Triforce! - We talk about NEW things?! | Triforce #353

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

Triforce! Episode 353! Lewis is genuinely living in his gas leak arc, Pyrion dares to talk about something we've NEVER heard before on the podcast and we hear some 'hilarious' Lews News featuring a gaming grandma (who may or may not have killed her husband). Go to http://BUYRAYCON.com/TRIFORCE to get 15% off Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/TRIFORCE. Promo Code TRIFORCE 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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You definitely didn't join us in the middle of a conversation. No. Hi. Hi. Sips is paying his social security, which is... I did pay it? So, I am... Chat, aka listeners.

Okay. I thought social security was an American thing. And then in the UK, we referred to that as national insurance. But I've never heard of my social security payment. I mean, I pay taxes every year because I'm self-employed, but I don't do like a monthly payment and I've never heard of social security in this country. Well, Jersey does things different. Jersey has a social security system that you have to pay into.

You used to pay into it quarterly, but now it's, they've changed it to monthly. Well, you know what? They've changed taxes for the self-employed here as well. Right. Where, um, fascinating stuff. This is really, this is a fascinating start for everyone. Yes. God, this is, this is the kind of podcast that people are tuning in for.

This will wake you up. Get ready. Yeah, this will get you going. Get ready for making tax digital. Oh, you love to hear it. You have to keep digital records using some government-approved software. And you have to supply quarterly updates of your commons and goings rather than just what you used to do, which is to make one payment on account halfway through the tax year that was half of your tax bill,

and then you do your tax at the end of the year and make your tax payment now. It's making tax digital, so I've got to use some bloody software, and I've got to do quarterly updates and now apparently VAT registration they've lowered the threshold for that. So essentially, I'm going to have to get a fucking accountant because this is too complicated. Wow.

You don't have one already? I thought the whole point of it was to get rid of hands. Because that would be music to my years. It's easy to file your own taxes. It's easy to file your own taxes. I went to an account on the first time. I have filed my taxes on time in the last 10 years any time. Really?

I've even got an extension this year because it's late. Wait, it's fucking April. You still haven't filed? Man, mine were filed in January. Like, what are you doing? I get paid last. The way the Yoxus works is basically, if the Yorxas makes a loss, I don't get paid. So you don't get paid ever, basically.

Is this the same as, like, Trump sacrifices his salary for the good of the nation? Because it's sounding a little bit like that. I'm going to forego the $5.19. The president gets paid. I'm going to forget it. He's horrible. people are taking my nickels away. But luckily, thanks to prediction betting and oil features, I'm a billionaire.

I'm pumping the market all the time. I've opened the straight. I've closed a street. I've opened the straight. What's going to be today? Where's RFK in all this? I haven't heard anything from him in so long. Man, him and Kid Rocker in a K-hole probably together, just fucking going crazy.

easy, looking at helicopters and just like having a fun time. I don't give a ship. That's great. Look at the helicopter up there, kid. I didn't know they could go that high. Fuckin. Oh, fuck me. That's funny.

Must be alien technology. They've used to get that to work as well. How do they? How do they work? I still am stunned by like, like, magnets? I still am stunned by how we've managed to get gas, get gas piped through everywhere. Like under the roads.

Yeah. There's gas in pipes. What about all those cables that run under the ocean? Does that work? Fuck me. The cables under the ocean now. Cables under the ocean thing. I mean, first of all, we've had those since the days of the telegraph.

I know, but still, it's impressive. It is amazing. Jesus. It's one of those things where you think, geez, they'd have to like just have a big cable. What do you just, just drop it off the back of the ship as you go across the Further, I wouldn't just say G's. I would say G's Louise, actually. G's Louise.

I think that would warrant a big G's Louise for me. Yeah. That's a big G's Louise. Jesus M. Cripes. Yes. Yes. Jesus H.

It's like, surely they just have a ship and you just sort of, what are you just lower the cable over the end as you're going? Yeah. Yeah. It starts off all spool up and then they just slowly unfurl it. And they meet halfway with another ship. Yeah. And then they,

when they run out of, when they run out of wire, another full ship comes along and they just attach it to the other one. And then they keep unfurling and they just keep going like that for weeks and weeks until. You know, the first time they did it, they got to the middle. And they, the two ends didn't have the same connection. So they couldn't match them together. Holy shit. That's what happened.

Did they have to put like a transformer on there or something? No, they had to fucking start. They had to put a male to male or male to female ending thing on it. Yeah, like an adapter. But no, I think they were just like, a shit. Oh, well. And they just had to, like, abandon it. Fuck, it happens.

So how many times have you, like, have you gotten, like, underneath, like, the cabinets for your fridge and just found out, oh, shit, I got the wrong wire here, whatever. It's just that on a much bigger scale. Yeah, I have cabinets. I have, like, it's like a casing. It's one of those integrated appliances, you know. So we've got an integrated dishwasher.

Not me. It was not. It was the previous owners that integrated all the appliances. I didn't like it. Mrs. F is a big fan of the integrated dishwasher. I wish we'd never done it. Oh, I love the integrated. But now if you need to get a new one, it's got to fit that fucking hole.

And it's a nightmare. How am I? I can't fucking. It's a standard size. It's fine. Yeah, but I'm going to have to get a guy to do it. It's just basically a dishwasher with no front on it. It's got, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're right. It's a bit more of a fiddle to get. Yeah, mostly the guys that fit them will do it, though. It's pretty straightforward. So actually, this is interesting because I'm having my kitchen painted at the moment. Of course, color. Well, half of it. You're only painting half of it?

Really tatty. Well, the kitchen is, again, everything was installed 25 years ago. So it's nice quality, but it's like knackered. And it needs. Too many people hanging off the, hanging off the cupboards? Yeah. Anyway. Too many parks.

We've got this great. This really nice guy, and he's painting anyway, what he did was he sort of sealed off half of the, the, sealed off the whole room in like some sort of, like, Dexter-style clean room to kill someone in. Oh, my God. So that so all the sand and dust and spray wouldn't go anywhere, right? Yeah. And he went home for the day anyway. We came back and were like, oh, he's sealed off the whole room.

So we couldn't get to the fridge. We couldn't get to like, you know, anything. So we were just like, well, we'll manage, you know, we'll make do. We'll have packet crisps dinner or whatever. What flavor? Packet of crisps? German salmon or whatever. What was the flavor of crisps you had the other day?

Well, I said. Yes. What was this flavor of crispy had? I've got it here. Look, I've got it here back here. Yeah. It's from the Chinese supermarket. It's Tostonis, the snack with real crunch.

It's like plantain crisps. Oh, they're nice. They're nice. They're really nice. They're really nice. to do is to go to a supermarket from a different sort of food culture, I suppose, and buy all the snacks. It's like, I'll say if you think, it's genuinely hard to find non-prone-flavored crisps if you're

going to some kind of like an Asian supermarket, like Chinese or Korea. They love prognets. They seem to love it. They do. They're obsessed. So they've got all sorts of good stuff from there. They got like a vegan fish sauce, which is really nice because, you know, I haven't been using that for a long time. And, you know, it's not, it's just fishy. It's like seaweed-infused.

But fish sauce is anchovy. That's meant to be the flavor. That's what fish sauce is basically anchovy juice. Yeah, but like you can just copy that flavor by like making it smell like a sea. Going vegan, I feel like not ever having to deal with that smell or sauce would be like a benefit, you know, I wouldn't seek out like a replacement for it. Yeah, I don't really like the idea of, well, in fact, I don't really like the idea of it even being called vegan fish sauce particularly, but, you know, I just close my eyes and, you know, grip my teeth and get on with it, you know,

make do. So anyway, about, we got to about 10 o'clock in the evening and there was this sort of suddenly we hear this huge beeping and it's like the carbon monoxide alarm. Carbon monoxide alarm going off. I'm being poisoned right now actually.

In the kitchen. In the kitchen. So I was sort of stood out there thinking in what is, why is this, you know, well, my partner just, God bless, I just ran straight in there to turn it off. And I was like, why? No, don't do that. It's beeping for a reason.

It must be. So she just went in and turned it off. And I was like, no, why have you done this? Like, you know, thank you. But it's, that's not a great idea. This is the alarm that tells you there is no oxygen in this room. Yeah. I'll go turn that off.

No, don't. You're trying to warn us. Exactly. Sending us a warning. If I had to guess, the issue is he sealed the room up. well that literally there's like a pilot light or something burned up all the oxygen, you only had carbon monoxide left. Well, exactly.

That's exactly what I think happened because it's got on. There's an argo. Yeah, the argot would ate all the air. That's literally what happened. And it didn't have any airflow. Your partner is very fortunate. They didn't just fucking pass out on entering the room. That's insanely dangerous.

If they were alone in the house and did that, they genuinely could have perished. Oh, I hate hearing about things. thing is they used to live in a place where their alarm just went off all the time and they just pressed the button and it was, I think it was a blitchy alarm. So they assumed it was the same. Anyway, I said, look, this is not, you know, anyway, we stood outside. We opened all windows and she's like saying, oh, you know, I've got a headache. And I'm like thinking, fucking how do I have to, she being carbon dioxide poison.

Do I have to ring fucking 999? So I had, I did actually ring 1-1-1. Right. And they were like, you know, monitor the situation. Did they escalate you up to 2-2 or 3-33? all the way up to chain they work their way up based on how serious it is

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I love that Right. So you phoned one-one and said that your partner was suffering headaches and you thought that it was carbon monoxide poisoning. Well, the thing is I sort of while I was on the phone and they were sort of telling me, don't worry, I'm, I always have a headache and I always feel dizzy and I always feel confused. And I'm like, well, these are also symptoms of carbon dioxide poisoning. So anyway, I monitored her quite carefully from that point on. But, you know, we dashed in and got pulled down all this poor painter's lovely sealed room that he'd set up, you know, to do all the spray. Yeah. And so he's going to have to put it back up when he comes today. And we have to sort of, but it kept going that.

It was, the beeping was going until, because it started up again. And it was going until like 2 a. Jesus. So we had, we had. And then we sort of, you know, closed the windows. Well, we did. We had the doors open, you know, the small. morning, God, it was such a mess in there because we, you know, we went in this morning,

we were like, fuck. It's like full of like all the mud we traipsed in, like all of the, all these loads of bugs and shit, like a squash snail in the middle of the floor. Like, fuck me. It was like Jesus. It's like a fucking bomb site. Yeah. So that was a, the fucking shit that you have to deal with. My God. I know. And also there's a, the loft. At the same time, I got two guys in the loft and they're, hey, the previous owner, like, put this wall up in the middle of the loft, which sort of blocks it off half the loft, so you can't get to it. Right. And these guys are, like, you know, having to put insulation down.

They can't get to it. So they've had to smash this wall down. And it's just thrown so much dust, like, through the, through the, through the floor and through everywhere. And it's like, oh, my fucking God. I'm just living in hell. Yeah. You're in hell.

That is hell, yeah. I'm the doing the help line. call me for he's on the he's on the end of the six six yeah he's down there already i think i'd be happier if i was you know inhale doing jee it kind of sucks when you first move in somewhere especially if if you need to do some bits and pieces but it does get better once all the stuff is done and it's been done properly you can just kind of sit back and be like okay i don't need to do anything for a while now because like everything is up to a standard at least now but yeah that that time in between really sucks when you're having work done.

Did I tell you about my electricity thing that's going on? Yeah. The big cable that was under the water and stuff. So there's a new thing. Okay, that's weird. And, okay, here's the deal, right? Here we go. The electricity meter that I have on the front gate,

or the front of my property, is going backwards. Right. Okay. So I took a reading when I made. moved in and I submitted it and I took a reading like last month and the meter is lower the number is lower right it was when I moved in okay so I'm getting free electricity basically no well I think what's what's happened is um so I've got some solar panels on the roof

that was that were putting in about about 2011 right they have been hooked up wrong so basically for the last 15 years um that that that the electricity generated by the solar has been coming off the meter effectively. And I think that the people who lived here used enough electricity that it kept it ticking over, that no one noticed, right? And so they just got a bunch of free electricity over the course of 15 years, you know. I think it's not really supposed to work that way. The electricity, the solar panels are not supposed to like...

Wind the meter back? No, they're not. Yeah. No. No. They're not supposed to magically cancel your electric bills. That doesn't sound like just one of those things. That sounds like they got someone to rig the meter.

Yeah. This is like the Differley has like, hey, I have access to all the pay-per-view channels. How have you done that? I don't know. Something crazy must have happened. Cable HQ. Yeah, I'm sure. Oh, crazy things happen.

So I've got this. I think they had a couple of electric cars and stuff like this. and they really, you know, they made sure that they never had a month where it goes down. So they had electric solar panels. They had rewired the electric thing. They had electric cars. They were obsessed with electricity. Was it electro?

Well, apart from the oil, Arga, and the oil. That's true. I mean, the thing is, like, I actually have, you know, I'm not really, I've moved in, but I didn't move in for a couple of months properly because I was still staying in my flat. So I wasn't really using electricity at all during that time. And I'm a lot more frugal, I think. I haven't really, you know, I haven't even set my up my PC. I've got a laptop, you know, we've got like, you know,

we haven't got a full family here, like rinsing the electric, you know. I've got the fridge and the freezer on, and I boil the kettle a couple of times a day. But I can understand why the solar panels might, now we've had all these sunny days, suddenly be like creating enough electricity to use, you know, more than I'm actually using, which is kind of surprising anyway. How do you heat your water? There's a man coming to, uh, it's a lot of. It's of oil, boiler, sibs.

Oil. All of it's oil. Lovely oil. Right. I'm an oil man. I'm an oil man. The straight of Hormuz is not homoos. It's not homozing enough for you.

HW plane view. So stuff like this, like I had a guy come and do a heat loss survey because I'd like to try and get the house sorted out. And he's taken like, it took like two weeks to book it. And then it's taken like three weeks from to give me the results. I'm just like, I'm never going to fucking at this speed that stuff happens. I'm never going to, I'm just going to live in. in, I'm better of being in hell.

It's lovely warm there. Do they burn oil? Are they using oil heating in hell? How are they keeping that hot? I assume it's geothermal. They had to do when we had, when we had our loft done, they had to do that, that heat survey thing. And they did it on the new stuff and it got like this incredible rating because all the new stuff is using all like the brand new like paneling insulation or whatever. But they did the whole house.

So like part of my house is incredible. and the rest of it is dog shit. Like we're just losing heat like everywhere sort of thing, except for in the loft now. You got the door opening here. Yeah. That's no good. Yeah.

That's going out of there. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there's, just that's the joys of what I do. So I've got in a smart meter put in. Because they wouldn't put one in as well. Like initially I was here,

I was like, oh, you know, to get a smart meter because this meter looks old. Set them a message. They were like, nah, we're not doing it.

Nice. In your area. Yeah. And I was like, okay. But now they're giving me one. So that'll be nice. They changed their minds. Yeah.

It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, it will talking to the pit, just, I've been watching the pit, the TV show, the pit. The pit. Oh, the pit, it's really, really good. Okay, P-Flex. I saw this and I was like, oh, is there a new season? No, it's just come out in the UK for the first time. Yeah, though.

I watched it like a year ago, yeah. So there's two seasons. So season one was, was a while now that season two came out. and is just finished and I've been watching that and I'll be honest with you I think it's a really, really, really fun show it's really, really, really good.

Yeah, as in, you know, the characters. It's like a medical drama, but like really, it's like, it's got the same guy who was on ER, right? That's no while, yeah, it has got no while. Was that the guy at the glasses? He's grown up now. I don't know, maybe he did have glasses.

I don't know, yeah, I guess he did. I think back on ER he was like one of the hot ones, he was younger, right? Oh, this guy was all back then, as well, so it's not the same one. Whereas now he's like in charge. Who is the guy in ER with glasses? He had like a beard and glasses.

I don't know. I'm going to look him up right now. ER man with beard and glasses. Oh, here he is. It's, this is the guy. Who is he? I don't know. Anthony Edwards.

Yeah, Anthony Edwards. He's Dr. Mark Green. The main guy. Is that Mark Green? And then Dr. Mark Green. And it obviously had George Clooney in it So, I mean, that was a big draw Wasn't it back in the day?

It was back in the day. He was the big one. Richard Schiff. Is it Richard Schiff who plays this guy? No? No. They've been for so long. ER did 15 seasons.

And obviously this is kind of like the modern. I don't know what I say modern, but like, you know, it's pretty good. It's kind of filmed in like a 24-style format where it's a day. Like, at least the first season was.

It was basically every episode is two hours, right? Is it 12 episodes or something like that? I think it's 13 or 14, actually. Something like, I think so. And it's every hour of a shift. So it's essentially real time of a 12 or 14 hour shift. So it's all the emergency doctors running through their shift. Each episode is an hour and it shows an hour of.

But before we recommend it too strongly, it is pretty gruesome. I mean, it's not the most crucial medical show I've ever seen. That's what I. I don't look at the gory stuff. I'm not even kidding. I just look away. Wow, okay. Okay, that's great.

That's a great way to watch telly, just through your fingers. That's literally what I do. I'm like, this is too much. I'm just going to look away. Did you see like the birth? There was like a birth where the rubber baby came out. I was like, looked away. I was like, easily done.

That was, there was a lot of, um, it kind of has a bit of everything. And there's like a guy with an allergy and there's a guy with a twisted testicle and there's a guy with, you know what I mean? Yeah. You name it. They cover everything. They have a twisted testicle on there. Homeless people.

Damn. Like mental, the ill people, like everything. You name it. It's like the whole point of it is like this kind of grab bag of just a bit of everything. You know, there's and there's even some like kind of some of the characters, you know, in trouble. You know, there's some drama in the hospital. It's just like, it's like, you know, what could you? Could you imagine a day where they get just a little bit of everything?

It's kind of... It's good. It's good. It's good. There is one thing that I've noticed, now that I've watched, like, nearly 24 episodes of the show, is that it quite often has that trope where a patient will come in, and it'll be like, I've got a headache, and I just feel kind of tired, and they look at all the usual tests. I'm like, Mr. Stevenson, I think you just have a cold. Just get a rest here, and I'll get some Tylenol, and he's like, Thank you, Doctor. And it goes off and they deal with someone else. And then someone comes in to check with Mr. Stevenson.

He's unconscious. His heart's barely pumping. What happened? Oh, my God, quick. Run a CT scan and a D4-3. Get me four shots of 87. Now, like that. It's like, what happened?

And the doctor will come in and say, oh, he had undiagnosed something or other. That happens a lot. Yeah. So it's like, you missed the test. When his lungs were showing up as this, why didn't you run that test? Well, I thought it was just so. No. It's like a lot of surprise.

Like every episode, someone gets diagnosed with something that someone had never heard of or something. It's kind of a little housey in that regard, I would say. They got to keep it fresh. I honestly enjoyed it a lot. I did enjoy it. It's being hyped up a lot, I think. It's very good. What's it called the pit?

The pit, but with two T's because it's about an ER in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Yeah. And it's also like a teaching, it's a teaching hospital, so they let students in. So you've got like first year, you know, undergrads or whatever, doctors who are almost doctors, will then be expected to perform some of these hideous procedures. Like some of the emergencies and the injuries are genuinely horrific. There's one where some guy has hit his face on something and the whole front of his face is shattered.

So the doctor puts his fingers inside his mouth and can move the whole guy's middle of his face up and down, like some kind of a rubber doll. They're like, oh, he's got mushy face syndrome or something. I was like, this is so gross. I look away from all that shit. Well, exactly. Like, I think if you're not... You think that's what Sylvester Stallone has as well?

You've got a mushy face. I got a moosey. That's what I mean. My face has got old mushy again. God. How is he such a successful guy? I would never understand. I have no idea.

It's insane to me. I think he's just coasting off of what? You know, the original. What? Rocky. Oh, Rocky. It's coasting off of Rocky and Rambo, you know, the OGs. Yeah, Rambo was pretty big as well, wasn't it?

That's what we needed. Rocky and Rambo. Yeah, Rambo. Rocky. What's funny about Rambo is that the first movie is like an anti-war movie about veterans. And then when it did well, the second one is like, kill everyone. Super Commando. He's balling arrows.

I think he comes from that era of the, you know, demolition man, cliffhanger. Stuff like that. The Arnie rivalry. Cliffhanger's not a bad movie. Jimianger wasn't too bad. Yeah. It's not like a bad action movie. John Lithgow excellent.

We've talked about this. I'm sure we have Lewis, but the people want to hear repetition. Do you want to hear a new? Do you want to hear? I have two new topics that I've never spoken about on this podcast if you want to hear about this. Bullshit, but let's hear him go for it.

I'm serious. These are brand new topics. How do you know? How do I know? Because I literally never spoke about this with you guys. The first one is AI. I. Okay, go on.

Go for it. Go on. No, I'm excited. All right. Have you heard of a Markov chain? No. Okay. So a Markov chain is like something you used to get them in IRC chat rooms.

It's a bot that runs and records everyone's sort of sentences and conversations. And then it spews out pretend sentences and paragraphs using some of the sort of styles and words and and sentences that other people have said in the chat. So it's like a shit AI. Yeah, so we are talking about AI. This was the topic was AI. It's not AI in any way, shape, or form. There's no intelligence to it.

A Markov chain bot just sticks sentences you've already said together, changes a couple, it's just an algorithm that generates text. I suppose you could say an AI is the same thing. Like AI. But it's really not. You know what, in a funny way, this isn't AI, or it's not built as AI, but AI builds herself as AI when it's really just a fancy Markov bot,

which is even funnier. But anyway, this one, I had it running on my Discord and it would hang out in the just the general chat channel and it would just occasionally say stuff. And it was funny because it'll say like,

I think the real problem with world economics is insert user here out of nowhere and you'd be like, shit. So it's cobbling together something someone said combining with just a random user's name and it sometimes was funny. That's a bad example,

you know what I mean. So it was free, and they had a website, and they had a Discord and all the rest of it, and I would like, I was, I really like having the Markovot. It's always a bit of fun. And one day, I noticed it had been down for a couple of weeks. Like, it went up and down because it was a free service, and they were running up probably off a fucking server somewhere.

And it went down for ages. So I went on to their support Discord, and I just asked, hi, guys, is it normal for the Markov bot to go down for two weeks at a time? And as I was in the middle of typing, no problem if not, just couldn't find anything in the FAQ about it. Like, I was literally just trying to come in

and be like, is this normal? Is this something? I'm doing wrong. What's the deal? And the dude fucking exploded at me, like typing all this stuff, just posting rules and rules and rules. Links to FAQs just read the fucking chat.

How could you not read the truth? Just like freaking out. That's me from the Discord. Jesus. So we go on to Twitter. Twitter and I'm like, nice Discord you got there, Markov, Bob guys. And we went back and forth for a bit. And I was like, he's like, you didn't read the rules.

You're asking a question of the wrong channel. Why didn't you read the rules? Like that level of just deranged pop. Like his nerd brain had just exploded because I asked him the wrong channel. Yeah. And I was like, look, I just wanted to know. I wasn't having a go. I was literally just saying, is this normal?

Is it something I've done? We just changed permissions on the, on the Discord for a bunch of things. Could it be that? Is it the bot? Is it up? Is it down? Exploded. And then, as I talked about, I was streaming at the time that this all happened,

and I was kind of laughing to myself because this guy had lost it so much. And then he shut down the entire project, deleted the Discord, and said, Markle of Boy, is over. It's over. It's been ruined by certain users and shut the whole thing down and it was gone. You have caused this to happen. You single-handedly took them down from the inside. By asking the most gentle question possible.

Yeah. And then just, he just went nuts. Like, I don't know why. It's like, he was like, I'm going to roll out of pressure here. It's like, it's just a Mark of Bot that runs in Discord channels. What's the pressure? There's no pressure. We're not paying you.

We're not expecting a service. It was just so bizarre. The guy went nuts. So that was quite a funny story. That's one. That is insane. Yeah. But sometimes you get people on a bad day and they burst.

And I've done it. I think we've all done it. And sometimes, you know, it's just that straw that breaks the camel's back. You're just there. This was not a big community. And it was not like there was a million people in this Discord all asking the same question. There was hardly any activity. Like, this wasn't some huge project.

This was the smallest possible thing. Hardly anyone was using this bot. But the rules, he had put more effort into typing up the rules for the Discord. And an FAQ for basically never ask questions. Stop asking questions. That was like the main focus of the problems. Maybe it was like a death by a thousand cuts. He'd just been asked so many questions.

He just couldn't handle another question. And then you asking that one last question just toppled. The number one question was just, is it down for good? Like it was never, it was down more than it was up. So it's just like, what is the point of this bot? Like if you can't figure out why it's broken, just close it down. But it was the weirdest thing. If it had been a business and it was failing, I'd understand the pressure, but it was the lowest

stakes possible. And the guy just fucking lost his mind. That was funny. My mate put together an entire, like a huge cut and paste image of all the Twitter threads going back and forth. It was pretty funny. He claimed I was brigading his Discord and Twitter, which I was not. I was not.

Okay. It was funny. Okay. Yeah, I get it. Like, you know, we have to be careful. This is how Lewis brought down just chips as well. It's the exact same thing pretty much. It was disaster.

I was trying to help them. In fact, it was the opposite. Sometimes we shouldn't do shoutouts for the things we love. No, no. Sometimes it's more of a curse and a blessing. I did not brigade. There was no brigading whatsoever. Guy was just crazy.

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This is a start of a story. I'm reading back in my chair. This is something I need to listen to. It's a lumber, a lumber yard, actually. A lumber yard, a timber mill, a sawmill. A timber mill. Yeah, a pimbo mill. Why did you go to them?

I'm intrigued. That's how interesting this story is. I'm already hooked. Well, first of all, I've driven past it a couple of times. And second of all, they sell sheds. Describe it to me. It's like a big pile of wood with a little shop attached to it.

Excellent. Exactly what I imagine. Can I just guess where it's like off a dual carriageway or a little B-Roads somewhere? It's on a big roundabout. It's on a big roundabout. It's got a kind of awkward gate to turning industrial estate. There's a couple of old boys that they wear boiler suits the whole time. They always smoke and roll-ups.

They look at you like what the fuck are you doing here. Yeah, those guys. And I, that's what I was thinking. I was thinking it was going to be like they were going to be, because I got an impression that these kind of places were not really necessarily welcoming to my...

You either know what you're there for or you're wasting their fucking time. That's it. Exactly, right? And they're supposed to be for businesses, really, not for just chumps. It's trade, it's trade, not chumps. Anyway, basically, my partner had ordered a bed

for the garden, like a wooden bed, and it'd been delivered, and one of the planks had, like, warped really badly. It didn't, like, fit. And I called them up, and I was like, Oh, your plank's warped and they're like, not my problem. And I was like, okay, we'll go to the wood merchant and get a plank.

It all went fine, actually. They were really, really nice. And in fact, the person there was, had a tiny penis. No way. Unbelievable. At the timber mill. At the lumberyard? Of all places.

Jesus. To meet. Was he an old boy? A listener. Shout out to Liam. Did he give you wood? He gave me wood. That's right.

I've had to pay for it, though. Well, which is the best way. So, hey, fair. That's how I get wood when I know I have to pay for it. Isn't that right? So I've got contact in a lumberyard now. If I want to get any more wood, if you guys need any wood, I can sort of out. He's given me wood so many times.

He's got the hookup. He's got the hookup. Do you like that? If you guys need wood, come to me. I'm sure you can't get wood near you. Not like my wood. My wood's way better. Well, what do you think your next purchase at that location is going to be now that

you've sort of uh well the thing is I bought this kit we bought this we bought this kit for the bed right and it was I don't know like 250 quid or whatever Jesus Christ what but I

but I reckon like you could get the planks I thought you got paid last I'm starting to think you get paid first at the Oscars I got like I money comes in it goes straight through your sieve the Lewis sieve I was buying some other

I don't know so with a bigger money stared in the sieve you could have the crumbs that come out the bottom of they save the rest of you. I get paid last, you remember. Ha ha! Ha ha ha ha. Oh my God.

So that's, that's, that's just another thing on my list of families. But no, but I was thinking of just buying the stuff because it was basically just a load of planks with holes drilled in them. I can do that, right? Yeah. What could possible go wrong? I don't know if you can. I wouldn't trust you to drill a hole. No.

Anyway, I was good. Yeah, maybe you'll see. No. Maybe get some... No. You'll see. When you come over here, you'll see, and you'll see, like, these botched, you know, wood and monstrosity. You would allow me...

You would allow me to visit your home? You need guys need to visit. I might allow you to cruise my gardens. I don't know. You can have a shit in my toilet as well. Are you serious? Do you have an onsuit that I could shit in, or do I have to use the guest toilet? Which toilet is...

Which toilet is closest to your side of the bed? Yeah. That's what I want to know. I want to shit in that one. Well, and the... moment I'm closest to, I've got a toilet just next to me in this room next to me. I'm in the end room and that one is, doesn't have a toilet seat on it. That's how bad I state that. Oh my god, you could go crazy. You could get like a tropical themed toilet sheet. Yeah, you could get whatever

you want. You can get one of those ones that has like it's seethru. It's got the gel inside the seat and it looks like there's like little fish and seashells moving around in there. I always like that. I always like those ones. You should get one of those. You could imagine you're on like a tropical vacation, like diving underwater when you're having a shit. You could get one that looks like someone with their mouth open really wide. Like eyes at the top and then just a big mouth.

It looks like you're peeing into a mouth. Yes. I love that. It could be the mouth of your enemy. Yes. So what was the second thing you wanted to talk about, P-Flax? Baseball. Oh, my God.

We've definitely talked about baseball before. Not this thing. Right. I was thinking today that baseball is probably the most brutal game that you could play in terms of, well, I'll explain. In no other sport that I've ever seen, do they show you how bad the person that's about to do something is just before they do it? So in baseball, every time a new player, like it's obviously it's a team game, you've got

two teams, but it's essentially a battle of individual's actions against each other. So it's the picture versus the batter. I'm going to have to be right back. Just give me two seconds. I'll just keep talking. It's the pitcher versus the batter is the main duel, if you like. Yes.

Where you've got the pitcher is throwing, the bat has to hit, that's the main jewel. But then once the batter has put the ball in play, it's the batter versus the fielder. Can the fielder get to the ball before the batter can get to the base and so on and so forth? Like, there's all these individual jules. When the batter's about to come up

or when a pitcher is about to enter the game, they have a big screen with their picture and how they've done that season. like the statistics at the bottom. And I've been to a game before where the guy that's coming up is terrible. And you can see he's terrible before he's done anything because the numbers are right there.

The numbers don't lie. It's like having to, every time you do anything, your CV is posted and all of your failures are highlighted for everyone to see. And then you have to stand there alone in front of all these thousands of people, everybody watching a home and fail again. That is pretty rich.

I know, but some players, are very good at doing like specific almost like support roles. So imagine like a, imagine in Dota, you know, like you're, if you're, if you're,

if you're a support player, you'll get recognized as, you know, having supported the team, but you won't have the same stats as like the carry, for example. So, I mean,

there were there were people in, in baseball that will be come, that will be brought in strategically to hit a certain ball or, create a certain play, you know, depending on how many people are on base or whatever, you know what I mean? And those people who are specifically used for those things, they will have terrible stats. But you want to see like, you want to see like how many times they make it to like first base. Like there's other stats that are like weighed more importantly in baseball, right? Yeah, there's a whole bunch of stats.

It's very stats heavy. Yes. Because it's because it's not like football. which is very fluid and kind of hard to nail down, you know, was that a key pass because it led to a goal? Or was it a key pass because it led to a chance or was it just a good pass? Or was it a bad pass?

Yeah, it's very hard. It's a lot of very subjective. In baseball, you either get a hit or you're done. You either hit a home run or you didn't. Or you do a bunt. You either strike out. What if you do a bunt? That can count as a hit if you get on base.

Yeah. Okay, cool. But yeah. I think I get it, you're right. You're right. But I'm just saying, I don't think there's any other game where before you come out, it just plays. It tells you how bad you are, yeah,

and then you have to have a one v1 duel with somebody. With a guy. I see what you're saying. His stats look amazing. Yeah. Like, so it's literally saying, hey, this guy gets a hit about 11% of the time. And this guy, generally, he's going to give away one run, the entire game. Yeah.

So good luck. And everybody's now like, who, go Terry. Right. I want to share a shower thought I had with you the other day. I mentioned this on stream yesterday. when we were playing some satisfactory. Consider this, okay? I'm considering it.

The Amish are basically playing Wow Classic compared to everybody else who is not. They've decided at one point that they don't want any new expansions in the world. They're stuck where they are and they're happy being there and that's it. They live in this, like, very protected point in time. Self-sufficiency.

Yes. Yes. No PVP. No PVP. If they die. Yeah. Hardcore. Now classic.

It's hardcore because they got no medicine. Yeah. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. No cosmetics. I think there's a lot of comparisons to be made there. And I just thought it was, it kind of came up in a conversation.

But the more I thought about it, I was like, yeah, Yeah, no flying mounts. I like it. Yeah, they can't use any technology. They're not allowed to have like mounts that are bikes or anything, like no cars. Yeah, they certainly wouldn't be able to use like any sort of industrial type mounts, you know, like a motor powered horde blimp or something like that. Yeah, they can't use like guns.

No. Yeah, they can't be hunters. They couldn't be goblins because they have all kinds of technology, don't they? Yeah. They're basically like elves or paladins. No, palisines. Fascinating stuff. Let's do Lose News.

Okay. Shit. So, we could do it for more. This has been a weird episode. I apologize. I have to move away from Wow because it's making me. It's been my fault, basically. Zil has suggested today to me, he said,

Oh, you'd love it. They just introduced a prop hunt mode into Wow. Yeah, it's coming out next week. Do you want to play Prop Hunt in Wow? And I said, yes, but no. No. Because I don't want to get back into Wow. You don't want to get sucked into the, on the quest for perps.

You'll be like, oh, prop on so much fun, but what if I got a really cool purple weapon? Maybe I do need to get back into a while, honestly, because it will give me a couple of hours of escape from my misery of my current life. I've realized now, World of Warcraft is the ultimate Sips game, actually. It's got everything. It's got, having quite a games with their loot. It just soaks up your time and gives nothing back. And looting. It's the, that's where your loot goblin tendencies are. I love loot.

Yeah. Who does it? So, this week. last week, GTA 6, some people hacked Rockstar. Yeah. And they were going to release

all of this data. And they threatened Rockstar and they said, you know, we're going to release this data. Anyway, the deadline passed and they followed up with their threat.

Rockstar refused not to pay them. So they released all this data. It turned out it was mostly stuff like about how much money GTA online is still making. Oh my God. How much does it make a month? Like $9 million.

or something. 10 million a month or something insane. Just sitting there. That's bonkers. It's played though. GT5 online is still played. But Red Dead 2 online makes like almost no money. Yeah.

It was shit. That's why. I can't remember it. It was so much money that it was out of control. It was all from Shark cards and it was all from PlayStation 5 as well. God, it was an insane amount of money. I can't remember. Anyway, it was such an interesting thing that GTA Rockstar saw their stock price go up rather

than what they were expecting, which was some bad news, you know, because I think everyone thought this leak would be a terrible thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But in fact, if anything, if you leak that a company is making money hand over fist, it's not really detrimental to the company, and especially not their share price, is it? It's like, these guys are making money over here. I mean, all of the money that they're making is public knowledge anyway, right? If it's a listed company, you can access all of their...

Not from each thing, though. I think they publicly have to list how much they've made. Do they have to list... Shareholder reports will have everything in them. After 13 years, they're still making a million dollars a day, 500 million annually, half a billion dollars a year of GTA Online. It's amazing. After 13 years, it's nuts.

and it's clearly the online mode that's still played by a lot of people I think that's a lot of people's wow they just buy it and it almost all covers from the shark cards which people buy to give them in-game money so there's a thing called like a Megaloddodd shark card gives you

$10 million in game Megaladom, there's dinosaurs in there now? Is that a shark? It gives you 65 quid or $99 and it's $10 million in-game money to unlock like skins for like different cards You can buy cars.

You can buy like hoteling. But if I buy my car with my shark card, yeah. Yeah. My question is if I, if the car gets lost, I've lost the car. No.

It'll get blown up all the time. Basically, GTA 5 online is you join a server and somebody rocket launchers, your car over and over and over again until you get so pissed off that you just stop playing or you spend more money on a shark card to get different kinds of cars that can get blown up by a guy. guy at the rocket launcher in GTA 5. I think the amount of hacks on the PC versions make it much less profitable because you

can just, I seem to recall there's a lot of that. Anyway, the most out of control Pokemon card restock has happened. Just yesterday, this is from Qutaku, we reported news about a literal parking lot shooting between two grown adults fighting over Pokemon cards and a day later. Was this in America? Yes, a day later, after that, after a literal shooting over Pokemon cards, there's a crowd of 30 to 40 people just descending into an absolute riot as they line up to buy a restock of prismatic evolution cards from a Costco.

Drinks thrown around, cards ruin, a car being driven into a shopping car, like just mayhem. Drop the geo dude or I'll shoot. Fuck you all from my cold dead hands. It's not shootout. America's fucking nuts these days, man. I think it always has. They're crazy.

It's the craziest country. I think it always has. It wasn't like that all the time. It's always been pretty bonkers, but I feel like they've gotten crazier. Yeah. And they're always, they're all so angry. Oh, they are. I think they're just kept in a state of perpetual rage.

Yeah, it seems like it. Calm down, Americans. Yeah. Calm down. It's just nuts. I think it's, because there was footage of like about sort of 20 hooded people robbing a jewelry shop, wasn't there this week in America. It was like this huge gang of people just barreling into a jewelry shop. That's just like, what do they call them?

One of those flash mobs. I think it's just a bit of fun for social media, isn't it? Who knows? No. So next up. Very much not. Have you heard of Tomodachi Life, Living the Dream, the new. Yeah, I'm looking at it on Twitch right now.

Tomodachi Life, Living the Dream, 17.1K viewers. My kids love that game. I mean, I obviously played a lot of the original one on DS because my partner had a DS thought it was hilarious and we mucked around with it. We made like lots of all of our friends in it. And I think this is obviously the new one. My daughter used to play it on the DS and there was this like singing thing that there was like a concert.

Yes. And you could make it. Oh, it's so funny. You basically write the lyrics and oh my God, it's the funniest shit ever. Yeah, my kids used to make these hilarious songs and then they would do like... I've seen a bunch of clips of like Ravs and Lydia playing it and like making each other and Kirstie. Oh, it's so funny. Anyway, it was in development for nearly a decade and the game's development team ran into its fair show of challenges throughout the process.

One challenge they ran into was a bit weird. They wanted to fine-tuned the sound and appearance of Mies far. There is a whole Ask the Developer released by Nintendo on Tuesday where developers behind the Life Sim series share the team had a fair share of discourse about me's ability to fart and it went through some pretty

unfortunate phases so some people found it hilarious, some people thought it was vulgar, they made it like a quirk and you can as this like, you can like bestow it on your character so you can choose to file or not What's the point of the game? Just to fuck a...

It's basically to make a picture of you and your friends and have them fuck around and do stupid shit and like... But do my friends control their character or do I control them? No, you control everything. You make versions of your friends and where they live and what they do.

So how are rats and lids playing it together? How are they playing it together? I think you just make each other in your world and then you just like on Discord you can share your screen or whatever. And they can appear... It's mental. Anyway, it's just mental.

I love it. Is it on PC? I think it's on Switch. It's on Switch. It's on Switch. It's on Switch. Yeah. They're streaming it with some kind of El Gato.

Yes. Is that what they are? El Gato. Have we got time for one more? I think so. But I don't have it. Yeah, one more. In a hilarious turn of event, a hilarious.

This better be fucking hilarious. A video is going viral on social media showing a Beyonce cutout being used as a scarecrow to keep crows away from farms that is hilarious that is hilarious thank you so glad I found this one

God they think of the zaneous things yep so as you can see there are cutouts of Beyonce one one viewer humorously added play her music in the background as well sorry

implying that Beyonce's musical back would scare away an animal. Are you a fucking moron? Not you, this person. She's one of the most successful pop artists of all time. She is called Queen Bee for a reason. I will not hear

a fucking word against Beyonce. She's a goddess. Okay, and then finally, this is the final being used. Play a music too. It's a lot of old crap, isn't it? Said nobody! So, okay, so a 91-year-old Ohio grandma

had the cops turn up at their door. Yeah. because their family couldn't get in contact with them. Right. And they called in a wellness check. It turned out... Playing well.

She was gaming. No way. What was she playing? Unfortunately, the report doesn't clarify which game she was so immersed in. So, who knows? Maybe Resident Evil Requiem or something. I was busy playing Resident Evil. Closing in on the final box.

I lost myself. No good children. Tell me about your life. Live as a dream. In a dachy life, I remade my dead husband. I remade my precious... He was still an alcoholic piece of shit. My poor cat toodles.

I remade a better husband this time. I didn't care much for Uber. My husband wasn't a womanizing, whore-mongering drunk. He was a good man this time. But I killed him again just to say. Oh, shit. I hate men. Left to men.

Now get out of my house. It's game of a clock. Where's my poop sock? Where's my wimbo? All right. Well, they go. I know I put my poop socks somewhere. Thank you, everyone.

That was a good bit of podcast. I enjoyed it. Pass me that. Pass me them Cheetos. Oh, see you. See you all. Next time. Thank you for us.

Bye.