever since that fateful day, I've had would be the end of all of us. Everything, of course, ended up being fine. But ever since that fateful day, I've had an irrational fear of light up sneakers. What was the song like? And do you get triggered every time you hear it now? It's just terrifying. I know. In answer to the last question, we do not have anything like that in the UK because, yeah, we don't have people with guns roaming around.

Active school shootings is not something that they need to prepare for much. Not since Dumb Lane, which Andy Murray, the tennis player, was at that school. He was at that school. Yeah. There's more, there's a lot of knife crime in the UK, but not on the scale of shootings and school shootings. No, there's really not a lot of knife crime in the UK. It's still less than America.

Oh yeah. I think that's one of those things that they try and say, well, the UK is just the same. No, no, no, sorry. I'm not comparing them. I'm just saying you're more likely in the UK to get attacked with a knife than you are to be shot, I would say. And you are still very unlikely. And very unlikely at that. So no, we don't train anyone for that because I I don't know, you know, I don't want to get

political but whatever. We don't. Bizarre Airbnb experience. I'd imagine that most experiences at an Airbnb would be bizarre, right? I mean, you are just living in, you're just staying in somebody's house effectively. No, you're not. Well, sometimes you are. I'm trying to think.

I have stayed in quite a few Airbnbs and I'm trying to think of occasions where it was clearly the home that they lived in. It used to be, but it was mainly their holiday home. When they weren't using it, they'd rent it out. So they like live up in London and they have a second home down in Cornwall, say. Yeah. And so when they're not using it, this is actually a good way to let it out. I stayed in an Airbnb one time with a couple of friends. We were in Munich, not for Oktoberfest. We were there for just just just like just having a little weekend trip or whatever. We stayed in an Airbnb and it was it was somebody's house.

Like they were not there. They'd gone away or something. Yeah, yeah. But like all their books and like mail, like it was just their house. We just stayed. I mean, I've done that in an apartment. I've had that way. I've stayed in an apartment and it's clearly their house and they're just away for the week. I mean, yeah, fair enough.

Did I tell you guys about yesterday about my Airbnb experience? When I was in Bristol, no, no, no, I didn't tell you this. I don't think so. Oh, my God. I remember I was saying I was saying to my usual Airbnb. If we if we talked about this yesterday, people are gonna fucking lose their minds that I told this same story back to back. Well, it's not ringing any bells so far. So I'm in my Airbnb, it's a basement Airbnb, and there's a house above it.

And the people who own the house, that I previously rented this Airbnb from multiple times, it's my favorite one, they sold the house. So I had to redo the listing, you know, wait for it to come on and book it and all the rest of it. No problem. And the new owner seemed lovely. First night in there, woken up very early in the morning by a load of drilling and blah blah blah blah blah, because they're having the flooring redone. Right. I was like, oh man, I just messaged her and I was like, how long is this going to be going on for? Tend to work quite late, didn't want to be woken up at 8 a.m.

She's like, oh, I thought you'd be out. I didn't think, even think that you might be sleeping in. That's my bad. I'll tell them to do all the noisy stuff today. Please accept my apology. Let us take some money off the cost of the Airbnb. I said, I was really not that big a deal. She said, well, let me get you some wine.

And I was like, fine. So she bought me some wine. Very kind. Wow. Right. A couple of days later, this was actually the final day, and I did the stream in the morning with Xylus on the Jingle Jam.

And then I was going to do the coffee with Boba in the afternoon. So I thought I'll have a lie down during the middle of the day, be fresh for the stream. So I'm there. I have my nap. I'm just coming around and the fucking mirror on the wall opens outward

like a door and I can hear voices. And there's people that are clearly showing some other people around this house that they've just bought. And they're like, and down here's the cellar. And they're coming into the room and I'm just fucking naked in bed. What? Having just had a nap and the door opens, luckily sort of facing me so they didn't see me. They just started coming and I was like, hello? Like that.

Trying to sound authoritative, but clearly sounding like like a bitch boy, like the kebab shop guy knew. Yeah. And and they were like, oh my God, oh, I'm so sorry. And they like slammed the door and I could hear them run up the stairs behind the mirror. I didn't know there was a fucking staircase behind the mirror. And I was like, oh my God. And I messaged the B&B owner again and I was like, ah, just to let you know, some people tried to come in. She wanted to like, refund the whole thing and

she's like, oh please let me buy you some more wine. I was already carrying enough wine back home. But it was so, I was so shocked when that mirror opened up. Oh my god. That is insane. Yeah. It was really something. That is insane. Oh my God. Yeah. Well, that's me. I'm never staying at an Airbnb ever again. I think the one I stayed at, I was just, I lucked out, you know, like the guy was gone.

Like, and you know, he just had like a really nice, just a single guy, lots of books, you know, nice flat. It's like in good, good order. It was fine. I don't know if you'd ever get that again though., maybe that's just lucky or maybe, I don't know. If you have Airbnb experiences, send them in, I guess. Well, here's one. This is from Tay. This summer, I worked remotely doing wildlife research in the north of Manitoba, Canada. Whenever I was not in the field, living in company housing, I would rent Airbnbs in Winnipeg.

All my weekends off. Naturally, I would go Airbnbs in Winnipeg on my weekends off. Naturally, I would go for the cheapest option, renting a room in someone's house. This went fine most of the time. But my final time doing this was bad. I rolled up, no one was home, fine. They gave me the keypad code, let myself in, shower, go to bed. All this probably after midnight.

I get woken at 7 in the morning by someone walking directly into my room and shouting in surprise. After a bit of talking, we realised that he had booked the same room on a different app. I check my phone and there's a message from the Airbnb host at 5am which says, I can no longer host you. Please leave now. Now I'm absolutely dumbfounded at the fucking boldness of that. Long story short, after a long time on the phone with Airbnb, managed to get him to fully reimburse me, pay for a three bedroom suite at the Hilton. Oh, and I was on the phone trying to figure it out. A third guy showed up at the door, having booked the same room on a third app.

Oh no. That is fucking shocking. What the fuck? That is pretty bad. Ugh. This is something that's happened to us when we were going around New Zealand. We booked these places on either booking.com or Airbnb or something like this. When we turned up, they were like, oh, we didn't check that app. We've already booked it. So you've got to find somewhere else. It happened multiple times.

My advice really is just to, if you're booked in with someone somewhere, just fucking message them two days before you get there or at least 24 hours before you get there. And if you don't get a reply, something's probably wrong. It's gone. Going wrong. Somebody else is there. Somebody else is enjoying your accommodation. Yeah. Oh, there's like a secret swing mirror that they're working on.

It was a genuine surprise. Oh my God. Hey, the other day, my, um, my daughter, my daughter's going through this phase now where she gets angry. This is my youngest daughter. She gets angry. She really lashes out like a irrationally, you know, and like, it'll be over something really silly, you know, like she can't get Barbie shorts on or something.

And she'll, she'll just go, she'll have a meltdown and she, she plays with my, with my other daughter quite often, you know, they play Barbies and stuff together. So recently, one of the big things that she's sort of come up with when she's angry is I'm never being your sister ever again. I don't like your hair, which I guess, you know, two girls saying this to each other, that can be pretty devastating. Right? Like there's, there's probably some sort of code or whatever, where you shouldn't say that I'm trying to get her out of her high chair the other night after dinner. And she's, and she's making this huge mess. It's like, please stop making a mess. I'm trying to get your high chair.

She's like, just go away. And I don't like your hair. And I was like, well, listen, I got news for you. I'm not a huge fan of my hair either, but I'm still got to get you out of this high chair right now. Cause you are plastered in mashed potato. And I just thought it's such a weird and specific insult. Isn't it? It's not something that you would really hear, uh, every day. And maybe, you know, maybe she's onto something.

Maybe this is a way that we can insult And maybe, you know, maybe she's onto something. Maybe this is a way that we can insult people more, you know, like maybe instead of like fat shaming, we can hair shame. Oh, thanks. I appreciate that. No one's ever brought up the fact that I'm a bald bastard. No, but I think that's different. This is, this is talking about, I don't lump myself in this, but I, but people who have hair, but have shitty hair dues, it's like a new, it's a whole new level of insult, right? You're not, it's, it's easy to just target somebody with no hair and say, you're a boldy,

whatever, you know, I'm not talking about people who are bald. I'm talking about people who have hair, but they have a real shit hairdo and they are out there. Gosh, there's a lot of them out there. I just thought it was funny. Something did happen yesterday. I can't remember. I think I was at an event in the evening and I was chatting to this couple that I didn't know very well. And we were outside so it's quite cold and we all had hats on. And I think I made a joke about being 41 or something. And she said, oh, take your hat off. Have you still got hair? And I was, I like made a joke about, you know, being 41 or something and she said,

Oh, take your hat off. Have you still got hair? And I was like, yeah. Yeah. So I took my house and they learn not bad. And she gestured to her partner and he took his house bald. And he just like gave me like this sort of role of his eyes. As if like, it was quite a weird interaction. It was like, Hey, you know, like, come on that. Yeah. Tables were turned like, uh, yeah. Hey, weirdo. Fucking take your jacket off so that they can look at you, you know, like your body shape, your hunchback is fucking weirdo. Why is that? Okay. That's, it's fucking weirdo. You know, like, why is it okay? Why is that okay? That's, it's really demeaning, isn't it?

I agree. It was weird. Yeah. All right, last one, cause I need the toilet. Um, there's a friendly reminder of statements recorded in Mailbag 27 from last year, just after Jingle Jam 2023. Right. So this is just after 2024.

Right. You were discussing who will win in a fight between a polar bear and a silverback gorilla. Right. And I said, there's only one way to settle it. Jingle Jam 2024. And Sips said, I'll put my ape suit on. Lewis can put his fursuit on and we will prove to the world who is stronger. We've forgotten to do this.

We should probably do this. We completely forgot to do this. Yeah. I don't know how we forgot. I don't know how we forgot. Well, you didn't come down Sips. That was the problem. I had the fursuit ready. Okay. All right. I was there. I was there, but just not

for Jingle Jam. Yeah, that's true. So the week before. Well, there's your free content idea. People dress up in fursuits and battle each other. Okay. Jingle Jam, Jingle Jam 2025. It will do it. Okay. This is an urgent toilet problem for me now, so I have to go. Okay, thank you very much for this. We will see you guys next time. See you next time. Bye bye bye! Bye bye!