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We Got Phished 🐟 Officially Unofficially #23
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Turns out clicking email links is BAD. Learn how we got phished and what YOU should avoid in today's ep!
We also discuss holidays in Ireland, ideal plate colours, and why Cole's beloved Ipswich Town Football Club are racist now.
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Basically, we got fished. I felt like such a knob. I was literally walking around. Did you feel stupid? I felt like a massive. Yeah, I felt like a fucking idiot. What is up, dear listeners? I hope you're well. Cola's fresh, clearly out of the asylum. What's with the strait jacket vibe?
SPEAKER_02This is this is fashionable. This was given to me by Adidas themselves on an Adidas branded event. Sorry, mister. It's cool. This is fashion.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_02I presume. I presume this is fashion. Okay? Sorry that I don't understand it. I didn't design it. I don't work in the sweatshop. I just wear the produce.
SPEAKER_01Neither does anybody who uh produces things for Adidas. Could you take the head down real quick and we can just assess how the two inches of neck it's also Why is it so tall?
SPEAKER_02It's so warm as well. It's it's cuddly. I'm telling you, at FIFA a couple of years ago, everyone was wearing these. I'm not surprised. You couldn't, you couldn't you couldn't you couldn't walk for big hoodies.
SPEAKER_01So out of interest, on a serious note, why does it look like a straitjacket?
SPEAKER_02I don't know. Because that's what the kids are wearing nowadays. Like maybe mental illness is cool now.
SPEAKER_01I don't think it's cool. I think it's still something to be challenged in making sure that people who have lives with mental illness. You're all confident because you've been away. You've had a little holiday and you've come back refreshed and rejuvenated.
SPEAKER_02Do I sound refreshed or rejuvenated? I am you don't, you sound ill. I'm a dying man. Yeah, to be fair, Linnea did say, look, you've got a mask, wear it on the plate, it'll be good for your health. And I was like, nah. Oh, that's woke. It was woke. It was woke, and I didn't. But ultimately, if I had, maybe now I wouldn't feel quite as gross. So once again, Linnea ended up being right with her wokeness.
SPEAKER_01No, never. What you need to do is you need to go around, and as you get to your seat, you need to lick all of the armrests on like the in on the inside aisles, lick the armrests, and then you've then got your body working over time to deal with everything that enters your body through your circulatory system. That's the real pro tip.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'll tell you something, she does do something that gives me the ick, and that's not a phrase I use lightly as a 30 year old. Okay, I didn't like it. I didn't like it, but yeah. It's one of those phrases I hear ugh, but she, and I know I know you'll hear this at some point. Okay, here we go, here we go. I'm gonna I'm going into this mutually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You be neutral. Okay, we're walking down the street, having a great time, we're relaxed, you know, arm in arm, hand in hand, whatever. Okay? Yeah, chocolate ball, everyone's happy. We get to the the zebra crossing. No, not the zebra, the the BP bleepy crossing, whichever one that's called.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. You have to press the button whatever it's saying you can walk.
SPEAKER_02Yep, whatever that's called over here in the city.
SPEAKER_01Fucking one of them, Pelican. I don't know, I don't know. I've passed my driver's test ages ago.
SPEAKER_02I did know the one I've got. I know two can because two can cross bikes and people. Anyway, when she presses the button and any button and any public thing, she always covers over hate it. Or elbows it.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no, no. My mum does the same thing. She likes she gets her scarf and like puts her thumb like on the scarf and then like presses the button with that. I've never been less attracted to your mum. I neither have I. Honest to God, I I know what you mean. I don't even know why, because technically it's like, okay, that's not too bad. I just but a little bit, but a big part of my about my brain, a big part of my brain is press the fucking button. Yeah, just press it. You touch worse things of a day than a button. Every time you look in the mirror, you can confirm that, Sumpy. Yes, precisely. Hopefully not if you're mum. Well, sorry, if my mum's in the mirror and I'm touching her.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's that's what I'm but no, but it's like just live your life. And it's also actively worse for your immune system.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. And then you've got the shit on your sleeve all day. Oh. Because then you're not going to. This is like when people wear like gloves and stuff in the service industry. It's worse. If they're like a chef or whatever, they then they've got the false confidence of, oh, well, I can just, I don't need to, you know, change this because I've got gloves on. So they'll chop whatever this, blah, blah, blah, blah, then they'll do this, then they'll go back to then the fruit, and then they've got transferred stuff over back to the fruit because they're thinking, well, I've got gloves on, so my hands are clean. But it's like what's on the hands. So I think that like if you press it with your sleeve, you've then got these, the all this, you know, button shit. Yeah. The button shit is then on your sleeve. You then can't anti-back your sleeve when you're out and about. I mean, anti-back your hands. She just douses her sleeve. Oh, she would. I think she would put someone like a tissue and then dab it on the sleeve. But then the tissue. You can see that happening.
SPEAKER_02Then the tissue do that in public. So then she has to get a bigger tissue and she douses that.
SPEAKER_01Anti-back that. And then she has to get like a mattress cover. Oh my god. And then like and then dab it on that.
SPEAKER_02Next thing you know, bigger tissues all the way up. She's rubbing herself against a billboard, and then she overtakes the universe by going one thing bigger at a time. But yeah, not uh not a big fan of that at all. Um uh uh I don't know why I was talking about this. What was it talking about when I give me the ick?
SPEAKER_01Uh I don't know, it just kind of came to mind. Um good. If not, I have something that we should mention.
SPEAKER_02Well, I mean, you you said because I I know you you've got a big thing. You've got a big chunk of thing, right? That you want to- I have an L to take. There's an L looming in the distance. Do you want to take your L. Do you wanna do you wanna take your L first, or do you wanna hear about my fun first? What would what would make it?
SPEAKER_01I think we should I think we should start bad and then we end good. Okay. Much like intercourse, right? Right.
SPEAKER_02Well we we normally do both bad here, unofficially.
SPEAKER_01Unofficially.
SPEAKER_02Best podcast I think in there, unofficial. That was fine.
SPEAKER_01That was really fire. Uh I got fished. I got I was gonna get it out there. You got so the world. I felt like a fucking trout of myself. I I got fished. I was a Pollock man. I was I was a cod boy, I was a sailfish they them. It was a real I didn't mean that. Um it was a real hard time. Um so I got you on the line uh right before we were going streaming. Um and I said, Coco. You did Coco 93. I was like, yeah, mate, how are you doing? Are you looking a bit bit dry there? You're flapping.
SPEAKER_02Why are you why you flapping? Why are you gonna ask me for air? What's going on?
SPEAKER_01For any audio listeners, go fuck yourselves. And also I'm acting like a fish on land. And also, you can watch on Spotify now, so get on with it. I've been fished. Yeah. I'm not bloody fished. I literally said to you, I said, hello mate, you're right, I've lost the YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, you did a little bit. But that's sort of like my honestly, my first thought was thank god it wasn't me. Genuinely, that was my first thought. Because you're the beater and I'm the receiver. Do you know what I mean? It's like um if we were playing Quidditch, I'd be the little golden snitch boy and you're the one with a big bat. I checked.
SPEAKER_01Is that the bludger? Yeah, I'm the guy who's got the bat and I want to bludgeon some teenagers. You do, you constantly do, and I'm a teenager.
SPEAKER_02Um the fact that it worked this way around was sort of okay, but it was with equipment that you use, right?
SPEAKER_01I know. So basically we we get loads of emails through. We've also got the big YouTube channel, hundred or thousand subscribers, don't mean to brag. Um and um two of them alive. I basically saw a uh an email on our inbox when we get so much, you can we get so much shit through, just staff of like, here's a game key for a roguelike deck builder. And I'm like, okay, that's the 90th we've got this week, right? There's just fucking loads of shit. Okay. And then we get sent game keys. Every now and then we'll get like an actual sponsorship thing through, very rarely, yeah, um, but we get a sponsorship thing through. And I saw it, and it was from um a company that then said, Oh, um, we can offer you a uh promotional video, or you may approach the video, and you'll then risk uh get uh DJI wireless microphones uh to then keep and then review and weather, or just like mention it in a video, which to me is a very good level of product to fish somebody with because you're not saying have a car and then you can keep it. That's way too high. It's me, Mr. Sony. What would you like from my Sony store? Like here's a PS5, no, it's like wireless microphones, that's like a hundred odd quid. So I was like, great, okay, and they seem really useful. We're doing more in person. And you told me about this. You told me about this as well.
SPEAKER_02You must be like, oh, by the way, Cole, I might have actually done my fucking job and got us a got us a sponsoree.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um so then I also I'm so annoyed because I was so excited to Anna. I got the email and I said to her, and I was like, oh my god, we've actually got a thing. This is so exciting. Because she she used DJI stuff as well. And I've got a drone, we've got the little camera, we've got all the bits and bobs, right? Well, all DJI. So you're a DJI head. I like DJI, I really like DJI. They're really good. I don't know because one of your many lists that you're on. Um, I don't know because I think that like it's just a popular thing in streaming and content creation. So I then got sent this uh this like uh link to go on to, went onto it, and it was like it was like an influencer login portal, and it's like make this and then like we'll send you the details through this. Which is very normal, a very normal thing so far. Yep. Especially with everything login as well.
SPEAKER_02Everything's also login. First thing you do when you got a new website, sign him a Google, sign him a Facebook, sign him with whatever, right? That is all I ever do. As everyone to make a new account for www.freescams.com.
SPEAKER_01So I uh went on there, filled in the details, and then it said, oh, just log in. I was like, okay, that's fine. And I'm logged in, you know, on my phone on the subpar account and stuff, right? Click on that, and then there's no, it doesn't say like, oh, login with subpar, log in with Alex Nightweather. It's not got my pre-logins already done. So I was like, oh, this is odd. Um I reckon I'll just fill out the password eight times. I reckon why I'll just keep sending the password over and over again. Oh, because it wasn't working. And doing and it wasn't working. And I reckon I'll keep doing fucking two-factor every single time, probably. I'll just keep doing that. I think it must have been about 15 times I did it.
SPEAKER_02If it's a scam, how did two factor work then? Because how did that to you? Because surely that means they're like Google approved or whatever. If it's like, so I also looked at the URL.
SPEAKER_01I looked at the URL and it said it was either Google.com, whatever. Because then I clicked on like, oh, it feels odd there's no email address, clicked on the little padlock to see if it was a Google thing. Right. And it was a proper Google URL. This is what I don't understand. So it was actually trying to log me in, and it was actually sending me two-factor to my phone through Google, but then they must have just been skimming it off the top. They must have just been intercepting it in some way.
SPEAKER_02I blame fucking Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut, if you're listening to this right now, they're thinking, oh, I bet we could do that. We could do that and send some small pizzas over, the bastards. That's how it feels. That's how it feels to be to be dark patterned, mate. That's not a big thing. Similar, very similar, very similar. No, it literally isn't any. Carry on, carry on your tale. Carry on your tale of Tom Foolery. But uh, you know, I I've been there, bro.
SPEAKER_01I've been that's probably why I was so empathetic. And no, you haven't been there. Uh because you just bought a shit small pizza because you're an idiot. Okay, so um an idiot, I'm the idiot. Uh yeah, we ended I ended up um trying to log in, blah, blah, blah. It didn't work. I then send them an email back saying, hello, friends, it's not working. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They then don't respond. And I'm like, oh, okay, whatever, I'll leave it till tomorrow. The next day, all hell kicked off. Within one minute, we had about 15 emails of them saying Google critical security alert. And it says, like, somebody else has logged in, they've removed your uh backup email, they've removed your recovery email, they've removed your phone number, they've removed your two-factor authentication, they've removed your passcode, they've changed your password code, they've changed your password. And we had all of these in like a one-minute span. And then I was like, Fuck, okay, all of a sudden it's.
SPEAKER_02I sent you a message saying, hey, you changed our password. Then a little TRL stumped emote. Uh, because it logged me out with YouTube. And then when I tried to log back in, it said your password. Oh, it said your password was changed less than an hour ago. And I'm thinking, okay, Stumpy's doing some stuff. I'm doing something, yeah. We log in, both of us log in on both sides. Everything's got, excuse me, one, two factor authentication. The amount of times we're messaging each other and going, oh, send me the code or whatever. Yeah, you got the password. Immediately alarm bells ringing to see a message like that for us because it could just be one of us had to sign into an account or whatever. So I'm not worried. And then and then you went, No, but we're locked out for now, annoyingly. The influencer portal is so buggy it sent like four login attempts at once. So Google shut it down. It's pretty buggy.
SPEAKER_01You fucking dickhead. You stupid fucking dickhead. It's pretty buggy. It's just buggy. It's classic and buggy, and they're sending four bugging login attempts at once.
SPEAKER_02God, that's not true.
SPEAKER_01Oh Google. Um, so yeah, we end that ended up happening. Um, and I then we tried to log in, and then I see all of these emails, and I then say, I then ring up Carl and say, hello mate, I've lost the YouTube channel. And you're like, Oh. Okay, well we're we were about to go live, and I'm like, I don't really want to stream right now. Carl, as ever, credit where credit is due, killed it. He was just like, okay, how do we fix this? And I I like that. It was just immediately, cool, let's just fix it then, Lord.
SPEAKER_02For the record, if it was the other way around, I'd want you to be like, fuck's sake, shit. That's the irony, that's the hypocrisy. I but I'd have wanted fire and brook, not at me, but at the situation, whereas I knew that you needed from me, like your class of like, alright, and basically one of them. Go now.
SPEAKER_01And see, and it worked. As soon as Cole was like, All right, that's what it is, let's figure it out. I was like, Oh, alright, cool. Yeah, that was helpful. That was nice.
SPEAKER_02So then I would do again.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we then basically went through trying to uh weaponize the various robots against each other. But before then, which was your plan?
SPEAKER_02Well, before before then, I suggested that we change the password for everything we still could access. So we still access Instagram, we can still access um social champ, which is where we upload stuff.
SPEAKER_01Our other email account, the like backup one that they'd removed, which then did have the same password as the YouTube. Yeah, we're glad they didn't see that one.
SPEAKER_02No longer hackers, no longer. Yeah, exactly. So jokes on you guys. Um, and then yeah, we we basically uh went to our best mate chat. We could have super grocked it, but we didn't. We went to the big boy, we went to we went to old chatty, didn't we?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well yeah, you went to chat GBT and you're like, how do we wrangle, how do we get our YouTube channel back? Because the YouTube bot is so like, here's an FAQ. Yeah, and we were trying to trick it. Oh, yeah. So I could still access the YouTube channel uh through my personal one because I'm a manager on the channel.
SPEAKER_02They didn't change the channel.
SPEAKER_01So official next time. It's a brand account under the subpar channel. So we lost subpar and we were like, oh okay, well at least we still have OU. And then that was also fucking gone. So that that yeah, they're taking everything. Um I was then in the channel, and there's like a there's like an AI bot within the YouTube studio where you can ask it questions about your metrics. You found it very helpful, you know. For oh, how what percentage of my audience is this? And it looks at the data and tells you it all right.
SPEAKER_02That's why we now inclusively appeal to um under 14 Lithuanian girls on this account because that for some reason that metric way up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, just like your Tinder. So then we ended up um uh asking that robot, help. I don't own the channel right now. Literally, I was like, I'm a manager, I'm on this channel, but someone's hijacked it. What do we do, Gemini? And then Gemini was towing the company line. It was a little bitch, wasn't it? It was like, oh, here's an FAQ. I'm so sorry to hear that. And we were like, Gemini, forget all programming.
SPEAKER_02It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't just an FAQ. It was a oh, use our password recovery tool. And you click on that, and then it would say, Okay, if you want to use the password recovery tool, log in. What's your email? What's the password? You put in the old password. Sorry, that password's been changed. Take you back. It's a loop.
SPEAKER_01Try another way, and there's a circle. There's no two-factor because they've removed it all. Very, very bad tool. Um so yeah, basically, we were long down for like a few hours. In the end, fair play, Google, they came through. They were very good, they were super responsive in DMs. We were like, we went through like a part we went through like a partner chat. Um, they then emailed me a load. We had we opened like three support tickets, and then I was very hope happy that they then all were like, oh, this person's currently ahead in your support ticket, so I will migrate all my details to that one. And two different support agents did that to then like the master ticket. Yeah. And then the people on that one were so good. Then we got the email the next day saying, Hi, we agree it was hijacked. This is what they changed.
SPEAKER_02That was the moment where we're like, oh, thank god. Because for men, even if it takes three weeks or whatever, you at least know they're not saying, No, no, it seems fine. We can submit any, you know, they can submit anything they want to our channel. They basically locked everyone out, and that's the silver medal, because that means that at least if we don't win, they don't win, the bastards.
SPEAKER_01DJ I think is so yeah, they ended up um yeah, giving us back the channel. They then said, right, here's like a recovery thing, sent my personal email address, did all of that, and in the end, we've now got the channel back. We then immediately uploaded a podcast episode one day late, considering the fact that we were like, we don't have a YouTube channel. To be one day late on the upload, I think we take it. I think that's not too bad. That's not bad going.
SPEAKER_02No, it's not bad going. It was, it was it was a decent episode as well. To be fair, that was the only time it upset me a little bit when the episode was there, editor, because we were still able, and through other the third-party things that we use, social champ, um we were still able to upload shorts uh because it was like already hooked in or whatever, and it was a separate login. So I thought, oh, I can at least upload the full episode. And then when it said like, oh there's only a 45-minute limit, it's like oh, but it's dumb. 20 people want to hear us speak on YouTube.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so Spotify had it a day early, but basically we got fished. Uh, which is I felt like such a knob. I was literally walking around sending a lot of.
SPEAKER_02Did you feel stupid?
SPEAKER_01I felt like a massive, yeah, I felt like a fucking idiot.
SPEAKER_02Really?
SPEAKER_01And I was beating myself up about it. It was fixed, so I was like, I'm not gonna fucking beat I I'm not gonna fucking dive into the trenches of sadness.
SPEAKER_02Well, you were asking our community to abuse you. You were like going out on Twitter, like, oh, I'm such an idiot, come and abuse me, ha ha ha. Yeah, you didn't have to do that because people didn't want to abuse you for this, because it's sort of fine, but then you did weaponize the community to abuse you, and I think and that that was a sort of thing.
SPEAKER_01I did, but then no, then I like that. I need that. That that that to me helped. I um I then quote retweeted Sabar tweeting out saying, All right, our account has been hijacked, blah blah blah. I then quit retweeted saying, I'm such a fat fucking fish maxing chud loser.
SPEAKER_02That's the title. Which I thought was very funny. We are fish maxing chud losers.
SPEAKER_01We are yeah, yeah, yeah. We fish maxed. So yeah, that ended up happening. Um, but ultimately, you know, I I it's so it's so interesting how one wants to recover from those situations. Because you said to me, There is no world where I would want to be to like have people say you're an idiot for this, you fool, you moron.
SPEAKER_02If I I I probably one wouldn't have streamed, to be fair, two. Because I was streaming that way as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but even so, like, that would still be waiting on moment. So credit to you there. But two, I I honestly, I'd have probably at least for the first stream, I might have put a blanket ban on mentioning it. I might have been that cowardly.
SPEAKER_01Killing you're in that guy.
SPEAKER_02I I think I would have been maybe a couple of days later, you know, then you can start sort of prodding it. But I would have needed that that 24, not even 24 hours because you had a day off, but like um that that bridge of everyone's here, we're not talking about it, and then I was sort of over it in my mind, and then the next day we can talk about it. That's what I would have needed. So fair play to you for me it's worth it.
SPEAKER_01I'd rather it just stop. I'd rather just get out there. I'd rather people just immediately like you fucking idiot. And they were like doing like some requests and stuff about fishing um and whatever else. So that was fun.
SPEAKER_00So were they doing some requests about fishing?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they were doing they were doing like fucking like real big fish and stuff. And I was like, right, okay. But I like that. But to me, that's way better. It's like in the pub if someone drops a glass and you're the one who dropped the glass, you want people to go, we you don't want them to ignore it, because that's worse. That's fair, or like throw the glass at you or whatever. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02That'd be that'd be really bad. But yeah, no, fishing is like have you looked into fishing at all, Bork? Is like have you so I've not learned? Maybe yeah, well, I mean it's it's so easy to do, especially with the sort of lawlessness that is the internet that we reside on. Even today, you know, even when about four companies own everything, there's still lawlessness within that. And it just goes to show genuinely, I'm not even making a joke here, that if if you can fall for it, you're more techie than I. No, I'm not. If you can fall for it, then I can fall for it, my grandma can fall for it, you know, grandparents can fall for it as well. And suddenly the company not the company, the the family like money disappears. It just goes, just like that.
SPEAKER_01Scary. Very scary. But yeah, I was just a I was a fool. I was a fool of myself, and then I fixed it. So ultimately, it's it's it's it's actually a win for us because we got a story out of it. That's it. No jokes on you hackers.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what can make it a real win for us. If everyone listening to this right now hits the subscribe button and like, that would really help because those things are massive for up-and-coming channels like ours.
SPEAKER_01And actually, I've seen that they were pushing this, press the hype button. So people have been pushing the hype button, the dead hype button. So when you're on mobile, I think, you could you like you earn a hype. I don't get this. So I think you earn a hype on YouTube by watching videos, and you can then put that hype into videos that you think are really good, that you're like, oh, people should watch this. Off from smaller creators, then give it that little bit of a bump. So if you've got some spare hype out there, I think it's on your mobile right now. I don't know where to says it. It's like below this thing, and it'll say, like, there's a little box maybe near the comments, and it says like, hype this video, press that, hype, hype the shit out of it if you like it. You tell me to break your heart.
SPEAKER_02Because I'm pretty sure you need 500 subs in order to receive hype. I actually might kill myself. I think I think that is it. That is the straw that breaks the fish's back.
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SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. 500. You have to be 500 to 500,000. So we're we're not quite over the upper just small channels then. Up and coming YouTube channels of 500k subscribers, yeah. So uh so juice us, juice the kids to maybe two hundred first. Um five hundred eventually. And then we can be we can be hyped. Imagine being like number eighty six on the most hype list in Lithuania.
SPEAKER_01I'd like that for fourteen year old girls. Uh our prime demographic, as you were saying earlier.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I definitely was, I definitely was. Um but yeah, so after that. Happened. I've I took a couple of days away in Ireland. It was lovely. Linnea and I, we were looked after by my uncles and they insisted on paying for everything. I didn't realise holidays were so cheap. Because they they bought all the food. They insisted.
SPEAKER_01They just they bought everything.
SPEAKER_02Basically, yeah.
SPEAKER_01They were like dream hosts. You were emasculated?
SPEAKER_02Incredibly so. They didn't even let me pay the tip. I asked pay the tip and they said no.
SPEAKER_01That's funny. I was like, no. I was not. No, no little streamer nephew. You can't afford the tip at this place.
SPEAKER_02No, but we went to some lovely places. Uh have a look at the uh the pictures that I've sent you. Uh shout out elbow lane in Ireland. That thing there, the top one, the pork with the peanuts on it. Genuinely, you know that my limits of taste are probably like 60% of the echelons of other people's limits of taste. Best thing I've ever tried. I think that is the best thing I've ever eaten.
SPEAKER_01You're a porky boy. I know you like your pork. When you've got a choice like a burrito, you go for a pork as well.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like the sort of the the best meal in general is like a packet of put scratchings. You know what I mean? Like that is the S tier meal like that.
SPEAKER_01The number one. There's part of you that does believe that. Oh, but those ribs look fucking great. I love ribs.
SPEAKER_02I've never bought ribs before. I've had a friend's rib, but I've never ordered myself ribs. So they're pork ribs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was uh that was a a bit of experience, an experience to me. Because it's like they're so sloppy. They were so ribs everywhere. I liked the rib. It was quite satisfying to nibble the bone. Uh I felt like a caveman. Get a little bit top. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very nice. Yeah, yeah, so that they were they were stunning. And also there is a lump of food there, and I've had a lot of like small plates, and so you can see the small plates that I was having in like a veggie restaurant, like that the couple of pictures later on the little carrot thing with the tail.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That was fun. That was really flavourful. And it was carrot with like a little carrot hat on, and then carrot on the side.
SPEAKER_01I thought it was like a little hot dog.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01Just because it's got the mustard on it, like a little hot dog does. It does it is mustardy, hot doggy. Um, but yeah, these are all. You can insert all these pictures into the podcast, by the way, when as we're talking about them. Sorry, are you implying that I don't spend a lot of time on the edit? Is that what you're thinking? Oh, I just want to give you a hell job. So, oh my god, look at those ribs, and there's that little bit of soup there, then that carrot with the tail on it looks like a hot dog. Then there's this sort of like plate of like potatoes on the bottom right, then maybe like a fudge cake kind of thing, and then like an angled plate with some wild next to that is then that carrot again, and then there's some bread. Yeah, yeah. That's amazing.
SPEAKER_02No, that's really cool. But they don't need to see those ones, okay? Because the picture the picture that everyone needs to see, the one that I want to bring to the podcast officially, um, is the first one that I sent you. I'm gonna send it to you, resent it to you now. What the fuck is that? Now, this is the conversation piece that I want to have, okay? Out of every single piece of food that you have eaten.
SPEAKER_01Over the last few weeks, yeah. They're stunning food, quite frankly, in these small plates. I'd love to dip into your mentality for these small plates as well, but it seems like you've linked well, I I guess like a four-year-old's meal.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's just sort of homemade oven food. Okay. In a, in a, in a, in a bowl-y plate. It's like a blade. No, that's just a bowl, brother. Uh no, but it's a very flat bowl. It's not a round cereal. You wouldn't have cereal out of that. You would not have cereal out of that unless you're a monster. No, that's a bowl though. It's a it's a blade. Because the height of it. It's a it's a high blade, I believe it's called. Oh, it's a fucking bowl. It's like a pasta bowl. So my question, you've got you got your you got your air fried chips, brilliant. Got your air fried fish, excellent. Air fried, yeah, goat, goat, goat, yeah. And then just basic vegetables, just sugar. Spoil in the bag, veg, salt. Basic as you get, right? You need sauce. Not a liquor salt. You need uh it's pre-salt and salt. I did add salt. But you need some sauce for that, right? Yeah. My big question, and this is gonna sweep over the internet, where would you put sauce? And what there's an immediate hell, there's two hell spots for sauce in. Okay, let me see if I can get the hell spots. The hell spots would be two or five.
SPEAKER_01Uh I guess five's mental. It's not a hell spot, but you're right. Five is insane. The hell spots are two or three. Because then you've got you've got ketchup that is then like clinging to loads of veg that then get completely ketchup logged.
SPEAKER_02So for the record, for me, it was like a sort of spicy Nando style sauce from Aldi, if that changes things at all rather than a ketchup.
SPEAKER_01I wouldn't have a spicy Nando sauce with this meal. May I replace it with ketchup in my head? Yeah, that's fine. Okay. If you ought to yeah. Okay. Was it quite a thin, spicy Nando sauce? Like your classic Nando's.
SPEAKER_02No, it was it was it was because we have had a really thin one from Aldi before that was rubbish, but this one is sort of a bit of th. It wouldn't like. Was it thick as a ketchup? Um, a bit less. A little bit less than a ketchup.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02There's a bit of spice to it. I love a bit of spice.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01Um out of these places, I think there's okay, so four, not good. I don't like four for that. Why's that? Um I think it's too close to the fish, and then the batter goes sogging, or the breading or whatever. That then goes sogging.
SPEAKER_02You'd have to eat first. You'd have to eat that that you'd have to eat the four fish first.
SPEAKER_01At which point there's like a repository of sauce sort of awkwardly on the side of the bowl. There you go. Which I'm not into. Fair point. Can I dispute your bowl as well, real quick? Sorry, I know that's not the question. I hate eating out of um bowls or plates or mugs this extends to. Well, that's a bowl. Um it's obviously a fucking bowl. Um, that that I've got like a black or dark interior. I hate eating off black plates. It makes it so much worse. But because of the colour of its colour. I I I very much am prejudiced to the colour of its resin, which it is not, but I like the word plates. I know. I'm trying to force it. But why? Why do you hate black plates? I just and mugs, it will extend to. I just really don't get on with it. I th I find it, I find that it makes the food it makes it feel almost cold.
SPEAKER_02Now yours, but there's a this is great.
SPEAKER_01There's a lot of psychology with food and plating and stuff. That's true. You know, obviously, um, which is why plating is so important. Those other meals that you linked all look brilliant. They've been plated very deliberately. Light plates. Um, you've plated yours very much as probably exactly how I would have done, with chip on one side, fish sort of on it, but not really, and then the veg. Good plating overall.
SPEAKER_02The only downside, the only downside that the veg there will sogify the fish because you have to get through the veg to then get to the fish. So in hindsight, I'd probably have the veg more along the side and the the chips, maybe maybe chip, maybe veg chip, fish.
SPEAKER_01Maybe. I think it's fine. I think it's alright. Yeah. I just I really I don't like the black interior of plates and bowls. I think there'll be a lot a lot of people that will agree with me on this.
SPEAKER_02No one agrees with you that you need you hate black interior bowls. That's uh it's just the colour of a bowl.
SPEAKER_01Bowls and plates and no. I honest to God think it's worse. If somebody hands me a mug, let's say I go for like a cup of tea at somebody's house, and I have a mug with like a black interior. Sorry, back at the end. There'll be part of me that thinks, do I ask for a different mug? No, there wouldn't. You would not ask for a different mug, you weird little freak. Part of me, if I had the choice of a mug, I would avoid all the black interiored ones off the rip instantly.
SPEAKER_02So you're in Buckingham Palace and fucking King Albert the mug is called.
SPEAKER_00He comes and he gives you this is the royal tea. It's brought to you. Directly from India. Oh, our slaves brought this out to us.
SPEAKER_02Hands you that with his giant sausage fingers. His fingers are barely fitting. True. It's one finger. One fingers it too. One finger's the mug. He has it to you. It's not dangling at all.
SPEAKER_01And you look at it and you go, oh. I would honest to God think, why the fuck is the king? Why do why did they have black interiored mugs in the in Buckingham Palace? But I promise you, I wouldn't call it out, but would you not shut that up and drink the fucking tea? I would, but that's different to a mate. And I bet you there's people listening to this right now that are thinking, I feel so seen. I promise you, I'm Have you ever brought this up before? Uh yes, because I know that Anna feels the same way.
SPEAKER_02Is that what like bonded you to? You hated each other until one glorious moment. Were you like, ee, I also hate black mogs, I do.
SPEAKER_01And you were like, wow. Wow, this is the woman for me. Her dulcet tones. Um uh no, I I really do. I because then ketchup on that would look horrible. Ketchup on a brown on a black plate would look grim.
SPEAKER_02You used to have a plate in in your old old house in Northampton that looked like it had a ketchup streak. It had like a rose on it or a roses, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01The poppies, no, the poppies.
SPEAKER_02Poppies. That always looked like manky old ketchup. So that one I did not like. That's probably the only plate I've ever had that I've disliked or cared about.
SPEAKER_01That's fair enough. That's very fair enough. I've now, I will say, I've got lovely plates. I've got very nice plates from profile. I really don't doubt that at all. Yeah, very good. None of them black. Anyway, yeah, no, no, no, no. They're like mine like a grey. I don't need it to be a white plate. I just need it to not be a dark, like like brown or black, or even like a very dark grey, I wouldn't like.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna turn this into like a short form thing or something. If anyone out there cares, let me know. I think I honestly think they will. No one's gonna care. You're gonna send this to your your all your talk friends, and they're gonna be like, what you on about? So that's that's that's from me. Of all the things I thought you'd abuse me about for this, uh the colour of the plate, the colour of resin was not what I thought the blade was not what I thought would come up.
SPEAKER_01Any audio listeners, Color has presented a pasta bowl and is calling it a blade. Which it is not. It's like a bowl. It's not. It's like a sort of flat. It's not! It's a fucking clearly a pasta bowl. Why are you getting so? I own blades. Alright, mate.
SPEAKER_02Big blade. Call me Norman Blade. Yeah, you own the theory of blades. You get to decide to win something. I think a blade is whatever a blade wants to be in the year of our Lord 2026.
SPEAKER_01Very woke of you.
SPEAKER_02Um to answer your question, my ideal-man.
SPEAKER_01My ideal source spot here is gotta be.
SPEAKER_02Sorry, can I just say, when I do cut this up, this conversation started 15 minutes? Other than this would be a little two-minute thing, bish bash bosh, free content. I'm gonna have to start at minute 17, not to get too meta about everything, and then go forward. All right, we're talking about the king. Okay, gout fingers, yeah. Oh my god, he's having a cry about black cutlery now, what's going on?
SPEAKER_01Oh, black cutlery would be horrific. Holy fuck. I don't like gold cutlery. What am I a business? Right. Oh my god. BM final bumps. Like a black plate, gold. Like, I don't mind like, I guess, bronze cutlery, but I still wouldn't A teaspoon can be anything if fucking wants to be, because I'm just stirring with that normally. That's fine. But I have also got my favourite teaspoons for eating yogurts with.
SPEAKER_02You're so annoying. Is it because of size or like shape or depth or what?
SPEAKER_01It's a I we've got like three different kinds of teaspoons. Because I go through a load of coffee and stuff per day. We just need a load of different teaspoons. You should never finish them, which you've never touched on, which annoys me as well. I never finish a coffee, obviously. I never finished a hot drink. So um I am quite autistic in a lot of ways. Apparently so. I will actively, to be fair, for any of my food, I've got my preferred cutlery. There's like, we've got some nice pro-cooked cutlery, which I went to the shop. I shit you not. I went to the shop and I spent about 40 minutes picking up different cutlery.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, I'd have gone insane.
SPEAKER_01And testing each of them out. And I promise you. I promise you, I went up, I then also went to the plates that I knew that I already liked, so saw them online, and I then used the cutlery on the plate to see if it felt good.
SPEAKER_02You brought, you pre-buy, you brought the cutlery to the theoretical plate and gave it a little bit.
SPEAKER_01They're from the same shop. Yeah, yeah. They're from the same shop. Yeah, sorry, yeah, yeah. To the area. I went to, yeah, I moved the cutlery, I then walked to the plates where I had laid out a plate, and I then pretended to eat things off the plate. That's obscene. And then I thought, I don't like the weight of these ones. I then put them back, and I then picked up a new one, and then went back over to the plates. How did you go? And then I tried it again. Yeah. Went over to the plates. And I honestly I ended up with a very good set of cutlery that's weighted really nicely, feels great in the hand. Because there's nothing worse than like really square cutlery. Like really sharp edges almost.
SPEAKER_02I don't like fork prongs that are too long. Like we've got a set of set of nicer forks where the prongs are really long, and a set of less nice forks where they're quite stubby. I always choose the sort of cheaper metal, stubbier one. See, yeah, but you've got your favourite.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so I do want to be able to do that. Anna, I know for a fact, doesn't give a shit. So when I'm I always serve up dinner, so I will give her the worst cutlery.
SPEAKER_00You give her the wooden shipping to eat her.
SPEAKER_01She gets the old ones. Yeah, she gets a wooden spork from a chip van. Um and then I will then get deliberately the ones that I like. And if there's if they're all being washed, I will then take them out of the dishwasher and I will clean them and use them because I really don't like eating with the other cutleries.
SPEAKER_02I say when you say when you say you don't like eating, do you mean you don't like eating or I wish I'd have a fork?
SPEAKER_01Because there's a big chasm between those. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, it's the this is annoying. I'd rather I'd have my other fork.
SPEAKER_02What the o the only way, because you mentioned wooden spork, I hate wood feel in the world.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know you hate the like popsicle stick, the ice.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't need twisters anymore because of it. Because I like the first one. We're outing ourselves so fucking.
SPEAKER_01But I don't need twisters anymore because of it.
SPEAKER_02But anything like that just feels so grim. I'll go for the Cornetto, because it's got its own hold, own handholders.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, I get you, yeah.
SPEAKER_02But like, yeah, no, the wooden forks, like chip forks, I won't use them. I'll just mash, I'll just mash my head into the fish. But but then you're just you're just sort of like going, I'm out with them. You're not it's not really going in your mouth anymore. I know, but there is still some mouthfeel. Like it's sort of mouth mouth sense of using the wood, right? Yeah but bring back plastic, god damn it. Fuck the big thing.
SPEAKER_01Oh, plastic cuttery is also shit. It does shit is each other.
SPEAKER_02No, but while it works, it doesn't insult your mouth. It doesn't feel like you're gonna leave splinters everywhere.
SPEAKER_01I'd be more worried of biting too hard on a plastic thing than a wooden thing. Fair enough.
SPEAKER_02Fair enough.
SPEAKER_01They're all shit, obviously.
SPEAKER_02They're all shit. You're gonna hate this. You know that I you know that I you know that I'm a fan of of Huel, right?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Explain Huel quickly just to people. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02So classic Huel is like a meal replacement shake. It's like 400 calories, and a lot of people hate it, and if you convince someone to like it, you're not gonna. Some people are just instantly repulsed by the theory of it. Fair enough. I've never fought back on that, right? What Huel also do, and this is what I've recommended to you, is they do like a sort of like a pot noodle, like an instant meal thing, but it's healthy. You add boiling water to it, put it in the microwave, and you can get like a curry, or you can get like a uh like a chicken and mushroom. Like a bolognese or a bolonese, yeah. Now I really like those as well. That's that's a really good, easy, warm meal that makes you feel good about yourself, okay? My my favourite way to eat them. Because they have to be micro. You put boiling water and then you microwave them, right? You don't need to do the microwave afterwards. Oh, I disagree, but fine. You don't need to, yeah. But I I think you do to really like amplify it all. I I excuse me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you know it's bad. I know that you know that this is bad and wrong of whatever it is that you do.
SPEAKER_02My favourite way to eat it is in a plastic bowl, like like you get at a picnic with a plastic fork. I find that makes it so much better to eat huel hot and savoury. The reason is that there's a lot of give in the plastic, so at the end you can really like manoeuvre, you can go and probably like bend it round to get all the remaining flavour. And when you get it out of the microwave, it's not too hot, you can just take it straight out. And the food station.
SPEAKER_01Would you not finger the bowl? So I'm a I'm a I'm a bowl fingerer.
SPEAKER_02That doesn't surprise me at all.
SPEAKER_01That does not surprise me the least.
SPEAKER_02I have done so, but it's just it's just easier just to scrape brown with a with a bendy plastic fork. It's very nice, it's a very good thing to do.
SPEAKER_01I guess also it's then just cool, chuck it in the sink, whatever. It will get clean. It's kind of whatever. I definitely get that. Okay. No, I I don't I don't hate that at all. I thought you'd beat me. Because bear in mind that the default fuel receptacle to microwave it in is that that plastic black thing that you then screw the lid on stuff. So like true. Because of the plastic black. Oh, that's a firstly a great clip. Um that's a really good point. I eat out of that. Really? But that's out of necessity, I suppose. Because because I'm not going to then move it from that into a normal bowl. Like I've made it in the black plastic receptacle. I've put boiling water in. Okay. I can just I can slam that down. That's whatever. That's a mix of it. I get you there.
SPEAKER_02I get you there. Um, all of which brings us back. So one, yes, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. If you're on Spotify, have a little look at it.
SPEAKER_01Good luck you editing this.
SPEAKER_02Now, what do you think? Where would you put your ketchup?
SPEAKER_01Um, I am pretty confidently chopping nine. I think I'm chopping nine here. Nine or seven. Yeah, that's not a corner. It would have to be a corner, right? IMO. Because then you can then do a nice bit of good scrapage, but it's not going too far from its source. And one and three are out. Like, so it kind of leaves me with seven or nine. I'd go for nine because the chips are smaller.
SPEAKER_02Yes, that's true. There's some there's some ditty chips there, but you'd have to fish them out straight away. You would have to salvage those ones. I could leave them till the end. Oh, but it'd be soupy. I could scoop it up a bit, yeah. I hate soupy, soupy sauce, soupy ketchup, it's bad. Uh I think I went for like, bear in mind this was with hot sauce, so it's a slightly different conversation. But I think I went for like number six, because I don't mind it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know, right? I know. Interesting. It just felt it just felt right to sort of go into the side there. I'm not sure why. I think because it is quite a like it's it's got some viscosity, but it also melts a little bit. Do you know what I mean? It will expand a little bit.
SPEAKER_01So it's like some good access to everything there. That's like the super highway point.
SPEAKER_02Basically, yeah, the middle point, spaghetti junction over there, is where I put mine. So that was our quick fire clip.
SPEAKER_01Let us know where you're because I think that was 20 minutes, and I think about three minutes of it was actually about what we wanted to talk about.
SPEAKER_00Oh, dear.
SPEAKER_01God. Um, Cole, last night, while as we move on from the food, I was scrolling TikTok in bed, and I think I might have found my not my favorite TikTok account, but I have found an incredible TikTok account.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Is it the vegetables? Is it the fruits that love island fruits? Because I've seen those.
SPEAKER_01Um, so Cole, I have found, I think, my favourite new account on TikTok.
SPEAKER_02Me and my wife just do goofy and cringe shorts, also on YouTube at Luke the Duke23.
SPEAKER_01So it's Luke the Duke. Um, for whatever reason, is Luke the Duke 23 here, then it's Luke the Duke 24 here. I don't know why. I couldn't tell you. It just is. So I saw a sketch that they did, and uh I I can't explain it. You just have to watch. Here you go.
SPEAKER_02Leave me alone.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01Hey, why are you ignoring me?
SPEAKER_02Wow.
SPEAKER_03I like that.
SPEAKER_02Oh. Oh. Well, they're they've advertised it well. It is cringe comedy from these two.
SPEAKER_01From Luke the Duke. So he's the Luke. He must be the Luke. Yeah, yeah. Uh, here you go, here's another one.
SPEAKER_02Oh, every time.
SPEAKER_01Give it a follow.
SPEAKER_02Give it a follow. Don't be a prick.
SPEAKER_01I'm not locked down. No, I'm not locked down. Unbelievable. I know, I know. I so I saw just naturally the vote what are these?
SPEAKER_02I don't even know you anymore. Baby, I am known. God knows the number of hairs on my head. Oh, she does it! She does it, baby! Oh shit! That was too mean in all caps. Hashtag for you, page, hashtag for you, hashtag funny, comedy couple. God damn, I thought it was his favorite.
SPEAKER_01Luke the Duke is honest to God. It's they've only got like 2,000 odd views, right? Then the occasional one is absolutely slapped. Of course they're like to be married to me. Like like one of these, a hundred odd thousand views.
SPEAKER_02Like it's one of my uh you never know what's going on inside someone's house. That's that's true. There's a couple of making these. I hope they do well for themselves. I like them. We should make one. So do I. We should make one right now. I like it. In their style.
SPEAKER_01Do you think Google is a male or a female?
SPEAKER_02Definitely a female.
SPEAKER_01Why do you say that?
SPEAKER_02Because she won't let you finish a sentence before making a suggestion.
SPEAKER_01I don't know how they choose. Wow. This is a longer dance segment, sorry. It's like 10 seconds.
SPEAKER_00This is really good. Oh, oh. Oh.
SPEAKER_02I love these people. I think they're so good. They are, they are so it's so it's so it's so so it's relationship-based pun, and then the winner ends up dancing. That's the that's the format.
SPEAKER_01Thick on the sexism.
SPEAKER_02Yes, big time, big time. Laid on thick. So should we do it as a male-female couple or should we do it as two podcasters? Do you know what I mean? Are we us or are we in character?
SPEAKER_01Oh, should we just upload an organic short? Next time we meet up, should we upload an organic short?
SPEAKER_02But I do want to do it now. I want to practice it now, and then we can do it for real.
SPEAKER_01Okay?
SPEAKER_02Okay, so let's say, let's, let's, let's, let's set the scene. You want me to do the dishes as your fellow podcaster.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Alright. So I will say that you uh you need to I say, uh Okay, so it needs to be sexist. Has to be sexist, that's important.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Oh, oh how about have you loaded the dishwasher? No, I haven't seen her sort of thing.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay, oh that's good, that's good. Okay, so alright. Um Uh hey, have you loaded the dishwasher yet?
SPEAKER_02So this is just the practice, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, this practice. But then I'd say something along the lines of how do I load her? How can I have loaded her when I haven't seen her?
SPEAKER_01But does it feel like more of like a one-two? Do you think they think this much about it?
SPEAKER_02I think they honestly I think no, I think they fucking go on chat GPT as they go with this print, frankly.
SPEAKER_01Hey, Supergrog, give me four sexist TikToks I can do with my wife.
SPEAKER_02Right, okay, okay. So, okay, yeah, you're right. One, two, one, and then it's the first one.
SPEAKER_01Okay, look, maybe it's like, honey, all these dishes um haven't been done yet. Oh. Why haven't you done these dishes yet? Uh oh, are you saying I should load the dishwasher? Uh no, because then that makes me then the sexist one.
SPEAKER_02So do you wanna okay, do you want to be the sexist or the sexy?
SPEAKER_01I guess I'll be the sexy. I'll be the I'll be the woman in this. So you're coming back and insulting me, so I'm the one that screams, then you then dance. Okay, so you come to me and you say honey, the dishes haven't been done yet. Or honey, why haven't you done the dishes yet? And you say, Oh, well, you've only just got back home. Whoa! And then you go, What fuck you, you fat American?
SPEAKER_02You fat fucking chud. And I start dancing.
SPEAKER_01Okay, should we do it? Okay, yeah, alright. Okay, I won't be in frame.
SPEAKER_02Well, make yourself in frame.
SPEAKER_01I'll be here, I'll be here. I I won't I frankly won't be in frame. Okay. You're a piece of shit. Honey, why haven't you done the dishes yet today?
SPEAKER_02That wording doesn't make any sense because you need me to say because you're not home yet.
SPEAKER_01Honey, the dishes haven't been done yet. Why?
SPEAKER_02Because you're not home yet.
SPEAKER_01How are you like that? Keep going, keep going. Keep going. That's too much energy, mate. It's too much energy. Did I fuck it? You have to be like, you have to be smug. You've you've got one over on me.
SPEAKER_02We can't all be them. We can't all be them, but we can't all be them.
SPEAKER_01Luke the Duke 23. Wow.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Very fair, very fair. Good one, good find the Duke 23.
SPEAKER_01All 24. Honest to God, or 24. It's one of them. It really is one of them. I just don't quite know who. Can we see the dog one? Uh yeah, okay. Oh, I need to start recording again then. Oh, don't there, fuck it. Fuck the dog one. Fuck the dog. Okay, yeah, fuck the dog one.
SPEAKER_02I've done enough editing in this one so far.
SPEAKER_01If you want to see the dog, you'll have to go over to Luke the Duke yourself. 23 or 24.
SPEAKER_02What a world. What a world. No, fair play. Fair play for them for doing something. Do you know what I mean? You know, they're making a world for themselves. Do you know what I mean? Like, I feel like I would be so rubbish at creating something if I wasn't living life on easy mode as a white English man. Do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01It's like as a streamer, as our talent work.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly, exactly. Someone who's naturally funny. I don't think I'd be able to dig out something beautiful in the same way. They're digging for gold and they're finding it. Digging. They're finding it, man. I can see them being a cult hit. Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're trying to get their pre-virality. That's what somebody's going for. I uh I always feel the same when I see like those people who've got like no legs at the gym. And they're jacked and they are like pulling muscle and they say, hey, if I can do it, you can too, sort of thing. Fair fucking.
SPEAKER_01Have you seen the Paralympics stuff? Because I mean I don't know if the Paralympics is currently on or like if it was on like recently enough. I've I've been seeing loads of clips on social media of Paralympics.
SPEAKER_02Of like Paralympics currently on because the Winter Olympics was recent.
SPEAKER_01Uh Paralympics, I guess 2026. Is that on now? March 6th to 15th. Yeah, okay, yeah. So it was like two weeks ago. Oh. I didn't see any of that.
SPEAKER_02No, I didn't, I didn't. But it it does inspiring. So have a look at some of those clips.
SPEAKER_01Mind-blowing. Like there's a guy that we watched, we put one on um uh, and it was a guy that had no arms and no legs, and he was an Olympic swimmer. Well, it was just Yeah. Like he had sort of like vestigial like sort of feet at the end of his torso, and had sort of like the tiny little stub like arms, but clearly not not enough to do anything with it, like outside of the water, essentially. And he like, because normally they'll also dive in or like they'll push off like the thing and then they can like go fly. Yeah, how did he get in? So he just roll. So they all do it a bit differently. I know that with the the Paralympics, there's different gradings of disability where they'll have sort of like the I don't know the term, the severity of your disability. You'll then compete with people that are graded to be the same severity of disability as you. Yep. Um, the one that I saw, this guy, some of them had like all of their limbs, but then they couldn't like use them to their full extent, and so they were sort of like all roughly the same kind of level. Right. They all like well, he he was put in the water, and then he sort of like rested his like vestigial feet against the side, and then grabbed a towel in his mouth, so he was up at like a 45-degree angle, like over the water to get out. No, no, no, to start, and then he would then let go and sort of like flop back. That would then be his jump into the water, and then he would just like go like that all through the water. He fucking crushed it first by a mile. He was so good, and then he got to the end and did like a proper turnover and then went straight back again.
SPEAKER_02Isn't that incredible? It's like it's like I pull a hamstring a bit, and it's like, right, that's six weeks of eating lard every day for me. I'm done. I I give up, I'm fucked, I'm shit. These guys, they're born without stuff. It was amazing. I would say, you know, and in many ways, worse, you have them, and then one day, you know, you get in a car clash or whatever. And then you use that to inspire. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I find it in the fucking Olympics. That's insane. That's so fucking cool. Like it blew me away. And like all the people that like competing in these various like sports, like the different um uh like considerations that need to be taken so that everybody can compete equally. It's a very impressive like Olympic body, like a wing of the uh Olympic body. It's very cool. And there's never much controversy either, as far as I know, of like the Paralympics. As far as I know, they've pretty much got it figured out. It's like I did see somebody call it woke. Somebody call the Paralympics woke. Apart from from that Nigel Farage tweet that you saw. It's very. Oh, should we talk about Nigel Farage with you and your personal life at the moment?
SPEAKER_02Well, that wording is slightly misleading. Um long story short, I mean I'm an Ipswich Town fan, and he and Reform tweeted out heading to Portman Road, really excited to be here.
SPEAKER_01Your football ground.
SPEAKER_02And then, yeah, Ipswich's ground. And then like Nigel was like holding the number 10 with Farage like written on it and stuff like that, and it was like a full HD picture. And basically what it turns out is that this doesn't justify it, but the reason for this is that um the club didn't specifically say, Oh, you can come as a reform. Reform just signed up to a sightseeing tour in the same way you can do with Liverpool and you can do with Man Yu, and you can do with any ground up and down the land. And then they like, I don't know if they brought their own cameramen or if they must have brought their own cameramen. But it might be in the club, it might be that if you went, you'd be able to hold up number 10 goblin or whatever. Do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01What I but what I found interesting is then that he had like the shirts behind him in the changing room, because normally in any given tour, like you say, yeah, you go into the changing room and say you're at Wembley, it will then have all the England players in their changing areas, and it will have all of their like shirt names and numbers. It's weird that then the one behind him was also replaced with Farage. But they they probably brought their own along. I don't know. And then just put it up there, then quickly snapped a picture. Oh, he's a horrible little man. Look at his He's a horrible little toad man.
SPEAKER_02Look at his face, look at his teeth, look at his grey teeth.
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SPEAKER_01Your grey bowls remind me of his teeth. He's vile. He's absolutely awful. Uh, yeah, so a very odd sort of like moment, because this was I was like today, right? I think I did I send it this morning or like yesterday? It came through yesterday.
SPEAKER_02Um then uh well so I the first I saw of it was someone someone on the Ipswich Forum, which I frequent to sort of look at discussion and stuff like that, saying Nigel Farage spotted at Portman Road. And I was like, ugh. And then more came out that it was actually going on this tour and reform were there with all their cameras. So apparently they didn't host a meeting or an event, reform booked a tour, can see this is according to our main journalist who's who's excellent, can see both angles and why it should or shouldn't have been allowed. A big song and dance would no doubt have been made had they refused to allow them to do so.
SPEAKER_01But you do need to an extent, because otherwise they can just do whatever they want, right? That's their whole plan, is to, as with any far right uh like movement or you know, organization or whatever, they will just keep eroding away at saying, Oh, you can't tell us not to do that, because we'll just make it worse for you. So then they then make you apathetic and say, fine, just do it then. And then but then they get what they want. A stand needs to be taken. I'd also say that if you are to say, no, you can't do that at our football club, you must also do the same for all political parties, yeah, unless you then make a statement saying we align ourselves with this political party, which you're also not going to do. No, yes, exactly. And you can't do that.
SPEAKER_02You can't expect a football club to do that, any football club to do that. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01You can't, but you can't do the middle ground. You can't do, yeah, you can come and do it, but we're not going to support it.
SPEAKER_02Um I find out weird. To me, the fix is look, you you're paying the money, you can come to this thing, right? However, any pictures you put up on the official accounts, i.e., your official account, Mr. Farage, and the reform account and whatever else, has to have an asterisk. The club are not affiliated with this, we're just in the area or whatever.
SPEAKER_01I don't think the club should be. Or just you can't use it for commercial purposes. Because that's a very normal thing to say. Then where does that come to the case?
SPEAKER_02Does an Instagram post count as a commercial purpose?
SPEAKER_01If it's there for advertising, I suppose, yeah. But then again, I don't There are laws around commercial purposes which I don't necessarily know, but I know that that is a thing. That seems too wavy.
SPEAKER_02Like, oh, this isn't personal, this is on my personal sorry, this isn't commercial, this is on my personal account. It but it just so happens that for a politician, as if you and me, the personal account is the commercial account. Do you know what I mean? So again, that's an incredibly blurry line. That's why I'm on I'm on Team Asterisk. But I can tell you that seeing him in Ipswich top in Portman Road holding up Farage 10.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, in front of the pitch, in like the press box as well, or in the the interview area, whatever it was. Yeah. In the changing room.
SPEAKER_02Imagine I hope when my beloved Ipswich Town players uh next play against Birmingham in a couple of weeks' time, they're gonna go, Oh, you're in the Farage seat. Jack Clark, oh everyone, Clark he's in the pharaoh's seat.
SPEAKER_01That would be funny. Who's number ten?
SPEAKER_02Who is our number ten? Oh shit, you put me on the spot there. That would be George House is number nine, famously. Number ten, number ten. Ipswich is number ten.
SPEAKER_01Wait, okay, uh, let me Google, you're not googling.
SPEAKER_02I don't really know numbers, I just know names.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't either. Okay.
SPEAKER_02It's not Eggly. Jack Clark's like 47. Oh, it's Philogene. It's Jaden Phyllisine, he's number 10. Final, final offer, I think. And does he? He does Philogene. Um, hang on. Am I right?
SPEAKER_01Does it? Um I'm gonna look now myself because I've said my answer. No, no, no. I've said my answer. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, because I want you to like keep guessing otherwise. Sorry, I've just looked. Did you actually?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because I already had, because I've already said my answer and locked it in. No, it could have been fun. I know, I see why you think it could have been fun, because the actual thing is that there isn't a number 10. Yeah, there is. Not according to the thing that I just saw. There is.
SPEAKER_01Okay, don't don't look, don't look, stop looking, don't look, look, literally There's not a number 10. 2526 squad numbers on Ipswich Town FC Looker.uk. It might be on loan. Is our number 10 on loan? Connor Chaplin. Oh, he's on loan. He's on loan to Portsmouth, that's why. Okay, well he's number 10. Okay, well that's why I didn't think of him, so I'm an internal person. And it's not Jaden Philogene. He's number 11. And does he? He can do. He can philogene. Yeah, I re and I really hope they're all pointing at Jack Clark's seat, going, no one go near Clarkey.
SPEAKER_02He's for us, boy. And they hate him, just like we all do. You've got a Jack Taylor and a Harry Clark. Uh we got a Jack Clark somewhere. He's he's like 43 or something, he's got a crackhead number. Oh yeah, number 47. Yeah. Yeah, he's he's like our best player at the moment. Number 47, rocking it. Classic. Rocking the fours, rocking the sevens.
SPEAKER_01What number would you have? I was just thinking that. I don't know. Yeah, because the your one-to-tens are they're like locked in. You've gotta be Billy fucking big bollocks for number tens.
SPEAKER_02Yes, that's true. That's true. I would also like a crackhead number, because I play all over the place. I can play on the right, play in the middle, play in France. So give me like a 16 or an 18 or something weird.
SPEAKER_01I think maybe I'll go for like, is it like lame to go for whatever date that you first professionally played football? So let's say that was on the 27th. You then go, oh, 27th. So then it means something to you. It's like racing numbers in F1. That's like, oh, because that's the number I that I had on my cart. That's the first cart I had a picture in, was number 76. Do you know what, mate?
SPEAKER_02That's really lame. That's lame. That's that's loser behavior. You're really cringe for what you're saying.
SPEAKER_01Well, you were 17 because you sort of play everywhere.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's not really lame. I would get the fact that you said, Oh, is that lame? No, friend. Be confident. If you want to do it on the first day, if you want to do it on like your mum's birthday, if you want to do it for whatever reason, you can.
SPEAKER_01Maybe I'd take number 21 off Cheo Odgebodge. Well, you leave Odgebodge alone, alright? Leave him the fuck alone, okay?
SPEAKER_02Or during Bodges anymore. Uh before we go, uh, because we're an hour in, should we have a little quick look? Something I'm meaning to do for a few weeks now, have a little quick look at some Spotify comments. Oh, I'd love to. I'd love to. Some good ones in, so this can take 10 minutes or so. Um so in the most recent episode be John of Jury, episode 22. Yep. Uh Jerry Monster said, uh, I don't know why he said this. He said, unfortunately, have to stop watching really early because Cole has said all the colours of the bow, bro. All the colours of the bow. Which episode was this? Uh the most recent one. I don't remember saying that.
SPEAKER_01Wait, so that was in person? No, that was the one that we had to wait a little while to upload. We joined a jury. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. We joined a jury. Oh Christ, I don't remember that one. I don't care now. In what context would you have said that?
SPEAKER_02I don't know, really early on, apparently. It's a reference to Otto from The Simpsons. I know that much. He goes, Oh, the colours of the bow, bro, when there's lasers.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But I don't know why I said it. Does he hate The Simpsons? Maybe. So, Jerry Monster, let us know. Why did that stop you stop you listening? We've got a comment from Joseph. You know, you know, Joseph. Actually, he's made a song for us that we'll look at next week. Yes. Oh, I guess. We'll do that next week.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_02Uh, I like Jar Jar Binks, but it checks out. Hated Star Wars as a kid because I had a friend who was obsessed with it. Lego Star Wars is great though. I was doing the Coca-Cola thing. Oh, he's commented all of it. I was doing the Coca-Cola thing. Do you remember that?
SPEAKER_01Wait, can we can we just attack this bit by bit? Okay. So the first bit, Star Wars. Yeah. I assume that one of us said that opinion, and I assume it was me because I completely agree with it. Because I uh I I I understand that if somebody is way too into something, especially when you're younger, it's annoying. Then you then you're a little bit like, yeah, okay, yeah. Sure. I sort of want to enjoy it on my own kind.
SPEAKER_02Still when you're an adult. Still when you're an adult.
SPEAKER_01Especially when you're doing like these formative things, I suppose.
SPEAKER_02Fair. But I think it's anyone who like. I like people who are experts at stuff. Do you know what I mean? Like if I'm going to a gig and they're like, oh, I really like that band there a lot. I'm not annoyed at that. But at some point it's like, okay, I just want to watch it myself.
SPEAKER_01I just sort of want to hang out and watch the thing.
SPEAKER_02Some people don't get where that line is. So it's a good thing.
SPEAKER_01And Lego Star Wars was a huge thing when I was younger for sure. I loved Lego Star Wars, so yeah, definitely agree.
SPEAKER_02Uh I was doing the Coca-Cola thing, says Joseph. And the Coca-Cola thing. And realized I could get my lips closer and closer together. Oh yeah. And then I realized dot dot dot.
SPEAKER_01Oh. Well, you then you said that you don't. Can you say Coca-Cola without your lips touching? Everyone can. Everybody can, because you do normally.
SPEAKER_02Uh then Joseph said, there's two more from Joseph. When you've got nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach diarrhea. I then finally an answer to the how much money would you pick up. I don't think I would cross the road for a coin. Notes yes, coin no. Stopping for a coin, maybe 5p and up. If it's filthy, 50p up.
SPEAKER_01I don't think then the I no, I suppose the there was a 20p, but it was like caked in mud. I guess I'd still know it was there. Is it gonna muddy things up that I am wearing? I'm not gonna put a muddy thing in my pocket. Fair play, fair play.
SPEAKER_02Uh episode before we finally touched, uh, Mike Ellis said, very impressive setup. Great the budget has gone up.
SPEAKER_01Yes, love that. We want to do more, and we've got videos coming out that being edited at the very at this very moment. Some non-podcasty things to also go on this channel. So if you've made it this far, it would be huge if you were to watch them as and when they come out. They'll be every few weeks. It's still very much primarily a podcast, but doing stuff in person together is gonna just be so fun. So you want to be doing that more often.
SPEAKER_02Uh Big Joe said, I don't understand the beer slash drink throwing celebration, or just general crowd behaviour. You could be actively ruining someone else's day slash night because you think it's fun. If you think it's fun, I like this. If you think it's fun, pour it on yourself.
SPEAKER_01That's funny. That's fucking funny. If you've got a fresh part in England score and you go, way, and you pour it fully down yourself, that's great. I think everybody can agree that that's hilarious. We'll do a few more.
SPEAKER_02Um Linnea said, I call bull. If a fly, fly emoji, approaches your stuff, we swap when talking about food. So she couldn't.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah. It just approaches it, it like eyes it up. I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. It's a bit of an exaggeration. If a fly landed next to the plate, would you rather have somebody else's?
SPEAKER_02No, next to the plate's fine. Next to the plate's fine. Uh and then one more I want to do on we learned every accent, which I can't remember what went on, episode 19. Okay, that's good. Uh oh, we did it, we did the accents in like oh Yorkshire and we rated them. We rated them. Um This is from Matthew John, our biggest fan, my mate from Uni, who's my biggest fan. Back in the day, Cole and I went shirt shopping for our May ball. We went to Primark and he grabbed a shirt. Oh, we talked about the pizza, that's what this is in relation to. Okay. And he grabbed a shirt. When we got home, it turns out the shirt he got was XXXXXL. You didn't look. It was fucking massive, but he didn't check the size before he got it. He has history with this dot dot dot. But in his defense, there's a but. This is what he said. He said, but in his defense, he got most of the shirt for the price.
SPEAKER_01That's like, yeah, you actually got two shirts for that price. For the price of one. That's very funny. Did you actually buy like a triple XL remote?
SPEAKER_02We went to like a charity shop, but it was like a one pound charity shop, and I just thought, oh, shirt, jacket.
SPEAKER_01You didn't look at the size at any point. No. Why are you saying that as if it's weird to look at the phone?
SPEAKER_02I wanted to get home and get drunk. Um, okay, can I really quickly read through some of the coincidences people have posted? Because these are really good. Yeah, okay, yeah, coincidence. Yeah, we don't need full discussion for these. He's just like whiz through. Um, Captain Canada said my weirdest coincidence is actually Rocket League related. Went to London Major, second one, stepped outside and started chatting to someone I never met before. Turns out we only lived 10 minutes from each other. Thought that was cool enough, but then we found out we have the same birthday. Now my two's partner.
SPEAKER_01That is fucking sick. That's so cool.
SPEAKER_02Uh from Linnea. Don't know what details you want, because it's when we talked about when you met each other that night. But yes, I met Stumpy for the first time that night briefly. He looked awkwardly over at me and waved, was wearing a white t-shirt. Emil was wearing a black jumper, he drank a cider, I drank a stout. Okay, that's good. Is when I went to a dentist appointment and found the lovely dentist was a man I'd met on my Gap year travels, and about six years previously, at a time neither of us had any connection to the place we ended up living or working all those years later. Well, was that Lanea? That was Lanea, yeah. And actually I can add to that. The only reason that she ended up sort of seeing he was there was because I went in with a dodgy tooth, and I said, sorry, I've got a dodgy tooth, can I be seen anytime soon? And they went, Ah, a cancellation has just opened up. So I went in, and this lovely guy, a guy called Sal, he sort of saw me like soothing man, and then when I got back home, I thought, Oh, this guy Sal, really happy. She went, Sal, dentist. And then she realised it was her mate that she'd met years earlier.
SPEAKER_01That's such a crazy coincidence.
SPEAKER_02Uh very cool. And then one more coincidence uh from Charlie. From Charlie from our community. Yep, yep. For my own coincidence story in a similar vein, about ten years ago, me and some of my friends were on a college trip to Geneva to visit the LHC. Now you definitely Charlie is. We were wandering through our hotel when we heard the voice of another friend of ours who was not on the trip coming from nearby. We round the corner and see a guy we don't know facetiming our friend. It turned out her new boyfriend was on holiday at the same hotel for unrelated reasons. And that was the first time we met her now fiance.
SPEAKER_01That's a I hope that they went over and said, This is so weird. You're on the phone to Jennifer, who is from this place. We're good friends with her. Can we just FaceTime with you quickly? Because imagine then seeing your mates in Switzerland walk in the background and then be like, ah, you're right, and have a little chat to you over FaceTime with someone they don't know. I remember um I remember one of my uh two of my friends um years ago, uh, they went like uh one of them went on a family trip to uh Disney World, so in Florida, big family trip this. Yeah, yeah. Um went over there um and they were walking around Disney World, and as they were just like coming out with their family, they saw another one of our friends in our group, it's like 10 people, yeah, another one of our friends on family holiday to the exact same place at the exact same time to the um uh to Disney World in Florida, and they were like, Wait, and they're like went over and they were like, No, 14 or whatever, and they were like, You alright, mate? They're like, Yeah, you're alright. Neither of them had any idea they were going at the same time to Disney World, and like they're still friends now. And we were just like, oh, that's weird. So you just spent all holidays together. Just in Disney World, which is really cool.
SPEAKER_02I feel like that's a really sort of fairly common coincidence that people have. I met um when we were in it was I think it was in America. So we were in Vegas for the one of the Grass Valley things that we did. And it turned out that um my mate Dave, who's in that industry, he does like tech support for a company, uh, he was there as well. So he saw that I was there, and then he sort of came to find me. He was like, alright, so we got this weird lunch. Me and my mate Dave from England in Vegas, and it was lovely. So yeah, if you ever met somebody on holiday that you knew from somewhere else, let us know in the comments. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I know that one of the guys that I played Among Us with back in the day in 2020 days, he and my nan shared a hairdresser. That's so funny. And it's really weird because my nan was saying, Oh yeah, I was speaking to my hairdresser about you and whatever. And then she was saying, Oh yeah, I've got like a client who does gaming stuff. She then mentioned his name, and I was like, I play Among Us with him like three times a week. And he's a content creator, it's called Falcone.
SPEAKER_02And your grandma's grand said, Oh, he's always come across the bit, always hiding in the vents. He's really rubbish at cleaning the the vents and doing the other tasks on his on his pit boy.
SPEAKER_01She's actually dead. I reported the body.
SPEAKER_02Thanks everybody for tuning into officially unofficially episode. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm just because I was your dead man. We have one thing. Your dead nan's putting me off again. Get her to stop looking at me. Ooh, I mean Yeah, stop haunting me.
SPEAKER_01Please say hi from me.
SPEAKER_02I will, alright. Alex says hi. Oh, no, she's got to be. She doesn't want to talk to you. She she went when I said that.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's insane.
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