Triforce! - Triforce! Mailbag Special #20: Lewis has been a little bit ~naughty~

Episode Date: September 20, 2023

Triforce Mailbag Special 20! We're still playing Baldur's Gate so here's a chunky mailbag about giant american cars, chemistry, Flax themed bathtime games and Lewis' addiction to ice cream! Go to http://expressvpn.com/triforce today and get an extra 3 months free on a 1-year package! Support your favourite podcast on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2SMnzk6 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickaxe. I'm very sorry. It's probably good. You would have gotten DMCA'd to heck. Did you see someone did an edit of the Mailbag intro song? I saw that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was really good. It was really, really good. Really good. Yeah. Hey, before we start, can I just say that after our session of Baldur's Gate 3, I've

gone on to play it on my own. I saw. Just to get to grips with the game and everything. And man, I'm having so much fun. It is great. It's a great game. It's genuinely one of the greatest games. It has to be, right?

It's just, it's so well done. It is amazing. It's so much fun. It's all the little details as well, like talking to people. So I want to talk about the playthrough last week that we started. A lot of your viewers didn't like the way I played it. And they said that we weren't letting you do whatever you wanted to do.

I feel like you read comments and take them to heart and do what they want. Whereas I read comments and it makes me want to do the opposite. I think both approaches are probably not great. I think that we had fun. All three of us had fun yeah it was fun

and but i think we we talked about it after and i think it'd be more fun uh for us to all have played the game right even a bit that that was the familiar things and then we can kind of um you know really treat it like a sandbox because like from from your guys point of view both of you played it. I've never played it. Right. And if, if,

if she was on the other foot for me, if I was playing with somebody who hadn't played it, I would be like, come on, let's just, you know, this leads nowhere or this does nothing. And I,

and I, I don't really care too much about your wonderment either. Let's, let's do stuff. Like I would be, I would be like that. And I, I,

I get it. So I'm not saying that you are like that in in a negative way because i i thought it was fine i thought you were fine i thought the the session we did was really fun um but i'm looking forward to doing another session when now that we've all played the game right right uh and then we can really just like screw around make you know characters and and try to do stuff that neither that none of us have done because the game is big enough there's so much content there's so many ways to to get through it and stuff that we will we we can just sort of try stuff we haven't done and get even more out

of the game absolutely you you should play it because for one thing you lose out on all the companion stuff and all the rest of it and the storyline we can goof around and do our own stupid playthrough yeah as as as and when you need to defend yourself dude either i want to also say flex i got something that's gonna send you into a even worse downward spiral in my playthrough what i call her shadow facts what's her shadow heart shadow heart baby shadow heart has permanently left the party she got so pissed off with me and and it wasn't for me doing it well it was something specific but like i she wasn't in my active party or anything she just kind of have to be well one night she turned up and she's like let's get it on i was like oh my god hang on i gotta put you on the back burner because everybody wanted to get it on with

me okay and then maybe like well what felt like five minutes later realistically it was probably like an entire act later she turns up and she's like i can't forgive you i'm leaving and then she permanently left the party oh my god i don't yeah it's a it's such a shambles conversely i had her in my party from the start. I was trying so hard to woo her, and she never once made a move. Not once. You didn't even have her in your party. Pissed her off constantly. Women.

Women! Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it? Like, you've got to treat a mean to keep her keen, I think. Indeed. Well, that brings me to- Apparently, that's literally the opposite of this thing. You have to be a simp to no it didn't work to be a no it didn't work flax was sinking like crazy simped and i got um

all right let's move on to the actual purpose of this podcast the mailbag this is from an air traffic controller i just i wanted to share i thought it'd be you know air traffic controller i'm an air traffic controller i just want to let you know that I have absolutely no idea how to land a plane, let alone tell someone else how to. I know a handful of controllers who have flown light aircraft, which are very different to airliners. On top of that, there's no way a passenger could get into the cockpit without a conscious pilot letting him in.

Then if we were to get him, I'd be surprised if they could work out how to talk to us. The number of times that experienced pilots make cabin broadcasts or try to talk to their company on our frequency shows that it isn't obvious i hope that makes sense it makes sense i mean i'm gonna wade in here because i do have some experience with this because i have seen the movie airplane and on the movie airplane when uh the guy who is actually a pilot himself, he has to take over the commercial airliner and attempt to land it. The air traffic controller is not giving him instruction. They have to get some other hotshot pilot in to talk him down, if you remember. Yes.

And then he's sweating and everything. It's a very stressful situation. Lest we forget that that was made in the 70s, that film. Yes. And the door didn't lock. You could just fucking probably walk in. True, it was a different time. Yeah. And people were smoking on the plane as well. Absolutely.

All the planes used to have the little ashtrays in the armrests and stuff. Yeah. Unbelievable. And you were smoking on nine. Imagine how fucking sick you would feel after like a nine hour flight. Do you know, did you never fly with smoking? No, I was. It was like I think I think they just banned it like right before my time. I flew when let me think I would have been.

Fly to New York with a delicious taste of Marlboro Lights. Yeah, we flew to New York. We were on Emirates, I think. What year was it? Oh, Kuwait Air. Kuwait Air. 1995. What? There was smoking on kuwait air in 1995 and we sat in the smoking section i smoked the whole way uh mrs f was there she smoked a bit as well no way and there was a guy next to us smoking cigars the whole flight

okay i don't remember i i mean i'm talking about like the 80s flying out to- this is Air Canada- flying out to British Columbia, where my grandparents lived. And I remember all of the armrests had ashtrays, but distinctly remember not ever smelling cigarette smoke on a plane. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I remember it really well. Way to make me feel old with that. And yourself.

That is a story from another fucking time. That's hilarious. Do you know what's weird, though? On a lot of planes, even now, you still see little cigarette put-out things. Yes. Like, you still see them around. And I don't know if it's just because it's old equipment, or because they put it in because you never know.

It's a mix, I think. You don't get the ashtray thing, but, you know. I think when they're doing the interiors, depending on the company that does the interiors and the contracts that they have for specific airlines or whatever, some of the interiors they use for, you know, like everyday commercial, private, all sorts, right? And I think sometimes it's just like standard to have them um you know on a private plane like if it's a if it's oh absolutely yeah you like obviously if it's your own flame for sure can yeah but yeah yeah if you just like charter a jet stream or whatever those

yeah yeah yeah i mean some might like depends like you know if you i mean i'm not speaking from experience i've never chartered a plane before. Right. But I'd imagine that it's much like, you know, hiring like a car or whatever, you know. Some places might say, please no smoking. And other places might say, you can smoke, but we'll have to charge you because we'll have to like, you know, put some air freshener in there after or something like that. I'd imagine it's the same, especially for a jet. I don't think they're going to fuck around with you too much if you've got that much money. I think you can pretty much do what you like in some of those social senses.

And if you have that much money, you can just excuse yourself from the rules of regular society. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But one of my good childhood friends, heiors for uh for airplanes like like on an assembly line pretty much but he used to say that uh they would you know like some of the it was all standard stuff you know they had like whatever it was like six or seven things that they did uh but those things would be used you know they'd be applied across the board to all sorts of different things so like sometimes commercial sometimes private whatever so i think you know if they have like a standard um armrest or whatever they're

just gonna use it it doesn't matter even if even if the the policy is no smoking there it'll have it anyway sort of thing but then some of them might be old too that's you do see these little tin metal boxes strapped on the on the armrest and on the on the side and older cars as well like yeah it obviously was super common for even people in the back seats of these things to smoke metal boxes strapped on the armrest and on the side, and older cars as well. Obviously, it was super common for even people in the back seats of these things to smoke. Oh, my God, man. I guess you're not allowed to smoke weed, probably, on a plane, even if it is a private one, right?

Because I imagine that... There might be customs issues, so you might get busted. I think Snoop Dogg probably smokes a lot of weed on a private jet. I'm pretty sure Snoop does. He's got to get it on. All right. This is a very short email. I just want to...

It's interesting. I'm wondering why this was sent. Although the topic of the... They tried to fool me into reading it and it succeeded. The subject line just says, interesting. Nice. That's all it takes. This is from Alberto.

Thought you might find this interesting. I've been listening for five years and I have no clue whatsoever what you three look like nor do i ever want to know cheers that's amazing that's the entire email we are out there our faces are accessible for sure um very much that is that's amazing that you don't know what we look like you know what i would i i agree let's keep it that way look us up keep it that way and then you can just imagine that we look like you know what i would i i agree let's keep it that way look us up keep it that way and then you can just imagine that we look a lot better than we actually do because i think that's yeah i've always been disappointed by radio personalities oh by what other people when i see myself in the mirror yeah uh follow-up email would be interesting if you can let us know

what you think we look like i think that would be okay like characters in a novel i think you're uh next generation john luke picard you know bald no look i'm not asking you oh you've met us both i'm asking the guy to i'm trying to think i try to think who you guys sound like you know you, you're the statesman. I'm not a statesman. I sound like a bumbling idiot. No. You're the elderly dad of the group. I got you. Sips is the American in the track pants.

And, you know, so he's going to be heavily bearded, of course, as you would imagine. Yeah, yeah. Of course, you have to be. And I'm young Timothy Chalamet. Oh, yeah, natural more. All right, this is another short one. This is for me and Sips.

No offense, Lewis. Is it an angry one? What's the tone? Can you please, before you start reading each email, can you describe the tone, a general sense of the tone as well, so I can embrace myself? Absolutely. If ever there's an email that is an angry one one i do generally say this is an angry one okay so if i don't i'll try not to spring it on you don't worry okay okay simple question this is

for sips and period do you fart in front of your wives yes yes i can't help it absolutely i kind of uh i was weird i was talking to my wife about this the other day, and I don't know if you're the same flax. When did it change? Because it wasn't there originally, right? It has always been, honestly. Was it on your wedding day? Yeah, well, we met when we were young. So it was, you know, when we were quite young,

you know, I would just like, as a joke, do a fart or whatever. And my wife grew up with two brothers as well, who were probably doing a lot of farting and a dad and stuff too. So it was never really like, I don't know, like we never really had a, you know, a phase like a, you know, where we were recording. Did you have a discussion about it? No.

Did you have a conversation? No, but like to this day, my wife is like sometimes, oh God, that's really disgusting. I wish you would stop doing that. Sometimes it's pretty bad. Like I'll be in the kitchen, get a water and I'll just, you know, let one go. And she's like, Fred. I was like, sorry.

A little pop up will come up and it will say Mrs. Flax didn't like that. Yeah. When I fart in front of the baby, because she can't say much, she looks over and smiles and she says, oh, dada. Wow. My girls think it's hilarious. Baby was disappointed.

The kids think it's hilarious. My youngest does some really, really audible trumps. She farts a lot. And we all burp, all three of us like mrs f doesn't but me and the kids think it's hilarious to burp or fart as loudly as possible i've turned them into barbarians basically my son my son like adds some flair to his farting now he's he's a little bit older he's at that age so he'll he'll kind of like run into the kitchen and scream and uh and just fart like really really loud and sometimes

it sounds like he's shitting his pants but he he doesn't but i don't know it's it's it's weird right you don't hear a kid like you're you're inconvenienced by weird things right as a kid my my my kids hate going for a poo like they just think it's it's just way too much time out of their day or whatever so they just kind of like suck them in all day and progressively their farts just smell worse and worse yeah you clearly i don't need to go right i don't need to go i'd go if i needed to go i don't need to go all right fine go when you're ready to go and then you put them to bed and 20 minutes later you can hear them rummaging around upstairs taking a shit and you're ready to go and then you put them to bed and 20 minutes later you can hear them rummaging around upstairs taking a shit and you're just like well you could have just taken a shit before you went to bed but but no you had to wait you're right until you were asleep like eating into their

time yeah it's wild eh it's just you have to learn to appreciate it i i don't mind i mean now i'm so fucking regular i get up you get the newspaper get a have a vape, and my body's like, it's pooping time. Like, regardless of what time I've worked, it's happening. I woke up this morning just before, I'd say about 10 past six, I think, which I've been waking up really early for no good reason. It's like back to school and stuff, though, right? Your routine changes a little bit. It's like over the summer i was sleeping longer and longer uh and now for some reason i'm still going to bed at like midnight or one or whatever but

i'm waking up really fucking early um this morning was because i had a nightmare and this is a common nightmare that i have sips i don't know if you have the same the same nightmare um the mrs f is leaving me right that's the the nightmare yeah that would be a nightmare yeah so the the nightmare is is quite a typical one that we're at a place. Normally me, Mrs. F and a group of people. And there's someone there who just blatantly asks Mrs. F out. Right. Like on a date.

Has this ever happened before? Like, is there any basis for? No, no, no, no, no. This is just. That doesn't happen, does it? The nightmare part of it is not because in reality, she would just say, no, I'm married, this is my husband. But in the dream, she's like, oh, yeah, okay.

And I'm like, sweetheart, he's asking you out on a date. You're like, you can't do this. She's like, oh, don't be silly. And then I was like, no, he is literally asking you out on a date. And the guy will be like, cool, I'll pick you up later. And off he goes. And then I sort of, I'm pleading with her, please don't go on a date with this guy.

Oh my God. And then I like, she's just like, oh, don't be so silly. And I'm just like, she doesn't even realise that she's literally breaking my heart. And that's the nightmare. Oh my God. So last night or this morning. Listen to this podcast.

I told her the dream. She was like, oh, don't be, don't be so silly. And I was like, no, that's what you say in the dream. That's exactly the same. Oh no. It's taken shape. Right. dream. That's exactly the same. Oh no. It's taking shape. Right. So this one,

we were at a gym. We were all doing like this fitness stuff. And the guy who asked her out was not what you think. That in itself would be a nightmare for me. That is the nightmare. That's the whole nightmare. The guy who asked her out and was clearly just decided to steal her from me was older than me and had hair like frasier crane and was just like this slightly hunched not even a good fitness history he looked really terrible and she went for this

guy and i was like what the fuck is happening and he gives me a pair of shoes by way of apology he's like there you go have some shoes and i was like how condescending is that he's giving me shoes but i really like the shoes but then i also obviously have to chase after mrs f anyway i'm going on and on no that sounds it sounds right that you would have liked the shoes that makes sense in the dream they were good shoes but anyway here's a here's a short one this is kind of relevant because we've been playing this uh kind of game lately um a simple one uh what are your guys favorite races and classes to play in dnd or dnd like games i like um i really when i play dnd i really like the the the skill like i've been playing balder's gate 3 and um i play i'm playing a bard and i really like the the the

charming persuasion you know i like getting out of stuff i like to roll my way out of stuff like uh there's a big fight i i don't want to spoil anything but there's a big potentially big fight i'm not sure if it's actually big because i didn't do it uh and i managed to persuade the guy that we were potentially going to be fighting and all of his so first i got him to kill all of his minions and then i persuaded him to kill his pet and then i persuaded him to kill himself the demon guy guy, right? Yeah, yeah. I did the same thing. That's a really funny fight. Yeah, yeah.

So I feel like I saved myself a lot of hassle with a big fight just by rolling past. And I like that. Yeah. I go in for that big time. My friend always says that if you want to have an easy ride in most computer RPGs, just have a guy with max charisma yeah and you can unlock so many dialogue options that you wouldn't get otherwise yeah you can breeze past a bunch of stuff you wouldn't be able to do otherwise get all these better prices on traders

and stuff like that like it's a substantially easier game the alternative to that i played fallout one years and years and years ago and And I gave my, I gave my guy, I wanted him to be unarmed. I wanted him to go around punching stuff and I gave him no intelligence. And the, and the whole game adapted to the fact that I had no intelligence. All of my dialogue options were just like, I just couldn't say anything.

I couldn't commute, communicate with anyone. Everybody was like taken aback by how dim I was and stuff. Like it was, it's actually for an old game. It was incredible, but it made the game a lot harder as well. And I think I missed out on like a huge chunk of the story and everything just because I couldn't really get anywhere communicating with people. I just ended up having to punch my way through.

Lewis, what about you? I think I just like mixing it up, right? Obviously, the high charisma character is a bit of a cheat code for RPGs that you play online. But it's nice to just try different stuff, you know? It's the same in Dota. I don't like playing the same character over and over again. I've done the A to Z challenge multiple times because I like mixing it up. I like having an excuse to play something different.

And I kind of feel like I have to be forced to do that sometimes as well. Otherwise, because you just naturally fall into the roles you're comfortable with otherwise. Yeah. I always like playing clerics. I always like... Yeah, they seem fun. Yeah. It's like you get to do a bit of everything.

Yeah. You get some spells. You get some fighting. Like, I like to have a character with a little bit of variety. And I like... It's definitely more fun to do both, do fighting and magic. Yeah. But, I mean, it's not like you don't excel at any of them.

But you're just kind of a useful person to have around. Like, you know, and the whole... Some of the... Like, turning undead, I really like that. I like the... Because I fucking turning undead i really like that i like the because i fucking hate undead in games like they always drive me absolutely mad they've always got the most annoying abilities i just hate them um although i did play as a necromancer in bolder skate 3 because that was fucking hilarious nice anyway i love that i love that

you can talk to dead bodies yeah that's so good it's so fucking cool man like i just you feel like such a detective you know like you're just figuring out the story with this like vast toolkit like it's just great good yeah all right this is another question for you sips uh i read a story about how there are increasingly more sightings of asian hornets in jersey yes as someone who lives in asia i know just how scary those things are and uh julian hopes that you and your family are safe. What's the deal? Well, I don't know what the deal is. I've heard a lot about it as well.

There was a picture in our local news the other day where there was a massive nest in an abandoned house. They found this huge nest and it was like something out of Baldur's Gate or whatever. Like this thing looked so comically large but it was just it was insane um but they're they're trying to get rid of them because there's been some sort of like infestation and they I think they've had some success killing some of the queens but they're I don't know I don't know what's going on I mean it hasn't really affected my day-to-day life or my family if you had hornets like these these things are no joke no i know things and the aggression yeah these things is nuts yeah but uh i mean it hasn't been

an issue but i i think locally they're just sort of like we can't let this get out of control because it will be a nightmare yeah and they seem to be on top of it i don't know i don't know if they actually are you know they might just be saying that they are. But yeah, there's definitely been rumblings about it. There's been bits and pieces in the news about it. Seven people have been stung in 20- no, 11 people have been stung in 2023. Okay, well, what happens when you've been stung in 2023? You go, ahhh! Yeah. Is that it though? Or do you have to go get like a like a shot or something?

Apparently it's quite bad. You have to be so you can get signed off from work for you for a week. Wow Yeah, so sounds great. Gardner got signed off for a week. He was stung by by them No, apparently it's it's like being like it's being shot or something like that. It's that bad rivet. Yeah, it's meant to be really Right. So this one this was about chemistry this email so lulu here you go i'm not a biologist but rather a third year chemistry student so there's still a lot of things that cross over into my studies in the area of evolutionary biology which is something we spoke about previously obviously we still haven't solved the origins of life but one of the big mysteries of protobiology was always the fact that all life is made up of amino acids

which are left-handed only what does that mean i have no idea what that means well it says this definition is called chirality and you can ask lewis to explain chirality well yeah well basically you know how you know i've got two hands yes sir yeah but they're not the same oh right they're symmetrically opposed they're both the state up so therefore they're different, but they're the same. If you had to do a formula, you'd say, oh, a hand has four fingers and a thumb. That makes sense, right? But that doesn't describe whether it is left-handed or right-handed.

And when you have chemicals, they can be assembled from the same materials, but be angled like a left or a right-handed. Oh, like space cam. Like that game space cam. Exactly. When it's got all the little like satellites that come off the main thing. That's right. Yeah.

You got to rotate them around, Flax. That's what it means. So, basically, like certain setups in the body have the most obvious one would be thalidomide, which caused birth defects. Yeah. Which was given as this like morning sickness yeah that's the one that caused um i don't know if the term is is is correct to use anymore but i remember from the 80s they called them don't say it then okay

uh basically it one chiral isomer would cause the defects and the other one was fine like specifically yeah yeah yeah it caused like a lot of yeah like babies to be One chiral isomer would cause the defects and the other one was fine. It infected arms, specifically arms. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It caused like a lot of, yeah, like babies to be born deformed. It was really bad. Yes. But I mean, that was just because when it was being manufactured, it wasn't pure. And so, it's hard to purify out the isomers, the chiral isomers. So yeah, there's a lot of,

almost any chemical would be chiral in someers. So yeah, there's a lot of, almost any chemical would be chiral in some way, and sometimes it doesn't matter. But sometimes it really does. So yeah, it's something to pay attention to. It's interesting. It's just part of chemistry. Well, here we go. In any case, life is infinitely better at making chiral compounds than humans. In fact, humans

have so far found it really fucking difficult to do in every way. Think that scene in Breaking Bad in the Mexican lab where they're waiting for 98% purity after Jesse is cooked or whatever. His ability to make enantiomerically pure meth is why Walter White is a good cook. Anyway, the big question was always, without life pre-existing, how did enough left-handed amino acids come together

to make the first proteins? Because the odds of that happening are infinitely small. However, a researcher at my university has discovered a form of clay which soaks in a combination of amino acids and with no living intervention spits back out only left-handed molecules. This may sound like a small thing, but I'm sure Lewis can communicate how utterly mind-blowing this is. With no enzymes or anything, this clay achieves more in stereochemistry than human beings have done in hundreds of years. or anything this clay achieves more in stereochemistry than human beings have done in hundreds of years. We know how a mixture of right and left handed amino acids

would be made from carboxylic acids ammonia and cyanides all of which were present in the early earth but didn't know how they could possibly have arranged in this way until now. This researcher has found out how the ingredients of life could have come to be in such abundance that life could start. We just need the recipe for the ingredients but this is a huge hurdle

overcome. What do you think? We saw a planet this week an exoplanet get like studied because you can you can look at the light coming from these places and find out potentially what chemicals are there a friend of mine is a physicist um the water shout out to arca he he told me about this this is a thing that he does yeah and there's And there's a chemical called dimethyl sulfide, which is basically only theoretically supposed to be made by bacteria or life or plankton or whatever. And so we've detected that coming from an exoplanet, which might mean it has big oceans full of-

Full of little life. You know, full of something. Not exactly like- It's not alien farts, but it like it's kind of a obviously these sulfur compounds that like they smell like broccoli in the microwave or whatever nice um so yeah it's it's there's this it might it might not come of anything but i think that's it's interesting that we can identify you know it's nice to have these interesting like biomarkers for potential potential planets to go and explore yeah kind of maybe even potentially uh live on at some point this is k218b but you'd be scared to live on a on another planet though right because what if um

you know what if there's like some big uh big event that you're unaware of that's about to happen you know like oh and that could be true of earth deep in the core of the well it could be yeah but we're here already so it's it's tough shit i'm not gonna put myself out there i see you're not gonna take the chance no exactly yeah i said this this planet is 120 light years 120 light years away yeah which would take um you know uh a long time to ever get 120 years if you were traveling at light speed, but yes. So, yeah. That's interesting. That is interesting.

Yeah, that is too far away for us to visit, I think, unless they put us into a robot or freeze us or something. Yeah. Which both of which don't seem possible in the next. We could just go really fast, get there. In the near future. No. It's interesting. It is interesting, though. I like fast yet they're in the near future no it's interesting it is interesting though i i like reading about that kind of stuff i think it's

i i feel like um if it just feels like like like uh like some sort of like wild west or something all that stuff you know like you that we can't get to these places they're so far away but there's just little bits of information that we can we can get from them and and and we can study them through that and stuff i don't know it just feels like uh it feels exciting i wouldn't want to be doing any of it myself but i'm glad other people do it i think i think it's very mind-numbing work but it would be like um panhandling in a way where it's really repetitive boring work you're just sifting yeah water and grain but when you find gold how exciting but i mean even when uh even when the um

even when some of the early ships were going to discover the the new world or whatever right it sounds exciting but i bet you it sucked big time you're on those old ass ships with like scurvy and everybody is just filthy and there's no way there's no way you don't know where you're going you don't know where you're going to land you don't know what you're going to encounter which i guess is exciting but also probably terrifying at the same time i mean you might bump into the sentinel islanders like it could be that level of well yes yeah yeah all right this is a this is a long one from from carl but it's a good one.

First, I'd like to start off by saying I'm a long-time listener of the podcast. Thank you so much. Thank you. This is a pretty scary story, just to preface this. So be ready for this. I live in a really rough area of the UK, near a coastal city, and there's a lot of gang violence around here and just nothing really to do. It's just not a nice place to live.

But I feel tied down here due to the memory of my wife. This is the sad bit, who died during childbirth. Man. And still has his little boy. A few days ago, as of the time I write this, I took my son to school as they started opening back up again for the very first time. While he was at school, him and his friends climbed over the fence

and ran away. Jeez. I am furious at the school for not keeping an eye on him. My only son had escaped into a dangerous world at five years old and was until very recently missing. I spent several days searching for my son, often forgetting to eat, getting very little, if any, sleep. Fucking hell. Honestly, dude, this is crazy. I only have one friend out here, but to be honest, they're not that bright and often cause more problems than solutions, which obviously sucks.

As I said previously, this is all a really rough area, so we went up to a group of people in desperation asking if they'd seen my son. Instead of helping us, they decided to try and attack us and rob us and take the very little that we had. Luckily, we managed to outrun them, quite possibly only just making it out of there alive. I'm a middle-aged man, not in my prime years, so it was a very scary situation. Eventually, I heard from some people that they think they saw my son near the coast the day before and after a journey over there and a lot of searching I managed to finally find him sitting in a dentist's waiting room of all places.

The sweet relief of knowing that my son was alive and okay is a feeling I cannot even begin to explain. Thank you so much for keeping me going and motivated during this difficult time. By the way, this never happened, it's just the plot to Finding Nemo. I thought it was. Oh, God. I knew it. I was there, man. I was right in there.

Holy shit. Well done, Carl. Well done, Carl. Oh, my God. I'm so glad that that didn't actually happen to you because that is a nightmare. Oh, my God. Yeah.

Fear not, friends. It's pretty uncommon for mothers to die in childbirth these days oh so you were like this sounds like finding nemo and it's also pretty unusual for this he knew he was about to get the child to to get the child to escape and go missing he's right as well he's right man you had me the whole time i thought right up until the big reveal i was just like holy holy shit, man. I can't believe this guy has led this life like that since then. I wonder if, because I mean, I didn't say where it was.

So we might, I bet you were thinking, God, what part of the world could this be happening in? This would, you know, we would have heard about this kind of thing. Do you know, like even when he said he lived in a rough part of the UK, the visuals were all there. I was like, I can picture every fucking step of this journey in the UK. I was there. I was in there. Crazy. Lewis, do you want an email which is literally just flaming you for the entire thing or not?

Please, go for it. He wants it. I can handle it. Okay. Hey, Kyle Walker just scored against Ukraine. And also, I am done with Lewis's bad takes. Women without bras are in the wrong? No. It is on men not to be pervs.

Karl Walker is arrogant and slow? Pretentious. Lewis has mastered the art of fully judging people in 0.02 seconds. Brilliant. Good for him. In the last 50-ish Triforce episodes, Lewis has increasingly referenced what it means to be British. Yet he only seems to have one institutionalised perspective. Please, tell Lewis to relax and stop. With that said, the mailbag in recent episodes have been fantastic. But I find it absurd that Lewis is the most boomer person in this triforce.

Increasingly so. Do you and Sips not discuss this with him? It drives me mad and I genuinely feel like he's on a slippery slope. Look after him. Oh, come on. Wow. Man, if we were all the same, the world would be a really boring place.

You need, everybody just needs to be themselves, rightly or wrongly. But I don't think, I don't really agree with all that about you, Lewis. No, I don't think Lewis is like that at all. I don't think you're a boomer or anything. No. I think that the balance that we have of the three of us,

and we're similar, but we are also quite different Is is what makes these conversations fun? I mean, I enjoy doing it because I'm not just talking to two people who agree with everything I say that would be fucking boring Yeah, I would love that personally. So I don't feel like Lewis comes across as an out-of-touch boomer I think maybe you guys are just young and think, you know, everything. How about that? I think honestly, a lot of the audience are like,

we're young. So we know things and you guys are 40 or more. Therefore you are old and stupid. I think that's equally a stupid opinion. Anyway, Lewis, defend yourself. I don't have to.

No, you don't have to. You just did such a good job of it. Flax defended. I think that it's nice to be thought of and people caring about me. Like, I- And people worried that I'm coming across weird, but I kind of don't care anymore. I'm going to be 40 this year.

Well, maybe time goes out. Yeah, you're like next month, aren't you? You're an October person, right? Yeah. It's a bit of a landmark for me. Oh, crap. What are you going to do? Are you going to go big or what?

Well, no. Well, we were possibly going to go to Vegas for TwitchCon. Oh, yeah. That's next month as well, isn't it? Might be there. But I think there's... I'm finding myself... Yes.

But I think this might be something that everyone is experiencing too, right? Because the internet is such a big place. And I've always been anti-mainstream, you know, not watching football or Love Island or Bake Off or, you know, anything that is normal. Kind of not going to, I don't know, festivals. Not necessarily like doing some of the more mainstream stuff that people do. Because we're in this video game world, right? And I've always been there ever since I was a teenager right like that was my my place it was it was board games and and you know these types of these types like like lord of the rings you know

like i don't know reading and a different a different world right and so i've always felt a little bit apart and so it's not unusual for me to not understand something new and mainstream because i didn't really understand what the mainstream was back when i was young and so i do have these weird takes on things and it's you you guys have to set me right and i don't mind changing my mind as well like i'm you're open i hope i'm willing to to be flexible and change i think you are my my actions yeah um i think i think i'm a nice guy sometimes yeah for the most part i think the racism lets you down from time to time yeah oh yeah i mean it's just this podcasts are actually two hours long we have to let it down it's just cut out all the racist terrain of blatant racism

that has homophobia oh my god that's yeah it's out of. That's out of control. It's out of control. Yeah. Before we continue, when you pop into the bathroom for a shower or a bath, you always close the door behind you, right? I absolutely do. You know what random passes by looking in on you? Not fully. Sometimes I leave it, like, very slightly ajar, you know, to let the mist out and stuff. Take a real steamy one in there.

If your bathroom door opened onto an open street and there were corporations with binoculars spying on you god exactly those folks are corporations that's why i use expressvpn and you should too i do all those folks out there can see every single website you visit and they can sell this information to ad companies and tech giants who will use this data to target you expressvpn creates a secure encrypted tunnel between your device and the internet so your online activity can't be seen by anyone it works on phones laptops even routers so anyone who shares your wi-fi is also protected and all you have to do is fire up the expressvpn app one button. It's as easy as just closing the bathroom door. That's perfect, Lewis.

God, that was almost poetic. Get an extra three months free of ExpressVPN by going to expressvpn.com slash triforce. That's expressvpn.com slash triforce for three extra months free. On with the show. On with the show. All right, here's another email.

You guys were recently discussing the size of cars and how they seem to be getting bigger. I'm sure we were. I don't remember it. I'm a tire fitter from Yorkshire, and I figured I'd put my lot in too. Not only do I agree with your guys' opinion, we get a lot of Range Rovers, Land Rovers, and BMW X5s. Those are big vehicles.

Big motherfucker. But I wanted to let you know that wheel size seems to be on the rise too. I want to say as well that for the most part when i see a range rover there's a type of person that drives that vehicle yeah they all seem to me to be the same person you know yeah i think it attracts a certain kind of person yeah it definitely has a demographic that it it really appeals to well let me tell you something two two facts i've discovered this week first of all range rovers are the most stolen car in london really uh yeah you cannot get insurance on them in london it's almost impossible really really expensive because they're stolen so

much yeah um i assume because the resale value is really good on them or they're easy to break into or whatever i don't know what the reason is but they are just expensive cars they cost like 100 yes but they're expensive but i get they're probably quite spacious inside too, right? They're big, yeah, yeah. If you steal one of those, think of all the paint cans and whatever else you want to transport around, you can fit in the back. Yeah. The other thing people do though is they get used to breaking into a certain thing.

That's why Ford Transit vans are very commonly broken into, right? Because people know how to break into them. I thought that was for the tools. I think that's because people think they have tools in them. Yeah. But that's why you get they have tools in them. Yeah. But that's why you get those signs that say no tools stored in here

overnight to try to discourage people from breaking in to your car. I guess what I'm saying is that things that are more well-known and common

are easier to break into even if their security is better because people know how to break into them. Yeah, familiarity. God, there are some arseholes out there, eh?

There are. I mean, someone on our road has their car broken into. That's the fucking lowest of the low in my them. Yeah, familiarity. God, there are some arseholes out there, eh? There are. I mean, someone on our road had their car broken into. That's the fucking lowest of the low, in my opinion. Yeah, I agree. Like, someone's car on our road was broken into just by some fucking idiots. Breaking into a car or a house and stealing stuff. Yeah, but there was nothing to take. They just fucked up the inside of the car and left.

Yeah. Like, just animals. A friend of mine was burgled, actually, relatively recently. Oh, really? God, it sucks. And it was because they think it was because they used to get all these like doorbell, like like doorbell, like knocks on like doorbell rings because they're in an apartment. Right. And they obviously always answered it.

But then when they went away on holiday, they came back and they'd be burgled. Jesus. And took like the laptop and switch and stuff. But they think it was because, you know, because that doorbell ringing was like the test. Yeah, they were testing, I see. So here's something about big cars. People like to talk about big cars in America. The trucks that you could get outside the US,

pretty much the same model, made by the same manufacturers, the US version will be bigger. And there's quite a common notion that this is because Americans just want big cars and they're all idiots, right? That's the kind of outside the US attitude, I would say, to that. However, there is a piece of legislation called the, I think it's these CAF, CAFE, something like that, rules, which is just an acronym, but essentially it's about fuel efficiency. And you have to have a certain amount of fuel efficiency for vehicles up to a certain size. But over that, they're considered commercial trucks and vehicles of that size

are not required to have the same fuel efficiency. So they just make these things bigger to skirt around those rules. All right. So a lot of the time when you see these much bigger American trucks, you think, why? It's because that way they can manufacture them more cheaply and they don't have to worry about all the fuel efficiency and stuff Oh, I see just want to think yeah, well, but their infrastructure lends itself to bigger cars as well Well, it did but they fucked up all their infrastructure so badly that a lot of bridges and roads in America are not fit for purpose No, I get that side of it, but in general,

their roads are much bigger. Their cities are planned around traffic and roads and stuff. Well, they've got to be because fuck me. There's no option. The UK is a nightmare in depending where you go, because a lot of it is a lot of the, a lot of the road layout is what they used to use when they had like horses and carts and stuff.

Yeah, of course. But they've just paved them. But a lot of those roads are still, you know, they say that they're two-way, but they're not. You have to basically park in a field to let somebody go by you if you encounter them. And there's so many roads like that. You'd never really get that in Canada or the US. It's all like that side of like the layout and the infrastructure, I think, is much better because it was more minded towards people having cars.

Of course. So back to the email. Newer Range Rovers come with wheels as big as 22 or 23 inch rim size, which I think is big. To put that in perspective, they come up to my waist and weigh almost as much as I do. They're so big, they no longer fit in one of our machines. Thankfully, the one I usually use. And so when we get a four set, it takes forever to change them all.

So they have a machine that I've seen it. They mount the tire on and it holds it in place and then they can remove the actual tire from the hub and then fit the new one on it, presses it all into position. I wanted to ask you guys a quick question about seeing as you're all middle-aged men. Sorry Lewis I don't know why she's apologizing just don't apologize As a female tire fitter I get a lot of old boys who come in and always say oh never seen a lady tire fit before How'd you get into this job? Honestly, if I had a quid for every time someone asked me that I wouldn't need to be the mythical female tile fit tire fitter

They all seem to think i am have you guys ever made a comment like this about a woman working in a male dominant dominated industry and what was their response really curious to know i have i have a couple of times yeah i don't think i ever had i don't think i would ever make a comment like that to somebody i might make it like when i get home i might say to my wife oh it's kind of weird like there's a woman tire fitter i've never seen that before but I would never I would never say it To the person. Oh, it's fucking weird that you're here I had a I had a female cab driver and that is quite unusual and I was like You're the first female cab driver

I've ever I've ever had and a female uber driver as well and I was like you're the first female uber driver I've ever had like and they were like, yeah, it's pretty unusual. And I don't know why I said it, but I just kind of felt compelled to. And there's also, in our area, there's a lot more women driving buses than there used to be. Yeah. And without fail, they appear to be Eastern European. So I don't know if they are just coming over here and this is a job they can get. Or if Eastern Europe tends to have more female bus drivers.

Just turns out bus drivers. Yeah, they keep doing that. They've got a really advanced program for getting them trained up and sending them out. One bus driver at a time. Interesting. No, I don't know. I think there's a certain

thing that is the compulsion to compel people to like fit in with these things right maybe if you are a female tie fitter you're supposed to be wearing overalls and be a bit greasy or i don't know have like like be a bit more manly right be a bit less ladylike or a little bit less feminine like just because almost to hide your femininity because you're doing a traditionally male dominated job and even in media that tends to happen right like you don't necessarily you tend to see people in the wrong role like a woman a woman who's a ceo

has to wear a suit you know and dress like a man it's just kind of not that suits are manly but but they're certainly a vibe associated with men is that the traditional suit the suit is actually traditional suit is incredible though isn't it because it actually makes most people look pretty decent yeah it's very smart a lot of businessmen are like quite you know they're like they're they're they're round aren't they and and like stereotypically they're they're quite old as well but yeah if they got a suit on, you don't notice all of that stuff. But if you saw them in, like, their, you know, their leisure gear, you know, if they had a pair of shorts and a t-shirt on or whatever, you would notice all those things immediately of them. And they'd look like a real schlub.

Yeah, yeah. The suit is actually kind of incredible there is this weird uniform thing where people have to wear the right uniform to fit in just to not be noticed not stand out and it's kind of i'm not saying that like that's a bad thing but i think you know we're going to this dinner tonight and it's like black tie event whoa and you know what's what's what's happening it's um it's for the one of the charities that we support oh we support and um it's like a pub quiz thing i don't know how i don't know what it's going to be like at all but you know obviously the women are not wearing suits to that the men are wearing suits the women are wearing you know

nice dresses or whatever right it's like and it's excuse it's a nice excuse to dress up because black tie is not something you wear to the office or even to like a necessarily a business meeting right it's it's a funerals and weddings and you know these types of events i mean i i guess you just wear what you can to some degree the thing is like i think you i think there'd be a chance where a woman would say i'm gonna wear a suit like you know i'll wear it i'll even wear a tuxedo i'll wear a tuxedo to that or whatever but i i i don't think you'd ever see a guy turn up to one of those in a fancy dress. Damn shame. It is a bit of a shame.

Yeah. Because I think that people can just, you know, a lot of this traditional stuff, you can just have a bit of fun with it. Right. You don't have to take it super seriously. Nowadays, you could and people wouldn't. No, I suppose. Yeah. All right.

Here's an email from Isabella. Hi, gents. I'm writing to you from the Green Mountains of Vermont. In episode 241, Pirian mentioned that the new spy house inhabitants, remembering, of course, it was not actually a spy house, wanted back their foot of garden space. And apparently there was no resolution.

I never mentioned a resolution to the garden. So the Russian spy spy house which was actually just an abandoned house kids were breaking into it blah blah blah eventually the guy sold it new people came in they redeveloped the house they redid the garden but they noticed when they came to do the garden that we had essentially pinched about two feet of their garden now we hadn't done it the previous occupants of the house had done it we hadn't done much with the garden at all yeah we just kept the fence. When we redid the fence, where the old fence was, we put a new one down.

We didn't know that we were over. And it wasn't enough that you would look at the plans and immediately notice. But from their perspective, when they cleared out all the weeds in the garden, the fence was wonky. It had a little kink in it. Instead of getting straight, it had an L-shaped bit when they were like oh that's where the gun's meant to be anyway we did um in the interest of neighborly goodness and because i didn't want to go through the legal route of adverse um claiming whatever it's called adverse possession yeah we will i was like look this guy's just redone the house which i'm really grateful for because it was an eyesore let's get off on good terms and we just said to

him if you are happy to pay because we just we just said to him if you are happy to pay because we just had all this put in if you were happy to pay for it all to be moved go for it and he was like absolutely so that was the agreement that we essentially got the flowerbed and all that moved that's a nice compromise actually we did the pavings i thought that was you know i mean i think we both knew that i could have gone down the average. Yeah. Fair is fair, but at least he was good enough to meet you halfway with it as well. Yeah, no, I agree.

So we lost a bit of garden. They had to spend a little bit of money, but in the grand scheme of how much it cost to redevelop the house, they didn't mind. Yeah. But the thing is with a, with a, with an outstanding issue like that,

that it's good that you guys got it sorted because now it just means that anyone, anyone else in either property, there's no, no problem. There's no outstanding issues now either property, there's no- No problem. There's no outstanding issues now, right? It's just done. Yeah.

All right. Matthew writes in, Sips, that shaved spot on your leg, do you remember this? Yeah. Was likely for a securement patch for your urinary catheter. Oh. They didn't have to give me one. If that catheter gets tugged out, it can literally split your dick as the retaining balloon is removed. Oh, they must have.

No bueno. I don't know. Did I have one? I don't know if I was under long enough for them to have one, but I think they might have done it as a, you know, he might have to have one. Because I remember when I was upstairs, they took me back up to the and then the the surgeon came by and he was like yeah everything went really well it was really quick we got your gallbladder out and everything uh but you you need to in the next like hour so you need to start walking around and getting your systems working again because if you don't pee in the next like two hours or whatever

we're giving you a catheter and he's like you do not want a catheter so i would suggest getting up and walking up down the hallway drinking some water and he said it's gonna it's it'll be weird at first it'll be it'll be hard to pee and stuff but make sure that you just go for one and then once you've gone for one you can just relax so okay i did all that but we did we did have a couple of other suggestions of what it could be, but they were all I didn't understand what they were saying. Right. So I skipped over them.

This is one. I'm going to send you guys this image. Oh, boy. Look at this image. Hey, guys, Justin here from New Brunswick, Canada. Just wanted to tell you guys an embarrassing story that I have as a kid aged 16. Back in 2011, I just found the Yogscast on YouTube and loved all the videos. Through a little research, I discovered that Sips was Canadian,

so I really related with him, and you could even say looked up to him. That year, I grew up the courage to message him. Sadly, I never realised back then that he more than likely had someone filtering through his Facebook page. The other day, when I was looking through old messages on Messenger, I found that message. It's all invalid now, but I would love it if it actually got me to meet him.

Why do people think this? We're not fucking Lady Gaga. We don't have someone filtering through our message the sad truth is i is i i cannot access my facebook account it has locked me out for good and there's nobody i can speak to at facebook to help me because they don't employ people this guy sent you a message let's just read it out so it's from august 20th 2012 2012 so it's it's nearly 11 years old it's over it's over 11 years old and he starts with the word a asips i'm a big fan i just recently discovered that you are canadian he's from new brunswick he's not welsh lewis sorry you should do the voice i don't that's fine you carry on if you ever find yourself in sussex, New Brunswick,

it will make my year just to hang out and ask a few questions. Thank you for your time. Wait, so he realized that I never responded, but also what? He just thought it was- He thought your assistant had filtered the message. Oh, no. I mean, in 2012.

You're a big celebrity. No, I mean, I just started. There's no way. I think I was- No one has- I don't think anyone has ever sent an email from my account or sent a message from my account or done anything. I've done a few automated ones that YouTube published automatically. There was that time when the Team Double Dragon and Triforce feed was linked to my YouTube.

And so, Sips would- It was linked to my YouTube and so Sips would was linked to my Twitter so Sips would occasionally post on my Twitter with some dumb shit and I had to stop that because I asked you to stop doing it and you didn't well you should not do

you should not let somebody have access to your stuff like that so no that's the only time I've ever done that, and it worked out badly. This is titled Ringo Starr, Parking Tickets and My Dad, a short story.

Hello, Triforce. One sunny day in the early 1980s London, my dad was at an art auction and at some point he had to quickly run out to renew his parking ticket. Alas, he was a few moments too late and a lady ticket officer was already finding him. Approaching her, he used his thick Soviet Ukrainian accent and pulled the I am an immigrant card, which was true, but she was having none of it.

Suddenly, who should walk down the street but Ringo Starr. Nice. My dad, being a huge Beatles fan, said, Excuse me, sir, are you Ringo Starr? And Ringo said, Well said well yes I am. While the lady is standing right next to him my dad said I'm getting a parking ticket do you think you could persuade this lady to not give it to me. Oh my god.

Ringo says well would you mind not giving this chap a ticket. Lady says I would mind sorry but this is Ringo Starr he is extremely famous. That's right. No can do it's the law. Oh well sorry mate see you later. He says, I would mind. Sorry, but this is Ringo Starr. He is extremely famous. That's right. No can do. It's the law. Oh, well, sorry, mate. See you later.

Ringo leaves. And he had to pay the ticket at the end. Oh, my God, man. That's great. I like the attempt. Yeah, I love the effort. Love the effort. A for effort.

I love imagining that Ringo is just that accessible. Yeah, he's just walking about. Ringo, Ringo, I need your help. It's just so strange. Like they're neighbors or something. It's so funny. Oh, man. This is one about a clinical pharmacist.

Remember we talked about pharmacists and doctors? Yeah, yeah. Someone was suggesting that pharmacists don't know what they're doing and all they do is do prescriptions. Yeah. Had a lot of emails from grateful pharmacists. This one says, um, uh, I'm a clinical pharmacist in the US really appreciated all of your comments on the most recent mailbag say about the guy saying he hates pharmacists.

A couple of interesting things you'd like to add. I thought you would find it interesting to learn that since the year 2000, all new pharmacists licensed in the US must obtain a doctorate of pharmacy prior to being eligible for licensure. That's like a master's in the UK. This even includes those in small drugstores. So technically in the US, every pharmacist is a doctor, but we don't tell people to refer to us as such because it would be kind of weird and confusing. I am a clinical pharmacist at a hospital, meaning that I spend my days rounding with physicians, responding to patient codes like cardiac arrests, completing chart reviews, managing medications that are too difficult

for many physicians to dose, as they don't learn the specifics of that kind of stuff. However, I do not spend any time counting pills or putting pills in bottles, as many people assume. I'm not sure how common this is in the UK, but every hospital in the US has a team of clinical pharmacists that complete these duties. Your thoughts on doctors, in quotes, being responsible for diagnosing and pharmacists knowing more about treatments is spot on. I attended four years of pharmacy school specifically focused on drug therapy on top of my bachelor's

degree where several of the physicians I know state that they only received one or two semesters on drugs. A huge portion of my job is answering questions from physicians about drug therapy and so on. Yeah. So they really do do more than just fucking put names on on bottles of pills i think it's a it's a huge misconception i feel in my farm in my experience as well they're always really nice to talk to you they always seem really knowledgeable but they have a really nice like you know whatever bedside manner or whatever you can ask them a couple questions and stuff and

you know they they know what they're talking about. They know, like we had to get like an, an inhaler for my daughter when she was quite, quite young. And, uh, it's not like,

you know, if you're an adult, you just get one of those puffer things and away you go, you're done. But kids trying to administer an inhaler through a puffer to like a four year old is impossible. So they give you, they give you like this fucking mask chamber thing. It's like a four-year-old is impossible so they give you oh god they give

you like this fucking mask chamber thing it's like a bong yeah yeah a big bong for them and uh but the guy was like he was like yeah you just use it like this you put this in here and then do and be careful this thing because sometimes it can fall off or whatever and it's like okay great like he actually knows how this whole contraption works he's like explained very clearly how to administer this and stuff because you do have questions about some of this shit right like yeah okay fine you go to the pharmacy and you get your prescription uh pills and you know you take two pills a day or whatever that it's easy but there's there's way there's way more stuff that you could potentially get that's you know you'll have questions about

and and they are for the most part really knowledgeable about what they're giving you. Creams and shit like that. Shout out, shout out to Farnsworth. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's finish on this one. I'm a fellow dad, roughly two months behind Sip's youngest, and our insights have been invaluable. Please see the attached photo of a bath toy that spawned a game in our house. Here is the picture

Okay, I will describe it for the viewers at home. Yes, it is. I've seen these exact Triforce avatar The point so we imagine my avatar that you see on the the tribe was like the triangle but instead of a triangle It's a red cup with a bucket holes at. It looks like a bucket with eyes and a nose. It kind of looks like it's wearing glasses. Those are such typical bath toys. They always have holes at the bottom of the cups. Please see attached a photo of a bath toy that spawned a game in our house for our little one.

The game is called Edward Forsythe Farts in the Bath. You push the pot underwater and bubbles come out and it kind of looks like you, P-Flax. Nice. That's the toy and that's the game and the question is do we have any weird games like that that we played with our kids um oh that is beautiful that is such a very sweet game this is such a nice this is such a nice thing i love the in jokes you have with family and friends that are like so stupid and silly and like fun and throw away and like yeah i love that stuff so much that's my kids well they're bigger now so they don't do it now but when they were younger

they used to like to um play like like pretend like make believe cafe in in in the bathtub of all places oh yeah they pretend that they were making you food and ice cream and all this stuff using like the various shit that was floating around in the, not actual shit floating in the tub, but like, you know, their toys and face cloths and whatever else ends up in the, in the bathtub sort of thing. It's not as funny as Ted Forsyth farts in the tub granted,

but I mean, kids, kids, kids just come up with all sorts of shit. It's crazy. I mean, this was the parent who came up with this cause they don't. Oh,

that's true. Yeah. Yeah. It must've been. Yeah. No. Yeah. crazy. I mean, this was the parent who came up with this because they don't. Oh, that's true. Yeah, yeah, it must have been. Yeah, no. Yeah, no, I just let my kids freestyle. I don't really come up with games for them. Just let them do their thing. They loved bath time, though.

Like, they absolutely loved it. Getting my kids to have a fucking shower now is like, have a shower. They're like, oh, wait a minute. Oh, man. And you just fucking march them over there.

It's like a nightmare. When they were kids, they loved it. The baby is two two now so every time anything happens she feels like she's missing out so so if you're if you're trying to get people to take baths and showers we can't even say bath or shower now because she just has a meltdown it's insane like uh this one time we're like all right come on like you need to go have a bath you can go have a shower like when they're done their bath and then she just stood up she's like she was at the bottom of the stairs like as if to say you know she wanted a bath so we had to give

her a bath and then uh she gets in the bath and she doesn't even enjoy it she just wants to come out straight away so well that's you know i just it's a fomo uh that's what it was you know a young person young baby fomo do you think like all those people that play like wow and genshin impact and stuff do that as well when like a new set comes out oh i thought you were gonna say have a bath i was gonna say definitely not i think that's just humans generally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's just, it's built into us to feel this way.

Yes. So. And last point, last point, this is not an email, but this is kind of related to that. And maybe people could email about this if they know something about it or if it's a load of bollocks. I saw this video. This guy was talking about kids getting to a certain

age and not wanting to... they don't eat whatever you give them. They get out of that habit. And it's around like four years old, they start being really fucking fussy. Sometimes younger, sometimes older, and sometimes not at all. But either way, the explanation that people come up with for why kids suddenly become fussy is because essentially all of our children are premature relative to other animals they're born they can't walk they can't feed themselves they can't do anything they're useless most in fact i think all other life forms when they're born they're functional they can eat even if it's just walking over to their mother and and and

suckling or whatever they're they're capable of moving you know they can look out for themselves a little bit but our babies can't they get to a certain age and they suddenly or whatever, they're capable of moving. You know, they can look out for themselves a little bit. But our babies can't. They get to a certain age and they suddenly are mobile and they can be off by themselves. They'll put themselves off and come back. They've got that agency. So it's really bad if they just shove everything they find in their mouth

because they might grab the wrong berry or eat the poisonous bug or whatever. So suddenly they become very fussy and careful about what they put in their mouths and what they eat. And I thought that was an interesting explanation. And if it's true, if you know for a fact that it is or isn't, please do write in. I don't know, but my kids and I'm sure yours is like this too, Flax, will spend all day trying to wangle all the sweets, you know, they want ice cream. Like they just had ice cream. Oh, can we have some potato chips now?

No, no, you just had some ice cream. Like you take it easy. Oh, okay. Can I have some cookies then? Like all day they will do this. And then you put a plate of decent food in front of them and they take like two bites and they're like, I'm full. Yeah.

And you're like, okay, you better not be hungry later. Yeah. I won't be hungry later. And then 10 minutes like, I'm full. Yeah. And you're like, okay, you better not be hungry later. Yeah. And then they're like, I won't be hungry later. And then 10 minutes like, I'm hungry. I'm so starving. So two things. My youngest does this. Both my kids come home from school and shove their fucking faces with everything they can

find, which is invariably stuff that's meant for their packed lunches. Yes. But my youngest is very, very intrepid in this regard. She will bake if we're out of snacks. She will bake. Yesterday she came home. She was like, do we have any cookies? I was like, no. She baked cookies. Holy shit. Like she got a recipe. She did it all herself. Made

cookies. Were they good? Okay, now they were not bad. They were pretty good. She's much better at baking than I am. Baking is one of my weaknesses, but she'll just do it. She's like, she'll call up, Dad! I'm like, yeah, she's not gonna make brownies it's like okay she's 11 fair enough this is great does it so yeah do you think like i've i'm quite aware of my own like addictions or drive or the things that i like pop into the front of my mind and recently i've been um it's been summer

and i've been having the occasional ice cream which I don't normally do I like how naughty you sounded when you said it I've been enjoying an ice cream a little bit of ice cream a little magnum of an evening

a little double caramel vegan anyway and i've definitely noticed like at a certain time my this must be how addictions get going right and it just shows how addictive sugar and taste is the worst though because i think it fucks up your taste buds too i don't know like if you've ever had this where you if you've had like something sweet like you've had some ice cream or something like that and then you go to eat certain fruit or something after that and it almost tastes so offensive that you just can't handle it whereas normally you would like it or whatever like it it does fuck up your your your

taste buds it's definitely very addicting and so i felt i felt that way like some you know you'll get that sometimes you wake up in the morning and you'll be like oh i can't wait to do this thing that you've been you know play this game that you're already hooked on or whatever but i you you i i just i'm quite aware of it and so we are driven by like these animal urges all the time i'm i'm like an animal in the morning though my brain just does not switch on for a little while like Like when I wake up. I think you're on dad autopilot though. If I didn't,

if I didn't have kids, I would, I would wake up and I would just like, I wouldn't even think about what I was doing. I would just like sit in my bed and, and read stuff on my iPad or like, I can't do any of this stuff because. I remember back in the day when I was a kid,

I grew up in this little village called Doddinghurst. and my dad had to get me up every morning at 6 30 or six o'clock it was early in the fucking morning and it was it was always like you know for nine months a year for the whole school year pretty much for the whole school terms from september through to you know june it was almost it was always dark at that time in the morning right and always you almost always freezing fucking cold in this sort of bungalow we lived in, in this village. You know, it wasn't well heated. And so I'm there like shivering.

He's like making me some beans on toast or something. That was basically my go-to morning breakfast. And then I get shoved out the door about seven o'clock to catch the bus. You had beans on toast for breakfast? Hell yeah. Holy shit, man. I don't know what he did.

I assume he must have gone back. I have don't know what he did i assume he must have gone back i have to ask him what he actually did after he pushed me out the door but it must be it must have but he did he go back to bed for a bit or would he fight up would he would he like my dad like no this was the late 80s yeah the subscription i don't know what his hobbies were he wasn't really a big reader or like a big craftsman or anything. If he just likes the pictures, I'm definitely right. So what was he?

Was he at home? He wasn't when you were going to school. He wasn't working at this time. Well, he would. I guess he'd go to work then. I'd be off since I had a long journey to school. I had to leave so early in the morning that he would assume. I assume then you'd have to drive, get ready for work, drive to work, start.

Maybe he started early as well. I don't know. I'll tell you what you do. You're just tired for the rest of the day. Cause I had to do that for years. Yeah. I've been tired recently. Yeah.

Yeah. You're just tired. Getting back in with the school run. Now we got, we, my son goes to a completely different school, so I have to drive him there. son goes to a completely different school so i have to drive him there and um and then and now my wife who would always wake up but never had to take them anywhere now has to take my daughter to school because they the two conflict so we're like we're fucking so tired now it's just uh it's just a lot to do and then we got to do the pickups the same way in the afternoon anyway we got we got a lot of stuff sorted out there big ups to sorting out all the problems as usual um just putting just putting the world right you know it's all you got to do is just talk and complain about it a little bit

and uh just sorts itself out incredible bam bim bam thank you everyone thank you so much had some really cracking emails yeah thank you yeah good one next time on the mail see you next time bye Thank you so much. Have a good week. Had some really cracking emails this week. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, good one. See you next time on the mail. See you next time. Bye. Bye. Bye.