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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A cript, and this is a script. I wanted to
quick against my enemies. Yeah you see, you wanted to say.
And then at little raision, but appleget you from the wield.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And what is going on? Everyone? I am Rob And
where's Emon? We're still having on them, don't worry is
starting to miss him now a little bit? You know?
Right now, hopies are having a good day. Mine was middling.
(00:43):
It was a wet day, but not went and wild.
It was wet and mild. We were getting into autumn,
or as your Americans would say fall, So we're getting
into those vibes, you know. I like it. I'm eyeballing
me fleeces, I'm eyeballing me hoodies, and I'm going it's
(01:04):
almost time to throw you lads on again. Most Irish
people's more jobs is like, you know, geared towards the winter.
I feel summer stuff is just t shirts and shorts.
There's nothing really fancy about it. But one thing I
do like about winter is that, or well autumn winter,
shall we say, is that you can actually wear loads
of layers, You can wear loads of different clothing articles
(01:27):
and kind of have a bit of everything. Express yourself
if you will, so that's kind of cool. So looking
forward to it, looking forward to getting into the spooky season.
It's going to be interesting this year and in general
that always is quite fun. Today we are going to
talk a little bit about some things that have been
going on around and also we have some questions. You
(01:49):
guys have been stellar in providing questions for me because
you have been doing so, I haven't really felt compelled
to do topics. If you just want topics, just ask.
I think have another week or so of this, so,
like you know, whatever way you wanted, we'll do it.
That's the crack. Let your voice be hard, let your
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feelings be known. Before we get into the meat of
the episode. Let to remind everyone you can check out
our Patreon. These little sit down chatty episodes are going
to move to Patreon once em And gets back. So
what we're going to do is we're going to have
our regular two episodes and then we're going to have
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one Patreon exclusive a month with me and naming, and
then I'm probably going to do another two or three
per month just me. And that is to entice you
to join Patreon and to give the existing patrons more
value for money, because that's always something I always feel like,
as soon as someone gives me money, I'm like, shit
is not something they can do more for them. And
(02:54):
it's a tricky one because, for example, like the likes
of blind Boy has a Patreon, but he doesn't post
on Patreon, and he's quite candid and says, look, if
you want to support me, support me, and you know
it goes towards the development of the podcast, so you know,
I get it both ways. But I would like to
offer something small, So that's the crack. And if you
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can't afford to do that, feel free to check out
like reddit and recommend us. If you want to like
the podcasts Subreddit. It's like or slash podcasts. You'll always
see people looking for recommendations and podcasts. Fire us in,
tell people why you like us. Halloween is coming up,
so lots of people are going to be looking for
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like spooky themed podcasts, even though I would use us
being spooky quite lightly, but yeah, yeah, And if you
have any spooky stories, right them in. If you have
any that you'd like me to read on the podcast,
fire him in and we'll check him out. Also, the
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thing that we weren't able to talk about that we
can now talk about that I think is really really
cool is we have partnered up with air Lingus and
if you're not familiar with who air Lingus are, well
you should be. They are our domestic airline or national
airline if you will, So the equivalent of your American airlines,
British airways whatever whatever Ireland's is air Lingus and so
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we've partnered with them. You can now listen to Monster
Fulls on your flights, Join your flights. There is five
episodes I think, and the in flight entertainment and we
picked five episodes that we thought represented also the best.
That was an interesting sort of selection process because we
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were trying to put ourselves in the in the mind
frame of someone who's on a flight, and so what
we did was and also being quite conscious of air
Lingus wanted Irish podcasters, so so like you want to
represent Irish content as well, so like certain topics didn't
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really make sense, so we had I think we put
two Brother Richard episodes on and I can't remember even
what else I picked, but an eclectic mix. So it
was really cool thing to have happened. Super cool feather
in the cap, I mean, I never thought that in
any sort of breath the podcast would be affiliated with
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something like say er lingus. This is like, it's just
like one of those names. You're like, what so that
that was really cool? You know, it's a cool little thing.
I'm just gonna have to sympathy here and yeah, like
you know, I didn't really think that's something like that happened,
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but here we are. It's cool. Feather in the cap
And I mentioned this on a previous episode. Every so
often these cool little things happen as a byproduct of
having a podcast. Then this is one of them. You know.
It's a little you know, because we sit here Main
and m and made up on a Monday and a
lot of the time it's dark, it's wet, it's rainy,
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and the two of us coming and we chat and
then we get in and we record and that's it,
you know, and goes home. I go home, well I
am home, and we move on about our days, you know,
and that's that. So so it was cool when you
get some feedback from outside and someone says like, hey,
we want to do something, which it's like, oh great, cool,
(06:30):
let's do that. So anyway, that's where you can find
us if you want to check out any flights, if
you want to get in the air, give us a
listen in the air. Might do a give westone as well.
I have to work that out involving this whole thing.
So watch the Space or listen to the Space. And yeah,
so I have a write in actually from a good
(06:53):
while ago. An ice screenshot at it, and it's from
one of our longtime listeners, mister Dan James. And he
goes on. He asked a couple of questions and yeah,
in today's episode, we're just going to cover a bunch
of random stuff again as always, and I hope you
enjoyed the last one too. I kind of listen. I
(07:13):
listened back to him, and I'm kind of I always
kind of try and put myself in a neutral listener's
ears and hopefullys are getting something out of it. You know. Actually,
before we get to Dan, we'll talk about my day,
because my day had something really interesting and unusual happened
in it, and I was like, what in an mshite
(07:35):
is that? So I was sitting there in the kitchen,
I wasn't sitting out standing. I was doing the dishes,
looked out the window right and in the garden I have,
it's kind of turned into a lo oasis of like
plants and stuff, and so along the borders I have
lots of lavender. Lavender is like really good for pollinators
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and I would actually recommend is one of the best
I think for paul netters in Ireland, simply because it
keeps its flowers for so long throughout the summer and
they're so tough and hardy that bees love them. Everything
loves them. But so I'm looking at the window and
I see this like weird fucking thing hovering and moving
really erratically around the lavender, and it's like stopping and
(08:21):
it's like buzzing for a couple of seconds in the
one spot, like hovering, and then it flies to the
next and it does it again, does it again. It's
got weird colors. I'm looking at it thinking like what
the fuck is that. I've never seen anything like that.
And it was raining out as well, and I was like,
what is that flottering around because a lot of insects
in the rain don't really like being out and flying,
you know. And you know it's not small, but it's
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big enough for me to say from from the window,
So like I'm looking at it, going right, it's not
a bee, because I can see bees from the wind
double their tiny little things. This was like a lot bigger,
and I'm going, what the fuck is that? And so
I didn't think there, kept on, you know, doing me.
Thing came back later in the day and I was
watching again. Looked out, here's this fucking thing again. I said,
I'm going to have to look at that. That is
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really really strange, whatever it is. And as I'm walking
close to him, like that's a bird, like, that's a small,
really really really small bird, and my brain has gone,
that's too small to be a bird, rob, you've lost
your mind's way too small to be a bird like,
And so I get closer and I'm like, wait, that's
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some kind of insect. And it's literally going from flower
to flower, hovering like a hummingbird. I'm thinking, why is
this so Apparently I did my research. I got a
video of which is funny because I was able to
get a video of of like this insect that only
hung around for like eight seconds, and people can't get
(09:48):
good footage of the big foot. But that's a different story.
And it turns out that it's a hummingbird hawk moth.
So it's a type of moth. And if you if
you look up a picture of them, if I remember,
I might even use a picture of one of them
as this episode's picture if I remember, if I don't
go on Google, there's such a weird and cool looking thing.
(10:11):
And I was like, I've never seen my thirty seven
years on this planet one of these creatures. I encourage
you to go and look them up. I don't like math.
I don't like moths. I'm trying to say moths. It's
tough to say. I don't like them. T breg, I
don't like them at all. What it is is, I
(10:34):
don't like furry insects. I think it kind of gives
me the creeps. But this guy, I like, looked majestic,
really cool wings, cool parna, it's tail like. But I
looked like a bird, and I'm going like, this is mental.
So if you look these up, they have this big long,
sucky nectar sucker right, proboscus like skulled. I went on
(10:56):
a deep dive humming bird. A hummingbird hawk often deep dive,
And yeah, it's actually an example of convergent evolution, which
we've talked about on the pod before convergent evolution about
how different species or is that, Yeah, insects and say
mammals will evolve to share similar traits even though they're different,
(11:21):
Like they're not related in any well, shape or form,
so like they figure out the same kind of evolutionary
pathway and then occupy the same niche. Again, I'm not
an expert on any of this, so I'm probably butchering
some of it, but like you can kind of see
it if anyone knows, like if you's have seen Jurassic Park,
(11:41):
or I think there's a dinosaur called like an ankylosaurus
which has like big back with like sharp armor plates
and a club tail like armadillo's kind of evolved to
do similar things, you know. And there's lots and lots
of different sort of examples of this throughout the animal kingdom,
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and even things like you know, animals that lockhorns. You know,
dinosaurs did the same thing as mammals and and they
all sort of evolve to get into that same niche.
So it's interesting. But anyway, this this hummingbird hawk moth
behaves the same as the fucking humming bird, except it's
a moth. Very strange. But they look really cool, by
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the way, so so check them out and look them
look them up. But after my research, I was like, oh,
hang on, So apparently this the reason that we're seeing
them in Ireland is because of global warming, right, And
you know, whatever way your stances on, whether you think
it's a hoax or whatever, whatever the facts are, the facts.
You know, ship is changing. Whether that is man made
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or not, as another discussion, but in my opinion, we
can't be helping it, right. But yeah, so apparently because
of this, I think in the past, if they ever
show up in Ireland or the UK a lot of
time it was just a migratory thing. But now they
are staying here over winter because the winters aren't as
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harsh hair anymore. So they're like I like this, I'll
hang out here, you know, And then they're bouncing back
in the summer. So that's interesting. The other thing that
I noticed to do with the climate in my garden
is I have an olive tree out the front of
my house, a small one in the pot, and that's
producing olives. Now, I was always under the assumption, and
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I had always read that you could keep olive trees
in Ireland, but they would never bear fruit. And now
my olive tree has put out fruit this year. So
I'm like interesting, Now, look, maybe in history olive trees
were putting out olives in Ireland, but any literature I
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read said that, no, you won't be. You won't be
getting olives on your tree in Ireland. So yeah, so
an interesting sort of change. There's a few things that
I thought were really good. One is that, like my garden,
you know, I only put time into my garden this year.
It's not even a year old in terms of its
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current shape, shall we say, and it's like full of nature.
It's like full of all these insects that I never see.
And this guy was kind of the diceon on the cake,
the cream of the crop, if you will, seeing thistle
loot in the garden to so I was like, what
the fuck is that fucking thing you look at? It's
like a fucking pokemon or something. You're like, this ship
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is class. So you know, that just shows you, like
how anyone can make a difference to their area with
whether they want to plant something or improve the area
with some something like that. It will really help and
it will really encourage wildlife. And nature to kind of
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come to you. So like, I have frogs all over
the fucking place. If you want a frog up there,
they're getting quite big. Actually, yeah, they're big boys now.
They're I see him on the other day. They're never
too far like when I come into the gardener's just
kind of everywhere, and they're probably, like I'm trying to think,
drive out half the size of a full adult frog
(15:23):
right now. T break. So they're getting there and their
loving life out there. You know, they've got everything they
could want. Naturally, they've driven down the slug menace. The
slug menace is nowhere near as as much of a
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threat now. So shouts out to frogs, shouts out to
the humming bird, hawk mouth. It's a mouthful. And yeah,
I encourage anyone. If you have a small garden like
a lot, and even if you have like a garden
that slapped over, you don't have any plant or anything like,
there's many ways around that you could get raised beds,
(16:04):
you could get pod plants, you can put in a
pond in a container container pond, and you can really
make it at low asis and it really does actually
make a big difference. I personally have found that even
my mental health is better just looking out at the
garden because you're stimulated. You're looking out and you're seeing nature.
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You're seeing like insects and birds and everything that's kind
of doing this thing and it's actually stimulating. It's probably
what you're supposed to be looking at, right, Like humans
have evolved in the wild for hundreds of thousands of years,
and in the last you know, a couple of hundred years,
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have we really sort of turned everything into kind of
concrete wastelands. And so yeah, it's nice to be able
to see just and just let your mind wander a bit,
you know what I mean. I haven't find that that
if I when I used to run a lot, I
used to run out with nature and it used to
be really good for the head. And even then, obviously
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I like hiking. I like being in forests and things,
and I think sometimes just sitting there is really nice
sounds kind of depressing, but no, it is nice. Trust me.
I don't know if I'm selling it like some fucking
middle aged man sitting in the woods on his own,
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But no, days it's nice. There's so much out there,
it's so stimulating. It's a very stimulating environment. So yeah,
plant stuff gets your hummingbirded hawk moth out. Mister Dan James,
I'm sorry you wrote to me, I think two weeks ago,
and what I did was I screenshotted Geordie m and
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I was meant to read it on an episode and
I never got to it. So here we are favorite
Hello again? Or why you love the anthology? If I
did favorite Hello games, Hello one, I'll tell you I
love the FPS games as a kid and for our
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non video game listener fans, but we won't spend too
long on video games, trust me. So first, first sort
of song on, let me try and put this into words.
So when I started playing video games, fps is were
shite right, And for anyone who doesn't know what FPS is,
(18:35):
I think if your Doom Call of Duty Hello, what
FPS stands for his first person shooter and first person
meaning you're looking down the sights of your gun, your
eyes are the screen, rather than third person where you're
looking behind someone's shoulder. And you still love first person shooters?
(18:55):
You know, I actually remember Medal of Honor. Well, I
actually remember Doom, but then I remember Medal of Honor.
I think on PS one being one of those games
where you're like, oh, I like where this is going.
And obviously Golden I tore Rock all those games, and
PS two came along and you're like, you've got your
time Splitters, which was amazing. Thanksitters two is probably one
(19:16):
of the best couch co op multi tap games you
can buy still. It had so much like had a
level editor, with so many game modes, so much value.
So I remember, so I remember about Hello. I was
maybe thirteen fourteen something like that, and I called around
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my friend Griff's house, and back in the day, he
used to be able to get consoles on and you
probably still can't actually on higher purchase, you know where
you pay like one hundred and you know, and his
math had gotten him an Xbox on higher Purchase. And
this is important reason I mentioned in higher purch is
(20:00):
because it's important to the story kind of. And I
remember I walked in and because you know, getting consoles
back then, when I got a console or Christmas, this
motherfucker had a new console. It was like fucking September
or some shit. I was like, how the fun did
you get this? I was like, oh, I got that purchase,
and he was showing me Helo and I was like,
(20:21):
oh shit, Like as soon as I seen Hello, I
was like, oh, I need an xbox. Like I was
just like just looked at it immediately and went, yeah,
I need one of these now. Anyway, I just have
to have it and rare enough, Like I'm not like
that as a person usually like usually like I I'm
(20:42):
fairly like I'll think about shit on my own and
ship that I like, and I'll go for shit that
I like. But like, I seen Helo and I was like, well,
I can't tell my YAlO, do you know what I mean?
It was just it was just too good. So I
literally again had no money. So I went to my
man and I was like, here, man, the crack. This
(21:02):
is the crack. We need an x an xbox. And
she was like I am not getting to know a
fucking xboxes, no hope. And I was like, listen to
this dog. I was about this higher Barges crack one sector.
I've got a barky dog. Crip all right, I'm back.
(21:30):
I have a fucking pain in the house with animals.
So the kitten, we have a Mencom kitten half men
Com and she is terrorizing the dog and so the
Dog gets wound up, Barracks Sadder, Barracksader, Barracksladder, so then
you have to go and intervene, and that's frustrating when
(21:51):
you're trying to record. So anyway, I was like mac Mon, like,
come on, you gotta hook me up with this xbox.
I think we mad that I might have recently separated,
so I think I had a bit of emotional beverage.
I think I can't remember, but there must have been
some reason I got the fucking thing anyway, because I
(22:13):
wasn't getting in any other well ship perform But anyway
I got it, and Hello one split screen me and
Griff going around on our warthog fucking ship up. We
played the ship out of that game, doing everything, trying
to do every glitch, trying to get in there was
at the ghost or the Banshee, the Banchie, and like
(22:37):
trying to do glitches with that and doing all sorts
of crazy shit throughout the levels and always just mucking
about and playing. Actually, some of my coolest video game
memories are like land parodies of Hello One. I think
it was, yeah it was Hello one because they nerves
to the pistol and Hello Too didn't they but the
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land parties were closed, the first time I'd ever had
a land party. My dad at the time worked in
Sony Center actually, and the manager there he had like
access to all of the projectors and screens and everything,
so he was like less to a LAMB party. So
we did, I think, a sixteen player lamb party. And
I think at the time he was talking shit to
(23:19):
me that because I was like, oh, it was pretty
good at Hello like, you know, and the manager thought
it was like, with all due respect, you know, I'm
a pro kind of thing. And funnily enough, I had
never played multiplayer Hello but because we played it so
much went down. I waxed them. I waxed everyone because
we were just so used to playing it and doing
headshots with the pistols. I absolutely waxed them. But that
(23:43):
and Hello Hello one for me was the best. Hello
two I actually, funnily enough, didn't get into that much
because I didn't have internet at the time good enough
to play Hello two online, and I thought the campaign
was basically just Helo one's campaign and not as good
it was so short. So for me, Hello one had
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the better campaign, the better single player experience, but Hello
two had the better multiplayer experience, So hello three. I
played a lot online, but actually Modern Warfare was probably
the game and Gears Gears of War were the two
that really got me online. A little bit of trivia
three about me. I was top in the top. I
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think I was in the top thousand on Gears of
Ward globally at one point in time. It was very
good out one point in time. So yeah, so there
you go. So hello one. I hope the answers your question.
Thoughts on Last of Us game the first one I
played the Last of Us like later on. I actually
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only played that like probably like twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen,
something like that, and I thought it was fine. I
thought the story was good. That was a strong point.
It was very of its time, so I didn't play
it when it came out, but gameplay wise, it was
very of its time, so I thought it was good,
not great. Probably an other time, seven other times, something
(25:05):
like that. My thoughts on Alien and the show. I
love the show so far. I talked a bit about
it on the part of him, and I think I
am a bit concerned about where that goes. I think
it's very broad and I think that it can take
a turn that I'll probably hate. So I'm just hoping
that they keep it tight and it works well and
(25:27):
they don't get too fucking mad with it, you know
what I mean. But I do enjoy it so far.
I think it's very good. The recent films. I thought
the latest one Requiem is it So it was Alien
reccum something like that. That was fantastic. I really enjoyed it.
Thought it was a great film. Yeah to accept me
(25:48):
and em and talked about it at the time on
the pod, Like that fucking stupid one liner that the
bot says, get away from her, you bitch. That just
didn't need to be there. The fan service doesn't need
to be there. And this is coming from a Flang fan,
Like it's just brain dead fucking shit like that makes
no sense, So you know, don't put it in, do
(26:09):
you know what I mean? Like fucking leave without that's
fox sake. I hate when fucking shawls do that ship
like movies and all that. It's not like brain aid,
moutbreeder clapping moment in the cinema that they want to
you know, that's what they're kind of gunning for when
they do that, and it's like it doesn't. It literally
(26:30):
makes no sense to do that that like meta kind
of well we know that you know that line because
it's just stop. But I think me and Emon talked
about it that it reeks of like that reeks of
a shoehorneding thing from a director or not from a director,
from someone on set. And actually I think it has
(26:50):
been said that it was that actually since I mentioned it,
so maybe that's the cause. But anyway, I love I
love what's going on with Alien. I love that we're
getting good stuff out of it. I did just complain
earlier this week about everything being rehashed and how annoying
that is and how everything is a remake, But I
actually feel what Alien Alien was waiting to have a
(27:16):
good experience again, a good story again. I think Alien
had suffered big time as a franchise, you know what
I mean. I think Terminator is kind of the same.
I think Terminator needs a good shot up the arse,
kick up the ars, maybe shot in the arm. That's
the one, because Terminator is a really good story, and
(27:37):
I think now more than ever, it's definitely more relevant.
But I think Torminador needs to shed at Sarah Connor.
It's John Connor. It's Ronie and telling you story, you know,
just telling your story, just you know, cyber line and
all that is interesting, so just figure it out. Give
us a good TV show, you know what I mean.
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And so Cam Rolling Cam, Mister Cam Gormley's a long
time listener. And I won't go into the details of
what he said because he knows what I'm talking about.
But I'd like to say sorry for your last boat,
thank you for listenings over the years as well, and
thanks for the kind words and hopefully you get through
what you're going through and keep the chain up. Is tough.
(28:27):
I'm myself at a minute, so yeah, mind yourself stuff
in these streets. So when we're taking Instagram, I asked
you guys today for a couple of questions. We're going
to find out what we got here for everyone. Let's
see what we got are we are we questions? Questions? Questions? Right, okay,
(28:56):
Rebel travel. Would you rather have the ability to teleport
or sell that ability to the highest bidder? I keep
that ability for myself for sure. Why because it opens
up so many opportunities, job prospects, money making opportunities. Obviously,
(29:18):
you can just make money off the fact that you
can teleport that's like, you know, advantageous for most things
that you can be in lots of places in quick succession, right,
So I could probably get some cool jobs out of
that or figure some stuff out. But like, also I
noticed that when I was in Japan, when I was
in Tokyo, and I think this is probably why a
(29:42):
lot of people move to big cities. Well, it is
why a lot of people moved to big cities. But
it was never something that I had ever really thought
about in my life. Why. I don't know, Maybe because
I'm not very money or career driven. So like when
I went to Tokyo, I was like the amount of
opportunity for business that's there. Like, like even myself, I visualized
(30:05):
a bunch of stuff that I could do from Japan,
just the opportunities that would open up because you're in
a city of I don't know, it's a forty million
or something. They're like, and all you need is like
a half good idea and the gumption and the power
to start it and to get going with it, and
the drive. And you're kind of going like, yeah, I
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get that. So if you could teleportrait, you could just
teleport all different cities and do whatever you wanted to do.
Because I remember when I went over first and I
went to Guitar Street. That was on my first trip
to Tokyo. I was just like these matter of fucking like,
there's so many because there's so many people in Tokyo, right,
everything costs less because like so you want to buy
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used the guitar for example, well you know there's way
more use guitars in Tokyo than probably all of Ireland,
so obviously the price of these guitars comes down. So
if tatleport song, you can flip guitarres, do whatever the
fuck you want, you know what I mean? Instantly there
just like I think there was something like a five
or sixth quid markup you could charrej and guitarres over
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here versus Japan, for example, and you're just looking at
it going wow, like even just that little thing, You're
looking at it and going, well, if I can spot
this out of just one of my hobbies, how many
older little absurd and saying things can you do over here?
Like one of the guys I was talking to that
on the bar, he was like, oh, I was like,
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is this your main thing. And he was like, no,
this is a hobby. He was like, because we were
chatting via chachipt to each other and he was like,
this is actually my hobby. He was like, my main
shop is a gatcha shop where I just sell those
little you know, the little gatcha things. You put the
coin in the machine, you turn and it gives you
a random ball with something. That was just fucking that
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was his business, Like, that's why he did. And he
was a happy boy, happy boy. And you're going that,
I can't do that here, you know, I can't do
that here in a town of my size's only twenty
thousand people, maybe a little bit more. And it's like
so that I saw opportunities definitely arise when you're in
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bigger places. You know, it's interesting. I see it a lot.
I don't know how I'm getting into, like economics talk
off this question, but like in Dublin, they're okay. So
for example, there's a retro game shop in Dublin, right,
and there's a retro game shop in Wexford. Right. The
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stock to display, how it's the displayed, how it's displayed,
the shopping experience and everything is one hundred percent better
here in my Exford. The one up in Dublin. It's
like they're not trying. They don't give a fuck. You
can't find anything. Everything is hidden. You have to order
on their website. You can't actually buy it, like you
can't actually see it there in front of you and go, oh,
let me take a look at this. You have to
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ask them every time you want to see something. It's
a fucking head wreck and you go into places like
a fucking dungeon and they don't have to try, you see.
And that's how they get away with it because they
get the footfall in the city so they don't have
to fucking try. They don't need to entice you, and
they don't need to do anything. They can get by
you just doing their thing. And the place here in
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Wexford has to try harder, it has to be cooler,
It has to make an experience and I kind of
try and entice you, you know what I mean. So
you just see the differences in different places. And the
same is true for Tokyo, do you know what I mean?
There's trouble while there are I've been to a lot
of them shops in Tokyo. Stuff that they're just like
fucking slap happy. Everything's just fucking throng around the place
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and it's like whatever. And that's because the people will come.
It doesn't matter, you know, they don't have to really try.
So yeah, So basically what I'm saying is if you
can teleport, you can go around doing a lots of
cool shit and making loads of money. You know. So
there you go. M cam asks, cam steaks ask have
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I ever ice skated? Big men like you don't belong
on the ice. Not never ice skating, And that's why.
So ice skating and scooters I feel so tall, and
then you know, the motor ice skouters. I'm like, if
I fucking hit anything, I want to bite the dart
so hard on one of these fucking skirters. I remember
(34:29):
I was going around Rome on all of those skaters
and I was like, I about eight foot taller. So like
it's like if I hit a bomb, that's like coming
off the fucking the second story or something, you know.
So no, I don't I skate, and I don't do
scouters really much, because yeah, it does feel a bit
igh stakes. People like me, when we fall, we fall hard.
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I actually remember like one of the last times I
bit the dirt properly, like slapped, as we call it.
There times I slapped properly. I would have been young,
and I remember saying to myself that fucking heard, do
not do that again. You're too tall. Like it takes
me about fucking five minutes from actually tripping to hitting
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the floor, do you know what I mean? It's like
the slow motion and then when you hit the floor
you're in fucking bits. So no, that's you have to
be careful of my itea is self preservation. You're going
to break a rib or something, you know what I mean?
If Vince McMahon is m Bison, what wrestlers become? What
(35:34):
street fighters? Oh that's a great question, you know street
fighter movie? And can we just talk about the straight
Fighter movie really quickly? Actually it's just been a straight
fighter movie. Fucking announced Jesus Christ to upset me straight
off the bat bust his names in wallaweg Andrew Schultz,
(35:56):
and I'm like, okay, here we go. That was fucking
who isn't a fucking who is it? One of the
wrestling lad's lad with the fucking blonde hair. Roman Reigns
is playing Blanca. It's just a fifty cent is battle
(36:16):
Rock the Boxer. It's going to be absolute fucking dog shit.
I'm not even in an ironic kind of John Claude
Van Dam street Fighter way. It's going to be just pure, dirty,
fucking dishwater dogshite. I'd say the cast of the film
reminds me of like the casting was probably done beast
(36:36):
off social media following, and it was like the more
kind of people with followers we get, the better interest
we'll have t break. So I mightn't even watch that.
I actually might even watch that film. When you're putting
podcasters and stuff in films, like it's game over, Like
(36:59):
you should never if you ever see if by any
chance myself and aim and end up in the film,
don't watch it. Just don't watch it. It's gonna be ship,
to be honest, unless has some kind of fucking bit
part cameo. But like if we're actually like build on it,
forget it, forget it, like even if it's a documentary,
(37:20):
but like, seriously, man, what the fuck? Yeah, I just
I don't feel excited about it. Look, street Fighters suit
animated stuff better. Look it's it's not a very fucking strong.
It's like concept, you know what I mean, like animated
sh it suits a better lighthearted animated ship, but like
(37:41):
acting stuff like live actions like nah man, nah man,
just don't do it. We don't need it. We don't
need it, like you know, it's just no, it's not
going to be good. I don't think. I really don't
think it's going to be good. So Vince McMahon is
(38:02):
m Bison what wrestlers become? What street Fighters? Well, like
you know Blancaster's Roman Rains, who I wouldn't have thought
would be actually a good blanket go fit for it?
Like street Fighter. Let's let's look up straight Fighter six characters, right,
(38:26):
I know all of them, but let's just see if
we can get like names the faces here and sort
of run through with so just I don't know. I
don't know a lot of the more recent wrestlers and
all that. So I'll see if I can do a
lot of like nineties wrestlers. I actually think that that
who is that Blondie Foker? What's his name? Everyone knows
(38:50):
who's champion? There? For a while, wasn't he what's his
fucking name? He should have played Gile? Is he playing Gile.
Maybe he is Cody Rains, Is that him? Cody Rhoades,
Roman cour year Olds he is he Gyle, He is right,
that's stacent cast him. But like Gyle from the nineties
would have been like Hardcore Halli, or like Jeff Jarrett
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or someone Jeff Charred would probably be a good one.
DJ's Boker t All Their baby j has to be
Booker t. Cammy can be master named Stacy Heabler for
obvious reasons. Choon Lee, I don't think there's an equivalent,
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or at least there wasn't back then. Rare Ripley is
not really the best John Lee. I wouldn't say she'd
maybe even make a better Yury or Jury Ken. I'm
trying to think, like in terms of gimmick, there's not
many wrestlers that would have seen with count because Ken
(39:54):
was just like the kind of like Sean Michaels probably
would have been the closest to like Ken or maybe
even Triple h but probably Sean Michaels. Real, let's go
with a fucking you know, reuse Asian. Let's be honest,
And there wasn't many Asian fucking w W dudes back
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then or even now, so I don't have an option
for reu. Who else have we got there? Yeah, I
don't know other than that. Really, I'm just looking at
the cast and I'm kind of going, yeah, I don't know.
Vegas would have to be someone's zesty, and I don't
know who golds. But yeah, that's that's that one. Good question,
(40:39):
by the way, but it's tough, and the Crown Animal
asks have you ever heard of mayors? Say? Where old
dom Mundo the largest casual tree in the world? Lockh Edin,
Brazil largest. Let's check this out? Curious about this? That?
(40:59):
What's there? Right? Okay? It's in Againness World Records, which,
by the way, started in Waxford. Did you know that?
Did you know that Againness Book of World Records originates
from my very hometown. Well, look into it. It's the
bar places against record sand check it out, grip. So
(41:32):
let's take out this Castro tree. It entered the Againess
Book of Records in ninety four. Uh, okay, what the oh?
This is the fucking tree? Why in the name of fuck?
So this one tree is like a forest, right, So
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this tree covers an area of about one point eight
acres and two point one acres like square around, having
the size of seventy the size of seventeen normal sized
cashw trees. It has a circumference of sixteen hundred feet.
(42:14):
Isn't that mad? I'm just looking at a picture of it.
It's like a fucking forest just on its all. The
spread over a hector of land was created by the
tree's outward growth when bent towards the ground. Because of
its way, the branches are tend to take new routes
where they touched the ground. This may be seen in
(42:35):
the images of the interior, so it's now difficult to
distinguish the initial trunk from the rest of the tree.
The tree is estimated to be more than a thousand
years old and it produces over sixty thousand fruits per year.
Isn't that cool? So that that's like, that's the crazy
(42:55):
thing about the Bandzie place I went to in Idagawa
in Japan, Tokyo, Like the oldest bands out there was
around that age, and you're just thinking, what that's been
passed down from generation to generation to generation and kept
alive that long. But that cashw tree, so I actually
(43:17):
have jade plans started doing the very same thing as
what this cashow was doing, so I can actually perfectly
visualize this. My jade is fucking stupid. I don't know
what is going on with it, but it went through
a period. I don't know whether maybe it had been
moved or something, but it went through a period where
it dipped. The branches bent down and then they're curved
(43:40):
up and on that curve it started to sprout little
roots on each curve. So I guarantee you if I
planted that in soil, it would do the same thing
as this cashow tree here. So I actually fully get that.
Very very cool. So yeah, church, last, let us go
(44:01):
to the Chelter and crom mecanimal. Sarah asks, if you
could be a mythical creature, what would I be? My
mind goes to like centaur. Yeah, strong, big legs, good irish,
you know, powerful magey, big ditties. Fucking sendors are big
(44:25):
fucking powerful masterds. Like do you know what I mean?
You go around like horse and horsing around the place
to be class kick and lads be really fun. But yeah,
and you still have your arms as well as this class.
Like really, there's not fucking is there any negative to
(44:49):
be in the centaur? Really like that, or like something
that lives in to say, like some kind of murder
man or something to sidon because I can't swim, so
anything that's water based, I suppose I kind of get
a bit of a a bit of a trip out.
(45:12):
Let's see what else we got out? Do we have
anymore before I go? Let me see, because yeah, what
I do is I sometimes I miss him. Like so
actually I opened up my gallery there and there's a
poor little little dude in the straight and he has
autism and he's only young, like, and he spends most
(45:38):
of his day just out on the street stimming. Basically
he has a little two brushy steams with but there's
a lot of kids in the street. So like now
the kids are starting to realize, like they're all probably
around like I don't know, eight or nine maybe something
like that, and they're starting to realize, like, all we
can work around with him now, like you know, so
(45:59):
they're starting to put him up the stuff. So when
I opened my phonder, I just see the ring the
ring camera footage. They rang my doorbell yesterday and put
a lot they stick at the door and said wiguliar
arson dance until the answer the door I'm like, what
in the actual fuck? So the poor chat Like he's
(46:21):
getting to that age now where you can already start
to see people getting sucked with people. Are people starting
to fuck with him? Like and that's sad? But yeah, no,
I don't think I have anything else here. I think
I've gotten through much of your questions. So what I'll do
is again I will reiterate to mister cam Yeah, sorry
(46:43):
for your last brother. I hope you're going well. And
in terms of me, let's talk about So I had
all of the paperwork and I had to do all
the death sort of stuff this week for my granddad
and I'm kind of getting all that sorted out now
and like it's a h interesting. Again, I mentioned last
(47:03):
week that, yeah, the people that have come forward and
wish condolences is amazing. It's all nice. And like I
said before as well, I had never really experienced any
of that because I like literally had all my grandparents,
had everyone around me. And one thing that I have
modest in doing all this is just how nice people
(47:24):
are when you're dealing with something like this. Like I
was in the doctors today collecting his Like there's like
some sart that says like, you know, when, when and
why they died and stuff like that, and the woman
mind the counter was like, sorry for your loss, blah
blah blah, and then I had to go and get
the deaths art same thing. More mind the counters, there's
(47:45):
very sorry for your loss and all that, and it
seems sincereous. It seems nice, you know, So it's interesting.
It's interesting to learn all that. So definitely been kind
of it makes it a bit more I don't know,
palatable this wrong word, but makes it a bit I
don't feels nice, feels nicer to deal fucking though. But yeah,
(48:09):
I'm getting through with Afghan that sort of out. Jesus,
it's going to be a last there's only a lot
of work to get done, so not really looking forward
to that. But you have to keep on soldiering on,
put one foot in front of the other and kind
of mind yourself. Because I've been in a sort of
a for to do mental health fall. It is probably
(48:29):
in a bit of a funk lately, on and off,
and it has I don't necessarily think it's been to
do with the death, but that has definitely contributed to it.
But I think, yeah, there's been. There's been a little
bit of stuff going on there, and I'm just kind
of like in a bit of a rut. I think
(48:50):
at a minute, I think it's a change in seasons,
does it? To be honest, I think like fucking you
know he used to. You start to realize, like the
summer's over and you're like, oh fuck, are we going
back to like the bleakness. Care had something to me
the other day. She was like, today it was the
(49:11):
last day of the sun will set after eight pm
and it won't set till like after APM again or
before it, yeah, whatever. It basically it ont set after
a PM until April. So so from now, which is
September to April, it'll be dark before it every night,
(49:37):
which is fairly grim. So we have to knuckle down
and get stuck in. You know, the seasons in Ireland
is like fairly it gets dark early here. You know,
you're talking like five o'clock five half five in the
winter when it gets like into December January, you know,
(50:00):
so it can be it can be a tricky time,
I think actually for the mental health, you know. So
I think I'm looking down the battle of that Gun
and gone here we are but one thing. I will
say there's benefits to the winter. Two, it's really nice
to be cozy. I do like cozy. There's something even
(50:21):
psychological about knowing that it's fucking freezing outside but you're
warm inside. It's like a simple little I think it's
like a simple human thing, because like even you watched
all the YouTube guys, the dudes that like drought in
the fucking wilderness and I build a lag cabin over
a couple of months and put me fire in it
and ship and basically that's the video. The video is
(50:44):
then striving to light a fire inside the fucking box
and be warm, and that's what makes the video. The
YouTuber is actually always all fucking funny, Like did you
ever see these guys, these sort of can bino Schubers
or like Survive of Steel Shoppers, Like every fucking video
(51:05):
making Gordon Ramsey dinners out in the woods like a
hilarious shit. Like it's like they're trying to like really
entice you to go out and camp, you know, but
some of them like check them out that they'll like
properly make like proper steaks or proper nice ship and
like they'll go above and beyond. Some people are really
into that side of it, like where it's like, you know,
(51:27):
I have a friend, like we went camping recently and
he had fucking everything. It's like he whipped out, like
no joke, he whipped out fucking he had his cast
iron pan and all that shit, but he whipped out
fucking marinate chicken and all this type of shit, And
what the fuck. When I used to camp, it'll be
a pot noodle or a fucking you know what I mean.
It'd be something that you could just pour a bit
(51:48):
of boiling water on, you heat it on your stove,
and that was it. The boys they'll be doing fucking
gourmet meals and all that now out in the woods.
It's cool though, don't get me wrong. I think it's cool,
but it's just not really Yeah, you know, it's not
really doable for most people. Like you know, especially if
you're backpacking, you're not going to be carrying fucking chicken.
By the time we get the camp. The chicken will
(52:09):
be walking out with your backpack itself will be green
and that fucking salmon and the chicken on your pan.
So yeah, it's not It's nice to look at on
YouTube and stuff like that. But a lot of the
time you're just like, yeah, that's not really realistic most
of the time for the average plebeian. Ah, thee out
Door Boys guy is quite funny. I've ever seen him.
(52:30):
It's a funny YouTuber. He's kind of done now, I think,
but he has some really funny videos. It's just mad shit,
Like you're like, this guy is fucking cracked. He's a
good watch though. But yeah, look, I'm gonna keep it
short and sweet, folks, and believe it at that. I
won't ramble on too much today because yeah, it's just
(52:55):
like i'd be a fucking talking shit really, So that's
the crack today. Monday. I'll be back again. You'll see
me again next Thursday as well. I think Aim in
his back soon. I don't know when. I think it's
next week maybe Boat, we'll see. Thanks for staying with me, Fox,
Thanks for listening. Thanks for the feedback. It's always been appreciated,
(53:18):
especially when you're on your own, you know, because you're like,
oh Jesus, I don't want to be boring people, or
I don't want to be putting up stuff and like
alien out and people or anything. But my philosophy is
at least that you have something to listen to it,
you know what I mean, rather than nothing at all.
So and I enjoy these. These are fun, So yeah,
(53:41):
we believe it. There, Fox, I hope you've enjoyed this episode.
I have been robbed. This has been monster fuzz over
and out.
A cript, and this is a script. I wanted to
quick against my enemies. Yeah you see, you wanted to say.
And then at little raision, but appleget you from the wield.
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And what is going on? Everyone? I am Rob And
where's Emon? We're still having on them, don't worry is
starting to miss him now a little bit? You know?
Right now, hopies are having a good day. Mine was middling.
(00:43):
It was a wet day, but not went and wild.
It was wet and mild. We were getting into autumn,
or as your Americans would say fall, So we're getting
into those vibes, you know. I like it. I'm eyeballing
me fleeces, I'm eyeballing me hoodies, and I'm going it's
(01:04):
almost time to throw you lads on again. Most Irish
people's more jobs is like, you know, geared towards the winter.
I feel summer stuff is just t shirts and shorts.
There's nothing really fancy about it. But one thing I
do like about winter is that, or well autumn winter,
shall we say, is that you can actually wear loads
of layers, You can wear loads of different clothing articles
(01:27):
and kind of have a bit of everything. Express yourself
if you will, so that's kind of cool. So looking
forward to it, looking forward to getting into the spooky season.
It's going to be interesting this year and in general
that always is quite fun. Today we are going to
talk a little bit about some things that have been
going on around and also we have some questions. You
(01:49):
guys have been stellar in providing questions for me because
you have been doing so, I haven't really felt compelled
to do topics. If you just want topics, just ask.
I think have another week or so of this, so,
like you know, whatever way you wanted, we'll do it.
That's the crack. Let your voice be hard, let your
(02:11):
feelings be known. Before we get into the meat of
the episode. Let to remind everyone you can check out
our Patreon. These little sit down chatty episodes are going
to move to Patreon once em And gets back. So
what we're going to do is we're going to have
our regular two episodes and then we're going to have
(02:32):
one Patreon exclusive a month with me and naming, and
then I'm probably going to do another two or three
per month just me. And that is to entice you
to join Patreon and to give the existing patrons more
value for money, because that's always something I always feel like,
as soon as someone gives me money, I'm like, shit
is not something they can do more for them. And
(02:54):
it's a tricky one because, for example, like the likes
of blind Boy has a Patreon, but he doesn't post
on Patreon, and he's quite candid and says, look, if
you want to support me, support me, and you know
it goes towards the development of the podcast, so you know,
I get it both ways. But I would like to
offer something small, So that's the crack. And if you
(03:16):
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like reddit and recommend us. If you want to like
the podcasts Subreddit. It's like or slash podcasts. You'll always
see people looking for recommendations and podcasts. Fire us in,
tell people why you like us. Halloween is coming up,
so lots of people are going to be looking for
(03:37):
like spooky themed podcasts, even though I would use us
being spooky quite lightly, but yeah, yeah, And if you
have any spooky stories, right them in. If you have
any that you'd like me to read on the podcast,
fire him in and we'll check him out. Also, the
(04:01):
thing that we weren't able to talk about that we
can now talk about that I think is really really
cool is we have partnered up with air Lingus and
if you're not familiar with who air Lingus are, well
you should be. They are our domestic airline or national
airline if you will, So the equivalent of your American airlines,
British airways whatever whatever Ireland's is air Lingus and so
(04:23):
we've partnered with them. You can now listen to Monster
Fulls on your flights, Join your flights. There is five
episodes I think, and the in flight entertainment and we
picked five episodes that we thought represented also the best.
That was an interesting sort of selection process because we
(04:44):
were trying to put ourselves in the in the mind
frame of someone who's on a flight, and so what
we did was and also being quite conscious of air
Lingus wanted Irish podcasters, so so like you want to
represent Irish content as well, so like certain topics didn't
(05:05):
really make sense, so we had I think we put
two Brother Richard episodes on and I can't remember even
what else I picked, but an eclectic mix. So it
was really cool thing to have happened. Super cool feather
in the cap, I mean, I never thought that in
any sort of breath the podcast would be affiliated with
(05:27):
something like say er lingus. This is like, it's just
like one of those names. You're like, what so that
that was really cool? You know, it's a cool little thing.
I'm just gonna have to sympathy here and yeah, like
you know, I didn't really think that's something like that happened,
(05:48):
but here we are. It's cool. Feather in the cap
And I mentioned this on a previous episode. Every so
often these cool little things happen as a byproduct of
having a podcast. Then this is one of them. You know.
It's a little you know, because we sit here Main
and m and made up on a Monday and a
lot of the time it's dark, it's wet, it's rainy,
(06:10):
and the two of us coming and we chat and
then we get in and we record and that's it,
you know, and goes home. I go home, well I
am home, and we move on about our days, you know,
and that's that. So so it was cool when you
get some feedback from outside and someone says like, hey,
we want to do something, which it's like, oh great, cool,
(06:30):
let's do that. So anyway, that's where you can find
us if you want to check out any flights, if
you want to get in the air, give us a
listen in the air. Might do a give westone as well.
I have to work that out involving this whole thing.
So watch the Space or listen to the Space. And yeah,
so I have a write in actually from a good
(06:53):
while ago. An ice screenshot at it, and it's from
one of our longtime listeners, mister Dan James. And he
goes on. He asked a couple of questions and yeah,
in today's episode, we're just going to cover a bunch
of random stuff again as always, and I hope you
enjoyed the last one too. I kind of listen. I
(07:13):
listened back to him, and I'm kind of I always
kind of try and put myself in a neutral listener's
ears and hopefullys are getting something out of it. You know. Actually,
before we get to Dan, we'll talk about my day,
because my day had something really interesting and unusual happened
in it, and I was like, what in an mshite
(07:35):
is that? So I was sitting there in the kitchen,
I wasn't sitting out standing. I was doing the dishes,
looked out the window right and in the garden I have,
it's kind of turned into a lo oasis of like
plants and stuff, and so along the borders I have
lots of lavender. Lavender is like really good for pollinators
(07:57):
and I would actually recommend is one of the best
I think for paul netters in Ireland, simply because it
keeps its flowers for so long throughout the summer and
they're so tough and hardy that bees love them. Everything
loves them. But so I'm looking at the window and
I see this like weird fucking thing hovering and moving
really erratically around the lavender, and it's like stopping and
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it's like buzzing for a couple of seconds in the
one spot, like hovering, and then it flies to the
next and it does it again, does it again. It's
got weird colors. I'm looking at it thinking like what
the fuck is that. I've never seen anything like that.
And it was raining out as well, and I was like,
what is that flottering around because a lot of insects
in the rain don't really like being out and flying,
you know. And you know it's not small, but it's
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big enough for me to say from from the window,
So like I'm looking at it, going right, it's not
a bee, because I can see bees from the wind
double their tiny little things. This was like a lot bigger,
and I'm going, what the fuck is that? And so
I didn't think there, kept on, you know, doing me.
Thing came back later in the day and I was
watching again. Looked out, here's this fucking thing again. I said,
I'm going to have to look at that. That is
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really really strange, whatever it is. And as I'm walking
close to him, like that's a bird, like, that's a small,
really really really small bird, and my brain has gone,
that's too small to be a bird, rob, you've lost
your mind's way too small to be a bird like,
And so I get closer and I'm like, wait, that's
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some kind of insect. And it's literally going from flower
to flower, hovering like a hummingbird. I'm thinking, why is
this so Apparently I did my research. I got a
video of which is funny because I was able to
get a video of of like this insect that only
hung around for like eight seconds, and people can't get
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good footage of the big foot. But that's a different story.
And it turns out that it's a hummingbird hawk moth.
So it's a type of moth. And if you if
you look up a picture of them, if I remember,
I might even use a picture of one of them
as this episode's picture if I remember, if I don't
go on Google, there's such a weird and cool looking thing.
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And I was like, I've never seen my thirty seven
years on this planet one of these creatures. I encourage
you to go and look them up. I don't like math.
I don't like moths. I'm trying to say moths. It's
tough to say. I don't like them. T breg, I
don't like them at all. What it is is, I
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don't like furry insects. I think it kind of gives
me the creeps. But this guy, I like, looked majestic,
really cool wings, cool parna, it's tail like. But I
looked like a bird, and I'm going like, this is mental.
So if you look these up, they have this big long,
sucky nectar sucker right, proboscus like skulled. I went on
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a deep dive humming bird. A hummingbird hawk often deep dive,
And yeah, it's actually an example of convergent evolution, which
we've talked about on the pod before convergent evolution about
how different species or is that, Yeah, insects and say
mammals will evolve to share similar traits even though they're different,
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Like they're not related in any well, shape or form,
so like they figure out the same kind of evolutionary
pathway and then occupy the same niche. Again, I'm not
an expert on any of this, so I'm probably butchering
some of it, but like you can kind of see
it if anyone knows, like if you's have seen Jurassic Park,
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or I think there's a dinosaur called like an ankylosaurus
which has like big back with like sharp armor plates
and a club tail like armadillo's kind of evolved to
do similar things, you know. And there's lots and lots
of different sort of examples of this throughout the animal kingdom,
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and even things like you know, animals that lockhorns. You know,
dinosaurs did the same thing as mammals and and they
all sort of evolve to get into that same niche.
So it's interesting. But anyway, this this hummingbird hawk moth
behaves the same as the fucking humming bird, except it's
a moth. Very strange. But they look really cool, by
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the way, so so check them out and look them
look them up. But after my research, I was like, oh,
hang on, So apparently this the reason that we're seeing
them in Ireland is because of global warming, right, And
you know, whatever way your stances on, whether you think
it's a hoax or whatever, whatever the facts are, the facts.
You know, ship is changing. Whether that is man made
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or not, as another discussion, but in my opinion, we
can't be helping it, right. But yeah, so apparently because
of this, I think in the past, if they ever
show up in Ireland or the UK a lot of
time it was just a migratory thing. But now they
are staying here over winter because the winters aren't as
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harsh hair anymore. So they're like I like this, I'll
hang out here, you know, And then they're bouncing back
in the summer. So that's interesting. The other thing that
I noticed to do with the climate in my garden
is I have an olive tree out the front of
my house, a small one in the pot, and that's
producing olives. Now, I was always under the assumption, and
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I had always read that you could keep olive trees
in Ireland, but they would never bear fruit. And now
my olive tree has put out fruit this year. So
I'm like interesting, Now, look, maybe in history olive trees
were putting out olives in Ireland, but any literature I
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read said that, no, you won't be. You won't be
getting olives on your tree in Ireland. So yeah, so
an interesting sort of change. There's a few things that
I thought were really good. One is that, like my garden,
you know, I only put time into my garden this year.
It's not even a year old in terms of its
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current shape, shall we say, and it's like full of nature.
It's like full of all these insects that I never see.
And this guy was kind of the diceon on the cake,
the cream of the crop, if you will, seeing thistle
loot in the garden to so I was like, what
the fuck is that fucking thing you look at? It's
like a fucking pokemon or something. You're like, this ship
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is class. So you know, that just shows you, like
how anyone can make a difference to their area with
whether they want to plant something or improve the area
with some something like that. It will really help and
it will really encourage wildlife. And nature to kind of
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come to you. So like, I have frogs all over
the fucking place. If you want a frog up there,
they're getting quite big. Actually, yeah, they're big boys now.
They're I see him on the other day. They're never
too far like when I come into the gardener's just
kind of everywhere, and they're probably, like I'm trying to think,
drive out half the size of a full adult frog
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right now. T break. So they're getting there and their
loving life out there. You know, they've got everything they
could want. Naturally, they've driven down the slug menace. The
slug menace is nowhere near as as much of a
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threat now. So shouts out to frogs, shouts out to
the humming bird, hawk mouth. It's a mouthful. And yeah,
I encourage anyone. If you have a small garden like
a lot, and even if you have like a garden
that slapped over, you don't have any plant or anything like,
there's many ways around that you could get raised beds,
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you could get pod plants, you can put in a
pond in a container container pond, and you can really
make it at low asis and it really does actually
make a big difference. I personally have found that even
my mental health is better just looking out at the
garden because you're stimulated. You're looking out and you're seeing nature.
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You're seeing like insects and birds and everything that's kind
of doing this thing and it's actually stimulating. It's probably
what you're supposed to be looking at, right, Like humans
have evolved in the wild for hundreds of thousands of years,
and in the last you know, a couple of hundred years,
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have we really sort of turned everything into kind of
concrete wastelands. And so yeah, it's nice to be able
to see just and just let your mind wander a bit,
you know what I mean. I haven't find that that
if I when I used to run a lot, I
used to run out with nature and it used to
be really good for the head. And even then, obviously
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I like hiking. I like being in forests and things,
and I think sometimes just sitting there is really nice
sounds kind of depressing, but no, it is nice. Trust me.
I don't know if I'm selling it like some fucking
middle aged man sitting in the woods on his own,
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But no, days it's nice. There's so much out there,
it's so stimulating. It's a very stimulating environment. So yeah,
plant stuff gets your hummingbirded hawk moth out. Mister Dan James,
I'm sorry you wrote to me, I think two weeks ago,
and what I did was I screenshotted Geordie m and
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I was meant to read it on an episode and
I never got to it. So here we are favorite
Hello again? Or why you love the anthology? If I
did favorite Hello games, Hello one, I'll tell you I
love the FPS games as a kid and for our
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non video game listener fans, but we won't spend too
long on video games, trust me. So first, first sort
of song on, let me try and put this into words.
So when I started playing video games, fps is were
shite right, And for anyone who doesn't know what FPS is,
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I think if your Doom Call of Duty Hello, what
FPS stands for his first person shooter and first person
meaning you're looking down the sights of your gun, your
eyes are the screen, rather than third person where you're
looking behind someone's shoulder. And you still love first person shooters?
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You know, I actually remember Medal of Honor. Well, I
actually remember Doom, but then I remember Medal of Honor.
I think on PS one being one of those games
where you're like, oh, I like where this is going.
And obviously Golden I tore Rock all those games, and
PS two came along and you're like, you've got your
time Splitters, which was amazing. Thanksitters two is probably one
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of the best couch co op multi tap games you
can buy still. It had so much like had a
level editor, with so many game modes, so much value.
So I remember, so I remember about Hello. I was
maybe thirteen fourteen something like that, and I called around
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my friend Griff's house, and back in the day, he
used to be able to get consoles on and you
probably still can't actually on higher purchase, you know where
you pay like one hundred and you know, and his
math had gotten him an Xbox on higher Purchase. And
this is important reason I mentioned in higher purch is
(20:00):
because it's important to the story kind of. And I
remember I walked in and because you know, getting consoles
back then, when I got a console or Christmas, this
motherfucker had a new console. It was like fucking September
or some shit. I was like, how the fun did
you get this? I was like, oh, I got that purchase,
and he was showing me Helo and I was like,
(20:21):
oh shit, Like as soon as I seen Hello, I
was like, oh, I need an xbox. Like I was
just like just looked at it immediately and went, yeah,
I need one of these now. Anyway, I just have
to have it and rare enough, Like I'm not like
that as a person usually like usually like I I'm
(20:42):
fairly like I'll think about shit on my own and
ship that I like, and I'll go for shit that
I like. But like, I seen Helo and I was like, well,
I can't tell my YAlO, do you know what I mean?
It was just it was just too good. So I
literally again had no money. So I went to my
man and I was like, here, man, the crack. This
(21:02):
is the crack. We need an x an xbox. And
she was like I am not getting to know a
fucking xboxes, no hope. And I was like, listen to
this dog. I was about this higher Barges crack one sector.
I've got a barky dog. Crip all right, I'm back.
(21:30):
I have a fucking pain in the house with animals.
So the kitten, we have a Mencom kitten half men
Com and she is terrorizing the dog and so the
Dog gets wound up, Barracks Sadder, Barracksader, Barracksladder, so then
you have to go and intervene, and that's frustrating when
(21:51):
you're trying to record. So anyway, I was like mac Mon, like,
come on, you gotta hook me up with this xbox.
I think we mad that I might have recently separated,
so I think I had a bit of emotional beverage.
I think I can't remember, but there must have been
some reason I got the fucking thing anyway, because I
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wasn't getting in any other well ship perform But anyway
I got it, and Hello one split screen me and
Griff going around on our warthog fucking ship up. We
played the ship out of that game, doing everything, trying
to do every glitch, trying to get in there was
at the ghost or the Banshee, the Banchie, and like
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trying to do glitches with that and doing all sorts
of crazy shit throughout the levels and always just mucking
about and playing. Actually, some of my coolest video game
memories are like land parodies of Hello One. I think
it was, yeah it was Hello one because they nerves
to the pistol and Hello Too didn't they but the
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land parties were closed, the first time I'd ever had
a land party. My dad at the time worked in
Sony Center actually, and the manager there he had like
access to all of the projectors and screens and everything,
so he was like less to a LAMB party. So
we did, I think, a sixteen player lamb party. And
I think at the time he was talking shit to
(23:19):
me that because I was like, oh, it was pretty
good at Hello like, you know, and the manager thought
it was like, with all due respect, you know, I'm
a pro kind of thing. And funnily enough, I had
never played multiplayer Hello but because we played it so
much went down. I waxed them. I waxed everyone because
we were just so used to playing it and doing
headshots with the pistols. I absolutely waxed them. But that
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and Hello Hello one for me was the best. Hello
two I actually, funnily enough, didn't get into that much
because I didn't have internet at the time good enough
to play Hello two online, and I thought the campaign
was basically just Helo one's campaign and not as good
it was so short. So for me, Hello one had
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the better campaign, the better single player experience, but Hello
two had the better multiplayer experience, So hello three. I
played a lot online, but actually Modern Warfare was probably
the game and Gears Gears of War were the two
that really got me online. A little bit of trivia
three about me. I was top in the top. I
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think I was in the top thousand on Gears of
Ward globally at one point in time. It was very
good out one point in time. So yeah, so there
you go. So hello one. I hope the answers your question.
Thoughts on Last of Us game the first one I
played the Last of Us like later on. I actually
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only played that like probably like twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen,
something like that, and I thought it was fine. I
thought the story was good. That was a strong point.
It was very of its time, so I didn't play
it when it came out, but gameplay wise, it was
very of its time, so I thought it was good,
not great. Probably an other time, seven other times, something
(25:05):
like that. My thoughts on Alien and the show. I
love the show so far. I talked a bit about
it on the part of him, and I think I
am a bit concerned about where that goes. I think
it's very broad and I think that it can take
a turn that I'll probably hate. So I'm just hoping
that they keep it tight and it works well and
(25:27):
they don't get too fucking mad with it, you know
what I mean. But I do enjoy it so far.
I think it's very good. The recent films. I thought
the latest one Requiem is it So it was Alien
reccum something like that. That was fantastic. I really enjoyed it.
Thought it was a great film. Yeah to accept me
(25:48):
and em and talked about it at the time on
the pod, Like that fucking stupid one liner that the
bot says, get away from her, you bitch. That just
didn't need to be there. The fan service doesn't need
to be there. And this is coming from a Flang fan,
Like it's just brain dead fucking shit like that makes
no sense, So you know, don't put it in, do
(26:09):
you know what I mean? Like fucking leave without that's
fox sake. I hate when fucking shawls do that ship
like movies and all that. It's not like brain aid,
moutbreeder clapping moment in the cinema that they want to
you know, that's what they're kind of gunning for when
they do that, and it's like it doesn't. It literally
(26:30):
makes no sense to do that that like meta kind
of well we know that you know that line because
it's just stop. But I think me and Emon talked
about it that it reeks of like that reeks of
a shoehorneding thing from a director or not from a director,
from someone on set. And actually I think it has
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been said that it was that actually since I mentioned it,
so maybe that's the cause. But anyway, I love I
love what's going on with Alien. I love that we're
getting good stuff out of it. I did just complain
earlier this week about everything being rehashed and how annoying
that is and how everything is a remake, But I
actually feel what Alien Alien was waiting to have a
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good experience again, a good story again. I think Alien
had suffered big time as a franchise, you know what
I mean. I think Terminator is kind of the same.
I think Terminator needs a good shot up the arse,
kick up the ars, maybe shot in the arm. That's
the one, because Terminator is a really good story, and
(27:37):
I think now more than ever, it's definitely more relevant.
But I think Torminador needs to shed at Sarah Connor.
It's John Connor. It's Ronie and telling you story, you know,
just telling your story, just you know, cyber line and
all that is interesting, so just figure it out. Give
us a good TV show, you know what I mean.
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And so Cam Rolling Cam, Mister Cam Gormley's a long
time listener. And I won't go into the details of
what he said because he knows what I'm talking about.
But I'd like to say sorry for your last boat,
thank you for listenings over the years as well, and
thanks for the kind words and hopefully you get through
what you're going through and keep the chain up. Is tough.
(28:27):
I'm myself at a minute, so yeah, mind yourself stuff
in these streets. So when we're taking Instagram, I asked
you guys today for a couple of questions. We're going
to find out what we got here for everyone. Let's
see what we got are we are we questions? Questions? Questions? Right, okay,
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Rebel travel. Would you rather have the ability to teleport
or sell that ability to the highest bidder? I keep
that ability for myself for sure. Why because it opens
up so many opportunities, job prospects, money making opportunities. Obviously,
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you can just make money off the fact that you
can teleport that's like, you know, advantageous for most things
that you can be in lots of places in quick succession, right,
So I could probably get some cool jobs out of
that or figure some stuff out. But like, also I
noticed that when I was in Japan, when I was
in Tokyo, and I think this is probably why a
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lot of people move to big cities. Well, it is
why a lot of people moved to big cities. But
it was never something that I had ever really thought
about in my life. Why. I don't know, Maybe because
I'm not very money or career driven. So like when
I went to Tokyo, I was like the amount of
opportunity for business that's there. Like, like even myself, I visualized
(30:05):
a bunch of stuff that I could do from Japan,
just the opportunities that would open up because you're in
a city of I don't know, it's a forty million
or something. They're like, and all you need is like
a half good idea and the gumption and the power
to start it and to get going with it, and
the drive. And you're kind of going like, yeah, I
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get that. So if you could teleportrait, you could just
teleport all different cities and do whatever you wanted to do.
Because I remember when I went over first and I
went to Guitar Street. That was on my first trip
to Tokyo. I was just like these matter of fucking like,
there's so many because there's so many people in Tokyo, right,
everything costs less because like so you want to buy
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used the guitar for example, well you know there's way
more use guitars in Tokyo than probably all of Ireland,
so obviously the price of these guitars comes down. So
if tatleport song, you can flip guitarres, do whatever the
fuck you want, you know what I mean? Instantly there
just like I think there was something like a five
or sixth quid markup you could charrej and guitarres over
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here versus Japan, for example, and you're just looking at
it going wow, like even just that little thing, You're
looking at it and going, well, if I can spot
this out of just one of my hobbies, how many
older little absurd and saying things can you do over here?
Like one of the guys I was talking to that
on the bar, he was like, oh, I was like,
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is this your main thing. And he was like, no,
this is a hobby. He was like, because we were
chatting via chachipt to each other and he was like,
this is actually my hobby. He was like, my main
shop is a gatcha shop where I just sell those
little you know, the little gatcha things. You put the
coin in the machine, you turn and it gives you
a random ball with something. That was just fucking that
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was his business, Like, that's why he did. And he
was a happy boy, happy boy. And you're going that,
I can't do that here, you know, I can't do
that here in a town of my size's only twenty
thousand people, maybe a little bit more. And it's like
so that I saw opportunities definitely arise when you're in
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bigger places. You know, it's interesting. I see it a lot.
I don't know how I'm getting into, like economics talk
off this question, but like in Dublin, they're okay. So
for example, there's a retro game shop in Dublin, right,
and there's a retro game shop in Wexford. Right. The
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stock to display, how it's the displayed, how it's displayed,
the shopping experience and everything is one hundred percent better
here in my Exford. The one up in Dublin. It's
like they're not trying. They don't give a fuck. You
can't find anything. Everything is hidden. You have to order
on their website. You can't actually buy it, like you
can't actually see it there in front of you and go, oh,
let me take a look at this. You have to
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ask them every time you want to see something. It's
a fucking head wreck and you go into places like
a fucking dungeon and they don't have to try, you see.
And that's how they get away with it because they
get the footfall in the city so they don't have
to fucking try. They don't need to entice you, and
they don't need to do anything. They can get by
you just doing their thing. And the place here in
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Wexford has to try harder, it has to be cooler,
It has to make an experience and I kind of
try and entice you, you know what I mean. So
you just see the differences in different places. And the
same is true for Tokyo, do you know what I mean?
There's trouble while there are I've been to a lot
of them shops in Tokyo. Stuff that they're just like
fucking slap happy. Everything's just fucking throng around the place
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and it's like whatever. And that's because the people will come.
It doesn't matter, you know, they don't have to really try.
So yeah, So basically what I'm saying is if you
can teleport, you can go around doing a lots of
cool shit and making loads of money. You know. So
there you go. M cam asks, cam steaks ask have
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I ever ice skated? Big men like you don't belong
on the ice. Not never ice skating, And that's why.
So ice skating and scooters I feel so tall, and
then you know, the motor ice skouters. I'm like, if
I fucking hit anything, I want to bite the dart
so hard on one of these fucking skirters. I remember
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I was going around Rome on all of those skaters
and I was like, I about eight foot taller. So like
it's like if I hit a bomb, that's like coming
off the fucking the second story or something, you know.
So no, I don't I skate, and I don't do
scouters really much, because yeah, it does feel a bit
igh stakes. People like me, when we fall, we fall hard.
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I actually remember like one of the last times I
bit the dirt properly, like slapped, as we call it.
There times I slapped properly. I would have been young,
and I remember saying to myself that fucking heard, do
not do that again. You're too tall. Like it takes
me about fucking five minutes from actually tripping to hitting
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the floor, do you know what I mean? It's like
the slow motion and then when you hit the floor
you're in fucking bits. So no, that's you have to
be careful of my itea is self preservation. You're going
to break a rib or something, you know what I mean?
If Vince McMahon is m Bison, what wrestlers become? What
(35:34):
street fighters? Oh that's a great question, you know street
fighter movie? And can we just talk about the straight
Fighter movie really quickly? Actually it's just been a straight
fighter movie. Fucking announced Jesus Christ to upset me straight
off the bat bust his names in wallaweg Andrew Schultz,
(35:56):
and I'm like, okay, here we go. That was fucking
who isn't a fucking who is it? One of the
wrestling lad's lad with the fucking blonde hair. Roman Reigns
is playing Blanca. It's just a fifty cent is battle
(36:16):
Rock the Boxer. It's going to be absolute fucking dog shit.
I'm not even in an ironic kind of John Claude
Van Dam street Fighter way. It's going to be just pure, dirty,
fucking dishwater dogshite. I'd say the cast of the film
reminds me of like the casting was probably done beast
(36:36):
off social media following, and it was like the more
kind of people with followers we get, the better interest
we'll have t break. So I mightn't even watch that.
I actually might even watch that film. When you're putting
podcasters and stuff in films, like it's game over, Like
(36:59):
you should never if you ever see if by any
chance myself and aim and end up in the film,
don't watch it. Just don't watch it. It's gonna be ship,
to be honest, unless has some kind of fucking bit
part cameo. But like if we're actually like build on it,
forget it, forget it, like even if it's a documentary,
(37:20):
but like, seriously, man, what the fuck? Yeah, I just
I don't feel excited about it. Look, street Fighters suit
animated stuff better. Look it's it's not a very fucking strong.
It's like concept, you know what I mean, like animated
sh it suits a better lighthearted animated ship, but like
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acting stuff like live actions like nah man, nah man,
just don't do it. We don't need it. We don't
need it, like you know, it's just no, it's not
going to be good. I don't think. I really don't
think it's going to be good. So Vince McMahon is
(38:02):
m Bison what wrestlers become? What street Fighters? Well, like
you know Blancaster's Roman Rains, who I wouldn't have thought
would be actually a good blanket go fit for it?
Like street Fighter. Let's let's look up straight Fighter six characters, right,
(38:26):
I know all of them, but let's just see if
we can get like names the faces here and sort
of run through with so just I don't know. I
don't know a lot of the more recent wrestlers and
all that. So I'll see if I can do a
lot of like nineties wrestlers. I actually think that that
who is that Blondie Foker? What's his name? Everyone knows
(38:50):
who's champion? There? For a while, wasn't he what's his
fucking name? He should have played Gile? Is he playing Gile.
Maybe he is Cody Rains, Is that him? Cody Rhoades,
Roman cour year Olds he is he Gyle, He is right,
that's stacent cast him. But like Gyle from the nineties
would have been like Hardcore Halli, or like Jeff Jarrett
(39:11):
or someone Jeff Charred would probably be a good one.
DJ's Boker t All Their baby j has to be
Booker t. Cammy can be master named Stacy Heabler for
obvious reasons. Choon Lee, I don't think there's an equivalent,
(39:32):
or at least there wasn't back then. Rare Ripley is
not really the best John Lee. I wouldn't say she'd
maybe even make a better Yury or Jury Ken. I'm
trying to think, like in terms of gimmick, there's not
many wrestlers that would have seen with count because Ken
(39:54):
was just like the kind of like Sean Michaels probably
would have been the closest to like Ken or maybe
even Triple h but probably Sean Michaels. Real, let's go
with a fucking you know, reuse Asian. Let's be honest,
And there wasn't many Asian fucking w W dudes back
(40:15):
then or even now, so I don't have an option
for reu. Who else have we got there? Yeah, I
don't know other than that. Really, I'm just looking at
the cast and I'm kind of going, yeah, I don't know.
Vegas would have to be someone's zesty, and I don't
know who golds. But yeah, that's that's that one. Good question,
(40:39):
by the way, but it's tough, and the Crown Animal
asks have you ever heard of mayors? Say? Where old
dom Mundo the largest casual tree in the world? Lockh Edin,
Brazil largest. Let's check this out? Curious about this? That?
(40:59):
What's there? Right? Okay? It's in Againness World Records, which,
by the way, started in Waxford. Did you know that?
Did you know that Againness Book of World Records originates
from my very hometown. Well, look into it. It's the
bar places against record sand check it out, grip. So
(41:32):
let's take out this Castro tree. It entered the Againess
Book of Records in ninety four. Uh, okay, what the oh?
This is the fucking tree? Why in the name of fuck?
So this one tree is like a forest, right, So
(41:53):
this tree covers an area of about one point eight
acres and two point one acres like square around, having
the size of seventy the size of seventeen normal sized
cashw trees. It has a circumference of sixteen hundred feet.
(42:14):
Isn't that mad? I'm just looking at a picture of it.
It's like a fucking forest just on its all. The
spread over a hector of land was created by the
tree's outward growth when bent towards the ground. Because of
its way, the branches are tend to take new routes
where they touched the ground. This may be seen in
(42:35):
the images of the interior, so it's now difficult to
distinguish the initial trunk from the rest of the tree.
The tree is estimated to be more than a thousand
years old and it produces over sixty thousand fruits per year.
Isn't that cool? So that that's like, that's the crazy
(42:55):
thing about the Bandzie place I went to in Idagawa
in Japan, Tokyo, Like the oldest bands out there was
around that age, and you're just thinking, what that's been
passed down from generation to generation to generation and kept
alive that long. But that cashw tree, so I actually
(43:17):
have jade plans started doing the very same thing as
what this cashow was doing, so I can actually perfectly
visualize this. My jade is fucking stupid. I don't know
what is going on with it, but it went through
a period. I don't know whether maybe it had been
moved or something, but it went through a period where
it dipped. The branches bent down and then they're curved
(43:40):
up and on that curve it started to sprout little
roots on each curve. So I guarantee you if I
planted that in soil, it would do the same thing
as this cashow tree here. So I actually fully get that.
Very very cool. So yeah, church, last, let us go
(44:01):
to the Chelter and crom mecanimal. Sarah asks, if you
could be a mythical creature, what would I be? My
mind goes to like centaur. Yeah, strong, big legs, good irish,
you know, powerful magey, big ditties. Fucking sendors are big
(44:25):
fucking powerful masterds. Like do you know what I mean?
You go around like horse and horsing around the place
to be class kick and lads be really fun. But yeah,
and you still have your arms as well as this class.
Like really, there's not fucking is there any negative to
(44:49):
be in the centaur? Really like that, or like something
that lives in to say, like some kind of murder
man or something to sidon because I can't swim, so
anything that's water based, I suppose I kind of get
a bit of a a bit of a trip out.
(45:12):
Let's see what else we got out? Do we have
anymore before I go? Let me see, because yeah, what
I do is I sometimes I miss him. Like so
actually I opened up my gallery there and there's a
poor little little dude in the straight and he has
autism and he's only young, like, and he spends most
(45:38):
of his day just out on the street stimming. Basically
he has a little two brushy steams with but there's
a lot of kids in the street. So like now
the kids are starting to realize, like they're all probably
around like I don't know, eight or nine maybe something
like that, and they're starting to realize, like, all we
can work around with him now, like you know, so
(45:59):
they're starting to put him up the stuff. So when
I opened my phonder, I just see the ring the
ring camera footage. They rang my doorbell yesterday and put
a lot they stick at the door and said wiguliar
arson dance until the answer the door I'm like, what
in the actual fuck? So the poor chat Like he's
(46:21):
getting to that age now where you can already start
to see people getting sucked with people. Are people starting
to fuck with him? Like and that's sad? But yeah, no,
I don't think I have anything else here. I think
I've gotten through much of your questions. So what I'll do
is again I will reiterate to mister cam Yeah, sorry
(46:43):
for your last brother. I hope you're going well. And
in terms of me, let's talk about So I had
all of the paperwork and I had to do all
the death sort of stuff this week for my granddad
and I'm kind of getting all that sorted out now
and like it's a h interesting. Again, I mentioned last
(47:03):
week that, yeah, the people that have come forward and
wish condolences is amazing. It's all nice. And like I
said before as well, I had never really experienced any
of that because I like literally had all my grandparents,
had everyone around me. And one thing that I have
modest in doing all this is just how nice people
(47:24):
are when you're dealing with something like this. Like I
was in the doctors today collecting his Like there's like
some sart that says like, you know, when, when and
why they died and stuff like that, and the woman
mind the counter was like, sorry for your loss, blah
blah blah, and then I had to go and get
the deaths art same thing. More mind the counters, there's
(47:45):
very sorry for your loss and all that, and it
seems sincereous. It seems nice, you know, So it's interesting.
It's interesting to learn all that. So definitely been kind
of it makes it a bit more I don't know,
palatable this wrong word, but makes it a bit I
don't feels nice, feels nicer to deal fucking though. But yeah,
(48:09):
I'm getting through with Afghan that sort of out. Jesus,
it's going to be a last there's only a lot
of work to get done, so not really looking forward
to that. But you have to keep on soldiering on,
put one foot in front of the other and kind
of mind yourself. Because I've been in a sort of
a for to do mental health fall. It is probably
(48:29):
in a bit of a funk lately, on and off,
and it has I don't necessarily think it's been to
do with the death, but that has definitely contributed to it.
But I think, yeah, there's been. There's been a little
bit of stuff going on there, and I'm just kind
of like in a bit of a rut. I think
(48:50):
at a minute, I think it's a change in seasons,
does it? To be honest, I think like fucking you
know he used to. You start to realize, like the
summer's over and you're like, oh fuck, are we going
back to like the bleakness. Care had something to me
the other day. She was like, today it was the
(49:11):
last day of the sun will set after eight pm
and it won't set till like after APM again or
before it, yeah, whatever. It basically it ont set after
a PM until April. So so from now, which is
September to April, it'll be dark before it every night,
(49:37):
which is fairly grim. So we have to knuckle down
and get stuck in. You know, the seasons in Ireland
is like fairly it gets dark early here. You know,
you're talking like five o'clock five half five in the
winter when it gets like into December January, you know,
(50:00):
so it can be it can be a tricky time,
I think actually for the mental health, you know. So
I think I'm looking down the battle of that Gun
and gone here we are but one thing. I will
say there's benefits to the winter. Two, it's really nice
to be cozy. I do like cozy. There's something even
(50:21):
psychological about knowing that it's fucking freezing outside but you're
warm inside. It's like a simple little I think it's
like a simple human thing, because like even you watched
all the YouTube guys, the dudes that like drought in
the fucking wilderness and I build a lag cabin over
a couple of months and put me fire in it
and ship and basically that's the video. The video is
(50:44):
then striving to light a fire inside the fucking box
and be warm, and that's what makes the video. The
YouTuber is actually always all fucking funny, Like did you
ever see these guys, these sort of can bino Schubers
or like Survive of Steel Shoppers, Like every fucking video
(51:05):
making Gordon Ramsey dinners out in the woods like a
hilarious shit. Like it's like they're trying to like really
entice you to go out and camp, you know, but
some of them like check them out that they'll like
properly make like proper steaks or proper nice ship and
like they'll go above and beyond. Some people are really
into that side of it, like where it's like, you know,
(51:27):
I have a friend, like we went camping recently and
he had fucking everything. It's like he whipped out, like
no joke, he whipped out fucking he had his cast
iron pan and all that shit, but he whipped out
fucking marinate chicken and all this type of shit, And
what the fuck. When I used to camp, it'll be
a pot noodle or a fucking you know what I mean.
It'd be something that you could just pour a bit
(51:48):
of boiling water on, you heat it on your stove,
and that was it. The boys they'll be doing fucking
gourmet meals and all that now out in the woods.
It's cool though, don't get me wrong. I think it's cool,
but it's just not really Yeah, you know, it's not
really doable for most people. Like you know, especially if
you're backpacking, you're not going to be carrying fucking chicken.
By the time we get the camp. The chicken will
(52:09):
be walking out with your backpack itself will be green
and that fucking salmon and the chicken on your pan.
So yeah, it's not It's nice to look at on
YouTube and stuff like that. But a lot of the
time you're just like, yeah, that's not really realistic most
of the time for the average plebeian. Ah, thee out
Door Boys guy is quite funny. I've ever seen him.
(52:30):
It's a funny YouTuber. He's kind of done now, I think,
but he has some really funny videos. It's just mad shit,
Like you're like, this guy is fucking cracked. He's a
good watch though. But yeah, look, I'm gonna keep it
short and sweet, folks, and believe it at that. I
won't ramble on too much today because yeah, it's just
(52:55):
like i'd be a fucking talking shit really, So that's
the crack today. Monday. I'll be back again. You'll see
me again next Thursday as well. I think Aim in
his back soon. I don't know when. I think it's
next week maybe Boat, we'll see. Thanks for staying with me, Fox,
Thanks for listening. Thanks for the feedback. It's always been appreciated,
(53:18):
especially when you're on your own, you know, because you're like,
oh Jesus, I don't want to be boring people, or
I don't want to be putting up stuff and like
alien out and people or anything. But my philosophy is
at least that you have something to listen to it,
you know what I mean, rather than nothing at all.
So and I enjoy these. These are fun, So yeah,
(53:41):
we believe it. There, Fox, I hope you've enjoyed this episode.
I have been robbed. This has been monster fuzz over
and out.
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