Two In The Think Tank - 76 - "ALL OF ME"

Episode Date: April 25, 2017

Specific Accents, Mission Self Realisation, Dropping Rabbits, Headline VS, All of Me Two in the Think Tank is a part of the Planet Broadcasting family  You can find us on twitter at @twointank Andy Matthews: @stupidoldandy Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall: @alasdairtb And you can find us on the Facebook right here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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They take the show where we try to come up with five sketch ideas. I'm Andy. And I am Alistair. So what are you going to do about it? My fall. And we're going to keep talking until I guess five sketch ideas come out. I've sketch ideas. Yeah, they come out of us. They emerge sort of like a like a whale coming out of a tunnel. Do you think that at the moment the

idea is that in us and then we just got to get them out of here? No, they can't be because because they come out of both of us, right? Yeah. Which, I mean, I guess we're combining our DNA in a way, aren't we? Yeah. The ideas are conceived. We conceive them somewhere in the space between our brains. Maybe we're, maybe they're mostly happening in one of our heads. Or do you think one of us has to gestate the idea and carry it to term? Yeah, we're somebody has to get it to an idea.

It has to become an idea. Oh, I don't know. I think this loads of ideas. I think we're throwing a lot of ideas and then we're picking the one that survives. So it's more of an evolutionary process. More an evolutionary process. So there's lots of birthing happening. Yes. Consist Yes constant spawning

Like all these little, wriggly little things. Yeah, we're moving along just drop in eggs everywhere Whoa, yeah, and but you know, but they're they're fertilized eggs. Yep, and but only one of them will Will live, yeah, and then it'll eat all the others. Yeah How would you feel if people laid eggs? What do you think that would be like? I think better. You think it'd be better? You think it'd be better, yeah.

I think I'm just like, I'm bummed out women have to go through it. I mean, like, birth seems fine. But I mean, what makes you think that it'd be easier for women if we laid eggs? Uh. Or are you saying like a chicken-sized egg? Well, I mean, if it's chicken sized eggs, that would be way better. That would be way better, but, you know, then somebody's going to have to sit on that egg. I think I would prefer it if they came out chicken sized eggs.

Yep. Right, you can put it in a little incubator type thing, little, he read, like, little, infrared lamp on there. Oh, I see. That'd be great. But then the kids come out, uh, about that size. And you put them under a different lamp. Right. No, no, no, and I reckon if they were just like

a bit more capable, like if they could just crawl all over you, you know, like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, if your baby could just really have some nightmares about that. Yeah, climb up your back, like that and just kind of rest on your shoulder. Maybe you could keep them in your mouth, like those toads do.

Yeah, and maybe you could do that, or just in your ear or around your ear, or like, or in like a little kind of, like a little cat house in a hat that you would have. Or just like some sculpted hair, like if you could, because that, that, like, if there's anything in the human body that is, would, in theory, be good for a baby to nestle into. Yeah. It's the hair. And yet it's on the top of the head in the most exposed and useless space

for a regular sized baby. You see somebody walking around with a baby on their head, you're not thinking, oh, that's lovely, they're letting the baby nestle into their hair. You're thinking that idiot's put the baby in a really precarious position where it could be picked off by an eagle. But.

I always worry about that. So the baby's smaller, right? And you sculpt the hair or you let the hair grow big and bushy. I mean, if it was like a, you had a really good afro going, it would be like a clownfish in an enemy, right? And the baby could just sort of dart in and out of the afro, getting scraps. Perfect setup for peekaboo as well.

Oh, wow. Which babies love. Yeah. I mean, it could also work with just a top hat with a window Because you know not everybody has hair and so I don't think that and then if the baby could make wise cracks Just be perfect for like you know Just sits in there and then like at the perfect moment in the conversation That little window it slides open. I'm picturing it picturing it's a sash window that slides up like that.

And the baby just leans out shoulder on the seal and says, yeah, wish you'd told me that last week, Barry, before I bought all this cotton. And that's twins, they've got a trumpet. I think it would be more fun. I'm starting to think that maybe we should be raising our kids with a funny voice. Oh, you got to, you got to always sing. You know, that kind of thing.

Because you can raise a kid with any accent you want. All it takes is commitment. Yeah, absolutely. And I think it's just that most parents don't care enough, I guess about their kids to give them a fun accent Teach them how to talk drive I think you know all that a parent can really hope for their child is that they have a better lot in life Hmm than they did and you know what's better than Having a sort of a sassy Boston accent. Yeah. Very little.

Ah, get out of here. I don't know. Ah, I had enough of your kids. Yeah, get out that bloody ass. Yeah, get yourself out of a drug store. You can make your kids sound like Kennedy. Yeah. Like, I took me roughly 20 seconds of doing a

large impression before my son started doing it. Imagine if I was doing a margin pression the whole time. Anyway, hold this, come here. Hold this. Hold this, what's that? Hold this, what's that doing? I was walking around and for about 15 seconds without thinking I was going,

Homer, Homer, like that. And then he went, Homer. I had to thought, whoa. I think the Kennedy accent is a good idea because how many people have you seen with Kennedy's accent? One, right? And he was the president of the United States. So that accent, as far as I'm aware,

has a 100% strike rate of having its bearers become the president. And it's not like we don't have celebrities here in Australia that don't have weird accents. That's almost a land of people that get success, possibly due to their weird accent. Usually, Josh Thomas. Josh Thomas, look McGregor into a certain extent. Yes.

Others, I don't really pay attention to people outside of comedy. Whatever they're doing, a lot of TV presenters. I think that's what we mostly just do. I think a lot of TV presenters. I think that's, we mostly just, I think a lot of TV presenters though, wind up with quite a generic voice. Oh yeah, absolutely. You got to be bored. It's interesting that like the news reader voice

that they've chosen to teach all of them, it's just quite a, like a quite a sort of a mainstream, you know, because once again, I mean, that news reader voice could have been anything, that could have been Irish leprechaun. That could have been anything that could have been Irish leprechaun. That could have been angry aunt, screeching aunt. Yeah, absolutely. It could have been a Mugabe impersonation.

It could have been Mugabe. We went with mainstream mid-Australian slash British affected town. Almost like international waters. Maybe like 200Ks off the coast of Queensland. You know, somebody who owns about, but is from Australia, but it's spent enough time away watching kind of Netflix from America and things like that to sort of allow it to soften. And you know, people will talk about the, um,

the mid Atlantic accent as being a thing that's sort of half UK, half US thing that like a lot of newsreaders have in the United States. Yeah, right. as mid-Atlantic accent. But I think if you went to the middle of the Atlantic and if you looked at the accent that either exists there already or if you left people out there long enough the way they would talk.

I think you'd find that the newsreaders don't really have that sort of affectation of the screaming about the sunburn and like swearing at the gods for putting them in this position that are like the hallmarks of the mid-Atlantic accent. Sure. Unless all the people that you put out there were newsreaders. Yes. And then I guess in a way that would sort of be a way of reinforcing the why you've called it the mid-Atlantic accent. Right. And so, I mean, justify it.

Obviously, there wouldn't be this, you know, newsreaders tend to take a lot of the passion out of their voice, I imagine. I don't know if they would be doing that with it going like. And the sunburn is now killing me slowly. You know, whether they would sort of just keep the same rhythm as they perished away. But this just in, I'm eating Eric's bones. And another thing with a news voice. That was a good one, Alex. Thank you very much. I was gonna say something about Seagulls Eating my toes or something. Is there anything we can do with that?

Right. Is there anything we can do with a minute landing accident? Like I you know It's not probably not a sketch. It's gonna appeal to Australian audiences. There was a few ideas there There was the idea of Raising your kids with a different accent. Yeah, okay. So I think there's something in there. You know, and then there's also the mid-Atlantic thing. Okay.

So what, well, let's say you're raising your kids with a different accent. I think there are, there are definitely like ways that we could get really quite specific with this. It could be quite funny. Like, like if we say you're raising your kids with the accent of say, you know, an auntie on her third champagne at a Christmas function, right? Or you're raising your kids with the accent of somebody who's trying to get out of the house, but keeps getting called back, keeps the phone keeps ringing.

Sure, yeah. Or like, or the accent of a person who's trying to wrap up a conversation. Yeah, I think that's great. Yep. Sure. Okay. Okay, well, yep.

Anyway, it was great to chat to you. And so we'll definitely... Sure. But then you apply that to a regular life where you go, yep, I'll have the stick and... It's your fly. Yep. Anyway, and two coke things.

Yeah, okay. I think I think that is something. Specific. I mean, in a way, what we're doing here, I'm serious, a form of cultural appropriation, like we are taking the accent of people, you know, there are people out there who are genuinely trying to wrap up a conversation.

I'm not sure if what we're doing now is sort of inappropriate. I guess a lot of people who are trying to wrap up a conversation have been, I guess, stuck in that conversation for quite some time and find it very difficult to get out of that conversation for us to use their struggle for comedic effect. Yes. Well, you know, but yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a lot of kind of generalizations Yeah, for a comedic effect. Yes Sunfair, you know, but yeah, it's a it's a probably there's a lot of kind of generalizations get made about made about that and so it's like, you know, how can you say that?

All the people who are wrapping up conversations sort of have ownership over that And and and also What are you putting on them? Yeah, them by saying that they all sound like that? Yeah, how can we do the same sketch and give them the agency that is required? Like, I imagine people who are wrapping up conversations probably find it difficult to get jobs. Well, I guess we could get the actors that we get to play this could be people

trying to wrap our conversations. I think that would be a good start. But also, I think I'm allowed to write this sketch because I know that my dad has been a guy who's... He's actually currently trying to wrap up a conversation. And also, not that I've done in heaps, but I've done for a try. Yep, that's good, and I think we've done a lot of good stuff with this sketch. Anyway, so thanks very much. Cool.

That's good. Yeah, all right, number one. I'll see you in the... Sorry. Thank you. Sorry, you were saying? I'm going to just try and wrap up this sketch. I'll see you in the... Sorry. Are you? Yeah. Sorry you were saying? I'm going to just try and wrap up this sketch.

So before we go, no, you're going to be fine. I think I wonder if this... You could maybe do this as stand-up somehow. You think it's funny enough to do a stand-up? Do you think anything on this podcast is funny enough to do a stand-up? Yeah, there's currently some things in my show that are that are in there that they're from this podcast. I see it's I knew that not just wanted to hear you say that. Yeah, yeah, no, that's good. And but but I don't know if I've you know they're not a hundred percent have justice done to them yet. doing justice. Well, you got to do justice to this idea. I have a big part of my show that's about justice.

The funniest topic of all. Well, I think maybe in justice is probably slightly funnier than justice. Anything's tough. Yeah. I think sort of the needless suffering of many is obviously hilarious. Needless suffering of many. Is obviously hilarious. Yeah, but also the suffering of you can be also quite funny.

Oh, that's true. If it's sufficiently injust, I think. Yeah. I mean, it's interesting the mathematics of it all of like, you know, small injustices applied to a large number of people to do with traffic infringement or whatever that may be. Whether or not they add up to the significant injustices of a small group of people.

So like let's say like a small, let's say like Chinese minority who have horrendous things done to them. Right. But let's say there's only like 200 of them. Right. Right. Whether do they suffer more than like population of, you know, yeah. Like let's a billion. Yeah. Like the population of Brazil. If they're internet, or if like the taxes go up 1% for the poor, but the rich get that money. Who suffers more? Is there some way, I'll say, that we could do a sketch, maybe a bad, like, and I'm not sure if this is something we've done a bit of before, but like, with this idea of like, bad traffic, right? If there was some

way that we could find that we're able to sort of consolidate the frustration, the traffic frustration. I guess this is a thing that does happen, right? Like, if you're making a decision about putting in a new road, say, you're going to make the traffic situation a lot easier for a large number of people. But there are some people for whom you're going to make it worse. Because now there's a new big road near the front house and maybe now they can't get onto the expressway where they used to or something like that. So is there some way that we could find where we could make traffic flow perfectly

for 99.99% of the population by making it utterly impossible for like one or two people. Like if we could consolidate all of the traffic problems. So like the idea that you're building this freeway and it makes it better for everybody, except for one guy whose house was sort of blocked in by the freeway and is surrounded by walls now. And the only way that he can, well, he can't even get his car out, and he has to sort of scale the wall to just even leave his property.

So, that's very literal. And when you describe it like that, it absolutely gets the point of what I was trying to say. That's a great thank you. But it doesn't allow me to get the scene of him struggling in traffic, which is sort of what I think is like the comic scene of the thing. Sure, the comic scene. Yeah, yeah.

I guess because there was just a wall climbing movie. It's basically a wall. It's just basically cliffhanger. Yeah. You know, and we've installed loans already done that. And it's been done. Yeah. He's taken that format.

That's going to surprise. It's going to go. Yeah, absolutely. The hanging from a cliff. I mean, obviously mission impossible. The hanging from a cliff. I mean, obviously, Mission Impossible. Yeah, but they could only touch on it, try to find some meat weather. Yeah, yeah.

And you'll notice that they dropped that really early on in the film. Like, you start out, he's hanging from the cliff and then they saw this was going nowhere. This has been done. It's kind of like, sorry, just as a mission impossible sort of does, does sort of like problem sketches where you know like a sketch show would do comedy sketches right they kind of do little problems that he has the

salt and sketches you know maybe that's just what films are but I will people say that in when you're studying improv which we've both done a little bit of time when you're studying improv, which we've both done a little bit of, when you're doing improv, they say that problem solving sketches actually aren't funny. Like people don't wanna see a scene in which people try and solve a problem. Yeah. Because that's not comedy.

What that is is mission impossible. That's right. And so, so that's perfect problem solving sketches if you're trying to come up with mission possible. You know improvised mission impossible now we need to defuse this bomb now we need to go through this glass wall so we can take the fish from the guy so that he leaves the room so that we can get his metallic laser key. Yeah. room so that we can get his metallic laser key. Yeah. So, would you think people would go along to see that?

You know, because people like comedy, people like action. Yeah. Like, could you have an improvised action in which you're not trying, not going for any else, but I think it's a problem is people would probably still laugh at it. Well, but then, then, then it would prove I guess, look, if people laugh at it, you're proven these people wrong. Let's say that it problems on these guesses. Yes, people don't laugh at it.

You've just created a perfect mission impossible. Perfect mission impossible. Unfunny. Now, what we have seen from Mission Impossible is that, you know, they keep making these movies. Ultimately, in each film, Tom Cruise does succeed in the mission. So we do see that the missions are possible.

But I'm wondering if maybe what the title is hinting at is that there's some broader mission that is impossible. Like, what is it within Tom Cruise himself that drives him to keep doing this kind of stuff? And maybe the mission really is not whatever he's trying to solve. Maybe it's not getting the laser key from the fish man. Maybe it's some sort of deeper hurt, you know, to do with, you know, his upbringing that he's not even confronting like all of this stuff, it seems like it's a distraction, the way he keeps putting himself in these extreme scenarios. Like what's he? Where loads of people die at his hand. Yeah.

That feels like that's a problem within. You don't go into that kind of work feeling okay. He looks like he's running away from an explosion, but I reckon he's really running away from his past. Yeah, that makes sense to me. This all makes sense. And when you become one of these agents, one of the benefits is that they erase a lot of that past.

Absolutely, yeah, sure. And just the, it being done literally, obviously, is probably works as a form of therapy for you to do it. But I think you're just avoiding it. Well, of course, you can never really erase your past. Yeah. You can just erase the electronic traces. Do you?

Records, yeah. Which, you know, to a certain extent, can save you some embarrassment? race the electronic traces. Yeah, records. Yeah. Which sign, you know, and to a certain extent, can save you some embarrassment? If that's what it is, if like some 1,300 phone calls that you made when you were 17, are your trauma in your past, then this could be a solution. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so, I mean, that's not even a crazy thing for somebody who has maybe you know, maybe made a sex tape early on in their lives or, you know, just whatever, you know, that, I mean, that could be it. That could be a sex tape. It could be, you know, Tom Cruise early on sort of, you know, like- It could be, I mean, it could be one of those things where, you know, in primary school, your three, your school camp, you're walking through the bush.

He lets, you know, maybe he lets out of fart or something like that. And it's brutal for even, even if it's just 25 seconds, but he gets a nickname. You know, he gets a nickname and sticks with him. Tom Pose. Tom Pose, there you go. Now he's 25, he's finished university. He's trying to make it in Hollywood. He's trying to make it in Hollywood.

People who know him and they know and they meet the people that he, you know, his new acquaintances and things like that. Everybody lets know, oh, this is Tom Pooz. Like that and they tell him the story. So then one day, and he's trying to tell people, say, look, when are you introduced me? Can you not call me Tom Pooz? Yeah, please, I am, I'm trying to make it here. Yeah, like that. And then one day he sees an ad anything

That's like pretty vague, but it's like working working intelligence ball by this you know get a new life Maybe what I'm sure these ads look like maybe have a new life have you know maybe have your past erased? Yeah, that's any goes this could be my chance all these ads look like, get a new life. You know, maybe have your past or a rest. Yeah. That's how he goes, this could be my chance. And so, and then he signs up, he goes, he does all the tests, he signs a thing, and they go through and they run a magnet over all his hard drives. They go into the bank and clinical looking suits and gloves on and they delete a whole lot of records and they burn some stuff in a bin. And then they go to a wee lone old hometown and they

beat to death with a bag, a whole bunch of people who went to school with. That is just change his face a little bit. I don't know which one is easier. Wouldn't it be just easier to change his face a bit? Well, maybe both. If you had a different face, that is basically the perfect way of changing your identity I mean yeah, you've still got your fingerprints you're planning them off. I know but but nobody in your life knows you by your fingerprints Like all you just need to do is just change your face. I Think people used to know each other's fingerprints,

you know, but now that we've got mobile phones, you know, we can never even know if anyone has any fingerprints. They're just on the bloody phone, you know, they're never touching, and so. So look, I think the mission impossible thing with where it's, you know, he's running away

from something. There's a greater mission that is impossible. I think, whether or not he could, maybe that's, he's been given the mission, right? In a new film, he goes into the headquarters and he say, okay, well, so what's the mission? And they say, well, look, there is no mission. Tom, Tom, or whatever your character's called.

Yeah, probably Tom. Tom. Cruise. You've got to ask yourself, like, you know, you keep going on these missions. It's called mission impossible. You keep solving them. What does that make you think? Well, I'm very good at solving the missions, it's called mission impossible. You keep solving them. What does that make you think? Well, I'm very good at solving the missions, obviously. I can do them. Yeah, but we, you know, we make assessments of this. We know that you're very good at this, but we keep calling the missions impossible. Like, you know, the movies are mission impossible.

The movies are mission. They refer to. So what do you, you know, what do you take, like think about that, think hard about that, like what do you think that means for you? I can do the missions. I'm good at the missions. I do. So they're possible. They're not pro. They just need. But why are you doing this? Why are you putting your life on the line for these missions? That's the mission impossible. There is no mission this time. That's the mission. Oh wow.

The mission is to do no mission and just to be yourself and just to live with who you are and just to turn inside and just think. And then he starts to knit. They send him home. Like what's he's he gets down a box of albums he reads Jane air Don't feel like you brought up Jane air last podcast You you got Jane are you reading Jane air at the moment? What is this Jane air thing? I don't know I think it's just I think it's just strange that Guys don't recommend pride and prejudice or jane heir to each other. That is the thing that guys don't do.

No, but there's no guys recommending any Virginia wolf to me. I've heard she's very good. But not from guys. Not from guys. It was a woman who told me that. I am... I don't know anything about Virginia wolf. Yeah, I don't know all I like all I know about Virginia wolf Is that she had a different nose to Nicole Kidman. Yeah, I think that's my one Virginia wolf fact

I think she was a bit meta Virginia. Yeah, or maybe or bit maybe like was she I don't know I don't know what the word postmodern really means, but she might have been in that Was she part of the bloom bloom bloom bird group sounds pretty great. Yeah, I don't know she died in a river I mean you lose you lose your your membership to a group of group as soon as you die in the river. You die in a river. Jeff Buckley is not a part of any groups anymore. Sorry.

No, that's all right. I mean, you took this conversation. You threw it into the river, Alistair. Yeah, that's true. It's not a part of any groups now. All right, Virginia Wolf. Right. But wait, we were done with Mission Impossible.

I think we're done with Mission Impossible. I think we got everything that was to be got out of that. All right, Virginia Woolf James Joyce, right? Yeah. We got some great authors, right? We got some great authors who experiment with the form. James Joyce, you Lissys, obviously. Yeah.

I tried to read you Lissys. You tried to read you Lissys? Somebody told me it was too hard. So I didn't even bother. Right. That's how hard it is. Yeah. Yeah.

So hard I didn't even bother. It's so hard. I'm like, well, you know, and it's one of those things I don't know, somebody says something. Like, I've sort of seen writing like that where it's like, the words barely make sense. Barely go together. These are not sentences and this is like,

it's written in some impressionist type way where you're supposed to just kind of just let your eyes glaze over and just kind of run over it and try to get a general, govily good, get you, try to get a random feel from it. And then, and nothing really sort of happens.

It's just a series of sort of characters and interactions. But you know, the characters are all fluid and maybe the time isn't even linear. Yeah, okay. Yeah, and then, but then people say that's amazing. And so you go, well, I don't feel like you truly believe that. Is this amazing or is it really bad? Yeah, it's... I feel like you truly believe that. Is this amazing or is it really bad? Yeah, it's... I think that's the same thing. I don't know if there is good and bad.

Right. I think the things that are really bad are probably great because I enjoy them more. Right. You know, like, remember I got, I bought some like, some teenage, some, you know, some teen novel

that I got from some $2 store and I picked it up and I was like secondhand and I was reading it and I was like, this is so bad. And I was having a better time than I've had reading almost any novel. And the most of the time that I enjoy a book is because I'm going like, oh this is... Do you finish this book, sir? The ones that I love. Sorry, I'm saying the ones that are bad, so bad. Well, I don't even finish the ones that I love.

Right, okay, so the ones that you think are really good and you love them. You don't finish those. I was thinking about after Comedy Festival trying to finish my favorite book. I decided it was my favorite book, maybe like three, you know, 30 pages in. Yeah. I'm almost four years in. Four years deep. Four years.

Four years. Project. Yeah. That's Mission Impossible. Finish that mission impossible. Finish that bloody book on your bloody bedside, Tom Cruise. Yeah, I haven't, yeah. It's been even been moved away from the bedside. Wow. I haven't, yeah, it's been even been moved away

from the bedside. Wow. Yeah, relegated. Okay, so sketches, what were we just talking about? All your James Joyce, that kind of writing thing. Yeah, like, and, and, okay, so, so, so, so, so what is it? That, that, that, that people have to say that it's great? Is it a thing of once you've read the whole thing,

you've got to tell yourself that it was good in order to justify having read this whole thing? Once you get a certain distance into it, you're like, this should better be the best novel of all time. I mean, this is... You've just got to tell yourself anything in order to finish, you know, finish reading it. Yeah, maybe it's just also like, well, look, you've never read anything like this before. Yeah. You know, there you go. That was, that was a bit of suffering. That's what life is about. You get enjoyment from the pain of this. I think it's awful. It's, oh,

there you go. I didn't feel like anything you normally do. Right. That's, that's good, right? And is it a coincidence that the people who've written the longest essays about this book also Oh, there you go. I didn't feel like anything you normally do. Right. That's good, right? And is it a coincidence that the people who've written the longest essays about this book also happen to be the people who think it's the best, right? Clearly, the more time you spend absorbing it and suffering it, the better you think you convince yourself that it is in order to justify that amount of work. Yeah, that makes sense to me. I reckon you would find a hundred percent correlation with people who've spent a lot of their lives thinking about

and talking about that book, who also think it's good. Now, if people who thought it was bad, or people who thought it was good, hadn't spent any time thinking about it or talking about it, I would trust their opinion more because they've got less invested in it, they've got less to lose. Sure, well, I mean people who haven't,

like Alistair, for example, you were told, you haven't even read the book, you haven't even tried to read the book. Now, if you thought it was a very good book, I might believe you, because you've, you've got no skin in the book. Now if you thought it was a very good book, I might believe you. Yeah. Because you've, you know, you've got no skin in the game. Yeah. Like, I guess it's like, it's like stubbing your toe, right? Sure. Somebody who, you know, somebody who does it a lot, yes, right? Like, like, a lot might start professionally. Yeah. Might, might be like, oh my god, stubbing your toe was the best experience that you can have. It's actually more, it's very complex and there's a lot of deep tones to it and things like that.

The throwing. But people like you and me who just do it occasionally and it just kind of heard of, we do it accidentally. We just can't do it. We just can't do it. Like in a party when there's a lot of pressure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We do it. We go, we think, oh, we got that's awful.. It hurts. It's painful. It's the worst things like that, right? So the, but people who do it a lot probably love it.

So I, I'm just going to go ahead and just trust the people who haven't been, uh, you know, uh, the word would be, uh, uh, corrupted, compromised,ed by certain biases in your head that come from overexposure to suffering? Right. Or in this case, like the bias of having red ulysses. Yeah. Right, like there is an inherent... Over the last ten years, bombers has donated over 100 million socks, underwear and t-shirts to those facing homelessness.

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Absolutely not, no. So you've gotta ask everybody, right? Or at least you've gotta ask some sort of statistically significant group that is randomly selected. You might even have to just get kids and expose some to none. Right. Expose some to the whole book. Right.

And then let others encounter little bits of Ulysses just along the way. Now that might be unethical, right? But it might be possible to study this using chimps, right? It might be better using chimps or rabbits and putting drops of Ulysses in their eyes. Okay. Okay. So look, there may be something in that Ulysses thing, right? I want to move on to a new topic. Okay.

Why are we still testing shampoo on rabbits? Because like who, how much better could shampoo possibly get? Like I am really happy with the current range of shampoo options. And I'm not convinced that if we continue to experiment with shampoo by dropping it into rabbit's eyes, that we're going to be able to come up with a shampoo that is so much better than any of the current shampoos that it's worth torturing bunnies.

That's true. But also, how much better can you make? Could you be improving rabbit fur? It's already the most soft and beautiful fur of all. I show you, surely when you're washing it, you're not even seeing that much improvement. And maybe that's why we continue to test because they're not testing it on humans.

Right, they're testing it on rabbits. And they go, well, it, it felt amazing before. It still feels pretty amazing. Maybe a little bit more amazing, but I mean, the improvement wasn't that high. Right. So maybe what they're doing is they're testing it on rabbits. They like, wow, they put it on the rabbit. Maybe they're not even testing it before, checking the rabbit for beforehand. They put it on the rabbit. They go, wow, this rabbit's fur is incredible. They put it on a human and they're like, ah, this is kind of like long and stringy. This isn't the effect that

we were expecting based on this test we did on a rabbit. Better go back and do more tests on a rabbit. On a rabbit. Yeah. But also just how much can you improve? I mean, your hair is pretty clean most of the time. Yeah. Yeah. And I'd say that we've ticked off the big percentage points in terms of what shampoo can achieve. And the first two or three generations of shampoo technology, we got 95% of the way that it's possible to go with shampoo. What did we do? We probably even probably just using soap Yeah, it probably gets you 90% of the way there get rid of the oil. That's pretty much most

Yeah, get rid of the dirt. Yeah dirt get that out and then you know give it a bit of shine You know So I guess this could come in the form of a oh man. I hope rabbit's not being tortured for the shine. I hope I hope that like whatever experimentation We're doing is not in order to get increased shine or bounce Well, I mean if you get a test or anything I guess a rabbit. Yeah more trampoline Yeah, more trampoline They so but could this be like it's it's sort of like a Protest video but that takes a different angle then you know because most of the time if it's a protest on

Testing on animals. They just show you awful pictures of of animals being tested on right? But that's not like obviously a more the against Testing on animals just based on horrible things happening to them, but I don't know any arguments about why they already are testing on animals. And I think maybe what you need to counter is those arguments of why they are testing on animals, which is by countering that we don't need to even make shampoo any better.

It is fine. Well, could we do this when we, by seeing the people in the lab working on the animals and like the chief scientist comes down and says, okay, so what are we working on today? You know, and they come to the realization themselves that maybe this is no longer worthwhile. Yeah. I mean, it's the really classic criticism of science that people don't think is worthwhile. It's the thing of like, you know,

so we're not curing cancer, we're not curing AIDS or whatever, we're doing this. Can we do a sketch based on that? Like, and then I'm jumping away again. That's okay, that's okay. But like, it's such a common trope to accuse people of, if somebody has done so, we see to be a bogus scientific experiment on belly button lint or whatever it is.

And then people will be like, well, it's not curing cancer. Curing cancer. Yeah. What if everybody worked on curing cancer? You know, or... Yep. Everybody's job was to just work on curing cancer, ending poverty, and reporting atrocities in the Middle East on the Western mainstream media. Yep. and one other thing, and the other thing has to be really absurd, right, and minimal. Okay.

Right, and that is getting something to do with a better type of T-bag. Right, T-bag, it doesn't come out. The string doesn't come out. The string doesn't come out. Yeah. And so, but I guess the more you would refine it, the closer you would get to a point where people would still complain about things, they go, well, why are we still curing poverty when we could just be, like, why are we still trying to get rid of poverty while we could be all curing cancer?

Right. Getting more and more people in their curing cancer. Right, getting more and more people in their curing cancer. Like in a, in, in, and everybody just works in one big cancer institute where everyone shouts at each other, why haven't you cured cancer yet? You're all not curing cancer. Stop worrying about the abnormal cells and just stop with the actual multiplication of the cancer cells. Within the cancer community. Within the cancer-curing community, like everybody's like, oh, I'm looking at these telomeres,

which could be an indicator of the longevity of particular cells, which we think if we buy effective. Why are you curing cancer? Why aren't you curing cancer? Why are you looking at telomeres when you should be curing cancer? Why aren't you curing cancer? Why are you looking at telomeres when you should be curing cancer? That argument still goes even deeper into the cancer-curing community. Yeah. Why aren't you just standing in the way while cancerous cells are trying to multiply?

Why aren't you just physically trying to stop them? I'm just... It's literally hitting them with a tiny hammer. Yeah. I mean, there's a funny core to that idea, but I turned for me to get my head around. Can we just back up a little bit? Yes. And just go to, all right, I think there's something about the rabbits.

I think we should write something down about the rabbits. Okay. All right. I have the like the, the, the, whether it's, it's your idea and it's that, you know, it's, it's, it's an ad saying like, what do we need? Why do we still need to do this? Yeah. Or if it's the scientist themselves talking about that, um, I mean, the, the, the, the idea that scientists are on a day-to-day basis looking at something and being like, or making the decision of like, oh, should I cure cancer today? Or should I do this? Should I? Yeah, yeah.

That, that is fun. Yeah. Oh, should I keep, uh, should I see if I can make a seed that grows quicker, you know, sort of quicker, dandelions, or should I cue cancer? There's two doors that he can choose to go through all like two folders on the desktop. You could open up All right Sorry, let's see. No, no, it's fine. There. I'm sorry. No, you're sorry. Should we I'm sorry. I'm not curing cancer In the look Andy, we're coming up with sketch ideas here. Obviously it would be better if we work hearing cancer

But uh, but I think I think where the where the decision is made Every day is kind of an interesting idea like that Oh, it's it's sort of almost talking to you know You're you're significant so you've just told your husband in the morning when you're about to go off to work And you say saying he's saying now what are you going to do at work today honey and she's like oh look I'm not sure you know I've got a few different things I might work on the the sort of the I've got a sort of a balloon thing where I can make that that that's stretchy end bit easier to wrap around your fingers so you can tie the knot in the balloon. And then there's a cancer thing as well. So I'll just see.

But you know what, I'm telling you what, I'm definitely not going to do cure cancer today. I just, I don't care about it. I'm not going to do it. Hmm. I mean, you know, in the end, don't you think that by contributing to a society that can fund the curing of cancer, we are in a way no matter what we do helping to cure cancer. Yeah, well, I mean, I know, I would argue that the less time that people have to spend tying the ends of balloons, the more time they'll able to spend either, like if there's cancer scientists actually working to cure cancer or B, if just in general society, that'll contribute to the economy, increase productivity, that'll mean higher tax revenues and more research money that can be put into

such things as curing cancer. Yeah, and so you could take the idea of like, you know, today in the news, there was a psychological study that found that people who spend more than six hours a week playing the piano become much better at the piano than people who don't spend time practicing, right? And somebody goes, oh, I feel dirty. That bloody dozen calls cancer. That doesn't, that doesn't, that doesn't, well, what are you doing by studying that kind of obvious shit when you could just be curing cancer? You know, that's a bloody waste of time.

And then the whole thing is an argument about why this study has actually does contribute to the curing of cancer. Right. Yeah, well, I mean, there's a thing of like, to get real, can we, can I get real with you honestly? Please, I would be fine with that. There's a thing where with scientific reports, they always have to try and... It's for funding, it's so important that you get

media coverage for things these days. Like you've got to sell your stories in such a way that it's got some sexy angle, right? Like you could have done research on some obscure polymer that could have something to do with Alzheimer's in rats. Right. But the headline for the article has got to be, for Alzheimer's on the way, thanks to Australian University.

What if somebody has done research on playing the piano instead of sort of thing. It was like, so and but then there have been maybe the marketing department of the university or whatever or the journal or still something like that is coming in and saying, whoa, look, I can't, no one's going to want to read an article about this. So, you know, what, what, are there any broader implications of this, of what you found out here? Well, I guess we could probably extrapolate this to saxophone players and harps the chord players and that sort of thing. Or the big string instrument. Does it get any broader than that though?

Well, I suppose if you sort of were to look at it more broadly. And I'm taking off my strictly scientific hat here but I'm saying that you know, I guess I guess this this kind of learning could be applied to any you know any field and in that way just the knowledge that this is possible does you know does free up time in people's lives you know to to spend their time more wisely right right and so in a sort of a, what about in a broader sense? Well, I guess suppose it's directly responsible for curing cancer. So you're saying there's a cure for cancer on the way? Thanks for an Australian university.

Whoa. I mean, that's not what it says in the reports strictly speaking. But the implication is there. But the implication. I mean, if someone would look closely enough at these results, they could see. Yeah, yeah. I suppose. Yeah, as far as. Look, don't, I never said that.

Trust me, don't directly quote me. Yeah, don't directly quote me. But this will definitely help saxophone players. Look, I think that's good. certainly caught me but but this will definitely help saxophone players Look I think yeah, yeah, yeah, so the piano saxophone the harps accord and you know, obviously I guess you could picture like you know sports like you know skateboarding that sort of thing or a similar hand-eye coordination crucial stuff like that and then obviously Yeah, you know the implications for cancer research are significant. Yes, I Think I think that that's a great

I wrote it down even before we were We're finished. Oh my god. I'm so glad we fucking got something in there Yeah, and look and I think that's an important sketch and an important sketch And I think it'll have some significant implications. I wouldn't be surprised That's what was involved in the hearing of cancer We still need one more and I know today we're a little bit, we're going light in terms of, you know, we're 46 minutes in and we've known. We're deep and we don't have a fifth one. I think we've probably been in this light before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, before sketch. Absolutely. I was at first panic at this point. You know, the start,

start, I would panic. Pointing fingers at each other saying like like you, Alistair, have it broad enough to the podcast That's probably true, that's the sort of thing like really eyebrow fashion A eyebrow fair, okay, well, I mean what have you got? You've got those vertical lines that you can just cut in there, you use sculptor Absolutely, yeah And there's plucking and there's obviously there's waxing and then there's cosmetic tattooing Yeah, there's the whole replacing of the eyebrow with tattoo Mmm, mmm I suppose that you know And then there's cosmetic tattooing. Yeah, there's the whole replacing of the eyebrow with tattoo.

I suppose that, you know. Do you think that there's anybody who's ever got a cosmetic tattoo of a monobrow, and then had to have laser surgery to remove the central section so that they can have two brows? Two brows. One could argue that if two brows are better than one, then why aren't we then sculpting out individual brows into two further brows so that we actually have four brows? Yeah. That is, that's just mathematics.

That's just, I'm just seeing patterns there, you know. Yeah, well, I mean, two twos is four. Exactly. And if two is better than one, then two twos is better than two once. Assuming that it does follow a strictly linear geometric progression, it's not the Fibonacci sequence. So after two, you were obviously one three, and then you would want five. Oh, well that would be interesting, because if you did want three, then you would have

sort of the ends of like the sort of the outer ends of one and then the mono brows is so small. You keep that mono. Yeah, instead of keep the mono so that you can have three arcs. If you, yeah, that's a real missed opportunity that like, do you think that the mono brow is a hangover from when we used to be cyclopses? I would definitely say that, yes. I mean, I guess there's no two ways about it.

Because that's how people evolve, right? Like they started out with like one eye, and one nostril and one arm and one leg. And then over time, we evolved to have two of most things. Two of everything. Yeah, I think it's when we were ripped apart from our spiritual soulmates. Yeah, soulmates. Yeah. That's why there's now man and woman. So in the but then we somehow we got back together. Double the yeah, right.

So wait. I'm sorry, just just Alice said there was something about you saying the words got back together, which made me feel like there's a sketch about getting back together with something. You know how like, I'm sorry, this is so tenuous, like I'm feeling out here just in the dark, right? But you know, what do you get back together with in life? It's pretty much only ex partners that you get back together with. Ex partners, either in the relationship sense or in the cop sense, right? Getting back together to solve one last case.

What else do you get back together with the band? You might get the band back together? Like I guess an old... Can you reunite somebody with an old appliance or... or the team back together. So guys, it's someone with those bowl scrapers and a sort of a bowl scraping. I like one of those rubbery ends that is really great for just extracting all of the filling that's left over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not good.

It's stuck to the wall. That and his, you know, obviously his favorite bowl. Or it could be, you know, it could be a woman and her long lost hobby of stamp collecting. It's, they feel too plausible to me. Sure. Right? Like I'm, I'm, I mean the two halves of a person somehow getting back together, like somehow a person being split in half I guess you could film it by shooting like I guess half your body wearing a green screen on it

What about Alistair getting back together with your old body hair, right? so the clump of hair that was on your head and that is now in the plug hole, right? Could you get back together with that? And I'm you know, either by You know, you like it's it's been a long time Right, and then you you see it there and you realize you remember the good times that you had together Yeah, and you you pull it out of the plug hole and whether you put it back on your head. What about

just just as a just to add on to that. You get back together with every piece of DNA you've shed like every part that or one point was you. Yeah. Somehow like kind of a magneto type thing. You're thinking of ours. Yeah, you just kind of wearing... Faces? The Faces was not necessarily your DNA. I don't know, some of it would be, but you just got it cells. But some of it is just food, you know?

But it's food, they didn't become you, really. Right, in a way, it's the least of you. It's the least of you. I felt like seeing all of me. All of me. Well, like seeing all of me. All of me. Well, not take all of me. I guess that's what happens. It's when two people get married,

but then they decide that they want to give each other. They want to give their all. They want to give their all. And so then they go and stand on top of a sort of a, it's like a, it's quite a, you know, a sacred hill. Yeah, and they put their arms in the air, sort of, I guess, like a, like air. Who's the, the guy with the, who never doesn't get killed, we gotta, unless you cut off his head there. Highlander. He's like a highlander instead, but instead of lightning,

they go, ah, like that. And then all the parts that used to be them little direct drive, bits of skin and hair and pubes and Like sweat and things like that all just kind of let me know sweat's not DNA But like that and they become this kind of huge puffy blob. Yeah Of and that's all of me. That's all of me. I My love you are so precious. I want to give you all of me I want to give you everything that I am. And also everything that I have ever been.

And so here I am. And that makes me go. Big old blob. I think about that as an aside, I'll say, I think about that with money sometimes. I think, imagine if I never spent any money ever, I'd have so much money and then I think about what it would be like to get all the money that I'd ever spent Back again. No, well, you know if you if you if you were to do this thing, you know Of course I did, but oh, that's fine

But then you'd probably also be dead if you got covered in all the skin particles that you had lost over you That's true, so Look, I know it's quite disgusting. The idea of what disgusting, but, but being faced with your beloved, but then you see them covered in all the dead skin that they've lost over time and all the pubes and hairs and stuff like that that cover their body. But I mean, when you accept somebody into your life, you know, and you make a vow to be with them forever in health and in fitness and in sort of all the dead cells that they once had on their body. I think that that's you know, that's a bigger gesture in a way than that. Absolutely. Being able to accept somebody for what they really are, which is a person covered in and all their dead biological matter. Yeah. It's you know,

that's a beautiful thing. What if, like, just to make it slightly more achievable, realistic, and maybe like a little bit more real world, it was somebody who says, I, you know, says that I want, you know, to give you all of myself. And then they are, they are just somebody who has, throughout their life, collected all of their old hair and fingernails and, you know, skin scrapings and that's something.

That sounds much more to you. In boxes and jars and that sort of thing in a basement. Is it possible to just drive a sketch more from that character piece of that person and the reactions of their loved one. You say, well, you love me, don't you? Well, of course, I love you, Eric. Well, then, you know, this is all me, you know,

these are toenails, they're me, aren't they? Yeah, and then how are they any less me than? Oh, absolutely, and then she was like, go on. then I'm so and then she was like go on yeah yeah I think it was go on what you know you know run your hands through it yeah feel free to play with it says you want to you know I want to surround yourself with me I've got a big tub of my head I've I've scared myself for you. Oh! Oh, Alistair! Right, and now, it's yours to do whatever you want with it. Burn it? Burn it in a pit?

No, no one's, all these things, they're all pure. No one's ever done anything to these. Man, they're all yours. All my teeth, all my baby teeth, a little baby. They're all there on my baby teeth. Well, you can put those in your mouth and just swirl them around. And it'll be like you're kissing me

at every stage of my life. Let's make out with my baby teeth in your mouth, baby. Baby. Oh, can you imagine kissing someone with a mouth full of loose teeth? Yes, I can and it makes me happier than I've been all day. Well, I think if you can't imagine that, I reckon just get somebody to have a mouth full of peanuts. Don't get them to chew them. And then my cat, and I reckon it'll be very similar.

Just a handful. I think peanuts would be still like an adult tooth teeth, but if you want to do baby's tooth, maybe lentils or sort of short grain rice. That's way too small. Too small. Well, what about a real small baby? Or it's like, you know, what if you were kissing like a spider monkey baby?

Yes, spider monkey baby. Yeah. If you want to know what it was like to kiss somebody with a mouthful of spider monkey baby teeth, just some rice, just some short grain rice. Yeah. Not me long grain. Yes, long grain.

I mean, have the teeth been taken out with a root n' or are they, if they come out fallen off naturally with a root n' on? Root n' on. Well, then that you look at a long grain. Yeah, you look at a long grain. I think that's terrifying. Yeah, that's terrifying. And I like it.

I mean, that's almost as disgusting as the thing with a guy with a spider in his mouth. So maybe it's more disgusting. Really? Well, it's got a more like sort of, it feels real to me, it feels like there could really be a psychopath out there who has done this. And the fact that you're only finding out

that this person has done that right after you've married them and they're ready to share all of themselves with you, that is a great, like, sort of like, like you've just walked into a room and the person you're with has just locked the door. I don't think they've locked the door, but they've definitely closed it and they're standing between you and the door. Yeah. So you're going to have to ask them to move in order to leave. No, I think it's one of those, like, because it's marriage, it's a marriage, so you have to ask a lawyer

to open the door for you. Oh, no. I think it'll allow you to involve. Anyway, look, I think that's our five sketches for today. Yeah, yeah. That's it. This is what we got, specific accents to raise your kids with, people to, you know, one example of an accent

is the people who are trying to wrap up conversations. I think it's such a good example, Alistair. I was really proud of you when you came out with them. Thank you very much. It's probably one of the only good contributions I made today. Greater mission impossible, which is the greater mission behind all the missions that are so-called impossible. But this was the true one that's impossible, which is the one that's stopping him from

quitting being a mission impossible guy. Yeah. You know, what's what's driving him? There's no mission this week. There's no mission this week, and that's your mission. I will now self-destruct. I know.

Um, are you going to self-destruct? No. No. No, I'm just going to sit here and if you need to talk to me, I'll be here. Oh, I find that so satisfying when the message just strikes. Well, that's because you want to run away from the past. Yeah. Or it's it's not, things aren't that simple, you know, sometimes people tell you things that you're not ready to hear and you've just got to be there with them in that moment. Yeah. And so not everything self-destructs. Okay, I do self-destruct in this case. Yeah, and so not everything self-destructs.

Okay, I do self-destruct in this case. Yeah, I do, yeah, but in the next- I think my point still stays- 40 to this are so years. Anyway, testing rabbits, texting on rabbits, and why are we still testing on rabbits? But like from the point of view of shampoo has come far enough, and the improvements that we're making is probably not as good.

Yeah, I mean, of the things that we're testing on rabbits. Like, I want something to be above a certain threshold in order for us to answer. It's not curing bloody cats. There is a. What about if they're also testing other elements like the marketing for the shampoo on rabbits? That's good. You're a spot better to like different designs of bottles. Yeah, and he's my complaint, right?

Yeah. As a guy with really bad eyesight, who showers without his glasses on, so often, if I'm in a strange shower, I can't tell which one's the shampoo or the conditioner. Yeah, right. I mean, somebody's the shampoo or the conditioner. Yeah, right. I mean, there's somebody strange shampoo and conditioner bottles. Oh, I know, but the worst thing is when you can't tell which one is the bottle that's got all the... Body wash?

No, no, the... Seaman. No, no, the... That's sort of like the crazy glue in the model. And up in a real comedy situation with your hands stuck to your hair. And then there's the study, oh yeah, study headline ends up with being about destroying university curing cancer.

But it's like it's the person pushing for that for the angle so that they can get their funding or whatever. I think the journalist as well. Yes, the journalist who just wants to have the story. Exactly. I need something I can sell. I've been wanting to find something about that exact topic for so long.

Really? Yeah, just about like just how shitty science reporting is in the mainstream media because everything is simplified to a point where it's like, well, this is this amazing thing happening, and then you read it and you go, well, it's not so amazing if you're really looking into it, it's actually pretty complicated.

And then people lose faith in science, because like five years down the track, well, we don't have a cure for Alzheimer's, so we were told that there was one five years away. Yeah. And I've been telling us that forever. Yeah. Man, when somebody's gonna bloody come up with a cure for that,

hey, for bloody misinformation in science reporting. Well, I'm not sure, but if it leads to a cure, you can't see it. Yeah, if it leads to a cure, okay, I said I'm gonna go report on it. And I wanted to give you all of me as our final sketch where a new partner has collected all the shed DNA skin hair mouth cells all of me You're so good you've been listening to turn the thing tank. Thank you very much for listening to show on Twitter. You can find us. I'm at Stupid Old Andy Lister at Alistair TV. And together we are at two in Tank. We're a part of the Planet Broadcasting podcast

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You know, it's like when you go out with your rich friend. Right. You go out to dinner with your rich friend. I know, you're talking about it. It's nice if you just pay for them. You know, people who are rich friends are sick of having to feel like they have to pick up the bill all the time.

And I feel like probably people with much bigger podcasts than us are sick of feeling like they have to promote our podcast. And you know what, of all the podcasts, only listen to the weekly planet. You know what? Stop listening to this one. We don't need you.

Yeah. We're fine. You go over there. I think the people, the rich friends who, you know, that's the real meal for them is getting their meal paid for. That's right. And that's where their riches actually come from. Right. So they weren't rich, really. No, they're really rich, but it all comes from being, So they weren't rich, really? No, they're really rich, but it all comes from being... Like the richer you are, the more money you end up making because the more you seem like you're super rich and people shouldn't... Right, people insist on buying the dinner

to prove that they don't need your charity. Exactly. Yeah, of course. Haven't paid for a meal in 15 years. Yeah. Anyway, we just kind of stop coming up. Let's get you all loose. Oh, actually, a crazy powerhouse. Yeah. Yes, yeah Anyway, that's we just can't stop coming up with sketch or this We love you we love you. This episode is brought to you by Progressive.

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