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S6 E17: Up Late - All Backed Up
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With the long-running SAG-AFTRA strikes, we'll undoubtedly be facing a huge gap in movie and TV show content (or at least GOOD content) sometime in the near future. We focus our attention in this Up Late on all the TV, movies and video games in our backlog we'll be able to work through as a result.
Beers reviewed this episode:
- Bright Brewery - Stubborn Imperial Stout (2023) - 16.0%
- One Drop Brewing - Ranniku Antipodean Nordic Stout - 12.5%
- Bracket Brewing - The Juggernaut - Triple NEIPA - 10.3%
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Theme
00:00:18
Speaker
And welcome back. This is another episode of Pixels and Pints Up Late, which means we get sultry and smooth. With me tonight is Pete. Hi. And we've got Dan. Hello.
00:00:33
Speaker
That wasn't sultry or smooth, but we'll take it. Sorry. I got, I got, I got, I got in trouble last time for making my, my clip. So I'm not going to talk deep into the microphone anymore. You can talk deep into it. You just don't yell deep into it. I was pretty sure I didn't yell. But anyway, there are a lot of rules, apparently a lot of rules. Um, so yes, we're tonight is another one of our uploads, one-shot episodes, uh, whatever you want to call them feature articles. Maybe let's book that. It's the, we couldn't be fucked researching a whole episode.
00:01:05
Speaker
That works too.
Beer Tastings and Reviews
00:01:07
Speaker
So yes, tonight we've all got one, well the theme is we've all got one big beer. We've got one big beer that we're going to have. I'm not entirely looking forward to mine. That's always good. And then we've got one, it's one big topic, a big umbrella topic, and then it breaks down into little things. So yeah, that's what we're doing. That is the up late and yeah, short sweet to the point.
00:01:32
Speaker
Short is a relative term in terms of our podcast. And so sweetened to the point, I hate to tell you. Everything I just said was an in complete lie. Completely lies. Yeah. Who's going first? On beers. I haven't even tried my beer yet. Well, I haven't even tried mine yet, but I'm looking at the can and I'm struggling with the legalities of this can. I'm sorry to say.
00:01:59
Speaker
controversy, controversy straight up. So I've got Bright Brewing, Stubborn Imperial Stout, 2023. It's fucking 16%. Jesus. Oh Jesus Christ. I don't know whether you're looking forward to it. Yeah. 16% is not my cup of tea, but I thought, fuck it. I'm never going to have it any other time. So this might as well be the time where I choose to drink it. There's no, there's no brewery information on this can.
00:02:29
Speaker
Which is illegal. No brewery information. No, no, no address of the brewery. No things like that, which this, which legally has to be on the can. Oh no. Wait a minute. It's a tiny little thing at the bottom. I was staying corrected. Well done. I'm thinking about sink pouring a $20 beer. Oh dear.
00:02:54
Speaker
Speaking of controversy, let's get right into it. Mine's from Bright in Victoria, Bright Brewing in Victoria. Mine's delicious, fuck the lot of you. Mine tastes like someone took a chocolate stout and added burnt rubber to it. Holy hell that's strong.
00:03:12
Speaker
You can tell by the way your one eye involuntary close. It was one of those ones where the ethanol goes up through your nostril cavities.
00:03:25
Speaker
It's not bad, but definitely, it's a well-constructed beer for 16%. It's got some, it's definitely got some sort of woody, oaky character to it. I don't think it's a barrel aged or anything like that. Embrace a winter-calm, stubborn imperial spell. It's a yearly release, they do, yeah. Yeah, layers, sweet chocolate, dark espresso with subtle spice. I'd agree with that, but it's definitely got some dryness to it.
00:03:54
Speaker
Sorry, what was it called, mate? Did we figure it out? It's Stubborn. Stubborn. The 23 release. Stubborn. 2023 by who? Yes. Bright Brewing. Bright Brewery. Bright Brewery. Thank you. Right. And. I tuned out while my taste buds made my head explode. Yeah. Well, I tuned out for a second while my alcohol made my head explode.
00:04:17
Speaker
I had last year's vintage, the 2022, and it was quite good, but it was only 11.5%. I just looked it up. It was only 11.5. You know, you got a big beer when that's a sentence. That activates the salivation glands as well. Wow. Umami beer. It's got a fair bit of bitterness to it. It's not necessarily hot bitterness. I think it's like ethanol-y bitterness and astringent bitterness.
00:04:47
Speaker
That's the word I can never remember anymore. Can I read you my favorite note they've put in this? The ABV is well hidden for something that sits at 16%. It is more reminiscent of something around the 12% range. Just your average debut. Classic post-work staffy. It's just a 12%. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That 4% makes a huge difference when you get to that point in the scale. Like I said, it is well constructed.
00:05:16
Speaker
I definitely would not be drinking. Well, I don't think you should drink more than one for the punters out there. Um, just alcohol wise. Yeah. I'm coming back to me with score. I'm just going to sit back on it for a second and. Okay. Work it out. My brain's processing. Can I go next to your mind, Tom? No, no, jump right in. Thank you. So I'm drinking one drops, uh, uh, ran a coup.
00:05:45
Speaker
and Tippadee and Nordic Stout. Beautiful fucking can. Simple gold lettering on like a lovely brown background. Oh, that's the collab with that. Is that the other story on the front? Poljala or Poljala. Yeah, I remember that coming out. Yeah. It is a 12 and a half percent Nordic Stout.
00:06:04
Speaker
Um, and my, my, like I'm really struggling with it. It's one of those where straight off the bat, it's like, what the fuck is this? Like it tastes, it tastes really loud and not be like, uh, and then I'm finding, and when I, cause I said like, it tastes like burnt rubber. It's extremely bitter. It's like someone added a triple shot of espresso to a Russian stout.
00:06:35
Speaker
But as it's warming up and as my brain's kind of settling into the groove, I am separating out the layers. So I'm getting cinnamon. I'm getting, it's certainly a lot of cinnamon on the nose, but you get a mouthful of cinnamon with this really strong bitterness. It's like bitter cocoa chocolate, little bit of coconut.
00:06:57
Speaker
Probably I would almost say too much coconut to go with the rest of the flavor profile. It's yeah, it's just a really it's just a bit of a brain teaser in terms of separating out the layers of flavor. But I definitely get shit loads of cinnamon, which I think is where I'm getting the bitterness from a lot of bit of chocolate. There's a lot of smoke, but like traditional smoke through it, like black malt smoke.
00:07:25
Speaker
Just reading the just reading the first seven people on untapped sync port it and gave it half a star. Which I've got to be honest was my first reaction, but it's as it's as I'm kind of warming up to it.
00:07:42
Speaker
Bourne is a massive dark collaboration of beer and friendship of our powers per holla, Estonia. Working closely with the head brewer, Martin, we adapted a huge dark base of theirs for the antipodean malts we use while also drawing inspiration from coastal Australia. After an eight-hour boil, robust hopping and cold fermentation, an extensive bittering on the hot side gives this massive Nordic Stout sunnock massive.
00:08:06
Speaker
A rich foundation of strong, malty and heavily roasted character is complemented and amplified by additions of North Queensland vanilla and toasted coconut. A New South Wales cinnamon myrtle and Tasmanian oak.
00:08:18
Speaker
So that's where the cinnamon's come from. And that's also a part of the astringency. Thank you for that word. Returning that word to my brain, Dan. Cause it's not just cinnamon, it's myrtle, which is that really bitter Aussie bushflower that we've had in quite a few beers at various, various gabs. Quite popularly old myrtle, myrtle the turtle, lemon and myrtle. Yes. So I'm going to give that, I'm going to give that a, a hearty four.
00:08:47
Speaker
0.25. Now that I know what it is, what it's trying to be, and my brain started to separate out those flavors, it's actually fucking impressive. Dan, you would love this because you love your bitter beers. This is exactly up your alley.
00:09:04
Speaker
I was going to say, just with your two beers, because you've got two very big dark beers and I'm assuming they've both probably just come out of the fridge. Yeah. Maybe hold your, or go back and score it again as it warms. That's exactly why I didn't score mine and mine's changed quite a bit significantly so that all the malt profile was all muted when it was completely cold and that whole time Pete was there.
00:09:29
Speaker
People could probably sitting here cupping it like a nice pair of balls.
00:09:35
Speaker
It was warming up, warming up nicely. So the malt character, that chocolate's really smoothed out and come out of its shell. So, yeah. Nice. Which is why when you want to have a stout, you should take it out the beer beforehand. The always the way. I actually did, but it still wasn't long enough because it's a bit chilly. And the other disadvantage I've got specifically tonight is I've run out of my, what do you call them? Glasses. So what do we call them? What's the shape of those glasses that we always use?
00:10:04
Speaker
The ones I gave you. No, no, not those ones. I almost got him out. No, and I'm drinking out of a three Ravens, three Ravens Stein. No, we usually drink out of the ones that shaped specifically. So you get all your IPA and your stout glasses, those ones. Yeah. Spigle ones. The spigle glasses. Yeah. Thank you. That's the word I was looking for. Tom, what are you drinking, mate?
00:10:28
Speaker
I am drinking a collab as well because I love a fucking collab. This is not between two breweries, though. This is between bracket and boomstick glassware. This is the I'm the juggernaut, bitch.
00:10:43
Speaker
This is the second collab these guys have done the last one I did was the gambit beer so that gone again with the x-men theme and god bless them for that I've you know I was at bracket the other week and I I gave my list of x-men they need to start featuring if I could have my way they looked at me very oddly and said who's this strange man yelling at us about x-men.
00:11:07
Speaker
Yeah, and we're closed. Go away. Yes, Tom. It's 8 a.m. Please leave. So this is a... Out of interest, who were those obscure X-Men? Oh, I want to see a Banshee beer. Like, Banshee hasn't got enough limelight. I was talking about... When to go?
00:11:26
Speaker
It was a win to go, win to go. Paul Puckett would be a good one. Is Puckett better at Puck, Alpha Force? He's Alpha Force, yeah. Yeah. I don't remember like it was, you know, obviously I just don't want him to go down the path. I'm trying to trip him up, Dan. That's not a noise. No, I wasn't trying to trip him up. It was a genuine interest question. But you don't, you don't want to see the classic, like you don't need the core X, I don't need to see a Wolverine beer. I don't need to see a Cyclops beer. Like let's, let's, there's a big enough roster. Mr. Strong, let's get a Mr. Strong.
00:12:00
Speaker
Anyway, so this is a triple IPA with Motaweka, Mosaic, and Citra, 10.3%. And it's beautiful and golden. It is really well balanced for 10.3%. It's very smooth and very hidden of booze. Someone did give me one of these about a week ago as the last round of the night. They thought they'd sneak it in.
00:12:19
Speaker
Little tiny head.
00:12:29
Speaker
disappeared and we were none the wiser like it's it's dangerously good at hiding hiding that booze hit obviously there's there's there's the those classic like the citra notes come through so it's really really citrusy and quite brute forward but super smooth like from the malt coming through like the malt base the mouth feels very very coating and it is yeah I don't need to warm this one up look it's even got Jasper excited shut up
00:13:01
Speaker
So yes i'm giving that a solid four and a half that's a very.
00:13:05
Speaker
And they get, it was, what did we need it for? But they get that extra 0.5 for the danger factor of just how quickly I could probably drink this if I needed to. Yeah. The danger factor also comes in and copyright infringement, I think. They did admit that one of the parties was given the task of selecting the imagery and they were, one of the other parties was disappointed when they found it's actually just the first thing on Wikipedia when you search for that exact imagery.
00:13:34
Speaker
Oh, that's, they could have paid a, well, yeah, okay. The last, the gambit can. I remember you remember the gambit can, but it was just his hand at the cards and they were on the pink flame. It was very good. This one, like, you know.
00:13:45
Speaker
It's obviously just, oh, quick, we need to get something. Here you go. Take that. But like, you know, I thought you could have done a really cool, like recognizable, like the juggernaut fist with the red rings, like going down, just like slamming into the ground or coming through the can, like, yeah, like that. Or just the empty helmet with a crack and it would have been cool. The helmet, the helmet upside down on a slab of concrete with a beer glass next to it.
00:14:07
Speaker
With a big fucking crack in it. Yeah. Make it obvious that it's made out of rock. Or just the gem of sitaract just glowing in the middle and nobody's looking at it. Yeah. I get it. Anyway, good on you Vinnie Jones. What a roll. What a roll. All right, take us into our fucking topic for tonight, Tom. No pressure. Well, you did intro.
00:14:33
Speaker
I didn't come up with this, but let's do it.
Gaming Discussions and Console Choices
00:14:35
Speaker
Oh, didn't you? No, this was Dan's. This was Dan's. Oh, sorry. Dan, my apologies. No, Tom can introduce it. It was a throwaway line. Anyway. They almost always are just behind the scenes for anyone listening who's interested. So this came about as a discussion we've had a bit recently on the old podcast, which was
00:14:55
Speaker
There's the ongoing Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strikes, predominantly in the US. I haven't seen much of it around here. Some Aussie actors that have spoken out in solidarity, but obviously... Yeah, people are jumping in, but there's obviously different unionisation over here compared to what the guys over there have. Yeah, we've got no money to start with in the Australian film industry.
00:15:19
Speaker
Well, definitely not as much as Hollywood, but yeah, so this came about as like, obviously, for us as content viewers, there's like these strikes, however long they keep on going, there's going to be a gap in what we get to consume in our entertainment, like, section of our lives.
00:15:37
Speaker
So we decided this is the perfect time to get into those that we opened it up to games as well so games and series and movies. But I guess I've been clogging up the rainy day pile you know we've been scrolling away like a you know nuts as a you know in the long hibernation. So yeah so that's basically what we've done we've all gone through and talk about our nuts.
00:15:59
Speaker
We are going to talk about our nuts, broken down. I think we should just do our sections, not us each individually. We'll do games, then we'll do movies, then we'll do TV. There's obviously some overlap there. Someone else go because I want to drink the beer now.
00:16:20
Speaker
Well, we're going to start by talking about all the games that Tom told Dan and I that we can play. So you can explain that first, please, Tom. What? I wrote these. I wrote my ones. Did you really? Yeah. Did you write them for me, too, then? No, no, I just copied that. I meant to delete that. Sorry. Like, is Tom playing a joke? Is he telling me I have to play that game? No, no, no, no. This was Dan. But then I wrote out the structure of the thing and then I copied it. Yep. Dan? Editing. It's my strong point.
00:16:52
Speaker
Definitely contributing is mine. Um, two, two games that have been, one has been on my list for years. Uh, and I just don't have the platform that it's on, but I've been, been talking about buying a switch for years. Me and Louise had a Wii U for years and we played, uh, Mario Kart almost every weekend on it. I touched on, uh,
00:17:18
Speaker
just the first Zelda Breath of the Wild on it a little bit, but it was primarily our lounge room we use. So we could have a couple of Mario Kart races on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, just for the hell of it after lunch or over the first beer or over the 20th beer or whatever. Wherever over the 20th beer. It's just like, all right, let's up until 150 CC. We can still make those corners.
00:17:44
Speaker
Years ago, we packed it up and gave it to our niece and nephew in the intentions of buying a switch. My wanting to get a switch was twofold, to have the newer version of Mario Kart and a newer Nintendo in the house. Mario 64 is one of my fondest memories
00:18:05
Speaker
as a teenager on the 64 and Shadows of the Empire, the first two games I got on my N64 when I got it. And I played the crap out of Mario 64 and absolutely loved it. And I haven't played a 3D Mario game since.
00:18:23
Speaker
that when I saw Odyssey came out and all of the effort and the work they put into Mario Odyssey, I was like, I have to play this, but I have to buy a switch to play this. But we need a switch anyway, because we need Mario Kart and we need it in. But we ended up giving the Wii U away, and then we never ended up buying Switch. And every time Christmas rolls around, we go, we're going to buy ourselves that Switch this year so we can start playing Mario Kart. And I'm like, yes, well, I'm also going to buy Mario Odyssey and play that.
00:18:52
Speaker
We even did the Christmas just gone and we're still talking about it now. So hopefully this year, hopefully this year we'll get a switch. Switches are currently on sale at EB games as we speak. When it gets to your turn, I'll jump onto eBay and have a look at what they are. But I just, I think it looks like such a, the Mario games for me have always been this fun jump in for 10 minutes.
00:19:20
Speaker
turns into two hours, but you're not, you're not tied into an entire flight to LA playing nothing but Mario 64 instead of sleeping. Best thing I've ever done. It's just one of those games where you go, oh, I don't have to do a mission. I can just jump in and see how far I get with a level or especially with Odyssey. I know it's structured slightly differently, but you can go and find a couple, they're moons in Odyssey, aren't they? Not stars anymore.
00:19:47
Speaker
Uh, moon. No, that was cool. Galaxy. Cause it's gone 64 and then there's super Mario sunshine and then there's galaxy one, galaxy two. And now it's Odyssey, but all this is all about Mario throws his hat and he can possess things. But you can still collect stars. Is that your main? I haven't played it. I haven't played it. I thought you had. Sorry. No, I haven't played Odyssey. It's I'm definitely now it's written down on my list too.
00:20:09
Speaker
Yeah, it's just one of those fun games I'd like to get into just for something where I don't want to sit down and listen to dialogue for
00:20:19
Speaker
30 minutes while I complete a storyline mission or something like that, or get my butt kicked in what is my next game on my list, which is Elden Ring. I think Elden Ring looks like a bunch of fun. I've started to play a bunch of Souls-like games in the past, or the actual Souls games, the Demon Souls. And I've tried to play, or started to play, not tried to play, I've started to play all them.
00:20:46
Speaker
the tedious, tedious, tedious of it gets to me in the end, tediousness. That's it. Uh, the surge was my favorite one. It wasn't a from software game, but it was more of a industrial sci-fi. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was quite fun. And that was, that was the one that I got the furthest in. I'm hoping with Elden ring being open world and not sort of being hemmed in
00:21:10
Speaker
To like a singular level you're on that i might find a bit more to then go out and explore some give me the sheets i don't have to just focus on that i can move out to a separate area and go go explore that.
00:21:25
Speaker
It's got an excellent reviews a few of my friends applied and i said it's absolutely great some of them have absolutely no patience so i don't know how they sat down and played it continue to see i've continued to read reviews even recent ones that have said that. It's a perfect game other than the boss fights and the boss fights are like.
00:21:46
Speaker
The most frustrating experience, no demand. There is no strategy. It's pure. Think of the worst fights you had in the hardest levels of Survivor or Fallen Order. And that's a really light Souls-esque type of game. It's nowhere near as hard as some of the From Software ones.
00:22:04
Speaker
Like you memorize six hundred moves and then it still comes down to unlucky fucking timing. It's all timing. And these guys are like, and these guys are like hardcore players saying, you know, I spent, I invested all of these hours in the defeating a spouse and when I finally defeated him, I couldn't tell you what the fuck I did.
00:22:23
Speaker
I couldn't tell you why I beat him that one time. Yeah. Just managed to get those strikes in just. But everything else, the open world, the law, the story, the graphics, the game mechanics, 10 out of 10 reviews across the board. It's just boss fights. Like the trophies last year. It was definitely up there.
00:22:43
Speaker
Yeah. That's where I am with that. That's it there. That might, we, if we do this again in a two years time, that will potentially still be sitting there. Fair enough. Well, I mean, leading on from that, that, that was actually one of my entire categories was souls like games. It's like,
00:22:59
Speaker
Am I a coward or am I eventually going to give them a shot? And look, the short answer is I'm still a coward. I just don't know. Like I think of all the fun I had in the Star Wars, you know, survivor and fallen order, but then all.
00:23:17
Speaker
frustration, the absolute control gripping, like, fuck you better than this, you dickwad. Like, come on. Like you've been playing games since, you know, you could walk like, what are you doing? And then it's just, yeah, or just not paying attention. Like, or the other side of it, like, I know it's one of those games. I'm only gonna have to be able to play like at the start of a session. I'm going to have to play it alongside something else.
00:23:43
Speaker
because I enjoy sitting there and I sip on a beer while I have a game and I play a game and then I might have two or three if I'm having a longer day session or whatever.
00:23:51
Speaker
definitely couldn't play a souls like game after a couple of beers. Cause it'd be like, well, this is the controls going through the TV now. I'm just going to be like, fuck like, yeah. So that is definitely up there for me. Um, you know, uh, again, on the going back to kind of similar to Dan, the, the switch side of things, I have a switch, but like, to be honest, it's kind of gathering dust on my, like my bedside table. I just need to take more time with it. I definitely.
00:24:20
Speaker
It's been great when I was on like flights back to America to see him as family and stuff. Cause it was great. There was a portable take it charge anywhere. It's gone. It's got USB C. So it's like super easy to just take and charge wherever you were going. Um, but then I only wanted it for the, the Nintendo titles. I didn't want it to play something. I could play on the PlayStation because I like using the big TV and I know I can set up the cradle for the switch and play on the big TV, but then it just.
00:24:47
Speaker
Having that little, the little joysticks, it just, I'd have to get one of the controller peripherals. And then it's another thing in the lounge room and all that kind of stuff. So it's like, it's definitely something I need to get back into because I really want to play those Zelda games. I've played every Zelda game up until breath of the wild. And I love that series. Like I've always loved that series. Um, so it's definitely one of those things that I just need to be like.
00:25:10
Speaker
And I think I might, I think I know what I'm going to do because I'm about to hit a hundred platforms with Skyrim. I think I might let my PlayStation have a little sleep for a while. It's, it's, it's done some, done some time. Yeah. Or at least just give it like a break every other day. Just be like, no, no, say Tom, go play, go, go play Zelda, go play Zelda. And then, you know, three days will pass and be like, Ooh, where have I been? Like that's the game that sucks me in more than Mario like, or anything is, is Zelda games. I just get right into them.
00:25:36
Speaker
Definitely excited to do that. And then I guess leading on from that and giving the PlayStation a rest is my list of shame.
00:25:46
Speaker
Games I haven't finished or I've like, I've gotten halfway through the hard play through and I just cracked the shits and be like, nah, fuck it. I'll come back to it. Eventually. I know what happens in the story. Every six months since I bought it since two things, 2014, it came out every six months. I go back and try and finish the hard play through of dragon engine condition. And every single time I get like maybe three, four days into playing it, like, you know, a couple of hour long sessions. And I'm just like.
00:26:12
Speaker
this. Fucking no, no, I'm out. I can't do it. I've built it. I've built my guy wrong, but I'm too deep into it now to go back and start the hard play through again. I'm just like, you're an idiot. Stop going straight up tank warrior class every time. It doesn't work, Tom. It doesn't work every time. There are different situations and maybe you should learn that. Um, and then just a bunch of games, like I started and then something else came out and I've put it on the shelf.
00:26:38
Speaker
Yeah, like I really enjoyed the Just Cause series. Emma hates it. It's very, very funny. Um, she hates it because it's.
00:26:47
Speaker
For something that's so grounded in reality, it's so unrealistic because of the physics. Cause you know, you run jump and you can grappling hook straight ahead, which is like, no, you can't. And I was like, it's a game you can, and then you can just open your parachute or your wingsuit, wherever she's like, the fuck you can that no, I hate this. Don't play it in front of me. So it's like, I have to play it in secret.
00:27:09
Speaker
So that's where the new PlayStation portal is going to be great for Tom. I'm just here. No, I'm not. Definitely not playing that game. Definitely not.
00:27:21
Speaker
Yeah, and there's just like, there's just a bunch of games that have started and never gone back to and all games that you guys have played that's like, you know, talking about Red Dead Redemption the other week, like I need to go and play both of those. But it's just like, you know, when I first played it, like RDR1, it was kind of like my head, my head wasn't right for the space. And I was just like, I'm not gonna invest in it.
00:27:40
Speaker
But, you know, I looked at, I don't know if you guys watched any of the Gamescom stuff that just came out, but I did not give a crap about pretty much anything. Most of it. Yeah. Yeah. There was like one or two things I went, Oh, that's kind of cool. But that's about it. It wasn't like, Oh yeah, let's get into that. So this is, you know, as well as a streaming content, maybe
00:28:02
Speaker
little wasteland that we're about to go into. I'm also feeling like a new release gaming wasteland, except for Spider-Man when that comes out. That's the only one. Usually I have three or four games going into the end of the year that I'm like, cool. Can't wait for that to come out. Yeah. What about you, Peter?
00:28:18
Speaker
No, no, no. I just sat on the gamescom. I completely agree. I don't have much on my watch list coming into there. So this, this is definitely back catalog territory. But I gotta be honest, I could replace, I've got a list of like, I don't know, 20 items to talk about tonight and I could replace all of them with starfield and Baldur's gate three. And it'll probably take me to the end of the 2024. Yeah, probably. Um, but like you, Tom, I've got a bunch of stuff that I haven't finished. Like RDR two, I need to finish.
00:28:47
Speaker
I'm only a third of the way through that game, loving it, but it's always going to be my, I need to mellow out. I've just had a massive beer, going to cruise through until it's bedtime. That's that game to me. It's just, you know, if I smoked weed, that would be my 420 game.
00:29:03
Speaker
just to mellow out and play. Um, Spider-Man, Miles Morales. See, that's a dangerous four 20 game. We're dead. That's a comedy. That's a, that's a, that's a, I drank too much peyote and got lost in the wild west kind of situation is wander out into the middle of nowhere. And it's like, there's no fucking fast travel in this game. Like, and where's my pants?
00:29:24
Speaker
If I exit, if I exit this game now, I still have to relog in and figure out how to get back and still ride all the way back. So this is only, there's only fast travel. I said it in quotation marks in towns and jump on a carriage and go, go buy a carriage. It's a, you go on some people in the world somewhere that have safe games of just poor old masters lost in the middle of fucking nowhere. And they're like, no, I'm just can't be fucked playing the game to get him back now.
00:29:54
Speaker
Yeah yeah yeah it just ends the play through for them. I'd love to i'd love to be getting to that point where you would so plays that you can work out how to use the map or something like that because.
00:30:07
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turn the waypoints off on the mini map and the main map doesn't show your location, so you just got to work the fuck out where you are from there, from the topography and the landmarks. Trisector your way back to town. Orientate yourself back to civilization.
00:30:25
Speaker
But you could equally get lost in some of the weird-ass fucking storylines. Like I've walked into some dude's, I walked past some dude's house and he's like, oh, come in and meet the missus and she's all getting all sexified. And he's like, oh, you should go upstairs and sort her out for me. And it's like, the fuck is going on?
00:30:41
Speaker
I've definitely not come across that one. I think that was one of Pete's fever dreams. I'm pretty certain that their goal was to tempt you upstairs. The wife makes out like she's going to sleep with you and then he hits you over the back of the head. I think they're cannibals. I got cannibal vibes. I'm pretty certain they were eating people. In the bayou maybe.
00:31:04
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it was in the bio. So, yeah, you can imagine that blazed. Anyway, Spider-Man Miles Morales. I played Spider-Man 1 and then immediately jumped into Miles Morales and I lasted all of five minutes. I just went, you know, that's too much like the first game for me to play this back to back. So that got parked. Horizon Climb every fucking VR mountain. I just really struggled. I mean, it was cool for the visuals, but
Film and TV Show Interests
00:31:31
Speaker
And I want to finish it because I love the horizon series, but I just, I need to go back and finish that. And then maybe for that fall, but I've got enough video fucking games to play. The other one, I, I still want you to finish that guardians game. Guardians? Yeah. Square Enix one. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Do it for me.
00:31:56
Speaker
Shall we move on? I don't have many movies to talk about. Moving on. Yeah. Your first one's a fucking brilliant movie, Dan. Well, I know. Yeah, it is. But that's why I've got these on there because they're on my list and they've basically been on the list since they came out on Netflix and I've never watched them. But I know I want to watch them. And every time I flick through the list going, oh, let's pick something from the list to watch and I get to it and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to watch that one day.
00:32:23
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Fury. I mean, Fury with Brad Pitt. What is it? Like six men stuck in a tank? I actually, that's about the basic premise. I don't know how many there is or anything like that. That's pretty much the premise of the movie and it's bucking. A lot of trace arounds. Yeah. It reminds me of it. Is it a Tarantino film? Cause it certainly doesn't think so. Don't think so. Yeah. Okay. It feels like a Tarantino.
00:32:49
Speaker
I'm furious takes in my mind because it was i think it was the last. Movie i ever part and it had a it had a corrupt sector about two thirds of the way in and so i kept forgetting that i you know it's like a focus on the ending of that movie i watch the entire movie until it crashes i'm like,
00:33:09
Speaker
Oh fuck, and I put something else on and then six months later I go, I still haven't seen the end of that movie. I'll put it on two thirds away crashes. So I bought it a Senate. Oh, did I buy it? No, it's, it's been out on streaming for a while. Yeah. It's been on Netflix for fricking ages. I finally got to see it there. Great movie though. My next one is another great movie. I've watched probably the half of it. And that was probably about five or six years ago. No country for old men.
00:33:38
Speaker
I know it's great. I love Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Vardem. He's, he's an excellent hit man in it. I know, I know how the movie plays out and ends, but, and I really want to watch it, but I've just, we've never gotten back to watching. It's one of those films. I just don't, I know I've seen it. I just, it has no hold upstairs. Like it just, I don't know. It was just one of those things like either I was, I watched it when I was, you know,
00:34:03
Speaker
too intoxicated or I just wasn't really paying attention at the time. I wasn't in the right head space for it, but it's just like, I've seen it. I don't remember it. I don't think I've seen it.
00:34:13
Speaker
It won awards, didn't it? Yeah. I haven't seen it. I can confirm that I hadn't seen it because I had a new guy, a guy at work, sent me a screenshot from it as part of a joke message on the messenger app. And then he followed up 10 minutes later and said, I fucking love that movie. I'm like, ha ha. Yeah, man. I've got no idea what the fuck the screenshot was from.
00:34:35
Speaker
It was from the country for old men. Sometimes you just have to play along. It's such a unique way for a hitman to do things to the unique tool for the hitman to use as well, which is the abattoir tool. It takes out locks indoors and takes out people as well as it takes out a lock in the door.
00:34:57
Speaker
So it's super, super interesting, well-acted, great cast, really want to watch it. I haven't gotten to it. And the last two ones, because these both popped into my head recently. Well, one literally popped into my head 10 minutes ago. Tau is an AI-based movie that's been on
00:35:17
Speaker
Netflix for ages. Once again, been on the list from the very start. Looks really interesting. Good. Popped up on a, uh, must watch sci-fi movie list. Uh, I saw on YouTube a couple of weeks ago. Interesting. I haven't seen this one. It looks good. It's got fucking Gary Oldman in it, man. Does it? Yeah. He's he's Tao. Oh, he does the voice. Does he?
00:35:40
Speaker
Huh? Apparently. Okay. Uh, looks interesting. And cargo is, this just came up because someone, I think Tom just mentioned, or Pete mentioned Australian cinema. This is an Australian movie that is on Netflix about a, it was released before the pandemic, but a pandemic gets released on earth and basically a zombie.
00:36:01
Speaker
kind of blast of us kind of pandemic. Martin Freeman in the Australian desert carrying his infant child across the desert during the zombie apocalypse pandemic. And it just, he's really good. And it sounded like an interesting premise set in Australia. So yeah, yeah, cool. I want to watch that one too. Never got around to it. You know, it's gonna sound really fucking weird, but I'm genuinely interested to see how they film
00:36:29
Speaker
the bush backdrop because I've watched, I watch a lot of YouTube videos set in the Australian bush and it always looks overcast and harsh and shit. So it'd be good to see how professional cinematographers do it to make it not look shit. Anyway. That pretty much sums up the Australian outback, doesn't it? Harsh and shit. Harsh washed out and shit. No, this fucking, our outback is fucking beautiful. It's also like it's absolutely unique.
00:36:59
Speaker
Oh, no, I'm talking like Eucalypt, Forrest and Scrub, like proper Scrub, Singleton style Scrub. We watch movies and we don't look up. We very rarely, if ever, look up anything beforehand. And all of a sudden you'll get to a point in a movie and you go.
00:37:17
Speaker
Hold on a sec. That looks extremely like Australia. Is that a scribble bark gum in the background? Yep. You know what? This was filmed here and it's like, okay. Nothing else looks like Australia, but once you get those, those distinctive trees and plants in the background, you go, yes, yep. And then you get to the end of the film and it's the thank you film, Victoria. Well done. Yeah, definitely. Yep. Over to you, Tom. You got a cracker a first up.
00:37:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. The Jordan Peele trilogy. I've never really, I've slowly gotten in, I've never been into horror films or like those.
00:37:56
Speaker
thrillers are fine. But yeah, those kind of horror films, I just never got into them. It's not something that like, not that I'm gonna sit there and shit myself while I watch it. It's just like, I don't know, they've just never really appealed to me. But then I've slowly over as I've gotten older, I've been like, Oh, yeah, I'll try some out. And then, you know, I've said to you guys multiple times, I remember watching the the it to back to back and thinking they were fucking like, yeah,
00:38:18
Speaker
Penny wise like i love it i think he's great he's fucking hilarious but then i'm just especially the way you guys are talking about these movies like they've always been sitting there and like.
00:38:30
Speaker
And Emma's not very good with horror either. And so we try and do all these things like, you know, said with Louise, you try and sit down and watch them together. And that's a, I think a big factor in a lot of these things that we haven't, haven't both been in the right mood to sit down and be like, cool, we're watching get out tonight. Like, it's a specific kind of horror too. Like it's not, it's not Saw style, gore, horror, psychological. Yeah. Yeah. It's that's right. Skin crawl. Hmm.
00:38:58
Speaker
Yeah, no, I think it is designed to be horror in the sense that it fucks with your head. It's psychological. Yeah, it's meant to be disturbing, not so much horror. Not scary. No. So, yes, that's definitely a trilogy that I have to sit down and watch eventually. I think Get Out will be fine. I think Knope will be fine. I think it's the middle one. Us. Us. Yeah, I think that's the one that's going to really, like,
00:39:28
Speaker
I just, I just know from the trailer, having watched it with Emma, I think that's the one that's going to like be like, okay, this is too much. Like, you know, she struggled with the tenseness of a walking dead episode when I was just like, yeah, Rick for president. Yeah. If it's, if it's about tension, you'll struggle probably more with get out than you will with us. Okay. Good. Well, let's start off strong. Let's let's Dan. I don't know what you think there, but, uh,
00:39:58
Speaker
I think they're both. Yeah. I don't know how many more sounds I can make while I get my brain to tick over on this 16% beer.
00:40:09
Speaker
I love us. I think it's the most vivid image of a little Dan in your head trying to pull like a big crank handle. That's definitely what it was like. I love us. I think us is by far the best out of all of them. But Louise loves get out. She thinks get out is the best. I'm with Lou on this one. Yeah.
00:40:32
Speaker
And NOPE was good too. NOPE was very unique. NOPE was very good. Yeah, NOPE was very unique. I do really like NOPE. I thought it was a great, well thought out film.
00:40:42
Speaker
I don't know. I think they're kind of on par for tension. Yeah. Well, yeah, eventually I guess Tom and when the drought comes in, we'll eventually, yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, I'll go watch them and then I'll, I'll tie break that one for you guys. Um, and knowing me, Emma hit you more in knowing me, it's the grip on the arm. Jesus. I feel bones starting to crack. Um, no, no. Yeah. And knowing me, it'll be like, Oh man. Nope. Best one out of the three and be like, fuck us.
00:41:13
Speaker
I mean, I said this the other week that like, I need to go back and watch all the Mission Impossible films. Like, I've seen one, two, and three. Like, I remember when they came out, but after that- How many is there? Did I ask this question the other morning? I've just forgotten. There are- No, you didn't. There are currently six and seventh movies is part one of the final story. Right. So there's going to be- Which doesn't come out. There's going to be eight or eight. There's going to be eight films.
00:41:38
Speaker
There we go. Now I'm going to madly double check in the background. Excellent. Good number. So yeah, I've said I've definitely have one, two, and three. Like I think we've all seen one, two. The answer is eight. I was correct. There we go. Um, but yeah, it's just one things that I was like, it's, it's not, you know, out of any particular dislike of the franchise or, or anything. It's just every time they'd come around and be like, yeah, I see that, but it's like, Oh, what's that shiny thing? I've got to go over there now.
00:42:04
Speaker
They've, look, they've all got there. I mean, look, two was the worst, in my opinion, by a long shot. Just the storyline was just tired. The acting was subpar. Three got better. Four goes protocol. I thoroughly enjoyed four. Four kind of went back to the first film for me.
00:42:25
Speaker
Yeah. And then it and then Rogue Nation fall out, then neither of them are perfect by any stretch. There's some dumb ass shit there. But at the same time, they've maintained that high expectation of of seamless special effects, lots of fucking action, like unique, well thought out action that you would never see in real world, but you know where practical effects.
00:42:49
Speaker
You know, I actually watched a, because I like to watch a YouTube video or two while I'm eating lunch at work, just so I can zone out of work thinking for half an hour a day. And I watched a ex CIA special ops guy, like a guy had actually been overseas and done stuff that he can't talk about and, you know, assassinations and that sort of shit.
00:43:09
Speaker
Toppled a regime or two. To go over their drug trade? Right. Right. The realism in various movies and it's, you know, Insider has that whole shtick now of, you know, they get a historian to, yeah, to write the realism for various
00:43:24
Speaker
things. And he was talking about, yeah, you know what? A guy could use suction cups to climb up the side of the Burj Khalifa and break through window. But no fucking idiot would, especially not in broad daylight. He's like, yes, you could do it. Yes, it's physically possible. And certainly we are trained to be able to pull off a stunt like that. No problem. But you wouldn't fucking do it because you'd die. You'd get shots.
00:43:50
Speaker
So anyway. Did he mention anything about driving a car out of the Burj Khalifa into the opposite building? Wasn't that fast and furious? Yeah, I was going to say, wasn't that fast and furious? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Double. Yeah. Second guessing myself then. I say that about Mission Impossible 4, Pete. Me and Louise, we literally turned it off at the third act. Really? You're like, yeah. That's the one with the chick. Dizzy?
00:44:15
Speaker
Dizzy gets her eye blown up like she has that is that the one with the implant the explosives implanted in the head and the helicopter at the start. I don't remember. That gave me that gave me nightmares. I don't remember. Was it a very small red light green light pill they just put in there? No, no, no. It was it was a micro explosive in the base of their skull and she dies at the very start of the film.
00:44:36
Speaker
And it blows a pupil like it doesn't actually, there's no explosions. It's not like the head explodes. It's not the end of fucking Kingsman. It's the internal organs explode and her eyes, she's talking to him and just one eye just suddenly goes really fucked up, fried.
00:44:53
Speaker
Anyway, gave me nightmares. Well, I look forward to that. Yeah. It's just a series. It's just like, then there's a, there's a button and like, you know, yeah. Good fun. Like what to watch. Like, but then the next one kind of the next day is such a wildcard. We flash. I've always wanted to watch that fucking great movie. Yeah. Never, never, never sat down to someone about the drumming, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:16
Speaker
Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons. J.K. Simmons. Yeah. That's a brilliant film. But then it leads into, I can't remember what Oscar winning films I've actually seen in the last decade, 15 years, like the ones that actually win them. Like there are a bunch of those. It's like, I should probably watch those if they're getting, you know. I wouldn't make the assumption that they're good, mate. That's not how I wasn't making the assumption. They're good. It's just that I should probably watch them to see what the fuss was about.
00:45:42
Speaker
Yeah, I can understand that mentality. I watched Bird Box purely on the back of that concept, and I actually enjoyed Bird Box, so I'd avoided watching it for years. Yeah, but that's the thing. I would have to go through a list of Oscar-winning films in the last 10 to 15 years, and of the best film awards, I probably can guarantee you out of the 15, let's say.
00:46:11
Speaker
There's maybe two I've seen.
00:46:13
Speaker
And it's just, you know, and that's just me needing to expand my range of film. And that comes, you know, that just comes to like, you know, most times when I sit down and we've talked about this before, because I get home and like, you know, I don't want to sit down and put a TV show or a movie on. I want to put my controller in hand and I want it straight into whatever game I'm playing at the time. Cause I've, I've gone away from that. Just sitting there being like watching something. I need to be involved in it to get that. I'll be the opposite, man. Yeah. What we've been talked about before.
00:46:43
Speaker
So for me, it's like, or, you know, Emma will fall asleep on the couch while we're watching something and we'll finish the episode. Then I'll be like, Oh, well, I can't be able to get up and get the controller. Cause you know, she's leaning on me. It's like, Oh, and then I'm just half an hour of scrolling through being like, what the fuck am I going? Yeah. Yeah. And it's just cause I'm not, nothing really is grabbing me to go dive back into that Tom. Um, which I talk about later in my movies, but yeah, there's, there's a bunch of.
00:47:11
Speaker
I'm sure whether they're good, they're bad, they're hyped up, whatever, but there's probably a bunch of movies I need to watch myself to be like, how'd that win?
00:47:19
Speaker
Okay. All right. We, we did that during COVID. We did that exactly 10 years because for exactly the same mentality, we're like, you know what? These are one of my Oscars. We probably should watch these because like, I like film. I like to think I know a little bit about film. I obviously don't know a huge amount about a film. I'd like to know what, why these things win and what, what people say. Advertising dollars mainly. Yeah. So we, we, we dive in. Oh, I just thought it was circle gurking.
00:47:46
Speaker
Darted off strong man. It started off strong. First one we watched was Hurt Locker. And I'm like, oh, this is a good movie. It is a good movie. That's a slow start. But a good movie. That is a strong start. Yeah. And there was some definitely some questionable ones in the 10 years worth of Oscar wins that we watched. And I think we bailed on two.
00:48:11
Speaker
I think we definitely started them all and we, if they weren't on streaming, we 100% paid for them. And one of the ones we paid for, we bailed on in the first 10 minutes.
00:48:22
Speaker
Yeah. Wow. Do you remember what it was? The comedian, I think it was called, uh, 2016 ish. Uh, yeah, we, we bailed on that one. I think it was, well, I just lied to everyone because I've seen everything everywhere all at once. And that one, the most recent one. So, you know, well, we'll, we'll start from the last year. We'll start from 2022. Let's go there. Canadian, uh, you fuck, you've got a good memory, Dan. 2016 was Canadian.
00:48:49
Speaker
Cool. Canadian. Is that what it was called? A comedian. Comedian. Yeah. No, you were a hundred percent correct with your memory. Pizza? Pizza? Yeah. I'm going to rip through mine. Unbearable way to massive talent. Just looks like a fucking hilarious Rob. So good. Yeah. And then all the Rambo movies. I've, I've seen the first one, the end. So I need to go back and watch all the Rambo's. And we'll be so like vindicated right now when he listens to this. He'll be like, yes.
00:49:19
Speaker
And I, yeah, well, I mean, this is one big echo chamber for us, right? Cause a lot of the stuff that we want to watch is stuff that other, the other two of us have recommended and it goes around in circles like that. So, um, that's not really a surprise. I, I probably like, I keep seeing Creed one and two and I've never watched any of the. Rocky movies past the first one. So I might go back and watch some of those. No, I've never seen any, I've never seen any. I mean, do you like, do you like boxing?
00:49:48
Speaker
Not particularly, but I like- You might be pretty bored. But I did, but I have seen some boxing movies that I have enjoyed those, so. Do you like a training montage? Who doesn't like a training montage? Hang me a dead pig and we've got a montage. I'm sure that was the first one. Was it boxing in the cold room? Yeah, that was in the cold room. Maybe it was a cow. Pretty sure it was a cow. Couldn't identify it from those baby back ribs.
00:50:19
Speaker
Yeah, look, as long as you like my montage and, and, and, and some boxing, then yeah, you're sweet. A lot of slo-mo face sheets and saliva like throwing out of the mouth. Yeah. And I wrote downtown just so I can remind myself of stealing Dan's idea. And then we go all the way back to the top with TV. I was going to say, do you want to go in reverse?
00:50:39
Speaker
We can. I'm going to rip through mine, though. I'm not going to spend much time on mine. Sorry, Ken, if you want. Yeah. Cowboy Bebop, you guys have talked it up a storm. I really want to watch it. It does lead into my last TV item, actually. But we'll get there. I need to finish Walking Dead. I invested too much time rewatching it all the way up to Negan's season to not finish it.
00:51:03
Speaker
uh brooklyn 99 is always there in the background uh titans season four uh yeah i've got titans on my list i've never get uh peaky blinders season three and on uh c with uh jason mamoa that was a really fucking series and i stopped
00:51:21
Speaker
At the midway point, the mid-season break in the final season. So I really just need to go back and watch those last four or six episodes. Vikings, that's a huge series. I think that's eight seasons and I'm up to the third. Cosmos, because everyone loves Neil deGrasse Tyson telling us about the universe. Cosmos. Talk about one of the best documentaries ever made. What is Cosmos?
00:51:43
Speaker
Oh, it's literally, it's a remake. It's a remake of, um, Oh, I don't remember his name either. The science guy. Um, Neil. The original cosmos. Uh,
00:52:05
Speaker
A personal voyage. Who was it written? Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan. Okay. Yeah. So Neil deGrasse Tyson in his imaginary spaceship, and he goes through from the beginning of time, the birth of the universe.
00:52:19
Speaker
And he just takes you on this journey of the evolution of everything we know about the universe around us. And the soundtrack is by Alan Silvestri who did a lot of the early Marvel films and it's beautiful horns. We listened to it if we can't fall asleep. I put it on and Emma's out. The cinematography is spectacular. Hang on.
00:52:42
Speaker
Let me look it up on just watch for you on my phone while we talk. And he also is fantastic. He also does. He talks through the history of science too. It's not just about what we understand about the universe, but I'll go through Copernicus and the heresy trials and everything that these scientists went through in history to bring up some knowledge. And they do that through like a cartoony animated kind of field. Yeah, the animation style is fucking spectacular. Yeah, it's a very particular style of animation. Oh, it's so good to put on the background or like
00:53:11
Speaker
Not in the background. It's so good just to sit there when you just need to, especially when you need to relax, put on cosmos. Ah, yeah, it's beautiful.
00:53:18
Speaker
It remotes, so there's three seasons of it, and you can currently watch it on Apple Plus. Ah, for fuck's sake. Sorry. Okay, that's why I've never heard of it. I might have a DVD copy of it. Yeah, a DVD copy. DVD copy, that's right. One that you can put on DVD copies. Yeah, 100%. One that you can put on Dropbox. DVD like that you can put on Dropbox. One of the magic ones. Yeah, yeah, I can drop it on the box, sure. Yeah.
00:53:48
Speaker
So yeah, there's that one. When I get to Cyberpunk, the anime miniseries. Netrunners.
00:53:58
Speaker
Yes. And then I want to watch some classic anime. So, so I've mentioned a couple of times recently on the show that I'm trying to learn Japanese and I, I believe strongly in immersion, um, at learning when it comes to languages. So I need to actually invest more time immersing myself in the language sounds around me. Um, my ultimate goal is to be able to read anime or read manga in Japanese. Um, but so I've got some classes, so I've written down some, watch some classic anime, but with,
00:54:25
Speaker
In Japanese with English subtitles, because a lot of it's now been overdubbed. And in particular Studio Ghibli, and I've seen a shit ton of Studio Ghibli already in English, so it'd be good to go back after 10 years or 15 years or whatever it is and rewatch it in Japanese. It's also probably a good way to do it if you know the story to then be like, you know, it helps you to pick it up as they're speaking it, yeah.
00:54:46
Speaker
And then Full Metal Alchemist is another series that I've always wanted to sit down and watch. And I noticed they've recently done Castlevania style animation remakes of some of the Full Metal Alchemists, I think. Netflix have tried to bring it to the masses.
00:55:02
Speaker
So yeah, so Netflix has a pretty expansive, like anime section now, but there's, there's also, there's the Netflix animated stuff, which they've done an anime style, but I, and I would a hundred percent need to be fact checked on this. I believe it's the Netflix studios version. So it's, it's almost, it's a Western studio taking on the anime style, kind of like, kind of like, um, what season two of visions kind of more felt like, or like collaborative kind of thing compared to being like an actual Japanese studio.
00:55:28
Speaker
Check me on that. I'm not 100% sure, but that's what I believe I read. And, but yeah, they've got some great series in there. Like obviously we've watched Nightmare of the Wolf. That was, that's that Netflix style. Yeah. The Castlevania series that I think we've all got it written on there. I need to go back and finish it. Yeah. I got to watch season two.
00:55:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Season two on. I think there's three seasons now, Castlevania. There's four seasons. There's four as if. Oh, fuck. Yeah. But yeah, that was last bit for me. I just want to immerse myself in because languages sound different. You need to get your brain wrapped around
00:56:04
Speaker
The phonetics before anything else. Yeah, well cyberpunk netrunners is all in Japanese. There's no version. Yeah, awesome. Awesome. And I should I should have put down Star Wars visions because I'm a whole season behind on that. I haven't seen a later season. Oh, yeah, cool. That's the one that's yeah, it expands out. It involves more, more worldly. They're not just Japanese studios. They go outside. Yeah. Okay. Last
00:56:32
Speaker
I think I have seen it actually. Save episode one for Dan's favorite. Yeah. I think I have seen season two then, now that I think of it. I'm sure there was an African style watercolour painting episode where they were the last, it was two sisters, two young girls. Yeah. And they were. That was like a plaster scene made one. Yes. Stop motion one. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure that was season two. So yeah. Okay.
00:57:01
Speaker
Well, I'm gonna lead in from that because I've got a bunch of animated stuff that I really want to get back into. Why I broke this down into series I want to some stuff I want to start or some series I've just, again, abandoned for whatever reason, just either
00:57:17
Speaker
or my just inability currently to really get stuck into an anime or any kind of series. I just sit there and watch it. Castlevania, I'm halfway through season two. I need to go back and watch it. Every time I go and watch an episode, I fucking love it. But then I'll watch a 40 minute episode and be like, I'll come back to that.
00:57:36
Speaker
And I never do. I, um, yeah, I started the war for Cybertron trilogy. Um, the Transformers one, which is kind of like half three animated, um, and kind of almost like sell animation a bit. It was, it was, I really liked it. Um, but they've got three seasons of that on Netflix now. Um, and it's, uh, did you guys ever play the Cybertron games? No.
00:58:00
Speaker
It's based off that universe. So it's, it's, um, it's kind of a mix between like the, the, um, gen one series and this, this game series they created. Um, but a lot of it is set on Cybertron. Eventually they get to earth. Um, so yeah, that, that was, I really enjoyed it, but it's one of those ones again that it's like.
00:58:17
Speaker
I'm the only one in the house that wants to watch that for some reason. I don't know why. I don't want to sit there and watch. So yeah, definitely. That's, that's definitely one that I want to get back to in terms of sticking on the animation thing. Like Archer, it's what was one I've watched on and off, but they're in their final season now.
00:58:38
Speaker
So like they're wrapping up the whole story. So it's like, cool, this is probably the time to go back and restart it. It is entertaining. I just, it's small doses for me. The same as there's a few other TV series. It's kind of like Rick and Morty. It's like you get through three and you're just like, whoa, that's a lot in my brain now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I need to come back to that like at a later date.
00:58:57
Speaker
I can't believe they're doing new Futurama. Sorry to interrupt. They're doing new seasons of Futurama like a decade later. Well, Dan's happy. Blows my mind. Oh, I love Futurama. Yeah. Fucking earth. I think Futurama is better than Simpsons. I think it's definitely better than Simpsons. And I think it's more creative. And I know we wouldn't have Futurama without the Simpsons. He's going to fucking yell at me, especially. Is it Ed that watches Simpsons on a fucking regular basis?
00:59:24
Speaker
Well, no, there's the, there's the Conan news of the Simpsons and then they get to the movie. It's when you get to the movie, it all just goes downhill. Yeah. I think Futurama is fantastic. This goes back to what Pete, we, we met, I touched on briefly in my, in our, uh, upload about sci-fi is, but I can space quest, man, Roger Wilko. Like I grew up with that satirical futuristic Star Trek, but like off the wall, Star Trek kind of shit. And that's what I like.
00:59:54
Speaker
Oh, it's just crazy shit. And I just love it. I think it's, I think it's fantastic. Oh man. Future with suicide boots. And it's like, who could imagine it? Yeah. Sorry to cut in there, Tom. That is a future that yes. Yes. I'm certain people have envisioned, but yes, Archer, they've, uh, they're up to the last season now. So that's actually just about to air.
01:00:15
Speaker
So now it's like kind of, you know, with this apparent like drought coming in of contents, like, whoa, perfect. I'm going to go watch the James Bond ripoff that's just poking fun at the entire category for how many years it's been around.
01:00:28
Speaker
But the new series that I never started, Invincible, I really want to watch that. It's on Amazon. It looks really cool and almost like boys level, kind of like violin and gory. The next one I wrote, or the one I wrote before that actually, Vinland Saga. Dan, you should definitely watch this if you want to get into some more animated stuff. It is a, an anime that is, was recommended. If you liked Northman, you'll like Vinland Saga.
01:00:57
Speaker
I was like, that's fucking hilarious. That's a, that's a, that's a, that's a random, um, association with some anime. Uh, well, no. So this is from the podcast. I've been, the other podcasts I've been on, like guests start on, um, gateway to anime and it's like an intro to anime stuff. And they talk about how one of their little videos, they're like, Hey, if you like Northman and you're like all these like Vikings and stuff, you're going to love in that saga.
01:01:21
Speaker
Um, it's a, yeah. So that's a, yeah. Shout out to those guys. Cause they, they are the ones who got me on a cowboy bebop. And yeah, Pete definitely watched the, um, the animated one. And I suggest watching both the animated one and the Netflix series. I liked both, but also I'm a sucker for John Cho. I've said it before. I'll say it till the day I die. Like that man is gorgeous. Dear God, get him on my screen whenever you can. I love some John Cho. I think he's great. I think he's a really good actor. Um, and I think they shot a bunch of it in Australia too.
01:01:52
Speaker
homegrown stuff, but yeah. Yeah. And then, uh, yeah, just some other stuff that I've abandoned, like American gods. I love that series, but it's like, I need to get back to it. I stopped at season one. I don't have any real interest in season two to be honest. I really enjoyed it. I really, I really enjoyed it, but I, I, and I think this is also a big problem I've got now. I just, everything's an hour long episode. Like I'm, I, I really, like you talk about having like you show, you watch why you wolf down dinner. Like when we were messaging. Yeah. Brooklyn nine nine or something like that. Yeah.
01:02:19
Speaker
Yeah. I love those. I love a short episode sometimes, especially when it's like, I'm pretty time starved with work and stuff or like, especially like I'll finish working. I'm like, cool. I can go home and watch something. And then inevitably someone from work calls and be like, Tom, the tanks are on the fire. And I was like, we'll put it out. And I'm like, now you're interrupting my TV time. Why do I have two phones? I don't know. But like, why are you talking to yourself? Well, when aren't I talking to myself? The brick wall has lots of conversations, doesn't it?
01:02:46
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, they hear all of them. Um, but yeah, like American gods, I need, I still need to go finish the second season man in high castle. I remember watching the first episode and being like, that's a really cool concept, but something else happened in my life. And now I've never gone back and it's always sat there in my Amazon list being like,
01:03:05
Speaker
I remember me. It's like the toy up on the shelf being like, don't you forget about playing with me. Um, but like, I love anything that's kind of like world war two themed and like those alternate histories. Like I love the Wolfenstein games and this is basically a TV show based around that. Um, yeah. Titans. I don't know how far behind I am on Titans. I don't remember.
01:03:24
Speaker
last thing that happened in it, it's just, yeah, it was good. And then I just, and then it wasn't, but it kind of lost its way a little bit. I think we got over the wow factor of, holy fuck, they're actually doing this on TV. Yeah. And it's, and it's good. Holy fuck. And, and it's R rated holy fuck. And then it kind of got, okay, all the shiny shrink wraps gone now. And it's like another seasonal. And I think again, it was, it was the, cause they had how long episodes from yeah.
01:03:50
Speaker
That's the trap they fell into. They had too many hour long episodes. I think, yeah, just cut it back 20 minutes, a 40 minute episode. And there's, yeah, there's all those bloke conversations where it's like, ah, yeah, we get it. You said this like three episodes ago. God, we've come, we've come a long way on our, on our feelings towards that show. We had an episode called Man in Suit that we were super excited for because
01:04:11
Speaker
You know, we had a whole discussion, I think in season two or three of the show about whether or not they'll properly bring Batman in or they'll just allude to him. Yeah. We took the piss out of Robin. I think Robin was sneaking into Batman, into Bruce's mansion. And there was something about on the phone, he was trying to communicate the PIN code and it was like four, 26, nine. And we're like, seriously, has the show come that far?
01:04:38
Speaker
Cause that was fucking Robin. That was, um, yeah. No, it wasn't Dick. Sorry. It was. Yeah. I remember about it.
01:04:51
Speaker
Jason. Jason, thank you. And we were taking the piss out of it now. It's just like meh, whatever. I definitely, I definitely want to watch it. We didn't have a platform because it was on Netflix and then the rights got sold off and it ended up on binge in Australia. Binge. I don't know what it ended up on in America. We've got binge now. So
01:05:13
Speaker
We are back on or is there any certain seasons on netflix i think it's only a couple of seasons on netflix right okay i don't want to be back on netflix now i don't remember but it wasn't available when it first came out the new seasons for a long time yeah no but it's it's it's a hundred percent it's not on our it's on the list but we might not get to it it's definitely a we will get to it on the list.
01:05:36
Speaker
Yeah. And then, um, yeah, black mirror. I've got to catch up on that. And then I guess the other one I didn't put on my list there, but I just thought about it. Cause you mentioned binge, um, is I've still got to sit down and watch last of us.
Streaming Series Opinions
01:05:49
Speaker
Like, but I don't know if I know you said like, cause have you played the game and watched the series? I'm still not sure if I'm there, but I imagine I'll just get to.
01:05:58
Speaker
It is a drought of Pedro Pascal and I'll need more of him in my life and I can only watch the Game of Thrones scene where he fights the mountain but they exchange it for lightsabers that many times before it's like Tom just go watch something else. I got to say it is still I still feel like it's one of the best adaptations of a video game ever.
01:06:19
Speaker
So it's not perfect and it's not a one-to-one replica, but it's the best that I think we've gotten for a long, long time. Yeah. No, it's definitely something I just, again, need to be in the headspace for it. I think, you know, they'll start, but they'll probably, if they ever announce last of us three, I'll be like.
01:06:36
Speaker
Now's the time, Tom. Go on, get stuck in. I'm just before Dan goes, I added one more to my list and that's Ragnarok, which is a Norwegian TV series. I watched the first season. It was brilliant. It's dubbed. I'm pretty certain it's on Netflix. Yeah, it is on Netflix. So it's recorded. It's filmed in Norwegian and then dubbed back into English. But it's really nicely done. It's
01:07:02
Speaker
You know, and I think they've just released or they're about to launch their final season. So that'll kind of wrap it up and I'll sit there and watch it. Yeah. Over to you, Dan. Sorry. Well, no, it's interesting coming off what Tom was just saying about Titans, the one that I have had on the list forever that just never got to, because I feel like it's in imitation Titans, even though it's the original, it's based on something, the Umbrella Academy. Um,
01:07:30
Speaker
I think it looks cool. It sounds like a cool concept. It sounds like interesting characters. Did you not watch any of it? No, not a single second of it. Okay. I stopped at season two. I struggled to finish season one. Oh, okay. I remember. Oh, fuck it. I'm going to delete it off the list now. Don't worry.
01:07:47
Speaker
Don't take out work for it. First season was good and it was interesting. I just found the season two got a little stupid, to be honest with all the timey, wimey, wibbly, wobbly stuff. Yeah, I made three or four seasons. I think I definitely did three and then I did a fourth.
01:08:03
Speaker
I just remember getting to the like, it was one of those ones, Emma and I started and she was like, I'm just not really interested in it. I liked all the actors and that were in it. But again, it just got a bit too long episode. Like it just, you needed to cut 10, 15 minutes of it. There was just so much like filler, like interpersonal drama that you didn't in feeling like I didn't, I didn't feel invested. I'm sure people did.
01:08:32
Speaker
But yeah, I finished the first season. I remember, but I was like, well, I remember I was in Canada at the time. I remember it was like being like, well, fuck, I'm stuck in the house for six hours. I might as well.
01:08:45
Speaker
like bung this out, let's go. And then did, but yeah, it didn't leave a lasting impression on me. I never went back for season two or three. Isn't there like a talking chimpanzee with a monocle? Yes, there is. And you think that that would have my attention nor my curiosity. That's not enough. It's a well done chimp with a monocle. Very good. Yeah. Very, very well animated. Well, I mean, that was my selling point. That was, that was, that was the selling point.
01:09:14
Speaker
I think the thing about the the monocle champ, which I can't remember his character's name at the moment, but he wasn't in enough. Give me more monocle champ. I'll watch I'll watch three seasons back to back. And then I had Castlevania, Pinky Blinders. It's the it's the same as what Tom and Tom and Pete were saying. It's just
01:09:35
Speaker
things there. Castlevania, I really enjoyed season one. I thought it had a bit of a lull in the middle, but I thought it ended really strong. Loved the animation, loved the new take on the Castlevania side of it. Peaky Blinders, never started it, but loved that era. Loved that London, dirty, sweaty, gritty, gangly and stuff. And the Irish coal workers, factory workers. And Taboo's a little bit the same. Taboo's
01:10:01
Speaker
Tom Hardy. Tom Hardy. Yeah. I've always looked at that. I haven't seen it. I think it seems, it feels really interesting in the Americas, in the Wild West era. A little bit, a little bit, a little bit Bayou, I think actually. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, yeah. So not, not the, not the Wild West, but that, that, that, that timeframe, if you can call it a timeframe, I'm sure it has a proper, a proper,
01:10:28
Speaker
proper term to it, but that's kind of me. Wild West, just not on the frontier. Just not on the frontier. Yeah, exactly. That is the time period. Okay, those are the time periods. Some bits and pieces of other TVs, but nothing that really excites me. I mean, there's a bunch of shit on there that I'm just like, yeah, that seemed all right when it came out, but you know what? It got canceled after one season, so fuck it. I'm just not going to bother.
01:10:51
Speaker
non-invested time or start to fall in love with something you know that's ultimately going to die. There's a couple of things. Norseman, if you haven't watched that, Norseman is fucking hilarious. I think there's a new season of that out. I'm just about to do a rewatch of Newsroom. There's a bunch of old series that I'll always go back and rewatch top to tail. Newsroom is just one of those series that as America continues its slow circling of the drain as a social wasteland and their society collapses, Newsroom just becomes more and more fucking relevant.
01:11:20
Speaker
It was filmed years ago too, wasn't it? Yeah. And yeah, some of the episodes and the speeches that you see recycled on YouTube around the environment and stuff was like, holy fuck, that could have been written yesterday.
01:11:33
Speaker
Really, really well done that series. You spoke about that for years. I've never got to it. Yeah. I've seen some of the newsroom episodes. They are quite good. I think Emma enveloped that series. I can absolutely imagine Emma just drinking that. Yeah. And you need to add foundation to your list, Dan.
01:11:53
Speaker
I don't have the platform alerts on. It'll get added to the watch list when I have the app.
Guilty Pleasures and YouTube Content
01:12:03
Speaker
When you're sailing the seven seas of the internet. Your black flag flying high. I've also written, read more books. So I've got, as I'm often banks, I need to get back into.
01:12:16
Speaker
I actually, my, my, my, my mate Chris just gave me the, one of the latest, it's not the Rogue Squadron series, but it's the one of them after the aftermath, um, Rogue Squadron books. And I've got to sit down and read that. Um, I think this is, it might be a fun way to, I'm going to throw it at you guys because, and I'll start it. Um, but your guilty pleasure thing that you probably shouldn't enjoy watching as much as you do.
01:12:41
Speaker
No, no, no, no. I'm going to do mine first and you can pick anything. You don't have to, you know. So mine is, there's a great series. It started on Netflix and now it's on, I think it got moved to Binge. It's called Rust Valley Restorers. And it is about some dude who lives in the Canadian fucking- He talked about it before. It is the guiltiest fucking pleasure of mine because they are probably the worst people on the planet.
01:13:06
Speaker
I'm sure they're very nice, but they're just, they're just, they're just. Hic mechanics and it's, I, I can't get enough of it. And I just discovered that the newest seasons are on binge and Emma came home and she's, Oh no, not. There's two seasons I'm behind.
01:13:23
Speaker
Rust Valley Restorers and it's this dude who lives in this, like, it's this valley in British Columbia and it just happens to be like this, like, zone of where people just have rusting heaps of, like, Camaros and Mustangs and all in between big trucks and they- I'm sure there's another one called Something Sonic Pickers.
01:13:46
Speaker
American pickers. I don't know. I've never watched that one, but this one, I don't know why. I think it was the delightful Canadianness of it. Um, but it's also the, like, it's so dumb because there's these rusting heaps of shit that they're trying to restore. And then they just turn and do this scenic shot. And it's like, holy crap. That is the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen. So it's this really polarizing. Yeah. Oh, I can't get enough of it.
01:14:15
Speaker
I literally, and that's the thing I try and go watch one of these other series I've got on my back line. I was like, no, I'm going to rewatch where they built that 1977, you know, Camaro out of 18 different cars. And it came out bright pink with fucking flames coming out the back and you're just like, hell yeah, that's so dumb. But yeah, that's like one of my guilty series. It's like, it always is like, I guess more that what's the series that always distracts you from going to get to your list. You're like, no, fuck it. Put that on. That's gold.
01:14:44
Speaker
I've got two. So you're saying that this didn't come from what I was talking to you about just before? No, I've been thinking about this for a while, yeah. Okay. I've got two. I've got Forged in Fire. I cannot go past Forged in Fire, even if it's on TV, if I happen to be flicking through, because we watch a lot of SBS, so quite often we turn the TV off or flick to the PlayStation channel with the TV still on SBS. So when you turn it on,
01:15:09
Speaker
It's on sbs and what is what's halfway through or just starting forged in fire okay you know what i'm meant to be going to do this but i'm gonna sit down and watch an episode of fortune fire that i've watched ten times and my other my other one is adam savages youtube channel i have a serious fucking problem with adam savages i just.
01:15:29
Speaker
I find I will sit there. I sat there and watched him make a fucking brass bottle cap for 45 minutes the other day, going through his lathe and the process of him doing because his wife had this beautiful glass bottle and he's like, that's a really nice bottle, but it's got a really shit cap on it. I'm going to make a better cap.
01:15:48
Speaker
So he puts his chunk of brass in his lathe and he just sits there and he had to work out the spacing of the thread and the mechanics of getting it all cut correctly to fit his bottle correctly. And I just absolutely
01:16:07
Speaker
Enamored. Enamored. It was the word I was going for, but I didn't think it was quite the right term, but I am. It's probably not, to be honest. Enamored by just watching this man run a lathe for... But he's so... He's an incredible human, too. Even if he's not saying much at the time, you know he's going to come out with some cracking stuff later on. Like, it's just this... I've been watching him a lot recently, and I think it might have been caught or crew linked into it, or it might have been at the end of a video. It was on there a couple of times, yeah.
01:16:36
Speaker
Yeah, OK. And just talking to him. That's right. Corridor crew visited his his collection, his private collection. He takes him through movie props. Right. And they did the they did the the nose, the Chinatown Jack Nicholson nose cut. So Corridor crew redid it digitally and Adam Savage redid it practically. And then they put the two side by side and said,
01:17:01
Speaker
Which is better. Which is better and which is which. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. So and because I watched that episode, it linked into a bunch of of Adam. It's just funny you mentioned it because I'd never really watched most of his stuff from after Mythbusters because he was on Mythbusters. That's where he started. Yeah. And then suddenly I watched that Corridor Crew episode recently and I've been fucking inhaling Corridor Crew lately. He's got a couple of series like in the background, though, doesn't he? Like they're not not as probably say Mythbusters discovery stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:17:31
Speaker
Yeah. What was your other one? Oh, that was the two. No, Forged in Fire and Adam Savage. But just you say that, Tom. I find the shows that he does to produced.
01:17:46
Speaker
They're too, they're too American TV produced, too scripted. Definitely. And, and, and just watching, like when he does his one day builds and the stuff he did over COVID was fucking fantastic because it was, this is where it all started in COVID. It was literally him with his iPhone on a stand and he takes it all around the shop with him. There's no mic people. There's no, there's no videographer. There is a, there is some times there's, cause he's got his crew that does stuff with him. Yeah.
01:18:16
Speaker
But if he just wants to be there and he just enjoys being in his cave, he calls it and filming stuff on his own and he just moves it around. And the hilarity that follows sometimes where he forgets sometimes he's being filmed and he'll start dancing around or singing or he'll be thinking and he'll be like tapping out a like a pattern in his chest.
01:18:42
Speaker
Well, he's like and like his eyes are up and he's like trying to solve this problem in his head. And that might go for like 30 seconds and he'll all of a sudden go, oh, and then he'll get back to. And he'll get distracted by stories about movies, about props, about just behind the scenes stuff. And he's just such an interesting character. I'm just I'm just so I just inhale his episodes. Yeah, that's cool.
01:19:06
Speaker
I'm going to quickly jump in there with something that I think is really going to entertain our good friend James, the sweaty Xbox troll as I got called out. This is his vindication to use against me, but if you're talking about favorite YouTube channels, I am obsessed with this YouTube channel called Outside Xbox.
01:19:26
Speaker
I've never actually owned an Xbox, but it's just they do these videos. You've talked about that. I think they're great. They're just some British blokes and their humor just gets me. It's two guys and a girl presenting and they do these top seven countdowns and they're dumbest things. One I watched the other day was the trailers that had nothing to do with what actually happened in the game.
01:19:47
Speaker
Yeah, you know what I have been pissed off by this. Oh, it's they're just really satirical take on it. So yes, James, my favorite YouTube channel is called is outside Xbox and it's all about Xbox games. And you know what? I actually think I think we so my guilty pleasure is primarily YouTube.
01:20:09
Speaker
channels and I could talk about a whole bunch of interesting YouTube channels. Dan like right up Adam Savage right up the alley of Adam Savage making a bottle cap on his lathe. There's a YouTube channel I subscribe to where he makes rings out of meteorites and those sorts of things on the lathe and it's just fascinating to watch.
01:20:29
Speaker
But I actually think before I get too deep into what I watch on YouTube, that's a whole up late by itself. I think the three of us, our favorite YouTube channels and why and what makes them fascinating. So my guilty pleasure that I'll throw out there and I will fess up to the one that I was talking about before, Tom. I love singing shows and I don't know why.
01:20:52
Speaker
I don't know why. America's got talent. This was not me putting a stitch up on. True. True. But these ideas. I really just want to talk about rush value for stories because I love it. But I, but I stopped watching when you get past the initial, the initial auditions because that's when it starts becoming overproduced sheets. That's actually very, that's yeah, that's kind of cool. Yeah.
01:21:15
Speaker
So like the street performer style, you know, it's just some poor schmuck with a microphone. He either sings like an angel or he's shit. But as soon as it gets to over produce crap where it's all auto tuned and there's a big stage production, that's where I start. So how long does that last for? Because I've never watched more than it's taken me to find something else on the guide and change the channel is the length of time that I've ever had one of those on.
01:21:40
Speaker
So the voice is probably the worst, my least favorite format because it's just so contrived. But I think that's six episodes or maybe eight episodes of Blind Auditions. Oh, okay. Wow. That's a lot. Yeah. So, and you aren't talking like, even in Australia, they're pretty world famous fucking- The Australian Idol was similar to the same. I remember watching because I made a mind win on it. I went to uni with, and it was like, obviously you were like, well, you have to support the friend.
01:22:03
Speaker
This is how we're going to end this episode. It's been a TV phenomenon for years. It's six to eight episodes of just bringing in the people, and they obviously have the ones that's just like, oh dude, just no.
01:22:19
Speaker
Well I was better for that I'd all they would show you some fucking terrible auditions just for fun but the voice doesn't really do that like you you not everyone gets through but they'll they'll generally the pre screen them before they get there yeah so they know they can at least carry a tune if you know if not perfectly but that's my guilty pleasure I enjoy watching those shows right up till.
01:22:41
Speaker
the audition phase ends and then it just becomes mass produced shit. I actually think you'd be surprised by what percentage of pop stars, specifically pop, were discovered on those talent shows. It would be an appreciable percentage in America and Britain, I would think. Certainly in Australia, you think about Australian pop singers in the last 20 years? I reckon almost all of them were on one of those talent shows at one stage or another.
01:23:05
Speaker
Well, Guy Sebastian's the first one and that was what, early 2000s? Shannon Noll. What's her name? I can't remember her name right off the top of my head. Jessica Malboy. Wasn't Sophie Monk one of the early ones? Wasn't she one of the girl band ones? She was one of the girl band ones. That was one of my Uncle Damon's favourite bands for a Bardo. This is gonna get dark real quick.
01:23:30
Speaker
Uncle Damien, and Dad's going to love this because I know Dad listens to this. Uncle Damien used to not shut up about Bardot. It's like, we get it. Damien, you like the five girls in the skimpy black. Yeah, no, I knew that was going to that dark place. I was hoping to steer us away from that. I think we had CDB come out to our school until they were throwing out discs and the guy standing, my mate standing next to me threw the disc back and hit one of the singers in the head and that was the end of the show. They were only there for about 20 minutes.
01:23:58
Speaker
Who? CDB. They were an Aussie boy band for about 10 minutes and the- I wonder if I've never fucking heard of them. The girl clique, one of the girl cliques in our grade in your seminar. CBD oil? Like, yeah, I don't know. Just stone or rock. But you had to ring the radio station and I lucky- It was like a raffle on a radio station, right?
01:24:21
Speaker
All these schoolgirls were calling up and our schoolgirls won, and then we got them cancelled really quick by, they're essentially assaulting one of the students. By falconing them, yeah. Just a headshot from the Zena disc. Anyway, that's my guilty pleasure, and I think that might be it for this show.
Beer Ratings and Listener Engagement
01:24:41
Speaker
I need to rate my beer. You do. Yeah, and Peter's yours changed. My rating hasn't changed. It's very boozy.
01:24:52
Speaker
But it's 16%. So I knew that coming into it. Can't blame the beard. No, I can't. Well, can you? No, because the beer is essentially an inanimate object. I don't, I don't think there's enough backbone holding it there. I think it's, I think it's good. I'm glad I tried it. I think if you'd like high booze beers,
01:25:20
Speaker
that it's well up there with a fairly well-made one. I think it's slightly out of balance just because it hasn't got some of that extra sort of malt character there, but that could be being played out because of the amount of alcohol. Look, I'm going to give it a 375. If I was giving it round numbers, I'd give it a four, but it's getting a 375. But you're an asshole, so you weren't. Fair enough. I really want you to try the one that I had tonight because I'd be really interested to see what a beer judge
01:25:48
Speaker
would think of that, because your pallet's a lot more developed than mine is. Apparently not after the awards that were given out last night. Yes, that was last episode that will come out in about six weeks time, so that's going to confuse listeners.
01:26:07
Speaker
What are we going to say Tom? I mean, that's if the listeners are actually following what happens in the indie awards, but if they're not, they're just going to go straight over the heads. Yeah. Yes. And my rating's not changing. It's a solid ass beer. It's just, it is a very unusual flavor. And I think it's probably the cinnamon Myrtle doing all of the heavy lifting there, both the weird spicy burnt flavor and the real astringent bitterness of the Myrtle. I think that's both.
01:26:34
Speaker
both in that middle. I'm interested, Tom. Can you just put one of those aside for me? Oh, did you get it from the other place? No. Yes. No, no. I got it from Tom. Okay. I got it from Tom. It's all kind of blending together. You're the best out. Can you put one aside and I'll place an order when I get back or I'll place an order and send it to Pete. Yeah. Just ship it to me in my next order, Tom, because I'm about to place one. Um,
01:27:02
Speaker
Yes, your highnesses, I will do as you did. And we could probably not do this on the episode either. I will. Thanks for tuning in. Let us know what your rating didn't change either, by the way. But you weren't going to say it was a change. I just want to be included. Fuck. It was delicious. From top to bottom. Let us know what you're watching while we have the wasteland that is all of the strikes. Yeah, definitely. And if you have some good series for us to try out. Yes, that would be interesting too.
01:27:31
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You know how you can do that. If you like and subscribe, then you can throw it up as a comment. He's so disappointed with himself.
01:27:46
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You know what I found out the other day? Spotify has a star rating system the same as iTunes. So there's another place that we don't have a hundred ratings of five stars that you all need to immediately rush to and give us five stars on. I didn't even know. I genuinely didn't, but- I just thought I'd have a love heart button. Makes sense, but- Oh, maybe in the podcast section. I didn't go in there. It's a dirty section. No wonder. Anyway, if you made it this far, thanks for listening. Thank you. Good night.