484 - 2006 UK Championship

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Hello. Ladies and germs, welcome.
Welcome. Welcome to tell.
Tom Paul. I am Johnny.
I am Spencer here on dilettante,but we go on Wikipedia.
We click random article, we talkabout it.
Yeah, we do Johnny. I watched a couple movies
recently. Okay.
The Oscars Oscars came out the officers dropped this year and I
watched the Oscars drowning, Oscars Newton.
Oscars dropped. I watched my alley and I watch
the Power of the dog. Nice.

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Are you excited? And I did that and I'm proud.
Thanks, man. What did you think of them?
Pretty good. What?
I like either of them. Mmm, not know.
Okay, maybe. Did you like The Prestige never
saw it? Pretty, pretty fun.
Okay, I'm gonna go see the prestige collection 2006.
Watch a procedural. You'll probably enjoy that.
I definitely worked at the movietheater when I came out and I

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remember, you know, walking in the theater and seeing a bunch
of excited people well in the film people wearing, maybe top
hats and big coats and say oh, yeah, they love that kind of
shit. Not movie.
Yeah. It's like the Houdini Eric
Houdini era. Okay, you know.
So like 1732 Wasn't Houdini Tom?Can you imagine?

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I know he beaten burned at the stake?
Why wouldn't I? Yeah, dude.
Yeah, that's how he died. He told a bunch of dudes to burn
him at the stake and he didn't it was a ready.
Yeah, I think the only film ThatI saw, I saw West Side Story.

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Sure, which was a great time. Maybe that's it.
Great. I think that's enough.
Okay, I've even if you're seeingnone, I was at enough.
You only got so much time in your day, you know, no.
And I don't, I should, I could be watching things.
I've already seen like stuff, which I think we're doing this
weekend, right? God.
I hope so. I don't know if yeah, we've been

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trying to do it but gotta watch Revenge of the Sith man.
Well, we got to watch Revenge ofthe Sith because we just watched
take the Clones but our friend Liz wants to watch Rise of
Skywalker. She's like seeing it once which
is why we started watching them to begin with.
Okay, I've also wouldn't want some, I guess there's gotta be a
time. I've seen it three times.
Did you see which is a low number for me first Star Wars?

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That's yeah. Was it always bad?
You got done, right? Maybe this time.
Never mind. The first time I saw it.
I said, oh, that's bad. Second time I saw it.
I said going in I think maybe now that I know what to expect,
right? I'll be okay with you.
Be able to pick out the good stuff like trumpets, pretty
fucking bad. And then the third time, I

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watched it. Still bad.
That's great. Good for good.
For the you like a consistent Star Wars.
That is true. You know, have I told him I
mentioned on the old pod that I have a white lightsaber crystal.
Now, I like I like updating people on my light is still.
Yeah, I forgot. Yeah.
So on your butt and start playing John, I fall in order.

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Oh, yeah. Your it's a great time for you.
Really love Star Wars, huh? It's just nice.
I know it's always there for me,and it's Is just a nice.
That's true time, and I know what I'm getting and When things
are so bad, it's nice to just travel to a galaxy far.

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Far away. That's right.
We're not in this has happened yet.
You know what Star Wars thing? I'm actually genuinely excited
about what the new Lego Star Wars game.
Oh, is there anyone? What's this?
What's the deal? It's the Skywalker Saga, but
it's so it's you play through all of them.
It's okay, and they're like a billion, playable characters.
And those games any of the the Lego games are always a.

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I've heard that. Yeah.
Um, but I mean, literally, any character you could think of you
can play as you can play as that, that slug.
Well, I had a gay kiss slug. I know that it's gonna be the
best game of all time, players, Boba Fett.

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But yes, there's no way you can't play.
That'd be cool. Now.
There must be a sebulba minifig.What do you think?
It looks like? That'd be crazy.
It's like sebulba. But, you know, do they.
Did they make it? Like, I think it had to be a
special mini thing. I think they can make it.
Hmm human or time anyway, right?Well, you couldn't change its
cap would if you would if the legs kind of they clip in the

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same way, but then just curve upand, you know, maybe in the arms
are long. I think that there's a way to do
it. Oh, I see.
Yeah. Because the legs don't matter,
they can be a little tiny. Lego whether his hands though,
so I'm saying that maybe the hens are kind of goofy-looking
so that can look like big muscular arms, but then the feet
are does normal Lego mini feet. You know, what an interesting

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thing. Well, first okay, two things.
Okay, one is still Lego. So I'll stay with like, a smart.
We think of General Grievous minifig.
Looks like it's probably pretty fucking sad, huge.
Dude. They're called mini friends.
Would it just have Two extra arms somehow.
That'd be pretty cool. I can't even understand like a
technology works anymore. I don't know.

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Second question, which is not really a question.
But just some something that I've noticed that I don't know
if enough people have lived inside my brain to notice and
sebulba and all Doug's em, walk on their feet, yes or no, they
walk on their hands and they usetheir feet to drive draw
dresser. Yeah.
In the video game franchise Oddworld, world.

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There is a species called glucans who basically do the
same thing. Sure their hands or their feet
and their feet are tiny inside their big zoot suits.
And it's interesting that they both came out around the same
time. I'd world.
I think, the first I will come out like, 97 a little.
So, the time when, when, when George Lucas was it's just, it's

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just, you're saying the glycans their name from odd world was
like the 90s version of Flash Gordon.
It was the best he could do likeif he was going to rip off
something as I go. So welcome.
Yeah. Yeah, you know, we're all
talking about world always. Yeah.
I'm in the Zeitgeist of the time.
You know, they're supposed to beinaudible three, but on
September 11th happened. That's probably true.

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It's kind of true. I guess.
Now, what didn't actually, we did get an outdoor game then we
much as Odyssey. Munches, Odyssey was probably a
it was a launch title for the original Xbox that we had within
the right. And you could drink, so be in
that game, which was pretty sick.
No way. It was just like straight up.
Like these are the energies. There's like you go around.

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You go to a so be vending machine.
That's truly amazing. Why are I would love of game
still did that honestly? Like to that?
But to that like you're playing out in ring and then there's
just like I can drive a Mercedesand Mario Kart.
Yeah, but that, I guess that's that feels.
It's weird because I guess any contemporary product placement

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is gross, but any product placement from 20 years ago, was
very funny. It's very nice because I don't
want to have a, say, in the fucking Mario Kart and like, do
you want to drink Asobi inaudible, Rob.
So be Mercedes is like a giant company.
It's like right. Okay.
Sure, right. What's Sobeys?
Just like what? Like some weird skateboarder Joy

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Company. I could have been Gatorade or
anything like that, even remotely normal.
It was it was so Bewitched. Honestly, like the it does fit
the Sorting that was does. I think it's not the game
specifically, but like just the color palette, the extreme
nature of Xbox. Lends itself to the extreme

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nature of a lizard. Few Laurel is blizz.
Certainly. Yeah.
Well, that's what the X and X Box stood for extreme Bo
extreme. It has to but like and that
feels pre energy drink, right energy drinks.
I feel like X Games and shit wasall.

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Oh maybe just bear energy drinksfeel very be two years.
Early. Righto feels very high school,
right? Me sure.
And Xbox came. When we were in middle school,
right? Yeah, I picture of on 2000.
So they so be feels like almost a Proto definitely.
Yeah, like there was probably some some because they're not
energy drinks. Are they?

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No, but their fuel there was probably like, you know.
Guarana. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, maybe in a couple of them.Yeah, but not not just like
straight up like caffeine. Does it gonna?
Yeah. She took to the Moon.
I wonder if munches Odyssey had come out like five years later

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if it just would have been like a, you would drink like monster.
Yeah, that would feel bad that Iwould feel really bad.
I think there are games that have monster in there.
But there are games that are like, Demolition Derby games and
shit. Sure, which are like, of course,
you have Monster in there. There's there, aren't.
I mean, except for maybe the only may be funnier drink.
You can have in that game is Fruitopia.

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Do they ever mention? My name.
I gotta get a drink of so be I don't know if anyone says so be
but you there definitely. So press x 2 then.
So be yes. And what did they just give you
the hill, your health bar or something like that?
Okay. Do you have to pay for them
using like so be bucks or something?
I think you have to use some sort of in-game currency.

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Okay. Sure.
See, there's no there's no microtransactions or anything where
you buy 45 real dollars on Oddworld.
So be do they still make so big.I have no idea.
I mean they make life water, right?
Yeah, whatever. That is because I'm pretty sure
it's almost like a like a anyoneknow some sort of like Yoke

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almost yogurty kind of feel to them.
Like it's thick thin. It's Yogurt.
It's a thin. It's a thin yogurt or a thick
juice. Yeah.
It's like if amoxicillin was a little tastier.
Do you know what that you want? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's that was the pink one. Was my favorite.

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Yeah, I'm oxacillin. Yeah, it's yeah, it's not quite
as thick as like, Pepto-Bismol, right?
It's close. What a bizarre, but I want to go
back to this house and I'm with you.
I want off this. I'm still because I want to
drink one. Last time I had one couldn't
have been earlier than eighth grade, right?
Or later than eighth grade. What if they still make them?
We get one. And it's like fucking awesome.

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What if we become Sophie head? I'm down.
Let's do it. Let's find out.
They don't, I don't believe theymake for Topia anymore, though,
which is a shame as a sham. I pictured those being at like
Burger King's or the movie theater.
We had a Fruitopia machine at school.
I'm a high school. That's sweet.
Yeah, that's really sweet. My sister just sent me a picture
and the caption was like, he's still there.

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You had to be there. Oh, no, I was like, oh my God.
It was just like you had to be there and then it was just like
of the all of the choices on a vending machine and it is like
Cherry Coke. But like the older guys like
minute. It was like all these crazy
drinks. They don't make anymore Snapple.
They still make Snapple. I don't know.
Do you know about the the special like secret vending

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machine or whatever you don't talking about?
I forget where it is, but there's a very Vending machine,
that all the buttons are just like mystery buttons, and no one
knows who stalks it. It's just a single vending
machine in like Dallas, Texas orsomething.
That's fun. And so like you'll press the
button for something and it'll it'll pop out like a mr.
Pibb or something like every single thing is something crazy.

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Yeah. Mr. Pibb.
The craziest soda Imagining the that I'm talking about.
Mr. Pip. I'm saying, Pibb Xtra, I'm
talking about. Mr. Pibb for my 2000.
Okay, so it's like fired. I'm just saying weird shit.
Like you'll be like one of thoseJapanese.
Is with the we get to pop the you know, I'm saying like you
just like weird shit we have, what the fuck is this?
And sometimes we normal but you know, I know you heard of that.

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I it brings a bow to preach in my head.
It's just like outside of like alaundromat.
I don't know if it's up in here.I don't know where it is.
We have a tiny little piece of art.
I think it's in there. We got it.
Meow wolf, but there was it was a you know, like a cigarette
vending machine. Yeah, they repurpose that to

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vend little pieces of art, so It's on a little block of wood.
That's the size of a pack of figure.
Awesome. Yeah, and that's what.
So you just and you don't know what it looks like.
So you just like just what you want.
Our yeah, that's cool. Yes.
I kind of wish I smoked so that I could get a cigarette vending
machine in my house. Like in my head.
I'm like Nicolas Cage. Like I'm a rich movie star and I

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smoke cigarettes now and I have a cigarette vending machine and
that's how it just restock my own much.
You can put other stuff in thereare clearly.
Nah. What if you put, what if you got
a bunch of like here's what you do, you get a bunch of old
cigarette boxes. Where were fucking Joe Camel is
still on the hunt. Then you put Brown snacks or gum
or something there? Okay.

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Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I gotta get a cellophane
wrapper. That you know, I'm saying like a
shrink wrap. I shrink my machine.
So I actually have to take the shrink wrap off to get to my
beef jerky or whatever. That's smart.
I we should we should start smoking man.
I think Now's the Time right? Probably.
There's probably not too much. We don't have much left in this

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life. I don't think.
Hmm. I'm getting an article.
What if we did start? So if you start smoking at 50 or
something, wouldn't they be good?
Because it because there was like, well, I've been smoking
for 50 years and I'm fine. It's catching up to me, but
these are 250, you die in 10 or 20 years.
Anyway, interest, you know, saying stuff.
Like maybe you could enjoy the smoking with none of the

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consequences because you have tolive to be 110 days.
You start all your vices, right?That's not a it's not a bad
plan. Right?
If smoking is awesome. If it's cool, if it's good. and
if it's fun to do and it is yeah, something about You want
to know what article I got? Yes. 2006, UK Championship.

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Okay. In it.
What known as the 2006 maplin? UK championship for sponsorship
reasons? Okay.
Yeah. All you know, map one.
That's like, oh well, here you go.
It was the 2000. World's worst theme park is the
2006 edition of the UK Championship.
Oh, so 2006 10K! A professional snooker
tournament. That is one of the sports three

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Triple Crown events. Well, there are they all just
like bar, Sports is like darts and flip cup.
I think it means that there are three big snooker events.
Oh my God, who cares? Snickers?
Just like a small? Billiards more or less, right?
I think so. Oh, here we go.
Other obstacles on table like a pinball machine.

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I imagine. It's like it's like the cricket
version of Billiards. Okay.
Sure. Or it's close enough.
We go. A lot of recognize that table
and you see them playing like, oh never mind, right?
Okay, I have you ever well, I guess not since you don't know
what it is. And neither.
Do I. I've ever seen anyone play?
Snooker. I maybe we were in Ireland once

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and I saw a snooker Pub. Okay, we didn't go in but I was
like, well, it's Snicker bigger than Billiards there.
Yeah, he's bowling balls. But like, if I go into a bar
here and I see a pool pool machine.
Yeah, I'm like, yeah, of course.Right Billiards is it?
It funny do that hard, if they call it a pool table because the

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carnal pull machine. Because when I agree, I mean, I
don't even say Billiards. I would say so too with a pool.
Yeah, pull. Yeah.
What's I think? Poo is pool and billiards the
same thing, or they technically different.
I thought that pool is the table, then maybe you also play
snooker on the pool table interested.
Billiards is the game. Maybe kind of like how you can
play chess or Checkers on the same board on the yeah, sure.

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And that board is called a framkin, right?
Look since yeah, its own thing. I am.
This is all, this is a this is amuch longer article than you
would expect. This is everything in and
everything that UK has been around for so long.

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Truly that something stupid. Like the 2006.
Snooker tournament, which I assume was only like six, guys,
but actually like half the population.
It's not even just the UK. I'm looking.
So this is like a there were like multinational 40 my God.
There's it's, there's like brackets.

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So there's 40. Wait, one, two, three.
Jesus Christ, so there are 32 players.
Sure. First they use grants each
other, then they fucking mix it up in the same number of players
are in list. The next round.

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Maybe it's double elimination. I'm not going to inquire further
then the Regionals like they have to like there's a Scottish
Regional first and then eventually everyone gets
together. I'll tell you the countries.
That folks are from great. Whales.
Of course, UK China that's not in the UK England.
Okay? Have UK Ireland, not UK,

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correct. Thank you, Thailand.
UK Hong Kong. Okay.
What is happening? Northern?
Ireland, UK Scotland, UK. Finland.
And that's good. That's a wait.

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Wait. Here's an Australian.
Also, it's different. It's different.
So it's through its different people in the second.
I don't know. I'm not going to, I'm not going
investigate. I'm sure there's an Australian
guy. Sure.
So yeah, it seems to be the UK, Ireland, Australia, China Hong

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Kong and Thailand, the axis of Evil it in Finland and Finland.
See, okay, the UK. Okay.
Sure. Makes sense.
The UK and Ireland. No problem.
Okay. Sure, the UK, Ireland,
Australia. Okay.
Sure. Do UK, Ireland, Australia, and

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Hong Kong Kong. Okay, China.
Okay, really though. China in there?
Well, I think I think if it's, if it's the UK Ireland.
Australia. Sure.
Yeah, then you get one Asian country.
It's like what? Well, I think, that's what I
think Hong Kong is the bridge between that because Hong Kong.
Oh, sure, you know, the left side over there and shit, right?

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Yeah. It sounds like okay, I get
Australia's like okay, I guess Idon't know Hong Kong's like
okay, I guess then it's into me adding Thailand and China is
like high was the craziest one. The to, you think China's
crazier, I think Finland is the craziest one because I think
ultimately. Yeah, because it's like her
guys. What?

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Why is it here? You can't.
Yeah, you got your own skin and avian shit to deal with.
You don't have a, you add, right?
It's a little puzzling, but Kai ultimately kind of makes sense.
And if it's like, okay, maybe it's like a European and also
Australian and Asian thing. Okay.
Sure. Yeah, because you're in cross
trail. You can kind of get the, the
Southeastern Asian. Like they like their wife

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without a time is doing over there.
Oh, hey. Hey, mister Skarsgård.
Okay, that's not one. Is perplexing to me.
Shouting about a car. Yeah, do you care to know who

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won? Oh, I'd love to know.
Please tell me something from Finland.
It was Peter ebden of England. Yeah, I could have told you that
runner up your abdomen, to tell me, the tell me the name.
I'll tell you where they're fromStephen Hendry.
He is from Scotland, correct? Yep.
Oh. Let's do this Ryan Day,

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Australia. Mmm, wails.
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Sure. Jos Wali, just Wali SW.
O LL, y SW, o seu, sorry, Joe Swale.
Sorry. Sorry.
SWA IL. Okay, Joe Swale.

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He's from North Ireland. Yes.
Yes, Ronnie O'Sullivan. I mean, come on.
It's from Ireland, right England.
No, he's not. He lied on his form.
I think the Irish snooker players were too good.
And so he had to like you. Lie to get into the easier
tournament, Gerard green. I mean, he's probably from like,

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a claw Hong Kong Kong or something Northern Ireland,
okay. James wattana Australia
Thailand. Okay.
So first you were like damn Spence was good and then
eventually like oh now he just got lucky once or twice Neil
Robertson China Australia, same thing, Robin whole wh U llah.

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Hul like a boat England, Finland.
Okay, so know all these guys areis a lying.
It's just like, do you have an English sounding name?
Then you get to be in the tournament.
Well, I didn't Marco Foo is. I mean, I'm looking at.
No I refuse myself. If I just mean, he's like the

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one don't warn. That doesn't clearly.
Not from England. Yeah.
Yeah. Sure.
His name is clearly not from England, you know, you know, who
competed Joe Perry. Wow.
Whoa, was it if I want. That's just Aerosmith.
Joe Cocker. Oh, no.

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That feels funny. Unfortunately, well, I think
that is funny. Thank you for playing arcade.
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