Triforce! - Triforce #315: Gordon Ramsay Bingo
Episode Date: March 20, 2025Triforce! Episode 315! Sips shares his gaudy decoration plans for his house, Flax reinvents himself with some running and weekly grand meals (including poorly cared for Mussels) and Lewis is Mr Bean. ...Support your favourite podcast on Patreon: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 welcome back to the Trivall's podcast, we're still doing this.
Still going.
That's right.
We're consistent, if nothing else, at least.
You know?
Wow.
That's what you want, isn't it?
You want us here, year after year.
Day after day, week after week, month after month.
We're like Gary Neville of podcasts.
Not very glamorous.
We get the job done.
We just always turn up.
We are literally doing a podcast.
That's the most you could say.
I'm like the Gary Barlow of podcasts.
You're going for Gary Barlow instead of Gary Neville.
Bit of a genius, you know.
Had some good ones.
Some couple stinkers here and there,
but mostly like really good ones. So you're saying that Gary Barlow is a genius.
No, I'm just saying.
Well, I mean, he's not, I don't, I'm, I don't think he's a genius, but he, he, he has undeniably
had some hits.
He's had more, he's had more hits than I have.
He has had some hits.
He's had some hits.
Yeah.
What does that make me like the Gary Lineker of this podcast?
I don't know. What? Yeah. Well, what does that make me like the Gary Lineker of this podcast? I don't know.
What's like the Gary Coleman of this podcast.
Gary.
There could be worse Gary's to be the Gary.
True.
That's true.
Glitter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You could be Gary Glitter.
Yeah.
Well, that's a great place to start.
Isn't it?
God.
Yeah. Yes. That's done. I to start, isn't it? God. Let's... Get it going.
Yeah, gotta get it going.
So what have you done this week, guys?
Zip, Superior, what have you done?
Anything interesting?
You've been anywhere?
You've done a thing?
Have you seen a thing?
Have you thought about anything?
Not really, no.
I've still got tons of stuff happening on my house, which is progressing nicely.
Almost done, I think.
Still!
Now finally, I know.
Oh man, we've had a lot of setbacks.
Which part of it are they working on now?
The roof, the roof still?
The old rooms.
So like my kids are in their new rooms, they're all done and stuff, we just need to get some
wardrobes painted and then we just need, the master bedroom just needs to be repainted
and stuff and then we're done.
So it's more close.
Now what is your style of decoration?
Um, is it like...
Classical Greek.
Just colons everywhere.
Marbles everywhere.
We go for the gold... we go for like the dictator chic, you know?
Like, they would like the gold plating on everything.
We like to...
Bathroom taps.
Okay.
Yeah.
We're going for like a sort of like a Gaddafi...
Like a Saddam Hussein's mansion.fi... Like a Saddam Hussein's mansion.
Yeah, like a Saddam Hussein's...
Like over the top.
Gold AK-47 on the wall.
Absolutely.
God, yeah.
Every room has one.
Yeah.
Right, yeah.
And just, just, um...
In case of infidel, break glass.
Yeah.
We've got a room full of, um, sneakers.
I've got hundreds room full of sneakers.
I've got hundreds of pairs of sneakers and other, and hats.
That's a Cribs, that's an MTV Cribs classic.
I got a 500 baseball caps.
God, what is it?
What are them rooms with jelly babe, jelly beans in it?
Yeah, I just got a jelly bean room.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fucking.
Do you have like, would you have like a home theater?
Do you mean, would you have a cinema room?
No, I don't think so.
I always said if I was going to have a cinema room, it would have to be like Tony Soprano's
cinema room.
You know?
Like, that's an actual cinema room.
I think if you've converted, like, you know, like my garage, where I work from, sort of
thing.
Yes. I think if you did it up properly, you could be like, yeah, it's a cinema room.
But if you just put a TV on the wall and then started calling it a cinema room,
I don't think it's really a cinema room.
It's just room with a TV in it.
You know what I mean? Like, I guess that's all cinema room is. But
I you want the proper chairs.
The bar is set at Tony Soprano's home cinema room.
You know what I mean?
Like he's got the proper chairs with like the drink holders and like, you could fit
like probably like 10, 15 people in there.
Like, it actually feels like a cinema, you know?
And not just some half-assed, it's a lie basically.
You're telling people you got a cinema room and it doesn't look like Tony Soprano, you're
lying.
You are a liar.
Well, it doesn't have to be big, right?
It can be like, you know, a little rinky dink one.
It can be like a cut closet with, you know, black carpet.
A cut closet, did you say?
Like a little cupboard, I was gonna say, a cupboard or a closet.
A cut closet is where you hide when someone's fucking your wife, I guess.
Exactly.
Your wife and her boyfriend are getting it on and you're hiding in the closet.
You're in the cuck closet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You've got to have enough room to jerk off to...
That's what they call the single chair in a hotel room is the cuck chair.
The cuck chair.
Right, I see.
Because a lot of the cuck porn seems to take place in a hotel, because obviously you don't
want to do it where your neighbours can see you bringing some...
And they have a guy watching sat in that chair.
And that's the cup chair. You sit there and watch some dude rail your wife.
People say don't kink shame. I won't. I think, you know, I would just say there are a lot of
stories. In that case, what they call cut regret, which is a specific sort of very, very specific angle that you see on Reddit sometimes like
Cuck Regret story.
Redditt seems to be full of very, very specific angles.
It's that kind of place, isn't it?
It's very angular.
It is very angular place.
Yeah.
I've been enjoying getting into running because I felt that I just sit around on my fat ass all day so I should
do some exercise and I've been doing running for the last couple of weeks. I'm currently on an off
day because I ran for like four days in a row. You should have an off day. I'm just building up
gradually to running a little more and anytime I'm going to like pop to a shop or nip to the bus
stop or whatever, I'll run there just to try and get a little bit of exercise in all the time throughout the day. But trying to do a mile
or two run in the morning. I get up, I get out, and now that it's spring, it's made it
a lot easier because I bloody love spring.
So, is this off the back of your fun run? Well, not fun run.
Fun walk.
Remembrance walk. No.
Yeah.
This is off the back of, I think, general anxiety.
A lot of the time you can alleviate fears about getting older if you feel like you're
doing something to mitigate the damage of sitting around being old.
So it just helps with my general sense of wellbeing to just do something.
Yeah. I think a lot of people...
Does it get your heart pounding?
Oh yeah.
When you get sweaty.
Do you have like a couple shoes?
Is your heart beating out of your chest?
Yeah.
It's like really hurts.
Going for a run is really, really, really painful.
Yeah.
To your heart?
Just everywhere.
Oh, okay.
Because it's not something I've ever really done.
I've never been someone who does long distance of long distance running, never enjoyed it.
Didn't really think you're going to get hooked on it now.
I don't know if I'll become one of those people that gets hooked on it, because to me, it's
just more of a means to an end rather than something that I like.
Oh, I love it.
But when it's a bit muddy and you're running through the mud that's spraying up when you're
in a weather's miserable.
I quite like that.
Yeah, I really do.
Yeah.
But when it's in a beautiful day, I kind of feel like, well, this could have been a pleasant
walk, but instead I just wish I was dead.
That's how it feels.
Do you like stomping through the...
The more miserable it is, the more gratifying it is to be out running in it, because you
feel like a hard man on one of those SAS shows.
Right.
I see.
Your steam's coming off you. Feels manly and of those SAS shows. Right, I see. You're like, steam's coming off you.
Feels manly and outdoorsman-like.
Right, you feel like you're jumping out of a helicopter in combat.
Yeah, yeah.
Except you're running through a muddy park.
Agent B-Flax, we're gonna have to drop you a cake. One click outside the landing zone.
One cake. After you're done.
One cake outside. They'll follow the string of cakes to the target. We know that we have to keep you topped up with cake.
Well, we know when you get in too in shape.
That would get me going for sure.
You blow your cover and it's like, you know, just an average dad.
You know, you have to keep that bod.
Oh my goodness.
Have you guys played Monster Hunter Wilds?
Don't ask me why I'm at it.
No, not my kind of game.
No, me neither. I've never played one before and I've watched a couple of people playing it just to
get an idea for it or whatever. I probably still won't play it. It just doesn't appeal. I don't
know. I think I just missed the whole...
That's not for me.
Yeah.
Well, no, I enjoyed the last one. And the thing is, I tell you why I didn't enjoy the last one. I didn't enjoy the last one. Not because I'm a vegan or anything and killing
animals is horrible to me. But I didn't like it because it's one of these games where I wanted to,
I think the weapon I picked was like hammer or greatsword or something like, something really
slow. And I found that like, I would swing my sword and the monster would be like, next week, when my hit would land. You know,
it was so difficult to land the hits, because it was real, like, kind of a timing skill
based... It was a game that was on purpose slow. Like, you're supposed to sort of predict
where the enemy's gonna go, or work with a partner who stuns them, and then you come
in with your mega hammer and clonk
them for a million damage in the head, you know.
Right. Yeah.
But I just found it... I found it difficult to... I think some of these games are just
better with friends and I don't have friends. I think that's the issue.
That's sad.
When I come home in the evening, like, you know, the times I have available, you know,
cause I tend to like...
I come home in the evening,. I got nothing to play.
I got the friends on steam.
Oh baby, feel in the same way.
Oh, exactly.
It's more, I was thinking about this the other day, right?
Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Do we really want to do video game chat for another minute?
No, he's talking about having no friends now.
So it's-
I'm, I'm-
That's a topic I want to hear more about.
Every day, every day, I come in and I hang out with my friends. We play games, we record
podcasts, we chat and we socialise and all this, right? By the end of the day, I'm normally like,
tired out from socialising.
Your social batteries run out.
Yeah. And I often, sometimes I get ho, I sit at the sofa and I like fall asleep a little
bit or doze off. And then I'm like, it's only like seven o'clock at this point, you know,
and I get up and I'm like, oh God, I have to make something to eat. So then I, you know,
I'll cook something easy, like make a curry or pasta or something, you know, cause I can't
be fucked to do anything that requires any kind of effort. Even like putting the air
fryer on is too much effort. I'll just boil something or microwave it.
What do you mean you'll just boil something? What does that mean?
I'll boil some pasta or I'll...
What are you putting on the pasta? Give me...
Like a jar of...
Lulu, Lulu, give me your store cupboard pasta. Like what are you doing? What pasta dish are
you making with your store cupboard stuff? If you're lippy or lazy.
I've got like this corn or rice corn or rice, fusilli or whatever.
It's like gluten free gluten free pasta.
Do you need gluten free or is that the partner?
Uh, that's partner.
So, you know, it's, it's, it's just the same though.
It doesn't really make a difference.
It just costs a pound more or whatever.
Um, and just put that on, put that in a pan that takes like seven minutes.
So they take, they take an ingredient out and they charge you
more? That's crazy.
Bit of salt and pepper, bit of flora, buttery on there, just a little bit, just to make
it nice. Just a little bit. And then I've got kimchi, I've got some beetroot, it's called
like, it's like Vadas brand beetroot kimchi and they have regular kimchi, so it's quite nice, quite healthy. And then I have a little bit of greens on
there, like a little bit of salad-y bits and Mr. Organic tofu ragu or something like a
little jar of pasta sauce.
May I interject?
Go for it.
This is why you don't give a shit about cooking.
It's delicious and easy.
Because at the end of it, the only thing you have to show for it is the most miserable,
sad, flavourless bland
meal that it's possible for a human being to construct.
For me it's about getting, ticking off the healthy things though.
I wanna keep my immune system going, I wanna like feel like I'm good.
He eats to live, he doesn't live to eat.
For dinner I enjoyed an apple peel, which is very high in in fiber,
the medium and carbonate.
Very important.
I also then run my teeth down a piece of wood to get some wood shavings in my mouth.
Water that has been boiled thrice and they'd be all sun to soak up cosmic rays.
Go have organic.
And then I also infuse shake hands with a mouse and apologize for humanity's ills.
Lewis, I know where you're coming from though.
Okay, here's the other option.
Just whack on a bacon sardine, mate, and a little couple sausages or treat yourself
loved.
You know, you've got to live a little, right?
You ain't gonna last forever.
Like, whack it down with a few pints of Guinness.
Oh, lovely.
That's a meal in itself, them two pints.
Don't need nothing else.
I just want to say, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to do that pints of Guinness. Oh, lovely. That's
a meal in itself, them two pints, don't need nothing else.
I just want to get it over with. I don't want to spend time cooking. I don't even really
want to spend time eating.
Oh my God.
You have been posting, I saw you posted a picture of a paella that you cooked the other day.
Oh, my paella, yeah.
What about it?
Paella, sorry.
A paella.
Did I tell you about that?
Actually, I cooked it at the weekend, so I didn't tell you about it.
I was determined to cook every week one big dish that I hadn't really cooked much before.
To challenge myself.
To mix up the older dinners.
I think I talked about this previously, where it's like, you get into this habit of the same thing, the same thing. So I did a paella at the weekend and it was a
seafood paella. And there's a very famous, locally famous fishmongers called Sandys in
Twickenham, which is excellent. And I went in there and I bought prawns, I bought squid,
and I bought mussels and brought them home. And the lad, when he gives me, he bought
a kilogram bag of mussels in a net.
They're alive.
They're living mussels.
He cuts a hole in the bag.
He says that's so they can breathe.
You've got to keep it open so they can breathe.
I was like, OK, I get home.
I had, in classic period flax fashion, I bumbled into this like a moron, hadn't looked up how
you're meant to look after mussels.
And what you're meant to do is take them out of any plastic and sort of put them in a bowl, or preferably sort of what I did, lay them out
on a tray and cover them with like a wet bit of kitchen paper or something so they can
breathe and they don't get too dry. I just left them in the bag thinking, well there's
a hole in it, that's what the lad said.
And I'm gonna eat them in like fucking two hours anyway, who cares? Like how fucking
dry are they gonna get?
No, it's not even about that, They die. And they die quite quickly.
Well yeah, then you're gonna kill them in two hours, so who cares?
No.
Like what's the fucking problem then, honestly?
So the problem is that they have an enzyme in them that when they die, they break down
and go bad very quickly. And you can get really bad food poisoning. And shellfish food poisoning,
you never wanna go there. It's really bad.
Within like, fucking, within two hours?
Yeah, it's gotta be fresh.
You cannot cook any dead mussels.
I don't think, I mean, I understand if you're leaving them in the fridge overnight and they're
dead or whatever, but like, you know, I think if you're cooking them...
No, it's not okay.
Brother, I'm telling you.
Really.
You have to kill them seconds before you eat them.
Yes.
And what you do is, so we checked and they were all dead. So I put the pie off
till Sunday. How did you check they were all dead? Because they're open. And when you tap
them, they don't close. Oh, so what you do is we bought the muscles. This time I looked
after him on Sunday. I looked after him. And then me and my eldest, we got the muscles
and you look at each individual one. If it's closed, you put it in the OK bowl. You're like, that's fine. If it's open at all, you tap it and it closes like literally
slowly closes like a Venus fly trap like like that. If it doesn't close or it's broken,
you toss it. And then when you cook, you only cook them for like six minutes, five, six
minutes. You just sort of put them in a pan with boiling with a little bit of boiling
water in the bulk and they steamed. And when they open up, they die, they open up, you can eat them. If they don't open up, you toss them.
And that's how you do the mussels. So, I'd never done that before, learned something
about that. And it was delicious. The paella was delicious.
Mason- I did see on the end, there was a Kurtzgesagt video about meat this week.
Jason- Yeah, I saw it. Yeah.
Mason- I think it was, they have a very good attitude towards these things. They did a video on how good milk was recently, which I disagreed with, but...
They...
Like, nutritionally, or to use in stuff.
I think milk is... they consider milk to be an important way to feed the amount of people
we have on the planet, and it's a good source of people for who...
Well, certainly babies and stuff, yeah.
But, I mean...
Yeah, I think it's more developing countries where they don't have access to resources
like protein, easy protein, stuff like this.
Anyway, they did this great video on where your meat comes from, because there is this
great problem in animal society, which is we all love animals, but we don't love...
We keep quiet how we get to... they get to be on our plate.
And they actually mentioned muscles at the end of it.
And he was like, muscles are basically a plant, so go fucking ham and eat them.
Yeah, no.
My kids were like, oh I feel bad.
Because when you tap them and they move, it feels like it's a living thing.
Which it is.
But equally, there's no consciousness
to a muscle.
I think they're like a mushroom.
I mean, it's literally just a tiny little muscle. Literally a little muscle-y thing
that just opens and closes a shell. There's no intelligence, there's nothing. It's literally
the same as, to me, it's the same as eating a plant. It has no senses, it has nothing.
It's just like a big chemical reaction. Which you could say all life is a chemical reaction, but some of it is a sort of a chemical
electrical reaction that leads to something like a consciousness.
Muscles ain't got a consciousness, come on.
It's a muscle.
ALICE Yeah, they're very...
It's a heck of a lot of justification.
ALICE No, they're such primitive lifeforms.
ALICE No, it's interesting to know this, right?
Because you know, it is interesting. Like,
I'm vegan, obviously, but at the same time, I'm one of these people who is reasonable
about it, right? Like, if there's a chicken and it's produced some eggs, and I can see
the chicken and it's literally like, I'm cooking an egg that's 10 metres away from me.
And it's crying its eyes out, my babies!
My egg! Yeah. Like, that's not a problem, okay?
Like, I think that all rational people should agree that if that egg was going into the
bin...
Yeah.
It's better to eat it.
It would just be going into the bin.
Or, you know, it was being transported across the planet, you know, in a jet plane.
Ugh.
It's not the same.
And I'm not saying that, like that there isn't an argument that me
eating an egg means I might get a taste for eggs or be giving other people saying that
eggs are okay, that leads to them eating an egg and who knows what the ramifications are.
But I think that I try and be reasonable. And I think when it's, you know, it does a
kind of muscle feel pain. I mean, obviously yours can when you go for a run, P-Flex.
And I think it's interesting to...
The thing is, you often, we, especially today, so much of our information comes to us in
dribs and drabs, in bits and bobs, like, you know, I'll be told hundreds of different facts
today and I won't be able to check every single one.
And some of them, I like the idea idea of and I'll just believe them.
And I think this is why misinformation is such a problem and I think even the people
who are running the world are surrounded by this.
Where they've seen a little thing on Twitter, they've seen a little factoid or someone's
mentioned something to them, they've taken it at face value and that's now part of how
they see the world.
Right? And that's now part of how they see the world. Do you mean like, for example, the current flavour of the month opinion that Ukraine started
the war with Russia?
That kind of thing.
Precisely.
Stuff like this.
You can see how these things...
But actually that's obviously a big one that feels like it's more counterable.
Well maybe they shouldn't have elected a dictator.
I'm more talking about all the tiny misinformation that leads to that being the case.
All the tiny little things where it's like, they provoked him and blah blah blah blah
and all of the reasons why someone might fall for a bigger lie.
It's the mini lies that provide the groundwork to the big guy.
Death by a thousand cunts. That's how we're all gonna go, guys. So, anyway, I feel like,
I never liked mussels, because I remember I had to go through a fucking French trip
one time, and for some reason my parents had encouraged me to
put my lunch choices muscles. Thinkers say, oh you love muscles! Everyone else had all
the chips and a burger.
That's such a parents thing to do.
And I had turned up, you know, at this fucking French restaurant and had to have muscles
while everyone else was... And I hated it. I absolutely hated those disgusting chewy
nodules. And, you know, I haven't had them in four years.
They shouldn't be chewy. Nodules is a good word. They shouldn't be chewy.
But the Kurtzgesagt video made me think, oh, maybe I should give them another go. But I
haven't done my research. Do you know what I mean? Kurtzgesagt have lied to me before.
And they're not the fucking, you know, bastions of integrity that they purport to be, quite
frankly.
I can't... Goodness me, shots fired.
When people talk about seafood, I'm always, I know I've said this before, I'm going to
say it again and, and it's so off putting to me, but anytime anyone mentions seafood,
I think of Mr. Bean getting sick in that hotel after he eats the seafood at the buffet, you
know, when he's trying to one up the other guy.
Yeah. eats the seafood at the buffet, you know, when he's trying to one up the other guy.
And he realizes too late that he's eaten all those bad clams or whatever and he's sick in the hotel. And every time seafood is mentioned, I think of that scene where he's laying in bed and he's got
up like fucking boxes of tissues and like Pepto Bismol bottles like next to his bed. I just think,
oh God. My partner called me Mr Bean the other day, honestly.
She was like, I think I came home carrying something awkwardly or whatever and I came
in and I was like, oh hello, and I went to give her a hug.
Hello.
And she was like, this is the most, like, awkward...
That's like one of those TikTok, the new ick unlocked trend is, partner resembles Mr. Bean
for a moment.
You know when he goes to the doctor's office and he goes up to the reception and she's
like, name please, Bean.
Yeah, that's great.
I love it.
It's so, it's kind of so, because he doesn't speak much, it really has translated to every country in the world.
It's very clever.
It's like Benny Hill used to, right?
It's like a lot of Benny Hill was very popular outside Britain, for some reason, I don't
know why, but you know those slightly sped up chases, the Benny Hill chases?
Yeah.
Where some girl's bra would come off and she'd be like, oh, and he's running around like
a pervert and then he slaps that old man on the head, like really fast. Very, very popular on the content.
Love Benny Hill. Yeah, of course.
Yeah. It's universally, it's very easy, right? Cause the most of the humor doesn't come from
any kind of, it's a physical, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I always thought Benny Hill must have been a bad guy, but apparently he wasn't.
I can't find-
No, I think he was a bad guy.
You think he was?
I think he was. I've definitely heard terrible things about it.
You've heard of Benny Hill?
Serial womanizer, as far as I can recall. Absolutely. Yeah.
Not another one.
I've got no backing for that.
But I've definitely... Right in.
Yeah, tell us if you got any experiences with Benny Hill being a pervert.
Massive perv.
I'm sure he was.
But Joe, I'm happy to be wrong.
If you write in.
Do you want to hear his personal life?
Oh, got it, yeah.
Benny Hill was noted for his frugality.
He never owned his home in London and preferred to rent a flat rather than buy one.
He rented a double room apartment on London's Queensgate for 26 years,
until 1986 when he moved to Fairwater House in Teddington, not far from me.
While looking for somewhere to live, he briefly stayed in Southampton.
Despite being a multi-millionaire,
he continued with the frugal habits he picked up from his parents,
such as buying cheap food at supermarkets,
walking for miles rather than paying for a taxi
unless someone picked up the tab for a limousine,
and regularly patching and mending the same clothes.
He never owned a car.
He never married. He had no children.
He proposed to three women, but none accepted.
What is this before or after fame?
When famous.
Really? Wow.
He spent a lot of time in France.
He spoke fluent French.
And when he died, he had his estate was equivalent to in 2023,
equivalent to 20 million pounds.
Geez. So he was just a stingy bastard. But who do you leave his money to? His estate was equivalent to, in 2023, equivalent to 20 million pounds. Jeez.
So he was just a stingy bastard.
Who did he leave his money to?
So in his will he left it to his parents, oddly enough.
Oh, wow.
But in the end it was divided amongst his seven nieces and nephews.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah.
Well, they got a windfall.
Yeah.
So that's, well, you know, stay in touch with the distant branch of the family, or not.
Yeah. Just hope it waits for them to die.
During the night of October 4th, 1992, following speculation that he had been buried with a
large amount of gold and jewellery, grave robbers exhumed and broke open his coffin.
It was reburied and covered with a thick concrete slab.
Oh my god.
Pearl Benny.
Gotta say, you know, that's a profession you don't hear much these days.
You gotta be fucking...
Grave robber.
Insane to open a casket that's been under the ground for any period of time.
Like you really have to be...
Yeah.
I mean I'm complaining about, you know, leaving muscles in the fridge for two hours.
You know, imagine what it's like if someone's been dead under there for fucking serious
weeks. Oh my god. Even just for a couple of days. Like, God, what are you doing? Well,
that's why, you know, that's why some people don't make it as a grave robber and some do.
That's a part of the business. I wonder if there's a, I wonder if there is like a, like
a story of like the greatest grave robber that ever, you know, there's always, there's
always someone who's like been very good at something, right?
But like...
Mucky Daniels he was called.
Yeah, you never hear about...
Seven foot tall, as strong as an ox.
And he had no nose.
How did he smell, father?
Terrible!
No, but seriously, he had no nose.
He couldn't smell.
He broke open their graves.
That is actually like a kind of secret superpower though, of a lot of these jobs. You hear about
someone who's like, how did you get into this fucking weird thing? And it's like, oh well,
I can't fucking smell. And it's like, okay, Joel, that explains why you were able to pull
it off.
Yeah. I think it's called anosmia.
Yes. You've got to lean into your hidden talents.
Yeah, anosmia means you've lost your sense of smell.
It's not one that you'd see on Britain's Got Talent, is it?
The lack of a smell.
But consider it a talent.
Oh, I've seen one of my least favourite words in the description of what anosmia is.
The word polyps has popped up.
I hate the word polyps.
Yeah, polyps is a nasty one.
Polyps.
Yeah, it's very fungal, isn't it?
Of all the awful ways to make money, Grave Robbins got to be up there as one of the worst.
Grave Robbins is pretty bad.
But then again in a video game, you're fucking digging up those graves left, right and center.
You can't fucking stop yourself.
Anytime you see a mound of dirt.
I'm doing stuff in video games that I would never do in real life.
I'm renovating a house, I'm mowing lawns, I'm fishing.
I wouldn't do any of this stuff in real life.
I'd only do it in a video game.
Like, you know, it's a fantasy escape.
So yeah, of course you're gonna dig up a couple of graves and run over a couple of grandmas
with your car and stuff like that, you know.
It's an outlet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is funny how-
You can clean a whole house in a video game.
I'd never do that in real life. Yeah. It is funny how- You can clean a whole house in a video game. Grave robbing is-
I've never done that in real life.
It's one of those-
I ain't cleaning shit!
It's absolutely awful what you think about it in real life, but video gaming has kind
of, not normalized these things, but it's just a trope, you know, in video games.
It's almost like a, you can grave robber is like a cool class to play as in your game.
In most games you will rob a grave.
There's very few that exist where there isn't at some point...
You might get a disease for doing it, do you know what I mean?
There might be some sort of debuff associated with it.
I always hate in Dungeons and Dragons and stuff, poison with disease.
And it's always getting the cure for it, it's like, you will need to find the Diamond of Numenor, take it to the sage known as Clovis,
and have him create the remedy for a thousand gold pieces.
Oh, fuck off, dude.
I just, you said, do you want to check,
text the door? It's another potion that said,
you're a hero, you appear to have 725 health potions.
I'm saving them for later, just in case.
I always, I end every fucking game 25 health potions. I'm saving them for later. Just a case.
Always. I end every game where there's potions with so many potions.
What? You haven't used a single one of your explosive potions.
No, funny that for the most boring item in any game ever,
the explosive potion,
like everybody finishes the game with
like 20 of them. Never used because you know, you get a sword or something and say, just use that.
You know what I was, I was watching something the other day about that, like the early days of
Dungeons and Dragons and stuff like that. And the guys that, that obviously came up with it,
probably like young college age guys. It was the 60s or 70s,
I can't remember whether it was late 60s or early 70s. I think it was 70s. And they sort of started
coming up with these role-playing games. I always thought it was funny that, obviously,
when it comes to wizards, why do wizards in D&D and stuff pretty much always, classically,
are these weak, very smart, but physically completely useless people.
Yes.
Because Gandalf certainly wasn't that in Lord of the Rings, and he's like the archetypal
fantasy wizard.
Well, he's old though.
I mean, he is old, and I think there's a frailness about him.
Yes, he can fight with his sword and stuff.
He swings a sword, rides around on a horse, he defeats a Balrog, and? And he ain't he ain't like in like decrepit.
They never like Gandalf was lagging behind again.
Come on, Master Gandalf.
Christ, we're trying to get there today.
Please be so fucked up if he was like really young, but super wise as well.
But nobody took him seriously.
Why is it like 13 years old and is, you know, he hadn't quite hit pure.
He was just like, you mean like starting't quite hit puberty, he was just like starting puberty.
A little bit like Harry Potter, but imagine he had like the stature of Gandalf, you know?
So he's a big lad.
He's no, he's not.
He's a small child, but he's like super wise and super powerful, okay?
And expects people to sort of follow along with him because he's so wise, but nobody
takes him seriously. Is that basically Harry Potter?
I don't know. I don't really care for Harry Potter. I've seen a couple of the movies.
That's it.
JK Rowling, the super yacht was in Jersey the other day. Oh yeah. We had a bomb scare
at the airport yesterday. I tell you what this fucking this whole world is crashing
and burning. Like I've never known anything like it. Now this whole world is crashing and burning. Like, I've never known anything like it.
Now he says it's crashing and burning.
Man.
Okay, there was a bomb scare at Jersey airport.
Tell me more.
There was a bomb scare at my local airport, okay?
I'm sure you can give me this.
Like that's pretty scary.
It was closed for like an hour.
Wow!
Gosh, that is...
Shut it down!
They had to make sure that there was no bomb.
It was an actual full- on bomb threat at the airport.
It's not, not just a time waster.
Well, I think it was a time waster.
Yeah.
I don't think there was a bomb up there.
Not sure I trust the people here to actually even find the bomb.
And if they did find the bomb, defuse that shit either.
What do you mean you don't trust the Jersey people?
You're one of them.
Yeah, but there's like eight people on the island, dude.
I mean, what are the challenges?
And one of them is going to be a bomb disposal.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
So there is that about it too.
But what do you...
You've got, you've got like the loads of people go off to Jersey
and you've probably got better.
They don't. It's mainly old Germans these days.
That's it. Really?
Yeah, they love coming here for some reason. I don't know why.
We love Jersey. We were so close to Operation Sea Lion.
Yes. And Invading Britain was as close as we got.
So it's just nice to think what might have been.
It is. It's so nice to think how close we were to Invading.
We were this close. this close, almost hours.
Back in the good old days.
We could reach out and touch it, set ourselves closer.
Oh, man.
Anyway, I think a bunch of them got delayed going home
because of the bomb threat.
So have you seen that old?
It's ironic, isn't it?
That old comedian, that German comedian
get in the crowd to like do like a call and response thing where he says something and
they respond. He says something, they respond. And when he says Sieg, they all say, hi, and
he's like, whoa.
Yeah. It's like an automatic response for this generation of people. Well, there's this
thing where, you know, if you're having a chat with people of a certain age or having people around, playing music from their 20s
really is kind of very stimulating. I saw, I read this as well.
Your 20s are the era where you most remember stuff. And it's very common to have memories of those times triggered. But also, I think if you have been
to a lot of these parties or rallies in the 20s, sorry, in a certain era, because he didn't
just have one call. It wasn't like Seekile was the only one. There were a ton of them
that he went through and he kind of primed them to quickly...
Do you think he did like the Will Smith, Carlton or no? Sorry the Will Smith DJ jazzy Jeff
Super handshake as well with a couple of his like top brass
They would smack hands yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure that
Hitler and DJ jazzy Jeff have a lot in common
Yeah, no, you never know. Well, what if it came out that Carlton was a Nazi?
They did an episode of Who Do You Think You Are on Carlton Banks and it turns out that
he had roots as a... he had some roots dating back in Nazism.
Damn.
What are you talking about?
Nothing.
We're just talking bollocks.
Carry on.
So, where was I?
I don't know actually.
I've forgotten. Sorry, Lulu. I'm coming? I don't know. Actually, I forgot.
Sorry, Lulu.
I'm coming down to Bristol in a few weeks, Lulu.
Yes.
I've booked in, we booked in a recording for a games night.
Which is exciting.
I love a games night.
What are you doing while you're there?
Just visiting.
Um, I like to come down and, uh, and check in every, uh, few months, see everybody, go
out for some drinks, uh, record some stuff, have some fun. Every now and then. Go out for dinner with Lulu. You know, just, uh, see everybody, go out for some drinks, record some stuff, have some
fun every now and then.
You know, just see everyone.
It's not far.
I love Bristol.
Love going out.
Good.
Always have a good night and got lots of friends in Bristol now.
So yeah, I love it.
I'm the opposite.
I got so many enemies in Bristol and I find as soon as I get off the plane, I'm just like
sort of like beating them all back with a stick.
Yeah.
So I don't go anymore.
Darius, get him!
Yeah.
They wait around with pitchforks and torches.
Yeah, and I gotta run away and sped up like Benny Hill style.
Benny Hill style.
What is it that you did?
What did you do that means that they hate you so?
I don't know, I think I'm just a really incredible guy.
Oh, I see.
You're just so incredible.
They hate me, they're jealous.
It infuriates them.
Yes. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, I'm just so're just so incredible. They hate me. They're jealous.
Infuriates them.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
I'm just so amazing, you know?
That's understandable.
Yeah.
That people would be jealous of your, you know, whatever the fuck you've got.
They see me rolling and they are hating all the time.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So that's why I don't go.
I played a few more games on Nextfest and the demos.
I played Blueprints, although it was amazing.
Yeah, you know what, when I was telling you about it the other day, I was like, it dawned
on me that the name of the game is called Blueprints and like, you know, there's Blueprints
in the game, you know?
Yes.
I didn't get it at first.
It did not click for me.
No, I didn't either.
But then I did and I was like, ah, great.
It's clever.
It's really clever.
Razor sharp, you like.
It's a cool game, isn't it?
It is a cool game.
It's cool.
I'm really excited for it, actually.
I'm not normally excited for games.
There's another good one that's, I think there's a...
I played the demo of it a couple of months ago called Hollywood Animal, which is like,
you run a, you run like a cinema empire sort of thing.
It's by the people who do This is the Police.
It's really cool though.
The demo's good and I think the game's coming out next month, so this is another one you
can check out if you're looking for.
Yeah, great recommendations.
I have been playing Football Manager, still.
And I have been watching Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and I've come up with a
Gordon Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares bingo. Do you want to hear it?
Yeah.
All right. So these are the things that, I guess when you watch a lot of episodes you
realise he says the same shit over and over again. A little bit like what we do on this
podcast.
Of course. I mean, you could easily do a bingo for us. So I've done bingo for one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23. 23 episodes we've done the bingo for.
And out of that 23, we've only achieved a full bingo one time.
Wow.
Bingo.
We just get so unlucky. So here's the bingo. I'll go top left and I'll read left to right. So, sort
of top left to top right and then second row and then third row and so on. So, one of the
top left is owner on the source mid shift.
Right.
Because quite often they'll be like drinking on the job.
The owner's drinking on the job. Well, it's a common kitchen thing, isn't it? That the
owner would be like doing some drugs or something.
Just well, you can't help it.
Yeah.
Walk-in fridge freezer should be condemned.
That's every episode, basically.
So, you'd be surprised.
It's not every episode.
Slimy chicken found in the fridge that was like three years old.
But you think that's every episode.
It's not.
A waitress cries after being berated by the owner.
Okay, that's like every single episode.
It happens quite consistently.
Shouting match in the middle of service happens a lot.
Every episode.
Owner says, our customers love our food.
That is a very common square.
Yeah.
Gordon Ramsey says, blow smoke up someone's ass.
Because I'm not going to sit here and blow smoke up your ass.
He says that all the time. Everything is frozen and reheated. Very common. The owner or chef backs their food.
They normally say, I back our food. They always say that. Someone storms out citing, I can't take
this abuse. One staff member can cook, but is unappreciated. Oh, someone tries to fight Gordon or threatens him.
The chef microwaves everything.
Gordon says, fuck me, which happens a lot.
That's going to happen.
That's our free square in the middle.
That is our free square in the middle.
The one next to that is cleavage, cleavage, cleavage.
And when you watch the American version of the show, the editors and the camera
people pan slightly slower over a pair of bazooms and then to a face. Like, they love getting cleavage shots in the show.
Really?
Yes. You notice it. We've watched so many episodes now that we've started noticing.
That must be a conscious editing choice.
Of course.
Honestly, they must say the people will actively enjoy this more if we sneak in little fucking
cleavage shots.
Yes, of course. Of course. 100%.
That's so cynical.
I hate it.
I fucking hate that.
I love it.
Oh my god.
Anyway, so the next one is simple two word phrase, fresh frozen, which is something that
comes up a lot.
Fresh frozen?
What do you mean?
Well, exactly.
What does that mean?
It means that they're getting frozen shit in or worse, and they do this a surprising
amount, literally making
something and using it for the whole week.
So they'll sort of...
I mean, pasta is a big one.
You'll get these restaurants that are supposedly Italian restaurants, and they've got bags
and bags and bags of frozen pasta.
Or frozen meat...
frozen pasta.
It's a star shit.
It takes like seconds to make pasta fresh.
It's already been boiled and then they just...
No, no, like they've made fresh pasta.
Oh, right. And then they freeze it.
Instead of cooking it that day, they freeze it.
And then it just sits there and they'll like, he'll say,
are these clams fresh? And they'll be like, yeah, they're fresh. They're fresh today.
And then the waitress will be like, no, actually they're frozen.
He's like, so it's not frozen. He goes, yeah, it's fresh frozen.
Because what does that mean? He's like, why is it fresh?
And we froze it. So it's fresh frozen. And then when we use it, it's still fresh. And he's like, no, that's fresh frozen. Because what does that mean? He's like, why is it fresh? And we froze it. So it's fresh frozen.
And then when we use it, it's still fresh.
And he's like, no, that's not how that works.
So fresh frozen.
The next one is family business, but family is cursed.
So that happens a lot.
That happens a lot.
That's the whole question.
What do you mean?
What I mean is, like, there was an episode we watched the other day, the dad inherited
a lot of money from his father,
at $250,000. And his son also received $250,000. But the dad took the son's $250,000 and put
it into the restaurant. So he stole his son's inheritance. That is a cursed family. So here's
another one. Shut it down. Shut it down before someone dies. Which is a phrase you hear quite often.
Yeah.
The decor is horribly dated and or dirty, which happens a lot.
I find that when they spruce it up, it still looks dated, though.
Yeah. I mean, a lot of these were mid 2000s.
Yeah.
Mountains of debt exceed 50,000.
So sometimes they'll be like, how much you win the whole for?
And there'll be like two point three million. You're like, what? It's crazy. Flies or other pests? Clearly visible.
So we've had a pigeon in one episode and every time there's a fly, the Foley artists on the
show add little noises. It's so good. Like when Gordon is pulling apart some horribly
rotten piece of chicken, they'll
add like goopy noises over the top.
The foley work on that show is so good.
So bottom left, chefs have absolutely no idea how to cook even basic meals.
Happens a surprising amount.
Like they can't even fucking cook pasta.
It's incredible.
Owners berate customers unfairly.
That is one of my favorites.
We had one where the guy literally calls the you motherfucker get out of my
restaurant. And all the guy had said was, sorry, we've been waiting an hour
and a half for our food.
I like threats to fight him because we're motherfuckers.
Three, three left.
Server gleefully spills the beans on the parlous state of affairs in the eatery.
So quite often, first of all, they always refer to it as an eatery, which is not a thing you hear outside the US. But one of the servers will be like,
Gordon will be saying, is this fresh? And she'll be like, no, it's frozen and it's awful.
I wouldn't eat it. And then she's like grinning because finally someone's here to hear their
complaints about this shitty place. That's always funny. Menu resembles a phone book.
Thought that was going to be a free square. You'd be surprised. It doesn't come up that often, but sometimes it does, and the menu is like
eight pages long. And the last, and we almost always get this one, it's raw! That's another
one that's basically a free square. And that's the bingo.
ALICE It is a great show though. if it's on I watch it. I am always stunned when they're putting stuff out raw and it's really, I guess like, I think,
what, is it just because of the rush? Is that it? It's like, they haven't got time to cook
it through properly. But I would be so proud, I would think everything would be overcooked.
I'm an overcooker.
Right. I mean, especially if you're cooking for people, you would be more worried about
making them sick, because that's where you get things like lawsuits and stuff like that.
Everything I cook is cooked into oblivion.
Right.
If the option was, you know, cook it quicker, but make people sicker, I would not do that.
Cook it longer, but the meat becomes stronger.
You know what I mean?
So, I don't know what I'm doing here, but anyway, the theme of Kitchen Nightmares, when it
comes to the people that come to Gordon, first of all, he has about a one in six success
rate returning places around.
So the soon as the episode is finished, we look up what happened next, almost always
close within five to six months.
Almost always.
Because there's fundamental problems.
The episode doesn't go out in time though, does it?
No, no, no.
I'm talking about between them filming, the episode... and, you know,
obviously you probably wouldn't want the episode to go out because you're trying to relaunch
and you're going to look like absolute cunts when this episode comes out. Like almost always,
these owners are such awful, awful human beings that if the episode went out immediately,
they'd be even more fucked, because everyone would be like,
I'm not going to that fucking restaurant.
That guy's insane.
I see.
So it kind of gives them a chance.
But it's always it always fails because they are extremely stuck in their ways.
They've got this stupid idea that they know what good food is
and they know how to run a restaurant.
But these people have clearly never eaten good food.
Like, if you'd only ever eaten bad food, you'd think bad food was good.
I'm in that. I'm there.
It is so common, though, that people are not fussy as well, and also they tell someone,
oh grandma, your food is so amazing! Oh, it's so great! Because what's the point in lying?
You don't want to upset your grandma or your mum or anyone, right?
And so they get this false idea that they're brilliant fucking cooks somehow.
And they get this delusion that's kind of come because everyone who's eaten my ribs
says they're the best ribs.
It's like, well, but...
Does that scale up to a business?
Probably not.
Exactly.
And sometimes it does.
Like some of these guys, dude, they have no inventory management and they're like, I'm
at this restaurant 10 hours, 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
And then you look in the fridge and there's just, sometimes it's just bag after bag after
bag of frozen chicken breast.
And it's like, they just keep ordering it in and they keep ordering it in.
They've got no point of sale, like tracking of inventory or what's the most popular dishes. They're so reluctant
to change and genuinely, they just don't know what they're doing. And then a lot of time
they're just not very smart.
I've done that though. Like on a cardo, sometimes you just, they're like, oh, do you need more
of this? And I'm like, probably. I ended up with like fucking 16 bottles of toilet duck or something.
We do that as well.
It happens, right? You can't... But yeah, I think when you're running a business you can't have like...
Yeah, you're running a business. Because the chef in the kitchen should know, you know,
what is important here? What do we need? What are we low on? And instead it's just like,
they literally don't know. It's crazy. It is really crazy. But fun to watch. I mean, it's just such a
fun show. To see Gordon go in. Apparently he quit because he just realised it was not
making any difference. Like it was just literally not making a difference.
Well, I think he done so many. There's hundreds of episodes.
Yeah, dude. He has made so much money from it.
Well, really?
Yeah!
Oh, God.
But like, dealing with it, it was basically kind of, it's Jerry Springer style TV, really,
isn't it?
Like, a lot of it.
It's just so good.
It's just such a fun show.
The funniest thing to me is the difference between the UK version and the American version.
First of all, the UK version barely has any music in it.
The American version, there is music continually.
And they use this instrument called, I think it's called a water phone.
It's like a ball or something.
And it makes this weird sort of like, mew mew, sort of sound.
I can't really replicate it.
Imagine if in a horror movie someone gets a creepy feeling behind them.
It's sort of almost a wincing sound.
I don't know how to put it.
Yeah.
But that comes up every single episode
like continually.
All the time. It's like a cue, a musical cue that signifies awkward interaction.
Oh yeah, exactly.
They have, like someone comes into a restaurant, they say something awkward, they edit in this
like awkward silence and they put that cue over it.
Because they can completely fake all this, whatever they
want. The interactions that they can construct, the tone they're looking for, which is, you
know...
But it also makes it very stupid, watchable telly. And even though afterwards most people
were like, oh my god, that episode was so unfair, they edited it this way, that way.
They did get you on camera calling the customer a motherfucker. Like you can't complain about the editing.
That's just you being a cock, which is funny.
But yeah, it's the editing is is is nuts how they do it.
And I love it.
But the UK version, it's so simple.
It's like silent, which makes it even more awkward when he's yelling at them.
There's no music. There's no cutaways.
Yeah. Single camera panning between Gordon and these gormless English chefs looking lost. And he's going, you don't know how to fry
a fucking egg. And it comes to some 15 year old kid who's just looks like he'd rather be in prison
than here in this kitchen with Gordon. Production is very different, isn't it? Like across.
It really is. I've been watching the US traders where the production is actually identical.
I hated that version.
The US version.
They were such unpleasant people.
They were like, I came to win.
They are.
It's crazy.
In the tasks, the contrast between the UK one and the American one, if there's a task
and they have a chance to win a shield, none of them will do anything except just go for the shield for themselves.
Yeah. They see it like a game.
Yeah. Well, I mean, I suppose it is a game.
So they, you know, and, but the thing is, as well, the American one is all people that have been on
other reality game shows. Oh yeah.
It's not like the UK one is just, you know, people from the public, whereas, yeah, it's a celebrity one, I guess,
if you want to say that.
The American one.
But it's all people that have been on Survivor, Big Brother...
ALICE You're already dealing with pre-selected sociopaths.
Yeah.
ALICE It's people that have been on these reality game shows before.
MIGUEL It's people who understand...
But then again, I think it's very quickly what happens is if
you notice one or two people being that every man for themself attitude, it warps the entire
group very quickly. And everyone behaves in a similar way. They can't help themselves.
If it's the normal thing in the group to be jealous and generous and forgiving and accommodating
and looking after, then that's what the bulk
will lead to. All it takes is for the majority to be arseholes, for everyone to be everyman
for himself.
It's like a zero-sum game at that point, right? There's no value in not being an arsehole.
Yeah. Exactly. You might as well just... Because also there's no penalty for not. The only
penalty is you losing.
I was on another podcast, sorry, I know.
What the fuck, you cheated on me.
I was a guest on another...
Let's shout it out.
It's like a game show though.
The Joe Rogan experience.
No, no.
It's called SideQuest, and I just want to tell you guys about it, because it was really
cool and I had a lot of fun on it, and I just wanted to do a shout out to SideQuest.
It's by Bear Taffy, who's a friend of mine and a couple of other people that stream and
that I'm friends with as well.
So the whole thing is you've got a group of three and he's done it like in season.
So for us it was season two, episode five.
There's two other people
that I didn't know that I met.
They're just, you know, streamers, podcasters, whatever.
And so the idea is that you get a list of quests that you need to complete and you have
to try to complete them all within, you know, a certain amount of time against, you know,
all the other teams that have been before you sort of thing.
In real life. No, it's not real life. It's like, it's stuff that you do in games. So basically
you've got steam open, you get the list and then the countdown, uh, the countdown starts.
So you're like against the clock, but it'll be like fish up five fish. So you're like,
Oh, what game can I fish up five fish quickly in? But,
but you can't do another quest in the same game. So there's like 10 quests and, but you have to
be like, you got it. It's like testing your sort of, you know, um, yeah, very similar thing with
it, like a bingo a couple of times in the couple of years. That's a bingo. So there was a whole bunch of games that we were just like randomly installing.
Like I did Hydra near, I had Minecraft and I had a papers please to get,
there was the, there was a one where it was get a fine.
So I just went into papers, please.
I got a citation like as quickly as I could.
Nice.
That wasn't even my idea. Like chat can help you. So like, I was just, you papers, please. Got a citation like as quickly as I could. Nice.
That wasn't even my idea.
Like chat can help you.
So like, I was just, you know,
I was like trying to think like,
what the hell can I do?
And somebody was like, do papers, please.
You can get a citation.
I was like, yes, okay.
It's like a 200 meg game.
It installed immediately.
And then I was able to get it, but it was fun.
And we came in 10 seconds quicker than any other team. So we currently hold the record. Yeah, it was good. It was really fun. And we came in ten seconds quicker than any other team. So we currently hold the record.
Yeah, it was good. It was really fun. Really fun. Yeah.
Well, that kind of stuff is fun. Like doing these little challenges. I think you have
to make your own games around games. Sometimes. It's fun. Yeah, you can.
Yeah. Because sometimes I'm just not in the mood. Like yesterday I was just like, I think
I just couldn't...
Nothing's been grabbing me lately.
I need a game to really grab me.
Football manager.
Football manager.
I've been playing Victoria 3, but I've been just trying to do achievements.
So instead of just saying, instead of getting stuck into it and being like, I'm just gonna
do this whole huge massive campaign, I'm just cherry picking little achievements. So it's like,
create the Bolivian Peru Confederation. Okay. It took me like two hours, you know, just
balancing everything out and stuff. And then I got the achievement and then I just went and
did another one. So I've been, I've been kind of like you were saying, you know, it's like,
it's like making up games around a game, but I like Paradox Grand Strategy achievement hunting is quite fun because it just...
My friend Axel does that a lot.
He's got, I think every time, I think he's got every achievement in Hearts of Iron.
And every time a new DLC comes out, there's new achievements, so he has to do that.
Yeah.
I think it's a really fun way to play the game because it makes you try things that
you normally wouldn't, you know?
Sure.
So did they just leave you to it basically?
And you, the side quests?
Or you will chat with them as you were doing it?
No, well, Bear kind of like overseas.
So you send him a video feed and you say like, oh, I'm fishing now.
And he'll be like, yep, he caught one.
Yep, you got two.
And then, you know, he marks it off, you know?
Okay. He's like the maestro, you know, he marks it off, you know? Okay.
Yeah.
He's like, he's like the maestro, you know, he's keeping track of everything that's going
on and stuff.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then he's got to make decisions whether it counts or not, you know, a lot of reasoning
sometimes.
But it is a rip off of an idea that we've been doing for years.
Don't say that.
This guy's ripping off an idea.
So, so it's not, he's not, he's not.
Don't say that.
Is he giving credit to everyone else who came
for him? No, of course not. He doesn't even know. He just thinks he wants.
And I don't even think he was wearing his suit either, Lewis.
Well, that's what I'm saying. Maybe he should consider what he's doing.
Why are you sad about that? But Plopsaland lives on,
unmolested, playing the fucking diggy diggy hole song.
Yeah. Plopsaland.
Fucking. Did you know what?
He didn't even lawyer up to defend his honor. Yeah, he didn't do shit. And now someone's,
you can't steal a fucking format, by the way. Someone's taking a format and now you're like,
oh, I'm not saying that. Like, you know, it's just like, oh, you know, you had a great time.
Until you crunch, until you crunch down on Plopsaland, I've got no sympathy.
Well, also we're not doing it, are we? He's doing it. So, you know, I can't say anything.
Because if we cared about it so much, we'd be running it every week.
Exactly, brother.
But this guy's turned it into a successful format. He's getting
content creators like Sips in to do it and they're promoting it on their podcasts.
Good for him. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Let's go shout out to...
You didn't seem happy about it at the moment, I know.
I just, you changed my mind.
I'm willing to change my mind.
I've changed my mind and I'm fully spoiled.
What's the guy's name?
Let's shout him out.
Bear.
Bear Taffy.
Bear Taffy.
Sounds like a nice guy.
Probably is.
I'm sure.
He does stuff with Krendor as well.
Are you Krendor?
I love Krendor.
Where are you going?
He's a good lad.
Yeah. There you go, Lewis. Calm down.
Just calm down, mate. Geez.
I am calm. I haven't done a podcast with Hitler.
Okay.
Maybe you should.
Get on the fucking hook to a bandwagon and start becoming a right-winger.
There's a lot of money in that.
I'm going to start a side quest cryptocurrency.
Yeah, Sipscoin.
Yeah, there you go.
That sounds good.
Classic Sips rug pull.
In Jersey too, there's no taxes either, so you get even more.
Oh yeah, it's the perfect place.
Let's make Jersey great again with a rug pull.
Yes, let's make Jersey great again. With a rug pull. Yes, let's make Jersey great again. Good idea.
I'll get the hats printed immediately.
Oh my gosh. Well, thanks so much for listening, everybody.
It's been a podcast once again, and we'll see you next time.
All right. Goodbye. Goodbye.