Two In The Think Tank - 94 - "DIALOGGLE BOX"

Episode Date: August 29, 2017

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Starting point is 00:00:54 The business is about watches. Alistair, when was the last time you did something good for your wrist? Just recently I wrote some moisturizer in it. Well, or right, how recently? But because I'm doing it right now Okay, because right now while you're doing that. Yeah, you still got a free hand. You can go into MVMT.com slash Think tank. Yes, and you can you can support to in the think tank by supporting movement watches who support the podcast movement watches Do something good for your wrist wait Wait, aren't they great luxury watches for a fraction of the price?
Starting point is 00:01:28 Alistair, we must be talking about the same thing. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I'm talking about just two guys who wanted to wear stylish watches, just two uni guys, you know, and they were broke. They couldn't afford the $400, $500 that you'd pay in a, are you talking about the same guys? Couldn't afford the $400, $400,
Starting point is 00:01:44 you'd pay in a department store? I'm starting to realize it's the same thing because I've seen watches Luxury watches go up to as high as $16,000 a watch. Wow, but these ones I think started 95 dollars They started 95 dollars and we're offering you a 15% discount when you go to mvmt.com ford slash think tank So yeah, I mean, it's great that we're on the same page, you and I. Well, while we're plugging things, I just wanted to say, you know what you should listen to Andy? What should I listen to, I'll listen to it. Internet celebrity Beck Petraitis and my other friend, Jack Truus, have a podcast called
Starting point is 00:02:18 Friendship Meats. Internet celebrity Beck Petraitis and IRL nobody, Jack Drews, have a really fantastic podcast. They've both been guests on this podcast. And you know what's really great about them? Everything. Yeah, that, but specifically when you double book your podcast and their podcast, and by that I mean, you don't book your podcast at all
Starting point is 00:02:41 in the recording booth that we're currently in, they let you have their slot. This is really nice because they're really good people. That's where the friendship comes in. Yeah. And the meek ship. Friendship mates will put a link to that down below. There'll be a link to movement watches. It's time to start the Bup-a-t-u shapes.
Starting point is 00:03:02 Bup-a-t-u shapes. Hello, and welcome to the Touring the Think Tank Show where we come up with five sketch ideas. I'm Andy. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b- podcast is a problem. Yes. But I also don't think it's a solution. I just think that it's something that's happening in your life and it's a choice that you made and just thanks for making that choice. Yes. You were presented with a lot of options. Almost every day, a myriad. Absolutely. And we're aware that every time you make a choice, it creates a branch in a timeline and
Starting point is 00:03:42 you go down an entirely different trouser leg of time. Trouser leg. And the universe branches into more and more multiverses. The universe is a pants store. Yes. Where all the pants are slotted into each other's pants. Each other's pants, each leg. The pant leg leads to another pant leg.
Starting point is 00:03:58 As if designed for an alien species where instead of having a foot at the end of their leg, they have another two legs. That's perfect. And so on and so forth. Oh my God, but imagine they join up to another creature's crotch. Oh, like that. And so they're all connected in a web. It's a web of species.
Starting point is 00:04:16 There's no head. Well, you know, because like when you see a movie like Avatar, right, and you know, the message is, oh, they're all connected, you know, because they've all shared some sort of spirit thing. Yeah. I think, you know, that's a bit of a cop out. I reckon if James Cameron had any balls, he would have made them connected by the fact
Starting point is 00:04:34 that each person's leg connects to another person's crotch. It was sickening in the way that he tried to inject spirituality in there and then not make it just some kind of leg web. A leg web. I guess the creatures could all have heads if they were all bending over. So if it was all people sort of bending over at right angles. Yes. And then the foot goes up the ass. Well, I guess it would come down your ass cheek. They're leg would kind of meld into your ass cheek
Starting point is 00:05:05 as it became a leg. Yeah, yeah, fun. Yeah. Okay, that's beautiful. And then do you have two legs going in? Like does each cheek meld with a leg of another? Yeah, yeah, with other creatures. So, pop, maybe your parents?
Starting point is 00:05:19 Is that your parents have their legs attached? So, I guess at most you can have two kids. Yes. I guess it's like China now. I think China they ease the one child rule. I imagine they didn't go, hey, have as many kids as you want, have two. Have two.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Push your luck. I think this is an interesting I-Lian species, I'll say. Do you think there's a sketch in it? I hope so. I think, I think like, you know, there's the option of like, James Cameron pitching his movie Avatar, and you know, the message at the end is that they're all
Starting point is 00:05:54 connected, and the person that he's pitching it to, not that I picture that James Cameron has to pitch things to people anymore, I feel like he can write his own own chicks I don't know. No, you know look He's he's not made of money He still has to convince somebody who has some money. Yes, you know He has to have some kind of because because James Cameron might walk in there sometimes look We don't know his history. Yeah, he might walk in there sometimes and he goes about this it's a turd on a skateboard Like that and they go no James this one we can't do.
Starting point is 00:06:25 That's true. Behind every great filmmaker is an executive with a filter. Exactly. Yeah, he doesn't let, you know, he's a filter, the kind of filter that stops a turd on a skateboard getting through. Exactly. And like a leg. So Cameron is pitching this, right? And it says, you know, and the message is, by the way, I haven't seen Avatar. So if this isn't what Avatar is, and they're not all connected in some way, I apologize for you. No, no, I'm pretty sure, yeah, they're all connected.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Yeah, they're all connected somewhere through some like, you know, white, light kind of spirituality thing. Yeah, yeah, and you definitely read that synopsis, right? I'm pretty sure I read that synopsis on Wikipedia. It's basically, it's basically Fern Gully meets the fast and the furious, the original one. In spice. In space. That is basically exactly what it is.
Starting point is 00:07:20 So that's the first third of his pitch, right? And the second two thirds is him talking about how each alien has a foot going into there. Yeah. So he describes all of Avatar. Yes. But then he talks about how they're all connected. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:36 Included, they're even connected to this tree. Yep. This fucking tree. But all the people's legs and the end lead back to the root system of this tree And so maybe everybody's in a sphere around the tree and an actual bio dome This is the problem with most bio dome. Yes, but the dome itself is not bio It's not bio at all very often mechanical. Yeah, non-living plastic
Starting point is 00:08:00 Glass ion aluminium bolts bolts Air just some air in there. You can't help get that in there. Germs. It's more of a mechanical dome, if you ask me. Yeah, it's weird that you're calling it a bio dome when really the dome is the least bio thing of the thing.
Starting point is 00:08:17 It's more like a bio area. Under a dome. Under dome. Look, can I, I'll just write this. Also, it's not a full, wait, no, it is a dome.'ll just write this so it's not a full wait No, it is a dome. I was gonna say it's not a full what's his name but Russell Crowe Russell Crowe Get rat Cameron Crow. Is this name? What is name? James Cameron James Cameron Russell Crowe Team up now, yeah, and then yes everything's connected and the executive says oh
Starting point is 00:08:46 Spirituality I love it. He's like, no, physically connected. They all have a foot going into somebody else's ass. And look, I don't know where it goes from there. I guess maybe the executive tries to talk him down. And he wins them over because he created Titanic. I like that first, he's got an exact, who's way on board. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:07 He thinks this is great and he's like, visually you think you can achieve this? You think you can make it work? Oh, he thinks the ass foot thing. Yeah, and James Cameron is like, yes, I think absolutely we can make it work. And he's like, okay, well, you know, like my, I'm I'm going to put my career on
Starting point is 00:09:26 the line for this. I love writing on this, you know, because I tell you that if I get this wrong, the higher up, I'll have the foot of my, foot of my ass and you know, not in a good way, not in a spiritual connection way. Not in that kind of avatar way that you're pitching. Which I love. Which I love, by the way, yeah. But, but then maybe it all the way to the test screenings, the audience test screenings, and then they get really bad results back from that, and then they've got a, that's why Avatar costs so much money to make, is because they had to go through frame by frame. I don't know why they had to do it frame by frame. That's what's crazy about it. It was that they had to get the go.
Starting point is 00:10:05 Road to scope. The head, people's hands, scrape off the ass to foot connections and paint in white light and sort of spiritual. And even with the sound as well, I had to do it per frame. By hand. By hand.
Starting point is 00:10:23 It was all analog. Yeah, that's it is the craziest way to make Avatar. The fact that they had to make models as well to make that work. But that's James Cameron for you. James Cameron or Cameron Crowe or Russell Crowe which everyone. Yeah. Well in a way all those names are connected.
Starting point is 00:10:41 I came up with something equally as stupid whilst walking. Oh yeah, right. So there's a guy, he's walking past a store. It's called Penn Store Shop. Like that. I think that goes, that's so stupid. This person, that's a, what's that thing where you, you know, that, that, that's a totology.
Starting point is 00:10:59 That's a totology, where you're going to go, this guy's put a totology, he looks in and he sees that the guy's foreign in there He goes oh this guy English isn't his first language and He's put in the thing and he goes all just go in and just just in case he doesn't know He can scrape off one of the one of the words like that and he goes in and he goes Hello, do you want to buy a pen store And he goes what he goes, hello, do you want to buy a pen store? And he goes, what? He goes, this was not a good idea for me getting into this pen store business selling pen
Starting point is 00:11:33 stores. And so he thought he was an idiot, but then he realizes he's an even bigger idiot. Is that a sketch? But it's good that in the end, he's idiot, he's not at all connected to his English as a second language status Absolutely, you know you heard his accent it was very he was actually very good. He spoke it. Yeah, the man's just a fool No, no, he's not a fool. I guess he was led astray. Maybe by his business course He was he was told to dream big. Yeah, right. You know you want to be higher up the pyramid
Starting point is 00:12:00 Okay, you know the money's not in selling pens. No, it's in selling pen stores. Yeah. But obviously, the problem is that once you have a shop front, the kind, the only pen stores that you can get in there are very small. That's true. And then a lot of people will come in and they'll just try and test the pen store. They'll take the lid off and it'll dry out. Yeah, that's the problem.
Starting point is 00:12:24 And then, you know, if a pen store kind of loses its moisture, it's kind of just unpleasant to be in there. Then it's just you, some dryness and a bunch of pens. And it's hard to sell. It's really hard to sell. It's just not an environment that's conducive to convincing people to invest in sort of good what else? Pens? No, well I wasn't going to say use the word pens. I was going to use the word that we use
Starting point is 00:12:55 stationery. Stationery. Even though there's no other type of stationery in there other than the pens, but I felt like not using the same word, but I couldn't remember the word. What about this? Okay, a guy goes into a pen store, right? He's all exclusively. So it's just a normal pen store. What's it called? It's called pen store. Pen store, that's it. That's it.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Okay, great. Pen store, that's it. Pen store, that's it. Because that's all they have, just pens. I like that. I guess it's I like that. You get, tries out a few pens, he finds one. It's a real beautiful, soft, you know, smooth flowing ink.
Starting point is 00:13:30 Right? This is the pen for me. He takes it up to the counter. Where those gelings? Gel. No, they really clad. Yeah, it's a gel. It's a gel, but it's like a long-lasting gel.
Starting point is 00:13:38 It doesn't, because a lot of gels, that gel runs down real quick. Yeah, I think this one, this one, this one, they've done something to it, it seems to last really long time, right? It's like a kilometrico in there, you know? Oh, yeah, crazy. Don't know what that means, but.
Starting point is 00:13:52 Oh, well. All right, and then he goes up to the guy behind the counter, he says, I'd like to buy this pen, and man's like, yeah, sure, sure. And he's like, oh, can I get a receipt in there? Okay, no problem. And then when he sees him riding out the receipt, the guy's got a pencil behind the counter. Ooh, and it just throws him off. And he's like,
Starting point is 00:14:08 I'm sorry. What's what's this is pencil? You don't sell any pencils in here. And like what you're using a pencil behind the on the counter. And he's like, Oh, yeah, no, look, I'm just not really a pen guy. I don't really. You know, I'm thinking like bust on you and stuff. And so do you think that that guy would lose his mojo want to buy that pen? Yeah, I think it sort of throws him off. Yeah. That's a sketch. Oh, it's close. I think it's close. I mean, it's almost there. Like like, okay, the guy doesn't straight up say that I don't trust pens. Yeah. All right. Okay. So I think there's going to be he's going to try and obfuscate in some way. So like oh yeah. No, don't it's a just I don't know where this came from. I just
Starting point is 00:15:00 don't yeah. Don't worry about it. And then he goes, look, okay, forget it. I'll get I'll I won't even use the pen and then he uses a typewriter. I would even use the pencil. Yeah, the pencil. I'll use it. He starts making another thing goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're not gonna do it by hand. It's like, uh, it's somewhat, you know, uh, I'm sorry. I was, uh, I don't know what I was thinking. My mind was wondering. I'll use a pad. No, no, how about there's any pricks his finger? And he starts writing out the receipt with his finger. Blood is blood stained finger. Yeah, well, the finger isn't blood stained. It's a source of blood. After the after the bloods come out, blood stained. But the the receipt is blood stained. That's also blood stained. See, look, I'm not sure, I'm just trying to find a way
Starting point is 00:15:48 in which it kind of crosses any lines or it. Yeah, does anything, is there any interest whatsoever? Well, I guess say what you're trying to do. No, okay, like, like, try to find the other scenarios, like this, like, okay, let's say you go to an efficient ship shop and they're eating like a healthy, you sell it sandwich. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:03 Or you go into like a shoe store and the guy's barefoot, or you go into, let's say like a store that sells all those animal heads. You know, like from the people of Hunts. Taxidermy. And the guy is just wearing someone else's skin. A man, a human man's skin.
Starting point is 00:16:21 He's wearing a man's skin. I mean, I like where you're taking this. I'm just trying to think of like, No, no, no, absolutely. You're trying to turn it into something. I think, yeah, I think it's not enough there. Is it like there's something missing? No, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:16:37 What do you think it's missing? Well, I mean, what is comedy really? It's something missing. Yeah. It's a, often it's a flaw. Yeah, well, comedy really? It's something missing. Yeah. It's a, often it's a flaw. Yeah, well, then this could be the perfect sketch. Oh, so the, okay, so the whole thing. So, okay, this is sketches about you.
Starting point is 00:16:56 No, wait. I go, I go into a sketch store, and then the guy who's writing out this receipt doesn't have a punchline, right? Oh my God. Wait, you know what, I've just discovered, look, I mean, if you know an example, and I don't, just you an interject, but I don't think I've ever seen a good pen store sketch,
Starting point is 00:17:15 because I tried to come up with my pen store sketch before. That wasn't great. You could try to come up with your pen store sketch. You came in, you thought you were a young, you're sort of a young upstart thinking you could sort of, you know, take on this pen sketch formula, like, look, I've come up with a few sketch ideas in my day. I'm not having any problem.
Starting point is 00:17:35 You came up, you thought, once you got deep into it, once you had your up to your elbows in that pen sketch, pen store sketch, you realize it wasn't as easy as it looks, right? All right, what about this? All right, the guy goes to right out the receipt. All right, so it's a pen sketch, a pen store sketch. It's a pen sketch, it's the same setup, right?
Starting point is 00:17:52 Okay, yeah. Guys found a pen, and the guy behind the camera goes behind the, to right out the receipt, right? Pen's dead, right? He's like, sorry, not a problem. Throws it in the bin, reaches under the counter, pulls out another pen. That's also dead. Right? And then like, he's like, he's just a little throwing. Right? And then he's like, sorry. What are the
Starting point is 00:18:19 chances that that would happen twice? Right? He reaches out, he pulls out like a huge tub. Right? An open tub of new pens, right? Dumps them all out onto the counter, grabs a pen from the middle of this tub of new pen, doesn't work, right? They go all the way around the pen shop, use every single pen, right? Every single one doesn't work. I feel like a montage, you think?
Starting point is 00:18:41 Yeah, yeah, it's a montage. Maybe we're cutting back. We're cutting away. We're cutting back, okay? And then, and then, at the end, they're just like a huge pile of pens behind him, right? Yeah. The guy who's buying the pen.
Starting point is 00:18:55 The guy's still standing there. Yeah. He's got the pen he wants to buy. The guy can't write out the receipt because no other pens in the shop are working. So the guy who's buying a pen, he says, the guy behind the counter, he borrows that pen. Right. And then it all pays off.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Oh no. I mean, look, that was close to mean look that was close to something. That was close to something. I mean it almost, I guess, so either works or doesn't work or a third thing. Right, okay. No, what he does is he says he finds a pencil, right? Yeah. He finds a pencil, he finds one pencil, right? At the end, he's like, do you mind if I use this?
Starting point is 00:19:45 Okay. All right. Maybe the guy who's buying the pen has a pencil. He borrows the pencil off him. Says, do you mind if I use this, right? He puts it in his ear, and slams his head down, and kills himself. How's that?
Starting point is 00:20:00 Did you see where that was going? No, but how about that? How about, look look I think instead Instead of the pencil you don't need to add an extra pencil. It's an all-pen thing He just grabs like it's this nervous moment where he grabs the pen from the last pen He borrows the pen that the guys barring buying yep, and then he goes to write out the receipt guys It goes to try it to see if this is the one that works And he just shoves it in his nose and then he hits himself and And then you know on the counter and then he kills himself. I mean
Starting point is 00:20:32 That's great. It could be somehow reveal at the end that that pen worked Like is there some way yeah, because he's killed himself right the police are there. Yeah, right? They're writing out the incident report, I like cause a death. Pen, and the guy's trying to write it down. The constable's trying to write down, pen doesn't work. He pulls the pen out of the dead guys nose.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Wipes a bit of brain off of him. Wipes a bit of brain off, writes it down. Oh, that's got good flow. Great flow. All right, that's horrible. Yeah. But I think that's technically a sketch, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:10 Wow. And a lot of people said it couldn't be done. Well, I remember. Actually, while you were talking, I was thinking about something. Yeah. I'm not that I do. That's the alternative name for this podcast.
Starting point is 00:21:22 Here's what I was thinking about while you were talking. Yeah. Look, I don't want to go on about pen shops anymore, but I thought if... I think the audience wants to hear more. Well, if the audience is begging for it, if it was a pen store shop, and then they didn't have any pens,
Starting point is 00:21:41 it was like, oh no, we just sell pen stores. So, none of these pen stores that he's selling have any pens. He was like, oh no, we just sell pen stores. You know. So none of these pen stores that he's selling have any inventory? That don't come with any pen. Well, it wouldn't make sense for him to have the inventory in there. Right. They might as well just have a pen store.
Starting point is 00:21:55 Yeah, he's not in the pen business. He's selling the pens. Yeah, he's selling like shelving and said a little, little, you know, pen holders and Bits a paper that people can scribble on anyway Andy. I'm not gonna go on about pen stores anymore I think we've heard god damn enough just a bad enough So outside of that
Starting point is 00:22:18 Yes, Ellis dad, you know, I I did a gig and And I realized comedy is hard. Did you have a bad gig or did you? Well, I ended up having to argue with somebody at the front. Well, mostly because it was a tough room, just. But it was the front row people. Like, we were happy for there to be anybody there, right? Always are.
Starting point is 00:22:44 And they were overexcited in terms of, in terms of how much they wanted to talk to the crowd. You mean, talk to the comedians? Talk to the comedians. Or did you have a crowd of comedians on stage? It was mostly a crowd that already upsets the dynamic that's already been established in comedy. We should just follow the regular system of doing comedy,
Starting point is 00:23:05 but we didn't. We had a crowd of comedians upstairs. It was also upstairs. And the audience was downstairs. Anyway, I was on stage, the lady, and I was doing some bits, and people would just yell out what they thought I was gonna say, and things like that. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:23:20 And then I did a bit where I talk about, for legal reasons, adopting my girlfriend, instead of marrying her to get the same kind of legal rights as a married couple. And then some girl was like, but that wouldn't that be incest? And I go, what did she go? Yeah, I think it'd be incest. I go, do you think so? And then she was like, yeah, because then you'd be married,
Starting point is 00:23:47 and she'd be your daughter, and then you'd be fucking her. And I go, oh, is that right? Do you think that it would be really fucked up? Do you think that maybe that's the reason why I'm talking about this? If any of you said be weird for me to be talking about something that is just normal up here. So did you get to the bottom of it?
Starting point is 00:24:02 Did you work out what, if it would be weird, and if that was the reason you were talking about it? In the end, we decided that it was weird and that it was the reason I was talking about it. Oh, well, it's great that you had that conversation then, Alistair, because it's through conversations like this that we get to the bottom of unresolved things. I reckon that you probably didn't have a good idea yourself in your mind of exactly what it was you were talking about until you had that chance to really hash it out in a back and forth You know, yeah, it's the dialogues of Plato, you know, it's not the monologues of Plato
Starting point is 00:24:32 This is how we approach the truth is through argument and discussion. I wonder whether Plato would have had as much success If he had just had the monologues of Plato And not put Socrates in there and things like that, who seemed to be a bigger name than him. Yeah, you're right. But I think, I think, like, you know, a lot of it is Plato's ideas, right? Isn't it? It's just that he's using these characters
Starting point is 00:25:01 as a way to get those things out there. It's like the original sitcom really. The original sitcom was Plato's. Plato, the dialogues of Plato. Well maybe, I mean, I think the word people at the time that were rating comedies. And instead of Aristophanies. Instead of laugh breaks, they would just have moments
Starting point is 00:25:18 of revelatory bliss. Right, where people can live. Oh, yeah. And of course, a lot of people and the audience, they didn't realize that there was really like people they're actually having revelatory bliss. They assumed it was just canned revelatory bliss that they poured it in the edit.
Starting point is 00:25:34 Yeah, that would be a problem. More exactly. I mean, obviously they've got warm up philosophers there who kind of get the crowd ready, you know, get them in the zone to totally transcend their, you know, their ego and that thing. So is this kind of like a, it's like a version of like, Goggle box, right? But it's sent in ancient Greece before sitcoms. So it's a bunch of people, it's just family sitting there watching or like couples or whatever, or just two dudes,
Starting point is 00:26:03 maybe two women. I think that's okay these days. Whatever the female version of dudes is. Dude SS or dude SS, I think it was. But I feel like that's a term guys came up with. No, that's true. I would like to know what dude SS wanna be called. Oh.
Starting point is 00:26:19 Oh. It's because I'm cool. Dude, or do the Rupees. Anyway, if you're a woman, you can pick whatever you wanna be called. It's because I'm cool. Doodahroodies. Anyway, if you're a woman, you can pick whatever you want to be called. Yeah. And if you're a man, you have to start with dude, you know? Oh, well. No.
Starting point is 00:26:34 I don't know if you can just give people as much freedom. Too much freedom is crazy. That's true. Yeah. So it's Gargobox Ancient Greece. Yes. And then it's people commenting on Plato's dialogues. That's playing on TV for some reason.
Starting point is 00:26:48 But it's like a stone TV. So it's kind of like, it's like, it's kind of a bit... Stone tablet TV, it's a bit grainy. Yeah, but it still see the flex of granite in the screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And but it's, it looks, I guess we've, we've technically, in order to film it, we've technically projected something on to a stone TV
Starting point is 00:27:06 or maybe something that looks like stone. We'll get people in the art department to figure it out. Usually, probably they could do it with foam to make it look like stone. Foam looks foam stone. Yeah, foam stone. A lot of, but you know, a lot of the time you can
Starting point is 00:27:19 cheat the rules with sketches like this and literally just have someone in a toga sitting on a couch watching television. And people look at the toga, and they go, that's ancient Greece. They don't look at the couch, I think that's a bit of a modern couch. I know, but you can make it out of the stone couch.
Starting point is 00:27:35 No, but I'm saying I don't think you need it because people just look at the toga. I know, but how do they know that it's not a toga party? How do you know, it's not just set it unique? Because we have a unique option. We have a little thing that comes out like a tie-pride are going, there's ancient Greece. Yeah. And then people are like, three, five riders, ancient Greece. Ancient come on, I'm confused. Okay, sure. I'll try and suspend disbelief. Maybe we cut out to
Starting point is 00:28:00 other people who are watching that goggle box box, that ancient Greek Goggle box, and who are talking about this exact issue. Anyway, yes, dialogues are paid, Plato. Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog-
Starting point is 00:28:13 Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog-
Starting point is 00:28:20 Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- Dialog- And they reckon that the moments of revelator, they're discussing the fact that they think the moments of revelatory bliss are put in later. And then also there's like, there's some other who goes,
Starting point is 00:28:31 one of the guys going like, I reckon that Socrates corrupting the youth. Like that. Yeah. But then there's some youth like he's like the kid of the guy. So I think, I don't know, Dad,
Starting point is 00:28:41 I reckon he's got some good ideas. Hey, I think he's right some good ideas, hey! I think he's right on! Yeah, I think that conversation is a good way to get to truth! You were just a square, Dad! Why don't you go back to the quarry, you fuckhead? Sorry, not a square, you were just a quadrangle, Dad! You think back in those days they didn't have squares, they just said, I just used long words for everything
Starting point is 00:29:12 You know, well, what do you think about this tablet that they found that said that the Babylonians Yeah, I'd come up with trigonometry like a thousand years earlier than Pythagoras and So Pythagorean theorem had been figured out actually the Babylonian. It's a Babylonian theorem. We don't know which Babylonian. But I mean, that changes everything. Pythagoras is just some guy who's just, you know, he's like, he's using somebody else's gear. He's a, um, he might have found a tablet. There would have been more of those tablets around back in those days.
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Starting point is 00:30:24 He's a theorem thief. He's a theorem thief. Nothing makes me angrier than theorem thieves. Really? Yeah. Not even like, in fantasight. But you know what doesn't make me angry? What? Movement watches.
Starting point is 00:30:39 Really? LAUGHTER LAUGHTER Movement watches. You know, they're stylish, they're minimalist design. Really? Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. Movement watches, you know, they're stylish, they're minimalist design. I've got one on. You're wearing them right now. I love the large face on it, Andy. And it's got a large face, it's very easy to see the hands, I'll say.
Starting point is 00:30:56 And it's got a beautiful leather band. Leather band. You went with the gold. I went with a gold watch. Because you're a mad dog. I believe is the, that's, that term is actually now in the dictionary of a diagnostic psychology. You know, you're a mad dog.
Starting point is 00:31:11 You know, my girlfriend saw me with that gold box. She said, you're probably gonna get mugged now. And I said, you know what? I think what you mean is, I'm probably more likely to get compliments from muggers. Wow. Because I've been getting compliments from regular people. And a mugger is just a regular people, a person, mugging. Really mugging is the ultimate form of flattery.
Starting point is 00:31:34 You know, people say it's imitation, but I'm racking. No, no, mugging. Mugging. You know, oh, thank you. Oh my god. And it's an imitation in a way a form of mugging of Muggery. It's a form of muggery
Starting point is 00:31:50 Listen and watch if you know if you go to MVMT.com forward slash think tank you get 15 pencil 15 percent off 15 pets 15 pets in the old money. I should or two. Oh, if you come on down to mvmt.com, slash think tank, 15 pens off. You all the online shoppy. Yeah. Yeah, 15% off, a free shipping and free returns on a stylish minimalist watch.
Starting point is 00:32:22 But if you don't like minimalist, they got some maxima-must. Maximilist. Maximilist. Maximilist watches there too. You like a busy watch that works, that looks good. This stuff going on, mine's got three little extra watchy faces, things on it. I haven't yet worked out what they do. But I'm looking forward to finding out.
Starting point is 00:32:41 That's because movement watches are a lot like the Simpsons. The more you watch it, the more you see. The the Simpsons. Yes. The more you watch it. Yes. The more you see. The more you get out of it. The more you get out of it. Exactly. Movement watches. Now my family, we've just nailed the watch to the wall of the living room. We sit around watching it instead of the television. That's actually a great idea. Yeah, thank you. I guess it's hard to think about what will replace the television one day, you know, like or like the computer screen that we currently have. You're okay with me moving on.
Starting point is 00:33:11 No, absolutely. I'm really okay with you moving on. You know, so because, is it ever going to go beyond just looking at something and watching the story? I know smell of vision is gone. I don't think we're gonna go to smelly vision. And we've already talked about 9D cinemas. Yeah, 9D cinemas.
Starting point is 00:33:32 What is the fifth one? It's somebody pinching your ankles. Yeah, fifth is the fifth one. Pinching your legs. But how are we gonna get, this is my problem with entertainment. It's hugely limited by the fact that it is still as much as anything in your life a waste of my time. Right.
Starting point is 00:33:58 Because it's limited by our limitations. Right? Like you really, you're asking, when are they gonna invent a television that not three D television, when are they gonna invent, you know, five, six D television where I can experience higher planes of existence. Right? Because seeing things, hearing things,
Starting point is 00:34:22 I've done that before. I've done it all. I've done it all. I've been there. Seeing, hearing, looking. Yes. Oh, that's also seeing. Listening, that's hearing. Okay.
Starting point is 00:34:35 Touching, I have, okay. If they made a TV that you could touch, already that's way better, but that's still not fixing my problem. I need a TV that makes you immortal. That's the first thing that has to happen, right? Because I still feel like all that entertainment is, is TV is, is, is, is a waste of your time that convinces you that it's not a waste of your time.
Starting point is 00:35:00 Okay. And, and more importantly, the time that it's wasting is time in a finite lifespan. That's right. Now, if you went along to a TV shop, right, and they said, okay, so we've got this one here, this one's 4K, higher resolution, then actually the human eye can detect. Wow. And it's totally immersive surround sound, and it's wirelessly connected to the internet. You can stream anything you want. So that's fantastic. It's the highest end television that we've got.
Starting point is 00:35:33 This one, it's only 3k, not quite as good resolution, but the benefit that this one does have, this one's quite good, actually it's quite interesting, because while you're watching the other television, your life is still ticking away. But this one actually does, it gives you immortality. So you don't have to feel bad about wasting time watching television. So the television you're watching isn't as good, like you can't, it's not as high quality, but you don't ever have to feel bad. Right. And how much is the first one?
Starting point is 00:36:04 Okay. The first one is $4.99. You're right And how much is the first one? Okay, the first one is $4.99. You're right, how much is the second one? It's $2.80. Oh, okay. 4K, you say. 4K, though. I mean, and the screen is curved as well.
Starting point is 00:36:21 Wait, the first one or the second one? The first one, the screen is curved, so it's just like that little bit more realistic. Is that real? Is that making more realistic? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It makes it more realistic if you're sitting in exactly the right position. If you're sitting like even a couple of millimeters to the left, it makes it really unpleasant
Starting point is 00:36:35 to watch. And it makes you look like an idiot for having a curved television. I have to say. 4K though. 4K, yeah, yeah. So I mean the immortality thing is a good is a good sell, but I don't know if the 4K is there something in that, do you think? Yeah, I think I don't know why I'm writing 3K. I think I think it's two people. It's a couple, right? Shopping for
Starting point is 00:36:59 a television. And I think the dynamic of the person who who is really tempted by the 4K versus the person who's like, but this one does make us immortal. Right. Yeah, absolutely, but like, you know, but, you know, that level of detail, what's the refresh rate like? Yeah. Yeah, it's only 30 frames. And he's in 30 FPS.
Starting point is 00:37:22 And she's like, and she's like, I just think we should go for the 4K when he's like, you all you watch is how to lose a guy in 10 days over and over again. You don't need that good quality of an image for that movie. I think we should take the mortality. It's cheaper. So you're always trying to save money, okay? Why can't we have something nice? And then like the sales guys, guys, look, I've had,
Starting point is 00:37:50 we have a lot of customers that say that they feel that watching entertainment consumes a lot of their lives and that they wish they could be able to spend more time with their families and that sort of like the clock wasn't constantly ticking on the end of their life. And so that's why they prefer the immortality. But then some people do love the 4K. You know, they do love to get super HD. Honey, I just think that the 4K, if we get the 3K, surely immortality is great.
Starting point is 00:38:22 But we're going to have an infinitive time to be disappointed by the fact that we could have had 4K. If it was 3K and then you die in five years time, then you'd be like, well, the quality is bad, but at least we'll die soon. But if it's the quality is bad and we're stuck with this forever, okay? Plus the, you know, but this 4K, well, you know, that's just a normal life just with slightly higher resolution. Sorry to ask this, but do you have one that has immortality and is 4K?
Starting point is 00:39:00 Oh, yeah, absolutely. We've got one just over here. I was thinking he goes, he goes, he goes, uh, actually, there. We've got one to study. I was thinking he goes he goes because I actually There is one coming up But it probably won't be released until next month. Let's go Next we really want to get it now. Yeah, oh, we'll just take it here in the show I mean, it's taking us so much effort to leave the couch. We'll just take the 4k whatever Yeah, I think that's fantastic.
Starting point is 00:39:31 I think, I mean, I think it's interesting that you made the female in that sketch, the person who wanted the 4K. Would you say that they were the stupid one in the sketch, Chelm? Well, I think that it's actually in terms of what I've observed. Yes. I don't know that many women who give a shit about TV resolution. So I feel like there's a quite progressive that you So I feel like there's a quite progressive that you are Representing a female who cares about high quality. I don't see it as progressive. I just see it as As just you know what there's no rules. Wow. Yeah, that's even more progressive. I just well done. Yeah, I just think that that Any people can just like anything.
Starting point is 00:40:25 I could imagine a person who's neither male nor female, nor transgender, nor intersex, as being really into paragliding, for example. That's really interesting. It's such a rare person. They can't be defund, right? And that doesn that's really interesting. It's such a rare person. They can't be defined, right? Yeah, and that doesn't define them. That doesn't define a power-coliding defined. They're not defined by their sex or gender, they're defined by the way that they soar through the air.
Starting point is 00:40:59 Through the air. Defying God's will. And looking down on the rest of us like ants. Yeah, literally. Sure. And the way in which they are more free than literally any person has ever been before. Or maybe ever will be again. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:17 I mean, it would be great to saw. I used to really want to do hang lighting. And then I found out about the possibility of it going wrong and I lost interest. Yeah, I think there's the possibility of going wrong that makes power gliding kind of seem more dangerous. I would love it if I could fly through the air without power. Yes. So sort of, I'm just without power. Yes. So, sort of, I'm just a,
Starting point is 00:41:44 I'm just like a victim to the air currents. Oh, you're just wafting. You're like a little spider attached with a gossamer thread. I believe so. I don't know what gossamer thread is. Well, it's a really good word is what it is. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:59 Did you say I was a gossling? Yeah, it could be a gossling. Is that what you said? Like I'm a baby goose. Baby goose on there. On some thread. So I'm like somebody's, I'm somebody's slave goose. You're a slave goose, Alistair,
Starting point is 00:42:12 is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. You're being forced fed so that your liver expands so that a French person can eat it as one quai. He's like, I just, you know, I don't know how much YouTube you want. Do you want a lot of YouTube? Yeah, probably about seven or eight YouTube.
Starting point is 00:42:30 Yeah, he's seven or eight hours a day. Just on the YouTube scale. Okay, just seven or eight. Yeah, I came across a video the other day. It was a guy. So it's not paragliding. It's where you have a fan on your back and a parachute, right? But you take off from the ground.
Starting point is 00:42:49 Okay, I can't remember what those ones are called. I didn't even know this was a thing. So this is, I'm on a steep learning curve here. I'll stay there. You got a parachute and then you just can take off from the ground, you can run on a field instead of the parachute kind of lifts above you. And then suddenly you use that as a source of energy to just push you, anyway.
Starting point is 00:43:10 You take off into the sky. Into the sky, you fall. And you're steering yourself and the parachute's lifting you up. Yeah. And what's powering your fan? Is it a petrol motor? I think it could be a petrol motor. Ah, wow.
Starting point is 00:43:21 Yeah, yeah, I think. And then if something goes wrong, well, then you're just paragliding. Then you just paragliding. That's fine. But it's not paragliding with the triangle. Oh, you think in, do you paragliding with the parachute or with the triangle?
Starting point is 00:43:32 For the parachute. What's the triangle? That's hang gliding. Hang gliding. I was thinking about hang gliding. This whole time you've been talking about hang gliding. Yeah, but you know. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:43:41 I think maybe I consider paragliding. I start the podcast again. No, no, no, maybe. Do you think back in Jack will be okay to wait longer? I think maybe I think of hang gliding more because in a parrot gliding, you are hanging more. You're right, and definitely gliding. Yeah, right. And with a hang glider, you're kind of holding on to a bar and you've got your legs in a bag. Yeah, and you're parallel to the ground, right? So you're very much
Starting point is 00:44:15 parrho gliding. Well, I don't know about that. I think there's a lot of up and down. All right. Depends on parallel to what I was hoping you. I guess you're always parallel to something but that's probably the most profound thing that you've ever said yeah thank you or all parallel to something parallel to something always something that you never ever meet um no but my I sorry I realized now that the hang gliding is what you're trying to help and I realize anyway but what I was gonna say is that your legs are in a bag sort of like your legs are useless like your paraplegic.
Starting point is 00:44:51 Well, it really would have been a help, if I'd have helped you avoid saying that. But see what's interesting, is that that kind of a definitional debate, right? Do you think that like, is there some sketch in people trying to have that definitional debate while they're in the air? Okay.
Starting point is 00:45:14 Like people are paragliding. And they're saying, surely this is more hang gliding than paragliding. Right, you've got people strapped together in a student trainer scenario, right, you tend them paragliding. And the- This is another sketch that's gonna end in people dying.
Starting point is 00:45:30 Yes, they get a pencil out, right? I think I just, I spoke in holes in his, in his sail. I don't know, it's just wondering, is there something in that, in people fighting over whether or not it should be paragliding? Well, we're not really hanging. We're holding on.
Starting point is 00:45:46 Yeah. I mean, sure, if we were sort of hung gliding, there's just hung gliding as well. That would be the possibility. Is that that's where you were just tied on with your neck? I'm with your neck. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, I don't know if there's anything in that.
Starting point is 00:46:06 So, I don't know, maybe. I mean, look, you know where there isn't enough sketches set under a power gliding? Yeah, in the sky. Yeah. You know what comedy's real limitation to this point has been? This surly grip of gravity. To use a phrase that I've heard Jack Drew's from Friendship Mates used. Surly grip of gravity. Surly grip of gravity. Surly grip of gravity to use a phrase that I've heard Jack Drew's from friendship mates years. Sirly grip of gravity Yeah, sirly grip gravity sirly grip
Starting point is 00:46:28 There's there's a part of me that wants to get the word gravel in there Sure It's just because I think if it would fit the sirly grip of gravity as used launch towards gravel anyway, it doesn't quite work um But but grab, you know comedy has has so far has it's been very much a terrestrial activity. I think first of all, I don't know what the idea is yet. It takes the skies. But it's a it's a web series that's set entirely in the sky whilst hang gliding.
Starting point is 00:46:57 That's fucking good. Yeah, that's fine. Because all this is the problem is it's so there's a lot of web series. It's a big big thing right now. Most of them set on the ground, as you were saying, terrestrial. Yes. And here's, I've already got our tagline.
Starting point is 00:47:10 Yeah. Right? The best comedy, not on earth. Oh, that's good. I mean, that's good. I mean, I don't like things referring to themselves as comedy, but the best. But if, but that's usually things that don't have as good a tagline
Starting point is 00:47:27 as that. Thank you. Yeah. So we, we were real, we got through that. Okay. So, these, so I guess, you know, this is your classic web series. It's about people that are paragliding and the characters that they meet along the way. Right.
Starting point is 00:47:52 It's, it's, uh, so you go up there. What kind of people are up in the sky while you're up there? Cause you would meet at least some people. First of all, there's the people that were on the ground with you. Some of them will be up there. Do you think it's called hanging or just hanging? Maybe it's the series. Gliden? Gliden?
Starting point is 00:48:08 What about anglie? Oh, that sounds like anglie. What is that weird? You can't say hang glider without saying anglie or at least writing anglie. Anyway, I'm just, I'm just looking out for, you've discovered something there. That's brilliant. I'm just looking out for Ang Lee's career.
Starting point is 00:48:32 Anyway, I know we've already promoted, movement watches and friendship mates, but just go out there. Ang Lee, what a great director. But really, what you, if you run hang glotter, you've written ang Lee It's not ang Lee is it I mean I know I had to be pedant Yeah, yeah, I know you well you don't seem to hate to be a patent you you were you were one almost every day. I relish it
Starting point is 00:48:56 Yeah, you relish it you not only relish it wow you the way you corrected me on my pedantry I really respect that yeah, that that's pretty good, thanks, thanks very much. I think a hang gliding sitcom is a great idea for a sketch. Okay, but I think if we're gonna write this down as an idea, we need at least a first step. Okay, so... I don't think at any point we're on the ground. Yeah, no, no, no, no, it's like the bird,
Starting point is 00:49:23 what people used to think of the bird of paradise, right that it lives its entire life on the wing right even mating and sleeping it sleeps on the wing Does it all the way turns out that's not true. They just have really small feet and They do land for a lot of very crucial things, right? People used to think that they spent the whole lives on the wing so wait what about What are we okay? What's a bird of Paradise? Brutal Paradise type of bird. So it's like an albatross? Oh, I guess it is a type of bird. It's like an albatross, that was it.
Starting point is 00:49:51 I mean, it's not, I'm like an albatross. But I mean like an albatross spends a long time in here. Sure, and it kinda locks its arms in and just glides all the time. Yeah. Is that what a Brutal Paradise does? I think, I think saying that they have arms already indicates that you're just not qualified to be making any assessments about birds whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:50:10 And I think you would find that wings are just a form of arm. Okay. Or do you think that they're legs? Is this what you're telling me? You're telling me you're coming here on my own part. Oh, okay, okay. So I'm telling me that a bird's wing is a- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, arms are my arms wings. A little bit, they're wing-like.
Starting point is 00:50:46 Well, that's just because of an excess skin issue that I have, and I'm dearly with it, I'm very sensitive about. Andy, you have very loose pet skin. And the way that you've got found a way to use it from- You've got to glide from branch to branch. And the Amazonian jungle indicates
Starting point is 00:51:04 that I'm the next step in the evolution of lizards. I understand, and... And you've spoken to me about this in private. And I'm sorry to reveal it to everybody. Whilst we're promoting, women watches and friendship mates. And angly. And angly, that I'm also promoting your long armpit skin
Starting point is 00:51:22 that dangles sometimes beyond the bottom of your t-shirt, and so you have to staple it to your arm. Well, what I do actually is I take my movement watch, and I actually put it up around my bicep, and that's the thing about movement watches. You can use them to strap your excess arm skin. Arm pit skin. Arm pit skin back into like an acceptable place on your body.
Starting point is 00:51:46 Or you can, and then minimalist and stylish. You can let it grow. 50% off, MVMT.com. You can let it grow free, and then you can have a series of MVMT watches. All the way down. Yes. And just strap it all the way down like that.
Starting point is 00:51:59 And each have one set to a different time zone. Yeah. And like, and then you'll have all that excess skin out of the way, like a flying squirrel who's ashamed of being a flying squirrel. I wish it was just a regular squirrel. Yeah. The gift of flight, more like the curse, he says to himself.
Starting point is 00:52:16 Oh, well that would be great. As it straps, he's arms up every morning. By the way, that would be a great part of our show, Gliden. Yeah, talk about the curse of flight. Well, though, that one of the people who's that they meet up in space, but they would never make it to space. I don't think they would ever make it to space.
Starting point is 00:52:33 Well, maybe in like season seven or something, yeah. We could have really run out of ideas. We run out of ideas. So then probably near the end of season one. OK. The other side of it, for so what? I don't know when we're going to run out of ideas. We haven't been able to come up with that one. The other side of episode one. We're gonna run out of ideas. We haven't been able to come up
Starting point is 00:52:47 with that one. Well, they really flew over the shark in that episode. Yeah, so I think that probably there's going to be a guy who has a squirrel suit, but he's nude. Wow. He's a nude guy. Maybe he's wearing a sort of a sumo sort of crotch wear just to cover the penis because I don't know if we're going to be able to share that on Facebook. Right. And that's where most of the views are. That's where most of the views are these days, because they're automatic. They start playing.
Starting point is 00:53:13 You only have to get 15 seconds in for it to count as a view. Exactly. So, so that's one of the characters. I thought you would say that there's a character who's cursed to always keep flying. Right. So I think that's quite interesting. Even if we don't actually meet that character, it's certainly like an urban legend in the hang gliding community. It's like a guy who's cursed to never land and he's up there just in the currents. Maybe that could be our main character. Oh wow. He just can't get a break. Do we reveal that? Like, I think we introduced the concept of
Starting point is 00:53:46 that there is such a person, right? And then we reveal at the end that it's been our main character all along. And that he's had to sort of piece. He's heard these rumors about this person. Or that it's him. And it discovers that it's him. He doesn't know.
Starting point is 00:54:00 How does he not know? He's an idiot. I mean, yeah, but he must. No, but what I mean, part of the curse is some kind of self-delusion, obviously, right? Like he... Or even... You think you love hang gliding. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:14 And, you know, we're just seeing interactions, right? We don't really see us in our thoughts. Maybe he doesn't reveal that to us. We see him talking to other people who talk about this person. Hmm. This is great because I think it's the it's the it's the old Superman, so the green screen laying on a block kind of flying thing that doesn't really get used much anymore.
Starting point is 00:54:34 We still have that technology. That technology is a real lying in a warehouse somewhere. Yeah. Well, you could be lying in a warehouse somewhere. So where film? Yeah. And then in front of a green screen, you could be lying in a warehouse anywhere. That's the power of the green screen.
Starting point is 00:54:50 And I think that this is our sketches for today, Andy. Yeah, I'll let's do it. I'm gonna take us through it. I'd like you to take me through it. All right, well, we have James Cameron's Avatar pitch. I know we do this sort of the movie pitch thing every now and again, but I mean this is taking us to a new place where we're actually going to get to see where he's pitching Avatar
Starting point is 00:55:10 to an executive, a single executive, and it's basically Avatar, is it? Right, it could be in a relationship. I don't mind. Yeah, great. He might be in a relationship. And then he says that they're all connected. Yep. And you would think like a spirit, like it is in the final movie, but it's actually,
Starting point is 00:55:27 it's people. It's foot to shake. It's foot to ask. Then we have, it's a pen shop that has no pens that work. Right? And the guy, he's just trying to write out the receipt for a guy that is buying a pen. And he's just trying to, I don't even know why. You don't even need to sign the receipt.
Starting point is 00:55:45 Oh, sometimes you do. Yeah, if the machine's broken. Yeah, you've got to do one by hand. The machine's broken through the, like they just needs to get them to sign the thing. Anyway, there's only one pen left and it's the one the guy's holding and the guy uses it to kill himself. And then the police come in, they test the pen and it's working. And it actually works.
Starting point is 00:56:04 So they didn't screw the gun. It's a beautiful flow. It's nice to know that the guy didn't get screwed. I think in the end, you want to leave the audience feeling good. Ancient Greece Goggle Box, it's called Dialoggle Box. And it's people talking about, they're just watching the sort of Plato's dialogues. Do you think I can call the episode Dialogal Box or let Alienate people. Let's just do it, Andy.
Starting point is 00:56:26 I know that when we have a weirder name to episode, people seem to download it less. But I don't know if that's necessarily... Do we want to be listened more? We don't want to live in fear. So I think we'll just call it that. Yeah. And then we got the 3K television that gives you a mortality versus the 4K television. Cost a lot more.
Starting point is 00:56:48 Yeah, 4K. That's slightly curved. 4K, yeah, slightly curved. Which a lot of people would say is a bad thing. Yeah, most of the feedback we get is that people hate that. Yeah, and then we have our web series called Gliden, which is a web series set in the air. And it's potentially about a guy who could never land. He's essentially the bird of paradise as it exists in the minds of people
Starting point is 00:57:14 who don't know that much about the bird of paradise. Beautiful. And that is today's Barbecue pizza barbecue pizza barbecue pizza barbecue Crimpies Crimpies love them. So thank you so much for listening here. We really we really do appreciate it We're part of the Planet Broadcasting Network and and they have a whole lot of great podcasts. I'll tell you one that isn't on the Planet Broadcasting Network is Friendship mates and you should really give it a listen. I think they're outside right now. We should let them in to record their episode. Yeah, but you know which one you should listen to is the weekly planet. They're a great fantastic podcast. I was listening to it today while I was doing the washing up and I had a bloody great time. I always have a great time whether or not or whether, or whether I am. We love those guys. Do go on, do go on, do go on.
Starting point is 00:58:07 Whoa. And then we're also on Twitter to the tank. Stupid old Andy. And I'm at Alistair TV. And Alistair, you have a show coming up at the French festival? Yeah, it's called going, going havies. No, no, Alan, Alan Matt go havies. And it's at the Melbourne fringe. And look, hey, I'm just gonna say this
Starting point is 00:58:26 in order to be promoting a lot, but I'm starting up a Patreon. And if people wanna look it up, we don't have currently any idea, it's just to support the podcast. It's just to support the podcast. I'll start a Patreon, someone suggested it. One of you, listen, has suggested that we start a Patreon,
Starting point is 00:58:42 said you would support it if we didn't. And then Alistair has really taken that to heart. Yeah, I've taken it to heart. I wanted to do it for the 100th episode, but he slapped me in the face. He said, no, let's do it. So I'm going to start it. And then I don't think if I don't know if the link will be in this next episode, but maybe in the few on, but if look, if you just want to support us as is
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