Triforce! - Triforce! Mailbag Special #51: The Forbidden Dunkers

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

Triforce Mailbag Special 51! We take a look at some super inappropriate action figures and Lego minifigs, Pyrion investigates the weird subreddit for the prison fitness influencer Wes Watson and we get way more strange eating habit stories! Go to http://auraframes.com and use code TRIFORCE to get $20 off their best-selling Carver Mat frame. Go to http://buyraycon.com/triforce to get 15% off sitewide. 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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your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connix Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Hello friends, welcome back. It's another mailbag episode with your boy, Pete Blacks, your main man, boy, and your fellow, Lulu Brindley. Let's start off with a jingle. I didn't write this one. This was sent to me.

Okay. I'm just going to one. This was sent to me. I'm just going to get the name of the person who sent it really quickly. Have you guys heard? Have you guys heard the the 50 Cent in the club country remix called Fitty? Yes. I can't wait to even call way 50. That's good. Did you?

All right. This is from Devin. This one is from Devin. You guys ready to play? Yeah. All right. So this is from Devin. This one is from Devin. You guys ready to play? Yeah. All right. In three, two, one, play. It's the trial for a snail bag. I've got a tiny dick. With new sips and period, which emails will they pick? And which emails will they pick? Oh, I know. I love that rhyme. Oh, that's it.

Did you know what? That's the length I want. Perfect jingle. Well done, Devin. It's perfect. You know, it kind of sounds like the theme song for a 1960s Saturday morning cartoon. It reminded me a little bit of bagpuss. Yeah. Especially the bit at the end there. Very Bagpuss. Like a very innocent age.

Yeah. Alright, let's, this is a callback to an episode, Little Mailbag, where someone sent in evidence that Plopsaland, of Belgium, was using Diggy Diggy Hole. That's right. So this is from someone I'm gonna replace that they've asked me to replace their name with Octave de Ball, because two other Belgians will think that's funny. So they're the other two Belgians that listen to this podcast. Octave de Ball.

I don't know what that means. It's a it's a name of a character. Sure. Those guys are pissing their pants laughing. Can you imagine? Yeah. Sorry for the profanity, but I'm from Belgium. So I know a fair bit about Plopsaland.

I feel like there is some crucial information Lewis is missing that, if he would hear it, would change his opinion on suing Plopsaland. Basically, the owner is a massive dick. He does not just own Plopsaland, but an entire children's entertainment company called Studio 100. A lot of Belgians would like to see people stand up to this guy. His name? Gert Verhulst.

Why do I and many others not like him? Let's make a short list. Desperately wants to be taken seriously since his career started with a dog puppet. And there is indeed a picture of him holding a dog puppet. Now he has a cramp inducing talk show, which on the first week of being on air, he had an entire episode dedicated to finally figuring out if the N word is racist. And in his conclusion, it isn't. And he'd used it multiple times. Also in another episode where he had the least critical interviewer ever with another old

white Belgian celebrity who'd had allegations of stalking and crossing sexual boundaries and was eventually convicted of that. He's a nepo baby son who is an idiot and presents the Flemish version of Love Island. He has a cringe reality TV show. He has a column in a newspaper where he's just basically doing Piers Morgan style attention baiting. And he's had sex with a bunch of much younger women that worked for him and general bad vibes. So Gert Verhulst, if you wanted to sue Lulu, that's the guy you'd be going up against. Sure. I find it quite interesting how small countries like Belgium or Malta, or something

like that, they have a limited pool of celebrities. This guy clearly is not only a children's entertainer with a puppet, but then became the talk show host, but he's also related to, did they say related to the person who hosted? No. His Nepo baby son, he is sort of hoisting his son on the public. Do you see what I mean? I mean, that happens all over the world, right? But at the same time, it's look, it's, it kind of goes with the territory, right? Um, if you're a politician and you haven't, you know, got like, uh, some sort of love child somewhere, you know, why are you a real politician?

Are you really trying? Are you a billionaire? And you're not a bit of a scumbag. Are you a real billionaire? Hmm. So yeah, I don't know. I, I don't think it's going to change my mind. And also I don't think we even own diggy, diggy hole anymore.

I think windrows do. So they'll have to send the email to them. We lost, we lost it. We didn't protect it, diggy hole anymore. I think windrows do. So they'll have to send the email to them. We lost it. We lost it. We didn't protect it. So we lost it. You lost diggy, diggy hole. You had one job.

It's fine. All you had to do was protect diggy, diggy hole. And you couldn't even do that. It's not my job. So I was job. Here's one from Zoe. Imagine being a little Timmy on his birthday, excitedly unwrapping his present, hoping for action, man.

But instead, getting this. I'll show you guys this picture and I'll describe it to the audience here. It is an Erwin Rommel action figure. Oh, wow. Erwin Rommel. I was reading about a little bit about Erwin Rommel. Apparently he killed himself with cyanide because he was involved in a plot to overthrow Hitler.

They found out about it. Yeah, you're right. And so he killed himself. But then they said that he was to maintain cohesion in the Nazi party or whatever, because he was such a decorated general. They said that he died in battle, or was injured in battle or something. He was one of these generals who was actually... He wrote a book during the First World War, and that's why he was not from the officer class. He wasn't from the nobility, like all the other officers were. As a result, he was actually capable. He ran basically what they called the cleanest war that Germany ran, which was the North

Africa campaign. There were lots of awful things that happened, but in terms of... It was almost like a clean fight, inverted commas. I think he gained a lot of respect for that in the world generally, and also in Germany generally. I think when they found out about the... Because what happened towards the end of the war in 1944 was that the Russians were closing in, Italy had given up, Normandy landings had happened. The writing was on the wall. He and a bunch of other prominent Germans decided to kill Hitler, but they fucked it up and got captured and they all got killed. Tons of them did. And Rommel, he was doing the defence of France at the time and they just...

Well, that's what they said he was doing. They said he was killed in his infantry car by allied forces. So yeah, I can see what, but then again, still a Nazi. So swings around about, but of all the Nazis, probably one of the least bad Nazis. But still a Nazi, a pretty serious Nazi. I just want to say, I wasn't implying that you should feel sorry for him or whatever. Yeah. On a scale of one to evil. Just a factoid to share with you. I'd say he was like, if Hitler was a ten on the evil scale, he was like an 8.5.

He was up there. I mean, he was a killer. He was killing people. Lots of people. He was definitely a Nazi. He was also a very effective Nazi, which is perhaps even worse. Yeah. I mean, those ineffectual Nazis who didn't do much, at least they weren't contributing. He was also a very effective Nazi, which is perhaps even worse. Yeah. I mean, those ineffectual Nazis who didn't do much, at least they weren't contributing. This guy was very, very dangerous. So I'm going to say Irwin Rommel actually tried to kill Hitler.

I'm going to actually just say for the mailbag, and he failed. Let's have a big up for Irwin Rommel killing himself. Yeah, I support that big up. It's a good big up. That's a good one. Let's say that's this week. Let it be known for the rest of history that we bigged up the fact that Erwin Rommel killed himself at some point.

Maybe probably did humanity a favor in the process as well. Sorry if you're a Rommel fan. It's a fact. He was a living, breathing piece of shit. I like the action figure though. I feel like it's again, really borderline allowed. Is there an Adolf Hitler action figure next to it? I'm sure there is.

That should probably not be allowed. I bet you there are. Who's, I mean- Forbidden action figures. This is some, you know the Kid Alt phenomenon that's been happening for a while and is sort of carrying on now? My local toy store that we, you know, my kids go to, there's not many over here, obviously,

small place, but they have a, they have like a, like the toy store and then they have what they call the Kidult store, which is all the big collector Lego sets, models, cards, Funko Pops, all the kind of, like, you know, the merch around anime and all that kind of stuff. And I was talking to the guy who owns it because, you know... Because you're a dad in your shorts. I'm a dad. And it's a small place, and you know, you recognize people all the time, you stop and chat to them.

Yeah, he's the guy who used to have a hand puppet with a dog and now runs a theme park. Yeah, exactly. And I was saying to him, I was like, oh, you know, how are things going, you know, with this other store? Do you not feel like it should just be one store? And he's like, no, actually it's really good with the separation and this store does better than the other one. I was like, yeah, I'm not surprised actually.

Like some of these Lego sets are like 500 pounds. Yeah, grownups have money. Yeah, that's it. So he said, so it was interesting. The KidAlt phenomenon. Yeah. I mean Lego, obviously, yes, the Lego sets have got like 18 plus on them, but there's nothing X-rated about that. It's just that they're a little bit harder to put together and also not really intended for a four-year-old. I don't know, the idea of Lego putting 18 plus on their Lego sets, for not really any reason I think a competent 12-year-old could assemble any of these.

They could do some sexy Lego. Even a competent nine-year-old I reckon could assemble any 18 plus LEGO set really. I don't know quite... but I think the idea is that it is meant for... Oh, serious grownups. Yeah, they should do like some James Bond LEGOs with like all the babes in James Bond, you know? I just think they should just do some porno LEGO. Get some porn stars, get their names attached.

Wow. Put it on a high shelf. Do like Lego Technic and make the figurines quite big, you know? For example though, the thing that just came out this month was the Lego Twilight house. So it's a house that is, you know, you know, Twilight, the movie. Is that the one with Robert Pattinson in? Yes, from, from, from 20 years ago, I think, Twilight the movie. He's out of the box with Robert Pattinson in. No. Yes. From 20 years ago, I think, Twilight the movie. What the business?

It was a huge thing. Correspondent from like the early 2000s for the BBC news. Do you remember Stephanie Meyer, who wrote all these books about, that was like, it was originally like fanfic and it got super popular and every woman you know, why knew, in 2008 was into Twilight. And it was, it was a massive global phenomenon. every woman you know, why knew, in 2008 was into Twilight. And it was a massive global phenomenon. And obviously now...

I think it's just an entry level drug to Fifty Shades of Grey, essentially. When you're a child you read Twilight. Wasn't Twilight about vampires? Yeah, but they're all fucking each other. They're all fucking each other. They're all fucking each other. And it was teenage girls, really, but those teenage girls are now in their thirties, right? And that is who that Lego set is aiming at, right?

It's aiming at those... The people buying that Twilight, it's such a strange thing. It's such a niche audience, right? But they know that it will sell. It's not... A nine-year-old can say, mommy, that's a cool house. I like vampires and sex. Can I buy that Twilight house? You know, they can buy it, right? It's in the kid shop. It's not like it's actually like anything horrible, but they wouldn't

want it. They've got no interest in Twilight. But exactly. It's, it is, it is aimed for their mom, right? And so maybe their mom builds the Twilight set while they're building the Mario set or whatever. I don't know if I've ever known a woman to be interested in Lego or build Lego. There are loads. Right in. period.flax.gmail.com. You don't need the dot, just FYI. I've had people send me the same email twice and saying sorry I got the email wrong. Google doesn't care about the dot. You can put d Y dot R dot. It'll still get here. It doesn't matter. I'm just saying. Okay. You don't, it doesn't matter. Okay. Cool. Um, so yeah, I wasn't saying is that the Irwin Rommel thing is not something that would be appropriate in a kid's store

at all. And so it's just a kid's product. Is this a joke product or is this a real product? It looks like from the picture you've said, it looks real. This is in a shop where they're selling collectible toys and that's like an action figure store and then you can get your Erwin Rommel toy. I mean, let's do it. Erwin Rommel action figure. That is, that isn't weird. It's weird.

You know? Yeah, there it is. I would be interested to see the whole series of toys that came out around this because you'd expect that they're probably to be a Hitler in there, but then probably like a Churchill and a bunch of other big, there should be like a, like a Stalin in there, for example. Yeah. Do you know what?

Maybe they can, maybe if imagine the death of Stalin or whatever, that movie was a big hit and they did like Lego for the death of Stalin, they'd have to have a little Stalin mini-fig, right? They'd have to have a like, or a merch that was a star, if they were tying into these movies that have Hitler or Hitler like characters. I mean, we have got people that are Hitler like characters. I mean, they should do a Schindler's List Lego Collectors Edition. I mean, look at, what's his name? Not Voldemort. The other one, Grindelwald or whatever.

He was like Wizard Hitler, right? There's plenty of action figures of him out, I'm sure. I don't know who that is. Who? Grindelwald. It was Johnny Depp, but then he got in trouble and then they replaced him with Mads Mikkelsen. The great leader. Perfect Tiger Toys.

Tiger Toys. A 1-6 Soviet leader Stalin action figure. That is, you can purchase that. Comes with a variety of hands, some holding a pipe, others not, and different hats so you can dress your Stalin. Any more like more recent ones? Like do they have like a Tony Blair or a George W action figure? I'm just looking for Hitler action figure.

I'm sure there's tons of Hitler action. There isn't a Hitler one on eBay that I could find. Right. Right. Okay. That's weird. Let's just Google Hitler action figure. It's nice to know that some things are still sacred in a sense. Like even...

Yeah, there it is. They've got the bad taste to put Stalin in. No, there it is. 250 quid for a Hitler action figure. Where is the like... Where's the market? Where is the line? There's got to be Bill Cosby action figures kicking around. Jimmy Savile action figure.

There's got to be some Jimmy Savile ones. I'm sure there are. Where is the line on this, right? action figures, Jimmy Savile, Jimmy Saville ones. Where is, where is the line on this? Right? Like things I get sometimes I had an email the other day, um, for historical game and they said, Oh, we'd love you to, to promote this while dressed up as a historical figure, for example, as Lenin. And I was like, I'm not, I'm not dressed up as Lenin.

I mean, Lenin was an awful person, right? Like, or is he suddenly be, is he okay to roleplay as, you know, if Prince Harry roleplayed as Lenin, would that be all right? I posted a Playmobil figure. This is actually Doc Brown from Back to the Future, but it does unfortunately look an awful lot like Jimmy Samuels. It does look just like him, yeah.

I see. Yeah. You found a Funko pop that looks like Jimmy Samuels. That is not a Funko pop, that's a Funko Playmobil. Yeah, that's what I said. That's kind of almost more frightening than a Funko pop. Playmobil, I think, is not doing too great, right? It had a couple of flop movies and I think- Playmobil movies? Yeah, there was- Playmobil, I think, is not doing too great, right? It had a couple of flop movies and I think...

Playmobil movies? Yeah, there was Playmobil movies. Yeah, I think they tried to... Oh my God, I didn't even... I think they tried to get in on the Lego stuff, yeah. Well, look, this shit is just not as good as Lego. I mean, it's been around since I was a kid, Playmobil. Yeah.

You go to a kid's house and they seem to be either a Lego house or a Playmobil house. And the Playmobil houses, those kids had no friends. You didn't need friends. You had all these cool Playmobil sets though. The Playmobil is like, we have Lego at home, and then it says Playmobil. Alright, so let's move on, because we've got to do another email. This is an incident at an airport that happened to a fella in November. I treated my partner to Christmas shopping, a ship, a Christmas shopping trip to New York. Nice.

Something she always wanted to do. So I saw this is the best way to ask her to marry me. But life has other plans. All was going well. The flight was great. But on arrival to JFK, it went downhill after queuing for passport control. The officer scanned my passport and I was asked for my fingerprints to be scanned, so I obliged. After scanning, he looked up at me with the fear of God in his eyes. And before I could say anything, I was instantly surrounded by multiple officers with weapons drawn, screaming at me to get on the ground. Then I was cuffed and dragged off, also detaining my partner in the process. Jesus. I was taken into a room that looked like a scene from a 1970s detective porn film. It was here I found out that I was a wanted terrorist named Imin Yashed. At this point I started

laughing. I'm in Yashed. At this point I started laughing as I instantly understood what happened. In 2010 I was serving in the armed forces and I was doing a tour in Afghanistan. My job was to work with the Afghan National Police to mentor and assist the detainment of known Taliban fighters. Once the ANP detained the individual, it was our job to process them, which was taking pictures and fingerprints. Now, after a couple of weeks of doing this, we got quite bored. So we started taking pictures of each other using the NATO supplied camera. This camera had a built in fingerprint scanner also. So we just basically processed each other fake names and all. And I mean, your shed was born. So it turns out the camera we were supplied automatically uploaded data to an international database. Eight hours of detention later I was able to leave and see my partner whose

face was a mess with her makeup running crying at the thought she'd been shacked up with a potential terrorist. Anyway I suppose I proposed and she said yes. So it turned out fine in the end. She has since left me for another man. That bitch. Oh no. Well, life happens, I guess. I know that doesn't help much. You had been confirmed not to be a terrorist. He might still be a terrorist. You know, that's you can't, what a mistake she's made. You don't get this opportunity to get a cheque that hard, you know? On whether your spouse is a terrorist, you know? Just what I'm saying, know what you got, woman.

What a mistake. Woman. I mean, you're shit. I don't know if I believe that story, but it is fucking good. It's a good one. It's fun. It's a real fun one. That is a fun one.

I mean... If it's an urban myth, sorry. It could be an urban myth, yeah. You never know these days. Whatever. But it gave real fun one. If it's an urban myth, sorry. It could be an urban myth. It could be. You never know these days. But it gave us a laugh. And hopefully gave you a chuckle too. This is another one that could also be fake. We'll find out. In some countries, there is a law where if a passenger dies on your coach, this is as a coach driver, the driver is put into jail until it's proven that the driver wasn't the cause of death. Dumb, I know. I once did a tour around Europe with old people. I had

a passenger come up to me and say, drive. We got another one. I didn't know what they were saying. After asking, they told me that someone had died on the coach. So one of the old people has died on the coach. Knowing the law and that I was in France, I panicked thinking, oh shit, I'm going to jail. One of the passengers said, why don't you put your sunglasses on the dead passenger and we could declare him dead once we crossed the border. So we did. Sunglasses on and shit in my pants, we managed to cross the border to Spain where we could declare his death and I would avoid jail. Mason- What the fuck? Jason- Do we think that's real?

Mason- I don't know if that's real. Jason- I'm at least a 50-50 on that. I don't think a Triforce listener is driving a bus of old people through France. I think that's exactly who our audience is. People with a very dull job, just having to drive old people around. They've got to listen to something. It's like a front job for serial killing though. That's what all of our listeners do. They do these jobs that don't

show who they really are. Behind the scenes, they've got closets full of dead prostitutes and stuff, but by day they're just driving around old French people on a bus. Nobody would ever know. I can't find anything by Googling Snopes and stuff about old person dies on bus stories. So I'm going to, I'm going to edge over to real. Um, what great story. Love it. It's a great story. I still great story. It's almost too great, you know, like too great. Yeah. I think it's, yeah. Here's another email. Uh, this is about the Diorvik diamond mine, which I spoke about a little bit. Yeah, we talked about multiple times. Yeah, this is the one you flew over and you were looking at.

And it fascinated me. Yeah. Just listened to the latest Triforce and I was stoked to hear you all talking about the D'Arvic diamond mine. I work for a company that helps with the decommissioning and resale of the equipment up there. So hearing your excitement was awesome because honestly, I geek out over this stuff too. It's like playing with giant Tonka trucks. Every kid's dream. Since you all touched on the sustainability side of the mine closure, I wanted to share a bit more. Diavik has been all over it, making sure as much gear as possible gets redeployed. We're talking excavators, processing equipment, water treatment systems, electrical infrastructure. The scale of it is wild.

And then there's the logistics. Getting the gear out of the north is a whole operation. Because of the weather, we can only transport everything in the winter while the lake around the mine is frozen. I then there's logistics. Getting the gear out of the north is a whole operation. Because of the weather we can only transport everything in the winter while the lake around the mine is frozen. I figured you might get a kick of some of the gear we're moving. So there are some pictures of the gear that they're moving. I'm going to post a link here. This is a... Oh no, I can't do that. Hold on. I hope these are all suitably scaled. Taken from angles that make them even more gigantic. So here is the, this is on the Lenmark.com and this is all the equipment that you can buy that was used at DRVIC. For example, there's this huge excavator. It could be yours. So

$64,000 or a giant, an even bigger excavation. You can buy an underground substation with an 800 kVA transformer for 190 grand Canadian. That is mad. That's mad. Wow. So that's, that's the kind of stuff they're selling. So yeah. These are such great picks as well.

I know. Look at this thing. It's like an, okay, here is a shovel bucket, a five part shovel bucket, just a shovel bucket for an excavator. $200,000. Okay, the excavator itself you can get for $400,000. You can get a 1086 HP excavator, 1900-6 for $400,000. Holy crap. And it's huge.

I mean, look at the... I've posted a link. This is a hundred... The size of this thing is enormous. This is a hundred and eighty-five kilowatt copper regrind mill stirred media detritah. That's what that is. Flip. Look at this underground MCC unit. Oh, could you just say that, can you just say that again?

That... A hundred and eighty-five kilowatt copper regrind mill stirred media detritah? Oh. A stirred media detritah. Oh. You justritah. Oh, I don't think I've ever even built one of them in a video game. That's that. I'm going to have to, I need a media detritah. Oh, that is, that is fucking cool. This is the, exactly right about the Tonka trucks, the giant, giant piece of kit. I saw a thing about some of these mines in the north of Australia and it's all pretty much done remotely. They have

all of these trucks being driven from a control room in Sydney or somewhere thousands of miles away. You look at the place and it's just like a remote control, little, except they're not little, they're gigantic. These trucks shoveling iron ore and it's all automatic. So they shovel iron ore onto this train and the train goes to the, you know, all the way down the coast. And it's very few people need to actually man this system. And it transports something like a thousand tons a day or something or maybe even more is mental. All of this stuff, like when you see just that picture of the stirred media, Detroit, just looking at that, it looks so insanely complicated.

All the gangplanks and walkways and pipes and machinery and electricity. The fact that this stuff is something we're able to build and use is just mind boggling. The logistics behind all of this stuff. This is crazy. It just blows my mind. This is from Louie. Anyway, moving on. I've submitted a couple of emails for the mailbag in the past.

Either responding to a topic you guys brought up or just telling you about something I find interesting. All right, thanks. I was wondering if you've noticed any trends amongst the people who submit things. Do you tend to read out almost every email sent in, or are you having to cut down from a large amount? I noticed in the most recent mailbag at the time of sending, you said how you had 15 great emails in a row. Is that a rare occurrence, that you'll just easily read banger after banger? Or is it the case you don't get that many emails, but all of them are great so

you tend to read them all out? Also, do you tend to get repeat offenders, or are people more one and done with their submissions? So generally, what is the state of the Triforce mailbag? So I obviously use my sort of public email account for this, which is the period flags at gmail.com, which is on my Twitter. It's readily, readily findable. So since the last mailbag, we've had So since the last mailbag, we've had 50, 100, what's the February 14th today? So a hundred. We've had 150 emails since the last email mailbag went out. That's a lot of emails. Yeah, it's a lot.

So I do read them all. But the thing is, we generally I try to have 20 emails for each mailbag that I think are actually like the best ones. And we generally don't get through even more than five. Really those because we'll talk a bit. And sometimes one email will get us chatting and stuff, which is the whole point of it, really. Yeah. I mean, we don't just want to sit here and read our emails, but so it is very, very hard. I will say the one thing I still get is people sending pictures from where they listen to Triforce. And I think that was the

very first mailbag. Yeah, we used to get those like on social media and stuff. On socials, yeah. But some people are obviously either just started the podcast or they're just catching up. It's kind of a tricky one. Yeah. I don't I like getting those still, though. I like seeing those. Yeah, it's nice. I like those. All right. So yeah, I would just say in general, I get way more emails than we could ever fit in an episode. If there is one that is really good that didn't make it in the mailbag that I was going to read it out, I've got a separate sort of, what do you call it, a label or whatever where I put those and I'll say use these later sort of thing. So that if it's a bad week and I haven't really got any great emails, I'll go and pull some

of those those good ones out. It's a few hours work in the morning, but I love it. I love reading it. Sometimes I know it's a good one, so I don't read it all because I don't want to spoil it for myself on the episode. So there you go. OK, cool. If you wanted that little insight, a little behind the scenes for you. Yeah. Yeah. I've found in modern life that it's very, very loud. Lots of things are talking to me. The bus is telling me what stop I'm pulling up at next. The train is telling me to mine the gap and watch for the doors. It's yap yap yap. Everything that's reversing has to beep loudly. What

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No. So he was a convict who had or X con who had a YouTube channel and he was enormous. The dude was huge, like ridiculously jacked. Veins popping out of his arms and his neck. This is coming back to me a little bit now. Yeah. And he would do he would do for some reason all his videos he's facing to the side and the cameras on his right so you can see the size of his arm and he's like, what's it like in prison? I'll tell you what it is. It sucks in prison. You've got to be hard as fuck. He's like screaming and when he's yelling, he's turning red.

And the veins are bulging out. He's been arrested. Oh, and he's in big trouble. And apparently at his bail hearing, they said they couldn't find any priors. So people aren't sure if he ever actually did time or not. And there is a Wes Watson subreddit. So he might be lying about all of his time and experience in the big time. Possibly. But he actually might now be going to prison.

Yes, but he said he was a shot caller on the yard and that he was this big deal and everything. And so the Wes Watson subreddit, I saw a really funny post on the other day where they said I thought... You think he's just gonna sit in his cell and cry every day? I don't know. I mean it said, I thought this was like a fan subreddit for Wes Watson, but these people hate Wes Watson. Oh right.

And this subreddit is purely them tearing him down and pointing out all the terrible things he does. Right, I love that. And what a bad guy he is. So I think he's in trouble for beating someone up in his gym. Right. He's in big trouble, really. I mean, I know that he says he's six foot, but his arrest sheet had him listed as five

foot eight, and now he's doing all these videos saying, they just eyeball you with the intake, everybody knows that, they don't fucking measure you, and I'm like, they definitely do. He's got big clappers and warm shoes on. I mean, they make you stand against that thing that has the height thing. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure they do measure you. Anyway, I just thought it was funny. If you want to dive into the world of Wes Watson, go ahead and do it. People get so weird about the weirdest things, eh?

Like there's nothing you can do about your height. Like just accept it. There's nothing to be ashamed of. You know, whether you're tall or short or whatever, it doesn't matter. You know, it doesn't, it doesn't define you or whatever. I don't know why people get so caught up about it, but then, and try to lie about something so obvious, like everyone can figure it out. We can see that you're not six feet tall. It's,

I don't know why people do it. It's really bizarre. It's a delusion. I think he's... I do think that the gym thing, if you do that much... He must be on steroids or something as well. And it makes you angry. Or testosterone.

It makes you more aggressive. It's just the weird number of pushing though. You know, like Rachel Reeves is in the news recently for not to do with her height, but you know, there's some questions about how long she worked at the Bank of England or something like that. They looked at her LinkedIn profile and they found some discrepancies and then she updated her LinkedIn profile immediately because, you know, people were talking about, you know, how it didn't make sense. She was here at a certain time or whatever. And you just think, why not just be truthful about it in the first place? Like all of these things, people will find out about you if they want to, you know, it's not, it's not overly private

information. Especially if you've got it listed on your LinkedIn for everyone to see, you know, like you're a high profile civil servant. Like it's, it's the same thing as just wanting to tell a better story. And then you start thinking that it is true. It's like the same thing as, you know, people miss remembering this, but like, what's the difference if you work somewhere for five years and you say you worked there for seven, but those two years suddenly make it like way better. I don't think anyone really cares that much, you know, but they'll certainly care when they catch you lying about it.

I think people justify these things to themselves so easily. They say, well, I've got to be here in other two years, so let's just add it now. People justify anything in very stupid ways often. They don't necessarily think it would come around to bite them in the ass. But this guy, I think is certainly there's this American idea of fake it till you make it, or push, push, push the... I think with very high levels of confidence comes some physical aggression too. I think you see these guys, their physical size makes them frightening. I think because of that, they almost feel like it's easy to...

All this shit with eye contact, all these alpha male bullshit. I think a lot of, and you see it on telly as well, right? You see in Hollywood shows that that's how, almost how to behave. You know, you're someone's, someone's, you get up in their face aggressively physically. You know, someone's, someone's cheat, your wife's cheating on you, you know, you know, go punch the guy or whatever. You know, it's like, you can't, they, they feel like they're doing the things they're supposed to do because their education is from watching soap operas, not from, you know, following anything intelligent anyway. Yeah, it's crazy.

I don't get it. I don't, I just don't get the benefit of just like adding a little bit on, you know, but people do it all the time. Like they do it all the time about everything, you know, like just adding a little bit on like what it just makes it like it's just a little bit extra juice, you know, like for something fucking nobody cares about in the first place. Like it just doesn't, it always just one offer another. It always, it always makes me laugh, you know?

Yeah. All right. Let's talk weird eating habits. Go on. All right. This one, this is a long preamble. I'll cut to the chase. This lad has two brothers.

They're all healthy, sporty and sort of young. So they eat a lot, right? Their dietary intake, their calorie requirement is very high. So anytime food arrives in the house, they eat it all. There's a lot of quarreling. Like generally speaking, all the food is gone the day it arrives. So all this food arrives in the house and they just eat all of it. It's like this big predatory race for food.

But what happens if one day nobody had the time to buy something to eat? Well, then it is your time to shine with inventing dishes that are made from seven basic ingredients. So the seven basic ingredients are if the bread runs out, use cheese instead of bread. So it is cheese with marmalade or a pickle cheese sandwich. So just cheese. So you're using slices of cheese instead of bread. In lieu of bread. So you're wrapping pickle in cheese. No bread? In lieu of bread, yes. So you're wrapping pickle in cheese. No wonder the food keeps running out. Jesus.

Okay. So, potatoes, rice, pickles, cheese are good on their own. I know Pirian has some thoughts regarding combining two types of the same thing, but you just be damn happy as long as you have more than one thing to combine. Just potatoes, or just rice, is a normal thing to eat in our household. A chunk of raw butter, if there's any left. Molten cheese in water, which forms cheese soup. I can share loads more recipes if you're interested. Greetings from Croatia. These are not recipes. I understand where he's coming from in that you can, you know,

if you've got some cheese and you've got a carb, you can do cheese sandwich or cheese on potatoes or cheese on rice or cheese on whatever carb you've got going. That makes sense, right? But as soon as you start swapping out the carb for the cheese, that's where madness lies. Right? That's where...

But they're not really recipes. You're just eating any old thing that's available. Like if there was like a can of pedigree chum, you just eat it. Cause you're so hungry, I guess, you know, like it doesn't, doesn't really matter. But as soon as you start messing with these ingredients, like no wonder you're running out of food, right? Because bread is like a, or the rice, you know, that goes a long way. Okay. The cheese, you, you, you don't have an entire, you know, you don't have an entire slab of cheese.

You're buying cheese slabs instead of bread, bread slices. You normally would have a bit of bread. If you have that much cheese, you probably should have some bread around. So they, they, I like the, the issue is that they do have, but the problem is it runs out. It runs out. Okay. So guys, we ran out of tomato soup, so we're just going to drink jam. It's like what? Yeah, that's literally where they're at.

They're just like, each of them drinks a jar of jam. Do you mean, no. That's why you're running out of food. I understand, like maybe the fridge is bare and you have to put together something from what you've got left over and it's an unorthodox meal, but it's only one night a week and you go shopping the next day and you eat normally again for a while. That's fine. Not wanting things to go to waste. That's fine. But like putting cheese in water and making hot cheese water, that's not a meal. That's not how you should be allowed.

Well, sorry, Velocity. Lulu is not on board. That's a new recipe for you there. Hot cheese water. Yeah. Hot cheese water. All right. This is from Faye. I've been enjoying hearing the bizarre food combo stories in recent episodes. Never expecting to see such debauchery among my own. To my disbelief, I just watched my mum mop up the black bean sauce from her mixed veg Chinese takeaway meal with a croissant. That is grisly.

I hate that. Okay. That is grisly, yeah. I agree with that. Now, I can understand where this is coming from. Especially if you're American, I'm sure you can understand that they're mixing the sweet and salty. It's very normal.

Having a bacon milkshake. They do like to put bacon in just about everything in America. They put bacon in everything. Everything. You know, you're seeing it more and more. People putting, you know, having, we were talking about pancake day- Baconaise. The other day.

And, you know, savory pancakes. Savory pancakes, yeah. You know, even savory and sweet pancakes, like combining it, It's it's starting to be that we everyone loves sugar. Everyone also loves salt. So, you know, this week, the sweet and salty popcorn. You're right there. Hey, sweet. I think I would also love.

So I think I'd like sweet and salted popcorn, but I actually really do. It's nice. Yeah. Not only so on your your watermelon. Delicious. I like savory shit, but I don't like combining it with sweet shit. What about apples and like sliced apples and peanut butter? That's another combo. So that's a banger, but I like, if I'm having cheese, especially really strong cheese with

nice red grapes, amazing. Amazing! I love that. Like a Crombie. Indeed. Or well, no, it would need to be a ripe one. A ripe one. Blue, a really good ripe blue cheese or a really ripe brie with some blue cheese.

Oh, delicious. He had to make the blah blah blah blah sound as well. This is from Frank. I'm like you, Flax. I don't like porridge. Never did. But I do eat it raw. I just eat the oats with a spoonful of demerara sugar, and my saliva moistens it while I eat. There's no fucking way on this earth that anyone is doing that. Unless you're stuck, like an avalanche has like, you know, you have nothing else.

You're turning your body into some sort of saliva factory, right? Because you're making your body make so much saliva to deal with that, that you're going to become abnormal. You're going to become like a drooling monster. You know what he might do though? Because if I have like a mouth ulcer, have you ever had a mouth ulcer and then tried to put like, uh, you know, like igloo or something on it, you know, like the, the, the treatments that they have for mouth on Jela, Bonjela, whatever. When if I open my mouth and I put my finger into my mouth with like a dot of that stuff on and I apply it to my mouth ulcer, I am dribbling everywhere.

Like my saliva is just going is working overtime. Maybe that could be a trick for you when you're trying to moisten up your oats, you know, get some, get a little bit of on Joe and they're more and it'll and it'll really excite your saliva glands or whatever. And and then you'll you'll have more you'll have more juice for the oats. You know, I don't know why it does that, though. It must be like some sort of like a stimulation for for the saliva or something. I don't know. But it's just like, it's like a

waterfall. It's insane. Like I could barely even get the Bongella in there. It's just like, there's so much saliva coming out of my mouth. Don't learn these tips. This is only going to help you turn into a drooling monster. Please do not. Do not eat dry granola. It's just not healthy. Dry granola is fine. I think he's just talking about oats. No, I think it's fine. I think it's fine. Some people eat granola dry, that's fine. Go for it. Yeah, you can put it in a yogurt. I'm just worried it'll give you... You got to be careful because some things aren't really

meant to be eaten raw, like potatoes or mushrooms. They know, they're supposed to cook them because otherwise, cause your body can't digest them. So you can get sort of. We had, we bought like just a, like a jar of pasta sauce, but we, we fried up some mushrooms with some onions and some garlic and put it into the pasta sauce. Oh my God. It was so good. Wow. I think you've just invented a brand new meal.

I don't think anyone's ever done that before. I know everybody does that. I've never done it before is what I'm saying. Wow. Usually I just put the sauce on it and I eat it. Okay. You know, I don't, I don't get fancy with it, but this time we did. And I was glad that we did. Well, do it again. That was good idea. That was getting fancy. There's you getting fancy recipe for the day. It's effort. It's the problem is it's effort. Congrats, no sips. I'm glad you're branching out. Finally.

This is from Alex. There's another weird eating habit. I love these. The one that will get me sent to hell is dunking my bagel in my tea the way Americans dunk donuts in coffee. That is gross. I think both are gross though. Yeah, I think that I think if you're dunking a donut into a hot drink, that's fucking gross. It just as gross as dunking anything else into a, into a hot drink. I just don't dunk. I'm not a dunker. I'm not a dunker either. Dare I say it, it's a little common. There you go. Yeah. I think that's, I think you nailed it.

Well, here's the thing. I think that a lot of people like dunking at certain biscuits. Yeah, they're called Northerners. Filthy, grubby, classless Northerners. Sometimes you're holding a biscuit and you're looking at the tea and you're like, well, this dunk. And you just experiment. And I think- I knew someone who used to dunk a Kit Kat, like a stick of Kit Kat into their drink and the chocolate would like melt off of the wafer into the drink. They've dunk it so much and then they would just eat the wafer. Do you know what the irony is?

The irony is, northerners are very precious about tea and having sugar in tea. But they want to give me a nice cup of strong builder's tea with barely any milk in it and none of that fucking sugar muck. But I will dunk me bicky in it like a baby. Oh yes, oh lovely, bits of bicky in the bottom of my tea. Fuck off. Double standard. All right, here's one. This is a bad date story. Oh great. Oh great. These things give me PTSD, dude, I swear to god. Just picture this.

Just picture this. I was 17. I'd asked out a crush I'd had for a while and this was going to be my second date so far in my life. I had my first date at 16 but it didn't go well. So anyway, we go to Cheesecake Factory and everything had been going more perfect than I could imagine for how nervous I'd felt at the beginning of the night. Conversation was smooth, no awkward moments or silences.

Unfortunately, when the night was coming to a close, I was coming back from the bathroom and getting back to our table. A waiter bumped into someone behind me and fell over. But while he was falling, he tries to break his fall by grabbing onto something, and that something ends up being my trousers. I would have been so happy if it was just my trousers that had been pulled down, but my underwear came down as well, and I fully flashed my date while I quickly tried to pull my pants back up.

Whoa. Also, I am a grower and not a show-er so that did not help me when she had told all her friends and I heard it in school the next day. After being horribly embarrassed, surprisingly, we dated for two years until we broke up when she moved to California. Oh wow. An actual happy ending. horribly embarrassed. Surprisingly, we dated for two years until we broke up when she moved to California. Oh, wow. An actual happy ending. Well, that stuff is like, you know, that stuff is like that.

You might be able to laugh it off. Okay. And it might just, it might bring you close together. You know, these things happen. Sometimes they can bring you closer together. Yeah. I've got a story, but I'm not going to tell it until a few weeks time. It's too, it's too live. It's too related, but it's too recent. Please tell it. No, I can tell you what time has gone by. What's wrong? What do you mean it's too fresh?

It's too fresh. It's happening right now. It's happening. Was it really cringe? It's happening right now. It's happening. Was it really cringe? It's happening right now. It's happening. It's too cringe. It's too fresh. No, you can't do that. I'll tell you later. Oh, you can't do that. I haven't got that many stories that you'll hear eventually.

So now we just got to wait a couple of weeks for the cringe to die down a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't do it. I can't live with that. That's unfair. I've got sorry, but I haven't, I haven't managed to phrase it in my head how comfortable I am. If I do it now, I'll be giving away too much info and stuff. Can you at least tell me about it after we finish recording?

Yes, absolutely. Otherwise I will not be able to do anything for the rest of the day. I'll tell you. You'll just cease to function. I will. This is from Kayla. I thought I'd share my strange way of eating. Now, Kayla, I've read this email ahead. This is not strange. This is revolting and honestly pretty abhorrent behaviour. Don't do it. When eating a pizza, I will scrape off the topping with a fork and eat that, then move on to the pizza dough, which I usually eat using also a knife and fork. Similarly with lasagna, I will

scrape off the layer of meat and sauce, eat that, then roll the lasagna sheet into a tube and eat that. I do this with each layer until finished. And then, has the goal to say, I completely agree, the best way to eat a meal is to save the best component until last. You're doing the opposite, Kayla! You're literally, the dough is just there, the dough is delicious! You're just breaking it down into its components and eating it component at a time.

Like rather than the wrong order. You're eating like a fucking printer. Like a robot woman. Stop it. Eating like a printer, like one of those dot matrix. Just eating one line at a time. Just mix. Just go go go full chaos when you're eating. Just mix it all up, man. So good.

This is this is from Martin. This is another weird eating one. This is a weird way to eat food. Apple puree. When I was little, until a long way into my teenage years, I used to put apple puree on everything. I hope you know what I mean. It's Apfelmus in German. So it's like an apple sauce.

So I make this routine. Well, when I grew up, I had a couple of apple trees in my garden, cooking apple trees. The apples are disgusting. But what you can do is you could just put them in a little pot on the hob and melt them down and they turn into a nice apple sauce with a little bit of sugar. And yeah, I would eat it hot and cold throughout the year. And recently we accidentally ended up with a whole fucking bag of apples. Do the same. It's, it's, it's nice. I recommend it. I'd like it. It's fun. It's fun. Would you have it on mashed potatoes? I, I mean, you, it is something you can eat with some, I used to eat it with like, you know, some

pork or whatever. That's the best thing to eat it with. Very standard thing, right? Yeah. But as a result, you can eat it with other things. All right, so I'll give you a list of things that Martin eats it with. Mashed potatoes. I'll say yes or no.

Mashed potatoes, sure. Vegetables. Yeah, I think it would work with some vegetables. Maybe not all. It depends. French fries. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, mean, Jesus! So, yeah, fucking... I'm not eating this thing. The pussy too, just put a big dollop inside the soup.

How do you eat that with the soup? He wanted to cool his soup down, so he added some apfelmus, and he was like, Oh yes, this is delicious! Tomato and apfelmus really brings the best out of the dish! Oh God. This is why we had to stop you in world war two. I'm sorry. Urban Rommel action figure with jar of apple mousse.

Realistic eating action. Emergency tins of tomato soup. Tins of tomato soup. Soup. Soup and apple mousse., God. It happens. Oh, that is please. No, none of those things. Maybe with some vegetables. Applesauce.

But I remember having applesauce with, uh, with the pork and it is a good combo. I don't have it. I don't have it myself. I don't, I don't like the applesauce with the pork. I just, I just like the pork. I don't need anything else. I don't like the applesauce with the pork. I don't like the applesauce with the pork.

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I don't like the applesauce with the pork. I don't like the applesauce with the pork. I don't like the applesauce with the pork. I don't like the applesauce with the pork. I don't have it. I don't have it myself. I don't, I don't like the applesauce with the, uh, I just, I just like the portal. I don't need anything else. When I have lamb, I don't need the mint sauce. You don't see a lot of applesauce over here. I remember when I was in Canada, lots of, uh, lots of, lots of applesauce, lots of big jars. Martin has been to Jersey and eat all of the apple mousse. Yeah. All right. Hold it down my neck. Yah!

All right, this is Chris. Chris from Berry. Nice. Happened around 10 years ago in Manchester. Each year the company I work for pays for a hotel function for us and the partners. And then we stay at the hotel overnight. Towards the end of the night, the wine was flowing, everyone was having a great time. Until it became apparent that one of the supervisors, let's call him J for privacy reasons, had

had far too much to drink. He was boldly flirting with other people's partners, nearly got into a fight with another worker, and had a huge bust up with his own partner about all of this, who ended up storming off. Me and my wife decided the night was coming to a close anyway, so we escorted him up to his room where he drunkenly slurred goodnight, disappeared into his room, and we retired to our own. 6am. We're woken up with the sound of the fire alarm going off. Lasted for 5 seconds, then turned off again. Now shocked to wake, and the alarm having not sounded for a few minutes I went to

the toilet. Mid hangover poo the alarm goes off again, longer this time. So I finish up in a panic, only for it to turn off again. The alarm had turned off and on every few minutes about 4 times. I got dressed, headed down to reception to find out what the hell was going on. At the reception I was greeted to the sight of our HR lady having a heated conversation with the receptionist. Jay is asleep on the lobby couch and Jay's partner is sat next to him crying with strangely wet pajama pants at the bottom. It turns out after he saw him into his room, he decided to run himself a bath, get in it while it was still running and then fall asleep. His entire room flooded and the water leaked through the floor

and short-circuited the fire alarm. He woke up in the bath naked to the side of the hotel manager standing around telling him he needed to get out of the bath and leave. The worst part was, because the fire alarm had tripped, it cut off the gas supply to the hotel, which meant they couldn't cook the all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast, which my hangover was crying out for. He left the company shortly after so I never found out if he got hit with repair costs but our company refused to pay for his mistake. Good heavens, why do people do this at work dudes especially? Yeah well it's just alcohol isn't it? Just makes you do crazy stuff you know? Like fall asleep in a bath. You should never do that. You should not have a bath if you think there's even a chance of you falling

asleep. There's so many, there's so many people at fault here, right? Though obviously like who, okay, first of all, whoever made him like this. Okay. Well, how did, how did he, how did he end up like this? Was it, what was it that led him down this all part of his plan? Like the people at the work do over, you know, supervision on drinks and stuff. No one being his wingman or convincing him out of it. Three, girlfriend was in the room, didn't notice there's some sort of bath running and water coming out until the whole place is flooded. What's going on there? Was she obviously like, that's mad. There so many like people here that could have helped

him along. I'm saying this guy, maybe he wasn't so bad. Maybe he just had a few bad role models and bad friends. You're blaming his friends for this guy being a useless bastard. I'm blaming the writer in listener. Listen, you did this. You created this one. Just think about that. Yeah. Fucking hell. Wow. That man sounds like chaos incarnate. We all know someone who is like that though. Just a wild, unpredictable character when they've had a drink. they go off the rails. I think it's just, it might've just been excitedness to be allowed to set himself, be really himself. Maybe everyone was making him too comfortable. Maybe it was too casual of a setting. Maybe you should have, the boss should have been more formal, more serious with people, put

down some better rules, maybe get him to sign a code of conduct. Do you mean like you got, you got to have, maybe he was a remote worker and this, the first time he'd been around people for a very long time. Exactly. It might be crazy. And then the boss was like, we're going to cancel remote working. Maybe there's like a culture of, you know, like, like a culture of, of laddish behavior in the company. Well, I'm not sure why, but Lewis has chosen this story to become the devil's advocate for this this drunken slob at a work party. So it seems to be blaming everybody, but the drunken man.

Yeah, pretty remarkable. You're like one of those southern lawyers with the guys, my client. Oh, no, please, the court, My client could not be trusted without the whole, his employer should have known. Okay. Look, it was my first work do right. And I was young and naive and I didn't know better. All right. You just really want to go through some shit.

I was going through some shit. My dog had died and was the body stolen by someone who thought they were Nick and DJ equipment? Yeah, there was like suitcases everywhere full of dead dogs. This is from James, this is calling me out. I'm absolutely outraged by your comments about cinemas. Sorry to hear you've had a negative experience with chain cinemas, but that sounds like a local problem. At The View Basingstoke, they've made every chair a recliner sofa and you can bring your

own food and drink in. And the price is still the same as a standard ticket. Come to Basingstoke, it's basically heaven here. Look how good we are in Basingstoke. Fuck off. I appreciate a lot of the shit you spout, but on this one I can safely say not all of the chain cinemas are bad. James, you're describing an everyman cinema. View of copying everyman because they're desperately trying to claw back some business that actually good cinema experiences are taken away from them. So you can dress up your view, basing stoke as much as you like. Downsides number one, it's in basing stoke. That's it.

That's all we need. Yeah. Also 24 quid for a hot dog, some popcorn and a sweet pack of sweets. That's what that's a review. 24 quid. It's insane. And then this is a review from a month ago, visited this cinema for the 11 AM viewing of gladiator to screen was broken, glaring bright white light on the screen, ruining the open of movie and wasting an hour of my time. The manager only allowed to refund my ticket and not the egregiously priced snacks, which I had to leave behind because I didn't watch the movie. What? They expect me to wander around Basingstoke with a giant Coke and massive bag of popcorn? What an absolute joke. I would highly recommend you do not visit this cinema. It's badly maintained.

The manager clearly has no idea about customer service. Just bring your own snack. What? Well, I love that as well. Like, like here's the cinema is canceled. Here's your money back. Just take that massive like popcorn and coke home with you. Why do you want all that at the, at the movies?

Like just bring your own stuff. You can, you know, like with you. Why do you want all that at the movies? Just bring your own stuff. You can, you know? Especially nowadays, you've got a backpack, and they say, oh, what's your backpack for? Just say, oh, I've got a disability or something. Just say you're a... No, you can't! You don't have to take a bag anywhere.

I've got a disability or something, mate. Yeah? What are they going to do? Do you have any documentation or look you up or whatever? I've got, I've got a disability or something. Oh, do you have any documentation or look you up or whatever? Like, I don't think they care that much. They just, they just ask the question. You'd say anything and then you go with your snacks. Not, not hard. You should, you could just say blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Nobody's trying to enforce that. They just, they're told that they have to say it, but I don't think they're going to take it any further than that. What are they going to do? Get on the floor, they've got their boot on your neck, searching your bag and stuff. What is this? Mango? You've got some dried mango?

Oh, that's it. Shoot them, Lenny. Just fucking kill them. Take your own snacks, is what I'm saying. It's a lot cheaper. This isn't Nazi Germany. Do what you want at View Basingstoke. Don't buy the overpriced snacks. Smuggling a burger. Bring your own meal. Why not cook yourself a jar of pasta sauce? Maybe cook some extra onions on the side, pop them in there. I saw a guy cook a chicken in a hotel bathroom with a couple of doodads and whatnots. You could take that into the cinema, no problem.

I took Subway into a cinema one time, a whole Subway with a cookie and a bag of chips, everything. No problem. Sounds great. I just put it in my bag. As long as you don't make too much noise or, you know, like, come on, no rustling. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Nobody goes to the fucking cinema anymore. Anyway, you're in there alone half the time anyway, so you can make as much noise as you want. Who cares? Oh, it really does rage people though,

when you, um, cause I was in the cinema, I told you this, I was in the cinema and, um, I was chatting away with, I think Alex, the Rambler or whatever, while the adverts were on and I got shushed. Rambling with the Rambler. Who shushed you? During the adverts. During the adverts? I got, the man stood up in front of me and he looked at me straight in the eye and he shushed me. And I was like, I was like, dude, it's the adverts. Like, you know, sorry, I didn't realize. Some people love the adverts though, to be fair to him.

What do you mean the trailers or the ads? The trailers, no, the adverts before the trailers. Oh, well, he can shut the fuck up. I know. It's so loud in there anyway. It's not like you're missing anything. It shook me up. It shook me up, actually. Oh, sorry, mate. Sorry.

No, that was an ad for Pepsi. If you missed that, didn't mean to talk over the ad for Pepsi. That's what I wanted to do. Um, I'll go with you next time and we'll hopefully someone will start on us and I'll give them a fucking mouthful about that. Yeah. You can like, you know, throw your apple sauce at their face and like, get out.

I don't know if I've ever told anybody ever to be quiet anywhere in my whole life, you know, I don't think I have either. I think I've wanted to. I told my kids to pipe down. Well, I tell my kids to pipe down. Pipe down you two. I tell my kids to pipe down all the time as well, but I don't think I've ever had to say to another adult, can you be quiet or whatever. A lot of adults are less mature than your kids. So they should really, you should really not be worried about doing it. Some of them need to be told, you know,

like some people just lead such hectic unnecessarily hectic lives, like through their decisions and stuff, you know, like why, why be so confrontational? Like you see these videos on, they can't be that hectic. They're going to be sitting in a cinema for three hours. They're in time for the adverts. They can't be that hectic. They're going to be sitting in a cinema for three hours. They're in time for the adverts. No, but I mean, I wonder if like, if everywhere they go, there's some sort of altercation

or if this or if these are isolated events. Like the fact that they're doing it leads me to believe it's not isolated. I think the, I think there is a type of person that will just find issue with every single thing everywhere they go, you know? Oh, I mean, they're not being served fast enough at a restaurant. They weren't picked to be served at the bar. Somebody's talking in the, in the cinema. Somebody's on their phone in the cinema.

Somebody's talking too loud on the train. You know what I mean? And it's just, it's like, it's, it's everything, but it's a type though. Isn't it? Yeah. Well, you could understand maybe you're at work, do, and your girlfriend's being really annoying. And so you start drinking and then the guy to the left, he's eating lasagna, weird, like a printer.

Someone else is doing some weird voice and it's driving you crazy. So you start drinking more and you think, oh, maybe we'll just have some fun. You know, we'll chat to some of the people you haven't spoken to. So you chat to some of the other people, everyone thinks you're flirting with other people's girlfriends and you're like, Oh God. And someone spills their tomatoes all over you. So you go to bed, you have a little, you think I'll have a quick bath, fall asleep. Suddenly your life's ruined. Why are you in love with this guy? Dog in a suitcase? Yeah. Dead dog in a suitcase. Maybe he was just, maybe, maybe it was, it was just that one final shush that pushed

him over the edge and caused him to drink so much. You know, maybe he was. I did, I did shush someone in a cinema one time. I didn't, I didn't shush cause I hate shushing. If someone shushes me. It was during the adverts. No, it was during the film. These, there were three lads behind us, me and Mrs F, this was years ago and they were naturally away. They weren't like teenagers, they were like our age, they

were like early 20s. And they were just talking and they were at normal volume while the film was on. And I gave them the half turn, you know, when they were talking especially loudly, thinking, oh, they'll notice and be like, oh, we should be quiet. Nothing. They keep talking. So I turned around and I said, you guys please stop talking. We're trying to watch the movie. And the middle one, it turned out they were quite posh. He said, you arrogant shit. But then they did shut up. I was like, how the fuck am I the arrogant one? Your conversation is more important than the £2000 that I've had to spend on this fucking thing. I think the, um, that's COVID did this thing to people where everyone starts thinking they're Gogglebox,

do you know what I mean? They sit there with their mates and they comment funny bits on the video. That's what it's like when you watch a movie at home with your friends. People will be making jokes and stuff throughout it, right? But when you actually go to a cinema, it's not that. I think people often forget that, especially if they're catching up with an old friend. I had a similar thing with some old ladies behind me who were chatting away the whole movie about absolute drivel. Someone told them to shush. Yeah. Oh, we've been shushed, Nora. Oh, dear. I can't believe we... Who's Shush? What did he say?

He said Shush. Oh god, we weren't talking loudly, were we? Oh, I don't think so. The trembling voice. You Shush. I hope I never need to Shush another person. I hope I don't become the Shusher. Or the Shushy. You know, like, I'm just going to watch a movie, you know, occasionally,

I can't remember. I can probably count on the, on, on one hand the amount of times where I've thought, Oh, that person is being like, you know, a bit, a bit loud or a bit weird at the movies or whatever, but it doesn't happen very often at all, I would say. It's pretty rare. One time I went to a movie with my wife and two of my kids, and I can't remember what we were seeing,

but there was a group of like, it must've been like eight teenage girls sitting in front of us, and I don't think they caught any of the movie. Like they were just on their phones talking and constantly leaving the theater, like just forever leave. Like two of them would leave and then four would leave and two would come back. And they were just constantly in and out of the theater.

Like none, not one of them was paying attention to the movie. But even then, like we just sat there and watched the movie. Like it wasn't, it wasn't bad, you know, but that, that is one time that kind of sticks out where I might've even been remotely close to saying to somebody, can you please like stop standing up right in front of the movie all the time or whatever. But even then I didn't, I don't know, maybe I'm a pushover. Well let's call it a day on, on, on that.

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