Two In The Think Tank - 406 - " TWO IN THE ONE HORSE OPEN SLEIGH"

Episode Date: December 24, 2023

There was an unfortunate audio issue with Al's mic in this ep. We ho-ho-hope you can get through it ok. Corrugation/Causation, Why Don't They Make The Whole Evolution Out Of Natural Selection, Comedyn...aut, Blood Blister Santa Claus. ChristmAndy, Christmas Film Think Tank, Diplomatic Impunity, Mother Christmas, Cherokey VPN, Chicken Scam, All the Chickens Face the Same Way, Character Conservatorship.Check out Stupid Old Studios' COMEDY LAB here and support the artist fund if you can.Gustav and Henri Volume 2 is now available to purchase in Australia here!You can support the pod by chipping in to our patreon here (thank you!)Join the other TITTT scholars on the TITTT discord server hereHey, why not listen to Al's meditation/comedy podcast ShusherDon't forget TITTT Merch is now available on Red Bubble. Head over here and grab yourselves some material objectsYou can find us on twitter at @twointankAndy Matthews: @stupidoldandyAlasdair Tremblay-Birchall: @alasdairtb and instaAnd you can find us on the Facebook right hereThrumming apologies to George and everyone for my editing on this one Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:57 I'm dreaming of a... What think tank? Chris, special, Chris special. A white think tank? I think you're referring to the Institute for Public Affairs. You did it, everybody. Everybody's going to get that. You've been people in Australia. I mean, let who is not a white thing take cast the first stone.
Starting point is 00:01:28 I think I'm not in a good position to be. Anyway, let's move off this topic. Where today we're only coming up with Christmas ideas. Christmas sketches. Yeah, that's right. Oh, is that right? Okay, well, I think what we'll do indeed, this is how I'm going to approach this because I feel... Yeah. It's right. Oh, is that right? Okay, well, I think I think what we'll do indeed This is how I'm gonna approach this because I feel it feels restrictive Right, right because when I texted you yesterday, and I said why don't we do a Christmas episode?
Starting point is 00:01:52 I and you said great sounds good I assume we were completely on the same page that we would be coming up with Christmas sketches Okay, well, that's great and if that's what you want that's what I'm gonna do But but I am still gonna come up with Regular ideas and then I'm gonna make them Christmas year. Well, this is the thing as we know from diehard Every everything can be a every sketch is a Christmas sketch if you're set it at Christmas Exactly Don't worry exactly. So like it could be a guy who's riding his bike. He's a teenager and he's like
Starting point is 00:02:27 Trying to get up onto the curb and so he's like jumping his bike up onto the curb But which is mostly just lifting your front wheel and then letting the back wheel hit the thing Oh, like that and from that impact His testicles are twisting in his ball bag and And then it creates a lot of pain. This is a fear of my mom put in my mind when I was a kid. Wow. Around the very specific situation of jumping up onto a curb,
Starting point is 00:02:53 or is it just? With your bike, yeah. Yeah. So your mom said, hey. Because if you know this, it happens to another kid. This happened to a kid. Right. Doing this, your mom is confused as correlation with causation a lot,
Starting point is 00:03:06 I feel. Because then she had to think about somebody or other eight of a- It's fine. And then you should bring that up. Andy, Andy, if you actually notice, every time that there is causation, there actually is correlation.
Starting point is 00:03:22 So actually, correlation causes causation. Oh, but that could be a coincidence. I know, I know, Alistair, that historically, correlation and causation have been linked. But I think it would be foolish to leap to the conclusion that, oh, just because correlation, wherever there's causation, there's also correlation, just because that has happened in the past
Starting point is 00:03:46 That seems anecdotal. I don't know if anybody's looked into this Well, you know I knew a guy who actually confused He actually thought that corrugation was called causation Corrigation does not equal causation. Yeah, I was driving over a really rough road and then one of the screws undead in In the in my glove box and the glove box fell off Right, that was because of the corrugation and it was because of the corrugation. So I'm pretty sure. Oh my friend No, you poor simple soul
Starting point is 00:04:23 You said with the corrug congregation does not mean causation? And you know what makes this a Christmas sketch? What's that? Well, driving through the outback in a rusty hole the newt, just in like that Aussie jingle bells. Oh, I've never heard that one. In a rusty hole the newt, it's just, you know, Christmas time is eski in the boot you know all that crap it's just like imagine what an Australian of jiggle that's right nothing more Australian
Starting point is 00:04:55 Bruce Wayne the most Australian name is not sure it's true Alistair this episode is going really well. And I mean that, not incredibly sincere. I mean, incredibly sincere. I'm not a true future when you're saying you're being incredibly sincere. I'm not, I'm not. So far, this is ticked every box, all my boxes, even my secret intimate box that nobody knows about.
Starting point is 00:05:21 My G box, you know. Oh, the other one nothing. It's something way you can reach by putting your finger in your nose. That's right. That's right. When you meet a new, a new beloved, a potential beloved, they have to tick a lot of boxes, but there is, of course, the G box, the one box that they can tick that will, that means it's like the golden snitch. None of the other boxes matter. They can achieve approval for a full 100% score of approval by tippic ticking the one box that is... Andy, I have a question. What do they make the whole rectum out of the G-Box. What if the rummage in there infos?
Starting point is 00:06:07 It would make more sense to make the whole thing out of something that feels good when you touch it. Yeah. Well I think that's the risk with the rectum. I think that might think that somewhere along in evolution. There was a creature whose whole rectum or whatever is at that part right inside, right across the other side of the door. That was all G-spot. The atrium before you, the lobby. The lobby, the rectal lobby.
Starting point is 00:06:41 And with the rectal concierge, that's a turd. I can't, I can't do anything. You've heard of the matra D? Well, I'm the matra A. The matra-pe. What's the piece in for in your version? Pooh. Pooh?
Starting point is 00:07:10 Yeah, that's great. I don't see in the matri-dee, the dee is for dick. I guess so, yeah, but I didn't, I said that this is the matri- What? I don't guess that's true. I guess so. I suppose that probably is raw. So, but then every time that thing would go to the toilet, it would have like, I guess, erectal orgasms or something like that.
Starting point is 00:07:36 And then, it would, so then when it got the urge to, to procreate. The urge to purge. Oh, the urge to splurge. Yeah, no, the urge to procreate. The urge to purge. Oh, the urge to splurge. Yeah, no, the urge to procreate. Yes. Right? The horningness. Then that would end up being satisfied by going to the toilet and pooping. And so then that thing would just die out. Yeah. But that's probably why evolution killed the, you know, this is, you know, like the oil industry killing the electric, electric vehicle. This is evolution killing the 4G spot right now. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:13 No, I think you're right, Alistair. And I think, you know, it might be possible. And the nature was a reindeer. That was the last, that was the last one. And then it goes to Jing-Dieu. That was the last one. That's good. The last reindeer? The last creature to have the full pleasure of a hold. I love this Christmas episode. I think there is a sketch, maybe not one that we would do, Alistair.
Starting point is 00:08:46 Yes. Maybe one that someone else would do. I mean, you know what's great about that? It's that we actually almost do no sketches. Yeah. So you could say that before every sketch idea. Yeah, well, I said for the bit about other people do it yet, because almost that of our sketches get done by other people either.
Starting point is 00:09:02 Sure, but that doesn't hand you long after after we're gone and these sketches will live on. Well, that's the thing. Yeah, there's the eternity. We're going to send one off on a we should say the tradition. And to Ali's and have them on a satellite that broadcasts into deep space. Could we could we do the first sketch on the moon? Do you think that could be something? I mean, it feels very doable.
Starting point is 00:09:30 We know Elon likes comedy. Right. And he loves being flattered. Oh, we gotta do his flattering. Yes. We gotta do it before he lets a sink onto the moon or whatever. Let that sink into the moon Do you think that would be the first sketch on the moon?
Starting point is 00:09:52 Well, it could be if he loans it in charge. Yeah, cuz it's like the comedy's not illegal in the moon yet No, that's the kind of joke that you can do that would be great That would be so good for like one of those truly edgy comedians, you know, someone who's really pushing the boundaries like Jimmy Carr. Oh, he's really. Of course, that's a really, that would be really difficult though, pushing the boundaries on a place where there's no boundaries. Like the moon? Well, if comedy is, if comedy is not illegal, like a hero in Earth, yeah, well And there are no boundaries. I love about it. So then he can't even push a boundary pushing comedian
Starting point is 00:10:28 would just fall over. I think a genius like Jimmy Carr could do it. I've seen some of his recent stuff where he just reads out jokes. He's been given by people in the audience and then reads out another joke. He's been given by people in the audience. The people who've paid to come and see him.
Starting point is 00:10:46 And I think he's one of those, I mean he's one of those real boundary pushing comedians. One of those comedians who's not afraid to say what his writers have written down. To say what all his writers are thinking. Yeah. That Jimmy Car, he's just saying what we're all thinking, I'll buy the way. I'm one of the writers at Jimmy Carr's Rytas route. Anyway, I think the idea of a comedian who's had to go to the moon,
Starting point is 00:11:19 because it's the only place where you can still do real comedy, do real jokes. And then I think see, I think the sketch is that and then seeing the big set up, the amount of work that's gone into it, the huge expense to put this edge lord comedian on the moon. And I guess fly a whole audience up there as well, right? Yeah. But then also seeing that the jokes that they're doing are still the same hack shit that every edge of comedian thinks is good.
Starting point is 00:11:53 Just complaining about things being woke. Yeah. I heard they canceled the song, Barbar Black sheep. You can't say that anymore because apparently it's racist. Second of the thing. Yeah, exactly. And everybody goes, well well I'm going to keep saying it. Oh here you've got to say, blah, blah sheep of color nail. Something like that. That would be great. Yeah, oh you've got to say, blah, blah, blah. You know, I guess transparent or something like that.
Starting point is 00:12:26 You. Oh, but that's probably offensive to ghosts. Oh, that's really good. Good. Yeah. Oh, this is gonna be so good. This is gonna be so good. This is a great sketch.
Starting point is 00:12:38 And how is it, Christmasy Alistair? Well, you see Santa, you see Santa fly by him as right here on Christmas Eve. With his reindeer. Well, you see Santa fly by on his right here on Christmas Eve. Because he goes above the atmosphere. That makes so much sense. Wind resistance. Yes, less. And also, it would be really better that when the vacuum of space evaporates all his and the reindeer's
Starting point is 00:13:07 blood, but they're being so low pressure. Yeah, and that would be good. A lot less weight to carry. Of course. That's how Santa can be so chubby and be pulled by just bunch of animals. It's mostly blood white. I've been putting a lot of blood recently. Oh.
Starting point is 00:13:30 How about that blood blister all over your body? How much had you feel about managing it? Come on with the guy who was all blood blister? Did we? I feel like that's something we've discussed. I mean, it feels jolly, it feels very Christmassy. Yeah. Well, because he'd be all red.
Starting point is 00:13:46 Well, I mean, you know what, they're more, they're more sort of like a slew on. If you were straight blood blister and then regular blisters. This would be a great new kind of temporary tattoo type thing. Yeah. Right? A new fashion thing, the blood blister. And you could, as you say, get it, get it all over you in the shape of Santa's clothing. Is that what you were mentioning?
Starting point is 00:14:12 Well, that, no, but I was talking about having a regular blister, which is white as well. Yeah, well that would be some of the white areas. Exactly. The end of the hat, the rim of the hat, maybe the edge of the bottom of the jacket, the trimming, all the trimming. So this is a sketch in which it's an office Christmas party, right? And for whatever reason, they accidentally shred the Santa costume for the guy who's going to be Santa for the office Christmas party. Yeah. They don't know what to do, but then earlier in the day, somebody had pinched their finger the Santa costume for the guy who's going to be Santa for the office Christmas party.
Starting point is 00:14:49 They don't know what to do but then earlier in the day somebody had pinched their finger, the tip of their finger in the edge of a stapler. He got a bright red blood blister and the boss is there. He knows everyone's expecting to see Santa Claus come out at the party and he doesn't want to let them down. And he looks at the blood blister on this person's figure and he looks at a big box of staplers and then he looks at it's three PAs and then he looks at a diagram of the human body and then he looks at a picture of Santa Claus and then he looks at a diagram of the human body, and that he looks at a picture of Santa Claus, and then he looks at a computer screen containing the words, Blood Blister Santa Claus costume. And with regular blisters for the wild. Regular blisters for the, he looks at another, he looks at a notebook that has that written
Starting point is 00:15:41 down on it. Yeah, you know, you know what I like? There's one thing detail I would love to add. I think that instead of somehow tearing up the Santa costume, the work had somehow said we're no costumes for Christmas this year. We're not doing costumes. Oh, yeah, okay.
Starting point is 00:16:02 Like that. And then he's found a way. He's like, well, I don't need a costume I can be in the nude it's a little bit of blood blisters regular blisters And still be dressed up as Santa Cuz he loves Christmas cheer Yes, and I think the moment in which the blood blisters at the claws Comes out into the middle of the party
Starting point is 00:16:24 comes out into the middle of the party. It ever stops to look at him. And then the party goes, he's naked by the way as well with blusters. But it's all up and down. All his genitals are covered by blood blister. Technically, technically does that mean he's not exposing himself? Well, it's not my penis, my penis is behind a blood blister. It's a puffy skin that's gone over and it'd be nice if maybe somehow in the beard So that it's not just color. Maybe he had he could somehow pinch a lot of skin tags
Starting point is 00:16:57 Into his kind of beard area and they all get blistery Well somehow slice the skin off from underneath his chin and have that hang down like a bee. I knew you'd like that. I knew that would get you going. I know what you like, but how do you get flabby skin to blister? Does it still blister if you get enough heat on it? Is it like crackling? There's only one way to find out. Eric and well maybe you get the blisters going first and then this lies the skin flap off. You probably got a thing there. Of course, yeah, but then you got to close, you got to
Starting point is 00:17:45 pour it away. It's like you got to cream the butter and the sugar before you add the eggs. This is basic. Do your wets then your dry. Blood blister Santa Claus 101. Yeah, this is, this is BBSC 101. Another Christmas thing that there should be,
Starting point is 00:18:06 is there should be a specific Christmas mythical figure who only delivers batteries. We should introduce this to the Christmas ethos, mythos, is that there's a secondary Jolly Old Elf who brings the batteries, or maybe shits them out onto the floor. There could be some kind of like a rabbit, like a rabbit, exactly.
Starting point is 00:18:31 Maybe like a gecko or something like that or an iguana. Some sort of electro vampire iguana that comes and puts its fangs into the power point and drains electricity and shits out batteries. And so when the kids come out in the morning, there's a little scattering of batteries, including button batteries, which we know they love to eat all over the floor. Children, that would be such a nice snack for the children. To something to nibble on. They liked it. So mum and dad don't have to get up straight away.
Starting point is 00:19:03 Oh, just go eat some of the batteries. The budget batteries. Yes. Yeah, I was trying to find, I was trying to find types of batteries so that you could, so that I could come up with a name, Lithium, I'll let you know. Nike. Nike? Nickel, cadmium. Nickel. L-a-s-it.
Starting point is 00:19:28 Nickel. H-let acid. Nike. Well, the- the- the lead acid, um, ferry. Iguana. Yes. Ferry.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Ferry's good. You know what? It'd be great for a thing for Mrs. Claus to do. Of course. She- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she- she You know what? It'd be great for a thing for Mrs. Claus to do. Of course. She shits out the batteries. Does she? Yeah. Um, because, well, Lucas, she still have fame. She puts into the pain. She never gets to leave this earth bowl, other north pole. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:19:59 She not even in the off season. She never, you never hear of her leaving. And so now she's opening up her own thing. She's seen a flaw in everything that Santa does. The Santa flaws. Which is that? The Santa flaws. But it's still her own USC.
Starting point is 00:20:18 FLA USC. It's really good. The Santa flaws, Andy. They need Christmas movies every year. They need them, they need them, that's the one kind of movie that they actually need, they need Christmas moves and Christmas songs. I think if I gave up everything else and just dedicated myself to trying to write Christmas songs, I'm sure I've come up and said this on the podcast before.
Starting point is 00:20:41 I reckon I could write good ones. Good enough, Good enough to meet that name. You could. I mean imagine like this is the end of your life. It's not the end, but it's close. Yeah. It's the last 10 years, right? And you're getting interviewed on the news. And you're an old guy, you know, and like not old in the way that you kind of already seem old now. You already seem like an elderly man, but in the young man's body. I mean, you're actually now a very elderly man instead of a regular elderly man's body.
Starting point is 00:21:13 And you, the news is interviewing you and they're saying, this is the man of 10,000 Christmas songs. And, you know know and then you're kind of you're taking them through your workshop where you've written some of them down you've got big stacks of paper and you've got places where you you know you're right things down pieces of paper you've got a little conductors thing for yourself where you kind of you conduct in the mirror in front of a you know yeah and then there's like empty chairs there and then you run and you go into the chair and you sort of play an instrument.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Why am I so quite talented? Right? Yeah, I mean, I'm not talented. We don't know how well you're playing it. Okay. But, you know, you also sound insane. Yes. So, do you need to point that out?
Starting point is 00:21:58 No, I'll take it. But, and then, and they're like, oh yeah, and then you're singing a few for them, and things like that. But then, the whole thing is happening because you've just had your first hit. This was the whole point of your whole life. Yes. You decided to dedicate your life. I knew that I could do it. At some point, and you've had your first, you know, number one hit. You know, because Christmas songs, you know, like all I want for Christmas, that makes it to number one almost every year. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you Christmas songs, you know, like all I want for Christmas, that makes it to number one almost every year. Yeah. Yeah, you could read that.
Starting point is 00:22:33 No, that's exciting. I don't know if that you think that's a sketch in some way. I think it needs an extra twist in the end there, you know, yeah, yeah, but I mean, the idea that the world has ended. The world has ended. The world has ended. It's the day before an asteroid hits the Earth, but I still make it to number one at the moment. Maybe she's saying that it was the most listened to song of, you know, 20, 20, 54 or something like that. But then it reveals the way the owner to people left on earth. Yeah, music journalist. Yeah That's fun. And now that's a comedy sketch. Now that's now that's comedy right there. Early that we were talking about
Starting point is 00:23:31 um uh uh cause and effect which of course made me think of Santa Cores. Now we know that we've already successfully made one great Christmas movie by adding a letter to the word clause. And we also took one letter away don't forget that it wasn't for clause. away don't you want it wasn't for clause what's that we also took a letter away the Santa Claus well hang on listen wait oh I think we're talking about Santa flaws no oh yeah we did do that as well that's true but I'm talking about the Santa Claus the movie with Tim Allen right so is that actually supposed to be Santa Claus would Santa Claus CLA US right that's what Santa that's how it's now But they added an e on the end to make it Santa Claus as in yeah, so then it's normally the name should be Santa Claus Probably yeah, well, I think it originally it was Santa Claus
Starting point is 00:24:20 maybe in in German or Dutch or something like that. Yeah maybe in in German or Dutch or something like that. But I think we should explore with adding or removing other letters from the word clause, C-L-A-U-S, to see what else we get achieved. You know? Oh what about Santa, a bee clause? Well, I thought it was a bee clause, and I was like, oh, this is going to be perfect. And then I started to say everything come out. Well, yeah. Oh, yeah. Just clause. Santa, just clause.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Santa, Satan. Well, Satan clause must have been done, definitely. Santa Cores Santa C.A. Commer US California United States I'm enjoying this this is very fruitful this line that I make forced us to pursue Santa this line that I made forced us to pursue Alistair. Santa Claus Closu, Santa Clausy, Santa Claus, Santa Clausy. I think that almost feels like something. It's like someone who's close to being Santa Claus. Yeah, Santa Claus.
Starting point is 00:25:38 Santa Claus. Santa Claus. Santa Claus. Brilliant. There will be somewhere at every major motion picture studio. There is a team of people trying to come up, spend the whole year trying to come up with Christmas puns that they can base a fucking movie on. I guarantee you that that is the only part of the media universe in which you need the title or you haven't got a fucking film. Right.
Starting point is 00:26:11 You need to have, you know, Father Christmas, let's see, Father Christmas, Mother Christmas. Brother Christmas. Brother Christmas. cousin Christmas. Further Christmas. Further. Father. Father. Father. Farmer. Farmer Christmas. Farmer Christmas. It's not quite good. It's not quite a pardon, but it'll do. Get free Christmas on the phone. Father. Father. Father, father, Christmas. See, I would enjoy a sketch. That is this. Maybe it's just for me, but...
Starting point is 00:26:57 Oh, Christmas. Father, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss. The guys, they're in the thing tank. This is the whole sketch. What we're doing right now. And it's people coming up with Christmas puns. And then trying to pitch, you know, then they're put on the spot by the room to say, well, what's the film about bother Christmas? for his to miss. Fist miss.
Starting point is 00:27:29 For his, for his. I think you can write that down now. What about clistness or a route then? Earlier on, I was clist. Clist, you know, they changed the R and make it a now. Clistness. Silent night, but it's K and I G.H. But they also I'm not twisting it in some racist way. They see all the father of father Christmas. I didn't hear any racist element to this. Good good and don't you start. Don't start here again. Don't play this back.
Starting point is 00:28:06 you start. Don't start here again. Don't play this back. Oh, early I was thinking I was trying to pitch to you a sketch that we wouldn't do, but someone else might, which is a, it's just, it's just that scene on where Mary has just given birth, right, to the baby Jesus. And Joseph, these three fucking kings show up at the door, right? Three bed claiming to be kings. And he's like, he's letting them in. Like, she's just given birth. I mean, uninvited pop-in guests, people you don't even know, you're like, yeah, come on in to the... Yeah. I mean, it's hard enough to get into the, these days, to get into the, the birthing suite. That's true.
Starting point is 00:28:56 What you guys are going to put on masks? Yeah. I mean, look, I guess if you're in some Dirty manger dirty manger Right, firstly you probably don't even know who owns the manger Yeah And if there's kings you probably if you're back in those days where kings could just slaughter anybody Yeah, you probably learn a healthy respect towards kings. Well, they kings kings from the Orient right kings of Orient And oh, I don't recognize your authority here. Well do they have diplomatic immunity? That's true. Obetic immunity. So they can. I have. I can go into any
Starting point is 00:29:37 is one of them. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. South African. Was it was it the lethal weapon? Was it South African the guy with the diplomatic community? I don't know. I don't remember. I'm not moving. Man, he could just do whatever the fuck he wanted. I'm not sure if that's how diplomatic immunity could be cool. We give some people that I know South Africans We give some people South Africans. Yes It's a it's a bit odd that it's like because like the idea when you give somebody diplomatic immunity, the idea behind it is that they won't go just go out and commit murders. We'll give you this but don't commit any murders, okay?
Starting point is 00:30:19 Yeah. Be reasonable, but why would you be reasonable? You've got immunity. You've got immunity. You've got immunity. You've got more power than... God. Maybe the Prime Minister. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:32 You can eat the Prime Minister. If that would be legal for you to do or you won't get in trouble at least. What can we do? Yes, he's eating the Prime Minister, but he has diplomatic immunity. We just have to hope that the Prime Minister can put drag himself away before too much of him gets eaten. The police are not allowed to step in. We have no power here.
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Starting point is 00:31:26 You can't contract a disease. He actually can't die From disease because of his diplomatic immunity He can breathe underwater Well, I Because he has diplomatic immunity Well, I'm happy. Why? Because he has diplomatic immunity. No.
Starting point is 00:31:47 So why? Because he's immune to also pain. I guess death. Death is immune to death. Death is immune to death. Diplomatic. I think you're thinking of diplomatic immorality. I was thinking of that I was getting confused.
Starting point is 00:32:09 Yeah, you were, you made one of the classic mistakes. Imagine that, imagine you ask for immunity, diplomatic immunity from a genie. And then you go and jump off a building, you've finally got it, and you go jump off a building. And then the genius says something like, I don't know, oh not the first time that happened. I think the idea, you don't need aie at this situation, right? It's a situation where somebody is a, they've been appointed a consul general to a different country.
Starting point is 00:32:52 They show up, they're told on the, as they're in, as part of their induction that they've got diplomatic immunity. They're so excited, they go a leap head first out the second story window. Smashing their head open on the ground and dying instantly. And then you're like, oh, the people who are like, it happened again. We got to work, we got to, we got to, for this, how we deliver this information. I guess that's the problem is that, you know, when you're studying international relations to become a diplomat, that's the one thing they don't really need to cover because that's not important on the job. It would be kind of, you know, it would be crazy for a university to tell you,
Starting point is 00:33:39 and by the way, you can come in any crime you want once you get over there, right? You know, and so then they don't bother teaching you that. And then you get on the job and you're like, this is the whole reason I've been wanting to do this job. People just in class before you know, you're really finishes their work. And we do, and just double checking, once we get the job, we do get diplomatic immunity, right?
Starting point is 00:34:01 And he goes, yes, and that's it. That's how they never get clarified. I think you never see this. You never see dudes in in movies who've got immortality. You never see them jumping out of buildings and landing on their heads. But they could, couldn't they? They could do that. What? guys in movies who are immortal. You never see them enjoying that forbidden fruit. I mean, if you were leaping onto a concrete from a really high level and landing on your head, they always sort of land in a cool superhero pose or something.
Starting point is 00:34:40 But I wouldn't do that. I know, but if you, that was your one superpower was in more town, right? And you didn't have any other powers, but you were involved in crime fighting. You could wait for somebody to walk underneath you I mean you got the bottom of a building and then you jump down Yes, and you land on them. Yeah, it first. So, yeah. That's, yeah, that's how you guide yourself. That's how you know where you're going. I love it. I think they're going to win soon. They call him the brick. Oh, yeah. I think it probably is one that I call the brick. I was just because when I was thinking of like this, this comic guy who,
Starting point is 00:35:23 you know, like, and I was was always I think I like the idea of just a guy who floats through space for you know like millions of years and then eventually gets to like another planet and then leads more lives but there's just that kind of like that this suffering and I think you know and the waiting would just be so hard but then I guess you would you know like there would be interesting conversations you'd have with yourself during that time, but there'd also be bits where you get sucked into a sun, you know, and you would just spend like millions of years at a sun or billions of years in a sun until that star exploded.
Starting point is 00:35:56 Yeah, my fear is that you might get, you know, you might get one exploding situation, you might get one exploding situation. But then the lifespan of the universe wouldn't be long enough, like the chance of you intersecting with another habitable planet. So low. I think you probably spend all your time just floating or in the heart of a sun. There's a possibility.
Starting point is 00:36:21 But if we're made up of stuff already that used to be part of other stars Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean and dust and he would get part and he would He would eventually get to the end of the universe whatever that is Like you know like he would get as in when the universe either collapses or or whatever and then he would be he would exist for whatever comes next if there is do you think do you think that the
Starting point is 00:36:51 immortality that he's got is the kind where you can continue to live after the universe is to be I'm saying it does but imagine like you're the power to make that decision because you're like the idea imagine if you could... But imagine what you could... But imagine what you could... But imagine what you could... But imagine what you could... But imagine what you could... Imagine if you like... You're on the dating scene, right? And you go on a date with somebody. And it's somebody who's just been through that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:14 Through one other universe. And then they finally encountered another planet. And then they arrive. And they're like, well, I'm going to take up dating again. And that's the person you go on a date with. And they would just have like a... I reckon they would have a bit of a stare about like... 1,000 yards stare. Yeah, that's a lot of years there.
Starting point is 00:37:34 1,000 lot of years there. Yeah, I think that's a good... I think that's a sketch. I think the dating show in which he's been floating through space for billions of years. And he's just, he's just trying, I mean, it's actually it's a good, it's a good concept for a sitcom, right? He's been floating through space for billions of years. He's crash landed on Earth, okay?
Starting point is 00:37:59 And he's just ready to start dating again. I'd love to see that play out. He's trying all the populations, trying to find the right one who he can really connect with. Yeah, who could, you know, because also he would have had, whenever the last time he was on a planet, you know, he would have had, you know, 10,000 relationships. Yeah. That might have been lifelong for the other partner. Yeah I think it's a bit of a serial monogamous. Yeah now I had something I wanted to say oh no, and I was just to make a Christmasy that guy is Santa Claus
Starting point is 00:38:48 Santa Claus there you go crashing to earth Oh Um, was it about this guy floating through space? Was it about dating and relationships? Was it about finding the one? Was it about that magpie that I'm looking at over there? No. I'm really disappointed in myself. Andy, you must be have a brain failure.
Starting point is 00:39:25 Have you been sitting on any toilet seats recently? Andy, you must be have a brain failure. Have you been sitting on any toilet seats recently? That hasn't come up in a while. You haven't got a disease from one of them? Early on. I don't have this problem. I don't think about this anymore, Alistair. But early on when Alan and I got to know each other, how long ago now? 10, 15 years ago?
Starting point is 00:39:47 We, one of my things was that whenever I had a bit of brain fade or when I wasn't firing well mentally or forgot something, I had a bit of paranoia, I used to be quite paranoid about catching some kind of disease, some sort of brain disease, some toilet seat, that would affect my mental capacity. And I think I had read something about the possibility for herpes to get into your brain. I think that's what I was mostly afraid of. Sure.
Starting point is 00:40:22 But I... Herpes just sticks around, but I think we've all got the herpes virus in some form right you've already got it it's just depends on which version and which fits in you know I mean Andy that used to be used to talk about that when before you your and before your constant state of being was brain feed. Yeah, well now I know why. There's nothing left. Why? Yeah, you just got nothing left. We've got nothing left.
Starting point is 00:40:53 I'm a horse. Look up into the mother Christmas pooping batteries. You can't rock that down. I'll just write that down. Mother Christmas. What about a sketch in which you can give the greatest gift of all for Christmas, which is forgiveness or possibly the greatest gift of all Easter? Easter.
Starting point is 00:41:16 Imagine that you give somebody and it's a portal directly to Easter. Straight to Easter. There aren't any Easter movies. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, what about Hop? Is that an Easter movie? Yeah. There isn't, there is an Easter movie. Doesn't sound like he doesn't. Doesn't sound as... Doesn't sound us significant. It's momentous. Now how would we make there isn't any Easter movie, a Christmas movie?
Starting point is 00:41:52 Well I think you just did it with a thing where you could give somebody a portal to Easter. Yeah, but that's making a Christmas movie into an Easter movie. Actually, there even is a movie called it's not Guardians of the Galaxy, but it's the something of the Guardians, which is like Santa and the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy and Jack Frost and And the tooth fairy and Jack Frost and... Sort of like a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Yeah, and there's also the same man, and they're all kind of like protecting Earth from some guy who, you know, has dark powder and he creates nightmares and stuff like that. And yeah, and so then they've kind of,
Starting point is 00:42:46 they tried to make a sort of holiday is extended universe. The holiday is extended universe. That is what that is, isn't it? Yeah. Like, yeah, I lose my teeth holiday. Yes. And then they kind of try to do it a little bit
Starting point is 00:43:04 with the nightmare before Christmas. It's kind of like a, you know, there's portals to the different holiday kind of worlds. One of them is, you know, he's in the Halloween world, then he goes out and he tries to go into the portal that takes him to the Christmas world. That's good, I'm glad I did that. It sounds like it's all under control. Yeah, I mean, we could do more, we could do sort of more like, you know, government-based holidays, you know, Labor Day, Quint Kings birthday. So the government doesn't give us a present for Christmas. I feel like the government should give us a present for Christmas.
Starting point is 00:43:41 I guess if they give us a day off, that should be enough. No. That's not really in the spirit of Christmas. And what I think it should be is I think it should be either you're allowed to commit one crime or you can be forgiven by the government for one thing, right? You can get something you can get something taken off your your permanent record. Yeah. Or what else does the gentleman have power over? We'll shoot one thing into space for you. Yeah, I see that big of a problem. Get your moon to get us. I know but I think that we should just get something that broadcasts our sketches through space
Starting point is 00:44:28 in some kind of universal language. Oh, that'd be great. Does anybody work you on that? Mathematics? Would it be mathematics? Um, maybe. But I don't like that as much. You know, I want our sketches to just, I think maybe what we would do is we would release our sketches
Starting point is 00:44:48 in about five to ten different languages. Sure. And then, and then have them playing like that. And then they should be able to figure it out from based on that. That should be enough data points. I think so. Great. Does feel like once you've got something in about three languages,
Starting point is 00:45:06 you should be able to try and triangulate it. Yeah. Meaning. Yeah. I wonder whether that's a thing. Whether it's like you go, oh, maybe if we were getting signals from planets, you've got to separate them to see a few of the different signals.
Starting point is 00:45:21 And you go, oh, that's what they were doing. They were giving us three data points so that we can reinterpret the same thing it's the same thing but it's said in three different ways and then you could figure out what it is. It feels right but I feel also but on intellectually I can guarantee to you that that's not possible. No. It depends on how simple some of the things are. I think any situation, any movie, or anything where you receive data, they receive something in an alien language and they're able to decoded without knowing the language is impossible. There's no way. That's why that was such a good idea
Starting point is 00:46:08 with that wind talkers thing in World War II where they used people speaking Native American language instead of a code. Such a good idea. You should do that all the time. That should be what the internet encoding is. You should have a Cherokee gentleman in your living in your house. Even the word the Cherokee has the word key in it, which is great. We spell it CHER OKY and every household has a win-talker.
Starting point is 00:46:45 When you want it, yes, we'll ask them, obviously, but when you want to search for something in Cognito mode, you just whisper your search to a Cherokee gentleman, say, disgusting pornography please, and then he types it into the into the search engine in that in his language. That language yeah and then he's and then somebody else it goes to somebody else who's doing and they look it up and they look it up and then they describe it to him and he describes it to you to him and he describes it to you in English. And the more you masturbate.
Starting point is 00:47:30 And then finally no one would know the horrible things that you do to yourself and what you look up. I'm just kidding, I'm really only one, maybe two people more than currently do. We'll know. So it's almost a good solution. What's that word for that kind of internet? VPN, it's an alternative to VPN. It really adds the virtual to the virtual private concept. It's a virtually private network. Virtually private.
Starting point is 00:48:21 It's just you and two Iroquois Elders who know It's just like the thing is like you know Having it be elders as well means like you know the respect that in their culture comes towards them for being elders and the Horrableness of the job that they are now forced to do. Yeah, I mean, this is not forced. I think it, yeah, I think this is potential to be a deeply problematic sketch
Starting point is 00:48:50 that we regret very soon, if not immediately. I know, but what they could do is, you know, you could easily change it into being a group of people that people don't feel sensitive about. You know, you could... The Swedes. Yeah, you could make it the Swedes, you could make it. You know, people...
Starting point is 00:49:13 I've been seeing, since I've been mentioning to people about speaking French from Quebec, I've been seeing a lot more of that, of that like, judgment that other French people have towards Quebec people. And I haven't realized that I'm from from from from French people. Like people from yeah yeah from everywhere else in the world who speak French. They think that Quebec French is stupid and sounds sounds weird and bad. That's probably the way people feel about Australia and English, right? I think you've just got a double whammy of being a... a... looks down upon colony. I don't think... I don't think it's exactly... I think maybe the English from England do, but the Americans love the Australians, it seems.
Starting point is 00:50:00 They kind of look at it in some, you know, a little bit more... I mean, look, any broad statement like this does not. It is. Well, I think mine still stands then because it's the English from England, who are the. If I suppose if everything is true, then yes, your stand, your, your stands. All right, Alistair. I reckon it's time for three Christmas words for a Christmas list.
Starting point is 00:50:26 A Christmas letter. Well, this, this, um, I tried to pick the listener with what I felt was the Christmas. The Christmas listener, the Christmas listener, with what I felt was the Christmas, it, Christmas, it's Christmas, it is the name. And so I went for Christmas. Bjorn Hoppe. Bjorn Hop. Bjorn Hop, that's extremely Christmassy. It feels Christmassy.
Starting point is 00:50:50 It feels like it's within a 5-kilometer radius of where Santa was greeted. I mean, it's a little bit e-story as well with that hop. That's true. Yeah, and the Bjorn part almost sounds like Jesus being Bjorn. This is possibly the most festive name I've ever heard. Yeah, and I went to school with a guy called Richard Christmas. Like, wow, and it's kind of normal out on it, which it feels like either Santa Claus or Christmas should have on it. Mmm.
Starting point is 00:51:23 And completely. Would you like to guess what the first word is? Hmm. Okay, the first word now these might not be Christmassy words. Okay. We've got a Christmassy name. Is that right? Sure. Yeah, yeah, it's up to you.
Starting point is 00:51:42 You do what you think. Okay, well then the first word I'm getting guess is bauble Okay, let me just see here Now the first word Andy unfortunately is Divination divination that's quite Christmasy Yeah, I kind of Chris Elucidation elucidation. Elucidation, that's a good gas and a D.
Starting point is 00:52:12 Unfortunately, the second word is chicken. Divination chicken bone. The last one you're sending is chicken, is bone. Bone, because I think, you know, when you're devining, when you're seeing is chicken is bone. Bone because I think when you're divining, when you're doing water divining, you actually want a stick that is shaped quite a lot like a wishbone, which is kind of a wide shaped bone. And I think this chicken bone.
Starting point is 00:52:34 That's a great solution. If you were trying to divide underground chickens, yes. Yeah. Unfortunately, the third word is bobble. What is it? Bobble. It's not, though. What is it, really? Eh? Well, it is bobble because...
Starting point is 00:52:52 because Bjorn Hopp asked me to make whatever your first round answer was. The third word. I don't think that's fair. I don't think that's fair. I don't think you're allowed to do that. I know there aren't any rules to this, but that feels like that's fair. I don't think that's fair. I don't think you're allowed to do that. I know there aren't any rules to this, but that feels like it's cheating. And it's really sorry, but I gave you and I gave you and hop diplomatic immunity. So even if it's not allowed, he can do it.
Starting point is 00:53:24 All right. So have diplomatic community. Oh, what's that word? There is a word that sounds like diplomatic that is that is marriage, right? Marital? Marital, diplomatic, diplomatic. Diplomatic or word, Diplodocus. Diplodocus. Diplodocus? No, not Diplodocus. Romantic.
Starting point is 00:53:53 Romantic. Romantic. It's got an echo on the end. No. There is another. Not matrimonial. Maybe I'm thinking of matrimonial. No, okay.
Starting point is 00:54:03 I feel like a romantic was closer. What about epithelamic? Might have been epithelanac. Conjugal? I think conjugal was what I thought. Conjugal, you might have been the euconjugal. Yeah, it doesn't sound anything like diplomatic though. Not really though.
Starting point is 00:54:22 What about canoe view? Nupchule? Nupchial immunity. Wedding. Hymenial? No. Hymenial is probably what I was thinking. Yeah on. It was epithelianic. Come on. Alright, so. So, what were the words again? Divination, chicken. Divination. Chicken is bobble. I mean, I think the idea of it, you know, the idea that you could hold a chicken and
Starting point is 00:55:01 that somehow, as you walked around where it, and you followed where it pointed its head. Yeah. And then it would lead you to something? You can, you can complete, you could completely convince people that that they had some ability to take something. Is it cancer? And then go?
Starting point is 00:55:17 Yeah, because then, because then you could do that thing as well. And to prove it by saying, look at this, and because like now, it must be this way, because you know how you can move a chicken's body and then its head will stay in the bowl. And keep the head pointing in the same direction.
Starting point is 00:55:31 This is a really good one, Alistair. We're onto something here. Yes. We could start an entire chicken-based wellness. Raiji. And then occasionally we'll look away, it would have to just want to look at something you know with like a bug might fly by someone and just got to be at least ten years
Starting point is 00:55:54 and that's the mission that proves the rule but that's right but yeah we can get it to do that thing where it doesn't it doesn't move and it just keeps looking at the same thing and It doesn't move and it just keeps looking at the same thing and yeah I know but I think I think that there'd be times when it would you know like we're talking two different modes we're talking the Mode when you're like trying to find the area and then you kind of prove then you have your I'm proving to the people that This is really working mode when you start moving the body around and the head stays in the same place. Yeah, yeah, yep when you start moving the body around and the head stays in the same place. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:25 Do you then perform surgery with a chicken? A medical grade chicken, obviously. Or like as in, I mean, it'd be, it'd be very clever if you could, you know, in your fingers have a little like a little blade, a kind of a razor blade. Like that, you can make a little cut and then pop a little, little dry corn into the wound. And then just have, you know, just as it is, it's a bit of a slight hand.
Starting point is 00:56:52 And then have the chicken pack at the thing. But it seemed like it's really doing something there. Yeah, you're gonna make it, you're gonna make it, say like the chicken's doing something. Yeah, you're gonna make it seem like this, because you know, if the chicken doesn't do enough people are not going to be willing to Separate with their money. Yeah, I think For some reason you've set it up where you where you're paying after with like a restaurant. I
Starting point is 00:57:16 Think there's a good movie a good scene in the movie and a movie maybe on M night Shyamalan movie, right? Shyamalan Shyamalan movie, right? Shyamalan, Shyamalan? Yeah. Where all the chickens in the world start facing in the same direction. Oh, wow. For some reason, people just start to notice that all chickens have turned to face the same direction. Now, I don't know how that works on a on a on an earth that is essentially a sphere.
Starting point is 00:57:44 I don't know what that means. Are they all looking up into space or I think but there's just a great scene in which somebody is able to use a data from chickens all over the world. Stimmed and like determine the point the spot where all the chickens are looking and then there's a trend in where chickens are looking and it's all focusing on one spot. Exactly. So like some chickens would just be looking down at the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Looking through the core of the earth.
Starting point is 00:58:18 Yeah. And I guess we go there for some reason. Yeah. We go and find that spot and then you can. And you're carrying the chicken in your hands as well to just kind of go. Yeah, that would be really good actually. That would be awesome if all chickens did face
Starting point is 00:58:36 the same direction for some reason. And then we could use them for navigational purposes. And you needed to have a chicken on you at all times. As a kind of. Yeah, I mean, you could actually use it for navigation, even if you're going to other places, because you just need to figure out where your goings did, like, relative to where the chicken's looking.
Starting point is 00:58:56 Yeah. Essentially, the chickens become a little needle floating in water, yeah. But I mean, you want to be carrying your chicken around like that. It's maybe not even that interesting, really. Now that you put it like that. Well, now that the chickens just become a compass. I know, okay, but it's still useful.
Starting point is 00:59:17 It's still interesting in the fact that we don't know why the chickens are doing that. Well, we've seen that the army there, right? There's this huge expo-ditional force. There's a big force. Maybe it's in space. Maybe it's the army there, right? There's this huge, expeditional force. There's a big force. Maybe it's in space. Maybe it's on the moon, right? And we do this elaborate, huge thing,
Starting point is 00:59:32 where we've got to find out what all the chickens are looking at. Right? And we spend billions of dollars and we blast off with this massive force of, you know, military and science-based people. And they all go and they land on the moon. And when they get there, there's just a bit of corn. It's just like a bit of corn. All the chickens are looking at it for some reason.
Starting point is 00:59:53 It's a really nice caterpillar. I know, but then there's still the question of, what is special about this piece of corn? Well, well, how did it get there? But maybe there is nothing interesting about that. There's no interesting answer There's no interesting answer about how it's called it's really mundane. They find out the answer to the dirty trusting I know, but how did the chickens know? How can you
Starting point is 01:00:31 It's not interesting. Oh, I think that's there's something about that to me. The idea that you could find a piece of corn on the moon and it's not interesting. The answer for how it got there. I wonder if you could find a pro-zac, a non-interesting answer to that question, because that's sort of in a way is what science does, right? There's something miraculous in the universe, like a rainbow, or, you know, like quantum interference of the youngs, double-slip experiment, and then they just find out a sign to be an explanation that's just boring.
Starting point is 01:01:03 Some bursts that come from some far away star system that is like repetitive and seems like a mathematical somewhere. It's exactly like a message from an alien civilization. They find it always fights some way to make it see really dull. Yes, I say with this bit of cool on the moon, with all the chickens. Of course, still a bit with all the chickens.
Starting point is 01:01:23 I mean, I do like this idea, because I do like the idea of like a film that is all about taking the magic out of stuff. Thank you. You know, that does kind of reproduce the scientific process. But then why are all the chickens all looking in one direction towards the moon?
Starting point is 01:01:42 And then they go, oh, turns out it wasn't never anything to do with the moon. And then they go, turns out it wasn't never anything to do with the moon. It was like a virus. It was like a chicken plague. Yeah, I think that's good. So then I remembered my thing familiar that I was trying to think of. And this may not be anything, but it was how may I'm imagining like a JK Rowling situation where like she's problematic, right?
Starting point is 01:02:09 And I was also thinking of a cross between that and the Britney Spears situation where she was in, her people, you know, some people in a life decided that she wasn't able to be trusted with her own decision making, and she had that conservatorship. I was thinking of a situation in which fictional characters, people, people, creatives who are too probo, have the
Starting point is 01:02:34 intellectual property or have the have their fictional characters, the control of them and their fictional universes taken over by a conservatorship, right? So you're like, sorry, you are no longer allowed to be in charge of this character, okay? It's gonna be in the in the safe hands of a team of lawyers or something like that, you know, and they are the one who are in charge of it. So which character, sorry? I'm thinking that this is like somebody born on control. Yeah, okay. So they're like, okay, take care, Rollie,
Starting point is 01:03:07 you don't no longer get to make any decisions. You can maybe still write the books, but you have to do it under the guidance of a legal team who make all the decisions. Or, you know, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, you've made two bad Indiana Jones movies now. Okay, you're no longer allowed to do this. It's been decided in a court of law that you can't. You're not in a fit state to be a judge of these things.
Starting point is 01:03:37 You're now under Indiana Jones conservatorship. Yes. As I said, maybe this isn't interesting. No, I mean, I think the film doesn't do well enough. At some point, the league, the league will need to get involved. Yeah. Maybe the fans get to take over. The biggest fan gets to take over. Maybe the fans get to control his body and mind. George Lucas or someone else. Yeah, like like as in they somehow there's a there's a computer system that allows a group of fans to act like individual neurons. Yeah, that's a good hive mind. Yeah, hive mind. And then they can make decisions in that kind of way. Now, I feel like I saw something on the internet years ago where that was kind of happen. Anyway, don't remember if it had any success, but anyway, I don't know. Yeah, sorry. Anyway, we've done the episode L. Steer. Yeah, okay. I was just right character
Starting point is 01:04:52 conservatorship or ship Like what's in there? Take it rolling. Oh, Paul, oh, you, you know, it is JK, Rowling and Harry. Okay, and that is the episode. Oh my gosh, thank you so much, Bjorn Hopp, for being the best Christmas prisoner. Without a doubt, we could have had a more Christmasy listener.
Starting point is 01:05:20 Yeah, I know, for this episode. And also, JK Rowling has her ability to control Henry taking away while sitting in a slay. Okay, so the first sketch Andy, and this is in Verde Colise, is corrugation, is causation. Yes, somebody who really good, really good. My favorite one. OK. Who thinks corrugation? Then we've got evolution till the full G spot,
Starting point is 01:05:56 the full G spotted rectum. Yeah, that was a real listen to this with your ceramics class sketch idea. What was that? Remember the person, the listener who played the podcast for their ceramics class? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was like, we were talking about something real fucked right really early on in the episode.
Starting point is 01:06:17 Yeah. That's what I think about every time we have a messed up sketch way too early in the, anyway, it's fine. You need the whole ceramic glass to get adjusted to how we talk and who we are. Exactly. Before we launch into something vulgar about our trust.
Starting point is 01:06:34 Yeah. Then we've got a comedian going to the moon so that he can be as edgy as he likes. That's my favorite one. That actually is. You've already said that about two. The sketch was on this one. Yeah, well the first one I was joking.
Starting point is 01:06:52 Okay, great. Then we've got the Blood Blister and Regular Blister Christmas Santa outfit. Oh no! I think that might be my favorite one. Then we have Andy and Chris Lysmuss. The songwriter. Old man finally gets most listened to song of the year, but we're the old that they're the last two people.
Starting point is 01:07:14 Yeah. Good. And then we've got Father Christmas puns, film execs, trying to come up with film ideas. We've got diplomatic community guy, eats prime minister, police can't do anything. So a mortal guy who jumps head first off of buildings as a superpower, as a way to fight crime. I think also the diplomatic community sketch in which the ambassadors all throw themselves
Starting point is 01:07:52 out of the window because for some reason they mistakenly think the diplomatic community means they can't die. Oh yeah, there is also a hybrid in that down there forgot to read it. Diplomatic community guy jumps out of window dies. And then it says, it happened again. Then we have dating show with Guy who is immortal and has lived billions of years. Yeah. And he's looking for love.
Starting point is 01:08:17 He's ready to try again. He's ready to try again. Beautiful. He believes in marriage, the institution of marriage. It could be really interesting to picture a guy like that who is also very conservative. Then you have mother Christmas battery pooping Mrs. Claus. I mean, you know, you get the point. We got having a Cherokee person, you whisper your porn term to and they describe it. You know, yeah. Yeah. Then we have a new chicken scam using chickens to find tumors or other stuff. You kind of get the
Starting point is 01:09:03 point of that one. Then we got the M Night Shemla on movie where all the chickens start looking in the same direction but we find out why over the film why it's all mundane and not interesting at all in the way that science does. And then we have the character conservatorship where directors lose like like J.K. Role, or your writers and directors lose control over their characters because they've either become insane or they've not made enough good stuff with them. You know, like, it's like what George Lucas kind of did to himself is just like, well, I'm not going to make any more good stuff or piece of the people that are going to like
Starting point is 01:09:44 with this, so you just take over. And give me two billion dollars. Two billion dollars. Here I've seen those things where it's like, those videos where it's just like, George Lucas appears in the background of this documentary.
Starting point is 01:09:59 It's my favorite genre of media. Yeah, and it's like, or just like photos of him eating in a food court. Yeah. It's just amazing like because he just looks like a such a normal man. But he launched like you know the biggest franchise the world has ever seen. Yeah. Anyway, I think that's not coming up with it. I think he might have been involved in the new Indiana Jones film. I think that's why I said that but maybe not maybe you wasn't but I think
Starting point is 01:10:30 There's something about that thing where like you find out that it's a boring explanation for the chicken chicken-looking thing That is kind of what the twist is that if at the end of a fair few M night show Sharmelon movies like there's that one one, the village, where it's like, oh, there's all this creepy shit happening in the woods. And it turns out that it was the parrots doing it to keep the kids scared from leaving this cult like community or something.
Starting point is 01:10:55 You know, it's like quite a, in the end, it's quite, you're like, all the world is full of weird, mysterious possibilities. And then at the end, it's like, oh no, wait, it's actually just normal, like some lashes, quite boring. But then he also does that other kind of film where it's like, oh no wait, it's actually just normal X and Lash, it's quite boring. But then he also does that other kind of film where it's the sixth-thed, it was like it turns out ghosts are real, and that's not boring. Yeah, there's magic in people like that. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 01:11:16 Yeah, I hadn't watched the ones where there's nothing magical. Yeah, so... But I think you can release a new one which it was a cabin maybe a cabin I yeah cabin this time instead of a bit full village he's just getting to smaller and smaller things you know the great of sand that makes you horny they call the things that are the beach that makes you horny, they kind of things, but it makes you old. Alright, Alistair, let's go. Alright. Boundin' down, boundin' down, boundin' down, boundin' down, boundin' down, boundin' down,
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Starting point is 01:12:19 Oh, we did it. You know what's bad? George Lucas gets credits as a writer on almost everything that's made that has, that has star wars in it. Yeah, he does. So then his IMDB is useless. Yeah, yeah, of course, because he hasn't actually, yep. Yeah, well, that's what you've got to do.
Starting point is 01:12:44 You just come up with a bit of IPA, and then you just, you know, you just sort of all over everything You know, like the gingous car of IP, you know? Genghis go IP. I gotta do it for a few things stupid shit, so. Yeah, bye. Thank you. Bye everybody. Thank you.
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