Triforce! - Triforce! #144: Those Magical Family Moments
Episode Date: September 23, 2020Triforce! Episode 144! We've got YouTube recommendations, disgusting eaters, magical family moments and Pyrion's illustrious golfing career in today's Triforce! Support your favourite podcast on Pat...reon:Â https://bit.ly/2SMnzk6 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Triforce podcast.
We're back.
We're actually recording half an hour late this morning because Sips was showing me and Pflax's CK3 Empire.
The Pennywhacker Empire.
Monster Empire, yeah.
And Motherfucker. It's huge.
It's a big one.
I've never seen anything like it.
I don't understand how you've done it.
It's like watching some sort of spiffing Brit stuff.
I recommend CK3 to anyone. I've played it this week. I had a good time.
I think you do have to play it with a little bit of role play.
You know, you have to take your time.
You don't want to rush.
You want to watch things happen.
You want to see your children grow up and turn into crazy motherfuckers.
Or, you know, you want to sleep with your auntie and have a hunchback child.
Do you know what I mean?
You want to enjoy it.
Savor it.
The multiplayer stuff, I've been doing that with the lads that i would i would have previously played
like hearts of iron or dover or whatever with it was it was really funny because each of us would
kind of specialize in something like my you know my boy just went down the intrigue tree
and he had a ridiculous amount of intrigue and if we needed someone killed we would just say
there was like a queue
of people that we would go to him with and we'd be like um could you kill my heir because my my
next heir after him is a genius he was like yeah yeah give me a minute just kill him and he'd kill
the king of france and then he'd come and kill my heir then he'd kill someone else and by killing
just the right people he went from being britney and having one province to the entirety of west
frankia he was just now the leader this is some game of thrones shit he's like your spy master
yeah he's like little finger eunuch you need a little finger yeah you need a dwarf you need
everyone right it was really something it's very very game of thronesy i can't wait for the game
of thrones mod actually that'll be here's the one thing you need to understand about multiplayer
crusader kings if you have like five or six people playing and you save it and resume it at a later time,
do not continue the game without all of you there because the AI will come in and be like,
why are my friends with this idiot? And just declare war on you. Like,
my buddy Plague was like, he couldn't turn up. He was like an hour late or whatever. So he cracked
on anyway. And he was Denmark at the late or whatever so he cracked on anyway and he was Denmark
at the time
and they just started
taking everything
and attacking everybody
it was horrifying
it was like
oh my god
we can't stop him
and he's like
it's our mate's empire
but that's what happens
in real history right
that's exactly it
because the kids
you never know
what your kids
are going to be like
you're dead
and they're like
some crazy motherfucker
you might have that guy from game of thrones that was cutting
people's wieners off and stuff like that that might be your kid exactly yeah you never know
like this is the same case for you you know you've established a period of fact flax bloodline and
sips bloodline as well and you you know you have a set a certain reputation a certain threshold for
greatness right yeah for behavior for comedy yeah for attitudes, for being cool, for looking good.
You're saying my kids could be horrible people? That's an awful thing to say.
I'm saying your kids might be like fashion models, really talented photographers,
expert writers. They could really put you to shame. Or they could be a drug addict,
a dark disaster area.
And you never know.
It's true.
You never know.
You just don't know.
So I talked to Ben this week,
who's got a family member who is just starting sixth form.
Right.
So like 16.
And he was telling me, so this is sort of secondhand through him,
but he was telling me how they were chatting about what they're doing getting ready for going to school.
And so what they've done is before the sick form started,
all the people have looked at each other's accounts through Instagram.
This is some black mirror shit, right?
But apparently this is what people are doing now
at school before even like meeting each other wow they've they are they first of all none of them
ever got phone numbers of anyone else if you have a phone number of someone they're like really close
that's like your mom right thing right right everyone else talks and they don't use whatsapp
they use instagram like messaging right and they all have an instagram and they've't use WhatsApp, they use Instagram messaging, and they all have an Instagram, and they've all checked each other out,
and they all know each other before they've even met in school.
This is a world that terrifies me, right?
Because Instagram is this place where people just mostly post pictures
of themselves looking good, right?
Looking perfect.
You take like 100 selfies.
So they think.
I mean, you know. Yeah, but mostly they're right. themselves looking good right looking you take like 100 selfies that's so they think i mean you
know yeah i'd say self-recommendation is no recommendation at all really when you think
uh you know some of these people who are like i look great do you i mean i don't think you look
that great personally but i mean if you think you look great i guess that's all that matters
you know what i mean like what what is all this shit i think they they they have an understanding of
what what is instagram good right so it's like what are the popular i mean it's the slightly above
head slightly turned looking kind of cutesy and there'll be pictures and stuff like that like
it's like they always take the most flattering picture of their house or where they are that's
possible so i think the issue is that you're presenting this perfect version of your life and yourself. That's why my Instagram is always me looking
grumpy in a pretty basic place, like in front of a sock shop or something, because that's real life.
I don't want to lie to people. Most of the time, you're not smiling and happy and looking perfect.
Life is fundamentally pretty boring a lot of the time. So is that not worth sharing too?
I heard that Instagram is basically just now
just celebrities posting pictures of themselves
doing what you guys just said.
There's definitely a lot of influencer stuff on that.
Like it's quite funny how I speak to people
and they are fans of some Instagram influencer
and they think that they're the only person
who is their fan right and so but
for example one one thing you know some some nail polish or something will be delivered to the
office and it won't have a name on it and there'll be you know five different people who think it's
theirs because they're all they're all actually fans of this Instagram person who isn't small at
all they're selling millions and millions of products right
and it's it's a really crazy different different world I think that it so what you all these people
somebody on in on Instagram or like an influencer on Instagram yeah that's all they're they're they
done that's all they're known for is just being on Instagram and people are fans there are plenty
of people like that yeah like I mean TikTok there are people who are just huge on i can like just about understand like what like we do that
people would want to watch somebody like play a game especially somebody who's like good at a game
or whatever i can understand that like i've watched you know obviously people i don't think i'd ever
just follow somebody on instagram just because they're on instagram you know what i mean like
i don't know what you could do on instagram that would sort of convert me to like a fan like i mean i guess maybe if
you're into fashion or something like that but like there's a couple i just don't get it that
i've spoken to who follow weird people kind of just out of a morbid curiosity right okay what
they're like because they're like i don't know, some people who were involved in MLMs or just particularly
weird, and they're not usually good people or pleasant people either.
It's like they just sort of, I wonder if that's part of it, this kind of curiosity of like,
who is this fake person?
Why do they act like this?
What has led them down this weird path?
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I think it's a very different audience from what we can imagine.
We all do streaming or YouTube and we understand, specifically around gaming.
So the games that we like to play and what we like to watch,
I think we just kind of, obviously everybody puts their own spin on it,
but essentially that's a world that we understand.
I don't understand why someone would follow someone. We just kind of, obviously, everybody puts their own spin on it. But essentially, that's a world that we understand. Sure.
I don't understand why someone would follow someone.
I still don't even really understand this world that well.
Well, we understand at least in part, right?
It still doesn't really make a lot of sense, does it?
Yeah, but surely to you, it makes more sense, as it does to me,
than someone following someone on TikTok who just says,
hi, guys, check out my new shoes, looking great today.
Fuck, I don't even know what TikTok is, honestly. I feel so old like i don't even know what it is it's like
vine do you remember vine yeah so tiktok is kind of like that only it's got a lot more functionality
it's a lot more community based like you can do things like create a duet so you create you do
something where you say but so it's more like video like small videos like somebody saying
like hi i shit my pants but they're not just like six seconds like vine it's more like video like small videos like somebody saying like hi i shit my
pants but they're not just like six seconds like mine it's like they're not but that would be great
that would be a great that would be a great tiktok you should do that here's my pants what's up bam
and oh man it's very clever tiktok is very clever um they're they're often they they they feel
amateurish and they feel real and they feel ghetto but they're often very staged or
little jokes that are quite clever and are made by people who know what they're doing and and it's
got this tiktok has got this amazing amazing algorithm where when you watch some according
to what you've watched it knows what other people have also...
It's all about how you don't interact, rather than how you do interact.
So it's all about how long you sit there while something plays in front of you,
and don't turn it off, rather than what you do click on.
So it's all about that watch time thing that YouTube built in a few years ago as well.
It's like if you watch something for longer than a certain amount of time,
YouTube will just give you more of the things that similar people have watched for a similar amount of time.
So, I mean, it's weirdly clever like that.
Anyway, TikTok, it's this weird thing.
It's not unusual.
It's not weird.
But I wonder whether I always give people the benefit of the doubt, though, in general.
And like when we say people, I'm like'm like why do people why are people into this and i think
there's there's i think that easily when you watch something when you watch some weird guy you're
like okay i can see why this guy's weird and interesting and people might want to watch i
think most people are similar in there are definitely things i want like mre steve why
am i watching a guy eat rations yeah but, but how are you watching? Like, are you watching on YouTube? Every day? Do you get
notification? Oh, shit. Yeah, new MRE Steve, I can't wait to watch this later.
Literally, yeah.
Really? Okay.
And like, it pops up on my list, new video, I will watch it straight away. And yeah,
I don't know why. It's just one of those things.
It's comforting. It's familiar. It's like, it's, it's, I do it too.
I have this list of YouTube subscriptions.
And sometimes I actually have to unsubscribe to things that I feel are like,
ugh, like I used to watch so much like Hearthstone stuff.
Yeah.
And I used to watch a lot of Starcraft, like pro games and stuff as well.
And I had to like unsubscribe to a lot of these channels just to stop them.
Otherwise I would watch every single one
what does youtube currently recommend to you guys like um i've actually got youtube open right now
do you want to do you want to know my recommendations yeah this is what it's
recommending omar sells the shipment back to prop joe so that's a clip from the wire because i watched
a clip from the wire yesterday and now all it's recommending me is clips from the wire sure omar what omar sells the shipment
back to prop joe 1.4 million views it's just a clip from the wire right a guy playing a strategy
game called i think it's called um combat shock troops 2 or something which is made by have you
ever heard of a company called slithereen games yes itator- Ultra grognardy, very nerdy games, right?
So this is kind of like that.
Very hardcore strategy game set in some sort of modern war scenario.
Something where Jamie Vardy is making fun of Casper Schmeichel, which is a Sky Sports
thing.
Billy Joel's You're Only Human, which was in the most recent episode of The Boys on
Amazon. That song by Billy Joel was- joel's you're only human which was in the most recent episode of the boys right um on amazon
that song by billy joel was your only human after all right that one no bizarre no no it's not that
one uh so this one is called another advanced useless machine which i'm intrigued to watch
this was uploaded seven years ago if you go on youtube and you go to the top of your page
on your home page at the top it says all and then it should say something yeah and you go to the top of your page on your homepage at the top it says all
and then it should say
some things
do you want to hear the things
yeah I want to hear the things
right
Columbo
wow
Columbo
is the number one
number one
it's alphabetically sorted
I think
but at the same time
I have been fiending
Columbo clips
for some reason
like a lot of the clips
where he goes
uh
just uh
just one more thing sir i almost
forgot uh where did you get that gun and the guy's like oh you got me colombo you know like
a load of those i've been watching yeah basically the reveals exactly the reveals
each episode reveal compilation i know what you're gonna say colombo i know what you're
gonna say where did i get this gun well you got me colombo exactly again exactly i got no excuse
and then the next one is comedy which is fair enough i watch comedy yeah that's very that's
a very broad then the third one is thrillers and i don't know what that is doing there and then
baseball fair enough i do watch a lot of baseball clips.
Strategy video games.
And then there's one called scenes.
I don't know what scenes.
I think it must mean scenes from films.
I guess that means scenes.
Nice.
And then there's Escape from Tarkov.
World War II.
Right.
Stanley Kubrick.
Golf.
History.
Apple.
Apple.
I don't know if that means Apple as in the company Apple
or literally apples.
And then basketball.
I'm not even a basketball fan.
Then it says Super Bowl
because I've been watching NFL highlights
which are uploaded to YouTube.
The season started this week.
This is really weird.
Then fantasy football.
No idea why that's there.
I don't do fantasy football.
I'm not interested in it.
Then podcasts.
I think because occasionally I check in to look at the comments on a triforce episode
yeah and then recently uploaded those are my tags so i've got a there's a clip from there's a clip
from frazier crane's funny moments part one hd from cheers then there's colombo the refusal and
it's him from the colombo channel by the the way. There's a clip from Sin City.
There's a clip from Arrested Development.
There's football supporters singing Will Griggs on fire.
A lot of TV stuff.
A lot of copyrighted stuff, by the sounds of it.
Not a lot of original stuff there.
It's all clips of TV and movies that you can't be asked to sit through the whole thing or don't
want to or i've seen it before and i just forgot like there are clips like there's that bit in the
wire where the the entire scene it's uh mcnulty and what's the copper's name i can't remember
they go and they just say fuck yeah they just say fuck like i i watched that the other day yeah i
like that one that's a great now all i get is recommendations for clips yeah that's a great scene i really like tom scott videos of course
i get recommended a lot of those for some reason i get loads of mad men suggestions i haven't even
finished watching the entire series like i kind of just have you like looked up stuff in the past
about it like out of curiosity but i clicked one weird christopher loads of christopher hitchens
things because i watched a christopher hitchens compilation one time so now all i get is
christopher hitchens things um well i mean that's all that that's very i don't know watching that
sort of atheists sort of rhetoric was very it was very powerful his his arguments weren't they
christopher right but it's not just about atheism.
I think Christopher Hitchens was a very, very, very interesting guy.
Very intelligent.
Very well read.
Great speaker.
Great speaker.
Wonderful debater.
I mean, he'd be incredible now on YouTube, wouldn't he?
Yeah.
If he hadn't died.
Terrible.
Well, I mean, yeah.
I mean, he had a really good way of cutting through.
I always felt like his arguments had an absolute moral core that was inarguable like you couldn't argue against him because it was like i mean he'd studied morality and
philosophy so widely in history his understanding of facts and figures and names and quotes and
things was ridiculous so someone says something and he pulls him up on it and they just don't
have a response i I will say this.
A lot of debates are very tedious because it's kind of one sided.
It's like watching someone just it's like watching Real Madrid beat a pub team.
It's like that'll be entertaining once.
But if they keep doing it, it's just like, geez, you know, give it a rest.
Calm down, Real Madrid.
Yeah, it is interesting.
Take it easy.
Because you see that often in these debates where people are poorly informed on one side
and they say something that is wrong or kind of this stereotype.
And the other person doesn't realize that it's wrong and can't really call them up.
And even if they do call them up, they don't have the facts at hand or whatever.
Do you know i mean they don't have it's like it's like when you write an essay or something you you could constantly put in
citations as you go through right whereas when you're in a debate or speaking on a stage
that isn't there um and and so you have to rely on either your own prep work a great deal of
groundwork you know or a real just solid base of knowledge.
And I think that's what
Christopher Hitchens had.
It was like this great memory for,
like you said,
those kind of unerring moral arguments
that mean that,
yeah, okay,
you've just made me a believer
in one sentence,
you know,
because even if that isn't
like i also can't even argue you need to have a lot of experience in in debating and arguing so
that when your opponent says something you don't need to think and fumble around for an answer he's
already heard this argument before like the more you debate i think especially a specific topic like he has
he spent a lot of time debating uh religion most of the arguments that are pro-religion he's heard
them before and more often than not i'm sure he's heard them that weren't on a televised debate
so he's got his answer ready to go and he's got you know he just knows i love those i love those
really prepared answers like you guys said, where they just calmly sort of like whittle through this.
Not even it doesn't even feel like an overly prepared response, but it just it feels like something natural.
But it's it's just put forward so eloquently and and calmly.
And like, you know, it's not somebody screaming a point or making like a fool of themselves.
Like, I really like that.
I like...
I mean, everybody, the number one comment you see in these is that this is missing from
current politics.
And I think it's absolutely true.
A couple of really smart people sitting down and talking about an issue.
Why is that not something that we see anymore?
If you do see that, it tends to be...
Because the people who get into politics aren't smart people who want to debate issues there.
Why are they suddenly not smart?
Have they always been that?
Has it always been that way?
I think so.
It has, yeah.
Well, then how come we used to have this and now we don't?
We didn't used to.
They want you to think that we used to.
We've never had it.
I'm literally watching it, though.
We're such old men.
I think if we're going to get on the road that all politicians are inherently evil and stupid.
I don't think that they're evil.
I think that they get into politics
for all the wrong reasons.
I think that people who would be really good in politics,
who would do the right things,
aren't interested in getting into politics
because of all the fucking clowns they have to deal with.
We do live in the era of the professional politician.
It used to be that presidents
came from the law or doctors or you know different different other you know they had a calling and a
job and a life in the real world and now we have this career politician the idea that you can go
to school study politics and be a politician i will say this most of us feel that they're out
of most of the politicians in america are still lawyers like they're almost all lawyers i mean for me i've
never heard of al franken before yeah yeah you know he used to be on saturday night live yeah
he wrote a bunch of political books and then he eventually became senator of wisconsin or
somewhere but he's he got cancelled as well there was he did sexual
misconduct allegations and stuff and he was he was he was quite resigned from his uh but yeah he
he was i remember reading his books before he even got into politics and thinking wow you know
this guy is is really switched on uh he knows a lot about politics like why isn't he just a
politician and then sure enough he became one he's not anymore but that's quite unusual i think yeah yeah it is very unusual that's anyway
here's my problem if we're gonna say that politicians um have always been and i think
you're right they've always been you know career politicians and they got into it for various
reasons the coverage around politics has changed more than politicians have changed i think
politicians are essentially at core the same.
What's changed is how they present themselves publicly because a lot of people are looking
for sort of gotcha interviews.
There was a period where interviews with politicians were very dull.
And then we had a few scandals and a few terrible interviews where the politician's career was
ended because of a bad interview.
So now they just don't do real interviews anymore.
But in response to that, we've also decided that rather than having two intelligent people sit down
and debate an issue from each side, we're just going to have people screaming at each other
on fucking news night or whatever. And that seems to be what it is. Now, if politicians haven't
changed at their core, when did our coverage of them change what what was it that meant that suddenly everything
had to be a screaming match and all debates had to be people shouting each other and there was no
one actually saying well that's not true like why are people allowed to lie and i think i think that
i think young people are more exposed to politics now through social media through like things like
you know youtube and you know like people have phones. They can look at clips of stuff or whatever.
When I was a kid,
and I can safely say for the people
that I was surrounded with as kids and stuff as well,
none of us were into politics.
It wasn't something that you had an abundance of access to.
No, but I think there's more awareness of who's who's who said what you
know like people people are much more aware of like trump for probably for all the wrong reasons
because of the stuff that he says and the videos that go out about him and stuff like that i think
i think on average i think younger people have more access to politics than they ever have
and maybe that's changed things slightly. Maybe they feel like...
The kids are to blame, as usual.
No, no, I'm not blaming kids, but I'm just...
You know, a lot of these politicians,
you know, big PR companies behind them
who are looking at demographics,
who are looking at trends,
who are looking at all this stuff.
And I mean, Boris is a perfect example of that.
You know, this is a guy who is basically 100% run by a PR company.
Like all of his lead-ups, his campaigns,
all of this shit about fucking making buses out of cardboard boxes.
When did this happen?
Well, I think it's been going on for ages,
but I think the demographics have changed a little.
There's this TV show called Yes Prime Minister from the 80s.
And Yes Minister before that, yeah.
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.
It's great.
And actually, that's one of the ones that I get recommended on YouTube.
Same here.
Actually, same here.
My top ones, my tags at the top.
For some reason, my very first one is Divinity Original Sin 2.
How fucking weird.
I've never ever in my life watched a divinity original sin 2 including the ones that we made i've never watched them like i've never really
i wouldn't have even clicked on them to look at comments nothing it's been that long since you
logged into a youtube channel well not really because there's some there's some more um relevant
stuff here like more recent stuff like what is that what else is there's a bunch of there's some there's some more um relevant stuff here like more recent stuff like what is that what
else is there's a bunch of there's a bunch of um uh hip-hop stuff in here no no no there's nothing
if you just you don't have to talk about it if it's weird the elder scrolls is another one uh of
my tags warcraft pub g fallout fallout new vegas city building games podcast city building comedy building games yeah crusader
kings 2 um these are all tags for me there's a lot of norm mcdonald's stuff because i i tend to
watch i also get a lot of norm stuff from his podcast that he did which is really fucking funny
and then there's a bunch of like sort of spoof parody hip-hop things on here which i barely ever
watched i don't know why i'm getting recommended these oh i've been getting the chess stuff as well i get a lot of vlad tv stuff which
is like uh they dj vlad who interviews a lot of rappers like there's one here chuck d on lord
jamar saying eminem is a guest in hip-hop this This is two months ago. I never watched this, but I'm getting recommended this stuff.
Lots of Norm stuff.
Boosting stop motion to 60 FPS using AI.
Lego Eddie.
I can't, I don't.
Did you guys ever watch Jelly's Marble Run?
Not even once have I watched anything like that.
Yes, I watched Jelly's Marble Run.
I got into him in a big way.
My kids love that so much.
My kids used to watch Marble run stuff all the time too it's so much better than like f1 it is you like if you think
you like f1 you will love you will love jenny's marble runs all the olympics like just because
it's like all of the randomness and the all of that exciting commentary right all that hype
without any of the real shit also is the little details
he puts in like the crowd is organized you have marbles of the same color as the marbles that
are running in sort of groups they're like cheering for their marble marble runs this
podcast go watch it up right now and watch a video because it's it's fucking it's a hole
you'll go down a hole trust me it's brilliant there's there's a hole, though. You'll go down a hole. Trust me. It's brilliant.
There's some holes.
Tom recommended me a hole on YouTube this week, and I looked at it, and I almost puked.
There's this guy called Sausage Steve or something like that.
Is that what it is?
Sausage Party Trailer Puppet Steve Reaction Video.
No, no, that's not it.
Homemade Salami with Steve Lamb in the river cottage?
No, it's this guy who makes ordinary sausage.
There you go.
It's called ordinary sausage.
Ordinary sausage.
And it's a guy on YouTube who makes things into sausages.
Oh, the Travis Scott sausage.
White Castle sausage.
Fleet O' Fish sausage.
An entire KFC bucket he puts in a sausage maker.
Oh, that's disgusting. and makes it into a sausage and
yeah like it is repellent um and you have to watch through through through closed eyes
sometimes when he's making the sausages disgusting but it it's it's i don't know it's weirdly
moorish in a sense like it's interesting it's almost like the whole the whole thing is like
you know that youtube thing if someone has a stupid youtube channel where they crush things
or they put a thousand degree hot knife oh man yeah this is this is the guy who makes things
into a sausage so he made like a sausage out of a block of cheese and some ice and i don't know
just does he eat the sausage at the end yeah he tries he tries
them all and some of them it turns out apparently great he made like a lobster one that was really
cool and it was like 30 30 buck sausage it was like i think i think the guy's called report of
the week and he does one where he starts he goes welcome to report of the week running on empty
food review that's how he introduces the
video this guy yeah he's famous right very famous so he does he just reviews fast food that's it
so it's like wendy's has brought out a new uh chicken burger and there he is and he's got the
chicken burger and he talks for like 10 minutes about the burger and about his week and stuff
and then all of this fast food looks so sad
so he has to fucking eat all of this stuff obviously to review it fuck what a joke what
imagine that fuck i i can't remember the last time i ate something from wendy's or mcdonald's
well he does that's fucking gross like he he eats it. And the weird thing is, is normally when I think of food reviews,
you would cut out the eating part
because that's the least...
Watching someone else eat, to me,
is not a fun thing.
Like, just sitting and watching someone eat.
No, I hate the sounds as well.
It's disgusting.
If you're in, like, an empty, quiet room
and somebody's smacking away or whatever,
oh, fuck.
I hate noisy eaters.
I can't abide it.
The lip smacking and shit. Sometimes someone, like, I hate noisy eaters. I can't abide it. The lip smacking and shit.
Sometimes someone like being a noisy drinker is just as bad.
Oh, yeah.
Someone big lugging.
Because it makes me paranoid, though.
It makes me think, am I a noisy eater or am I a noisy drinker?
What about people who absolutely manhandle a bottle?
You know, like when you drink water out of a bottle,
like people who suck the water out of the bottle so that like the the whole bottle like almost like you know like they've just like they've just fucking
walked in from i hate that a saharan trek and they're like glugging it yeah why did the people
do that i hate that i i think to them it's like if it doesn't bother you then you assume it doesn't bother other people like
i've eaten with some disgusting eaters like genuinely revolting
no no i would have said like you know me i would have said jesus christ would you mind like people
it's like calm the fuck down it's a it's a hamburger like just chill like we don't need
the detail i get it you're enjoying your burger you don't need to shovel it in your face like
you know do you know anybody who becomes like possessed by food like when they start eating
they're sweating and they're just fully they can't even speak anymore like they're just like
fully fixated on eating their food i've known a couple of people like that.
I've always found that really interesting.
They're just like their brain will just not.
It switches off.
That's it, they're eating.
Yeah, completely.
They're eating and that's it.
It's weird, isn't it?
You know what?
Mrs. F is a very determined eater.
Right.
Like she's not a conversationalist.
To her, she want to have a lovely, like we go out for a meal.
I'm a very slow eater.
Ponderous almost.
I take my time.
That's actually really good because very few people are,
especially dads because you often haven't got time.
No, yeah.
I eat fast.
I think out of necessity though because like –
Ben is like the fastest eater I think I've ever seen.
I think when you're a dad though,
especially if your kids are still small,
you kind of have to be because you just like – you don't get a lot of time to sit down and and enjoy food you just have to wolf it down
and then get ready to fucking clean all of their food off their face and everywhere else that it's
gotten to during the meal or whatever like i think it's a necessity thing right like my youngest is
a talker like when she's eating she'll be chatting so you'll put her there she's like i'm starving
you're like what's for dinner you give her dinner and she's like oh great i'm so hungry
she takes one bite and then she's like guess what happened today in school
you won't believe this i love this this is so healthy though right i'm that right i'm that
right i'm the one who's who's eaten like yesterday we went out to burgers me ravs ben and joe um me, Ravs, Ben and Joe I had eaten my onion rings
before
and they'd finished their meals
I hadn't even touched my burger yet
and I sort of forgot it was there
actually because the onion rings were so filling
I was like oh fuck
I've got a whole burger left and you guys have finished
and then I had to eat it
I felt like I was eating it at speed
I was pacing myself like fuck how quickly am I going to get it like, I felt like I was eating it at speed. I was pacing myself, like, fuck, how quickly can I get this thing in?
Yeah, I'm not a first eater either.
I felt awful afterwards.
I don't know.
I mean, to me, it's like a meal alone.
I'll just get on with it.
But I'll normally be watching TV or something like that.
Like, I'm on the sofa in front of the TV eater these days.
I don't eat with the kids.
It's disgusting.
I don't want to eat anywhere near the kids.
Their table manners are revolting i hear that last time i said this uh people were commenting
saying that questioning if i was actually a good dad and if i was well they can go fuck if i was
actually harming my kids by not wanting to eat with them come over here that's your role
fucking worst okay it's revolting it's revol. I don't even find it revolting.
It's just annoying.
It's just annoying
because you're just sitting there,
you're trying to eat
and it's just like fucking a million questions
about nonsense
and then putting off
because they don't want to eat, okay?
Like if it was a chocolate cake,
you wouldn't hear a fucking word.
Oh, exactly right, buddy.
They'd be wolfing it down.
But because it's like not chocolate cake, you have't hear a fucking word. Oh, exactly right, buddy. They'd be wolfing it down. But because it's not chocolate cake, you have to go through,
why is water wet?
And all this stuff.
And it's just like, fuck, I'm just eating.
I want to eat five minutes and I want to go.
I do not want to sit here.
Also, you know they eat fucking eaten.
That's the worst thing.
Because then they'll be like, I don't want to eat my vegetables.
They're cold. You're like, yeah, because you fucking ran your mouth for 10 fucking minutes
down and talk about your day okay uh sure maybe some people do that okay my family does not do
that how was your day good dad why do birds fly okay you know you know what i mean it's not it's
you're not having a meaningful conversation you're having having a, I'm going to do everything in my power
to not eat this food in front of me.
Exactly right.
And so I'm going to think up these dumb questions
that are going to lead into other dumb questions
and waste a whole bunch of time.
And then the food will be cold
and then I'll have a good excuse to not eat it.
And then basically,
when you say to them.
So basically your attitude is that
your kids are trying to trick you
into somehow not noticing
that they've not eaten their broccoli.
Not so much trick me, but it is a production.
It is for sure a production.
So what happens is...
People who don't have kids...
No, you don't have kids,
so of course you don't agree with that.
They're like,
but it's a magical time with the family
where you're meant to fun.
Get a fuck.
You could not be more wrong.
You know what else is a magical time for the family?
When you're trying to get them ready for bed. because that's another thing they never want to do right exactly
so they're so transparent all of a sudden it's like it's like fucking i've decided that i'm going
to learn how to play let it be on the piano uh at bedtime all right great this is great you know
what i mean it's just it's it's always something, right? But I guarantee you,
every parent out there is nodding along with this
and going, yep, fucking assholes
at dinner time and at bedtime.
You know what?
Everyone who says it's meant to be a magical family time
hasn't got fucking kids, all right?
You don't.
Because they will try every trick in the book
to avoid eating dinner.
You know what is a magical family time, though?
When everybody's eating ice cream.
Because that's something everybody wants to do
at the same time.
Quiet, peaceful, everyone happy. Yeah, everybody is happy when you all eat ice cream because that's something everybody wants to do at the same time. Quiet, peaceful, everyone happy.
Yeah, everybody is happy when you all eat ice cream together.
That's amazing, isn't it?
How quiet they get and how focused when it's dessert.
Yeah, everybody's focused on the task of obtaining and then consuming the ice cream.
The dessert, yeah.
It's beautiful.
It's like a well-oiled machine when you get the ice cream.
That's how you know they're full of shit the rest of the time.
As an outsider.
Oh, my God.
So last night, my youngest, we got some little mini tiramisu's from the supermarket because the girls love tiramisu.
Mrs. F does too.
So my youngest is there and we had chicken and leek pie with mashed potato for dinner.
And my youngest, as I said...
Sounds like heaven.
Huh?
I'm not a huge fan of leek.
I don't know.
In the pie, it's good.
I'm not a leek fan either.
Yeah, yeah.
You don't want to eat on its own.
Leek and potato soup can fuck right off, honestly.
Yeah, it's just annoying, right?
I fucking hate leek.
But in the pie, trust me, it works very well in the pie.
Yeah, yeah.
Pie sounds good.
So we've all finished. My youngest, as usual, it works very well in the pie. Yeah, yeah, pie sounds good. I think they would say it's good.
No, it's not.
So we've all finished.
My youngest, as usual, is still up there farting about.
Yeah.
And my wife's like, if you finish, she's like, yup.
And she sneaks her plate off to the bin to scrape what's left in there.
Yeah.
Which is like the whole thing.
And my wife says, did you eat all of it?
And she's like, oh yeah, yeah, I ate all of it.
And then my wife's like, you know, really?
She's like, well, a little bit of crust.
I left some crust.
And now my wife loves the pie crust.
She thinks it's the highlight of the pie in many ways.
So she's offended.
She's instantly offended by this.
And she says, right.
So she grabs my youngest's dessert off her,
takes a big spoonful and eats it.
And my youngest starts crying her eyes out. Oh eyes out and now now here's the thing my wife is a very
calm person very logical she's very cool very chill you've met her she's very cool she's she's
not an overly emotional person but she will go from fucking zero to a million miles an hour if
the kids are pissing her off and she will eat your dessert if you fucking leave some
wow that's pretty that's pretty cry she's literally like boom so i cannot stand when my
kids cry about stupid shit like desserts because it always annoys me that they're crying their eyes
out about a mouthful of tiramisu and it makes me feel like they're the most privileged little
shits and i'm like i have zero tolerance for that. So I'm like, all right, if you're going to cry, go to your room and cry.
You can finish dessert up there.
Oh my God.
It's just an escalation.
She's nearly nine.
Yeah, I feel like that.
So she's not a baby.
Yeah, that's still like at that age where stuff, every once in a while,
like they're grown up enough to not let things really bug them that much.
But every once in a while, everything gets on top of them, right? Yeah, right yeah and then they'll just have a breakdown but my my 11 year old she was never
like this they're just very different they're very different yeah yeah but uh but yeah i'm trying to
trying to break her tolerance for crying about every little thing like it's not healthy to cry
about your dessert like i'm sorry but it's not i think it's well then again it's a production
she put she's putting it on
she's doing that thing
where they cry
and then they look around
at you you know
but I know
I know women
who are 30 years old
I don't believe you
I don't believe you
I know some women
who are in their 30s
and regularly cry
for no reason
right
and it's just part of
who they are
I don't know any women
in their 30s
who cry regularly I think it's just women who have to work because don't know any women in their 30s who cry regularly
I think it's just women who have to work with you
because my wife would be furious if I was hanging around with women
maybe it's my fault
if you're a crier and you don't know why
let me know
I cry all the time but I cry about shit like
you know the ending to a sad movie
so much more worthwhile
or a really good song
me it's like how did this army in ck3
beat my army like when it said that mine was gonna win that's the kind of stuff i cry about
but not about your dessert and she'd already had a fucking lolly she had an isolate when she came
home from school it's like how spoiled can you get okay it's you gotta understand though sometimes
there's deeper layers you know much like a tiramisu has less of the robbing my hands about the theft of the tiramisu may not have
been the trigger it may have been the aggressive action that was that was the the snatching of it
no it might have been the the the vitriol with which your wife stared at your child no it was
just a single mouthful of tiramisu
that's all it was trust me might have been it might have just been the tip of the iceberg there
might have been other problems going on that you don't know about it might just be yeah it could
be a whole gamut of things and i think people are complicated and i think we always as men look for
solutions right um women do i'm sure actually as well like someone comes to me with a problem
and i'm always like i'm trying to find a solution and sometimes what they just what they want from
me is just to tell me about we can't solve women's problems because most women's problems are just men
so we can't solve well no but men come to me with their problems as well and they're not often
looking for a solution either they just want to they want to vent or they want to do what they want to talk about it but i always have to because i always
catch myself trying to think up an answer like when you were telling me about your kids like you
know not not eating their dinner or whatever i'm like well what happens if you starve them what
happens if you just don't give them any breakfast and then that way they're so hungry when it comes
down to lunch listen to this okay but i'm not this is my that's where my head goes i know it's bad this is what i'm saying okay we sit down
you know normally like my wife will you know get some dinner ready or whatever uh we'll sit down
and we'll start eating and um and instantly it'll be like well my daughter's usually pretty good
she'll she'll start eating she doesn't eat much so you know she'll have a couple of bites and then she's like done or whatever and my son will sit
down and he'll pretend like he's starting to eat because it'll be you know whatever it's like
carrots or some some shit that he doesn't want to eat right so we'll sit down he'll start like
taking a bite and then he'll be like dad yeah be like how come um the the clouds in the sky or it'll be some some like complicated question
whatever always and you think okay fair enough so you start answering okay and then where do the
poops instantly his face glazes over okay because he doesn't actually care he doesn't want it he
doesn't want to hear the answer right or you're a bad storyteller there's always two there's always
more he's asked a question right and then you're in the middle of trying to explain to him you get about a couple of seconds in and then he just like
interrupts like with some other question or whatever so you're like okay i see where this
is going question and then this goes on we we do this dance for like a little while and then in the
and then and then my wife will just say kurt just, just eat, all right? Just enough questions.
Just eat your dinner, all right?
We're just here to eat our dinner.
And then he'd be like, oh, okay.
He'll take another bite and he'd be like,
actually, I'm kind of full.
He's just like two bites of his food, right?
He's like, I'm pretty full.
He's trying a different tack.
Yeah, yeah.
So then we're just like, no, no.
You've had like one bite of your dinner.
There's no way that you're full.
He's polite.
He's just trying to let you know.
But then as soon as he says that he's full.
That he's not interested in the pie.
So as soon as he says he's full after two bites,
then my daughter's like, yeah, I'm full too.
Because they just want to go play.
They just cannot fucking be bothered.
They're not hungry.
And they have a couple of ways around it that they think will work that
never work um and then in the end it just becomes such a battle that you're just like okay fine
and then we're putting them to bed shortly after this and then they're both like i'm hungry
exactly that's that's the killer what the fuck you had a whole plate of food in front of you
we're talking about clouds and fucking why birds have wings and shit.
And then you said you were full.
And I figured that that was the end of it.
But no, now you're hungry again.
So then.
Just drink some water.
You can't send them to bed hungry.
So then they end up eating like fucking, I don't know, fruit or like some rice pudding or some shit that takes way longer than it should to eat.
Because, again, it's just another way to delay
the inevitable sort of thing and that's basically i see kids between the age of like four and i'd
say to bed so well so are just like lost time yeah like you think about the think about this
when my kids go to when it's bedtime they go up to their room and they are unsupervised playing
for like an hour an hour and a half and it's like their actual go up to their room and they are unsupervised playing for like an hour,
an hour and a half. And it's like their actual complete free time for the day. Like imagine if
your job involved getting up at seven in the morning, you're told what to do from that point
for the next 12 hours. You're either at home where you're told what to do
and you ask for stuff and the answer will generally be no.
Then you have to go to school and you're ferried from place to place
and told what to do, when to eat.
You have to ask for permission to go to the bathroom.
You come home from school.
You're told do your homework, tidy your room.
You're given a list of shit to do.
Again, you're under somebody else's rules.
Finally, it's bedtime. You brush your teeth. Again, that's the last thing. Brush your teeth finally it's bedtime you brush your teeth again that's the
last thing to brush your teeth so they have to brush their teeth then they're free for like an
hour to an hour and a half sleep is the last thing they want to do because it's wasted time they what
do they got to look forward to they'll wake up the next day for another life of servitude oh man
there's and there's always something you you think you're there you think you're like okay they've
gone to the toilet they They brush their teeth.
They're all fucking ready.
We've read a story.
Like we've fucking done the lot.
You know, there's nothing else that you could do.
And it's like, can I read a comic for a couple of minutes?
Can I do some collage, please?
Yeah, can I?
I was thinking of maybe doing some paper mache now.
It's like, oh, what?
And sometimes we just let them.
Sometimes we're just so fucking done that it's just like, you know what?
Knock yourself out.
And then they go to bed at like 11 because you're just like, whatever.
Like, fuck me.
Also, remember that essentially, especially when they're really little,
they literally their entire life revolves around spending time with their parents.
They want to spend every single second. I mean it's it's it's horrible to think of but
kids will even provoke an argument with their parent for the attention just just to be close
to the parent just to be yeah at least you're talking to them you know what i mean rather than
on your ipad i mean ours are pretty good in that sense they don't the attention that they get is
never really negative they don't play up too much.
They don't provoke arguments or whatever.
They get a lot of our time, a lot of our attention and stuff.
They're certainly not attention starved.
We're not just sitting around on tablets and phones ignoring them or whatever.
But it doesn't matter.
It's never enough for kids.
That's the thing.
It is never enough.
They want more and more.
It's just like this is an insati the thing. It is never enough. But yeah, no, it's just like,
this is an insatiable appetite for attention with a kid, right?
They just need all of your attention forever.
It's so weird because it is all about these hidden meanings, right?
You have to almost be a detective or a dad or used to it
in order to sort of dig deeper.
What is the real issue
and I think that life is like that often
people don't mean to
not say
what they mean
even when people
I think a lot of people
don't know even what they
want when they tell someone something
they don't know what they want
when someone tells me about their trouble they've been having with whatever they they i guess they
just want to get it off their chest or they're venting or they but they don't know what they
want they just know they want to tell it to someone right and i don't know what to do i don't
know whether they want me to solve this problem or just be a shoulder to cry and i don't know what
the answer is they don't know what they want from me i don't know what i'm supposed to give them
no we're just going through life do it our best okay just trying to figure it out um we are well
i mean yeah it's it's uh it's it's an odd one with kids isn't it but i you talk to other parents
that it's the same it's the same for everybody so here's the thing i know that people listen
to this podcast and get very um evangelical about kids. And I don't fucking want any of your advice.
Okay.
Believe me.
I don't want comments telling me and Sips that we're wrong or that actually this, actually that.
If you've got kids and you've agreed with any of this, save the disagreements because everybody does things differently.
We're not bad parents just because occasionally we don't want to be with our fucking kids.
If you have kids, you'll understand the value of some free time.
I just don't want to hear any fucking tips on parenting
from a fucking 15-year-old.
Thank you very fucking much.
Carry on.
No, that's perfectly allowed.
Hey, we live in the UK.
There's a lot of 15-year-old dads out there
with really good tips to give.
That's true.
I think I'm constantly making assumptions about your parenting,
you know, whenever you say things.
And it's so easy as an outsider to do that, right?
To judge you and just not have a clue what it's actually like
or what you go through,
or even really understand the full context of these stories.
I think that sometimes it's easy to get the wrong understanding.
Also, bear in
mind that we exaggerate a lot you know yeah i mean you talk to other parents and you'd think that
their kids were basically barbarians running around trying we're trying to entertain you on
this podcast believe it or not i know sometimes it doesn't always work out that way but uh you do
have to take a lot of it with a pinch of salt, you know,
like where they are trying to be funny sometimes.
Sometimes.
So I was talking to someone this week.
I don't want to necessarily veal the stuff about this,
but I thought it was funny.
And they have a relative who went on a hike, okay, in Scotland for a week on their own.
It's like a trail near where Ravs lives.
It's like a common trail.
The Ravsian Trail.
I know it well.
And it's like this commonly walked thing along Ben Nevis.
It's quite beautiful, Scottish Highlands.
It's a nice time to walk it as well because the weather's quite good.
And they wrote this sort of um blog post of
them of the story of them going on the trip right and i happened to read it i was just it was just
sort of you know you know it just pops up in your in your timeline or whatever it's like a thing
and they're they're quite a healthy person right they're quite fit and healthy but their attitude
towards food was really weird right so they started off by by having a Gregg's
Okay, it was like we stopped what they have from Greg's that was like the one kind of what kind of thing were they having?
At Greg's though sausage roll. It's like it's like a sausage roll and like what are those pre-made sandwiches?
Yeah, okay, so not too too bad things but then to what a sausage roll and a sandwich. He's gets a long track
It's a long it's like five days, but
and a sandwich it's a long trek
it's a long
it's like five days
but
so they had a sausage roll
and one sandwich
for five days
no but I'm getting to it
I'm getting to it
so on day one
they did the sausage roll
and the sandwich
and then
trekked the whole day
had like
this is such a
fucking English podcast
isn't it
some crisps
that we fucking talk about
didn't he stay in his caravan
what kind of crisps
what flavor crisps
for dinner they
for dinner they went
to Wetherspoon
of course
sure
and had like
whiskey and a pie
at Wetherspoon
posh bastard
next morning
woke up
and had
sausage sandwich
right
okay
for breakfast
basically
because they like
saw a Scottish place
oh a sausage sandwich on sale.
Oh, yeah.
Sausage sandwich breakfast.
On sale?
Was it in the window?
Big clear-out sale.
On sale.
On sausage sandwiches.
All sausages must go.
Well, first of all,
I assumed they were walking
through the fucking wilderness.
Apparently, day one,
there was a Wetherspoons, right?
Yeah.
So it's not that fucking much
of wilderness, is it?
It's Scotland.
There's only so much wilderness up there.
They had sausage sandwiches for breakfast,
bacon sandwich for lunch.
Oh, yeah.
And then a curry for dinner.
And I was like, what is this?
Where are they getting this stuff from?
How do these people have so much fucking fun?
It just carried on as well.
Fuck these guys.
What the fuck is this?
Day three, they had chocolate cake for breakfast.
Jesus.
And I was like, how are you having chocolate cake for breakfast? Where did that come from? What the fuck is this? Day three, they had chocolate cake for breakfast. And I was like, how are you having chocolate cake for breakfast?
Where did that come from?
What the fuck is wrong?
Where did you buy that?
Where did these people find their balls?
They're camping out in the Scottish fucking wilderness.
And I understood the attitude.
It was like, I can eat high calorie food because I'm walking 90 miles, right?
Fair enough.
90 miles is a long way though yeah that's
a hell of a way yeah i was something like 95 miles over the over the i would want to carve
up hard for 90 miles as well like even when uh even before i get on a long haul flight i'm in
the airport i'm carving up like crazy like you got it you know what's good to take on a pack of
crisps oh fuck yeah because first of all well there's three
things number one you get a pack of crisps in mid-flight and the snacks normally cost money
or they're shit you get a nice pack of crisps bingo number two when you open them because of
the pressure difference the odor of the crisps invades the entire airspace everybody knows you've
got crisps and they haven't in your face and number three when you take it from the ground
up it's suddenly the bag is massive it's all it's all like the bag especially if it's real mccoy's cheddar and onion oh
mccoy's oh you gotta have any mccoy's in years they are so good oh man they're so thick as well
i love them they're crunchy and oh they are a hell of a crisp this podcast uh so honestly like
the whole trip,
I don't think they ate a single healthy thing at all.
Well, I think if you're walking 90 miles,
it's all getting burned off.
It was just Scottish fare.
But you're reading this trip about a guy going up and down.
Your only takeaway is what did he eat?
You're obsessed, man.
You're obsessed.
The thing is, have you ever seen...
I think they were obsessed, though.
It was like they'd gone on this walk to talk about what things they got to eat.
It was like a fucking junk food tour of the wilderness.
Have you ever seen, like, what Michael Phelps ate, like, in general, you know,
at the height of his fucking swimming career?
I mean, that was nuts, though.
I mean, but that's the thing.
He just needed fucking calories out the wazoo just to keep going he
was like a fucking machine you know what i mean i think if you're gonna walk 90 miles
whatever it doesn't matter what you eat your body is just going to fucking process
yeah if you know yourself go for it like show me but like look at if you're if you're in your 50s
and you're obese and you're doing a 90 mile walk and you're eating bacon sandwiches non-stop maybe you should
rethink your strategy but like right right you know if none of those things are are being ticked
none of those boxes are being ticked except for the 90 mile walk i think you're probably fine
like your body will process the shit out of all that like it doesn't matter it'll find what it
needs and if it doesn't you'll find you'll you'll know and i bet when it got to like
eight nine o'clock at night those they were tired out and they didn't have to fuck around with rice
pudding or doing some papi or none of that shit they were just in bed just like yeah maybe that's
it maybe you need to tie the kids out a bit more run them around like there's nothing else that we
can do to tire these children out okay like they go to the beach every day they run around like maniacs like what the fuck else can we do like it's crazy you can't tire them out
you can definitely you can definitely get to a point where they are nowhere near tired because
you've done fuck all all day that can be its own problem the other yeah the other thing you think
you can tire them out trust me they have bottomless reserves of energy they can get over tired as well
which is even worse.
Even worse.
It's a very fine line to get them exactly the right amount of tire.
It's impossible.
It's impossible.
It's like sinking a hole in one on a par four from the tee with a putter.
You know what I mean?
It's impossible.
It's that laser accuracy that you would need,
but it's just
impossible it's weird because when you get to our age we're always a certain level of tired
we're always that that just we're always just ready you know what we can have it it's not you
know what though it's because the older you get and the more responsibilities you have with kids
and everything i find like yeah it's true i more tired, but I also feel like I like,
not me, not so much now in specifically in particular,
but more so when I had to work in an office,
I had to leave the house to work in an office.
I found that predominantly
for the majority of the day,
I was doing things I did not want to do.
And I felt exhausted all the time, right?
Like it's not so bad now
because I play video games all day, which is pretty much what i want to do right and i never get tired of doing that
like i can stay up all night playing a game that i'm really enjoying or whatever and i don't feel
tired but when you're lumbered with a million things that you don't want to do all of a sudden
you feel really tired right oh yeah it's definitely hooked into responsibility and having to spend a bunch of time doing stuff
that you don't necessarily want to do like sometimes on the weekend if we go to like say
we go to town right like there's just a list of things that we need to get or whatever it's so
fucking boring i hate going to town i hate shopping i hate fucking buying stuff i hate looking at
stuff browsing and shit like i just hate the whole
thing i hate it and uh when we get back i'm exhausted because i've had to do this thing
that i just don't like doing so isn't that the most tiring thing is standing in a shop
waiting for someone else to finish choosing a fucking pair of shoes for me is there anything
genuinely in life yeah that seems longer or more tiring than that there is not there is nothing
it's the worst god standing outside a woman's waiting room waiting for them to try unbelievable
my god sort your shit out women sort your shit out but the thing is like you you know they just
want some company or whatever and you're like okay sure like i get that or whatever but like we're joking obviously my currency is totally i don't fucking i'm not joking i don't need
company for trying pants on because i don't even want to try the pants on i don't even want to buy
new pants i'm happy just wearing shorts all the time but if i have to buy some i want that
experience over with i'm wearing like as soon as possible free t-shirts i want to
spend no more than three minutes on that task because anything more than that is a complete
waste of time right like i just don't want to be there here's the worst the worst thing is it's not
even as if my opinion is respected because i don't know what the fuck i'm talking about well so when
my when mrs f says which of these do you think is better? It's a classic trope.
Yeah.
If I say the blue one,
she's like, no, not the blue one.
It's like, you know,
it's like, well, then why am I here?
You're here to carry things.
I've come to realize.
I found, though,
I found that the,
I tell you what my tip for that is,
P-Flex,
is to say what you don't like
about one of them.
You never say what you like,
you say what you don't like.
You're like,
that makes you look like a blancmange
or that makes you look like a jellyfish.
My experience with women generally is that they...
How to stay single with Louis Brindley.
Yeah.
That makes you look like a blancmange.
No, because then they're like, yeah, it does.
And they don't get it.
They get the other one, you see.
That's like...
That's like, they call it negging, don't they?
You're like a pick-up line.
I wasn't doing it intentionally.
My experience with women and clothing and fashion advice is like,
a woman will say to you, well, when I say woman, I mean like my wife.
My wife will say, what should I wear to the wedding?
To a wedding.
We've been invited to a wedding, say, okay?
And we're going to go.
Now, when she says, what should I wear to the wedding to to a wedding we've been invited to a wedding say okay and we're gonna go now when she says what should i wear to a wedding um i just think just go like julia roberts from pretty woman like that's my first you know whatever a prostitute which outfit is the one
where he just grew up on this show is a prostitute with the miniskirt i just think you know whatever
i don't have any sort of sense for women's fashion that's whatsoever right so i just think you know whatever I don't have any sort of sense for women's
fashion that's what so worst right so I
just think you know where something
looks nice like her idea is completely
different to my idea right but I would
not dare sort of like you know I am very
much like what do you think looks good
and I'll just be like, A or B?
B, that one.
And she'll be like, really?
I'm like, yeah, it's great.
I'll just be whichever one shows off your cleavage.
It's kind of hard to give a straight answer, right?
And then sometimes they'll be like, would you tell me if I look big in this?
You're like, yeah, I would tell you.
But you fucking never would in a million years, right never say that to your wife but you've got
i ain't i ain't walking down that fucking gangplank i'll tell you it's a mind shield all
that it is it is all about it's like the instagram it's back to that thing it's hilarious though i
do find it funny but fuck me man like people know what people know what they look like the people are hyper aware of it as well and like they they i think there's this weird
i would never i would never like try on a suit and come out and be like hey do you think i look
like george clooney in this i know i don't look like george clooney in this suit okay like i'm
pretty realistic with like the state i'm in and like you know what I mean like if I put a suit on and it's not like making my stomach hurt
it's a good suit it's fine I'll wear this you know whatever I tell you what though there is this weird
thing where you've taken a lot of photos of yourself and you see a lot of pictures of yourself
a lot of videos of yourself you you know how you look and you you're not happy with it but you just
know how you look right and sometimes someone takes a nice picture of you
and it doesn't really look like you yeah and it's a great picture
and you're like you're like that's that's a great i look great in that picture and you realize that
you don't always do like that and it's just the nice angle or you you know you've they caught you
at a good moment and your mouth is totally closed so they can't see your buck teeth and stuff.
That's right.
And they're the Instagram pictures that people have.
Do you know what I mean?
That's the face that you present to your...
So I think what's going to happen is when all these sick farmers meet each other,
they're not going to recognize each other at all.
Because it's going to be like being catfished.
They've got this idea that they're all going on this hot date
with all these cool people who look really amazing
and all have their faces improved using these apps.
Everyone's using these face-changing apps
to make themselves look better on Instagram and dinner and everything.
It's all fake.
But when they meet people, it's like a bad internet date.
So I'm just worried that all these sick formers are going to get together
and just be like normal kids.
Man, fuck it.
Not this sort of weird Black Mirror episode.
Don't worry about it.
Yeah, you'll be all right.
They'll be fine.
I'm not worried about it.
They'll be fine.
I'm just saying I'm looking forward to seeing part two of the episode
from Ben when he fills me in on what actually happened.
Because the way he said it made it sound like I was living in some sort of... mean i don't understand snapchat at all but apparently that's how they chat and i'm
like i i just terrifies me that i'm getting so out of touch and even when your kids grow up it'll be
even different it will be right and you know what it's their thing it we don't even need to
understand it like i don't need to understand that i'm never gonna snapchat somebody i don't
even fucking want to talk to people at this point in my life.
Like, just leave me alone.
If you want to Snapchat my kids and your friends, my kids, and they like Snapchat or whatever.
Cool.
Have fun.
Like, just fucking leave me alone.
I don't need to know about any of this shit.
TikTok and Snapchatting and whatever.
Whatever.
It's for kids.
Like, they can do it.
You're in your fucking 60s already, mentally.
Well, whatever.
Seriously.
You sound like my dad. I don't need this stuff, though. With your goddamn TikToks already mentally well whatever seriously like you sound like my dad
i don't need this stuff with your goddamn tiktoks in your your instagram snapchat you know you know
what i mean like what well yeah i don't need this it's not for us exactly it was never for us that's
why i'm saying to lewis who cares like we ain't joking you can't judge about this stuff like who
are you gonna snapchat lewis you don't need to Snapchat anyone. I think it's a lot like, it was a lot like being in the Tesla last for me, right?
Back to the fucking Tesla.
He's so pleased with himself about the Tesla.
So being in the Tesla, I, because I had been in one for so long,
I had bigged it up in my mind to be this revolutionary.
I thought I was going into space in a space capsule.
It was like i was so so
i don't know i'd i'd had this idea that it was something that it really wasn't yeah i like that
it was just a it was just a car and i think it's the same with snapchat like it's you know we had
a internet aam messenger and msm messenger and fucking ILC chat. They've got fucking
Snapchat.
And it's no fucking different.
And they're trying to make
us think that it's different
and it's their cool
and they're using things
that their dads don't use
like we did.
I love how this is effective.
But it's just the fucking same.
And before we had
before we had ILC
they used the back of newspapers.
I don't know what they did.
They put stuff on the church
notice board.
Whatever.
I think they still do that stuff. Hey, do you guys want to hear something cool okay sure is it about
with something cool it's just what it's just to to to calm down a little bit okay all right we're
gonna simmer down still doing my golf lessons still doing my golf this is our golf lesson
our namaste moment oh let's go namaste shit i'm gonna have to get golf lessons honestly it's so much fun i went mini golfing this weekend um right i went real golfing so
wow people like this gatekeeping golfing after like two lessons well i'll tell you why i was
very pleased i told everybody we're playing that we're we're on the driving range which is like an
outdoor it's like a strip of astroturf i described it last week and we me and all these
students there's like six of us we all hit the ball and the instructor you know adjusts our swing
and says put your foot there and all the rest of it and this guy was really good he's into like
was he holding your hips while you were swinging no so still waiting on that just pressed up close
still waiting on that close to the back so up close to the back. Still waiting on that. Close to the back.
So I'm swinging the club and everything like that.
And at the start, it's really stiff and awful.
And then he sort of helped me with the swing.
And he's like, do this, do this.
And by the end, it's a really nice swing, like really straight and everything.
It's looking really good.
And we're chatting afterwards.
And he said to me the exact phrase, you looked like a golfer today.
Right?
Wow.
Made me very, very very very pleased the
teacher liked my turn around and his dick was right in my mouth i don't know what happened
it was so i was so happy i was like yes i did a good thing nice it felt great so it's very
satisfying yeah it's fun honestly when you hit that ball and it goes ting and you see it go
flying up in the air and then it lands and it's like really straight where you hit it it's fun honestly when you hit that ball and it goes ting and you see it go flying up in the air
and then it lands and it's like really straight where you hit it it's beautiful it's a really
really good did you um did you make sure that every time you're about to drive you engaged in
conversation with somebody so you'd be like hey uh what do you think about those uh those spurs
and then they're like well the thing is now watch this drive you just like you've got to interrupt
and say now watch this drive and then wham you just spank it you gotta do that every
time oh my god you're not interested in their answer yeah like a child yeah yeah now watch this
drive that's still one of my favorite clips i mean even though i'm not a big michael moore fan
in all honesty that is an amazing clip it is we're gonna kill the terrorists and that's gonna
be it now watch this drive i love it yeah it's such a cowboy shit yeah yeah it's good fuck i even forgot that that's where it was from i just
like i remember the i remembered like the quote but i didn't remember where it was from at all
thanks for reminding me holy crap i gotta stop saying that uh all right well that's enough
podcast thank you everyone uh we'll see you next week. Cheers. See you then. Goodbye. Love you, love you, bye.