Triforce! - Triforce! #28 w/ Duncan: Reassuring Boner
Episode Date: January 4, 2017Triforce is back with a special guest, Duncan! Recorded in front of a Livestream audience we're looking back through our lives, striving to remember our first boner. The new Bodega t-shirt is out no...w: http://bit.ly/BodegaTee Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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How do you podcast then?
I've never been in one of these.
Here's what you do.
All right, so he'll introduce him with a bit of music.
Try force music.
We'll wait for the music and then we'll go.
I'll alley-oop him, you dunk him, okay?
Do you have like a...
Please don't talk to him.
There's an intro right now, Duncan.
Hello!
And welcome to the Triforce podcast on the road.
We're live.
You can't see us, but we are looking at each other.
You can't see us!
We're joined by podcast amateur, Duncan.
Yeah, we've got a guest
for the first time
Duncan you're our
first ever guest
on the Triforce podcast
I can't be the first guest
you're the first guest
we hate everybody
we really actually
hate everybody
it's just because I'm here
well
that was a factor
but don't let that
discount from the fact
that you're here
on the Triforce podcast
Terps has begged to be
on the podcast
so many times
Terps is going to be
really mad
really
now you're on it he told me this really boring story about how he listens to be on the podcast so many times. Terps is going to be really mad. Now, now you're on it.
He told me this really boring story about how he listens to them on his way into work
every day and loves us and thinks that I'm really funny and Perian's really funny and
you're not so much.
But yeah,
he'll be really mad that he wasn't the first guest on this one.
I guess you're talking to Duncan there rather than me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No,
I mean,
no,
maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah? I mean... No? Maybe?
Yeah.
Yeah, it was.
So, of course,
on the Tri-Fields podcast
we talk about all the mundane,
boring,
day-to-day dad shit
that has happened in our lives.
If you're not a dad,
it's mostly dad shit.
Welcome to dad chat.
Well, Lewis isn't a dad either.
It doesn't matter.
I have to suffer
through the dad stuff.
He's also,
Lewis in many ways
acts like a dad
who just doesn't have kids yet
it's true
he's a kidless dad
the way he talks
he's very dad-ish
I guess Lewis is a kind of
that's not attempted
is a father
to all of the
Yoastcast members
exactly
he's a dad to
everybody in this building
thanks Duncan
in a way I'm your dad
you're my dad
you're so dumb
unbelievable
you guys kind of look like
you could be father and son
actually
do I look that old
that's a bit mean.
Come on.
You've got facial hair, so that is an automatic indicator.
Unless you're French-Canadian, you're eight years old.
If you have facial hair, it does make you look like a man.
It's not peach fuzzy.
It's very grown in.
I've done my first portage.
See, now you've truly become a man. Do you know about portage ah see now you've truly become you've truly
become a man
portage
do you know
about portage
no
did you make sure
you brought exactly
the right amount
of food
for the time
that you were
going to be
portaging as well
I don't know much
about triforce podcasts
I know
a lot of the fans
seem to have
very small penises
or gaping vaginas
yeah
unless we forget
the vaginas
some people have small vaginas as well which is awkward or gaping penises but they go well with the small penises or gaping vaginas yeah okay lest we forget the vagina some people have small
vaginas as well which is awkward okay well they go well with the small penises i guess yeah i mean
if you've got a tiny vagina and a tiny penis you could be happy perfect you have a gigantic penis
and a gaping vagina again happiness the other way doesn't mix yeah no not very many people say they
have gigantic dicks yeah that's true that's not something that really ever comes up, actually.
It's mostly just small ones.
Yeah.
Well, that's cool.
You know.
I guess we...
Got like a kind of...
Yeah, there's an average.
Like friendship, you know.
If someone came up to you and said, I have a gigantic penis, you'd be like, what are you trying to do?
Exactly.
Like, are you coming on to me?
You think you're better than me?
Yeah.
If you come up and say, I have a small penis, you're like fair play to the club sit with us my dad my dad's dick is bigger
than your dad's dick remember that one when you're a kid my dad could be your dad up what does your
dad do he's a pro wrestler what's your dad do counting i never had to offer that because i
would have had to fly my dad in so it's kind of depressing
I would have been like
my dad can be your dad now
in about a week's time
he's going to book a flight and everything
he's going to kick your ass
in a week's time
fucking asshole
so have you smelled any flowers this week?
have you changed any nappies this week
that are crucial to our knowledge?
yeah
some pretty substantial nappy changes.
I haven't smelt any flowers.
The weather's been terrible.
I haven't really been outside.
Today I traveled, which is, well, period, I don't know.
Traveling with kids is not the best.
It's pretty tiring.
Something you want to avoid at all costs.
And especially when things go wrong, which everything went wrong today.
It was crazy.
We turned up.
We woke up.
Okay, here's the story. Are you guys
ready? I'm ready. Do you want to recline a bit?
I'm reclining. Alright, hang on.
Give me a sec. I've got to figure out what
button is on this chair. I had a real bad day
today, okay? There was
bad customer service, which is a
huge thing for dads. You know,
when the customer service is bad. Where was that?
That's when you know it's going to be a bad day. Jersey Airport. At the airport.
So, we get to the airport.
We wake up at like six, okay?
Because we had to get some stuff ready
to leave the house at eight.
Okay, that's how long it takes
to get out of your house when you have kids.
Yep.
Two hours.
So we wake up at six.
The whole day starts.
It's fucking crazy.
Everybody's screaming
and trying to kill each other straight away.
And we somehow managed
to like have showers
and dress the kids
and feed them
and get like some stuff packed.
And we make it to the airport
and it's like,
it only takes us 10 minutes
to get to the airport.
So it's like,
it's like 10 minutes.
It's like 8.30.
It's a small island.
Okay.
So,
because we fucked around
and we went the wrong way
and stuff a couple of times
and stuff.
8.30 we get to the airport and everything's cool right one flight had been
canceled out of like 10 that we're leaving that morning and we're like great so we go through
security which took us like an hour because we had a fucking pram and like a million bags
fucking sink and like just other shit uh we get through and we're like great
and we look at the board it's like your flight's been delayed uh there'll be another info update
in an hour oh shit in an hour we're gonna have to have breakfast again
so we just keep it busy right double breakfast so we so fucking double breakfast we have another
breakfast okay and there's shit there's stuff everywhere like my daughter just she doesn't to keep them busy. Double breakfast. So fucking double breakfast. We have another breakfast, okay?
And there's shit,
there's stuff everywhere.
Like my daughter just,
she doesn't eat.
She just throws,
she takes food apart
and throws it everywhere.
So like on the ground,
it just looks like
there's been a war
or like a fight or something.
There's like bits of bread everywhere
and like Cheeto dust
and whatever.
You gave them Cheetos for breakfast?
Well, I had to, yeah.
She was like super insistent
Like she can't speak
She points at things and screams
So you just yeah
Just do it whatever
So she eats all that
Well she makes a mess of that shit and eats some of it
And then
10 o'clock rolls around and the update
Comes on and we're like oh shit
Maybe it's going to be another delay and they're like we regret to inform you that your flight has been cancelled
so you've been up since six we're in the airport two children second breakfast we had four all the
stuff was checked in all the bags were like on the plane and stuff and they're like you have to go
back and pick up your bags and then you have to go back to the departures lounge to get like another flight sorted out oh so fuck so
we go to the baggage reclaimed i took like a fucking hour oh jesus christ they didn't even
put the bags in the fucking plane and like i don't know where they were but they just took an hour to
get back so we're just like sitting there the kids are like going nuts and everything we're just like
super depressed and stuff and then they so they book us on to like the three o'clock flight and
so we went home and everybody was like we're never gonna go to bristol my son's crying and
everything's like we're gonna make it we're like don't worry we're gonna go back in a couple hours
it'll be fine so so we go home we do a bunch of shit we finally
managed to make it back to the airport what do you do at home washing washing chores yeah like
because there's fucking million chores to do so we get home we did chores for like three hours oh
my god what do you mean you did chores we had to do laundry there were dishes that weren't done
there was fucking toys everywhere we cleaned those up just did like
some some spring cleaning which is like an ongoing thing in our house like it's too cold to go outside
it was like all misty and stuff so we did all that shit and then so we we get back up the airport
and then everything's fine okay they gave us vouchers too they gave us 30 pounds worth of
vouchers okay but airport 30 pounds yeah you know how much 30 pounds gets of vouchers, okay? But airport food is... 30 pounds? Yeah.
You know how much 30 pounds gets you at an airport?
Two cups of coffee.
Yeah, pretty much, yeah.
So we had two cups of coffee with our 30 pounds at the airport.
And the kids didn't have anything, and they were fucking really mad.
The whole time, they were like, can we have some coffee?
No.
Well, I'm not giving you coffee.
You're like one and five.
Can you imagine?
You can't decaf.
No.
So we get on the plane.
Everything is fine.
Everything's smooth.
We land in Bristol and we're like, okay, cool.
Maybe this isn't so bad.
You know, like we did some chores and stuff.
It was all right.
But we were supposed to rent a car, okay?
So we get down to the car rental place and they made us wait for like an hour.
They're like, okay, we got the car and everything, but we can't find your car seats for your kids. So we're like, okay, fine. So we're fucking waiting in there for like an hour they're like okay we got the car and everything but we can't find your car seats for your kids so okay fine so we're fucking waiting in there for like an hour the kids are
going crazy again like my daughter had her like shoes in her mouth and like her socks were off
and everything we were like going crazy they come back and they're like well listen uh we can't find
your car seats so we're not sure what to do um and then the lady's like, and I'm, I'm, my shift is done. So I'm going home.
Great,
great customer response.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
So we're like,
well,
so there's no car seats.
And they're like,
no.
And we're like,
how the fuck am I supposed to drive a car?
Just sell it to your one year old to the roof rack.
And she's like,
I don't know.
And I was just like,
well,
fuck,
can I have a refund? And she was like, oh yeah, yeah. And I was just like, well, fuck, can I have a refund?
And she was like, oh, yeah, yeah, sure, no problem.
Great, thanks.
So what the fuck?
So we had to take a taxi here.
There were no fucking car seats in a taxi.
So we're just clutching kids in a backseat the whole time,
worried that we're going to crash and stuff.
And we finally made it here, and then everything's been all right since.
But the kids were all jacked up on sugar.
Yeah, we figured when we called you.
We just gave them like fucking sugar all day, basically.
And they didn't want to sleep at all.
Like my wife put a song on her phone.
And they were like going crazy, like freaking chairs and stuff like that.
They're like rock stars.
What song was it?
Smashing up the hotel room.
I think if they could pick up the TV, they would do it. Or like radio the machine or something. And like chuck it out the window and stuff what song was it smashing up the hotel room I think if they could pick up the TV
and chuck it out
the window and stuff
and then
now I'm here
that's been my day
so far
so you left
your wife just
dealing with that
she was like
dead
I went into the room
she had the baby
and she just
I'm sorry
peace
I'm out of here
and here I am
jeez
I just got a train here from Twickenham.
It was no problem.
Nice.
Maybe in a couple of years, maybe I'll also be able to do that.
You'll get there.
Right now.
Don't worry.
Trust me.
It gets easier.
It gets easier.
I know the feeling.
It's like when I bring donuts to the office.
No, you don't.
What?
They have like little nibbles missing out of them from all the cockroaches that are infesting your...
You know what?
I was waiting for someone to say,
Oh, yeah, my cat was really...
You know, my cat had a bad paw the other day.
I actually had an awkward warning this morning.
Was this involving a cat?
No, it wasn't a cat.
I got up and I was going to come to work.
I had to record Terraria at 11.
It was quarter to come to work. I had to record Terraria at 11. It was quarter to 11
and I was like,
probably should go now.
Went down to the bike cage.
My bike wasn't there.
Oh, what?
Yeah.
Your bike got nicked today?
No.
I just forgot that I left it at the office.
Oh, shit.
What did you do?
I got an Uber.
That's the end of the story. So there you exactly the same yeah it's pretty much the same did you get all did you have 10 breakfast to get
jacked up on sugar no i don't have any breakfast actually no oh wow shit didn't eat it didn't eat
it yeah i had lunch so so you want to have kids now based on that story, right? No, I don't really know. You're like, yes.
My five-year plan, I'm going to have three kids.
I'm ready.
I'm in the zone.
I'm going to do this.
Finally, I'm going to get my fucking life on track, man.
I'm going to make three kids.
Just imagine that morning with kids.
Whatever.
It sounds a lot better yeah
yeah
yeah it's
it doesn't get easier
do you guys listen to like
chamber music at home
and stuff
chamber music
fucking
what do you mean chamber music
what even is that
you know like
like French
like renaissance
manner music
like with a
what do they call that instrument
that's like a piano
what
oh shit a harpsich that's like a piano oh shit
a harpsichord
yeah like a harpsichord
I was thinking more
like Fetch of the Opera
kind of doomed
sad music
oh an organ
yeah that would
kind of you know
you just like
raise up your coffin
in the morning
like you're ready
for the day
yeah that'd be great
I had a school
nativity play recently
oh shit how did that go
fucking awful oh no it was
the most boring thing no i went to watch it so i went to see my youngest school like honestly that
they you know you've got to teach these little kids something you've got to keep them occupied
so they spend a lot of time teaching them like letters and numbers and reading and writing all
that stuff and then they're like the kids can only learn that for so much so you've got to
think of something else to do
that involves them
moving around
so when they start
school and reception
they have like
three or four plays a day
like every time
they just get up
I think they just
open the doors
and just turf them out
into the playground
and they run around
for a bit
and then you can teach
them for half an hour
and they play for a bit
so around Christmas
it's like nativity time
so they just practice
practice
practice
they can learn the songs
all their
bits in the play or whatever and then they perform it and because there are three classes in my
youngest daughter's school they had to perform it three times once for each of the classes what
they didn't do like a they didn't combine well they couldn't because the hall isn't big enough
to fit for three classes so they had to do it three times so she was like sick of it and she
was just like humming the song they couldn't do like a different one?
Like each class do a different kind of play?
All three classes, 90 kids.
What's the one with Scrooge and stuff?
They could have done like one class could have done
The Ghost of Christmas Past.
That's pretty dark for like a seven-year-old.
A whole class could have done The Ghost of Christmas Past.
That's a pretty big story.
It's a pretty big story. It's a pretty big story.
You can just get lots of extras.
It was like 20 minutes.
They sing a couple of songs, job done.
Brilliant.
My eldest, it was at this big church around the corner from us.
All the classes in the school, the kids in her year, which is 90 kids,
the kids in the year above, which is another 90 kids.
It's 180 kids, and they've got to find a bit for them.
So they're all dressed up
and we had to make costumes at home.
They have to wear the costumes in
for dress rehearsal day.
90 kids.
Plus 90 kids.
In a play.
No, it's 180 kids.
180, 90 plus 90.
Her year, the year above.
In one play.
In one play.
In one play.
What?
I'll tell you what.
Only about 10 of the kids did shit.
The rest of them just fucking sat there
and when the songs were on they just rest of them just fucking sat there.
And when the songs were on, they just sort of went... They could have done like...
They were the choir.
Yeah, they were the choir.
They should have done like a Cirque du Soleil or something.
They did nothing.
There was no acrobatics.
So I went there to the church.
That would have been good.
And I'm sitting there.
I'm like, I want to see my daughter in the play.
So I'm sitting there waiting for her to come on and do her bit.
She's singing the song.
She's, you know, she's making a go of it and everything.
And the woman organizing it was one of those people who's like super enthusiastic like like an orchestra like a
conductor or something yeah with like big bug eyes so she walks up and like the kids
like this like everybody's smile and all the kids go like this and then she's like
and it's like jesus we get it like you're really into it and it's like a big thing for you but
come on and there's this woman next to me going woo
the whole time
she was loving it
just to rub in
how much I hate it
it's like the
Scottish director
who thinks she's
Steven Spielberg
and has to
just unbelievably
make some sort of
artsy fartsy
bullshit
you've got the
super enthusiastic
mums and dads
who are filming
every single thing
and the audience
is full of people
with video cameras
with phones
just the whole audience
180 kids who have to be in some fucking way that's like five of the blue trees and then man
This is my character all the time. Do you see their dad in their life? Yeah
I'm like saying the fucking song. They didn't do that in the manger back then. It went on for an hour. An hour.
So they were like, act one.
I mean, the thing is, that doesn't sound that bad for me,
but I realise how long that is for you.
It was a long time.
I mean, I've heard a lot of stories about six of you
going to kids' birthday parties.
How long were your kids in it for?
An hour is eternity.
Out of the hour.
No, no, no.
Like, the whole hour.
We're standing there in the church.
All the parents everywhere.
There's not enough seats for all the parents. So we're standing. I'm standing there in the church. All the parents everywhere. There's not enough seats for all the parents.
So we're standing.
I'm standing there around the side
and the kids are all sitting here.
Half of them are like
bored after 10 minutes.
So were they all in it
for the whole hour?
Yeah, they just either sat there.
Oh, right.
So it's like 10 of the kids
are doing the talking
and the acting.
The rest of the kids
just sit there
when it's a song.
They sing.
And a couple of the kids
have like special needs.
So they're just bouncing around
all over the place.
And this one kid
was obviously like a real handful.
I thought you were going to say something else.
He had three handlers.
Three handlers standing around him like this.
Every time he jumped, they'd grab him and just restrain him
because he's just going like this.
He didn't handle all these people and all this singing.
We had a kid like that at our school who had three handlers,
and one day, I'm not even joking
He was walking down the hallway and there's just this massive lump and he just like shit his pants
But like a huge just this massive lump like sticking out of his ass
And there are three adults with him helping him and he just shit his pants
I don't even know how that happens
How were they going to stop him?
How could they have stopped him?
No, they're gone
No, no Just like fisting it back into something I don't know gonna stop him who's gonna check how could they have stopped him no they're just like no
no
just like fisting it
back into something
I don't know
Jesus Christ
fuck me
everything's better
than shitting in your pants
he was distracting
for sure he was
distracting
but then the plate
like they'd go
scene five
and I'm like
oh my god
you've gotta be kidding me
and it's like
King Herod turns up
he's like
send
find this baby Jesus for me and his soul just come up and they've got this little lines and everything and it's like King Herod turns up he's like find this baby Jesus for me
and his soldiers come up
and they've got this little lines
and everything
and it's going on and on
and the kids forgetting their lines
and the teacher's like
Tain you have to tell King Herod
that you will try your best
King Herod we will try our best
I'm like Jesus
ruined the story
Jesus fucking Christ
Timmy did you not remember
your lines
you're a fucking idiot
and then they like
your kid's an idiot
they're like scene 8 our they're like, scene eight,
our final scene,
and everybody was like,
ah,
apart from some parents,
like,
like they're loving it.
The mum next to me,
she was loving it.
And I couldn't handle it.
And I mean,
then at the end,
the vicar comes out,
right?
And he goes,
I know we'd all like to get home
for a nice cup of tea.
And some mums are like,
ah,
and this guy's like,
but we do need to remember
at this time of year,
those people who don't have cups of tea.
And it was like a big sort of guilt trip.
And I'm like,
Jesus,
we still need to remember.
That's when the depressing phantom
in the opera music starts playing.
I get it, I get it.
Jesus never had a cup of tea.
Yeah, exactly.
And what would he have done
if he had a cup of tea?
He had frankincense and myrrh.
Can't make tea. But never tea. Can't make tea. And what would he have done if he had a cup of tea? He had frankincense and myrrh. Can't make tea.
But he never tea.
Can't make tea.
And in honour of Bash.
He had high-grade Afghan hash.
He did.
Did he?
That's what myrrh is, isn't it?
I assume so.
Yeah.
If somebody said to you,
hey, dude, I've got a couple of keys of frankincense.
Yo, you got any telly?
You got any myrrh?
So, listen up.
Did you guys ever do a school play
and did you ever
what were you in the nativity
oh man
I did several
I was the
several
let our guest
let's let our guest
yeah I'm the guest here
go guest
no he's the guest
oh no I can wait
I can wait for sips
no no no
we've heard a story
it's your turn
I had a story
I was
originally
in our Christmas school play
I was
one of the Swedish.
Can we did like a Christmas from around the world type play, right?
Did you have to have eight children?
It was like, it's a small world, but it was your school.
Did you have to do an accent?
Because I mean, Gigi.
No, I don't think so.
Did you have to sing it's a small world the whole time?
I think it was just because I was blonde.
So I looked vaguely Swedish when I was a kid. I was blonder when I was a kid. small world i think it was just because i was blonde ah uh so i looked like
when i was a kid i was blonder when i was a kid i'm a bit redder now but you know i was blonder
and i was sweet but then um we used to do these like uh yearly pantos and uh i was the villain on one of them and i had to back comb my hair so it was like a big like crazy crazy bush and i was like
the the bad guy and then i also was uh reverend green in our um in our in our cludo play
we never got that fan i did a play when i was in nursery school, and I played a cow who was like one of the extras.
Like, I didn't get Jesus.
I didn't get like Mary or anything like that.
No, I had to play a cow.
A cow?
I had no lines whatsoever, and my tail was a brown sock.
And it was pretty bad.
Pretty bad.
You got one, P-Flex?
Yeah, I was in an Alan Akeborn play.
This is when I was in sixth form.
Holy shit.
I have no idea who that is.
What is that?
Alan Akeborn's an English playwright.
I was thinking of younger, but carry on.
No, no, no.
So I was like 16 or 17.
Oh, shit.
Well, you're not a kid then.
Well, it was terrifying.
It was like hundreds of people,
and we'd rehearsed our lines for weeks.
Because I was doing theatre studies A-level,
so we had to do a proper play. yeah proper degree and i played a level uh a man and his wife go to see a woman and i can't remember what the i think the play is
called confusions or something like that nice and we had we had to go and see her for some kind of
counseling it was kind of weird and then the other one we were all in a park sort of
benches
series of benches
and we'd sit on a bench
and talk to the person
next to us
and they'd get up
and talk to the next person
it was like a series
of vignettes I guess
and I played a guy
who
I was wearing like
a trench coat
with no trousers
I was meant to be crazy
so I had to walk in
what were you
wearing underneath your
not a flasher
but just like
crazy guy
I just had
did you have a short sword no just had a pair of shorts on.
I had a trench coat on.
Yeah, trench coat, pair of shorts, t-shirt.
Inside the trench coat were little watches.
Yeah, little watches.
That would have been more interesting.
I had to do that.
Man, I never did plays past nursery school, though.
Because you had to opt into them.
Yeah, you did.
I was like, fuck that.
I'm not doing it.
It was fun, but it was hard work.
I did a Wind of the Willows.
Who were you?
Mr. Toad.
I wasn't Mr. Toad.
Mrs. Toad.
No, I wasn't Mrs. Toad.
I was one of the Toads.
They had to add a lot of extra characters to take over the whole class.
So I was wearing my mum's green yoga lycra.
Shit.
And some Toad ears.
Oh, wow.
Whoa, you wore your mum's ears oh wow what are toad ears
they don't even have ears do they
well maybe eyes
there's definitely something on my head
was it uncomfortable at all to get a boner
in your mum's lycra
I don't think I was old enough to
get a boner
do you remember your first boner
was that your first boner
do I remember my first boner. At that point. Do you remember your first boner? Was that your first boner? Do you want to remember my first boner?
Yes, I do.
Do you?
Because I really don't at all.
It was a dark and dreary night.
I'd just seen Princess Leia in her metal bikini.
I'm trying to think now.
I definitely don't remember my first boner.
I'm trying to dig up my first boner.
Not a chance.
I can remember a lot of them, but not that one.
No.
Man, I've been through a lot of boners in my life.
Yeah, a lot of boners.
Yeah.
Accidental boners.
Like, you know.
Who out there isn't thinking about boners right now?
There's just a feeling of a good boner, though, man.
Oh, man.
Can't beat it.
Everyone needs a good boner in their life.
If you don't have a good boner in your life, man, you're just out.
I think that's why
people carry guns
why
because you know
if it's pressed into your
hip there
it kind of feels like
like a boner
like a reassuring
weight
like a reassuring boner
that's why if you carry
more guns
that's the name of this
podcast guys
reassuring boner
reassuring boner
Triforce Live
yeah
first boners are a bit
of a weird one
on the topic of plays on the topic of plays
yeah stay on that yeah yeah no did you guys ever do air bands at school is that a thing no like
you know when you pretend right i know yeah every year we used to have like an air band competition
and so and and it was almost like um there was like a season leading up to like
the bit the finals so like every week there'd be a couple of air bands and then wow they'd get
voted to go ahead and then there was like near christmas there was like a big finals and then
whoever got voted went to like do a regional national yeah it was like a regional sorry that was regional yeah yeah yeah
and then Canadian national
no no there was no national
did you like pick a song
that you played to or
yeah yeah of course
yeah so like
was it always
oh shit
one year we did
Bohemian Rhapsody
oh my god no way
but we
how would you airpan that
we didn't know who
Queen were at the time
and we thought they were Kiss
so we dressed up as Kiss
and did Bohemian Rhapsody
what
and we were like nine okay we didn't fucking know. And I had like these jeans on that were so
fucking tight I could not take them off for the life of me.
You were nine years old wearing the tightest jeans?
I wore the jeans from when I was like four years old when I was nine. I could not get them off.
It was pretty good. But then when we were like 14 I think
we did Ghostbusters
and
we were like
runner up
we almost won
wow
what was the air guitar
version of
Ghostbusters
it was like
choreographed
air band
we had people
dressed up as the
Ghostbusters
I was a ghost
we had all these
moves and stuff
what kind of ghost
were you Slimer
I was like a zombie
sort of ghost
right
I did the start I hate to be that guy but what do you mean you did the start it was like a zombie sort of ghost. Right. I did the start.
I hate to be that guy, but...
What do you mean you did the start?
It was like a ghoul.
You kind of shambled in, did you?
Yeah, like there was like this like, you know, you know, thriller.
Yeah.
You know how before the music starts, there's like a little bit of a lead up.
Yeah.
We did the same thing, but Ghostbusters.
Oh.
So there was like two girls talking.
Okay.
They were our friends.
Okay.
And they were like, hey, so what are you doing tonight Cindy?
Well, you know, it's gonna do some drugs
And then I came off stage
Yeah, yeah and then the Ghostbusters came out and there was like
Yeah, yeah.
And then the Ghostbusters came out and it was like... Oh, my God.
It sounds amazing.
It was fucking cool.
And they threw the toaster out.
Did your parents film this?
No.
This was way before...
Man, we were like in fucking high school.
We didn't want our parents to come watch that.
That sounds awesome.
I would love to see that.
It was pretty fun.
And then quickly we devolved into Degenerates
and never did anything like that ever again.
So yeah.
Shit.
Spent the rest of high school just being clowns.
What the?
On the weed.
Spent a lot of time on the weed.
Yeah.
While we were in high school.
So we didn't really do anything cool after that.
I don't remember anything else from school.
We just did a lot of.
Did go to band camp.
We did a skateboarding stuff and then just fucking, just did a weed once in Did go to band camp. We did a skateboarding stuff, and then just fucking...
Just did a weed once in a while,
and that was it.
Did a weed.
Yeah, just one or two,
and that was it.
That's a cool way to say it.
Did you have those...
What are they called?
Snakeboards?
No.
It was like two independent foot things
that twisted,
and you had to move them in the right way,
and then you would like...
No.
Shoes?
You would get beaten up
if you had one of those. It was like way and then you know shoes it was like a skateboard
with like a kind of joint in the middle roller skate and he's like move your legs no no it's
jointed it's jointed you put your feet on it and you'd like have to move them in a certain way and
it would like it sounds like if i was a real skateboarder i would be furious they sound like
a very modern thing for these guys you gotta understand got to understand. Yeah, that's too modern. How old are you, Duncan?
I'm 29.
Yeah, well, exactly.
You can just get the fuck.
We had the big skateboards for a while,
and then we got the smaller skateboards,
and that was it.
Oh, shit.
That's all you had.
The other one's just the one lip thing.
Yeah.
Did you make soapbox cars and stuff like that?
Yes.
No, we never did. We made one, and stuff like that yes no we never did we made one
and we the one that we made me and my friends was based on the award-winning ecto one the ghost
busters no fucking way it was just your average go-kart but that's what we wrote on the back and
we would race it up and down my friend matthew's road it was did you make did you make a go-kart when you were a kid there was one time when
it was shortly after
my first boner
I remember it very well
we did have a
we did try and make a go-kart
and we pushed it down
my driveway
and we pushed my brother
in it
off down
my younger brother
off the driveway
right into the road
nice
as a fucking car was
speeding down the road
and they swerved to
avoid my brother
crashed into a fence.
Oh my God.
My dad had to repair
the fence.
Shit.
Why didn't you just
get someone to do it?
I had to repair my
fence recently.
I just got someone to
do it.
Yeah.
But he was probably a
kid.
He couldn't just pay
someone to do it.
What if you smashed
down someone else's
fence? I would get someone to do it what if you smashed down someone else's fence
I would get someone
to do it
I'd be like
hey
I fucking smashed it
I
I fucked up
fucked up bad
knocked over a fence
you get out here
and repair
we used to do this thing
where we'd
we'd all sit
we'd have these old
you know
the old skateboards
just
the big old
the big old ones with the the one like bendy you know the old skateboards just the big the big old ones
with the one like
bendy bit at the back
yeah
with the big wheels
yeah yeah
we'd all get one of them each
and we'd sit on them
and there was this big
massive fucking hill
in our
in our village
and we'd all just
line up
there was like
four or five of us
and we'd just line up
on the road
and we'd sit on them
we wouldn't stand on them
we'd sit on them and then we'd just go down this massive hill and we'd sit on them. We wouldn't stand on them, we'd sit on them.
And then we'd just go down this massive hill
and try and knock each other off.
And anyone that got to the bottom...
Did you get all gravelly burned and stuff?
We did a lot, yeah.
There was this old lady's garden at the bottom of the hill
that we'd use to stop ourselves.
Oh, Mrs. McGregor!
And after a day of doing this,
this garden would be fucking ruined.
Oh, shit.
Was she super old?
She was super old.
And angry?
Well, she didn't really come out and say anything.
She's terrified.
I'm sure she would have said something.
I don't like people.
She had this particular pretty bush that we just used to stop ourselves by hitting.
And by the end of the day, it was just a mangled mess.
Kids are awful.
Kids don't have any fucking respect.
Oh, Mrs. McGregor.
Oh, Mrs. McGregor's bush has just been trampled.
My husband's memorial bush.
I remember him during the war.
I kept that bush.
He loved that bush.
She can't call the police.
I kept it for him.
And those kids have no idea
why they're ploughing my bush.
They've been in my bush again, officer.
Skateboard ran into my bush.
No one's been in your bush for many years.
Many years, yeah.
You should be so lucky.
Poor Mrs. McGregor.
Poor Mrs. McGregor.
Hey, I remember one time we entered a Lego building competition.
Yeah.
Because we used to play a lot of Lego.
We were like 15 at the time.
And me and my friend were like, that's pretty old for Lego fuck these guys all right we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna kill
these guys we're gonna make the starship enterprise out of lego but i didn't have like
many gray legos i had like all the clown color lego so we we started making like the saucer
section and then we're like ah fuck this looks terrible like what
do you want to do and he's like ah fuck just get the instructions from one of the sets and we'll
just fucking build a set you can't just do that with like so we're like fuck it's just gonna be
kids entering this competition right we're still gonna we're gonna kill it just buy the really
expensive so we feel like teenagers so we take down like this made up instruction made like spaceship set.
Okay.
With us.
And we're like, ah, fuck.
We won this.
No problem.
We take it down to the place.
Every other kid just has like these sets.
And holy fuck.
We get there and there's like these massive 2D Super Mario's and like all this shit.
Somebody made like a fucking huge Game Boy like out of Lego.
And we're like, oh shit.
I just like quickly ran back to the car with this thing. My dad's like, hey, what are you doing? Gameboy like out of Lego and we're like oh shit
My dad's like hey what are you doing? No
The competition is way too rough
Take me home
It was fucking
Yeah it was like the biggest backfire
ever man it was so bad
We used to do at school every year there'd be
a competition where
you were meant to bring in a hobby that you were doing and display it in the hall and people would
come in for the day and sort of go around and look at your hobbies and the teachers go around and
grade them so i just used to put my fucking warhammer figures up there or whatever and they
were poorly painted but they were like yeah there's my whatever. What army did you have? I was Space Marines. Oh, boring.
So 5K.
I just put all my shitty Space Marines up.
I was like, eh, there it is.
They weren't even very well painted.
It was just shit.
But it was like, you had to do something.
Were they Ultramarines?
Punk.
There you go.
Just blue.
No, it was just regular.
I painted them all green and put flock on one of their shoulder pads.
Dark angels.
I don't know.
Did you guys do like those science fairs? Did you ever have science fairs?
We never had science fairs in my school.
That's not a thing we did in the UK, no.
I think that's an American thing.
My friend Aaron Dwyer.
You didn't have a science fair.
But that was the thing, Aaron Dwyer, who was the kid in our year
who was, I now realise,
deeply autistic, like seriously autistic,
but he was never diagnosed.
It was just like... Back then, that was was never diagnosed right it was just like
no because back then that was not he was just a bit weird yeah yeah that's it she's a weird kid
so he would turn up every year he was massively into astronomy loved his astronomy and he would
have this amazing little diorama of all the planets and a tape recording and you were meant
to go up and press play on the tape and it was like an hour long lecture from him about the planets okay and of course what we
would do and I
deeply regret this
is record over
this
sex sound
and we would just
go
I'm a spaz
I'm Eric Dweyer
and I'm a massive
spaz
oh shit
you should have
just done a lot of
grunting
and then rewind it
and leave that so
people can press play and just say I'm a massive spaz, I'm Aaron Dwyer, I'm a massive spaz.
Oh my god.
I cannot believe that.
That's fucking bad man.
That is awful.
It was terrible.
You are the fucking worst.
It wasn't just me!
He had it coming to him.
Alright, much like Hitler.
His whole team of people.
His whole team of guys.
Oh my god.
It was really original.
How far comedy as well.
Oh that's proper bullying. Well we were kids. It was really original. much like Hitler his whole team a bunch of guys his whole team of guys oh my god
it was really original
comedy as well
oh that's proper bullying
well we were kids
it was a boys school
everybody got bullied
that was the way it was
holy shit
that's pretty good though
we used to
back before like
you know
you know nowadays
like at school
in a computer lab
everything's fucking
firewalled to shit
you can't go to
certain sites and stuff
back before that
was like a thing.
We had a computer lab.
It was all these like old ass Macs and stuff.
And it had internet access.
And we had like this thing at school.
It was like,
it was like this community portal and you signed up and you,
it was like Facebook.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But like fucking years before Facebook and it was total dog shit and nobody
used it.
But so we'd go into the computer labs.
We'd have,
we had a whole afternoon
of Photoshop class.
This is when Photoshop first came out.
So my whole afternoon was Photoshop.
And you had to do all these
shit where you had to
clip out a flower and superimpose
it on something and stuff. So we'd finish up
all that shit and then we'd go around to all the computers
and we'd go to like gay.com
or like we'd find like like goatsy or like lemon party and we just like on all the computers we put it
up on screen and then switch off the monitor so the next class would come in and like you'd hear
them come out at the end of the class and be like oh shit fuck there was some girl pooping into a
guy's mouth we're just like holy shit like you ah but you had to see that to put it up
in the first place
yeah but if it's your joke
it doesn't fucking affect you
you get really
desensitized quickly
you see a lot of that stuff
but
for the greater good
right
so that it's up
on all the screens
the computer lab
the worst thing we ever did
was we
some people got in trouble
because like
the teacher would come by
and be like
what the fuck
are you looking at
it wasn't me
we'd like leave it on
so it's like we learned how to overclock
the school PCs
and we used to just
put them up to like the max
and then they would just
fucking explode
they would just melt down
we must have killed
like 4 or 5 PCs
there's a line
when you're a kid when you're a teenager you do some horrible stuff we must have killed like four or five PCs there's a line oh my
when you're a
kid
when you're a
teenager
you do some
horrible stuff
I remember
we went to a
house party
and it's one of
these teenagers
house parties
where
they're kind of
just expecting
bad stuff to
happen
and so
they had a
photocopier
and someone
took a load of
photocopies of
their ass
and sack they had a photocopier in their house yeah and someone took a load of like photocopies of their ass and and sack they had
a photocopier in their house yeah yeah and someone took a load of photocopies of it they were like
just stuck everywhere and then like people just oh man it was like people made ass prints on the
windows and stuff and so like it was almost like stuff like you clean up after the house party and
you're like hey man i've cleared everything up and then was that there's like, you clean up after the house party, and you're like, hey, man, I've cleared everything up. And then one day, there's like a foggy day.
Was that the giveaway?
It was like, you cleaned up everything.
Everything was pristine.
You couldn't tell that there was a house party.
But then there was ass prints.
There was like ass prints.
That's right.
Hang on a second.
These ass prints weren't here before we left.
And then they start noticing, like, that ceiling tile's cracked.
Have you been having a house party, you son of a bitch? Exactly son of a bitch exactly yeah yeah so they were just these secretive like
you'd like it was it would be a hot day and the windows would fog up and there would be like an
ass print just coming out of the window and you realize who's been putting their bare ass on this
window it would be that yeah oh it was horrible geez just that's not that bad though i mean at
least he didn't overclock
a bunch of like
expensive equipment
for everybody.
I didn't go to many parties
when I was a kid,
like house parties.
No?
Like I'd be invited,
but.
Did you guys,
is house parties like a big thing
in the UK?
It was in North America.
I didn't have a car.
I didn't have a car
and no way of getting here and there.
Well,
I lived in a little village,
so the only way to have a party
was to have a house party. There wasn't any like bars or anything like my friend my friend ben
one time he was having a party his house and uh one of the girls there called up and she was like
are you coming to the party i was like uh i don't have any way to get there she's like oh you could
get a cab over and i was like shit like i was like i had enough money to get a cab probably
and then we'd sort something out when it came to getting back who cares like i'm at a party i don't care
she said because ben's sister really likes you oh and i was like really and i said which which
sister uh oh wait you mean i can't remember her name and i realized he had one sister who was
quite a bit younger and when it was like just a little bit younger than me i was like if it's the
one that's just a little bit younger than me then i was like, if it's the one that's just a little bit younger than me, then I'll probably go to the party.
Cool, but if it's a seven-year-old, sorry, I'm out.
I'm not fucking interested.
The one that was like a couple of years younger than me,
I was like, well, yeah, it's okay.
I said, wait a minute, doesn't she have like really bad eczema?
And he was like, yeah, she does.
I was like, oh, I'm not going to go.
Oh, no.
I mean, I feel bad because it wasn't that bad.
But when you're a kid, it feels like, oh, she's got a bit of eczema on her legs.
That's a no.
On her legs?
Yeah, even on her legs.
She was lovely.
You had to see her legs.
Very pretty.
I was just a twat.
I should have said, yeah, I'll be there in two seconds.
Fucking run round.
Even though it was Southbourne.
That's a hell of a way from Westbourne.
Southbourne, oh, Southbourne Massive.
Real, like, no Westbourneers would go to Southbourne.
No, Southbourne is like a fucking suburb,bourneers would go to Southbourne. No.
Southbourne is like a fucking suburb, dude.
It's not a scary area.
It's just a fucking long way.
You'd have to go... I'm in Westbourne.
All right?
Southbourne, you'd think would be close.
It's not close.
It's like the other...
So you could go past Boscombe.
That's the problem.
Boscombe is a hellhole.
So how did your teenage crushes go?
Did you have a lot of them on the go at once?
Did you sort of juggle them?
I had a few.
I had a couple of girls I did.
There were some that were conveniently located in like Charminster,
not too far.
Charminster.
Yeah.
And where was another girlfriend I went out with?
Oh, she was in Lower, which sounds bad, but it's not that bad.
She was near the university.
It is now the university.
She's a nice girl, but she was a bit crazy.
That was worth a bus ride That was one bus
Southbourne was two buses
Because there has to be
A very special young lady
And Exmo is the killer
On that one
There was a girl
I rode the bus to school
With a friend who was a girl
And we were friends
For a long time
And one of her friends
She invited her out
To a local
How old are you
at this point
I'm like
16
alright
describe her
okay 15, 16
describe the girl
and she is going to be
in the gear
because this girl
was on the bus
for the year below me
so she must be 15
right
okay
then don't describe her
and we go to the pub
right
and the pub
they know me
okay
because I know
because you're Lewis
Brendan of the Oxen
you're like
you're like
fucking warm cheers I know someone who owns the Brittany of the Oxen you're like fucking warm
cheers
I know someone
who owns the pub
someone whose dad
owns the pub
so I could always
get served
impressive
and so
you know
so I'm like
I'm like pretty
anyway
she's about
I'd say five inches
taller than me
so I wasn't sure
I'd get
I'd get in there
okay
did she have
big boobies
did she fall asleep on command?
Were you deuce bigelow?
What does that even mean?
Male gigelow
At some point in the night
We start kissing
And
Her idea of kissing
Is like
Like an octopus
Just going at it
That's the best was it like it's like like a like an octopus just going at it like it's like and every all the old
men in the pub everyone else in the pub is just totally aware of this this happening okay it was
just in them it was they're watching two children get off with each other in the most kind of oh my
god and so that just man it's, man, it was a glorious moment.
This is the first boner.
People are saying
this is the first boner.
Was that your first boner?
That was double boner territory.
That was my first double.
I just got one
just thinking about it.
Yeah, me too, man.
Actually, keep going
if you don't mind.
It was so fucking awkward.
But it wasn't at the time, though.
Not at the time, no.
Not at the time.
You're like,
this is the sexiest thing anyone has ever done in the history of humanity.
And then, wow, that was, it never worked out.
Did you, so was it just, was it a first bass night or were other basses rounded on that night?
Well, no, there were no more basses.
No, of course not.
No more basses were rounded.
We don't really use the bass system.
Yeah, but you understand the bass system.
I don't think I really do, actually.
Third bass is like
your dick is out.
Really?
There were no nothing.
What's fourth bass?
A home run is like the whole shebang.
So how is it the anal?
What is third bass?
A home run is like the whole shebang so what do you how is it what is third I don't know if a home run is necessarily anal
but I suppose
if you're really into that
what's a sack fly
what does that count as
or a bunt
what's a bunt
I don't know
I don't
well it's not a base
so
what about a ground rule double
it's not a base
it's like there's
there's
there's
three bases
and there's the home plate
for the home run
home run so a home run literally home play home run literally is you had sex you go around you
did all the other bases and then the home plate you slid into home which may or may not be anal
okay and you're safe at home well you're safe you're you've you've goal achieved if you're
at the home plate what would it be what a walk-off home run count as?
What is this?
A bunt is a sacrifice played to help a brother score.
Oh, nice.
Wingman.
And a sack flies to help him go all the way.
Nice, I like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Wingmanning that shit.
Honestly, the teenage years are just...
The puberty is just a mess of embarrassment and...
It's horrible.
I wouldn't go back.
I wouldn't go back.
No, I wouldn't change it for the world.
It was great.
I'd change a lot.
There's a lot of girls I would have had sex with if I'd been into it.
If I'd known what was happening.
Knowing what I know now.
It was way too cheesy.
It's all about innocent kind of cuteness.
Knowing what you know now, you probably wouldn't because they were very underage.
Completely the opposite
Yeah but I would be that age
If I went back as a 40 year old
It would be fucking weird
Yeah
But if I could go back
To my younger self
As a vision and say
You will be able to have sex
With a bunch of girls
And you'll turn them down
Because their hair's a bit weird
That day
Or you don't like their t-shirt
Don't be so fucking choosy
And they disappear into the future
I'd be like
Yeah knowing what I know now
My teenage years Would have just been One long Hardcore por future. I'd be like, cool. Yeah, knowing what I know now, my teenage years would have just been
one long hardcore porno.
Yeah, I'd be like...
What are you saying?
What are you saying?
Oh my God.
What?
Oh, God.
Were you really able to just blag that many ladies?
Really?
You guys say that you were like players.
No, I'm saying I could have been.
I had so much opportunities.
They weren't players, but if they knew what they knew now.
Could have been, yeah.
No problem.
I would have gone to all those super parties,
and I would have had sex with all those girls that I rejected
because I had X-ray legs.
Of course you would have done.
Do you know what I used to do sometimes?
I would not go to a party because I'd be too busy playing Pharaoh on my computer.
Pharaoh.
Knowing now what I know know would I have done that
hell no
I would not have stayed
around that fucking boy
you've got years for Pharaoh
exactly
this guy knows what's up
if you had never played Pharaoh
you may never had played
World of Warcraft
you may never had
joined the Oscars
you're not helping
and you would be still
a computer programmer
for his bank
yeah but you know
it doesn't matter
but you would have had sex
with a 15 year old girl.
So who gives a shit?
Who gives a fuck?
When he was 15.
Just to clarify.
Let's clarify that.
Holy shit.
Maybe this was a bad topic
to walk us down.
No,
this is interesting.
This is cathartic.
Yeah,
yeah,
it is actually.
It's nice,
it's nice reminiscing.
It's nice looking back.
It's nice,
it's nice opening up the time capsule a lot of
names shit i buried it i buried the time capsule did you actually what's in it everyone says that
they did nobody did though i can't remember what was in it actually picture of your bum you took
it a party i don't think it was like a photocopy this is what my balls looked like in 1986 just
in case i forgot i took a picture of my balls.
What will the people of the future think?
And 50 years later, me and my family
dug up the time capsule, forgotten what was
in it completely.
And my son turned to me with a tear
in his eye and said, Dad, why is there
a picture of a
bald set of balls
in this time capsule?
That would be such a troll.
Holy shit, like a 50 year old
50 year troll.
That would be glorious.
Oh shit. I don't think they do time capsules
anymore. I do, they do.
They totally do. Back then, there was nothing
that could withstand the forces
of nature, right? Everything would
deteriorateate all the
shit would get all gunky you wouldn't know what the fuck was in there it would be nowadays yeah
you there's like synthetics and shit that could keep that stuff safe but like fuck nobody does
that they were a big no big meme back in the day though everyone was doing time capsules putting
stuff in them like putting marbles and it was because it was the millennium you know like 2000
it's like a big you know it's a big like was the millennium, you know? Like, yeah, 2000 is like a big, you know,
it's a big, like, milestone year.
So, like, people, you know, it's one of the kind of years
that people might want to come back.
Come to a fucking university.
Why am I going to do a fucking time capsule?
Fuck that.
I'm too busy getting drunk.
No, I'm just saying this is why people were into it, you know,
because it was like a, you know, a milestone.
Yeah, a milestone.
You know, you look at the future, people would,
people don't give a shit about 1998, but 2000,
that's a big year.
What did you do on the millennium?
I drank a bottle of champagne with Mrs. F and had sex.
Wow.
With Mrs. F.
Wow.
I went to France.
I let off fireworks in my garden.
I was actually in France and it was cool.
We had a party in France.
Shit.
With Mrs. F.
Party in France.
With Mrs. F.
With Mrs. F.
We had sex too.
She had a busy night. She had a busy night.
She gets her ass.
Oh, gotta go.
What is the time zones, right?
So it was like the millennium in France
and then it was the millennium in the UK.
She hopped on the ferry.
She was by herself.
I'm a second.
Yeah.
Why is there a helicopter landing in the back garden?
Mrs. F.
You look tired.
Yeah, it's fun.
What did you do?
I was at a...
What was I at?
I was at a creepy village hall party in my local village
with all the mums and dads and uncles and aunties.
It was very...
That's no good.
Sounds pretty creepy.
Very shit.
Yeah, I really...
Duncan?
It's a depressing name.
I was like, what?
I was like 13?
Yeah.
I was playing Pokemon.
I had some fireworks from Lidl's that I'd got.
Oh, yeah. Lidl was here in'd got oh yeah Lidl was here in 2000
no Lidl was still around
no no
they just arrived
because when I was
university in 1999
Lidl's fireworks
are still
the best
they're super cheap
and they're fun
and you should play with them
do not
this is what I used to do
when I was a kid
I used to play with fireworks
a lot
and we
yeah we let some fireworks off
I think we got like a...
What we do is we get all the little fireworks from a box.
We gaffitate them all together.
We twist their wicks together.
Like the whole lot and just see what happens.
Village life.
Yeah.
In a nutshell.
That is village life.
I'm sure I did that 20 times.
I bet the whole town was there as well.
No, no.
It's just me and a few mates.
That's the whole village.
Yeah, my family. Village. I can't imagine going up to the well. No, no, it was just me and a few mates. That's the whole village. Yeah, my family.
Village, I can't imagine going to a village.
We knew a guy like that.
He put, I was like, lighter fluid or something down one of those spinny slides and lit it on fire.
Yeah.
Because he thought that planes would be able to see, like, the spiral of fire.
What?
And we were just like, what the fuck, man?
Like, why would you?
And he just reeked of, like, fucking gas and stuff, like, all the time.
It was just fucking weird, man.
Like, I don't know.
I mean, he's all right, but.
Shit.
I don't think any planes would have seen that.
And there's just this big skid mark on a kid's slide, like, forever after that, too.
Like, you go to the park and go, oh, yeah, remember time? Eric fucking burnt the slide thinking that a plane would see it.
Oh,
it's like a plastic slide.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like one of those like red,
like it properly burn it.
Yeah.
It's a local pyromaniac.
Shit.
Yeah.
We had plenty of those.
One of my friends ordered a bunch of industrial fireworks one time and just
industrial fireworks.
Why is industrial fireworks?
They're like the ones they use in London.
Yeah, business purposes.
They're like a keg of beer.
You know, they're like a gigantic
barrel and you
sort of just put it in your garden, which is, you know,
not very big anyway.
And you light it and you think, oh, this will be fine.
And then as soon as it starts going off, you
run inside.
It sort of sets your entire back garden on fire.
I mean, in New York City, I don't know about the rest of the state,
but fireworks were, when I was a kid, illegal.
In New York?
In New York, yeah.
You couldn't buy them.
In general, Americans have bigger laws on fireworks.
Fireworks are generally a lot more restricted.
But when I was a kid kid this was in the 80s
fireworks in New York City
I don't know if this is
still the case New Yorkers
were illegal.
So we got them
from the Russians
who lived across the road
from us.
Oh my god.
So there was a Russian family
the Bartoshes
and they would go
Go on Lewis
I know you're itching
to do your accent.
You pretend.
The Bartosh.
Do a role play.
Hello period.
Hello Mr. Bartosh. I have some things. Hello, Pirio. Hello, Mr. Bartosz.
I have some things you might be
interested in.
I have heard it is a celebration
of New Year.
I've acquired some
objects you may have
be like to
use on the
celebration
by the way
congratulations on your first
boner
by the way
I have some fireworks for you
my daughter Magdalene
she's a six foot three
she says she licked your face off
at local pub
like an octopus
no I do not know what you are talking about
and I have
come by
off back of lorry
some
lorry
off back of truck
I don't know
some
explosive
fireworks
and so
what the
interesting
real good
prize
hey
what are you going to
throw in the driveway
so yeah
that was
who brought
them
and he
came around
to our
house
and he
just had
a
briefcase
he just
looked at
us all
put the
briefcase
down
and he
was like
nodded
clunk clunk
and opened
it up
it was just
like a big
red button
the whole
house goes
up
but he
had this
thing in
there called
a block
buster
and it was like a stick of dynamite, basically.
And when he set it off, the whole block shook.
It was a bomb.
It was a bomb.
It was a bomb.
So we had all these files.
It's a bomb.
It's a bomb.
What's this one?
It's a bomb.
It's a bomb.
It's an actual bomb.
It's an actual bomb.
It's an actual bomb.
This is a natural glycerine.
When all of USSR Russia have many excess bombs.
It's also really active, little people.
It's okay.
It's small in any way.
So we set off these fireworks and it was mad
because I realise now looking back,
my parents and the Bartoshes were fucking hammered.
Yeah, of course.
So I was just thinking, wow, mum and dad are acting really funny.
But they were just drunk.
So they set off these fireworks
and they set off a rocket at one end of the drive drive we had a long drive with a run on the along
the back of all the houses in our row and we were the only ones in a row had fireworks because
everyone's you know it's hard to get so he set his firework off this rocket and it was meant to go
up in the air and it the bottle was in tipped over and it shot down the alleyway and it was chasing
after mrs bartosz she was running down like ahhhh she was chasing down
there
and then
this is weird
next to where we grew up
there was a Jewish school
yeah
okay
and for some reason
we snuck into their playground
we were set off
the blockbuster
yeah
in the playground
of the Jewish school
which looking back from it
was kind of weird
blew up their slide
but we did it
we set this thing off
we ran a mile
and I'm not kidding
the explosion was
unbelievable.
Every window was
shaking and the whole house was like this.
We know there were fireworks
but what the fuck was that?
Did there have been an accident?
It's only a blockbuster.
It's just a blockbuster.
Only one blockbuster.
It's just a little bit of
natural glycerin
and some
uranium
little bit
small C4
explosive
plus
crazy
explosive
chemical weapon
maybe
oh for fuck's sake
this is my
Russian accent
so I just
remembered
because when I
went to
my French
exchange
it was Bastille
Day
wait you were
on it in
exchange
I was on a french exchange
so your parents
had a french kid
yeah
yeah they did
holy shit
no way
did they
did they like him
better than you
yeah
when you came back
they're like
oh get Pepe back
Matthew
Matthew
he was nice
oh bring back Matthew
we all have weird accents now
he has spent so much time
with Matthew
so respectful
he's so clean.
So we went to, on Bastille Day, of course, it's firework day in France.
And we went to one of their teachers.
They were like, we know where the teacher lives.
Let's go to his house.
They'd put dynamite in his leather box.
So we did that.
Oh, it was a disaster.
Never told anyone.
I never went on an exchange
never told anyone
this is the first time
anyone's heard about this
did you guys have summer camps
when you were small
yeah
not in this country
no
no not really
they were pretty big work
yeah they're big
because in the states
they've realised
if you can get rid of your kids
for the whole summer
fuck yeah
it's like a bonus
for the parents
because in the states
you only get 10 days holiday
on average right
most people get 10 days holiday
over here we get like 25
26 everybody in the states works at like fucking pizza hut and shit like that and they still only get 10 days holiday on average right most people get 10 days holiday yeah over here we get like 25 26 everybody in the states works at like fucking pizza hut and shit like
that and they still only get 10 days holiday so you have to use it around like certain times
the chat right now yeah all right hands up if you work at pizza hut and you're american if you work
in a service industry job like pizza or whatever or you're gonna get 10 days holiday that's like
that's like almost everybody
in the chat right now
works at pizza
everyone says they work there
yeah
well that's the podcast
so I hope you enjoyed
the live podcast
we had fun doing it
as usual
big thanks to
our special guest
Duncan
who was here
thank you Duncan
that was gorgeous
first guest ever
on Triforce
you did a good job
I'm honoured
you did a good job
great Russian accent as well
thank you
very little knowledge
about baseball
that's got to be said
but there you go
yeah
yeah
well
there you go
hope you enjoyed it
good luck with your jobs
at Pizza Hut and stuff
and we'll see you next time
yeah
God bless
thanks everybody
we love you
peace out bye
thanks for all the money
mwah
goodbye