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We Entered Room 101 w/ JOHNNYBOI_I!
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Chalked Cast's very own Johnnyboi_i is our second guest (after CJCJ), and the Rocket League and RLCS didn't hold back banishing his biggest frustrations to the Room 101 scrapheap.
We discuss household annoyances, British weather and why Cole's pool rules are the best.
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It's episode twenty-eight of officially unofficially, and we've got our second ever guest. It's Johnny Boy. How are you doing, Jay Boy?
SPEAKER_00I'm the second ever guest.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah. You join an illustrious crew. It's CJ and you.
SPEAKER_00Well, hopefully I can be top two for uh longer than just uh the two guest streak, but thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_02That's alright, it's good to have you on. Well well, so CJ, you do a podcast with him, and his episode got like 600 views, so you gotta push your people to try and beat that. You don't want to lose to shitty CJ, do you?
SPEAKER_00No, I can't lose to CJ, especially now that you guys are gaining in popularity. I mean, if I lose that, it just makes it look even worse. True.
SPEAKER_03You're getting in at the ground floor and you don't want to press the down button to send us right back down there.
SPEAKER_00So uh what if this makes him go viral? This this could go back to that.
SPEAKER_03That would be awful. We'd fucking hate that. I'd hate to go viral. But what we're doing today is a it's basically a concept of we thought we'd have some British people on to do a good old moan, right? We're gonna have a big old moany episode, room 101. This is suggested by Cole, and I looked at the Wikipedia page, it's a TV show. It's a British TV show that came out in 1994. Oh wow. That's when it started.
SPEAKER_02So I was 15. No, I I remember I remember it running I think it came back in like 2012. It's had two reboots. I thought so. I thought it had. So basically, for anyone who doesn't know, anyone outside the UK or anybody who's not 30, um it was a show where I think it was Paul Merton of Have I Got News for the U.S.
SPEAKER_03Paul Merton was the middle host, and then it then went to Frank Skinner.
SPEAKER_02It had other hosts.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, three hosts, yeah. The first guy, I didn't recognise his name. Um Nick Hancock. Was that was that Johnny? If I clicked on him, I immediately know who it is. I'll put a picture.
SPEAKER_00I I recognise that name, but I can tell you who he is.
SPEAKER_03There you go, there's the picture. Do you recognise that bloke? I recognise him as soon as I see it.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02No, I don't. He looks like a sad politician.
SPEAKER_00Uh that's fair. No, I know that face, yeah. I don't know where we're from, but I do know that face.
SPEAKER_02Oh, well, fair enough. So yeah, basically on that show, uh the host sits there and like they have like a lever and a pulley thing, and you bring along a little representative of your moan. So if your moan is slow drivers, you bring along a little car, and it'll be like, what does this represent? Slow drivers, banter ensues, and then at the end the host can decide in it goes to room 101 or not. Uh so yeah, we'll we'll do something similar. Uh so Johnny, have you got some some moans? We want the minor inner petty moans.
SPEAKER_03The most British for fuck's sake, how is that even a problem type moan? That doesn't really impact you that much, but it's sort of annoying. I love them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, just completely disproportionate. I I do have some. I've prepared some moans. Uh so wait, before I get into one though, the concept was that the room would discuss it, and if everybody agrees this is a valid thing to be annoyed at, it then the the the thing goes to room 101.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, should we say that we need to reach a consensus? Let's set the rule. Yeah. We all I assume the person who is putting it forward is already on the opinion that it should be in room 101. So that's one of three ticks. You have to Yeah, you just need one to agree, or do we need unanimous? I like one to agree.
SPEAKER_02No, no, but one to agree is fun because say it like Johnny and Stumpy aren't short. I'm like, Stumpy, please, please give me this or even if Johnny doesn't. I think that's way more fun.
SPEAKER_03I'll tell you what, should we vote on this? Let's do our first vote. And this one has to be unanimous. Well this vote has to be unanimous. This has to be unanimous, which wait, but then Cole. How ironic.
SPEAKER_00But then the other like that is that's so uh interesting. Yeah, you you would need a unanimous vote to pass the the one vote system, to pass the majority system, it has to be unanimous. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, I I can start us off here. I actually I told CJ about this when he stayed in my place uh last year. When uh you when I when I walk down the the hallway in uh in my flat, the bathroom you well, you have to walk past the bathroom. Now the bathroom doesn't have a fan in it, it's just uh you know basically a steam room. So uh it's it's Bella's bathroom, but you know, it's also the the guest bathroom when anyone visits. So I told CJ, when you uh shower, if you if you you know use the bathroom for uh you know showering or or bath, god forbid, then um make sure that you leave the door like on with on a door stop so that the room can uh let's air right. It doesn't you know get moldy and CJ's like, yeah, that's fine. I think you remembered every time. But I told him also uh do be aware that if Bella's been in there, if Bella's been into shower, and then you or I, well CJ's about the same weight as me, if we walk past the door that she's like uh you know cor correctly left on a door stop, it's probably gonna just close behind you. Because it's just a subtle reminder that we're fatter than she is. And it doesn't take long to fix. You just hear it go crash, closing behind you, and you you know can turn around and fix it in two seconds, open it again, put it back. But that's it. And I I'll tell Bella, oh yeah, can see see when you like put the door of the door stop and you like just pull it a tiny bit tighter because sh it'll work for you. Yeah, then along comes me, and I'll just make a little bit more of a dent in the floor, but you want to do it.
SPEAKER_03You disrupt the floor enough so that then the it's sort of the door stop, I assume, then goes a little bit lower, releases the pressure on the door stopping it, and then the momentum of the heavy door pulls it sharp.
SPEAKER_00Takes it all away, exactly. And I told CJ this could happen, and he was like, This sounds very oddly specific, which is that's really specific. He's going, right, yeah, okay, got it. But then I think day one, he just walked past the door and I saw it happen. The door closed behind him. I was like, see, I told you that's gonna be a thing. I told you I'm gonna go back to the room to him as well.
SPEAKER_03You're going, right, so what you need to do is if the door shuts on my fiance in the shower, you've got to open it. You've you've gotta crack that bad boy back open. Please.
SPEAKER_00Also, there's a floorboard issue. Yeah. I should probably clarify it's after she's finished showering she does this, but yeah, she uh uh she she always finds the perfect amount of door stoppage pressure for it never to close when she walks past, but it does when I walk past.
SPEAKER_02So just so just so we understand it, are you pitching to go into room 101 the floorboard or the situation or your partner or your weight or CJ. What specifically is going in, maybe.
SPEAKER_00I'm not taking responsibility, so I'm not saying my weight. That's that's more just the the sad truth of the matter. Um rather than what I'm actively annoyed at. Yeah, I'll say the the effort, because this is really maybe only the the the one thing that I can have over Bella. I'm the one in the flat who's leaving things around, for you know, turning lights on, um making an accidental mess, cups everywhere. So if I can if I can have something over her that's just a consistent thing that she does that impacts me, that's that's annoying. Disproportionately annoying.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so the thing going in room 101 101 is the doorstop not going in far enough because Bella hasn't pushed it hard enough. That's what's going in.
SPEAKER_00Or you well, you have to stand on the doorstop and then pull the door towards it. So it's like you have to just pull it until you feel it, you know, create a little bit of pressure there, then you're sorted. Um for for Yeah, you guys, I'm pretty sure you would you'd have the same issue. I'd be like, guys, this is gonna happen. Yeah, not only are you gonna need to open the door after you've you've had a shower. I remember you telling me that's why if you just walk past. Did I really?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I remember you telling me that because I remember seeing the door stop by your bathroom. I thought this is odd. And you were like, just make sure that you crack the bathroom door open after you shower, because that room gets steamy. Like, goodness me. It's like it's it's thick of steam. Like you can barely.
SPEAKER_00There's also no windows, it's fully internal. There's no windows.
SPEAKER_02I'm getting PTSD here from when you guys absolutely ripped on me because uh for any new viewers, Johnny Boy is is one of me in Stumpy. He does Rocket League events, Rocket League available now on the Epic Game store. Because it's based car game, right? It's a really good game. Um and yeah, we we go to various hotels together, and I discovered something amazing, right?
SPEAKER_03Discovered it's doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
SPEAKER_02I thought I'll share it with my pals. So basically, what I discovered is that in the hotel bathroom, okay, similar to what's happening in in your bathroom, Johnny, if you close the door um and let the uh shower go for a while on on hot, it would generate loads of steam in the room, and it basically made a lovely, refreshing steam room.
SPEAKER_03It was its own. In the group chat. Yeah. And then Johnny came back with- Johnny came back with the best like response in a relatively business-y, like you know, WhatsApp group. Johnny Johnny returned with after Cole is so excitedly saying, like, guys, if you shut the door when there's hot water happening in your bathroom, then it will make it steamy, it'll make it hot. And Johnny replied with 31-year-old man discovers steam.
SPEAKER_01And Cole got ripped to shit for that. And I discovered! What the fuck do you mean, discovered?
SPEAKER_02That was so funny. Yeah, that was me. So we've got we've got history of this one, so I'm personally uh I'm personally involved in this.
SPEAKER_00I might have lost your vote here.
SPEAKER_02Well, maybe, maybe, but but no, no, I I'm I'm not gonna go against having little house um idiosyncrasies that that bug you. Do you know what I mean? Like I can sort of I'm sure everyone listening to this can relate to something in their home that annoys them. Like, you know, it's the door stop and floorboard for you. It might be the uh the garage door that doesn't quite open properly, and you've got to like you've got a jimmy and jam it. Uh do you have anything with that stumpy or nodding?
SPEAKER_03I do. The one thing I thought of immediately, and again, it's so minor, but it just happens every now and then. My I've got like a porch airlock in my house where it's like the front door, porch within a bathroom in it, and then another door into then the living room. The the door that goes from living room into porch, the gap underneath it is just big enough where sometimes a perfectly sized stone might get underneath it, and then when you shut the door, you scrape the floor with the stone. Because then it's because it then it's big enough on one side for the stone just go through freely. But if you catch it, it will then scrape it the entire way. The amount of just lines at like an angle, like a curve going towards our porch from random stones that come in the house. And I'm like, for fuck's sake, and I just have to like move the door back and then kick it. And it takes like three seconds to fix, but then I'll scratch the floor again. So that's my one. That's how you can find out how old your house is, how many circles there are from the stones. How many times have you been in and out of the porch? Uh I would, I'd like to uh pull, I suppose I'll pull my lever to give the the door stop not being pushed in far enough into room 101. I'll push my lever for that.
SPEAKER_02Nice, nice, good stuff. Uh yeah, I I wouldn't not pull it. I I've got my own uh house annoyance and it's a bedroom door. You close it and it'll be it'll appear closed. The bolt is across. And then you and weirdly, it works better when I do it with my level of pull than when Linnea does it with her level of pull. She pulls it ten times in a row, the door is shut, and then it actually has really good comic timing because it'll wait and then it'll just go open again. And for some reason, if you close it from the outside, so if you go out the bedroom door, and Linnea says, Oh, you know, I'm sleeping, can you shut the door because the door's gonna be annoying or whatever? If I shut it from the outside, so pull it to, it will then go boop and open itself again. So for some reason it shuts better if you push it. I've no idea maybe a physicist can help me here. I've no idea what the science is there, but something happens where pushing it locks it better than pulling.
SPEAKER_03It might be something to do with the handle when you pull it, it like angles it slightly or something on the outside. But then when you push it, I assume you push the door itself, so the handle and mechanism isn't being angled.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. And it probably costs about 30 quid for us to get someone over and go, oh, it's this screw that's a bit loose or whatever, and fix it. Yeah. We ain't ever gonna.
SPEAKER_03And for that reason, I'm pulling it as well. Leaves a bit rustled. And tell you what that can also be. Uh, that can be the intro to officially the best podcast on the bloody fucking internet. How exciting. What a jingle that was. Do you like our jingle, Johnny? It was really nice. Very good. Very good. For any uh audio listeners, firstly, go fuck yourselves, and secondly, Johnny did a wry smile because we didn't play anything. Um may I suggest my next room 101? Can I get one out? Mine is something that has happened recently. It is now uh it's been April for around a month or so, so by the nature of time, it will soon not be April. Um there has been a lot of rain in the UK to start this year off. Uh and then now we're getting into a lot of uh sun happening. My thing that I'm proposing to room 101 is when it's raining loads, but it's also really sunny. I hate it. I hate it when it's sun, like like bright, like a full proper day, but it's still properly raining. That's the worst weather.
SPEAKER_00So are are you thinking more because it's ruining the sun? It's like finally it's sunny. It's the worst of it. Or you're in Liverpool. Yeah, nearby. In that area, northwest. Least sun you can possibly have. Now the sun is finally here and it's still raining.
SPEAKER_03It's being ruined by rain. Likewise, the rain is being ruined by sun because you're not even then full committing to the nice, like, grey, cloudy weather, and you can sort of be inside and it's all really nice. It's like if I remember my. Yeah, exactly. You get none of the happiness from the sun because it's raining, and then you then get none of the cosy vibes from the rain because it's sunny. And Cole, you seem perplexed that this is even a weather option.
SPEAKER_02No, I mean, I I guess I'm perplexed that it's an issue. It's quite nice normally. I'll be honest, right? My my I'm I'm teetering over letting go of this lever. I'll let you know that now. Because when it's rainy and some sun breaks through, my first thought, you know, is is is seven letters, two syllables, rainbow. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, exactly. They're beautiful, they're exciting, they're fun.
SPEAKER_03But the actual sure, rainbow's good. The rainbow is the rainbow at the end of the rainbow. You don't hate the gays. That's a good start. Hashtag don't hate the gays. Um I would say it's just it's non-committal. It's neither, it's it's the worst of both worlds. And also, I find it just I guess just generally unsettling. Like, I find it just weird and horrible. And like, imagine going out in that and then you're like warm and wet, but then you're clothed. Grim. Really bad.
SPEAKER_02I'm also thinking, uh Johnny, you're a sportsman. I'm also thinking, if I'm doing some sport, if I'm playing football and it's a hot day and some rain comes through while the sun is still there, that is that is bliss. Because the ground is a bit damper, you know, you can slide tackle, you're not gonna scrape yourself. I think I think it's a fun, unique by the cloud. Do you do you get it a lot in Scotland as well? Because here in Cambridge, it's really rare. Like it's one out of a hundred ways.
SPEAKER_00Usually when it happens here, I think uh see, I it doesn't bother me. I'll be honest. For me, it doesn't bother me. I didn't think this would be a win.
SPEAKER_03I just needed to air it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. This is usually something that I won't really notice, or if it's happening, I'm just not that affected by it. But yeah, Bella will hate this because uh yeah, she she's uh Bulgarian, but they actually do get sunshine. And when she comes over here, we do not get sunshine in Scotland. So whenever there is sunshine and it's not perfect, yeah, she she'll she'll be quick to point that out. Like and I'll yeah, I probably wouldn't know. I'd be like, oh yeah, you're right. You know, I'm but I'm also the the person who you know I'll leave without the umbrella and then get rained on, just a little, you know, the tiny little stupid rain. Yeah, yeah. Where that's that soaks you through. It's barely raining and then you get soaked. Yeah, that's soaky through. I remember when I don't need the umbrella and then I get soaked. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02When I when I went to Scotland and I had C Johnny, you said one of the most Johnny-ish statements I've ever heard. I think it was in Scotland, it might have been in America or somewhere. But basically, at one point you said, like, oh, it it rains down really straight here. That has to be American. I guess it does. I guess it does. I never thought about it, but now I think about it, yes, it is quite vertical rain.
SPEAKER_00No, because it in Scotland it's not. It's not a lot of things. Yeah, right. Well, it's always windy. So the rain is never coming straight down, so umbrellas aren't really that effective because you hold your umbrella up, then you have to angle it. And then you can't really because the umbrella is, you know, only covering part of you, you have to sacrifice your legs usually. You're like, well, they're just gonna get wet no matter what. But then if it rains straight down, umbrellas are incredibly effective. So I'm I I always do get amazed when I see a place where it's never Scotland, it's always when I'm abroad. I'm like, wow, the rain is really coming straight down. This umbrella's doing a great job. It's actually everything.
SPEAKER_03The umbrella's doing what it needs to. I think they should sell me. I think to me, it's it's one of those weathers, it's not like a preset weather. This is someone fucking with the sliders. Like a preset weather is rain and grey cloud. That's one. Tick that off. You know what that is, right? Sunny, no clouds, sunny, overcast. There's like there's a few presets that everyone kind of gets with.
SPEAKER_02Think of kids like drawing a picture. Do you know what I mean? They're not gonna put the sun in the corner and then rain crack. Exactly. Two don't go together.
SPEAKER_03It's not a classic preset. It's one of these new woke weather things from Sadiq Khan. I'm telling you. But yeah, mine would be rain and sun as my my hated. I recently got curious what the word um inclement weather means.
SPEAKER_02Do you guys know what that means at the top of your head? What's that?
SPEAKER_03Uh does it mean sort of like uh like uh varying, like it can kind of like go bits and bobs? That's what I thought it should have meant. Okay.
SPEAKER_02I was convinced it meant that. I Googled it. Inclement just means really bad. It just means shit weather. Oh, it's raining, it's awful, it's horrible, it's inclement. But doesn't it isn't it so much better?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's what I thought. Like, it'll be sunny for a bit, it's like a little bit wavy wobbly weather.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, is it because it's so close to inclement?
SPEAKER_03Like you kind of have a bit of a like guess towards something, but it's not full committal.
SPEAKER_02I I I've got no idea. It also might be inclement. I think it's inclement, but like yeah, because I've I've heard that word used and it just it irked me slightly. Um because I would I would say the word you're the r weather you're describing that you hate so much would be inclement weather. It should be inclement weather. It should be inclement.
SPEAKER_03Just commit to one side, that's all I want.
SPEAKER_02I'm sorry, Stumpy. I I like it. I I think that sure, if you're having a picnic and it rains as well as the sun, I'm like, I wish it wasn't raining too. Sure. But in its own weather type, if you do separate it from the fact that it's not right, you can use it for interest and you know, as long as you've got a jacket and you can enjoy the rainbows and suspended. So I'm I'm hands off, Lever.
SPEAKER_03I'm saying from my kitchen, about a week ago when I wrote this down, it was sunny and raining, and I shit you not, I got annoyed. I walked in and I was pissed off instantly. I thought, why the fuck is it both of these things? Just be one of them.
SPEAKER_00I'll tell you what, like, I'm gonna I'm gonna go hands-on, lever, and I'm thinking about pulling it. This doesn't annoy me, but I think it's valid that it annoys you. I think this is a valid thing to be annoyed about because I think it's maybe even more valid than somebody being annoyed at the just the general thing with the UK is like, oh, our weather's bad, it's raining. We don't like that. That's the one to be annoyed at. But I I think you found a niche here that might be worth glorifying. I'm gonna say, yeah, let's send it to room 101. I think let's I'm happy that's a good one.
SPEAKER_02I've got unlucky here because uh at the start of it, Johnny's generous. Do you know what I mean? It's like you know the do you remember the voice, the show? Where if you went early, everyone's got like 10 selections left. You're odds a high. If you go like last, you've only got Tom Jones, who's got one selection left. Yeah, and all the others are already filled. So Johnny is like, at this point, he is not limited numbers, but he is like me and Johnny, by the way, have also pulled levers on each other.
SPEAKER_00So we've you know, we actually off recall could have been a part of that. You didn't want to, you're not sure.
SPEAKER_02Uh is it too late for me to I fucking hate oh it's one of these there's a rain cloud over there.
SPEAKER_03Oh, pull, pull it back, the levers locked, then put the bolt through it. You have to move on. Uh cool call. What is your room 101?
SPEAKER_02Well, before we move on, I just want to say to the people listening and enjoying this right now, maybe you're a Johnny Boy fan rather than a Colin Stumpy fan. But if you're enjoying this, I think now would be a great time to hit sub, hit like, hit comment, do all that stuff. Because we do this uh once a week. We've got various episodes. Now two guests. So if you like CJ, if you're a chalked fan, you can watch the CJ episode. We'll link that one at the end, probably. That would make most sense. Um, but yeah, anything else you want to add to something before I've got some IRL videos going on.
SPEAKER_03We did a an extremely terrifyingly uh spicy challenge. So that was very good. That is on this channel as well. And we also did the cereal milk replacement tier list. Uh spoilers red wine does not go well in cereal. Um nor does mouthwash. So everybody make sure that you give that a watch. It was very good and very sickly to film. That is also going to be linked somewhere towards the end, or just click on their channel. Cool, Cole, go for it. Room 101, what's going on?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, there's something that annoys me more than anything when I walk around any town, any city, okay? Especially with my dog, but not always. And that's broken glass on pavements. It just disgusts and angers me. Like, I I've I've I've spilled glasses in my time. I'd be in the drunk guy at a pub and you know, spilled a pipe, everyone goes away. You bottled a bloke, yeah. Bottled a bloke if he deserved it, you know what I mean? Because he was looking at my girl. Yeah. I've never broken glass on a pavement. I don't even know how you go about doing that unless it's on purpose.
SPEAKER_03Drop, surely. Surely that does it.
SPEAKER_00I think it's mostly gotta be oh I don't know about where I don't know about where you where you are, but I mean that happens a lot in Glasgow. No.
SPEAKER_04What the bottling.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the bottling, the the dropping of broken glass everywhere. I think it must be I mean the homeless population has gotta be a contributing factor. So that's that's part of where that comes from. To me, we're not gonna be able to do that there's just no way that they're picking it up after after somebody drops a bottle or a glass. You're not allowed to drink outside in or drink alcohol outside in Glasgow. Yeah, well it it's it's because there is such an alcohol such a huge alcohol problem, they specifically just in Glasgow made this illegal. We're learning. We're learning so much. Famously Edinburgh where they where where the movie Trainspotting came from. So you know they've obviously got stuff.
SPEAKER_03You do heroin in the castle, which is good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there's a lot more freedom of what about consumption of uh of substances, but drop your needle, sure.
SPEAKER_02Just don't drop any broken glass.
SPEAKER_00So I think I I I think I've I've had it become so normalized, I don't think that that I'd I I mean you notice it usually you're like, oh clear, careful glass, you tell people around you, but I wouldn't be like, What?
SPEAKER_03I wouldn't be outraged by it, but uh depending on where it was, like because there's there's a part near me, there's sorry, there's a park near me where I walk the dog and he'll like there's broken glass, and there have been for ages, just like where I assume kids hang out and drink and whatever. And I'll walk the dog and he'll be walking on the on the grass, I'm like, oh, this is great, and he'll then go onto the pavement with the broken glasses. I'm like, brother, no, like what let's walk on the bit without the broken glass, you fucking idiot. And then he'll just like keep walking towards it. I'm like, You have no idea what you're doing. So I was like, pull him off it. Um if it's like if it's like a shop front where the glass is broken, that's a bit ugly, but it's not that bad because I think that's all like relative safety glass. I don't think that's actually sharp as far as I'm aware. Still not nice, don't get me wrong.
SPEAKER_00You mean like a like a glass? Like a window, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Like, you know, that's one of those things that happen sometimes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, where like if there's that, like you know, kind of the chunks of glass. Peely, peely glass. Yeah, like if any of that comes on the ground, I don't think that it might be a little bit sharp, but it's not as sharp as like a single pane of glass that will like shred your arm or whatever.
SPEAKER_02I'm talking about bottles, you know, little green glasses. Little green glasses, little brown glasses. Uh it just the thought, the thought of me dropping, and I realise, you know, you mentioned like drunk people and you mentioned like the homeless community and stuff, but I think I like to think, even if I was homeless, if I dropped a glass, I'd at least kick it. Just at least a little bit of a shove to the side, unless I've not got any shoes. Yeah. But like at least a bit of a shove to the side, right? Rather than leaving it littering the middle for dogs but for kids running around dropping, it just feels so dangerous and yet no one seems to care.
SPEAKER_03I get I get your point as well, because like you say about if you're a homeless person, you dropped a glass and then you wouldn't necessarily know where to put it, or like you'd you know, you try and clean it up. If I ultimately, the uh same situation for me would be if I dropped a glass in my living room, of which the street is theirs, I would lucky there, it's matter, I would clean up the glass. I'm not gonna go at the homeless people, but like I'd give it a bit of a push, just out of my territory at least, then avenge it and then have been a bin.
SPEAKER_00Maybe that's what they've done. Maybe they've kicked it off of their pseudo living room. Just though in the middle of the path. No, I I mean this is super common, the not just glass, but littering in general, like people don't respect. I know the different parts of the UK can be better about this and they'll be a lot cleaner. But I think yeah, the littering is generally something I hate about where I live, Glasgow, and the a lot of that will be glass, which is like you said, dangerous, so it's just stupid. And um yeah, people just don't respect their own living room, the city where they live. I think it's because normally they're asking for directions, right?
SPEAKER_02And they say Glasgow where yeah, I think uh uh I would I I I I wish my geography was better in Scotland. I bet I could if I could look at a map, I bet I came up with loads of puns. Unfortunately, you know, I don't know enough. Yeah, I'm out.
SPEAKER_03I would like to just lightly add to yours the fact that people don't think cigarette butts is littering. Where you see smokers finish a cigarette and then they'll throw it out their car, or they'll like chuck it on the floor, then stamp it into the ground. Go fuck yourself. What a disgusting fucking thing to do. You wouldn't do that with anything else. I like it it's so strange that that's like weirdly normalized where someone will throw a cigarette out the window on like the motorway. It's revolting.
SPEAKER_00They think it's biodegradable or something or something. It's so awful.
SPEAKER_03That pi that pisses me off. That pissed me off more than glass, personally. But um obviously glass has more of an actual impact of if you stand on it, etc. I think it's just so disgusting, the cigarette butts. But the no the normalization is more extreme for cigarette butts for sure.
SPEAKER_02That that's one that like people wouldn't most people wouldn't think twice. Yeah, you know. Um I think I think Linnea once got like fined after she stubbed a cigarette out on the you know, the bin, like the metal metal stubby thing. She stubbed it out, and then oh, so so long ago, she'll correct me, I'm sure, when she hears this, but she either then left it on the stub bit, but on like the ashtray bit. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Which I think you're meant to do right, because then you don't want to put it so you can set fire to stuff.
SPEAKER_02Well, or post-stub, you're completely out. She she put it in the bin, but it was like completely out. Yeah. And she got fined for it. Maybe it was the latter and the bloke thought it was still slightly a light or something. But basically, she tried to do the right thing. Yeah, she tried to do the right thing with it, like when she did smoke, and then got fined for it. But I can't remember which way round that was. So there's a yeah, there's lots of things to think about there with chucking cigarettes around.
SPEAKER_03I was gonna say chucking them on the floor is just the worst one. Like seeing them like someone smoking in a park, then they just like flick it onto the grass. Fucking disgusting. Disgusting fucking habit anyway, but at least with that, at least if it is the peak of summer and the grass is all dry, it will self-clean. That's true, yeah. The park will self-immolate and then we're back to we're back to zero. And the glass will melt as well.
SPEAKER_00On a nice rainy, sunny day.
SPEAKER_03No, there's no such thing. There's such a thing as a nice rainy sunny day. Um, I will go with picking.
SPEAKER_00Um my final thought, I I think this is valid, first of all. I'm definitely, yeah. Bam for that one. Pulling the lever, double levered. Double lever for coal. Um, but yeah, final thought on that for me is that the the annoying thing about the glass thing in particular is that you can't really do anything about it because if somebody is in the state where they're just doing that, just throwing glass in the floor, you probably don't really want to interact with them anyway. So it it it's something you can't really like. Well, maybe I mean you could, but you don't usually want to interact with drunk people or homeless people who are throwing glass and breaking glass in the ground, like that's okay. Let's cross the other side of the road. Stay away from whatever's happening there, because it's usually accompanying like violence or something. But at least with other types of littering, you can call it out. If somebody just chucks a like bag of crisps on the grind at the bus stop, you can call them out on it. You guys told people, I'm not gonna have to stay.
SPEAKER_03You guys you guys think you guys told anybody off for littering?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'm not sure. It's it's super prevalent here. Like people litter in Glasgow a lot, so yeah, like like I said, bus stop. Kid throw you know, throwing bag of crisps, empty bag of crisps on the grind. When there's a bin like right next to the bus stop, I'll be like. Usually I think I do remember one time that exact scenario happened, and I was like, Are you serious? I was just like looking at him like, are you serious? There's a bin like right there. Sorry, sorry, big man. Oh sorry. You idiot. But yeah, it's just super normal. People just people just later here, so it's a definitely a bad thing that you have to get used to. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Johnny, room 101, give us another one. Let's go.
SPEAKER_00Okay. No, I I I didn't want to uh to focus on Rocket League too much or Rocket League related things, but I do want what um one of my room 101 things I think you're gonna appreciate is Rocket League related.
SPEAKER_02That's fine, because then we can put that on the RLE Sports subreddit. So thank you for this one. We are you've given us a lot of things. Thank you for improving this already, Juke of Chuckley.
SPEAKER_00Very big of you. So uh yeah, you guys will know all about this. Let me paint the picture for the listeners who don't uh know the ins and outs of rehearsal day at Lands.
SPEAKER_04I know you don't drive instantly.
SPEAKER_00Everybody loves rehearsal day if you're if you're a caster, if you're on the analyst desk, if you're in production, everybody involved in rehearsal day just loves rehearsal day because it's it's a day that is um not for the casters for the most part. It's for the host, it's for you know your Staxes, your wave punks, your um anyone else doing interviews, uh events like a leaf. Um anyone anyone who's actually throwing or catching from from those segments has to be there, has to see elements of what's happening and something.
SPEAKER_02They link the parts together.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Yeah, some sometimes the desk, the analyst desk, you know, your Gibbs is your T-bates and whoever else is on the desk for the for the next show, the very next whatever's happening the next day, sometimes they need to see something as well, because there will be a moment where something isn't done normally. So what what's generally done at all events is not just them but all of the people who are anyone who's going to be on the the first segment of day one of an event will be on rehearsal and uh you know for some of them will definitely need to contribute and be focused and be paying attention to what's happening so that we we can get through rehearsal quick enough. And nothing worse than when somebody's not paying attention. Production press all the buttons, the lights all go off at the right time, and then somebody's just going, mm-hmm. Oh, sorry for that me. Oh yeah, we're just gonna let's do that again. The production needs to know that all the things are working. So that's fine, rehearsal is very important. But uh now here come the casters. When you're the the commentator, the caster of the match, there's uh usually two of them, as you guys know. Uh when you're on rehearsal day as a caster, you just basically sit around or sometimes stand around uh with the headset on, much like I have right now, and you just wait because sometimes standing, yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's the worst bit as well.
SPEAKER_00Like yeah, sometimes standing because uh you if it's just in an awkward position where they can't put chairs, you're just standing and you're waiting. Because uh yeah, the rehearsal will continue going through the pre-show and the walkouts and all the important moving parts until they get them right, and then when it finally gets to the caster bit when it goes, okay, throw it to the match, go! Then you basically just do a mic check. You're like testing, testing, testing, testing, testing, testing. Okay, yeah. Sounds good. Um always on bots as well.
SPEAKER_02Always on bots. It's like, team long score. It's like, uh, there we go. The bots pretending it's exciting when the bots have scored a goal.
SPEAKER_00So essentially, yeah, we'll sit around, and we know this is gonna happen. You know you're just gonna sit around or stand around for an hour, do absolutely nothing, and then when it finally comes to you, you're gonna do a mic check, and then that's it.
SPEAKER_03It will be for about 20 seconds that you're used for, and then uh bless him. Because production are doing a lot, we'll then normally go on the talk back and say, uh, like 10 minutes later, our cast is done. And the worst one I've then had, bless him. I love our producer, obviously. But he's then said, Um, uh, I've like done uh uh like cast is done, are we good to go? Hear nothing. Cast is done, sorry, just trouble checking we're good to go. Because you don't want to leave and then you're then you're the stick in the mud and then no one can do the mic check. You don't want to be a dick. Um and then our producer walked out past us holding his lunch, and I was like, Can we go? And he went, I just missed you half an hour ago. And I was like, There's no fucking way. And I guess like it had just been like the you know the talk through hadn't gone through, or like someone wasn't paying attention. But I'd stood there with stood there for half an hour after being dismissed, talking with the talk back to nobody.
SPEAKER_00Oh, so the nightmare must have said the producer must have said, Okay, that's it, thank you, everybody, we're done here, and it didn't go through to you. Yeah, or like I didn't hear it or something.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I once got told off before a rehearsal because I did a Wii just before, and I thought, oh, okay, well, I'm I'm I'm a caster, so I won't be part of the rehearsal for 10 or 15 minutes. So I got there like two minutes after. I wasn't you know taking the mick or anything, but then uh somebody on the on the team said, Cole, we've been waiting for you. You need to get there right now. We need you, we need you for rehearsals.
SPEAKER_00Start anything it's up. So I was told.
SPEAKER_02So I got there a little bit like, oh, sorry, so I don't want to be, you know, I've got a diva, I'm not like, I don't care.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you don't be like, whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So I got there and then guess what? I sat around for 45 minutes and said three words into the mic and then went by.
SPEAKER_00And you know it's gonna happen. Like, this is what we do every time is because you know that you're not needed except for five seconds, an hour from now, but they want you there in your position for some reason, for unknown reasons. So that's definitely annoying. However, we it that is still what we're describing. The problem is still the easiest job on rehearsal days. Everybody else actually has to work. So naturally, I feel really dumb complaining about it, but because you're naturally being a diva by complaining. Everybody you're complaining to have been putting out fires, fixing sound issues, like fixing actual problems.
SPEAKER_02They're always so stressed on rehearsal day, they're always so panicked.
SPEAKER_00Because they've just moved this whole set into this location, built it in like one day, they've done an all-nighter, and then in come the caster's like, Oh, I'm so bored. I'm so annoyed. I've just standing around for an hour talking to my girlfriend. Whoa, is me. So it really does put it in perspective that you know that are probably it's not that bad.
SPEAKER_02Are you pulling the D.Va Lever stumpy?
SPEAKER_03I'm well, because normally we are doing media on that day, Cole. We are normally never on this. We never do that rehearsal. But I but I've been there, I've been there many, many times. Um, it's funny then when you also see the schedule and you see normally it's like Shogun doing that rehearsal. He's the only first caster. It's always Shogun. Every time we take the piss out of him being like, you're doing nothing. You're standing around doing nothing for about two hours. And he hates it. Um, it can be. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Who's the one who commits to what name would you guys say? The one who commits to rehearsals the most, the one who like. Oh, James Bott loves a rehearsal.
SPEAKER_03James Bottom.
SPEAKER_02You've got James Bot in mind. I've got Jorby in mind. Jorby will like full on play by play the players. Play by playing with balls makes you want to die. I hate that. Yeah, right. I I respected uh because I never went with Corelli that much, right? But he and I were on the first one, I think on B-stream, and we were next to the A Stream rehearsals on someday in RL C S has Gone By. And next to us was Jorby and Turtle, and Jorby and Turtle giving it all that Steve Dead. Oh my god, it's on a room! Oh my god, do you know what I mean? Like some comedy balls, and Corelli just looked at me, rolled his eyes, and I thought, oh Corelli, my beautiful would-be Brit.
SPEAKER_01Love that, Corelli.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I was gonna say, anybody try harding rehearsals, like in in any aspect, get out. Get out of here. Unless you're planning a bit, fine, that's okay. So make sure you get the beats down. But if you're just doing a rehearsal, it's so like Johnny, this weekend just gone when we did RLCS. It's just like we chat for a very small amount of time. There's like with you know the host is going, and then we go to this graphic, then we do this, and then we do this, and whatever.
SPEAKER_00Here's the top plays. Anytime there is a problem, if you test the mic and it doesn't work, test talk back, or the mute button, or the producer tries to talk to you. Anytime any of that doesn't work as intended, we can't fix it. So it's like Yeah, that's true, yeah. These uh production teams, it's somebody's job to just look at the list and they they're just doing their job, you know, probably doing way more than we are as casters, probably doing a million jobs at once. They have a look at the list. Okay, who do we need for day one? Okay, you, you, you, you, send it to the telemanager, done. Yeah, on to the next thing. So those people go and then they make sure you're there. Cole, are you there? Why are you in the bathroom? Get on your spot. Okay, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02I come out still pissing. My job's done.
SPEAKER_00But then, yeah, if if something breaks, the people you've put in that position actually can't do anything about it, and then the sound guy has to come and test it anyway.
SPEAKER_02So, one two.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Because the one time I do remember where it didn't work, the sound guy had to stop whatever he was doing and come to check it and see why it wasn't working and fix it.
SPEAKER_02I'm like, well, the you should have given the higher way and then gone, it's yours now, and then run off.
SPEAKER_00Cheers. Go and get lunch. Yeah, I did. Alright, it's dumping. We did have to leave anyway. We're like, well, we are we we're not helpful in this rule. We can't do anything. We're not saying that we can't fix this. We something's broken, we've done it whether it's broken, and that's where we actually subject.
SPEAKER_02The sound engineer does not want you to try either. The sound engineer, his biggest fear, is you can, oh, what if I do this? Nah, fiddling with some of the knobs.
SPEAKER_03I would say my hand is on the diva lever and I pull it. I pull the diva lever. I answer the. Pull the diva lever. Yeah, it's gotta be done. I think that is a that's you guys ever ditched.
SPEAKER_00Did you ever notice uh that you might have been forgotten? I did mention there's somebody it's somebody's job to write down and pass all the information who's needed for this segment tomorrow. Therefore, also needed for rehearsal one time. I think it was in Dallas, the first time we're there. I was on the first cast in it on the first day. Um, coming back to I think it was like the two-week of Worlds wildcard in the main event. We had a day off on Monday, then they did a rehearsal on that day, and I noticed that I wasn't on the call sheet for it, and I was like, maybe I should be. I see I see Shogun's on there. My co-caster, my co-caster Shogun's on there, they haven't put me on there. Oh well. I'm not gonna ask any questions. That sounds brilliant.
SPEAKER_03I love you wanna be a diva, do you?
SPEAKER_00I was just like in I was just in Dallas, like miles away from the arena, and got texting they need you there for a rehearsal in 30 minutes. I was like, I'm not gonna be there. What are you doing? I'm not on the media.
SPEAKER_03I've gone by the cool sheet. I'm I'm beholden to the cool sheet.
SPEAKER_00I did go by the call sheet, I just didn't double check. I mean, it's it's you know, not my not my job, basically. So I was I took it to a different level of petty and diva there, where I was like, I know that if I do bring this up, I'm just going to bring this upon myself. Like two hours of standing around and nothing. Teacher, you forgot to assign the homework. It's that part.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. Next time I see Johnny, you've not been included, I'm gonna I'm gonna grass on you before we start that. I would say, hey, at Johnny Boy isn't on this. Is that right?
SPEAKER_03So that would be so fucking funny to like say, oh, we have to. We have to somebody isn't on it. You say, sorry, um, at Cole isn't on this list. Is that an error? Oh, yeah, sorry, he's meant to be on rehearsal. Cheers.
SPEAKER_00I saw Shogun later on that that night. I was like, I was how was Rasal? And he's like, Yeah, just two hours of Saturday.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I've got I've got one that I think can unite the group. Maybe. And now as soon as I've read it, I've got like four here. I'm trying to pick between. Well, try pick a controversial one because so far everything has been levered.
SPEAKER_02So see if you can get one that you think is just you. Sorry, no, I've got one that I know I'm gonna leverage one of Johnny's. No, no, but overall, what I mean is it's been levered. They've all been they've all dropped.
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SPEAKER_03They've all been voted in. I will. This one is incredibly uh silly. Um when bus or train stops are too close together, I get so annoyed. It's pointless. Right? You're gonna need to explain that one. Sorry, wait, so you're on the bus, and this is this is the big thing. I'm on the Wirral, very, very good public transport, loads of it around, really good bus links, really good train links and stuff. When you get on the bus and it honest to God drives for a minute 20 miles an hour and it has to stop again. I don't know why both of those stops exist. There are such frequent bus stops that it's just so it makes the journey last so much longer.
SPEAKER_00Wait, you meant okay, I when you first said this, I thought you meant like a train station and a bus station. Oh no, no, no. That's great. That's good. I like that. That's okay. No, we can explain that.
SPEAKER_03So when a bus, I guess when a bus's stops are too frequent, to the point of it being like we've barely got to max speed and we're having to slow back down again. Same with the train. It can go for honestly like two minutes and then it then stops again. It's it's a piss take. You don't need that many stops.
SPEAKER_00Are there like any uh major attractions or offices or whatever schools? No at these stops.
SPEAKER_03This is my issue with a place on the road. As I said, this is this is it's great that there are so many. There's a main road near me, and there's sort of like two junction-y things, uh, where's like two sort of big sets of traffic lights? They are a kilometre apart, like what's that? Like uh 0.8 miles or something, 0.7 miles, something like that. There are four bus stops about 250 metres apart on this one piece of road. Do people use all of them? Do they all get blonked at? There are frequent people at all of them. So now would that not imply, but you could get rid of two of them, and then people would then just go to the other ones because they're so close. I'm aware that this is ableist. I'm aware that this is a list of me. I'm aware it's ableist. This is what room 101 is for is for me to ask my silly gripes and grievances.
SPEAKER_02Also, when the sun's beating down and the rain's also there, yeah, all the people are under one shelter going, thank fuck for that. It's really wet despite it being sunny. I don't know what's going on, but I'm glad we've got their shelters. And they're double fuming. Yeah, right. But you remove half of the shelters on the street, people are gonna get wet. They're gonna get sodden.
SPEAKER_03They're never again, great public transport round here. There's it's very good for the amount for the frequency of which buses go through as well. But there's so many stops. On my dog walk, I go past about seven. Like, and the dog walk is about 25 minutes, it's a piss take.
SPEAKER_02Because on on the on the train between King's Cross and Cambridge, there's there's there's most that stop at like, I don't know, four stops. Yeah. But then there's that one that stops at like Audrey End. Audrey End. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it stops at 18 of them, right? And if you live in one of those places, you have to get that one. But if you accidentally get the wrong one, you can get an earlier train and get about an hour later because of all the stops and you get overtaken, right? Is it the same for your buses or do they all stop at Audrey End Northwest?
SPEAKER_03I would also say that the uh I completely understand the train perspective more because trains go faster, so they're gonna pick up a lot more speed, they're gonna go a lot further, that's fine. I used to live in a village like that, Cole, on the uh like Birmingham, London, Euston line. I was in a little village where it did the, you know, every now and then there'll be London, Euston, uh, Watford, Milton Keynes, Birmingham. It's just four stops. And it's like great if you live in one of those places, right? Yep, yep. I lived on one of the villages on that line, and then that was then once every two hours. Hours one of the trains would then actually stop at about 30 stops to then go to your fucking Bletchley. Uh whatever, like weird little stops, right? Um, so I get it for that. It's the fact that every single bus stops at every single stop. And it is it's too much. It's too much, man.
SPEAKER_00How do you choose which one to remove though? Because you're I think you're on to something, I agree. But then when it comes to removing them, I don't think you're ever gonna get people to agree because I would vote to keep mine. Yeah, exactly. I think that's gonna be the general consensus, and that's why you've got a problem. Is you're never gonna agree which one to remove, so you have to keep them all.
SPEAKER_03Walking to one of the bus stops that I get to go into Liverpool, I go past four bus stops. It's why do you get that bus stop? Because the other one's only gonna go to those places. Oh, I see. So I then go to one of the main roads. It is it there's there's too fucking many. It and it slows you down. The trip should be about you know 20 minutes or so to drive into Liverpool to get into town. What I do like, when it gets into Liverpool, there is a single stop. It does whirr whirlwr-wr-wirr, all of that, fucking 40 stops, and then it goes Liverpool, and then you're gonna go back out again. So you have to get off at one stop in the town centre, and then you can go back down.
SPEAKER_04I liked when you just had a light Enzo there, when you went Liverpool Liverpool, yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's a city gripe, it's an ableist gripe, it's an ageist gripe, I don't care.
SPEAKER_02How ableist is it? I think that's the perspective that we need. Like, isn't Big Baz in a wheelchair? Is is Big Baz in a wheelchair actually able to go the extra sort of half a kilometre? How much is that to someone?
SPEAKER_03It would be 250 meters difference for the ones that I'm mostly annoyed about, yeah. It would be about 250 meters. Um and is that a lot for someone disabled? I imagine that's teetering on quite a bit especially with bags. It depends on the severity.
SPEAKER_00If they got no limbs, if they've got no limbs on the wrong roll. There's always gonna be this is the nightmare. I think that if if the even if this is taken to the absolute extreme, there's a bus stop every hundred meters. Yeah, you can already see the the news article just trying to tear down the local MP. Yeah, and they're true. They're vote- They're they're just not gonna do that because then they know they're gonna annoy someone and they're gonna go to the news, and it's like you said, somebody in a wheelchair or an old couple who now have to walk further, and all it is state of the path. There's like uh there's uh potholes in the path, it's dangerous. You're putting your your your people in danger unelected. Which again, very too risky.
SPEAKER_03Very valid points. However, me as an able-bodied man that can walk fast and wants to just get on the fucking bus and go straight to town, I'd have four stops. Do you know what I mean? I'd have my stop, I'd have one like in the next town up the road, I'd have one in like fucking Birkenhead, I'd have one on the beach. How generous of you. And then I'd have one in Liverpool. Thank you, sir. I would have my stops. That would be how I would do it. But I'd I I'd rather there be more stops than too few stops. If I was to look at this as an MP or whatever, that makes more sense. Make sure you serve as many people as you can, playing city skylines. You know, you want to have people spread out so then they don't all bunch up at once uh stop, as Cole says. Um somebody who used to live in a village, you know, and I couldn't drive. To get 25 minutes down the road to where I used to work, I used to have like three hours worth of buses, and it was awful. Wow. It was so I had to go from village to town, town to town, and then walk an hour across a motorway. It was awful. Wow. Yeah, really bad. Uphill both ways back in the day. Yeah, it really was. I had to climb up like an embankment from a path onto next to a motorway to then get to work. It was awful. Barefoot. Barefoot in the snow, Johnny, if you can believe such a thing.
SPEAKER_02And no one helped you. No one, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Um I'm gonna pull this ladder up behind me, thank you.
SPEAKER_00You know, have you heard about the I actually need to look up the name or the the the year that this happened. Did you did you hear about in Romania in the capital? Go on, the the president or the prime minister, whatever they've got in Romania, at the time, they were making an a subway station underground. There's an under new metro line getting uh made, and the w the the the prime minister wasn't, uh if I remember correctly, anything related to an engineer or any kind of like city planner. He was a smart man. He was just a politician. He wasn't he didn't he wasn't like okay, city planner turned politician, has a genius idea. He was just a politician, and his wife was the same just a they were I think just politicians or you know, nothing related to city planning. So the metro uh that was proposed by the engineers had a station next to one of the biggest areas for universities, multiple universities in this area, and that's why they bought a station there, because there's like all these unis, lots of people will need to go on and off the metro in this location, and that actually happened. The the wife said, No, students are getting lazy. Back in my day, we had to walk to uni, they should do the same. So they actually got because you know, per corrupt government, they they actually got that station removed from the plants.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god!
SPEAKER_00But then the engineers, knowing that this would later become an issue, actually in secret made a station anyway, but it would they had to make it smaller so it wouldn't be obvious what they were doing. It had to just look like you know, what you know, a shaft or putting spare uh trains or whatever. I don't I don't know. So there's still to this day a ridiculous station in Romania. I think it's in the capital where there's just half of a platform and it's like you know, a meter wide, you have to like shuffle along.
SPEAKER_02Well, but it's like platform ready, basically. It's like it's like expansion ready. Yeah, they've set the guide. I'm gonna look this up, they've set the guidelines for it.
SPEAKER_00Because it's crazy. I can't believe this actually happened at this level in the capital city of Romania.
SPEAKER_02So I I feel like as soon as we give the the inch or we remove the one bus station per inch that Stumpy's proposing, we lose a mile of bus stations. So I'm gonna I'm gonna de-leave. I'm gonna vote leave. You're gonna again Johnny, it's on you. I'm gonna do it again. Johnny, it's on you.
SPEAKER_00I think we have to leave this one, even though it is valid. I think we have to leave it because what is the altern the alternative is just it goes too far too uh too quick. It's a slippery slope.
SPEAKER_02Unlike you on your bus.
SPEAKER_00It's a slippery slope. Oh, that is a tiny little station. Yeah, it's a Raman station in Bucharest. That's so funny. There you go. That's the station which is a tiny station.
SPEAKER_02Oh, look at it, look at him standing on the platform. God's dangerous, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00It's really dangerous because they had to build it in secret because the the government didn't let them.
SPEAKER_03According to some of the people who worked on the station, uh So So, I guess is somebody who planned it. Oh, the first lady, uh Elena So So. She's alright, uh, was concerned. Nice, that workers and students were starting to gain weight and needing needed more exercise, hence they should walk instead of taking the metro train. The engineers having enough foresight realized the station would be necessary in the future, and the initial construction was done in secret. That's wild. That is so good.
SPEAKER_00This is in 1988, it was open, by the way. It's not that long ago. That's so funny.
SPEAKER_02Well, they've not updated it since then, so it's still ready. The Piazza Romana is still ready.
SPEAKER_03It's getting used to the street. We should take a trip.
SPEAKER_02We should take an officially unofficially trip to Piazza Romana train station.
SPEAKER_03Oh, so Chortcast's going to go to Korea and we go to Romania to a metro stop.
SPEAKER_02Okay. That's why you've got a sub to us, everyone. If you're not already, help us be the next shortcast and we can go to somewhere better than fucking Piazza Romana train station. I'd go book a rest.
SPEAKER_03I'd book it up in rest.
SPEAKER_02Let's book it. Uh right. Uh I've got another one. Um, would you guys. Do you know what? No, fuck it. I'm gonna go for I'm gonna go for one that I don't think you'll go for. Okay, alright. Convince us.
SPEAKER_03It's gonna be a hard set. Convince. I'm lost, but let's keep going.
SPEAKER_02What I would love to put into room 101 is people who play the game of pool wrong.
SPEAKER_03Oh, for fuck's sake. Right, my I've left the studio.
SPEAKER_01I've I've I put the key in my I put the key in my leverage.
SPEAKER_00No, so listen, everyone said playing pool wrong. Yeah, it's me.
SPEAKER_02So listen, everyone. Pool has many different rules across many different countries and cultures, and that is fine. And if I go to a new place, if they say these are the rules, fair enough. As long as they're established beforehand, might I add. Because the amount of times I've said what rules are we playing, and people are going, oh it doesn't matter, then it gets to a point where it matters. Oh, it doesn't matter. And I go, Oh, it's two shots of me. People go, What do you mean? Right? So established beforehand. But the the key rule of pull that is awful is that if you can't pot your opponent's ball after hitting yours first, the game is worse to the point of being ruined.
SPEAKER_00I love it.
unknownI love it.
SPEAKER_00It ruins the game of pool. That version of the game, claiming a pocket by putting your ball in front of it instead of putting the ball. It's just fantastic. I love it.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so Cole, you're saying that. Is it this specific rule that you want to do?
SPEAKER_02There are many rules that people discuss. You know, the key difference, for example, between American pool, uh, where you pull in hand if there's a foul, but you only get one shot and British. It is a bit lame, but it is the rules that they play on their table.
SPEAKER_03It's better to put it as third of the way down the table and you have to shoot down the table. That's better.
SPEAKER_00The amount of times I've seen Cole go and pick up the ball and just line up the easiest tapping ever, I'm just like, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_02Has Cole on the team put the ball anywhere? On an American table.
SPEAKER_03You're a little bitch. That's awful.
SPEAKER_02But no, but if we establish beforehand, right? We're on if people say beforehand, right, we're on an American table, let's play British rules, I'll go, okay, great. Which of the 18 British rules would you guys like to play?
SPEAKER_03Just the normal ones, the one that you play at bowling that you play with your maids. Yeah, but that's on American table. I'm hoping it goes in. Oh, that bugs me as well. And people, oh, nothing frustrates me more.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's like you've got the perfect angle to roll up to the black. You've got it'll just roll it in dead weight, and the white will end up in the perfect place to make a shum, jump, jump, jump, jump, and end up like landing on a knuckle. It's like, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_03But me and Johnny are in so much fun. We are having the time of our fucking line.
SPEAKER_00We know it's about winning together. We know you get so annoyed. So it's what's I think what's even more annoying for you is when one of us absolutely slams it and it works.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, it does sometimes. Don't get me wrong.
SPEAKER_00It'll be like miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, bounces into the pocket in a totally random pocket and you're lined up perfectly anyway. We celebrate that as if we meant it.
SPEAKER_03There's so many things with Cole that you can easily just push his buttons on, and he won't ever learn that we're just pushing his buttons for the sake of I don't even really care. If everyone in the room is like a horse in the race. I've if if everyone's taking it seriously, I would happily do that. As soon as I see Cole get annoyed at how I'm doing something, I will do that thing so much more often.
SPEAKER_02But to get us back on to get us back on track, the specific thing I'm talking about is that uh everyone's had it. Johnny, I know you've you've you've had it where uh a ball, a red or yellow ball, um, goes over the pocket and blocks that pocket. Now the rules might have changed, but as far as I'm aware, in professional, and it's like you know, people make a bit of money from it, English pool, you and especially American pool, it's definitely true. If you hit your ball first, you can then make it so that you knock their ball in so it clears that pocket out. Right?
SPEAKER_03And you're gonna not a foul.
SPEAKER_02Not a foul. So you can pot your ball, then meanwhile, the white bounces back, knocks in their ball, and it clears that space, and then you can carry on going. And that makes it a better, more technical game.
SPEAKER_00That is unfair. Sounds a bit low. I wouldn't personally stoop that low and uh blame that it's not a foul.
SPEAKER_03Sounds like a foul, if you ask me. Yeah, it's a defender. Like a goalkeeper, when he's in his box, he can use his hands. That's unfair, that's unethical. How's that allowed? I don't even know how to respond to that because there are so many differences. It depends on playing American soccer or English football, I understand. But I think that uh you are you are very try and separate this from cool from cool.
SPEAKER_02I don't think I will be. Try and I shan't be doing that. You're you're you're an alien that's just landed on a and you're reading this rule book of this game and you understand it really quick. Oh, I understand. You get the concept, lock it in, then it comes to rule you know, 15b II, and you're like, hmm, I I I'm not too fucking used to that. Very good. And then you then you read it and you go, wait a sec, that's interesting. So do I have it, thinks your alien self, where you can clear this ball away tactically with skill, or do you have it where the ball stays?
SPEAKER_00So then the pocket tactically with skill.
SPEAKER_03I'd look at it and I think it looks like that pocket's claim to me.
SPEAKER_00I don't know why this is the rule. That pocket looks clean. Cole can't even present this scenario without sounding superfight tactically with skill.
SPEAKER_03Cole said so, so honestly, we were talking about this on stream the other day as well, where uh Cole said that uh historically, uh, we're talking about playing golf, right? And Johnny, me and you aren't into our golf to an extent. You know, we play semi-frequently, um, we've got our own clubs, all that kind of stuff. We go to the range, we go on courses. Um, we have said to Cole, and we have offered many times, and Cole has taken us up on it, come play golf with us. Let's go to the range. You guys, um, when we were um away for uh FIFA E, I couldn't join you, but you guys went to a really cool uh golf resort, looked amazing, right? And it's like, come along with us. Beautiful, really fun thing to do as a team. It doesn't matter how good you are, just hit some fucking balls, stuff will happen. I'll fuck it up, you'll uh fuck it up a bit more frequently, whatever, we're all having a good time, right? Cole said that, and Cole, please tell me if I've I if I mischaracterized you here, if I do a character assassination on you.
SPEAKER_02Johnny Break knows what I'm gonna say because I said the same to them on the day. This would this wouldn't be used to him, but carry on.
SPEAKER_03Uh, if it was that situation switched around and say you guys were all playing pool um and everybody was uh oh bad at Paul and Cole was the good one, he would be annoyed that everyone was not as good as him or taking it as seriously. No, okay, no, that's not what I said.
SPEAKER_00Taking it seriously, yes.
SPEAKER_02So, Johnny, what I specifically said was that the only time, like, you know, people are you know not as good, there are people better than me at Paul I'm not amazing by any means, people worse, etc. I'm wherever I am on the ladder. The only time it's bugged me is when you go to a place where it's like a nice American pool hall and you put like, I don't know, six quid and you can play for an hour, so it's like a time limit. So then when I play my games, they tend to finish relatively quick for an amateur that doesn't play very much. So I said the only time I get annoyed is when my mates play and they're missing the white balls jumping around and they're miscuing, ha ha ha ha ha. So I get about 10% the amount of table time as everyone else. That's that's the bit that bugged me in that regard. So that's the best. I didn't I didn't mean to mischaracterise.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, no, I know you didn't, I know you didn't. See, I've actually taken that into account. I think you're really on to something here. So, like somebody said, we've been playing some golf, and I went when I play golf, I use the full course because I've paid for the full course. So, you know, off to the right, you know, over the trees.
SPEAKER_02In the sand, in the sandwich.
SPEAKER_00You know, in the water, I really do use the full course to get my money's worth and you know, play hundreds of shots. You know, we're talking course record, but the wrong way. Um so yeah, I I think you're on something here. You being bad actually does get you more for your money than you are paying per hour.
SPEAKER_02The only sport where that's different is bowling. Because in bowling, if your last three or four whatever it is are good, the last three are good, you actually get like one or two more throws. Yeah, you just bowling negates that. Yeah, true.
SPEAKER_00Unless you're hitting strikes before that, because then you're just getting one shot for everybody else's two. So you should go if you want the maximum amount of gameplay, you need to spare everything and then strike the last three.
SPEAKER_03You don't even need to spare them because you'll get two throws regardless. Oh, true, actually, to if you're paying for the lame, the gutters are included. So actually, you want to gutter ball every single ball to get the most usage out of it, and then triple strike at the end. Preferably bounce that out of one gutter into the other one on the way down. Yeah, maximize the gutter.
SPEAKER_02Meanwhile, the professional bowler is going, oh, this is so unfair. I only got one throw each time. It's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_04This sucks is bullshit.
SPEAKER_00So next time that we all pay for a pool table, Zumpy and I are just going to disrespect the game of pull and play for one whole hour without the game. But we'll have so much fun, Johnny. That's the thing.
SPEAKER_02So that that would only annoy me if it's a pay per hour thing. If it's 50p, then that's different because you paid for your 50p, and then when I'm on, I've paid for my 50p. And you're you're getting less time. When I say a 50p, probably probably 150 now. Contact£2.30. That's great, yeah. Um I gone then are we are we levering?
SPEAKER_00Are we putting my what was it specifically with the lever was the the the rules of leaving the ball over the pocket? It's the one that changes you in process.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, there's there's there's two ways I can word this. One of them gets you to pull it, the other one gets you not to pull it. If I say the wrong rules, incorrect pull rules, you'll all go, yeah, go with your wording. Um I'll I'll go with my one because it's more fun. I will say, can you guys please put in not being able to put your opponent's ball after hitting your ball first into room 101? No.
SPEAKER_03No, no, I won't be doing that. And I'm gonna be honest, mate, no matter what you put forward there, as soon as you say play pool wrong, you've lost me. I'm out. We're not doing that. And I think that's fair. I think that is okay. Well, tell you what, everybody, if you have got any room 101 scenarios, argue them out in the comments. This has been a lot of fun. I like that a lot. We'll do this again, I reckon. Another point. We'll do more room 101s. I've enjoyed, I enjoyed uh writing them down. So I'm gonna need to keep some of these listed. Because some of them I look back and I'm like, why was I annoyed at this three weeks ago? But I was clearly at some point I opened my phone enough to then go and look and uh write it down. Um thank you, Johnny, for joining us.
SPEAKER_00Appreciate you. Oh, thanks for having me. Yeah, I'd love to hear other people giving their their Romano One uh complaints. Yeah, maybe yeah, maybe maybe I'll come back on the future. We can just pick up where we left off. Oh, that'll be good. That'd be lovely. Nice.
SPEAKER_02We can we can maybe have a look at some of the communities as well. That could be something you bring up on your stream at some point. Like, what's all the little things that people moan about? We can pull the little chat has got some crazy ones, and yeah, we can we can pull the levers. Great shout.
SPEAKER_03Thank you everybody, otherwise, for listening to episode 28 of officially. Unofficially. Actually, Johnny, do you Johnny, do you want to do it?
SPEAKER_02Do you want to do the unofficially? Oh.
SPEAKER_03How do I do it? Uh so when I say officially, so you then immediately after say unofficially. Okay, okay. I'll see if I can do that. Thank you, everyone, for listening to officially. Officially.
SPEAKER_04Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03No, close enough. Diva. The D.Va lever has been pulled. Uh number 28. Um, and uh we appreciate all of you. Drop comments, uh, drop likes, drop subscribes, all of those things, and we'll see you in number 29, where Carl, we will decide whether we are doing 10 more episodes. As we've done on every 10 episode anniversary, we we sign off, Johnny, on the next 10 episodes. So far, as I'm sure you can figure out, we've said yes each time.
SPEAKER_00So I I'm hoping I'll I'm hoping you do. So that's the next one you're gonna decide that. I think so.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we'll see if it's worth renewing. So uh we'll see how this one goes.
SPEAKER_00Thank you, everybody, goodbye.