Two In The Think Tank - 134 - "BACK TO THE ZEITGEIST

Episode Date: June 5, 2018

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you're somebody who's distracted by the opposite of suspense, like a lot of people, if they got something hanging over them, that they don't know the answer to, that eats away at their brain, right? But you're the opposite. Absolutely. I can't know anything in full. Yeah. Because it'll eat away at me. It'll eat away at you. All spoilers.

Yeah. Man. They eat away at you. Yeah. So. And so does watching a movie in full. Absolutely. I have to always pull out. Is this a good riff? It's a great riff.

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on Twitter how we can tell if somebody's account is really the real account, if they've got the word real in front of their account. I'll give your kid a blue tech. There you go. Tattoo your kid. Yeah, I don't know from the Department of Births, Births, deaths and marriages. Fuck, that must be a rollercoaster working there. Oh man.

I don't even know like how we truly identify people. Yeah. Like is it so, you know, sure. DNA? You look at a photo, you look at the person, any person can look like any photo. Oh, absolutely. Pretty much. That was in Gatica.

Like when they made, was, what was it? Uh, what's Ethan Hawk? Ethan Hawk looked like Jude Law. I was like, that's amazing. They just take the photo from a certain angle. Wow. Yeah. It's uncanny. Yeah. Right. So we, they, they made Jude Law look like Ethan Hawk. They made him look like a photo of, no, no, they made Ethan Hawk look like a photo of Jude Law. That's good. It was so good.

That was one of the many good things about that movie. The fact that he was always scraping off his DNA, you're scraping off those dead skin cells? Ah, scraping off that little vacuum cleaner he used for his keyboard to get all the skin cells out of there. Oh yeah. Anything to do with skin cells was great in that movie. And then the fact that it was like,

it's exactly the right kind of movie to become part of like the year 11 English curriculum. Oh yeah, that's perfect. You gotta get that market. Yeah, because those are fun movies or else, before that you're just reading Shakespeare. Yeah. You want something that's a bit action, a bit sci-fi. Yeah.

And issues, there's some issues in there. There's some, yeah. But they're not too deep. Exactly. A bit of philosophy. Yeah, a little bit of philosophy, but like you can understand it if you're a 11 kid. Can you make sci-fi with no philosophy in it? Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah. So like, it's sci-fi without the philosophy. Yeah, I think there's a market for that. I mean, it doesn't raise any questions about where we are headed as a species. Is the born identity that kind of thing, like with the whole born franchise, where you can essentially wipe out somebody, wipe someone's memory? Right. And sort of make them a super spy.

Hang on. This is raising a lot of questions for me. I like it. No, is it right? The only question that a movie should raise is, am I currently watching this movie and the answer should clearly be yes. Yeah, if there's too many long black screens.

Exactly. Those fade outs. Yeah. Uh-oh. I was confronting all sorts of existential issues during the transitions and I didn't like it. You know with movies, you get credits at the end, right? But many people work on everything, but they don't get credited.

Okay. So like, what is it with films that everybody gets to have their name seen at the end? Right. But with cars, you never see the names of any other people that worked on it. What about this? The credit sequence at the end of a movie, right? But instead of credits, it's just an explanation of what happened in case you were confused. Like it clarifies. If you're going to have text on screen, use it to explain the plot. Anyway, what were you thinking about while I was talking? Well, I was still thinking about my idea.

Yeah, great, you got it. Which was like, let's say in a car, you lift the boot and inside the boot is just got all the names of the people who worked on it. Okay, that's not bad. You could still have somebody who would be involved in casting? The die casting of the the aluminium manifold cover. Absolutely. That's right. You probably have a best boy just like on a purely, I mean, it'd be subjective.

Best boy? It's a best boy that's a role on a on a film set. Really? Have you never seen Best Boy in the credits? Never seen Best Boy in the credits? Have you not sat through a single credit of a single film? Andy, I don't value my time and the way that you do. Oh, I value it. Yeah. And the way that I show that I value it is by throwing it away

like it's nothing. I would put the credits for a car on the mud flap, surely. Not that many cars have mud flaps. Inside the boot, in that part that's often just hauled it's like they didn't even finish it. Right. You know there's that thing? Yeah, yeah, you're right.

There's parts where it, there's parts in the back of the car there where they've said it said just good enough. Yeah. There's lots of holes that look inside the metal. What about just a bunch of extruded tin, okay? Yeah, that'll be fine. Kind of quite sharp edges. Yeah, don't even finish the spray painting.

Yeah, there's a lot of that kind of stuff. All in there where the spare wheel is, I mean, that is. Just a bunch of lumpy, lump bumps and it's like it's like if the you know if Nabakov when he wrote his novels. Nabakov yeah, no, I'm gonna get this reference. Lolita, you know, he wrote Lolita. Oh yeah. Vladimir I believe, maybe anyway. Lolita Vladimir. I remember it well. If in the last few pages they were just sort of like early drafts. Yeah, you know Just in the back there like there you go. Oh, you don't need to finish it here. I think well forget it To be honest though if you were to do that in a novel you would leave the bad bits right in the middle

I reckon like not at the very end because sometimes people will flip to the back and read that So they want to know how it ends. It's probably, you know, you could be able to calculate where people sort of start to tune out, and then you could just pad that out. So is where the spare tire is in a car, the middle of the novel of the car? Exactly. Okay, Eddie, are there some sketchy ideas? Well, the idea of credits being on something else. Yeah, okay, that's the thing.

But I don't. But you can credits on a car. But you know, it doesn't have to be on a car, it could be on a pen. Hmm. It could be. A pen, yeah. It could be on a...

That's tricky, you have to make the pen a lot bigger. What about everybody's back? Is all credits for all the people who were involved in the making of you? Yes. I mean, essentially, that's what your DNA is. It is. It is. It's a credit sequence. DNA sequence.

Yeah, and when we, when we sequenced the human genome, that was the first time anybody had read the credits. Yeah. Eh, I wonder who the best boy is. Anyway, probably your dad or you? Well, if human, if it truly is the ascent of man, and we are You know evolving upwards, then yes, but there's many but would you be in your own credits?

I don't think that's possible. They don't they don't put in the credits all in Gadigah. Gadigah worked on this film. That's funny that we should come back to this because Gatica is made from the letters that are in the human nuclear tide of our DNA, the GAT-T-A-C-A. Yeah, right. Those are all different nuclear tides on the DNA. Nuclear tides. Nuclear tides. Anyway. Yeah. Look, I think credit sequence for something else is good. I think possibly maybe a meal would be interesting because that still has the element of you

have to sit through it. Or walk out on it. Or walk out on it. Yeah. So. A big way for restaurants to kind of clear up tables, clear up tables. They start getting you to watch the credits and you're like, but then maybe they bring out a little hors d'oeuvre during the credits,

so a lot of people sit around to taste the hors d'oeuvre. Or an appetizer for another movie, like an entree for another meal. Oh, so like the movie. Before the meal or after the meal. After the meal, there's an entree for another meal. Oh, so like before the meal or after the meal? After the meal, there's an entree for another meal, which makes you wanna have the other meal. Yeah. Or another smorgasbord, another banquet.

I mean, this feels like a YouTube video. Yeah, what if dining was more like going to the movies, but then you would have to, I think you would have to put the appetizers for other meals to the movies. But then you would have to, I think you would have to put the appetizers for other meals at the beginning. Do you think everyone would stand up and applaud when they brought out the chips? It's like an old favorite.

Did you just happy to see it's made it into the meal? Sort of like creamer. It's like the creamer. And creamer is sort of the chips of the combo. Obviously Jerry's the combo. Obviously Jerry's the burger. Elaine would be the drink. Yeah, I think the milkshake. And but George is important,

but I don't have anything good for him right now. So he's out. Is he the ice cream? I guess he would be like, he's sort of a... This meal has a nice cream, man, a milkshake. Did I say milkshake? I say milkshake I said milkshake. Yeah, I'm in just coke like a cookie drink That's I think I mean George is the dessert because he's what you're really looking forward to Oh, but I didn't enjoy George. I think a lot of people don't enjoy George for quite a long time a lot of people don't enjoy dessert No, really I think so. There's got to be some people.

People were sensitive to you. That's the stupid thing, right? That's the stupid thing, Alistair. There's so many people that you can say dumb stuff like you just said, and then you can say, well, there's got to be some people, because there's so many people, there's billions of people that you can say, oh, well, you know, a lot of people don't wear shoes. And you're right, just because there's so many people that there's bound to be a bunch of people

who don't wear shoes. Yeah, and what you're finding out is that there's just more points of view than just yours. Yeah, and I'm not happy about that. Yeah, I know. And I don't, I'm not interested in minorities. Really? Yeah.

Well, that's crazy. That's crazy to say that. Out loud. I'm kind of podcast. You know, even as a joke, it's even as a joke in this day and age. It's just something that people will clip. But, Alistair, come on. Firstly, no one cares about me.

Say no one's going to clip it. Secondly, the referring to minorities is such a, if I just say the word minorities, I'm covering all minorities. Every single one. That adds up to a majority. Even the minorities that you're a part of, people who hate minorities. Exactly. Even the minorities that you're a part of, people who hate minorities. Yeah, exactly. All right. I reckon everybody's part of a minority.

And minorities are the majority. The majority. And that's why we're really oppressed by... Where the real oppressed ones. The stunning was more like cinema. Cinema. Oh, wow. Yeah, I mean, geez, I can just see that text half of it above a

square Facebook video half of it below. Well, we'll sell it to college humor. College humor. This is exactly, eh? They still around. I think so. Probably, right? I don't know. Like, what are the... What about their business model is? I think a lot of them, a lot of business models like those kind of companies got ruined a little bit by Facebook because then the traffic wasn't going to their websites. Which is where they silly advertising. Yeah. I think that one happened with what's the crack and crack, crack and crack got fucked by Facebook. Is there something Alistair in like

the accounts department or whatever, or just some really office-like boring employment type role in a company like, for example, I imagine the jackass guys have got. Right? So jackass makes the jackass movies. But ultimately at some point they're a company and they almost certainly have an account or whatever.

And what's it like to be that person in that organization? Sort of just having to have a conversation about, we're gonna need a, like a butt wound doctor. Yeah, yeah, or a port of potty. I need 10,000 dildos. Yeah, for like a, you know, for like a, like a, some kind of dildo, Matador suit that you're making because you're fighting a bull

just as a Spanish dildo wearing guy. Yeah, no, you got a suit that's covered in buttholes and vaginas. Oh yeah, and then you put dildos on the horns of the bull. Yeah. And then the bulls got to penetrate your butt holes. I guess. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, I mean, yeah, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I mean, they got to go to the bank, are they having a meeting with the bank or something? But you want to really drill down into the finances of it. How can you justify why this many dildos? If someone was worried, maybe that there was within the corporation, money was going astray, and they had an audit, and they had to justify all of those types of expenses. Is that a... Yeah, I think even just being present for some of the ideas stuff. But I guess, I think that does make sense. There is something funny there where, where, I mean, Jackass is not exactly in the zeitgeist now.

Yeah, all right, all right. But there are, I'm sure if I try. The Dudesons? The Dudesons, I mean, they're probably not in the zeitgeist. They're not in the zeitgeist. Yeah, was that Japanese group that where the one guy sucks shit out of the ass of a rat? Wow, that is,

these groups of really, yeah. It's shit's escalated, hasn't it? Like it must be so hard. This was at least 10 years ago. So she's escalated and then, I guess. They were sucking shit out of the ass of a rat. Yeah.

10 years ago. So we don't even know what they're doing now. The stuff is so bad it can't it can't even be broadcast anymore. Can you just suck shit out of the ass of a rat? Well, he was making it seem like I don't think I ever watched it in full, but I that's what I heard was. And this was a group? Yeah, I think it was a Japanese group of some sort, you know? Yeah. I mean, one of them, that was his special powers. They're kind of like the Ninja Turtles, I guess,

of, but of like, you know, disgusting pranks. And things like that, like, damn, where the Dudesons are like jackass, they throw darts at each other, and they land into each other's bodies, and that's fun. Mm-hmm. Steve O, you know, cuts himself or whatever, you know, jumps and hits his head. Is there a comedy to be had from the more, like what those guys, how their career can evolve

as they become older, like a lot of artists, and they are artists. Absolutely. As their careers progress come up with, you know, they have to keep innovating or a lot of the time maybe they go back and revisit their early work in some form or they, like, like Bob Dylan. And I don't think I'm the first person to mention in the same breath. Bob Dylan and Johnny Knoxville. Exactly.

He spends a lot of time now revisiting the music that inspired him and doing covers and versions of Frank Sinatra and then like old, much older folk standards as well. Right. So where does Steve O'Bam, is BAM the one that died? No. I can't remember. I'm sorry. I think maybe a couple of them are dead now. Yeah. Surprisingly. Did we, did we, man die or, or big guy, the big fat, I can't remember. Yeah. It's not. Anyway, rest in peace Anyway, Rest in Peace, all the jackasses. Yeah.

Yeah, I just, just that lightest, I look like a career. I think, if we were to just to transpose the idea of a jackass performing artist, even if you were to look at them as a group, and then they matured together, and you transpose them onto Bob Dylan's career. Yes, okay.

So, so then at some point they go into their Christian face. Yeah, really. They're really. Yeah, okay. The strong Christian. But that would work. They'd be great at all that passion of the Christ stuff and they're getting whipped in that sort of thing.

Whipped and, you know, having people throw them to the ground and you're dealing with them. Yeah, you're dealing with them. But like, and their original fans would be alienated by it, but they would find a whole new group of fans who would respect their way in which they were willing to throw themselves into that. Yeah. And then also they get tipped upside down in a porta-potty. Exactly.

Full of shit. Yeah. So I think that's nice. And if it's not, if it isn't this idea to simplify it, we could just do a jackass type group that is a Christian group. Yes. Because that's really good. Yeah. Yeah. Punched in the nuts for Christ. group. Yes. That's really good. Yeah. Yeah.

Punched in the nuts for Christ. Yeah. So, so like, what is a prank group that is like, you know, an extreme prank group, but a Christian prank group? I mean, yeah, like I saw a, I saw an episode of Jackass in which I believe he stapled his balls to his leg. Oh my god. I mean, and what is that, if not like a reference to the crucifixion? That's right.

And what's the thing where you don't have sex? Chastity. Chastity. It feels like it's a sort of a makeshift chastity belt. The idea that you can't pull your bag away from your leg would suggest that you probably can't go using the top part. And it's an anti-mastervation device and kind of things like that. Yeah. Can we put audit of the jackass expenses or as a separate sketch? Well, you're not, will you brook no separation of our, and I keep saying jackass because I'm very current. But, you know, obviously we make up our own group. And obviously we do it

in such a way that it doesn't feel like the kind of reference that I'm pretty sure I saw the chase ado in 2001. What was it? They had a thing called laymas. It was the first thing when they did CNN and then Chaz had little sketches inside it called laymas where he just did laym stunts.

There we go. Hi, I'm Chas from laymas and today I'm getting hit in the head with the basketball. Basketball. Yeah, that was it. But a lot funnier, hell. And it was even more funny because it was in the Zite Guest. Yeah. See, do you think that if you had a time machine, right,

would you use it to go back and just be part of the Zite Guest? If you could have a time machine. If you had a time machine, because a lot of people say they'd go back and like, you know, invest in Google in 90, 96. Yeah. Right. But also you could go back to 2000. To 2000 and be the first person to bring back the trucker hat. Yeah. Because you're not just investing in because money is not important. Right. But looking cool is very important. Absolutely, yeah. And that could lead to money. You know, you could get some kind of deal,

or you know, you're at the forefront. Maybe you could, at some point, get paid to make appearances at nightclubs. Yeah, this would become money. Yeah. And everything can become money, just being so ahead of your time and trends. Although the problem is, do you want to be ahead of your time because I reckon whoever the first person is

They probably still cops and shit, right? I know, but if you knew like you know if you knew exactly what trends Let's say estay lauder was gonna is estay? Or they make up? Okay. If you knew what trends, Calvin Klein, hey, good one. He'll figure, and you're, you know, you're donna, all over Ralph Lauren. You're donna Tella Versace, we're planning, you know, what if you started wearing essentially

their spring collection, you know, sort of like winter? What a power play. You get, go to the future, you get this spring collection, you know, sort of lake winter. What a power play. You get, go to the future, you get this spring collection, you wear it to their, to their runway show. Yeah. And you go, ooh.

I mean, look, but if you were wearing it to the, I mean, that's, look, I think that's great. But then there's a chance that they'll like people be like, oh, he probably just works here. They probably just give them out to people who work here before the show. Well, they thought they could, they could think that you're a model. You know, thank you. Alistair. No, but you know, they're always looking for weird looks and things like that, you know.

Stop it. You know, they're going, oh, we need a guy who looks like he teaches woodwork. I mean, that could be the look that they go for. I know, Andy, you'll only look like a guy who teaches woodwork in about 25 years. That's because that'll be my dad and he taught woodwork, right? Oh, I forgot about that. That's... I just, Andy, it doesn't matter. I didn't have that in my mind when I said that.

No offense, Ty. I've written down the audit thing. Yeah, okay, great. Can we put in time machine to be ahead of trends? Okay. Yeah. Like, it is going to be a competition to define what time travel is for, you know, and to be the first person to use, you know, because it's all about framing, you know, and the

way people see time travel will be defined by the first few things that we do with time travel. Yeah. And, you know, maybe this isn't so bad, doesn't hurt anybody. Yeah, I wonder if the person, I think if somebody goes back in time, you would want them to still continue to be able to communicate with the present time, wouldn't you? Interesting. Why? Well, kind of like sending somebody to the moon, right? If you're sending something back in time, you want somebody to be able to report in real time to tell you what's happening, whether anything is affected their body in some negative way because we don't know whether sending something back in time will keep them in this dimension

or send them to another dimension. What kind of time travel is it is? We don't know if we can breathe the air in the past. If you go back in time, right, if you were to take a time machine now, you go back in time 100 years, the solar system would not be in the same place. That is a real issue. So, I mean, how accurately you have to also move us in space to back where the thing is and how have you traced the movement of...

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No, man. No, not ISPs. What's that number? IP numbers. IP numbers. We have to have, at the moment they have IP numbers, but they're not fixed IP numbers. Oh man, this is a, I'm having trouble following this one.

Oh, me too, don't worry, Al. So, others lost as you are. All right,, you have to start telling you what a MAC address is the MAC address is the one that refers to the individual Device, right? So I believe that your phone will have a MAC address and whatever network and wherever you take that phone It defines that individual device. Yeah, But the IP address is to do with the connection point that you have to the internet. So that can change and be updated over time almost randomly. And I think that's what it's like with the planets moving through the universe. Sure. There are always in a different location. And to refer to them, there's no fixed point.

But if there was a MAC address for each planet that we could then fix our time travel unit too, so that you always transport to that physical location of the planet, but not the... So within the data would be all the information of it up into this point. Yeah. So whether it's positioned at its time and where it's direction and all that and stuff. All that important stuff. Sounds like a bit of a blockchain kind of a thing.

Oh, probably. Maybe we can just blockchain. I don't really know how that would work. But what I was thinking while you were talking was was about how What we need is a modern it's sort of similar But what we need is sort of like a modern day version of the watchman, you know like the watch tower man Yes, okay, interest so somebody like it's a it's essentially like a like one essentially like one of these space telescopes. But you put it up there and it's always looking in all directions.

Yeah, okay, right. And it's just keeping track of everything. And it's in a fixed location. Well, it's just up in space above us somewhere. And it's looking in all directions. Right? So obviously, there's going to be some things that are blocking its vision. We could have more than one.

Okay, so they can see around stuff. Potentially. Again, it's not going to be flawless, but it'll just track. It's great that you're willing to admit that upfront. I think a lot of people with these big schemes they're not their perfection're perfectionists or they're obsessives. They ignore the idea that things have limits. Exactly. You say it's not going to be perfect. My universe-wide location, locating system, sure, it'll have its teething issues. Anyway, carry on.

But we just need something that can look yes 24 hours a day. Yes, right and And it can label things. Yep. It can can go all right. That's that planet. No, that's that star You can recognize them all it can recognize them all but it probably doesn't need to Re-recognize them because it once it sees it it'll keep tracking it and All the other ones will I I mean, obviously if I'm planning it moves in the way or whatever, you know, we'll just go like, what does happen? Right? Yep. It's just needs to be smart enough to just keep an eye on everything. Right? And then any time something moves, yeah, everything was

that. And then it'll start figuring it out. Yeah. Right. That's all. And so that will be what tells us where to go when we travel through time. Potentially. I mean, I think it'll just be a good thing to have. You're right. I mean, like, you know, the time travel aspect of it, I'm having trouble with it the moment to reconnecting it back to that. I was just telling you what I was thinking about while you were talking about mac and

trace. Oh, okay. No, that's great. Something to keep track of everything. Yeah. I think we would learn a lot if we were rather than like looking in one spot for a little bit. Which used to be what the scientists are doing. What the mind is just crazy. It's crazy, yeah.

We just have one thing or many things that are looking all the time at everything. Honey, have you seen my keys? No, I've been staring at the space between the fridge and the microwave for the last six months. It's not helping anyone. Exactly. That's from our popular series, things only people who live with deep space astronomers. Experience. Understand. Understand. Yeah. Is that another series of videos for college? Yeah, that's another college hero. Things. Are you writing this down? Things. Man, once again, the the bar for getting on this show,

I never understand it. The things that people who live. I feel like I'm possibly in the best position to understand what it takes to get a sketch up on to in the think tank. And I don't get it. So if anyone in the audience knows, man, with deep space astronomers, deep space astronomers. Don't even know if that's a real profession. It's got to be, right? Deep space astronomers. Not those near space astronomers. Yuck. Well, I just think this fits a format of like, you know, things, things people from Sydney say, should people from Sydney say. It fits that, but it also has the absurdity of it, of like making fun of those things.

It does, it's true. Whilst also still being something that we could have some fun with, imagining the kinds of things that deep space astronomers do just around the house. Right. Probably stuff that's very similar to you and me. Yeah, but maybe they used the, you know, they got the, you know, when they're finished with the toilet roll, they put it to their eye for a bit, and then they just spend the time looking at the wall and,-huh. So they're idiots.

Well, what you're confusing with idiocy is, is the idiosyncrasies of their job that are translated into their everyday life that doesn't seem to quite make as much sense in their everyday life. What about, so you give them a party pie, and you say to them, can you pop this in the microwave, and they say to you, well, actually at the moment,

we're all currently bathed in the cosmic background, microwave radiation of the big bang. So it's in the microwave right now. If any microwave is gonna be the microwave, it's definitely not. It should be that one. This one seems to be a take-top here. This is just a microwave.

Can you pop this in a microwave? This is in fact a dirty microwave. Dirty microwave. And is that five-skit showed ears? That is what we have to do. We've got some three words from a friend. We've never met our friend here, but he's a listener. But I hold them as close to my bosom as I do. I want to say people who are in my drama class in Year 12. Did you hold them to your bosom?

Because that's kind of a thing people do in drama, where we solve risks. Rests in your chest and pretends to be sad. Yeah. You know what's real? You know what's kind of nice, though, is hugging somebody while they're crying. I've never done it.

No? So when somebody cries, somebody who you care about. Yeah. Yep. I'm well aware of this. Yeah. Surrounded by this. Yeah, and so do you just let them,

you just leave them to sort of, I guess I'll let you work that out like that. Yeah, I'll leave you alone. You probably want your privacy, I'll say. Rather than my emotional support. To my 16 month old child. Yeah. Well, this must be embarrassing for you.

I don't want you to feel a fool. Feel like you're being watched. Yeah, especially in front of someone that you look up to me. And who really understands how embarrassing crying is. All right, our three words come from Shane Trawartha. Yes, I know Shane Trawartha. Yeah, interact with him on Twitter sometimes. Legend. Yeah, absolute dead set. Dead set, stone cold. Stone cold.

Deadset. Deadset, Stone Cold. Stone Cold. Ledjo. this is the most brutal of all the three-word donations that we've had so far. I mean, and all the donations are brutal in their own way, it feels. But this has gone to the very core of me. Okay, well, Shunt, I'm immediately thinking Thomas the Tank Engine. Oh, well, Shunt, I'm immediately thinking Thomas the Tank Engine. Oh, yeah, Shunting Trucks. Shunting Trucks. And hauling freight.

Hauling freight. So is that the only way to place it before there, six there, right? Yeah, Shunting Trucks and hauling freight, red and green and brown and blue. There are really useful crew. All with different roles to play. Round Tidmouth Sheds so far away, and far away,

so like that. Round the hills and down the bend. Oh wait, down the hills and round the bend. Thomas and his friends. That's inaccurate though, because they train generally do go round hills rather than down hills. But occasionally there are some tracks. I mean, I remember a story where they do ask Gordon because it's snowing to go around the hill. Yeah. But he says, oh, this hill's not too hard for me. So they have two alternate tracks. One for the reckless One, for the reckless trains, you go straight up the hill. Yeah. Well, it's only reckless when it's slippery.

It could save time when it's good weather. Oh, there's a real lesson in that. I don't know if you realize. They might not have realized at the time. I don't know if they were thinking of putting a moral in there when somebody was acting the fool. Yeah. And then, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think,

I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think, I think it might also be a shunt. Really? Yeah. Anyway, right? But shunting is kind of ramming. Is that right? Alistair, I just want to stop you there. Yeah. Because it's just occurred to me. I've got to talk about Harry Shavers.

Oh, yeah. Harry Shavers. Alistair, I am about to go home and shave. Yeah, absolutely. And you could use it. Well, I've done the first love because I had quite a beard for a while. Yeah, absolutely. And you could use it. Well, I've done the first love because I had quite a beard for a while. Yeah, right. And I, I, I, I, it got a bit, a bit unbearable in my relationship. Right. Things starting to break down. Well, when you kissing someone

and when you have a beard, yeah, in in a way you're mostly kissing your own beard. I think that you probably don't realize. I don't know if you've ever had enough of the beard to do this, but once it gets the point where it's over your lips, you're kissing your own beard. So it's kind of, it's kind of shields you from the world. Yeah, yeah, and so many ways. And now I'm fully exposed.

I did that shave with the machine to get the edges off, but I'd run out of Harry's shaver cream. Yeah, right. Just got some more. And so I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna do that shave and I'm gonna have such a bloody good time. Right, and because I love that cream. So are you saying that Harry's shavers allow you

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I've heard many people say that Nietzsche's moustache was a mask that he wore to hide from the world, because you don't see Nietzsche when you see the moustache. All you see is the Moustache. That's right. Yes. I've read several, I've bought several books that turned out that were just by the Moustache because I thought, you know, because after obviously Nietzsche died, the Moustache knew it

was onto a good thing and it continued to turn out the popular Nietzsche series Books, but obviously Nietzsche himself was the man behind it and he did all the interesting stuff and when the moustache tried to strike out on So it just wasn't to it. Well, I think it did a kind of like a speaking tour. It did a speaking tour Yes, kind of I think it was actually the moustache that passed on its information to the Nazis. That's right. And, uh, miss, you know, cause it's interruption. Well, I passed on to, um, Hitler's moustache. To Hitler's moustache, obviously. Yeah.

Because moustache is only moustache is speak moustache. Mm-hmm. They understand human. Yes. Which is what I call English. Um, and what people don't know is that it was actually Hitler's moustache that was doing all those speeches. Wow. Yeah.

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Sorry about all the Hitler stuff. Anyway, where were we? We were talking about shunting. Shunting. And what are our other two words? Parallelogram. Yeah. And specificity. Now, this words? Parallelogram. Yeah. And specificity.

This is my problem with parallelogram. Mm-hmm. The word parallel in general. I never know where the elves go. Yeah, I think it's double L then L. Double two elves then one L? Yeah, I think so. Well, I will now I know.

All right, I'll always remember it from now on then. Oh wait. Yeah, parallel. Parole L. Parole L. Ah, so the L. Parole L. L.

L. Parole L. Parole L. Parole L. Is that how it's pronounced? Et. Loud. And specificity.

So now is a parallelogram just a four-sided shape, but it's a rectangle kind of on its on its side. That's right. Yes. So both angles are both sets of lines are parallel to each other. Yes. How is a rectangle a parallelogram? Yes it is. In fact, it's a specific type of parallelogram, hence the specificity. Yeah, right. And really, if you think about it, hauling trucks. Shunting trucks.

Shunting trucks and hauling freight trucks are really just an example of a rectangle on that. So a parallelogram specificity, Shunt, is a very direct reference to Thomas the Tank Engine. Right, because these are kind of angry trucks in Thomas. Yeah. They're sort of the grumpy, they're the... Why is there always being bashed around? They're always being bumped into.

Yeah. I mean, it's like one of those, I mean, look, I don't want to... Obviously, we just use this as a launching want to, you know, obviously, we just use this as a launching pad, but, you know, you hear of people who've had chronic pain all their lives, and then they get a knee replacement, and suddenly, they're not these grumpy people that you've always known them to be, because it's the horrible... They had a bad knee. They had a bad knee this whole time. An evil knee.

It was the evil knee. It was the evil knee that was a part of them, sort of like a moustache that says, whispering evil into your, well, what if the evil was coming from within? Yes. Is it interesting that both bad knees and very often bad people refuse to bend, you know? It's true. You know, you get your dictators who only want to do things one way. And a bad knee. Bad knee is very much the same. It's more of a flexibility issue. So you think stretching would start bad people. It's possible. Look, what I'm trying to do with this

Look, what I'm trying to do with this angry trucks thing in Thomas the Tank Engine is, I'm trying to look at this idea that this is a show that is very much about morals and trying to be on the right side of, you know, politeness and history and good manners and everything like that. But everybody is really mean about these trucks. And what's right in front of us is the fact that maybe the reason why these trucks are so mean is because they're so mistreated by these people who kind of seem to have a higher status such as the these tank engines. They could also have that acquired brain injury that a lot of footballers. Footballers have. Hmm, I think that's interesting. And so And so built within this show that is working so hard to be so polite and so good and

a good natured and blah, blah, blah, is actually real lessons in how the world doesn't even see how it makes the world a worse place through its mistreatment of people. Yeah. And the creation of hierarchies and... Parallelograms, specificity, shunt. Yeah. I think, well, then, what about, because there was a big inquiry into brain injury in the

NFL, right? I say we do a big inquiry into brain injury in Thomas the Tank Engine. Yeah, and I think even, it could even just be a sketch into the plight of these people who are, who are just dismissed as angry trucks. Yeah.

Like, I mean, the brain injuries could be an aspect of it, but I think what we're looking at is a mistreated people, a mistreated, you know, subculture of people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do they call the, the angry trucks? They're not called angry trucks, but... Um, cold trucks or something, are they cold?

There's like a name that basically says grumpy or angry or something like that. Oh, there's associated with crotchety. Mmm. Irritable. Can your crotch be crotchety? There's a come from crotch, crotch. I don't know about the intersection between the crotch, crotchety and crochet. I don't know how they all overlap. The C-R-O-C-H or T-C-H.

C-R-O-T-C-H. All of them? I think so. There's got... Ricks of a Greek word somewhere in there, right? It ricks a Greek. It ricks a Greek word somewhere in there, right? It breaks a Greek. It breaks a Greek. It's got the Greek a Greek about it. It's got the Greek Greek. I'll take us through the sketch ideas. Yes. We got the, you know, it's either a credit sequence for other things or if dining was more like cinema.

Yes. The idea that, you know, what if other industries, you know, gave credit to everybody, but also what if you had hors d'oeuvres that were trailers for other meals that you're not having? Yes. We got a jackass group, you know, as they age, how do they transform as artists, you know, you know, like what happens to them once they go through their Christian phase, let's say, you know, or once they go electric. Well, I go back and they do reinterpretations of a lot of, I guess, buster keytons. Yeah, what's kinds of ideas, or, you know, or just bomb fights that they watched. Like if they had one stunt that they'd always been wanting to pull off themselves, almost like Peter Sellers with the movie Being There.

Oh right. And you know, once they did it, actually it was incredibly beautiful. Yeah, right. I would like to see that. And then the other alternative to this sketch is an just an extreme prank group, but it is Christian. So the way that they have like hard rock, Christian hard rock or something like that, what would that look like?

Yeah. And we have the audit of Jackass expenses. And this is a sort of a scenario in which maybe the accountant is looking into the expenses and he's finding that, you know, there's actually kind of some actually some laundering of money or some pilfering of money and it's like, well, in the buying of, let's say, 2000 dildos for this kind of work. Yeah, they aren't actually able to account for all of those dildos. Where are these dildos? It's essentially taken, but it's the movie taken, but with finances for an extreme prank group such as Jackass

and Dildos. That is a pitch, whatever I heard one. We got time machine to be, you take a time machine to be ahead of trends or in the zeitgeist, other reasons to sort of take a time and things that then there's also things that people who live with Deep space astronomer astronomers would understand you know things that only people with who live with deep space astronomers would understand and then of course we have the What about another thing that only people who understand the English language speak the English language would understand Right, and it's just a series of fresh meat? You know, those kinds of phrases.

Yeah, so, poaching eggs can be tedious. Yeah. Anyway. That's a whole YouTube channel. Do you run that one down as well? Yeah. I still don't get it.

And that's a clear idea. Yeah, great. It's a clear idea. It has a beginning and an end. And it has endless barriers. You're just suck off a clarity. I think that's what it is. Yeah. And then also there's the inquiry into the mistreatment of angry trucks. And they're, you know, the way that they've just been mischaracterized is angry when it's actually the societal pressure that's on them and the brain injuries that it caused. Thank you, Shane Trawatha. Thank you, Shane Trawatha. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh the best episode we've ever done. It was the best episode that you guys listened to. I mean, that you guys were listening to it. You listened to it so.

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