Triforce! - Triforce! Mailbag Special #32: Pete Panana and Jack the Muzzler
Episode Date: May 1, 2024Triforce Mailbag Special 32! We've got some bangin' new jingles for the Mailbag, uncover even more insane names and Sips tells the story of Jack the Muzzler! Go to http://auraframes.com/triforce to ge...t up to $30 off Aura’s best-selling frames. 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
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Hick Axe
Hello chums and welcome back. We got another mail bag for your ass.
Mail bag!
Yes. Hello, mes amis.
Do we have the theme tune?
We have new theme tunes this week.
Oh, wow.
People have sent in quite a few.
Wow.
Do you wanna hear these, chaps?
Yes, of course.
It's the intro.
Have you vetted these ones?
I have vetted these.
I always vet them, alright?
Okay.
These are quite funny.
This is, I'll pop the first one here in the channel. This is from MJ. Michael Jackson?
Sadly not.
This is just someone called MJ.
So if we all press play at the same time, it's only 10 seconds long.
You ready?
Yeah.
Alright, 3, 2, 1, play!
Their packages are large.
Their sacks are full.
It's time for the Triforce Mailbag.
Lick the stamp, bitch.
I like that. All spoken word. Ending with, lick the stamp, bitch.
Yeah. Sorry, I couldn't hold it till the end. I
had to... It immediately made me snort. Okay. First of all, it's got a little crackle on
it. It's not the highest quality. It's recorded on his phone.
And he was like, sorry, it's not great.
But, he has got a great voice.
He has a good voice.
It's more like a prototype, so we could get him into professional studio.
Yeah, let's not bother with that.
He had that kinda, he had like a Troy McClure vibe to him.
Hi, I'm Troy McClure!
You may remember me from podcasts such as, where's my ass?
And whose milk is this?
Who shit my pants?
Alright, this is from Brandon, this is an actual song, alright?
Yes, I think that was what MJ's one was like.
I'm sorry, it needs a plinky plong.
It needs a plinky plong.
This one is too long.
So, just give it a little, we'll give it thirty seconds, alright?
And then we'll get some idea about it.
But one minute forty-six.
This could go on an album, I mean this is-
This needs to be, just to be clear, these are meant to be jingles.
Not songs, these are jingles.
Alright, here we go.
We'll just play 30 seconds.
Three, two, one, play. We're tells to the show Here we are in St. Louis Oh what a blast
Bring a laugh, there are stories to the podcast
Toss you now, get a laugh
We trust, sharing tales
From the bath block to the Bristol dust
With every episode a new adventure begins
In the world of Young's cast, where the fun never ends
Here we are in St. Louis, from the neighbor's swine den
Sits a bedside table
This is good actually, this is great With the Bristol bush and eight chairs In the Triforce den, sits in bed and... This is good actually! This is great! This is funny!
This is crystal gush of H.S.
In the Triforce world, the humor's the best
Of dad chats to games and all in between
The banter's like nothing you've ever seen
A trio of friends with stories so vast
In the realm of the Triforce, you'll have a blast
From dad chats to games
Nice, we should actually use this, good
...like nothing you've ever seen
I think this is great, really
Are we stopping? Are we stopping it? Yeah, yeah, we can stop, yeah, yeah Yeah, I think this is great. Are we stopping?
Are we stopping it?
Yeah, yeah, we can stop, yeah, yeah.
I think we can stop there, I got the gist.
Oh, Brandon.
So, just to give you some idea, I believe, I'll see if I can find the email again, but
essentially I think he gave an AI a prompt, and then it generated this song.
Like, two things.
Oh, no way.
So that was that.
This is a trance remix, this is by Robert.
And we have five of these, by the way.
Sorry, sorry, so Brandon's one was AI lyrics?
Brandon's one was partially AI generated.
I think he got an AI to generate the lyrics, then he fed the lyrics into another AI that
makes music from lyrics.
So that's how that works.
It does feel like that in elements, I mean.
It was very kind of positive.
It was very Triforce positive.
You know what I mean?
Somebody sent me an AI generated country song for a character that I made in Project Zomboid.
Which is really good too.
It was funny.
I don't know, they just had these little interludes.
I don't know if you've ever heard a group of rappers freestyling?
One guy will be flowing and freestyling, and then you'll have guys in the back going like
shit!
Or damn!
Or laughing, or going like whoa!
And stuff like that.
It had that in it.
But it was a country song, so there's this one part where it's like, I'm coughing on
you bitch!
And then in the back there was a hype guy going like, what the fuck.
It was so funny.
It was really funny.
Right, this is the trance version of it.
So alright, we'll do it in three two one go oh no it's got the mailbag sample in it
get my my my fluorescent glow sticks out
this one's a lot louder than the others, I'll have to turn it down.
It's loud.
When is the foam gonna start spraying?
When's the drop?
There it is.
Here it goes.
Okay, okay.
We're in Ibiza, we're doing it.
We moved Triforce to Ibiza now.
I appreciate the trance. I'm not the biggest fan of trance, but I appreciate the trance.
I like it. I like trance.
This is hilarious, Robert.
Alright, we got two from Josh here, and these are...
Okay, hang on.
Well, you still listening?
Hang on.
He's gotta recover at least.
So, I just have to calm down.
That's, okay, the problem with that is, it's just a bit too high energy.
Yeah.
For Earth for this.
Lewis forgot himself and did some ecstasy, so he's gotta cut down.
I don't think it works when they have a really sort of high pumping energy intro, and then
it's like, it goes into something...
A mailbag! something slow and boring.
I kind of liked...
Once again!
I liked how it did keep that haunting...
It was haunting?
Sort of haunting floating...
The mailbag.
It is haunting, you're right.
The mailbag.
I don't know why.
It's kind of...
It's very Kate Burch or something.
Because I'm secretly incredibly depressed, I guess.
I don't want to imagine you deadflax, but I think that'd be especially haunting if that
was echoing through the halls of a church at your funeral.
It's not an open casket, they bring the casket in and all you hear is like, oh, mailbag.
They just bring giant speakers in and play that.
Yeah, that'd be weird.
Alright, this is Josh's first song, alright.
This is in three, two, one, go. We ain't holding back, telling it like it is, answering questions, dropping knowledge
with the rims, just the motherfucking fail pass.
I love this.
Oh, we have to use this one.
This has to be used.
This outro bit, we can just stop it now.
Oh, I see, you can just fade out on this bit.
That is sinister and gritty, and the lead up is so amazing.
Aw man, I love it.
So get this one.
This is the last one.
So hang on, so this is another version of the Motherfucking Mailbag?
No, no, no, this is different.
This is two minutes, it's too long.
But just listen to this change in vibe.
The first bit of Josh is the fact that it just opens with, MOTHERFUCKIN' MAILBAG!
And then... And then sets the scene, and then it's got
an outro we could fade out and we could come in talking over the outro. It actually works
as an intro. Alright, you ready? Three, two, one, go!
It's the motherfucking mailbag! Oh, this is more like a boy band feel to it.
It's the motherfucking mailbag! Oh, this is more like a boy band feel to it. Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh my god.
Okay.
It sounds like a Nickelback song now.
Yeah.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna stop it.
I'm gonna stop it.
Yeah.
Cause it's another two minutes of that. But yeah,
it's funny. But the first one still for me is way better. I do like it's a motherfucking
male bag. Yeah, I do like that. Oh God, that intro is so good. Every genre has been covered.
We need a country music one as well. Yeah, we need an orchestral one as well.
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I don't know which...
I don't know if...
The second to last for me.
It's the motherfucking mailbag.
Yeah, I love that.
I think that was so good.
Alright, this is... do we want to get into it, or do you want to talk about the intros?
No, I think...
No, we can move on from the intros, get into it.
Let's have our first mail.
This is excited by music, it's really...
Let's have our first male from the bank.
Alright, let's go to male.
So this is about, this is a three-parter, it's short, but anyway, here we go.
Did we hear about Liz, this is Liz Hurley, friend of the podcast, have we heard about
her new film?
No.
There is a lesbian sex scene in it.
Jeez.
Which is normal enough, but the movie was directed by her son, so
people are a little weirded out.
ALICE That is a bit weird.
JUSTIN That is a bit of an odd one.
ALICE Mom, I want you to have lesbian sex with this other actor, please.
JUSTIN Yeah.
Mom, could you work the pussy a little more, please?
Come on.
ALICE Oh my god.
JUSTIN Really get up in there, Mom.
Come on.
ALICE What?
When did you hear about this?
No, I didn't hear about this.
JUSTIN No, this is true! This is a thing.
Yeah, I did actually hear about this.
A few people have messaged me on Instagram.
I heard murmurs of this.
Oh, I heard murmurs.
Well, it's because she is your dream woman.
Well, no, she's not. It was just kind of...
She's the heartthrob of the Triforce podcast.
She's holding her own at her age.
Oh, look, she's doing great.
She's doing great.
I'm just saying that the reason it became a thing was because whenever Sips and I had
to think of a joke that, insert hot woman here, for some reason we were still saying
Liz Hurley.
Even though she's like in her 60s or whatever.
Who is the woman that pops out of the cake in the empty room in the Steven Seagal movie
Under Siege?
Remember that?
That is Erika Eleniak. Oh my god.
Okay, hang on a second, right, so listen up.
Strictly Confidential, 2024, that's what it's called.
The film has a 20% approval rating, and 3.7 on IMDB.
That's bad.
Here you go, Strictly Confidential has a screenplay that sounds like it was written by AI that
was taught every cheesy straight-to-c cable erotic thriller from the 90s. A clunky, convoluted and preposterous mess with enough unintentional laughs to make
it a guilty pleasure. Strictly confidential, it's like an erotic version of Knives Out
without any comedy suspense or Benoit Blanc. First time director Damien Hurley delivers
a disappointing erotic thriller full of predictable twists, illogical plot and stilted scenes.
Perfect.
Sounds good.
Hurley doesn't push the picture's sauciness, and he's most fatigued when it comes to blowing
minds, but strictly confidential does have the novelty of a son exploiting the sex appeal
of his mum for the benefit of an otherwise uninteresting whodunit.
Mmm! Nice!
What a scathing review.
Scathing, scathing.
Was it worth it, in the end?
I think if you're gonna make a movie, an erotic movie, with your mother in it, and make her
do a lesbian sex scene, you want that one to go down in history, like a classic, you
know what I mean?
Yeah.
What a brave decision.
Yeah, something like that.
Anything less than that is unacceptable, so, for this, to get such a bad review, I think,
is a real loss.
Terrible.
I'll watch it, because it sounds dreadful.
I love that.
It sounds terrible, and I will definitely watch it.
It's a thing where a mother trusts her, believes in her son.
A mother just loves her son.
You know, wants to...
Do anything she can.
Everyone thinks their child is God's gift to the planet, right?
No, no.
Only idiots think that.
Yeah.
Well, I dunno, you know, there could be a number of reasons just wanting to support
him or...
Yeah. It does feel like nepotism though, in a sense.
You know, I've got my...
Do I...
Who could I get famous to be in my movie?
Oh, my mum!
Yeah.
Alright, so these are the two conspiracy theories that John added to the email.
Uh, the...
Right.
Relating to Liz?
No.
You know that earthquake in New York City the other week?
Yeah.
So some people claimed it was because of Hasidic Jews tunneling underground, causing the earthquake.
Right?
Of course it was.
I can see how they came to that conclusion.
Of course.
That's the first thing I would've thought about as well.
It's like, the Underminer from fucking...
Incredibles.
But the earthquake was actually in New Jersey.
Is that because they fucking... is that because they live underground?
No, so there is a... it's weird, because like with all of these things, there is an actual
story, you can look this up, I can't remember what the name of the premises is, but essentially
Hasidic Jews were tunneling underground to enlarge an area that they had underground,
and that was illegal
and it became kind of a story or something, you can look up the details of that.
It definitely did not cause an-
Oh, in New York City, where every single- it's the same in London though, right?
Everyone's adding a basement to their house.
I think the only way that doing any kind of work like that would cause a huge earthquake
would be if they accidentally woke up an ancient
evil.
An ancient demon.
Yeah.
Because what else is going to cause that other than like a nuke going off underground or
something.
You have awakened Dornamu.
Yeah, I feel like that's the only thing that is going to probably cause an earthquake.
I mean, it's unlikely, right?
That just like, you know, a little bit of tunneling.
Maybe that was the giveaway in the Great Escape.
Did you feel that?
Did you feel that 7.7 magnitude earthquake?
They are tunneling.
They must be tunneling into the camp.
There must be some Hasidic Jews hiding in the camp!
The best tunnelers!
So, and this is another, this is a funny, final conspiracy theory here from John.
Third grade teachers are being paid more than other teachers, because that's the year when
kids traditionally learn cursive, which is, y'know, joined up writing.
The conspiracy is that...
Oh, I thought you said cursing? No, cursive, which is, y'know, joined up writing. The conspiracy is that... Oh, I thought you said cursing! No, cursive.
God.
I know that certain ages are real worse than other ages, like Year 9 apparently are pretty
awful.
Right, Year 9 they're like 14, right?
Yeah.
They're fucking awkward, and their teeth don't look like they fit in their face, and they're
pimply...
But they're also having to teach them ahead of exams and stuff, so they should be paid
more.
But anyway, the theory here is that they're teaching them how NOT to write cursive, so
that the government can control future generations more easily, because they won't be able to
read the country's founding documents.
That's the conspiracy.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense.
That makes a lot of sense.
I'm sure that's true.
100% true.
I would argue that most of the people that can actually read it in the present day don't
fucking understand it anyway.
There's not really much of a...
I guess maybe there's just some sort of extra padding on the keep people stupid or something?
Who knows, yeah, who knows.
I feel like I have to write so rarely now on something.
The other day I wrote a happy birthday card on paper.
And, well, sometimes people send me messages to the Yogscast inbox saying, oh, you know,
I'm getting married, or my husband's 40th, or whatever.
And they're like, can you do this expression?
And I'm like, well, at least I can do is send them a card.
That's very impressive.
You write it out by hand.
I write, like, I'm out a couple of weeks, that's always not very often. But I was writing
this long message and I realised, I looked at it after I'd written it, I was like, I'm
not sure how any of these words are spelled, if I spelled them correctly. Because there
were like three words I'd written and I wasn't sure how, if I'd spelled them I just was like, fuck it, I'm not gonna look them up, you know what
I mean? I'm just gonna send it off and just hope that he doesn't think I'm, you know,
an idiot.
Illiterate.
I had to write something on a calendar the other day, so like, not even, you know, flat
on a surface, it was like, you know like hanging on a wall. I had to write something
on the calendar. Wrote it, didn't think anything of it. A couple of days later I look at the
calendar. I guess I was having a stroke when I wrote whatever I wrote. I couldn't even-
Or Lammu Emergence!
Yeah, I don't even know what it was!
Just like a load of runic symbols.
Something important's happening on that date, but I don't know what it is. I don't know what I wrote.
Hahaha! God, I've got this with my phone, right? So, sometimes I'll make a note on my
phone of something to remind me of, you know, and... and when I look back, it's just nonsense!
Yeah.
It's just, it's just, it's just as absolute, it's just nonsense. Herbs, chives, and unusual
fruit. What does that mean? Why have I written that? ALICE It's a pomegranate.
Maybe like a pomegranate or a passion fruit.
That's a little bit...
It's a bit...
JUSTIN I don't think they're unusual.
ALICE They're pretty unusual.
They're not your average fruit, like...
JUSTIN But I'm thinking of ones you'd have to go to a specialist supermarket to get.
ALICE Yeah, but if you're talking like, barg...
You know, your baseline fruit, for me it'd be like apples,
bananas, oranges, pears...
Uh huh.
Lemons?
I think grapes maybe?
Yeah, lemons, but like, lemons I would put a category up because it's more for cooking.
More of an ingredient.
It's more of an ingredient, you're not just gonna let...
You ain't eating a lemon.
Nah. And then I would probably put kiwi fruit up there too, because it's just like a, y'know.
I'm not buying those.
I would not buy that.
My phone is full of lots of stuff.
One of them just says, train conductor outfit.
What does that mean?
Like, did I one time think I wanted one, or should dress up as one for something?
That's like from like three weeks ago, I have no idea why I wrote that.
Alright, let's talk about food.
This one's titled, 30 Days with No Food.
This is from Jesse.
Oh my god.
Couple years back I fasted for 30 days straight, and all they took was vitamins and electrolytes
and drank water.
No food, no calories.
Oh my lord.
So these are the bullet points of what it was like. Food became all I could think about,
no surprise. I watched YouTube cooking tutorials, bought cooking appliances, even cooked meals for
my housemates just to be near food. On top of that, my sense of smell became heightened.
Imagine how good a home-cooked dinner smells. I magnify that by 300%.
good a home-cooked dinner smells, I magnify that by 300%. Started at 205 pounds, by day 30 I was at 167 pounds, that's over a pound per day of
lost body mass.
ALICE Wow.
JUSTIN I had a body scan done before and after, and of the 38 pounds I lost, about 22 pounds
was fat, and 16 pounds was muscle.
I only had to shit three times in the whole month.
ALICE Holy shit.
JUSTIN The first was on day one, and then once every one and a half weeks, and it was
just like, it was like a tarry substance, apparently.
ALICE The walk of Coup.
Yeah.
JUSTIN I work in an office job, had to continue working, and live in a normal life, but one
time they did have to run for a train that they were late for, and they almost passed
out after running a hundred meters.
No food is ever tasted as good as the first taste after thirty days.
ALICE Well, okay, I'm interested to know what is
the first thing you ate after.
You woke up on the day thirty and you're like, I'm done, I'm gonna eat.
JUSTIN I'm gonna eat.
So here's what they ate.
So bearing in mind, if you haven't eaten in a long time, it's quite dangerous, you gotta
take it easy.
ALICE Yeah, you have to.
You gotta take it easy.
I'm gonna guess a Kit Kat. ALICE I'm gonna say, like, maybe a slice of bread.
Okay, you're closer.
A plain slice of bread!
Why, you're gonna absolutely go into overdrive, you haven't even taken a solid shit in a month.
Exactly.
So they had some-
What are you gonna do, eat like a chicken dinner?
You'd be fuckin' puking' everywhere, and shitting everywhere.
They had some bone broth soup with some garlic bread.
The garlic bread was not a great decision, but the taste was worth it, apparently.
Alright.
Yeah, nice salty soup.
They saved $250 by not ordering any food, or drinking, and about $5 on bog roll.
That's a must they saved.
I would, uh, I think I would ease in with a bit of fruit, actually.
Like just a little fruit salad.
You know what I'd have in there?
Like a couple of strawberries, maybe like a few blueberries.
A couple of raspberries, just to give it a little bit of pimp or whatever.
And then like just some sliced up banana.
Oh man.
That's what I would open with.
I would open with that.
Love a fruit salad.
Just to add to this, it's probably very dangerous to do this, so if you're thinking of doing
a 30 day fast, be careful.
Yeah.
And just water it.
It was no, like, you couldn't have tea or anything, it was just...
Right, but they had electrolytes and vitamins.
Some people struggle to fast for like, you know, days, let alone weeks.
So I know that if you're gonna do this, and like Lewis said, we do not recommend this.
No, do not ever do this.
I would say, not only do we not recommend it, we forbid you from trying it.
I know that, but if you are gonna attempt something like this, and again, we're urging
you not to, you should absolutely see your doctor first.
And say, I'm thinking of doing this, they will tell you you should not do this, but they can at least give you a health check
and say, if you do do it, you'll probably be healthy enough to get through it, but if
you are suffering from any other conditions or whatever, don't starve yourself. We're
meant to eat every day. We're meant to eat every day.
Yeah. Life is precious and it's already short enough,
don't take unnecessary risks. Yeah.
I would've thought, okay, if he was fasting for 30 days, he would constantly be thinking
of something.
I'd be thinking about pizza constantly.
And, on day 30, I would wake up and make a pizza immediately.
I wouldn't even care.
Like at 6am, your wife would come down and you'd be staring at the oven.
I'd just order Pizza Hut or something.
Like, sir, you do realise it's 8am?
I don't fucking care.
Oh my god, it'll be like, that's what the calendar is!
Okay, so the calendar has got like, the day of your fast again, but you were so out of
it that you didn't know what you'd written.
And then you woke up and you were staring into the oven, mumbling, and your wife thought
you were summoning Dormammu.
But no, it was early morning pizza, that's all.
Oh my lord.
Oh, that is probably a better plot than Damien Hurley's movie.
Maybe that could be his next movie, if he's listening.
Damien?
Yeah.
Damien, if you're listening, I'm sure you are.
Sure, he's a huge fan.
I think what attracted him to the podcast is the new jingle we're gonna be using.
Oh hell yeah.
The motherfucking mailbag one.
The motherfucking mailbag!
The motherfucking mailbag!
Alright, this is crazy baby names from New Zealand.
Right.
Oh, okay, by the way, we got an email, a lot of emails, that we were perpetuating the
urban myth of Ladasha, again.
It's a common...
Alright, whatever.
Who cares.
We're moving on.
This is crazy baby names from New Zealand.
Alright?
These might not be real.
I've looked it up, this is an article in The Guardian listing these names.
These are 100% real.
Okay, I just wanna put this disclaimer out there.
Everything we've said ever might not be real. because we are humans, and we fall for...
You're fucking coming here for facts, you're in the wrong place.
For real.
Okay.
This is uh-
But God bless you all the same.
Yeah, sure.
This is rejected baby names in New Zealand, okay.
Rejected baby names?
Yeah, so, the Department of Births, Deaths, and Marriages was like, no, you can't do this,
this is ridiculous.
And you can read about the most famous one, is Tallulah does the hula in Hawaii.
Alright?
And Tallulah does the hula in Hawaii.
Yeah.
A nine year old girl whose parents named her, sorry, Tallulah does the hula from Hawaii,
was put into court guardianship in New Zealand so her name could be changed.
This kid was mortified about her name, she went by the name Kay just to avoid being mocked
and teased, and the judge was like, this is the judgement, the court is profoundly concerned
about the very poor judgement that this child's parents have shown in choosing this name,
it makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap unnecessarily.
Hey man, like what the fuck are you thinking?
Yeah, I agree actually.
That's so stupid.
It's a bit cruel as well, knowing-
It is cruel.
It is cruel.
I don't care if you were stoned when you came up with this.
It's fucking ridiculous.
If you partake in a society, then you have to sometimes adhere to some of the rules and
norms of society as well. And you have to consider that
your kid is... you're getting your kid ready to partake in that society as well, and going full
well that if you give your kid a stupid fucking name, you're setting them up for basically a
lifetime of torment. From the get-go.
Exactly. Seriously. It's the dumbest thing. It's incredibly selfish. And if the kid doesn't like the name you've given them, a normal name, they can change
it at their behest later.
Or how about just give them a reasonable name, it's not that fucking hard, we've been doing
it forever.
What is the problem here?
How about Fish and Chips?
That's one.
That's a bad one, listen up.
It's not so bad.
Look, people have always had stupid names.
Any English toffee-nose person is, you know, Boris Percival, Ermentrude, Bottle of Wine
the Third, right?
That's different. That's different.
It's ridiculous.
No, but those names are meant to signify to other posh people, I am one of you. That's
the point. That's why the pronunciations are ones that us non-rich people
will fuck up.
At least those are actual names though. I'm not gonna have a kid and name him Goen Loco
down in Alcapoco. That doesn't make any sense to do that. It's so stupid.
And secondly, a lot of times people do name their children, and I find this quite annoying, some elaborate version of their
name. They're like, their name is Tallulah does the hula from Hawaii, but we call her
Lulu, right? Or whatever. And it's like, they almost, they deliberately pick a name that
they're not going to use. That frustrates me. It's like, well, we're going to call our
kid this from the age of a baby, and yet that's not their real name. Their real name is some ludicrous, alternative, long version.
So, how about number 16 bus shelter? That's bad.
Okay, if you're 30 years old and you think that that's funny to go and do a deed poll
and rename yourself to that, more power to you, that's fine. Don't name a fucking baby something stupid like that that they're stuck with.
Mason- Exactly. I think the thing is, you don't know if your child will... Well, you
probably should do. There'll be a time when that child will maybe likes it, maybe embraces
it, maybe actually can get on the joke with you, right? But that's not necessarily going to be in
their first twenty years of life. And so, as a result, you can really upset kids with
these types of things, right? Especially mess up their social situations.
I wouldn't even name a cat that. I don't even like cats.
Alright, well let's change the subject. This has angered us greatly. Alright, this is from...
So hang on, there's loads of other names like this, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, we could do this all day.
There's a million of these.
Benson and Hedges, somebody named their kids their twins, Benson and Hedges, that's a brand
of cigarettes.
That is fucking...
That has gotta be one of the chavviest things I've ever heard.
Yeah, that is so chavvy.
There's someone called Batman Bin Superman, who ironically went on to commit some crimes.
I wonder why.
Fuckin' hell.
Yeah, I mean, god, there's some great names.
Kobe, Buffalo Meat.
Midnight Chardonnay, that's one.
Andy Brandy, Casa Grande the Fourth.
Yeah, Detroit.
Stallion. Salton McDoom, Detroit. Uh. Stallion.
Salton McDoom 2020.
Twisty Poi.
Keenan Gottlussie.
Sex Fruit?
Oh, that's not allowed.
Oh my god.
And one kid was just called Violence.
That's so bad.
Right.
Violence.
Yeah.
Alright, this one's titled Dad Nearly Murdered Family.
Jeez.
Alright.
I'm just emailing this from when I was eight. We were on a family
camping trip in the beautiful south coast of Australia. My dad endangered all our lives
when he forgot to bring a pump for our blow up mattresses. He tried blowing the first
one up with his mouth, but after a while decided it was too much effort. So he started the
car and attached the whole of the mattress to the car exhaust and inflated the mattresses
pretty quickly. In the middle of the night, my dad woke up with a really bad headache. He realized that their mattress had deflated
during the night due to a hole. He woke us all up and got out of the tent feeling groggy and
disoriented. My dad got a good yelling at in the campground from my mum in the middle of the night
with me and my sister standing confused in our pajamas. He only recently told us kids what he'd
done and says he's very happy no one died and he was very stupid for what he did.
I don't know if there's enough carbon monoxide in a double mattress to kill a family, but
apparently not.
Very very close call.
And it's so fucking dangerous.
And it's so fucking dangerous.
Because you're in the tent!
Oh my god.
He is lucky that nobody died.
Really lucky.
I know that, I'm sure I spoke about this actually in a previous episode, I read a story about
this guy, him and his wife went camping and they happened on those little
portable barbecues.
Yeah.
And at night, in order to warm up the tent, they dragged the used, um, tray of barbecue
coals inside the tent and went to sleep.
And she died and he woke up similarly, incredible headache, stumbled outside.
The barbecue continues to release carbon monoxide even when it's caught.
Of course it does!
As it's going down, it's just releasing it, and you're in an enclosed space.
Be very careful.
Holy shit.
They are, no joke.
So yeah, really really really bad.
Fucking hell.
So yeah, your dad got very lucky.
Very lucky.
Fucking hell.
Oh god.
Wow, yeah, that is...
That's a close one.
Frightening.
I guess it doesn't...
It's not one of those obvious...
I guess we are surrounded by these things all the time.
This reminds me of those electrical cords, extension cords, that Heaven America, they're
two prongs on either side.
Man, how the hell do you explain that, though?
You get home from your camping trip, and your wife has died, and then you have to contact
her family and say, oh, sorry, Susan's dead.
What?
What happened?
Well, you're never gonna believe this.
Holy shit!
God, I would love- well, in some ways I would hate to be, but I'd love to be a fly on the
wall for that conversation, because I think that one would
be painfully awkward.
Jesus.
That would just be the worst.
Man.
And they play the mailbag song at their funeral.
Yeah, the motherfucking mailbag.
The mailbag.
Oh, not the sad one.
Not the-
It's the motherfucking mailbag!
Yeah, no, the sad one.
It was what they wanted!
That's what they wanted!
I've got the sad music for her funeral if it makes you feel better.
That's the wrong one!
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This is from Kelly from Ohio.
These are names.
I used to work in a call center maintaining life insurance policies.
And I kept a list of the funniest names I encountered.
It's quite a long list, so we'll just go through some of these, okay?
Pam Fox.
Jesus.
Furlough Grace Forville-us.
Robert J. Bobber Jr.
Annalyn Dilemma.
Stop it, stop going so fast!
I don't have time to laugh at each one!
This is gonna take an hour, if I just read them, and then pause and we discuss each one.
I barely got time to process the last one when you're already on the next one.
Alright.
What was that last one?
Annalyn Delevo?
Yeah.
And pause.
Shall I continue?
Hang on, I need a minute.
Yes!
One second.
Fucking hell.
Pete, Pete, Panana.
Eat?
Pete, Pete, PANANA. Pete, Pete, PANANA. Are you ready for the next one?
Yes.
Mary Cush.
Pete, Pete, PANANA.
Are you ready for the next one?
Patricia Supersad.
Supersad?
That's not a last name!
Brian Pinkstaff.
Supersad is not a last name.
Bobby Abercrombie.
You're just reading them weird now.
Bobby Abercrombie is a fine name.
No it's not, it's ridiculous.
Silly.
Donald W. Fugger.
That's a classic.
The W.
Terry Berry?
Oh, Terry Berry.
He's like a mascot.
And on the same theme, Lucille O'Neill.
Could we imagine that Mary Berry's husband is called Terry Berry?
This guy's name was Eric, but spelled air hyphen rick.
Eric.
Wow.
Like, like Air Jordan's.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's Bob Daddy.
I kinda like that.
Bob Daddy.
That's a good one.
Bob Daddy.
Bob Daddy.
Bob Daddy.
Pete Panana is the best one for me.
Yeah, that's amazing.
Pete Panana is the best one for me. Yeah, that's amazing. Pete...
Pete Panana.
Oh.
I would like to page that guy in a department store.
Paging with Pete Panana.
I would die, I would be dead.
I saw him by the bananas!
I would be dead.
You would see me die in public.
Oh, fuck.
Alright, this is from Pete.
When I was a kid, my dad, not Pete Panan...
When I was a kid, my dad opened his own museum in the garden of our house.
This is such a dad thing to do.
ALICE Yeah, that is a dad thing.
ALICE Just to show off his collection of post boxes.
ALICE Oh god.
ALICE Is he British?
That sounds like a very British thing to do as well. JUSTIN I think he is. After a few years we officially became the Cone Valley Postal History Museum, and even
got one of those little M symbols on the map.
The museum would be open to visitors and tours, and to the public, for National Heritage Open
Days for free, and this year marks the 20th anniversary of opening.
If you could open your own museum, what dull and
or mundane thing would be the focus? See, for example, post boxes. So, yeah, what are we gonna,
what would our museums be? Oh, wow. This, okay, I'm just looking at the
Colman Valley Postal History Museum. Looks great, actually., it's kinda cute, it's like an old... it's basically a shed.
But there are two sheds now, it's actually expanded.
There's a shed and a shed two.
And shed two contains 35 different post boxes.
And a long railway.
ALICE There's the dad.
There's the dad.
Fellow boldman.
Good on ya, son.
ALICE Honestly, I think this is a very cute, cool,
old British thing.
JUSTIN It's very British.
Very British.
ALICE Yeah, it does sound very British.
JUSTIN In America it would be, world's largest post box!
Come see the world's largest post box!
ALICE It would be that, but it would be more like,
here's my vast collection of empty Aunt Jemima syrup bottles, or something like that.
It'd be something really stupid.
But it would be huge as well.
Like, yeah.
I mean, in Britain there's just no room, right?
So the best you can do is have a garden shed with a couple of boxes in it.
One of the links on the website...
So this is cvcoldvalleyposhistorieruseum.org.uk,
right? But one of the links links to.org rather than.org.uk, which is a French website about
the health benefits and risks of moderate champagne consumption.
Of course. Of course.
It's very, it's got a whole load of, it's like a health...
It's weird.
That is weird.
So yeah, I accidentally found myself on that website because some of their links didn't
work.
And I was like, this is weird, it's suddenly French.
God.
Wow, post box collecting.
I love this.
This is so quiet, so British.
Where's Colm Valley anyway?
Everyone knows, it's in East Anglia somewhere.
Oh man.
Oh, speaking of which, had an email very quickly.
Lewis, is it true that you support Ipswich Town Football Club?
It is true, yeah.
There you go.
It is true.
Are you a staunch supporter?
Who's the current manager?
Oh, that would of course be...
Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta.
Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta.
Yeah.
This is a different one.
This is from Charlie.
This is a question.
Charlie has attempted to rank their order of how good we are at parallel parking, alright?
So he claims that I would be the best parallel parker, would have to make at least one correction
before it's perfect.
Sips is the second best, he does it on the first attempt every time, but it's never perfect,
he just waves his arm and says, good enough.
ALICE Yes, absolutely.
This is very true.
JUSTIN Lewis cannot parallel park.
ALICE No, I would hit something. Yeah. JUSTIN Thank you, absolutely. And Lewis cannot parallel pump. No, I would hit something.
Thank you, Charlie.
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The blue lines and the red lines?
Oh man, it's so good.
Well, it's just, I've not driven for six years now.
And that was when I was on holiday.
Yeah, well, I mean, you're talking, so you haven't driven since 2018, and cars have had
the boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo thing in since about 2001.
Right, but it's an older car that he's driving, or it doesn't have it.
Like ours doesn't have the beep beep beep beep, but it has the camera.
Mrs. F used to be very nervous about parking, and because of that little camera and the
thing, she's just got more confidence and now she can do it.
It's just practice.
It's always just practice.
That's all these things are.
I've been thinking about having like a practice lesson and driving again. I might like to...
It's fun. I do enjoy driving.
I'm just, I'm obviously still legally allowed to drive. I just don't necessarily think I
should be.
I know. It's one of those things where you think, I don't really know what I'm doing.
Is this okay? Is this okay?
Yeah. It's like if I was, you know, I have got a master's degree in chemistry, but I
don't think I'd really be very good if I was doing it.
Do you mean this?
Hmm.
Anyway, Ipswich town.
Yeah.
Big fan.
Old, um...
Loves them.
The blues.
He's a big fan.
The tractor boys.
Let's move on.
This is a question for Sipsyboy.
Right.
I'm ready, yeah.
Apparently you were having a blast watching The Australian Married at First Sight."
Yes.
"-I was sad he didn't get a chance to elaborate on his thoughts.
I'd love to hear who his favorite couple is, and his thoughts on Jack the Musler."
Oh my god, man.
Is that because that's who is written in?
Is it Jack the Musler?
No, this is Peter.
No, so Jack is a contestant in the most recent series of The Australian Married at First Sight. Jack
is the guy, he turns up to every dinner party cloaked in controversy, okay? Every dinner
party descends into people questioning him and yelling at him for being just the most
insanely out of touch person I think I've ever seen ever on TV.
Anyway, this one woman is really going for him at one point, questioning him and bringing
up some stuff that he'd said, or whatever, and Jack turns to her husband and says, can
you muzzle your woman?
Oh shit!
Oh my god.
Oh shit!
Yeah.
And the worst thing is that Jack's wife just stands by, and sort of like says, uh...
Well she's been muzzled, mate, that's why.
Yeah.
She's just like, no matter what he does or says, and he's smirking about it all the time,
like it's ridiculous, she just stands by him.
She's just like, oh, you know, he's actually really nice, and all
this stuff, it's crazy.
This fucking guy sounds like every footballer.
Typical laddy lad.
Do you know what I mean?
This guy has been one of the worst characters on the show ever.
Which, I know they do it for ratings, but any sensible person would see this guy coming
from a mile away.
But you see these guys around.
These people exist, and they're almost lauded by the laddie guy, or groups in Loaded Magazine
and whatever.
Another hilarious situation he found himself in was they do this thing called the
couples retreat.
So they send all of the couples that are still in the show.
This is kind of like maybe the midway or like three quarters of the way through.
They send them all to this really nice, big, like it's almost like a, it's like a big
hotel but they get the whole thing to themselves.
It's like a country like manner sort of thing.
It's got a pool and it's, it's just basically to get them out of their apartments into a different accommodation, different
setting and stuff, and then they just ply them with alcohol and they fight the whole
time.
Like, a whole weekend of this.
So, and...
I just think of the, uh, I think you should leave sketch, where he's just on this dating
show to use the zipline that goes into the pool. ALICE Yes! That's so good!
KM Right, so, everything about that sketch is so perfect.
ALICE So, Jack, one day everybody's just hanging up by the pool or whatever, and Jack is like,
he's this big gym rat, you know, he works out, he's a personal trainer, he's ripped or whatever.
So he rocks up to the pool and he says, oh, it looks like all the whales are here today.
And there's two guys, there's one older guy who's got a dad bod, and then there's a younger
guy who's had weight issues and is really self-conscious about it.
He won't take his t-shirt off to go swimming or anything, like really just, you know, he feels it a lot more and
he hears him say this comment. And so everybody's like defending him saying like,
what are you saying? Like who says that? Who turns up to a pool and says that,
that is so insensitive, blah, blah, blah. Everybody's having to go at him.
And so he decides, oh, you know what, maybe it was wrong having to go at him. And so he decides, oh, you know
what, maybe it was wrong for me to say that. And so the whole thing is like, I haven't
been able to sleep. I feel so bad for what I said and stuff. He doesn't ever actually
apologize. Okay. He talks about how it has really negatively affected him. And so to reach out as like a, as an apology to this guy, right.
He gets him, he gets him a voucher to get weight loss supplements at a store
nearby. Okay.
And gives him a gold cross and engraved in the gold cross. It says,
you're enough.
He never says, sorry, he just gives, he says, here you go, this is for you.
And the guy's like, wow, thanks, this is so thoughtful!
It's like, oh my god, it's insane.
It is insane.
I think a bunch of it has to be scripted, because I don't understand how somebody can
function in real life being that insane.
Like, he's just actually insane.
But, uh...
We all know people who, when you meet their partner, their partner is really lovely.
Yeah.
And, and then maybe you meet their, you know, boyfriend or girlfriend and you think, fucking
hell, why are you with this person?
This is hitting very close to home for me.
Oh man, I know people are like, cause I was saying I didn't, I couldn't get through the
last of us and people are like, Oh, you're an idiot.
You just watch stupid reality shows and stuff.
It's like, okay.
The, the, the thing is though, yeah, I watch crappy reality shows, but it's more of a,
like a, like an experience.
It's an event, you know, like I'm watching it with my wife and it's like of an experience, it's an event, you know?
Like I'm watching it with my wife, and it's like we're on Gogglebox or something, you
know?
We're making fun of these people, we're having a laugh, it's funny.
A show that takes itself super seriously, like the last one, you can't do that to.
Or it's not as fun to do it to, you know what I mean?
It takes itself very seriously, and parts of it are really good, and then some of it
just wasn't that great, in my opinion.
But, you know, it's just an opinion.
You don't have to question everything about me just because I like to laugh at reality
TV every once in a while.
Don't take it to heart, son.
You are enough.
You are enough.
Thanks, I'm gonna use my weight loss supplements immediately.
Oh man.
So this is an interesting one.
This hadn't occurred to me before, so thank you for sending this in, Matt.
And I've looked it up, and this is quite interesting. I found it interesting.
I came back to my family's home during the Easter holidays, during which time I went to see June 2.
Great movie, by the way.
However, when I came back to my university city of Liverpool a couple of days later, I decided to re-watch June 2 as I'd enjoyed
it so much. I found the pre-movie trailers to be different in each cinema. Note that the cinema I
watched both movies in were from the same company and my hometown is considered southern. So he's
from south, he's going back up north for university season movie. The trailers for the identical
movies were completely different.
For example, the trailers from the cinema in Liverpool had higher energy, more explosions,
fast cuts, flashing lights, splash text, quippy lines.
Whereas the trailers from his hometown were more slower paced and sort of arty
and had a greater emphasis on plot.
So the features were prominent in the trailers for the new Mad Max movie,
Borderlands, Fallout, Fall Guy, and the 1984
audiobook. The trailers from the Liverpool cinema were more dumbed down, especially the audiobook.
I'm not sure if I'm looking too deep into things, but I think that the same company,
like, same movie, different cinemas, different cities, has different trailers. Perhaps the
trailers were on rotation, decided by a company, etc. So I looked into this.
Yeah, there's some, there's gotta be some science behind it.
They're looking at population, you know, like they're looking at the type of people that
live in these cities predominantly, the type of people that are going to see movies in
these cities, they're trying to appeal to them.
I mean, they're just trying to get people into cinemas and they're appealing to the
demographics that are available to
them.
They're going to have reams of data.
Right, but it's like our cinemas classist.
Because essentially what the cinema is saying is, oh, you're from Liverpool, then you'll
enjoy this dumbed down action movie or stupid comedy because you're working class.
Oh, you're from a nice town in the south?
Well then here, listen to this 1984 audiobook and enjoy
these arty movies." So, the coming attractions, as some people call them, or the trailers,
if it's a big franchise movie, it'll come with strings attached. So, they'll be like,
probably from the same studio. If you want to show a movie, these are the trailers we
want you to run with it. These two. But then, the cinema chooses which trailers we want you to run with it, these two, but then the cinema chooses which trailers they
want to run. Now, I suppose part of it might be that a smaller, more arty cinema is going to show
trailers for films that they're going to be showing in that cinema, and they might not be showing the
new Adam Sandler blockbuster comedy Jack and Jill 2 or whatever, so they're not going to run that
trailer. They're going to run a trailer for some art house movie fucking Vin Vendors directed or whatever.
So I do think it's pretty sensible for businesses to run trailers for movies that they're gonna
show.
And I guess these big cinemas, in places where they tend to show more blockbuster-y stuff,
are gonna run those trailers.
So I thought it was interesting.
I always just figured that it was just like, I don't know, it hadn't occurred to me who
chooses the trailers.
But I guess it's a combination of the two.
They probably get a sense, the cinema, you know, on location will have some sort of sense
for what does well in their cinema as well.
You know, they might say, oh yeah, look, it's the new Fast and Furious movie.
The last one that came out, we thought that it would be sellout theaters every single
night, and it wasn't. And but like, you know, um, uh, Damien Hurley's new erotic thriller came out
and that shit was packed to the gills. So, you know, we, we, we're looking at it from the outside
in and making a subject like these, these people, this, they do this every day. So they, they know,
they get a sense for what works, and where.
Do they?
I think they do, they must do, yeah.
If you're doing that all the time...
Do they though?
Because there's no feedback.
It's not like they're immediately booking that meal.
No, but you can just look at ticket sales for that kind of stuff.
Yeah, that's the feedback.
I mean, for example, there's a cinema near me in Feltum, it's the biggest cinema here,
that's close to us.
And it has, that part of Feltam has a very large population of Indian people.
So when you go to see a movie, some of the trailers that you're seeing will be for Indian movies, like Bollywood movies and stuff that they're showing at that
cinema. So that's clearly the cinema saying, run the trailers for...
We know that this demographic visits our theater and we want to capitalize on that.
Yeah, I mean, it makes sense.
It's completely makes sense.
I mean, whereas when we saw what I mean, me and Lewis saw, June 2, every man in Bristol.
And I'd say the trailers were pretty standard.
There were, there was maybe one or two movies that were kind of not ones you'd seen a multiplex.
By the way, the trailer for the new Zendaya movie where she's like a tennis player? Holy fucking shit that looks bad. If you haven't seen the trailer, can't
remember what it was called. Veloz literally turns into a joke.
Oh, Zendaya the one in Dune. She's in Dune.
Yeah, yeah.
The trailer is, Zendaya's a professional tennis player, and there's like, there's these two
hot guys, and she sort of can't pick between them, so she just has both.
Yeah. And then it's like classic love triangle, but then somehow THEY become tennis players?
And where was this trailer shown?
In the Everyman in Clifton.
Very nice cinema in a very nice part of Bristol.
And everyone was just like, I'm sure everyone was as horrified as I was.
I was like, this is abysmal.
Also there was one funny moment where, Dune 2 is not a comedy, but Lewis was laughing
at this one bit in the movie where Stillgar, who's like the leader of the Fremen before
Paul turns up, Paul does something, and everyone's like, well that's not what the Prophet would
do, he would say he was the Prophet.
And then Stillgar's like, no, the real Prophet would say he wasn't the Prophet, that's how
we know he's the Prophet.
Lewis was laughing, because it was like straight out of Life of Brian.
Yeah.
It was exactly- It was, it was exactly- straight out of Life of Brian. Yeah. It was exactly...
It was!
It was!
It was exactly!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was!
It was! It was! It know, like that. It was really funny.
That's a great movie by the way, I think.
That really stood up well.
This is from Zach.
An odd story from history that he thought we might find interesting.
In 1990, an unemployed French nuclear physicist named André Garde attempted a one-man invasion of Sark, armed with a semi-automatic weapon.
He arrived at night, putting up two posters declaring his intention to take over the island
the following day at noon.
After waking, he began a foot patrol in front of the island's manor in battle dress, weapon
in hand.
Then while sat on a bench waiting for noon to arrive, the island's volunteer constable
approached the Frenchman and complimented him on the quality of his weapon.
Guard changed the gun's magazine to illustrate how it worked, allowing the constable to tackle
and arrest him.
He was given a seven-day sentence, which he served in Guernsey.
André attempted his second invasion the following year, but was recognized in Guernsey, arrested
and deported back to France.
I just love the idea of this lad waking up and choosing to invade France.
I love that he tried again as well.
He's like, I'm not gonna fall for that one.
The old empty the magazine.
God, that constable is pretty smart.
What does your gun look like without a magazine?
Hey, holy shit.
That's quick thinking.
Yeah, that was so brave.
Brave.
The people of Sark not to be trifled with.
That is interesting.
That is very interesting.
Thank you for sharing that. Listen, we're about to wrap up, but also, I just want to say, not related to any mailbag
stuff, but I did enjoy, yesterday, the first episode of the new Fallout series.
I thought it was pretty good.
Oh really?
Yeah, I liked it.
Yeah.
Apparently the whole thing's out.
You can just watch the whole thing.
Yeah, yeah.
There's eight episodes.
It's just out.
Is it good? Yeah, it felt... I eight episodes, it's just out. But it felt... NICCO Is it good?
ALICE Yeah, it felt...
NICCO I've been hearing that it's good.
ALICE Yeah, it felt like the games.
It's goofy enough, it's got a bit of everything.
It's got, y'know.
NICCO Okay, I'll give it a look.
ALICE It's got the same soundtracks, it's got all
the old songs.
So, y'know, there's just...
NICCO Oh, I love that.
That's the vibe, the vibe is what I'm...
ALICE They're wandering around in the ruins of, y the ruins of LA or wherever they are, and it's all the old...
It's hard to toe the line between comedy and serious.
And I think it's very easy to fall one side or other and just be sitting.
It's got all the visual stuff, you know? They've got the Pip Boys and the little cartoon Vault Boy and all the posters, the encouraging
posters and stuff.
I mean, the story seems to hold up for now as well, and it's got a bit of everything.
But it's very, very true to the games, I feel like.
So far.
I mean, I've watched one episode.
And it's impressive as well. Visually very striking. It's very, very true to the games, I feel like. So far. I mean, I've watched one episode. And it's impressive as well.
Visually very striking.
It's nice.
ALICE Well, I was watching the Shogun series.
ALICE That's apparently really good too.
RILEY It's Deese, yeah, it's Deese.
The main actor is not great.
ALICE I mean, I read the book, the James Clavell book, like, ten years ago, and I really enjoyed
it.
RILEY So the guy who plays Blackthorn, or whatever
John Blackthorn, whatever his name is, he's
okay. And there's another guy in it who I recognized. And like I'd say the guy who's
playing John Blackthorn or whatever the guy's name is, he's kind of like a budget Tom Hardy.
And I thought it was Tom Hardy for a second and I was like, that's not Tom Hardy, is it?
And looked it up. He's okay, but he's kind of like a shit Tom Hardy. There's another
character he meets that I thought was Jeffrey Rush, and it's not Jeffrey
Rush, it's like a budget Jeffrey Rush.
And I was like, is that Jeffrey Rush?
He's like, that's not Jeffrey Rush.
So it's weird because the acting is like good, but at times you think this isn't great, for
what is clearly quite a big budget TV show.
I just think they could have maybe got some better actors in, but it's decent, I'm enjoying
it. ALICE There's a decent part in Fallout where, is it Michael Rapoport?
JUSTIN Michael Rapoport.
ALICE Rapoport is in it.
He's a knight in the Brotherhood of Steel, so he's got the power armor on and stuff.
And you don't know it's him until, you know, they take the mask off or whatever, but it's
very funny, it's very Fallout, it's just goofy, you know?
But it's nice that there's that, you know, Fallout. It's just goofy, you know? But it's nice that there's that goofiness of the games, you know?
You're not gonna have people melting through the earth like the Bethesda bugs sort of thing,
but some of the situations in the dialogue are goofy enough where you're just like, yeah,
it feels like a Fallout
game in some ways.
Great.
Yeah, that's what I wanted.
Well that's that.
Oh man.
Hype.
Well there you go.
Hype.
Well thank you very much.
That was our podcast.
Yes, thank you for all your emails.
Thanks for all the mails!
And for the jingles as well, they were really good.
The jingles, the emails, really good stuff.
Yeah, nice stuff.
Thank you so much.
Thank you everyone.
Yeah.
I'll see you next time!
No no no no! I need one caveat.
Is there an outro song?
No, there's no outro song.
I just wanna say, you don't have to email in about stuff that has been on previous episodes.
If you have a new thing, chance your arm, email in, it might make it, and then start
a whole new thread.
So please keep the new stuff coming, as well as referencing older things.
If you've got an interesting story, or you think you found something interesting, send
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