Ep 22 Pigeon Holed Podcast - Aliens

Welcome to episode 22 of the Pigeon Holed Podcast - The boys talk about Aliens on their way to earth, 3i-Atlas, conspiracies, true crime, duromine, getting recognized at the gym, Tait doing Muay Thai in Thailand and getting beaten up, Bare Knuckle fighting, CTE and much more.

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Back. Aliens are coming. Aliens are coming. Aliens are coming. Apparently. Aliens are coming. So I put it to you because they said what October the something that the this fucking atlas three eye atlas is going to pass by the sun. Do we have to like pay bills and stuff until then, or like what are we doing? Because I don't really see the point. Probably some people out there are like, I'm gonna take out a loan and do this and do that and have an awesome time. Then it's gonna be our big rock. Yeah. No, I don't think anyone is that stupid, surely. Oh no, yeah, good point. Good point. Um did you get that loan approved or no? No. No, bastards. But there's always another alien attack on the way. Alien money. Uh yeah, that is. I I a few times I've looked at it and been like, because I've just started to get like, you know, bigger and better gigs and quite frequent and paid and this and that. And I'll like fucking typical. World's gonna end. Fucking aliens. Motherfuckers. I always say that. I'm like, why is it happening in my lifetime? Why does it? Yeah, like it has to be in my lifetime, you know. Like my grandparents never saw that shit. It's never happening, it's not gonna happen. It is funny though, because like again, it's a social media thing, but like there's so many things on social media that that say, and some of it's quite compelling. Like, I saw I saw one thing where it was like the trajectory of this thing is really intentional, like it looks like a spacecraft, it doesn't have any of the traits of a comet or anything like that, looks like a spaceship, it's moving like one, it's gonna like use Mars as a bit of a like a slingshot, apparently, and then like go on the other side of our sun so that when we're on one side of the sun, we wouldn't be able to intercept it or see it. It feels like it's like a deceptive, and and you go, like, oh, that's really and then you go onto the NASA website and they just call it Comet 3I Atlas. It's like wait, is it is it a comet or not? Like, why why do these people say that it's definitely not a comet, and why do NASA say that it is? But I have worked it out, Tate. I know why. It's because everyone's a like a dishonest little fuckhead on social media. Yeah. I watched this video of this guy, he's a he's an uh an Australian journalist called Ross Coulthard. Have you ever heard of him? He's gotten this massive fucking following now. He used to be with like the ABC or whatever, right? Now he has this huge following um because he speaks out on government conspiracies and stuff like that. Like he's the he's the guy who says that these people are fucking lizards, and he's uh and I have all of the evidence. This is the bit that annoys me. I was talking to my friend Nick about this. Like, he I saw a video. Nick actually sent me the video of Ross uh saying that there is a a world event coming in in 2027 or something, um, world changing or world-ending or whatever it is. It's huge, it's it's one of those like you know, apocalyptic style events. Yeah, he goes, I know what it is, um, I know like all these people have told me. And and I watched that video and then I replied to Nick, I was like, I've never heard anyone say so use so many words to say fucking nothing. Yeah, I was gonna say, What is it? Exactly. He doesn't say, and he never does, they never expose any information, they never give any information away. They literally make money by talking. So why why change it now? That's their whole thing. Yeah, I think. And I know that this is where a lot of my cynicism comes from, but it's like this guy he makes money every time he posts something, doesn't even matter what it is. So, like, that's that's why people go, Oh, why would he do it for any other reason? Money does it for money, that's it. If he knew that there were aliens living amongst us, what he really wouldn't say and prove it, ridiculous. It's true, it would be so weird if they rock up though. It'd be great. I wouldn't even know where to begin. I I mean, I part of me wants it to just destroy the entire planet and everyone on it. Goodbye, Oscar. Oh yeah. Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't be sad about it because I would die too. We'd all be dead. Do you reckon that's how like murder suicides? That's how they feel. I mean, probably. Yeah, they're like, ah, don't worry about it. Yeah, the guilt, the guilt will go immediately. What if I was I can't remember where I was, but they were talking about I can't remember if it was a podcast or television show or I had this conversation. That's the issue with like me. I just don't know sometimes where I hear things or if I'm talking about them. But they were talking about true crime, and they're like, Oh, it's just like crazy how like so many people out there will just like dismember a body. And then I was like, No, it's not. Do you know how heavy a body is? Like, if I had a run-in with someone and they accidentally died and I was terrified and I didn't want to get caught, you're gonna have to cut them up. Sulfuric acid. Well, you yeah, you're gonna have to get rid of them somehow. And if you're you always see like the perpetrators, and then always just some skinny dude who like just went nuts and smacked someone, it's like, yeah, they were never gonna lug around me. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like 123 kilos at the moment. Um, I think a few geramine. Um how's that going? It's going well. No, no, killing you. Oh, yeah. Oh no, yeah. How's the germine going? Uh second weekend. So you were 123? I was 124. No, sorry. I was 127.5. When? Uh shit. Ten days ago. It's like four and a bit kilos in ten days. Yeah. Yeah, good. I mean, when you got a lot to lose, it's it comes off pretty easy. But I must admit, I do when I get into like workout mode, I do work out a lot. Like 20,000 steps and then like obviously a gym sessions included in that. Yeah. What I've been doing is the workouts on like the preset ones. So you've got it like so when you're on like a treadmill or a bike or something like that, it changes the the the hardness or the what's it called? The resistance. Oh, yeah, yeah. Holy shit. Because you can't fake it. Like you have to, like, it just changes on you. Like, oh crap. Like, yeah, and it's Do you ever use like the stepper? That's in like the elliptical machine. Yeah, it's just the stairs. The gym that I'm going to at the moment is one of the worst gyms I've ever been to. Oh, really? What do we shout them out? Oh, it's anytime fitness and fremantle. Yeah. Um, the it's just a dated gym. Like they've clearly had this stuff forever. Um, the lady who works there's amazing. She just weirdly was at our show last Friday. Oh, yeah, you said the um, well, I mean, it was a Freo show, so yeah. Yeah, uh, English lady. Um the best. And yeah, she was she was I was walking out and she was like, Tate. I was like, Uh oh, I'm in trouble. I'm like, what have I done? Uh because I'm like real neurotic with like cleaning the machines as well. Because I sweat, I do I'm a sweater, that's fucking who I am. So I always make sure that I clean them like head to toe. Yeah. So I was like, oh no, it can't be that. I'm like, I don't know what this is gonna be about. And she was like, I was at your show on Friday, and I was like, Oh, that's even worse. Uh, because it was a hard show, you know. We did that one in Freo, and it was older people, and it was just a bit of a a weirder setup, I guess. Um But it was telling me to line up for for that one for this week. Yeah, I'd imagine it's probably Slim Pickings. That was like a on paper, that show was really, really solid. Yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was a good show as well. I know, I know we had to work for it, but it was still a good show. Yeah, um, but this week I think because you've got a bunch of people down south doing that Punjara gig, we got obviously the lounge is on, Oasis is on, so like it's yeah, it's it's a tough one for him this week. Yeah. Oh well. Well, it is what it is. I'm not there, so I don't care. Yeah. Um but yeah, the Jeremine stuff. It's a uh people are probably thinking, like, what is it? Um it's just a tablet you take. You gotta take it in the morning because it gives you like energy. Um and also it gets rid of your uh what's it called? Appetite because it is an amphetamine. I cannot fathom where keep my appetite going. It is strange. Um I am always hungry. Yeah. Me too. Like that's that was the issue. I just I'm trying to build a good base. Um, you know, I did it a few years ago. 2023 and got down to like well that was the I was 144 kilos, and I got down to a hundred and twelve. Um that was taking Jerome and stuff like that. So and then I I I was good for probably about six to eight months, made sure that you know, you I was living with my brother, get a a large pizza between the two of us, have half the pizza, and that was it, and like make a salad. And then, you know, you came over last year and it was like, let's get three large pizzas, you know. We were absolutely disgusting, yeah. Yeah, it wasn't good. Oh, yeah, no, it wasn't good. It was fucking great. Um, there was one time I'm trying to think when it was, was fuck, I hadn't known you for that long, but you went to Thailand. Oh, yeah. Um to what was it, Tiger something? Yeah, Tiger Muay Thai. Uh, because that was essentially I know it was for Muay Thai, and you've like practiced that before, but it was to lose weight. It was to lose weight. Because you were like, oh, it fucking melts off when I do this. Yeah, because you just it's so hot, and then you're just training every day. How long did you go for? I only went for four weeks that time. I'd planned to go for ages and then I was too fat. Like I went, I needed to train before going to training. Does that make sense? Yeah, like it was just like my body wasn't recovering, and I'm just one of those people. If I'm not getting the good results, I'm I'm not staying here just for the sake of like having now a holiday. It's pretty cool though. Um, but yeah, I did that back in Did you go to Thailand for Muay Thai? I did that back in the first time I did it was 2016. Because that was for a lot longer, right? Yeah, I did that for three months, and I I'll put a picture up of how I looked. It's still in my favourites in my phone of like one day. Um, but I was I think I went there at about 125 kilos and I walked out at 90. 90. Yeah, I like and I was obsessed. Like I I trained with other people for like a while, and they were like, I've never seen like more dedication. Like I didn't have didn't drink, didn't party, didn't do shit. All my other mates I'm training with are like train during the day, drink at night, whores fucking massage, rinse and repeat, and I was just like, must do this. Like it was and then I got home and put it all back on uh within six months. Nice, and then I got down. Not really, like kicking so hard. It is like you gotta have so much flexibility in like your groin, which you just either gotta do that for a decade to like loosen it up or naturally have like that's such an amazing that's like the equivalent of like, yeah, I I played football all summer. Oh yeah, you're like, wow, kicking is hard. Yeah, it's fucking difficult, man. I I just yeah, I couldn't I could probably kick in his kick in the shoulder, maybe at my best. I know kicking, I like I'm I don't do that, but it's just funny to say that after training, like kickboxing. Yeah, it's such a great workout though. Like I can imagine. Saw a heap of UFC fighters there, and I had one fight uh through like it was called like a barbecue beatdown, which was Tiger Muay Thai, they have it the last Saturday of every month, I think. And I fought one of my friends. I was 27 kilos heavier than him. I still fucking beat him. Um talk to me about the barbecue though. Well, it was a buffet um and they had heaps of different food. Fuck yeah. And that was a lot of people let their hair down, drank this and that. I met a dude there and he was like uh Aussie fella that now lived in London, and he was like, I did this 10 years ago. And he was probably at the time when I met him like like 35, 37 or something like that. And I was like, How was it? And he was like, This wasn't there and it was a lot shitter and blah blah blah blah blah. And he's like, mate, I fucked a different chick every night. He's like, it was just full of women and not that many people because it wasn't that and he was just like I just yeah, every night just a different chick from class and I was like more cardio. Yeah, yeah. Um and I I didn't do that and I just fucking jerked off and slept and rinse and repeat. Um but yeah, no, I I would like to do that again. I'd love to like go there and bring my podcast gear and like chat to people. I just do six m six weeks, eight weeks of just like podcasting with people that I meet from there, like take talks. Um would you fight too? No. No, no. It's such a brutal thing because you can elbow. Yeah. So if you're like close with someone, you're like, I'm doing well, and then they just cock you in the head, like it's just split in the open. Or imagine getting hit in the eye. Like no, that's why I don't do these things. Um like people have said to me, it's like, oh, it's good, you know how to fight now. And it's like, no, no, I know how bad I am. Like I genuinely know that I'm not a fighter, and uh some people it comes naturally and they'll like stand there and get punched and stuff. I'm like, oh like it's it's not my thing. It's uh I'd probably be able to like put a guard up and like maybe block some punches, yeah, and then hopefully like push back and then get away. Um, but yeah, that's it's it's it's brutal. That's what six months of training will do. It does make you feel like you're invincible for a little bit, and then you get in there with a chick who's like five foot five and she bad as you and you're like, fuck, it suck. Jim bros do that a lot. They put on a bit of muscle and then they go, like, oh yeah, I should do UFC or I should do MMA or boxing or something. Like, how do you think that that translates? Yeah, you've seen these guys, they're like fucking 20 kilos lighter than you and will strangle you in like a second. You're insane. None of it has ever sounded appealing to me. No, a German girl I I sparred with like four not in spa, but she was just like really quick, and she punched me so hard in the ear one day, and I was like, What I had my guard essentially in front of my face, yeah, and then she just went round and just went dunk, and I was like, Oh god. Then there was a part of me that was like if I hit you like that, yeah, I'm everyone would be like you're a piece of shit. Yeah, and she just fucking and that's the thing. A lot of girls do that. You watch and they try and keep up with the boys, but it's like the boys aren't hitting you nowhere near that they can hit you, not even at 50%. And you're thinking that you need to like rattle them at like 75-80%. It's like you're asking, and you do it to the wrong dude, and he's like, Bonk. I saw I've seen it. I saw an interview with um with John Jones, and he was talking about how he went to some gym and he was sparring with a couple of guys, and but because he's John Jones, they wanted to like go a bit harder, and then you know, obviously he could probably kill them. Any he kills anyone, but he said that uh he goes, like one guy came at me like just a little bit too aggressive. Um, so after the the thing was finished, he just said thank you. Um, and then he goes, I know I would never work with him again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Their body's their business too. Exactly. It's it's he gave a number I'm fairly sure of like the the how much you go to. I think he said like 20%. Depend yeah, if you're throwing like kicks and stuff, you wouldn't be I'm probably making that up, but I remember thinking that like that's a super low number because I remember thinking like if you went 20% on me, you'd probably still murder me. Well, at his size, yeah. So like usually they say nothing more than 50. Right. But when you're that big, you're like, well, you gotta turn it down because the weight of your because I was always with the heavyweights. Well, I suppose also you don't want to risk if someone like him doesn't want to risk injury, I guess. Yeah, yeah. So it's um it's more a technique thing and stuff. I remember so there was like a 16-year-old kid from like Amsterdam or something like that, and he was like real cocky, tall, like and uh he I I sparred with him once, and he had his like guard and he was like quite good and he was punching me pretty hard, and I was like, All right, don't don't hit him too hard because like you know, people be like, that's a child. Um and he wasn't small. A 16-year-old kid that works out now is a big guy, he would have been taller than me, probably like six one, six two, and he he was just like oh fuck this guy, I'm just gonna keep punching him. And he I essentially just had my guard up and he was just punching my my gloves. Um and then I just like maybe 30%, I just punched him straight in like the stomach, but like in the in the sternum? In the sternum, and he was just like and he took a step back and he was just like and I'm like, Are you good? And he was just like and I was like, Oh, yeah, I forgot. Like You're a kid, yeah. And then I sparred a 14-year-old New Zealand kid that came over that was like you watch him and you're like, whoa, you are good. Technically, like he must have been doing it forever. His dad was just to the side, and he's like, he's just like throwing every combination at me. It's just me and him in the ring, and I'm essentially just a punching bag. And um, a few times he would get me, try and get me in like a clinch, and I would like one hand just like push him off like pretty hard into the ropes and in like to be like, get off me and then finished up the three minutes, and then his dad was just like, Oh, great work, and then came to me in front of his son, and he was like, Thank you so much for not battering him. And the son was just like, Well, like, what the I I beat up this old man, and the the dad looked at the son and just goes, When he pushed you off with one hand, remember what he could have done to you when you're off balance and he could have like genuinely hurt you. Like, remember those little shoves when you went flying, because he would have been 65 kilos, and I was probably maybe 110 or something. So nearly twice the size, but yeah, and it was just like, eh, if I just decided to just fucking start reeling off, like he would have been fucked. Yeah, even though that technically destroyed me. Yeah, yeah. It's like wait, like wait, that's why there's weight classes, yeah, yeah. Well, there should be. Yeah, they're they're talking about doing an open weight class for um That's insane. For bare knuckle a a tournament. But then I remember somebody saying it might have been might have been Buddha or someone was talking about how bare knuckle, while it sounds fucking brutal, people punch like differently, but not as they don't go as hard because they don't want to shatter their fucking hands. Yeah, they punch at like I think it's like 60 or 70 percent. Yeah, so no one's like trying to take anyone's head off bare knuckle or something. But they all they get absolutely battered though, yeah. Because it's just there's nothing, it just splits you open. Doesn't take much at all to like I've never had it, but I've seen it so many times in boxing and UFC and stuff, and just just glance as them and then it's pissing out blood, and you're like, Yeah, it's bone and skin. What about the fucking face lapping shit? Oh, that's we've watched that a few times like with my old housemates. Um That is absolutely that is CTE. It should just be called CTE. Because you don't move and you get womped in the head as hard as possible by someone, half get concussed, get back up, and then do it another three times. Like they reckon rugby is way worse than like boxing and shit like that. Because you you the jolts or the big tackles that you take are genuinely like rattling your brain. It's like copying one of those big hits in boxing that might happen like two or three times, maybe in a fight, and they're doing it like 14-15 times. Yeah, and that's why the big NFL thing was like they've got the concussion and stuff like that, CTE, blah blah blah. Because they just get absolutely smashed. That's where their careers are like four years long, right? Well, that's the thing. I've I've you know, we've spoken about, you know, I've done trade work before and got good money for it, and it's like, but there is the potential of getting absolutely fucking sore a finger off or falling off a scaffold or whatever, and you're like, hmm. Yeah, dude. Sometimes when I'm like when I'm typing my wrist feels a bit funny, so I I get that as well. I stop for a few days. What's um to lose one finger? Yeah, how much money? Little finger. Not not not one of the little finger. Little finger hundred hundred grand a hundred mil. Hundred grand. That's a that's low. It is low. I reckon 100 grand and I could probably do without my left little finger, and I've got a story. How would the story be that like I got a hundred grand for cutting my finger off? And that'd be like, excuse me. I got offered a gambling ad uh the other day, did I tell you? No. By the accuser. It was funny because on Saturday at that at that Bunbury gig, I was talking to Evan just about ads in general and stuff. And he was like, Is there anything you wouldn't advertise? And I was like, There's tons of stuff I wouldn't advertise, you know, gambling, alcohol, all that sort of stuff. Dark web. Um, but I said, uh, unless the money was like really good. And so this company approached me, I forget what they're called now. I think it's N1. Hold on. I think it's gonna N-word. N-word gambling. I think it's N1 gambling. Uh yes, it is N1 Gambling. Um, so they they inadvertently you're plugging them now. Well, this deal would have either happened or not by the time this goes out, so that's fine. Um, but uh when they explained like what they are, because they're like a crypto gambling thing as well. Okay, um I gave them uh a quote which is basically like my mortgage for the rest of the year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh so if they say yes, and if you see an ad, it's because they said yes to that. Um, but I don't think they will. Yeah, I I guess that's in the same vein as why you see some comedians do corporate gigs. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and it's just like because the money is insane. Yeah. Um and even now, like we do gigs where you know you're like, all right, I'm doing this because the money's decent and may not be ideal with like travel or fucking the rest of it set up and stuff, but yeah, just do them anyway. Those mining gigs and stuff like that. Yeah, perfect example. They were they the best? Absolutely not, but I got paid well, yeah. Um, and at my level, I can't be like, nah, sorry, man. Um, which a lot of people wouldn't do, and a lot of people want to do them, and I've sort of gotta like Yeah, warn them a little bit, yeah. Yeah, I got offered a a gig in Bali, like one show, one night, and the money would just about cover the flight. Yeah. So you lose oh yeah, free accommodation. Free accommodation, like they were putting me up in a hotel, but the money just about covers the flight. Yeah, technically, you'll be down by the time you got an Uber, Uber back, all that stuff. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you'd you're definitely down, which is fine, but like I don't really wanna there's nothing like if that was another city here, I'd I'd probably snap it up in a heartbeat. But the barley is just gonna be drunk fucking expats and and tourists and shit. I'm like, I don't really feel the need to fly to do that. Yeah, there is like it's all good and well doing geeks, I guess, overseas and getting there. Like, you know, I'm obviously going to Canada, but also a big thing is I'm genuinely going to visit mates that I haven't seen in years. Yeah, whereas I wouldn't be going to Bali for anything else. I would literally go do that show and come home. Yeah, it's probably not the not the right thing. But if you were going for a family holiday, yeah. Like, oh, I can get some money back, I just have to do one gig. Which I also two make it. Like at this point, could you start to go to places and be like, hey, I'm doing this gig and now my flights are somewhat of a tax write-off. Oh, yeah, because you're getting paid for them. I mean, and the Bali one kind of would be, but my point is that like the flights to Bali aren't that expensive. Yeah, it's just not paid. It's the money itself is pretty terrible for what they want. So they come and do like a headline set for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, and you're only gonna get paid like what you'd probably get here. Yeah. I mean, I have to get on a plane. Yeah. And yeah, it's it's a heap of stuff too. Also, like you don't really take into consideration at the time, like, are you gonna get like travel insurance for like a week? Yeah. All that sort of shit. Yeah. Um how do we get onto that? I don't remember what we were talking about before. I don't know, but this might be a short, sharp episode. Short, sharp, and sweet. Yeah. So the main takeaway though is that the aliens either came or they didn't. We should have an alien mask for you next one. Um yeah. Uh I support gambling. I don't know if I do or not yet. I definitely don't, but if for the if the money's right, I'll support just about anything. Well it'll be interesting because at some point we will get some sponsors. And we're gonna have to work out like if we want to do them. Because there'll be some weird and wacky ones, and there always is. Um that wanna be like, hey, blah blah blah blah blah. I'm not massively against like gambling, to be honest. Like, I I never gamble, I don't really give a shit though. But it's things like like I would never promote alcohol, and I'd never promote like nicotine vaping and all that kind of stuff. Like, that's not not. What about blue chew dick pills? Fuck yeah. Okay, it's not really a big add over here, but in America it seems to be everyone's got the same everyone's promoting blue chews. What was it? I can't remember who it was now. Someone said about like don't you want to enter the room dig first? Yeah. That's actually quite funny. Yeah. Anyway, thank you guys. Keep sending your shit. You're you're here. Sorry. So yeah, ciao.