Two In The Think Tank - 39 - "5D"

Episode Date: October 13, 2014

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Starting point is 00:00:25 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom would definitely say that, Andy. And I would like to present you this award right here. Oh my God. Best intro to the podcast. I've never received an award that was so malleable. What is this made from? Air. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Air award. Yeah. Is it perpetual? Do I have to hand it on? No. No? Okay.
Starting point is 00:00:41 You don't even have to hand it at all. No? You just waft it. Do you think air is malleable? I don't think of air as being malleable. It's definitely soft. It's pretty soft. But I think malleable, for something to be malleable, it has to be able to assume a new shape that has some boundaries. Yeah, but this still does, but it's...
Starting point is 00:01:00 Oh. Like, would you say there's boundaries around a gas? Or even parts of a gas You just set your own boundaries Yes, a gas doesn't have any boundaries I had a cousin who was a gas And let me tell you Christmas parties with him were a bloody nightmare
Starting point is 00:01:18 Because he would just go off Gases are like the children of progressive parents. They just don't have... They set their own boundaries. They set their own boundaries. Gasses are like squatters in early Australian settlement. They build their own... They wear plaid trousers.
Starting point is 00:01:40 Plants. Yeah. There's a cousin... Having a cousin who's a gas. Yeah. What a humorous concept. Do you think that's a sketch? Not at all. No, but well, okay, what about...
Starting point is 00:01:54 What about, but he goes, he opens the door, and he goes, Mark, are you in here? He's not in here And then he goes into He's like Mark? Okay Oh here you are Mark What about
Starting point is 00:02:10 Alright Okay Did you ever watch that Children's TV show Ghostwriter? I saw it once or twice Okay Ghostwriter was a
Starting point is 00:02:20 He was a ghost Yeah And you could only communicate By rearranging letters On things Right So there were lots of anagrams, I guess. He would rearrange things in anagrams to make new words, and give kids clues to solving crimes.
Starting point is 00:02:34 On computers? He could do it on anything. Even in a book? He actually was able to move ink around. I think he could. I think he could. There you go, that was Ghost Rider. He was a ghost. He was a ghost. He had a lot of powers. Yeah. I think he could. There you go. That was Ghost Rider. He was a ghost.
Starting point is 00:02:47 He was a ghost. He had a lot of powers. Yeah, that's cool. Well, one power. But it manifested in many different ways. Yeah. And I wonder, what if instead of having the power to move things around, you just had the power to create smells or odours and waft things very gently?
Starting point is 00:03:08 Wafting. wafting wafting i look i i like that i kind of like this idea of of uh carl my cousin the gas and you walk into a room call out his name and just smell for him and then he tells you a story through the different smells. You go, how was your day? And then you go, did you go test drive a new car because you made the new car smell? In terms of acknowledged smells, we have a vocabulary of smells, right? That we have words for. But of all the things things probably there are a lot
Starting point is 00:03:45 of smells we can't create smells at will we get like we can make sounds or pictures so we can't really communicate with them so that we don't use smells and don't understand smells as well yeah as you could yeah that's what like late yeah we don't look I don't know because like, okay, we can emit a gas. We can. And then we can emit pheromones. We don't have that much control, but you could breathe bad breath onto somebody. Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:14 But, you know, that's the thing about sort of, like, perfumists and certain chemists. They have the power to communicate with smell, which is a power that almost no other humans have. Yes. Yeah. What a gift. Yeah. I have the power to communicate through smell. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:36 Oh, aromatherapists? No. Probably the worst kind of therapist. You can do aromatherapy. I'm really depressed. Oh, lavender. You can do... If they have the power to do things with smells,
Starting point is 00:04:59 presumably they're supposed to be able to control your mood in some way, alter your mood. It doesn't feel... Can we start again? Why no? We think we're doing good. Why? Just because you couldn't get through that sentence. I couldn't get through the sentence, Alistair, and I wanted to bail out. You know, in a way, podcast is like life.
Starting point is 00:05:17 And you feel like it would be so great if you could just stop it all and start again every time you make a goddamned mistake. Wait, was it really just that? Was it because you wanted to say something about aromatherapists? Look, I felt like I had an idea about aromatherapists and then it really didn't go anywhere. What was it, though? It was that...
Starting point is 00:05:36 Okay, it was the idea of applying the aroma system of making things better and fixing to other areas of employment, like an aroma mechanic or something like that. Okay, so that was what I was trying to say. Yeah, okay, like an aroma mechanic. An aroma mechanic. Or an aroma postman. An aroma pilot. Yeah, an aroma postman is just a guy Who walks around with a bunch
Starting point is 00:06:05 Of inflated balloons And then he takes them To your house And then you breathe them in With your nose Oh you deliver a smell Yeah That's quite a nice idea
Starting point is 00:06:12 Yeah That there would be a system That would allow you To deliver Odors Hmm The odor you ordered Is here
Starting point is 00:06:21 Yeah The odor you ordered Did you order this odor? Order and order Order and order. Order and order on orderandodor.com. Did you... Orderandodor.org. Did you hear the story?
Starting point is 00:06:33 Did you hear what happened to the Nazi dog? No. Apparently, he was only following odors. I just made that up then. That's pretty good. That's quite good. Yeah, he's just following odors. I might do that on stage
Starting point is 00:06:45 That's great Not really It's probably not Not good enough joke To be worth bringing up Nazi sport I think I think you'd want
Starting point is 00:06:55 A stronger punchline To be honest And probably a stronger set up But Maybe a different concept Then we might be somewhere Might be going somewhere But I feel like
Starting point is 00:07:04 That's It's so It's so far away from being a joke about Nazis that it's almost the most appropriate Nazi joke. The most appropriate Nazi joke. Look, hey, I like this delivering smells idea in balloons. Yeah. And I just think squeezing them through the letterbox would be a bloody fraud activity.
Starting point is 00:07:25 But you could just tie them to the doorknob or like, you know, or... I'd like to see someone try and squeeze one through the... Or look, the balloons, the balloons have just got like a rock at the bottom. You just put the rock in the mailbox. And then the balloon just kind of hangs out of the... Hangs out of the... We're presuming that all these smells are lighter than air? Well, no, I'm...
Starting point is 00:07:43 For the purposes of this. I'm assuming that you can probably mix them in with helium because helium probably doesn't have a smell because it's inert. Inert. Do you think that? Yeah. Helium doesn't have a smell because it's inert?
Starting point is 00:07:53 So look, I'm changing the idea, my cousin the gas, and I'm changing it into smell delivery service. But also, not just smell delivery service, a world in which humans communicate with smell. How will we explain this in any way? Because they'll also have to react in some way, probably verbally. It could be because, you know, I'm picturing this on television. They will.
Starting point is 00:08:18 But listen, it'll be like this. We'll give it kind of like a Dave Chappelle intro at the beginning. He goes, well, I was always wondering about this. You know, like he'll basically set up the sketch. And I was looking at this dog, and this dog was like smelling things. And I was like, that's how they communicate. And I was like, well, we don't do that. But I was always wondering, what would it be like if we did?
Starting point is 00:08:41 Okay. Okay. okay and like uh the way i'm picturing it is is in terms of uh you just rolled your eyes at me alistair i did not you did you rolled your eyes i didn't at all you rolled your eyes andy you're a big old eye roller andy there might be something faulty with my brain at the moment because i did not intentionally do it and i don't remember doing it. So I might be having a stroke. Well, I apologize. My idea is that for when you can't put something into words but you can put it into smell.
Starting point is 00:09:14 Yeah, that's good. Like maybe that moment in a movie where somebody can't say something aloud but they can sing it or they can dance it. So it's like a musical but it's a smell loud but they can sing it yeah you know or they can dance it also it's like a
Starting point is 00:09:26 musical but it's a smell they can stink it yeah it's good and I like the idea of somebody is like smell a gram smell a gram is the correct Alistair well done and then and then they open it up and smell-o-gram is the correct Alistair, well done. And then they open it up and either somebody either they open up the balloon in front of their face and they just have it go
Starting point is 00:09:52 like like that into their face like that and you just see the balloon go limp. Or there's somebody who comes with one of those sort of like a fireplace blower thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:07 Like that and he just goes into your face with a smell like that and then or like one of those little uh perfume bottles with the yep like that the little bulb i like the i like it then you can riff on all the different forms of communication and like inappropriate times to get a text message inappropriate times to get a smell message you know you're in an elevator you're on a train times to get a text message, inappropriate times to get a smell message. You're in an elevator, you're on a train, you get a, I'm sorry, I've got to take this balloon. I'm sorry, everyone,
Starting point is 00:10:35 I've got to take this. You open the balloon, everybody has to smell the smell that you've been delivering. That's great. We could play this sketch at the 4D cinema. The 4D cinema? You know those 4D cinemas? Where you can smell things right i think so they sound pretty good yeah i wonder where the chemicals that they get to make smell come from like 4d cinemas like 5d cinemas right okay so 4d cinema is like the smell give you the smell and the fifth dimension is somebody pinching your legs.
Starting point is 00:11:10 That's so much funnier than what I was thinking. Okay, that's great. Okay. But this is, then it's not about the idea, right? It's about the guy who runs the 5D cinema. And he's running
Starting point is 00:11:23 this area underneath. cinema and he's just such a creepy loser and he's also like spraying smells out there also it's like it's basically a grand a grandstand yeah he's spraying things behind you and then he comes with pinching i think it's mostly just pinching legs, to be honest. I don't think... I'm not interested in the smells anymore. Like, so he's seen that somebody else has done the 4D cinema. Maybe he was going to open a 4D cinema, right? And then someone opened a 4D cinema before him.
Starting point is 00:11:58 And he realised the only way that he could market his cinema was to open a 5D cinema. But he couldn't think what could possibly be the fifth dimension. All he could think of was maybe pitching people's legs. Running up and down. Does he have to get all these films made where people are walking
Starting point is 00:12:15 through tanks of crabs? No. I think he just shows regular films and then just tries to suggest that there would be moments in the film where you would feel a pitching sensation just like trying to cram it in for everything you haven't seen schindler's list until you've seen it in 5d whatever does he does he do like does he voice over a couple of things that
Starting point is 00:12:42 like arthur schindler says instead of whatever he says instead of like well we we need to save more people he goes something feels like someone's pinching my legs yes that's great 5d cinema pinching legs. Boy, I'm going to have fun trying to understand what that meant in a month's time when we read back through this. Yeah, it's going to be great. It's going to be great. Yeah, that's cool. So, Arthur Schindler. Schindler's lifts.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Which is a real thing. Yeah, and are they... Do you think that person's a descendant of Arthur Schindler? Good question. Because it's Germany and they make a lot of sort of mechanical things like that. Yeah. It could be a reference to getting people safely from one place to another, although that would be in spectacularly bad taste.
Starting point is 00:13:44 And so I hope not. I hope nobody hope nobody thought hey let's cash in maybe maybe it was just like a tie-in you know like like with Shrek they do like Shrek Happy Meals and you can get like a shrink Shrek drink bottle from from the supermarket yeah maybe somebody's went and saw the movie Schindler's List list not Schindler's List and then thought it was a great movie. Maybe they saw it in preview. They went to Spielberg. They said, hey, man, I've got a Lyft company. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:14 I think it would be great for a tie-in. And then it just caught on. That never happens, by the way. never happens by the way like those tie-in products for movies yeah never like make it outside of being a novelty product and it would be amazing if that was there was a tie-in product for a movie that turned out that just got a life of its own right do you think there's anything that's ever done that um the only thing i can think of is the way that they represent screens in Minority Report. I feel like that's affected the way technology has gone. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:53 But it wasn't a tie-in. No, it wasn't a tie-in. It was a science fiction concept. Yeah. That's true. The iPad wasn't released in promotion with Minority Report. Like bad movie tie-in products or something? Or like the idea that a movie would have a...
Starting point is 00:15:12 Like a really high concept movie would have a really high... Because it's never a high concept tie-in product, right? It's always, this is a movie about ogres going to a magical kingdom. Here's a drinking cup. Yeah. Right? Absolutely. It's never, this is a movie about a man with a flying car.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Our tie-in product is a flying car. Yeah. Because, I mean, I'm sure there's got to be a few examples of things that have come. Like, my brother owned the little recording device from Home Alone 2. Really? Yeah, they sold that. But that's just a recording device placed into the shape of the recording device that he had on Home Alone 2. I like the idea of some characters who are trying to pitch tie-ins for movies yeah i know that's cool um so how about
Starting point is 00:16:09 this it's like a it's like a sort of a a plastic film that you put underneath your shoe like that right um and it sort of stops wear and tear and it's the uh mother theresa uh plastic film yeah because it saves your souls it's good has there been a mother theresa film not yet that would be called the mother theresa film there because it's a thin film yeah absolutely in honor of Mother Teresa. But sometimes you've got to get ahead of the game. Or maybe it goes the other way, right? In that a guy has made an amazing product. Okay, a guy has made a really amazing product
Starting point is 00:17:00 like a flying car or something. And then there's been a movie that's come out, like a kid's movie has come out which features a flying car or something and then there's been a movie that's come out like a kid's movie has come out yeah uh which features a flying car and then the disney people approach him and say can we use your flying car as a tie-in as a tie-in for our movie and he is like he would he's really angry because it's a serious flying car and they they're like, no, but we'll give you the funding, but we just want it to have a big, stupid, smiley face. Yeah. Or something like that.
Starting point is 00:17:29 Well, you know, they actually could do that, like with some of the sort of flying car-y type things that have been invented. Yeah. And remake Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It's not that crazy. Yeah. And then people will be like,
Starting point is 00:17:43 you know, that's an actual flying car but i i think for me the sketch in this yeah is in the life of this guy who's an amazing inventor who's made this incredible product yeah and but he's maybe he maybe his like one mistake was agreeing to the tie-in with uh with with disney and now the car as well as flying also like makes an arrange a array of silly voices and maybe shoots bubbles out the back or something. It's a genuine flying car, but nobody takes it seriously
Starting point is 00:18:11 or takes him seriously and he becomes a joke because of what it's become. You're not picturing it. Well, I just feel like it would be a huge benefit to him to advertise his flying car like that. I don't see his problem, to be honest.
Starting point is 00:18:28 I think this guy... Any downsides? I would kill for an opportunity like that. Does he realise what these people are giving him? Don't you know what the distribution of Disney films is like? I would say like a billion people
Starting point is 00:18:41 see a Disney film. Okay, but... I'm trying to paint a picture of this guy's life being difficult. Maybe he's working in a partnership with another guy who doesn't understand his idea, right? He's got one guy working. It's like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, right? Inventing the Apple computer. Steve was a great businessman, but Steve was great at making the computers.
Starting point is 00:19:09 But fortunately, they were aligned in a similar direction. But what if they weren't aligned in a similar direction? The guy who's really good at marketing... The one thing that doesn't make it work in my head yet is that somehow the bubbles or the smiles and the voices and things like that have to be integrated in the car in a way that they are crucial now. And he also doesn't know how to get them out.
Starting point is 00:19:31 He tries to get them out and then he breaks the car and he doesn't know how to fix it. But why? No, I don't think he has to try and get them out. Because couldn't he just go, I'm just going to release a version that doesn't have all the... No, but they've given the funding. Okay. They've given the funding for the car. He's locked into this contract
Starting point is 00:19:47 and it's destroying his life. Could it be that also he's ended up giving up the rights to it for a lot of money? Sure. Because then he has no control over it anymore. I like that. And instead of calling it the
Starting point is 00:20:03 Stevenson vehicle, they call it the Fluffy Bubble Car. Fluffy, yeah. Is this going to be like a, they could remake Flubber. Yeah. Again. Again, for the third time. Flubber was originally the Nutty Professor. Was it?
Starting point is 00:20:21 Yeah. So wait, the Nutty Professor. No, not the Nutty Professor, the Absent-Minded Professor. Sorry, the Absent-Minded Professor. I loved that film. Really? I remember seeing the Absent-Minded Professor and thinking, that's great. But the flubber in the product in the Absent-Minded Professor
Starting point is 00:20:35 wasn't like attractive looking grey goo. It was a quite unpleasant black muck. Really? Yes. It was like this sort of gross rubber thing. Like, did you see those black cheeseburgers that they have in Japan? Yeah, I saw the black cheeseburgers.
Starting point is 00:20:53 Was it kind of that black? Yeah. Yeah. The black black. It was that black. It was black like a black cheeseburger is black, Alistair. Correct. I guess I was picturing the cheeseburger cheese.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Man, if black cheeseburger... This is a great... This is a marketing coup for the black cheeseburger people. If we've now started referring to black as cheeseburger black, they have done incredibly well. What a coup. They've made a real impression on me. Cheeseburger black.
Starting point is 00:21:26 I'm going to paint my house Cheeseburger Black. Did it happen that quickly as well? You're just like, oh, it's really... Man, the night was as black as a cheeseburger. Black. Black. Black. Mr. Black.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Mr. Cheeseburger Black. Mr. Cheeseburger Black. Cheeseburger.. Mr. Cheeseburger Black. Mr. Cheeseburger Black. Cheeseburger. Cheeseburger has bacon in it, right? Or something? What does it have in it? Does it have meat? I think, yeah, it's meat.
Starting point is 00:21:52 It's like a burger. It's just like a regular burger. Right. But then it's just got a slice of cheese added to it. A slice of cheese. Do not, most burgers, do they not, does like a Big Mac, does it have a slice of cheese in it? No.
Starting point is 00:22:01 Big Mac doesn't have cheese? Oh, a Big Mac might have cheese, actually. I don't know. I don't remember the cheese. but it's got Mac sauce. That's what makes a Big Mac a Mac. I think so. It's the Mac sauce. I believe so.
Starting point is 00:22:11 Also, the three buns. Yeah. The three bits of bun. Big Mac has three buns. Yeah. Is that the one that's got the slice in the middle? Yeah. Yeah, and then I think it might be just two patties, but it could be four
Starting point is 00:22:25 patties. Four patties? Four patties would be too many patties, wouldn't it? Whoa! That's too many patties. I think I saw a burger once with six patties. It's too many patties. It's too many patties. Was the Nutty Professor, like the, what's his name? The Eddie Murphy one. But also the one that was made by... Terry Lewis. Yeah. Because I'm guessing they were based on the same thing. They were based on the Nutty Professor. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:52 Was that... They were based on the Ernest Hemingway book, The Nutty Professor. Well, I think it was just based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, right? Oh, yeah. Right, sure. Yeah, that thing of the two personalities and the transformation potion seems likely. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:09 I like the idea that Hemingway wrote a book called The Nutty Professor. The man who ate his hat. This is more likely. This is similar to the car situation, but Hemingway is really passionate about his book The Nutty Professor. Yeah. But he can't get anyone to. Unless they add
Starting point is 00:23:28 bubbles to it. No, no, like, but like, because you always see this, okay,
Starting point is 00:23:35 you always hear the story about the guy whose vision is something really artistic and great and they push it in the other direction. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:42 So, what if we go the other way? We flip it around, Alistair. Let's flip it around. We flip it around. Let's get a 160. We look at it from another angle.
Starting point is 00:23:50 We do it at 160. Let's flip it up to 160. Look, we haven't had training. We're almost all the way around, and you can correct it at the end, and it looks like you did a 180. Absolutely. But so a man has written a book.
Starting point is 00:24:03 It's, you know, Dr. Fartsicle or something's Dr. Fartsicle or something. Dr. Fartsicle? Yeah. He's made a bicycle that's powered by farts. Oh, right. I thought he was freezing... Farts? Yeah, farts.
Starting point is 00:24:19 And selling them in frozen balloons. Yes. Frozen farts. But for some reason, they corrupt his idea and turn it into a really serious drama. Something that's really practical and works. No, the book.
Starting point is 00:24:39 The guy's written a book. The guy's written a book called Dr. Farticle. Okay. And then the movie rights to Dr. Farticle. And then the movie rights to Dr. Farticle get bought. And then in the end he goes to see the movie that they've made of Dr. Farticle and they
Starting point is 00:24:53 haven't even included the farting bicycle. Yeah, and it's quite a serious drama. It's a very serious drama. It's actually quite a beautiful film. Yeah, and he completely disowns it. It was a very serious drama. They focus more on the human scene. It's actually quite a beautiful film. Yeah, and he completely disowns it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:08 It was a beautiful film. I completely disown it. I wonder whether Pauly Shore's ever done that. Who's Pauly Shore? He was the guy in Biodome. He was big at some point. I feel like we've had a conversation about Pauly Shore once before. I think it's Mitzi.
Starting point is 00:25:19 Pauly Shore once before. Mitzi Shore's son? This isn't helping. No, but she's the one who owned, who owned like the
Starting point is 00:25:29 Laugh. Oh, the improv or something. Not the improv, but the other one, yeah. The thing. Yeah, yeah, in
Starting point is 00:25:34 LA. Okay, famous comedy club. Yeah, the comedy store. So anyway, well that's cleared up who Pauly Shaw
Starting point is 00:25:41 is. Now, Pauly Shaw, has he ever designed a movie? Because he's made so many fucking, fucking silly movies. Yeah, right. You know, like Biodome and In the Army or something like that.
Starting point is 00:25:53 He's basically done a film for every Ernest film there was. Remember Ernest films? Sorry. We've got to watch an Ernest film sometime. Have an Ernest marathon. Yeah, there would be enough for a marathon. The importance of watching Ernest. Films.
Starting point is 00:26:08 Films. Marathon. Anyway, look, I wasn't going anywhere with that. Okay. Well, that's fine. But this guy whose idea is corrupted, it could be something. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:21 I had a terrible idea and you ruined it. No, no, no. That's the title of his biography. Yeah, yeah. And then they make a biopic of him. Yeah. And... They make him look too good and happy and stuff.
Starting point is 00:26:40 I wasn't that happy. No, they make him look sadder than he is. Well, I feel like with the Mary Poppins, they made that movie, S he is. I feel like with the Mary Poppins, they made that movie, Saving Mr. Banks, about making the Mary Poppins movie. At the end, they made her, she's watching the movie in the cinema at the premiere, the Mary Poppins movie,
Starting point is 00:26:55 and she's crying in the cinema. It made it look like she was crying with happiness. But apparently, in reality, she did go to the premiere and she was crying with sadness. That's the thing about crying. In isolation, in reality, she did go to the premiere and she was crying with sadness. Really? And that's the thing about crying. Yeah. In isolation, it's very difficult to tell
Starting point is 00:27:08 what you're crying for. The context sort of makes you assume that it would be out of happiness. Exactly. Because why would you be crying in a film even if you don't like it? Do you think it's possible
Starting point is 00:27:21 to get a tear? Yeah. Right? Like the liquid tear and analyze it somehow? Yeah. Right? Like the liquid tear. Mm-hmm. And analyze it somehow. Maybe put it in some sort of analyzing device. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:31 And determine whether or not it was a tear of happiness or a tear of sadness. That's my question to you. I would say... Is there any difference? I would say there potentially is. No. Because there would be a different... Maybe not.
Starting point is 00:27:46 But there would be a different composition of chemicals going through your brain at that time, firing out at the time, depending on whether you have happiness or sadness. Yeah. So there could be some hormonal difference
Starting point is 00:27:58 or something like that. Because if you're scared and if you're stressed and stuff, I find my sweat smells different. So maybe happy tears, I reckon they're sweeter. There you go. They taste sweeter. I wouldn't be able to taste the difference.
Starting point is 00:28:16 Do you think sad tears are saltier? Or do you think it's like a road that hasn't been rained on for a while? Your tear ducts, if you haven't cried for a bit, they probably just salt up and they probably get slicks of oil on them and just come out. You've probably got to cry regularly to keep them in shape. Because I'm pretty sure that stuff on the coats your eye is a bit oily. Because that's why it encrusts yellow like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so maybe that gets into the duct and then it oils it as a bit oily. You know, because that's why it encrusts yellow like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so...
Starting point is 00:28:46 Yeah, that makes sense. So maybe that gets into the duct, and then it oils it up a bit. But I don't know whether... It hasn't got us any closer to determining... Yeah, look, I would say they're probably just exactly the same. You know the lie detector, Alistair? I know of it.
Starting point is 00:29:04 It's very negative, isn't it? The lie detector. Why don't we have a truth detector? That would be better. I think that would be better. I think it would be nicer. But something that reacts when you feel like not just like, not just that you're telling the truth, but that when you
Starting point is 00:29:19 feel like you're, when a brain feels like it's found a universal truth yeah you know like like like a universal truth detector because you know that feeling when you feel like something just really clicks in your brain yeah like everything goes into place if you're feeling that then there must be a waveform that that represents that or like some kind of brainal emissions brain all like like that that feeling is such is so
Starting point is 00:29:48 significant that I feel like you could probably detect that from about three feet away oh with them you could probably hear the click yeah was that you I feel like it's I just had an epiphany yeah I heard yeah your brain went so anything you can do with that anything do with the idea of a device to detect universal truth? Well, I feel like it would go off less frequently than a lie detector.
Starting point is 00:30:19 But... Could you... Well, I guess you could make a... Look, it's like you could make a film. Yep. And it's sort of like the opposite of this idiot film where the woman only uses 10% of her brain, but then she uses more of it.
Starting point is 00:30:36 Oh, this idiot film. She's got all these powers. Bloody Susan Sarandon or whatever her name is. Scarlett Johansson. Scarlett Johansson. Similar syllables. Which is Susan Sarandon 2. Yes. Right? Just all over again. We've seen it before. Yeah. Scarlett Johansson. Scarlett Johansson, which is Susan Sarandon 2. Yes.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Just all over again. We've seen it before. Yeah. Scarlett. Or if that is your real name. If that is your real career. Anyway, but they realize that the brain is much smarter than we are. You know you only use 10% of your ass.
Starting point is 00:31:05 You know, humans only use 10% of your ass. You know, humans only use 10% of their elbow. Imagine. Just imagine if they were able to access 100% of their elbow. Look at this range of motion. Picture that.
Starting point is 00:31:20 At the moment, I'm getting about 60%, right? Wait, no, that's like 90 there. Yeah. About 130 degrees, right? But, like, look what happens when I start using, I start activating 20% of my elbow. I don't know what it would look like.
Starting point is 00:31:42 I imagine, like, a second arm starts coming in. I thought, look, initially, I thought humans only use 10% of their ass. I thought that was a funnier starting point. Yeah. But definitely 10% of their elbow has a quirky charm and isn't so anally fixated. Yeah. I mean, look, I also felt the same thing. And I felt like
Starting point is 00:32:05 I'd ruined it a little bit by going elbow. But like, we could definitely do a movie where you find hidden capacity in something other than the brain. I definitely think that's something
Starting point is 00:32:18 that you could write down. A person uses 10% of their ass slash elbow. Let's be true to the original idea, but then also remember that we could do it with any body part. It doesn't just have to be the ass. Or the elbow. Or the elbow.
Starting point is 00:32:36 All asses and elbows. You see that bloke out there? He was all asses and elbows. He only uses 10% of 10% of his body. So 10% of his body, he uses 10% of 10% of his body. You know, so 10% of his body, he uses 10% of it. But the other parts, the other 90%, he uses 20%. Because would you say that your brain, like, your brain is like 10% of your body? Maybe that's what this is.
Starting point is 00:33:05 No, no, body. Like through weight, do you think like your brain has 10% of your weight? I know that your head has a large percentage of your, like a larger than you would expect. 30%? 50. Really?
Starting point is 00:33:21 No. No. Anyway, so I like that idea. Yeah. There's something in that. But then the thing I was going to say was we realize that our brains are smarter than we are. And they find ways of tapping into using the processing power of the subconscious of people's brains. using the processing power of the subconscious of people's brains.
Starting point is 00:33:49 And then they turn people's brains into truth detectors so that you have to consciously go through things to find truths. But it has processed the universe through 30 years of observation. Yeah, and it feeds every possible thing into your brain. It's a bit like Alistair Lissett. You actually understand the physical, like, your brain actually has all the formulas within it of the physical laws. That's how it helps predict motion and things like that.
Starting point is 00:34:13 Right? But you don't know it because you don't have access. Like, you can use that thing, you know, like for running and catching balls and shit, but you don't have the formulas in your conscious mind. Explicitly. So you have to just go through it and just say a whole bunch of things until you get to it. Yep, that's true.
Starting point is 00:34:30 Bing! That's true. Oh, we found it! Yeah. Is it E equals L times V squared? This feels a bit like mining for Bitcoin, right? Because when they mine for Bitcoin, they process all these algorithms and you're trying to find certain types of numbers.
Starting point is 00:34:47 Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's how it works. And once you've found one of these types of numbers, they're all unique and that represents a certain piece of value. Yeah. Again, there's a finite number of them and that's why there's limited
Starting point is 00:34:57 and you can have inflation and all that kind of stuff. Well, maybe not. Anyway, but what if we come up with a new kind of cryptocurrency that's called universal truth coin and like well every time you find a it's a it's kind of like gurus sitting on top of a mountain right and every time they they come across a timeless pearl of wisdom yeah they can use it online to buy drugs which then allows, those drugs allow them to explore their mind more.
Starting point is 00:35:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also get on some mad trips. Yeah. Rod of damn. Universal truth coin. Yeah. That's great. Wow, that was a real adventure to get to universal truth coin.
Starting point is 00:35:42 Yeah. What was the one right before that we wrote down? It was The Humans Use Only 10% of Their Ass. It's a movie. Scarlet, your head's in. I feel like we could just re-voice the trailer for that movie. Just remove brain and then ass. And then suddenly she's got all these powers.
Starting point is 00:36:05 Yeah. That's amazing. That's got all these powers. Yeah. That's amazing. That's actually all you need to do. Just replace the word and then just play it. Even if she touches her head sometimes
Starting point is 00:36:15 to like get telekinetic powers it's like she's concentrating on her ass. Well done. Well done. Well done Well done Well done It's like that person who just
Starting point is 00:36:28 Turned the fart thing What was the thing that somebody did Oh no the Nicki Minaj I like Big Butt song And somebody just added just fart sounds to it Anaconda Yeah That's the name of the song
Starting point is 00:36:42 So we're on five We're on five ideas Holy shit guys What a journey we've been on We've been on a break for a while So we're back now We're starting to do it This seriously
Starting point is 00:36:51 We are back in the tank Here we go Back in the tank Here's today's ideas Is this the whole thing? So wait okay My cousin the gas This is
Starting point is 00:37:04 It's a multiple It's a multiple idea. My Cousin the Gas, but also Smell Delivery Service, which people who communicate through smell and smell-o-gram. Then we've got 5D Cinema, where the fourth and fifth dimension is just a guy pinching your legs. No, the fourth dimension is smells, and the fifth dimension is a guy pinching your legs no the fourth dimension is smells and the fifth dimension is a guy pinching your legs a fluffy fluffy bubble car flying car um that's where a guy has a really
Starting point is 00:37:34 good serious flying car idea but then he has to sell it out to like a disney company and he's really upset about it and angry that his life isn't very good. Yes. And his life isn't very good. And his life isn't very good because he's upset and he's angry. And people don't like to be upset. Being upset is bad. No, that's true. That's true.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Then there's humans only use 10% of their ass, and then there's universal truth coin. It's a finite thing in that you can have a currency and then you can use it to buy drugs online. And you have gurus mining Bitcoin which just means
Starting point is 00:38:10 them sitting on top of a mountain in a cave or on top of a... It's actually... There's a mountain in a cave. He's on top of that.
Starting point is 00:38:19 It's a big cave. Yeah. It's a small mountain. It's a volcano. It's a cave on top of a mountain. It's a... No, it's a mountain in a cave. Oh, it's a mountain in a cave. Yeah. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:38:30 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then inside that mountain is another cave. That's where he is. That's how wise this guy is. So is this like, was the first the mountain that they're inside of? Do you think that was just leaky and the second mountain on the inside is a stalactite? Stalagm the inside is a stalactite.
Starting point is 00:38:45 Stalagmite. Stalagmite. Also, the universal truth coin, because all these gurus, it's what pulls India out of poverty and makes it a financial superpower. But also, you can buy drugs with the coins. Also, mostly, you can buy drugs and rugs. Drugs and rugs. Drugs and rugs. Come on down to drugs and rugs. Drugs and rugs. Drugs and rugs. Come on down to
Starting point is 00:39:06 drugs and rugs. We bought too many drugs. All drugs must go. Universal drug sale. We're losing our mind. All these drugs and rugs are really expensive. I must be off my face
Starting point is 00:39:18 with the prices I'm getting rid of these drugs for. And rugs. And rugs. Anyway. Thank you very much. Thank you kindly. Thanks for listening, guys.

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