We're fading in, we're fading in.
We're fading in. We're fading in.
We're fading in, we're fading in.
Guess what? It's Season 4, episode one.
Halfway to what? Is it 400 halfway to 800 or one
halfway to two? I I guess it's halfway to 8028.
02. OK, now let's just go.
Let's just go straight into it. Let's when I'm mucking around.
No, you don't even ask where I am.
Yeah. Well, how are you?
Where are you? Well, I'm still in Melbourne.
It's still. Cold.
Oh yeah the other morning it was I think the coldest it's been in
the morning was like 0.4 or something wow it's not nice no I
mean at at at least we're in a house and we're not in the in
the van 'cause then we would be feeling the 0.4 a lot more than
in a house yeah A house keeps the heat mostly, which is nice.
Hmm. But we're still in Melbourne so
yeah I'm just hanging around OK not doing much.
It's cold, Yeah, so. Not mucking around.
Let's let's get. I'm not my hand.
Let's just go straight into it. We're not wasting any time.
No, now I have a it's coffee related story, but I don't think
it's coffee update. So I'm just gonna tell you a
little story because and it's not.
Cue the related music. I don't I don't have any coffee
related music. Now this is not good or bad,
which is why I'll just do it here and it's not specifically
like coffee from a coffee shop related.
So I'll just tell you a little story, OK, A coffee that I buy
from the supermarket, it's a Malaysian sachet coffee.
It's old, it's Old Town white coffee, right?
And you get 15 in a pack. You used to only be able to get
them in like these Asian supermarkets and they're about 7
bucks, 8 bucks for this like 15 pack.
At some point I just started using half a sachet.
Yeah. And then putting like one spoon
of decaf in with that. Yeah.
And that that's. Enough.
Yeah, so then I'm getting 30 coffees out of a 15 pack.
So that's a I'm already, I'm already ahead, right.
I'm getting 2 for the price of one.
Yeah. Anyway, the big supermarket
started selling these probably sometime into Covad, like maybe
21 or 22, OK, They started selling them and they were like
7 bucks and then like everything else, they've just slowly crept
up. Then they were $8.
That were 850. They were 950.
I walked into Coles about a week ago and I saw them on the shelf
and now we're 1150 and it said new.
It's like, is it you've sold it for about 3 years now, so.
Right. What's new?
Why is it new? And so I just went, OK,
whatever. Who knows what these idiots do.
I just wandered around the rest of Coles.
And then right up in the back corner at the end of an aisle,
they've got like the clearance section, beautiful clearance
shelf, one of my favorite spots in the whole, the whole place.
You never know what's going to be there.
Yeah, what do I see? I see about 30 packs of Old
Town, right, with a big yellow tag clearance 495.
And I'm like what? What is going on?
OK, so I'm like, OK, logically I, I know what this is going to
be. So I have a look at the size of
the pack. The size that they're clearing
is a 570g, that's 38g each. And they previously were selling
for $9.50. OK, so then I go back.
I take one with me, I go back to the to compare.
I go back to the other aisle and I have a look at this and this
is well it's new $11.50 not 570 gram 525g.
Shrink flation. So they've put $2.00 on the
price and chopped off. Yeah, I think, I think 3G per
sachet. OK.
So I'm like, I literally drink this every day, at least six
days a week. It's usually the first coffee of
the day. And then I might get one
outside, but it's #1 So I'm like, I need to buy up these at
495 because that is an insane price.
Of course. Yeah.
I mean, they, they haven't been 495 for like 10 years.
So I had a look. There was like 30 of them.
And I'm like, OK, first of all, how many can I didn't have a
bag. So first of all, I'm like, how
many can I carry? Yeah, I can go.
I can take them down to the car. OK.
And then the second thought was how many can I buy before my
wife loses it? About how many coffees I've
bought. So why don't you just?
Chuck them all in the trolley and take it all in one go to the
car. I never even thought of the
trolley or the basket. Oh God I'm an idiot.
I never even consider that I'm just like no I'll I will submit
marry 5 things right OK. I always try to just carry
everything like an idiot if I forget the bag.
OK, so I'm like, how many can I carry?
So I picked up 246. I got 8 and it was starting to
get a bit slippery. So I'm like, OK, I'll get 8,
right. So I bought the eight.
I thought they scanned at 495. I just said I didn't scan all
eight. I went to the girl.
Can I just scan one? And you just do magic, you know,
add 7, whatever. So she did that, took the eight
down to the car. It's good for steps because, you
know, it's a fair walk back to the car.
OK, And then so I get down to the car, I just dump all them in
the boot and then I'm like, where's the bag?
Look in the back seat. Not not in the boot.
There's no bag. So right.
So I'm making another trip back, buying another eight, buying
them, walking back to the car, dumping them in the boot,
walking back again. What?
Did you buy? All of them I bought 8 more.
So I'm I'm at 24 now. OK took all them down to the car
and I'm like, you know, there's literally about 5 or 6 left.
Do I go do I get them? And I'm like no, I'll leave them
for someone else 24 That's nice. I worked it out roughly.
It's going to last me like 6 months or eight months or
something. Yeah, great.
So you know, instead of paying 1150, I paid 495.
So that's, that's a good like 60% off roughly.
Yep. So that's my story.
It's great. It's bad they it's shrink
inflation and the price has gone up.
But it's good. I got coffee for the next 6
months at least. Did you go to other coal?
Stores looking, because I did put it in a, a I'm in a
Malaysian Facebook group and I, I took a picture of this price
and this weight this one and the other the the new one and the
old one and I just said if anyone's wants to go and check
out your local Coles, this is what's going on Most people said
they've already all got the new ones so that they might have
just run down the stock to zero and then replaced it but this
place down where I am there's not a lot of Asian people around
it's very white. So I'm guessing they just wanted
they they'd never sell it right yeah.
So they they will probably like thank God this guy just came in
and bought like all the stock we've only got about 5 left
yeah. When they do that with the
obvious shrink flation, they just want to get rid of that old
stuff ASAP so people don't see it, Yeah.
Exactly. And it's confusing for, I guess,
people who work there because there's different weights and
different prices. Yeah.
You know, I think they just want to clear it out just so, so
people don't see it and get angry, right, about what's going
on. Yeah.
Because I saw the same thing the
other day. I saw that.
The big block of Cadbury chocolate.
Yeah. You know, the big one, like,
yeah, yeah. Is it like 250g or something?
Yeah, something like that. It's big.
Yeah, it was a fruit and nut. I don't love the Cadbury fruit
and nut, right. But again, it was a shrinking of
about, it was like 20 or 30 grams less when I went back and
looked at the the new one. And so I bought that.
I always used to go any Cadbury chocolate more than like $1.66
per 100 gram is too expensive. That's crept up now, obviously
to around, I think it's $1.94 is about the cheapest you can ever
get it. OK, But usually it's around 2:10
now 'cause chocolate price has gone up, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, this Cadbury fruit nut, What?
I can't remember the actual price, but it was like a dollar
three per 100 gram, unbelievably cheap.
I mean, it's garbage chocolate, but it it does the job.
I only bought one. They had three left.
I only bought one. That's that's called
self-control. Because I was just looking at
the dollar per 100 gram and I'm like, Oh my God, this is so
cheap. OK, but I just thought I've
already bought 4000 coffees. I don't need anything chocolate.
Yeah. Very good.
So that's the story. I I saved a lot of money.
I spent upfront a good amount, but I saved a lot.
That's good. That was a good happy start to
the to the week. Yeah.
And I don't have to think about buying coffee for six months,
which is always good. OK, so that's that story.
Now you know who's 58, Who Adam Sandler is 58.
OK. Until the 9th of September,
Yeah. So I hope he's having a good
year. Well, they're doing a new Happy
Gilmore, I think. I heard, yeah.
Some movie that were doing another one.
Yeah. Is that one?
Yeah, Yeah. I haven't seen a lot of Adam
Sandler movies. Like I know Happy Gilmore was a
big one, right? And there was another.
Oh, Billy Madison. Yeah.
But the only actual movie I remember seeing is Click, which
is not a famous movie. That's the one with Hasselhoff,
isn't it? I don't remember, maybe right.
I just just remember I love that movie because I love the idea of
having a remote control for life for just like someone's just
screaming their heads off at you and you're just like pause or
like mute, volume down. I don't have to listen to this
or Fast forward through all the crap.
Oh, it's a genius idea. I really like that movie.
I need to watch it again. Did.
You ever see wedding singing? Yes, like well that.
Was the other big one, Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
But when, like when it came out, whenever that was, like I barely
remember. I know Drew Barrymore was in it.
That's probably the reason I watched it, is because Drew
Barrymore was in it. Yeah.
So that's that. Let's go to what's good.
What's good this week? Well, I'm guessing I finally
recovered. I went to the doctor 'cause I
was like, still coughing a bit. Oh, yeah, yeah.
And like he said, look, have this antibiotics, do this for a
week because he, you know, he did the stethoscope here and
there, cough, cough, cough. And he's like, oh, this section
cough again. Or it sounds like you might
have, you know, infection or something.
Whatever he heard, I don't know. He said there might be an
infection. Have these antibiotics for a
week, see how it goes. I just finished then like
literally yesterday. OK, I think I'm fine.
Yeah, OK, you you notice the difference?
I'm not coughing anymore, I'm not feeling congested, I'm not
feeling like there's still something there, right?
I think I'm 100% now, finally. I hate when you have that last
little bit and you just can't get over.
It well look, it's been since the 10th of April.
Wow, yeah. So that's six weeks.
Right. That.
Yeah, That's, that's, that's. Annoying.
I mean, it started as laryngitis.
Wow. And then either I just picked up
something along the way, who knows, but I'm fine.
That's good, very good. What else is good?
OK, this is good. To me, totally shocking,
unbelievable news. The right wing main party in
Australia at the Liberal Party after their crushing defeat,
their solution was to choose a woman.
I can honestly say I never saw that coming.
I never thought that would happen.
Well. You know what they've, they've
recognized that, you know, they, I guess they've alienated all
these groups of people, including women, including like
a whole heap of groups. So it's like, Oh, well, we can
be progressive and we can, you know?
Yeah, this is this is the fine line falling either side of of
the the needle. It's not that they've recognized
that they're a bunch of chauvinist pigs and it's all old
white men. Yeah, and they think a woman
will save the day. No, the only reason they chose a
woman is because they think that's what people will vote
for. Correct.
It's not because they've had any self reflection and realization
that they're an absolute pack of dogs, right?
It's just we've tried everything else.
Let's try this, correct. So I'll, I'll be very interested
to see how that goes. She seems, I've only seen very
little of her. She doesn't seem very likable,
I'll say that much. Yeah.
Exactly. So it's probably they still got
to fail because, OK, they chose a woman, but if you chose a
horrible woman representing horrible values, which they do,
who's still going to vote? It's just interesting.
I can't wait to see how it goes. Yeah, it's a great experiment,
I'll say that. Yeah.
Oh, man, that is like the last thing I thought would happen.
I really did not see that coming.
Yeah, what's good where I am in Melbourne, South of Melbourne,
Mornington Peninsula. I think I can say that Nice
safely. Nice part of it.
It's a big area no one's going to find.
Me. They just go to the local Coles,
look at the clearing section, they'll find you.
Just like around the Coles and wool somewhere I'll be, I'll be.
I'll turn up eventually. Right.
But here's the thing, it's after the majority of my life.
It's just really funny to be in a really like rich white area,
right? And like I go into Coles and
wool. It's almost every morning.
I'll go to one first and I'll look at all the options and then
I'll go to the other one. So that means I walk into the
first one, usually walk OK with nothing.
Now, if you try this in in Sydney or a lot of other big
city places, straight away, if you just try to walk out of
there without buying anything, they're like, it's a, it's a
criminal. It's a criminal, yeah, they've
stolen something. Who would possibly walk into a
supermarket and walk out without buying something like that is so
unconceivable to some people's brains.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
So down here, like, they, they know me.
They see me almost every day. Yeah.
And they, they know my what I do, Right.
But it's just so funny to to walk out of a shop and not be
treated like a criminal. Is your caravan blocking their
view by chance? No, it's not.
No, no it is not. OK, well, that's that's even
better. It's just, and it's so funny to
walk past, like, what are those bakeries?
Is it like Brumbies or. Yeah.
Brumbies or Baker's delighted. Baker's Delight Solely staffed
by white people. Yes, they are.
Yeah. Is that the same everywhere or
is it just down here? I think it's everywhere.
Oh, it's interesting. Yeah, 'cause walking around most
places in Sydney, any other bakery, they're gonna be like
Vietnamese or yeah, some, some Asian of some description,
right? Usually Vietnamese.
And that's where I usually go to get by me.
But it's weird down here because it's just all white people.
And it's just really strange because I'm not used to being
yeah in such a white area. It's just really, I mean, it's,
it's not disturbing, it's just you notice it, you really notice
it, right? It's just, it's funny to me.
It's just, it's just not normal to me because.
Well. Of course, because Sydney's a
multicultural. Being in, Yeah.
Growing up in in Sydney, yeah, there's everyone.
Yeah, exactly. And even when I'm in Melbourne,
in the city, a lot of Asians, a lot of European, just everybody.
Yeah. And then you come down here and
it's just so white. It is just like a sea of white
faces, right. Oh, it's funny.
Anyway, so that's good, not to be looked at as a criminal just
for existing. That's a good thing.
I've only got one more thing. Yeah.
Now this does have a flip side, which we'll get to later.
But the good part of it is, let's say what's good in
general, and that is that we have fairly unrestricted access
to the Internet. Like just about anything I want
to get, I can get, I can acquire in some way or another, right,
with little to no cost yet. So that's what's good.
We'll get to the bad part of that later.
But right now, just enjoy your Internet access, OK?
It's just going. That's what.
That's what I'll say. OK, You'll hear the the other
part of it later. So what about you?
What is good? Well, I don't.
Really have a lot this week. Last night I went to a gala
dinner. Oh, with what was?
Was Nicole Kidman there? No, she wasn't.
But see, this is where the story's going.
But myself and my colleague that we work together, our boss
invited us to this. It's a charity dinner for Humpty
Dumpty, which is they buy medical equipment for sick kids
and it's connected to the, the charity, which is actually
tomorrow, the Balmoral Oral Burn, which is like they run up
a hill in Mosman and like it's a deceptive hill.
Like at the bottom of the hill, you look up the ceiling and it's
like, Oh yeah, that's not too bad.
But then you, it's like 400 meters up.
And apparently if, if you make it to the top, everybody that
does make it to the top, they throw up everywhere.
So apparently it's like it's a, it's a deceptively killer kind
of hill. But anyway, there's this gala
dinner and they had the gala dinner.
I got invited to it. My colleague and I, we drove out
there and like, we were talking about about like, you know, just
like restaurants in the city and how they're not really doing
good business and, you know, with rent and, like, prices of
things and all that sort of stuff that don't seem to be
doing any good. Anyway.
This is going somewhere. Yeah.
So anyway, we go to Balmoral and there's this this massive
marquee that they've set up for this gala dinner.
And we got there at, like, 6:00 and the things started at 6:30,
but no one else was there. So we were kind of killing time.
And then right next to this Balmoral marquee that they've
held, this gala dinner, there was a restaurant right on that
corner. And my colleague and I are
looking in the restaurant and the restaurant is like bare.
There's nobody in it, no one. But there was like 20 staff.
And there like, there was people in the kitchen.
There was waiters and waitresses and all this sort of stuff.
We're looking through the window and we're talking to each other
and we said, see, this is what we're talking about.
Like, where's the people in this place?
Right? So we had this like a little
interaction about the Bathers Pavilion or whatever it's
called, whatever. And then we went into the
marquee, did the gala dinner, blah, blah, blah.
Came out at the end of the night.
There's a bit of commotion at the same sort of restaurant.
And, you know, I don't know, something's going on.
Didn't think much of it. Anyway, I'm watching the news
this morning and they're like, ah, Kamala Harris last night
turned up at this restaurant in Balmoral and it's like, yeah,
she was there. And that was why the restaurant
was empty. Because they were.
Catering did it, yeah, just for her and her entourage.
But like we were looking in the window just before like that,
all things sort of happened. So you're like, look at all the
This is why restaurants fail. Look at all these staff and no
customers. Yeah, of course they're gonna
fail. Exactly.
Yeah, yeah. She was like, I'm being nice to
any of us. She was right there eating her
dinner. And we're in the place next door
eating out so. That's the way they want it,
yeah. I don't want anyone knowing
anything. So yeah, it's it's quite
shocking that it was Kamala Harris.
That's. Interesting.
She's out here for some like real estate seminar or?
Something I was just gonna say it'll be some conference that
she's gonna talk at. Yes.
It's gonna be a private thing and they get paid loads of
money. Yeah, as always.
Yeah, exactly. That story just reminded me of
something else I just read the other day and it's related to
you know This is why this cat face failing.
And it said, again, the numbers might be wrong, but the, the
overall thought is right. And it said something like due
to, you know, massive, all the inflation and everything's price
increases, staff wages overtime, the cost of coffee has gone up,
stupid prices. And it literally said they
expect 50% of Australian cafes to close in the next like 18
months. Yeah, because it's just not
feasible to continue. That's crazy.
That's how, I mean, there's always been this horrible number
of, like, you know, 8 out of 10 small businesses fail in the
first year or two. Yeah, that number's always been
thrown around. But 50%, if that actually
happens, that is massive. Yeah.
But but it also said we do have one of the highest coffee shops
per person or whatever. Yeah.
Per capita. Yeah.
I think we're in, like, the top five.
Like, there's just so many cafes.
Everyone's idea is like, let's open a cafe and sell coffee.
Everyone needs coffee. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. Forgetting that there's already
5 million other cafes doing that.
That's right. Exactly.
Yeah. So yeah.
I reckon like in order for you to survive, you need to be.
It's it's all about the location.
If you're in a location where there's nobody else, you don't
really have any other competition.
There's no other options. You, you fare a bit better.
Yeah, you've gotta have, I reckon, 3 things.
You've gotta have location. Yeah, you've gotta have quality
and you've gotta have value. Exactly.
You don't have to be cheap, but you've gotta have the right
price for the right quality, and people will happily pay that.
Yeah, OK, Well, I guess that coffee thing goes in.
What's bad? But you just reminded me of from
that story. OK, so now let's do what's bad.
And I've already done 1, so there's one already done.
OK, So what else is bad? Foo Fighters have fired their
drummer Josh Freeze, after I think about two years.
Yeah, he replaced Taylor Hawkins.
Obviously, they thought it wasn't working out.
So I guess they've decided to to go in a different direction, as
they say. I mean, that'd suck for Josh
because, I mean, I'm sure that would have been a nice paying
gig, right? I mean playing for Foo Fighters.
I mean, yeah, you've got to be good and you've got to be on
time and be great, but it would have been a nice payday every
week. But I guess.
Yeah, it was unbeknownst to him, right?
He he kind of, he didn't see it coming.
Yeah, apparently it was just like he.
See you later. They've lined up somebody else
to take his place or something. Is that the reason they let him
go or I don't know, personality clash?
But people sort of turned a bit against Dave Grohl when he found
out he had like another kid or another, another woman or
something. So that didn't help his image,
which up until then was like, he's the nicest guy in
Rock'n'roll, right? And he, he, I, I believe he is a
nice guy. He's made some mistakes though.
Yeah, but those mistakes that you're talking about really is,
is his private business got nothing to do with Yeah, yeah,
yeah. But then you look at like, you
know, he, he does the feeding the homeless stuff and all that
sort of stuff. Like they they kind of ignore
that. Yeah, you can't cancel all that
out just because of other stuff. Yeah, Yeah.
But then I see this. And if it was actually a
surprise to the guy, that really sucks.
I mean, just be a man and have a conversation about it.
Don't just send him an e-mail one morning saying thanks for
your service. You really helped us out.
You really helped us out to make a crap load of money 'cause we
were without a drummer. But yeah, we've sorted something
else out and that that sucks. Like like Prince and the
Revolution? Yeah.
If that's the way it happened, that sucks, right?
That's that's not good. Again, that makes me think, is
he that good a guy? I don't know.
But again, who knows the details?
I don't know. Yeah.
What else is bad? OK, Remember when I was on the
Central Coast a year or so ago and I went and saw Grinspoon?
Yes. And I saw them and they were 79
bucks. And I'm like, that's getting up
there. That's getting up there for a
band of that size. MMM but I paid it, I'm like, and
it was great. It was a great gig.
It was worth the money. And all the tickets on that tour
were the same price. It was just under 80 bucks.
So just about a year ago. So now they've just announced
they're doing a 30th anniversary tour.
They've been around for 30 years, right.
And then I, I looked up the the ticket prices, which just were
announced. All dates have a guess. 120
bucks. Oh, you're so close. 109
dollars, OK, $30 more than a year ago.
Right. Which so I I'm pretty sure I'm
not gonna go. OK, I might hang out for like a
last minute. All my friends sick, social
media, all my friends sick, They can't go.
Here's a here's a ticket. Whoever DMS me first.
OK, Yeah, I'll hang out for that.
I'd even pay 50, but 109 bucks, that's out of control.
It is, yeah. Considering Super Jesus are
still sticking to under 50 bucks.
Yeah. Which I have mentioned to them
and congratulated them on several times, saying don't
think that the fans do not notice that you're staying at
that price when everyone else is 80 plus.
We notice that. So you are great.
Yeah. So there's that.
Yeah. The only one other thing I have
Have you heard of this band Amel and the Sniffers?
No, okay, you shouldn't. You shouldn't have, because
they're awful, okay. But against all odds,
miraculously, they have become famous.
They're an awful Australian sort of rock slash punk.
I don't even know what to call them.
Apparently they've been around for at least six, 7-8 years,
something like that. But I'd never heard of them
until I saw Adam Hills put them on the last leg a few months ago
and that really gave them a boost in the Uki just see on
YouTube last week they were on Jimmy Fallon.
How the F How the hell did this useless awful ban from Australia
somehow get this Unbelievable believable opportunities like Oh
my God they are awful. Maybe I'm just old and they're
just too shouty and noisy and screaming.
I don't know. But I saw this one comment and
it's like she is the ray gun of singers.
It was the best comment. Say no more.
So if you want an if you really can be bothered to look it up,
it's Amyl and the Sniffers, like AM YL and the Sniffers and I'd
be very surprised if anyone likes them.
Lisa, have a listen. I don't know, but I always say
there's no good music. There are good bands out there
that never get a chance. And then absolute trash like
this gets national TV audiences in the UK and the USA and it
just blows my mind how awful they are.
And that's what they get. That's the chance they get.
Sounds like Prince social media. Oh my God, it's just, it's.
Horrible. Hang on a SEC.
You said to me this one last good thing, but there's gonna be
a bad thing and just wait. And now we've gone bad and you
haven't mentioned it. Ohh.
OK, I'm gonna call this now. It's the middle of 2025.
And just saying everything that's happening, every product,
every company, they're all in the battle.
Is it a battle? The quest for ultimate profits.
Yeah. And shootification.
Just everything getting worse, right?
Prices going up for less quality and less quantity.
Every few months the prices go up.
And I'm saying now the Internet in general will practically be
unusable in the near future. This is what I'm thinking, OK,
It's just, it's happened to everything else.
Everything else has been ruined. But in general right now the
Internet is still usable, but it's creeping in.
I just have this feeling I, I can see this coming, you know, I
mean, there's ads and there's pop ups and there's all this
crap, but I just know. And like everything's changing
to subscription. I just know what's coming.
I don't know how or what form. And again, I'm on some
conspiracy rant. I know.
But I just, I just have this feeling like the Internet is
like the last thing that we've still got that is not totally
ruined, right? So yeah, that's what's bad this
week. Well, OK.
I heard a story this week that you know how you can access AI
and you can ask it a question and all that.
Yeah, I think one of, I'm not sure which AI it is.
It might be Google or whatever. And they're like, oh, we're
gonna introduce ads so that every time you ask a question,
like an ad will pop up. Oh, there you go.
Listen. So, so there you go.
Like, yeah, anything that's sort of like barely touched or, you
know, whatever, let's let's ruin it.
Let's put ads in. Let's, you know, Yeah.
How can we make even more money, right?
How do we ruin this product to make more money?
I saw that, yeah. It's like, let's bombard it with
that. So every time you use it ads ads
ads. Yeah, like that's what's bad
this week. I mean it, it hasn't actually
happened happened yet, but that's what's bad this week,
this month, this year, this decade.
This lifetime. We had a good run.
I mean, I remember when I started getting online in oh
man, now I'm not talking like BBS bulletin boards where I was
playing Usurper and Legend of the Red Dragon and Captain Teos,
those amazing text based games, like actual Internet.
I remember being at school in the computer room looking up
some Prince website and they were talking about him and Maite
on Hawaii holidays, Valentine's Day.
So I'm guessing that was 96 February 96.
It would have been right. So that's the first real time I
remember. Oh, this is Internet this you
can just look stuff up. How amazing.
Look, here's the news. They're not going to show this
on Channel 7 news tonight, but I can get on the Internet and see
what he did. How amazing.
After 15 minute dial up noise before looking.
On Oh yeah, Yeah, yeah. The lovely, the lovely sound,
the the great sound. So we had, we had just about a
good 30 years of Internet, mostly unrestricted, but I, I
just have this hunch I've got a sixth sense.
I just have this feeling that it's all coming to an end
because everything else is ending.
Everything else good is getting ruined and restricted.
You know, and I don't think this is even related to America and
the the, the stupid orange clown.
It's just everything in general is getting worse and more
expensive and less quality. I just have a feeling internet's
on it's last legs. But look, I really hope I'm
wrong, I really do, but I just have this feeling.
So I've said it. That's all I've got to say.
Well, I saw something on the news because in Sydney in the
last week we've had major rain which has resulted in flooding
and then. Oh yeah, I saw that Like
regional places, massive floods. Yeah.
And then on the news, ah, you know, the supermarkets can't get
food to the supermarket, so, you know, it's going to be shortages
and we're going to raise prices and all this sort of stuff.
And I thought, I thought to myself, OK, they're gonna raise
prices. No shock there in the second.
No shock is they're gonna blame it on the floods.
And then the third thing is, Yep, they're gonna raise the
price. Do you think it's ever gonna
come down? Nope.
They'll just keep it at that level and say, oh, just the
funny. Thing is, it's not like they
need an excuse. No.
Why the like it's just an obvious easy thing to blame
because the look, the prices were going up regardless,
everything goes up like a little bit like every few weeks.
Alright, I saw this guy posting about coke.
I think it was the two litre coke, which yeah, is actually a
bad deal now compared to what a 1.25 litre cost.
But the two litre, first it was like 370 and then it went to
like $4.00 and then it's gone back to 390.
And this is all over like a month.
I think they've just decided let's just change the prices so
often that no one could possibly keep track of what the real
price actually is because nothing else makes sense.
Right? Like don't say, oh, well, this
week there was this factor that caused this price up.
And then next week it went Nah, Nah, that's not happening.
That's right. They're, they're not that on the
ball. There is no way they're that in
the weeds on prices that like every single week something
affects the prices. Like you've worked it out over
the entire year. Don't give me this weekly
bullshit. Yeah, but they're like, Oh,
well, this this week, this happened, so this is going to.
Yeah, I was like, oh, the floods just happened.
So oh, that's going to change the prices down the line.
No, the prices were going up anyway.
That's right. It's just convenient for you to
blame them. That's right.
Because if you didn't have them to blame, then we'd all be
screaming, oh, look at the supermarkets putting the prices
up again. Yeah, but what a convenient
scapegoat. Oh, half the country got
flooded. Yeah, Anyway, that's all I've
got for what's bad. What about you?
What's bad this week? Let me look down my list here.
Tina Arena No. No idea.
Susan Leigh, No. No idea.
Marty Gojo Zambodo No. No idea.
I thought you would have an idea being Eurovision.
I'm I'm surprised about that. Oh, I watched Eurovision, but I
don't know anyone's name. Chris Brown, No.
No idea. Trains No.
Oh yes. So here we go.
You might have remembered a few years ago now I applied for like
to be an extra in like. Tea.
Yes, yes, yes, yeah. You were.
You were talent, Wolf.
Yeah, so when I signed up to this thing, it's like they put
you on the books, but then like one of the stipulations was, you
know, people's looks change every like 6 months and you're
required to come back every six months and get your photos read,
done. I remember that.
At the six month mark, I emailed them and say, hey, like at six
months, do you want me to come in?
No reply. And I emailed them again, no
reply. Tried calling them, you know, no
answer. So it's just like, well, I don't
know what to do if they're if they're not gonna.
Does this company still exist? Well, they do, because this is
where this is going. I got an e-mail during the week
saying, oh, we've put your name forward for a car insurance TV
commercial. Oh, and it's like, oh, OK, they
still got me down. Like, and The thing is, is like,
I think that when I joined and I paid whatever it was to, to join
it, I think it was only for a year or maybe maximum two years,
which I think is longer than that now.
But they've still got me on their books and they're still
submitting me. It's like, OK, that's
interesting. But it's just like, what are you
guys doing? Because my hair is very short
now. When I got my photos done, my
hair was long. So yeah, like I look very
different. So if they're expecting one dude
to rock up, another dude's going to dude's going to turn up.
And I just looked and I thought, oh, this isn't gonna go
anywhere. So I, I just ignored it because
that's what they do. They kind of inform you that
they've submitted you. And then, like, like, be
prepared because, you know, you might get called or whatever.
It's like, you're not gonna call.
Yeah, Yeah. That's something that's bad this
week. What else is bad this week?
I see coming up in the next week is the Prince celebration.
I have seen a couple of pictures with like the around the world
in a day background art, right? And like there's a bunch of like
guest speakers, but I've, I've, I don't even look at it.
I just scroll past because I I just do not care but.
You know why you're scrolling? It's because they're advertising
every day. And the reason they're
advertising every day is because they haven't sold the.
Tickets. No tickets?
Yep. So like last year, I think when
I went like the the headlining act was a revolution.
They put on this revolution concert and like it's sold out
pretty much straight away this year.
I mean, like the the people that are on there, like there's the
family and there's Jesse Johnson and then that actual Morris Day
and the time last year it was just Morris and he sang.
Oh, it was Morris and a weird mix of the NPG, wasn't it?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's still a good line up. But like this, you can tell
they're struggling because every day it's like, get your tickets,
get your tickets. It's like it's a week out and
you're still asking people to buy tickets.
And it's like there's a easy solution for this.
Just sell streaming packages to people that can't go and you
make your money. And I remember last year,
because I was talking to that Spicer dude and he was, it's
like, Oh yeah, we don't live stream it because it's not fair
to the people that have bought tickets.
And it's like, it's not the same experience.
It's not the same. You sitting your ass on the
couch watching it on a TV screen or a computer monitor is not the
same as being there. Like if you want to spend that
money and go to it and it's the experience that you're paying
for, then that's what you're paying for.
Because there's everything else attached to it.
There's like, aside from being there, you get to her and all
that sort of stuff. So it's not the same.
If they want to stream the concert, they can make easy
money from that. And they have like a whole crew
of people, like 30 people or with cameras filming it all.
But what do they do with that footage?
They didn't do anything with it. So it's like, you know, you
can't tell these people. It's like if you're struggling
to make it like selling these tickets, then sell streaming
packages. It's like it's no brain like
these things and you know, you know what?
The outcome will be nothing. Right.
They won't sell a lot of tickets, which means they won't
make a lot of money right And then what will they do Will they
ever self reflect and think we could have done things better
No, no, no. They'll they'll think of 60
other reasons that they can blame before they'll ever look
at themselves. They.
Like the Liberal Party? Yes.
Like the Liberal Party, Yeah. No self.
Reflection, they'll never, they'll never think, well, maybe
we could have done this better. They'll be like, well, you know,
all the inflation as you know, everyone's stuck, you know, no
one's got any money. They'll they'll just blame
everything else on the planet except for the the celebration
that they put on not being good enough.
Yeah. So that's the bad thing, that
they will learn nothing. You know, you can hope that they
would just one time just go, OK, maybe we need to do better.
And next year they actually do better, like they actually learn
something and try and improve, but that's highly unlikely from
everything they've done previously that they will ever
learn from their mistakes. Maybe they'll park the bus in
the car park and let people take pictures of it.
Maybe. Who knows?
Oh my God. Well, if they don't sell enough
tickets they they won't even have enough money to renovate
that bus and it'll still be sitting out the back with four
flat tyres. So that's what's bad this week.
Oh, I've got one more thing. I didn't know if you were going
to say it or not. I've got one more thing.
Joe Biden has revealed diagnosed with aggressive form of cancer.
It's it's spread to the bone, which I think is a bad thing.
And OK, yeah, that's horrible. But then like within hours,
Donald Trump, junior, all these right wing guys were like, Joe
Biden's been lying to you. There's no way the White House
doctors would have missed this. During all his medical, he hid
this from you. He hid this from the American
people for years. And it's like, is this really
the time for this bullshit? He's not even, he's not even the
president. Who cares, right?
What does it matter? He's gone.
He's gonna literally be gone soon anyway.
Why does this matter at all? He's gone.
Like he's already dead. Jesus.
Well, yeah. It's just, it's just so
pointless. It just shows you how obsessed
they are with never having any sort of policies, just this
ridiculous war against the left. It's just culture war crap to
keep people angry. It is so irrelevant and it's
pointless. It doesn't make sense either
because let's say that let's assume that what they're saying
is true and he knew that he was sick and all this sort of stuff.
Then if the outcast is short and grim, which it probably is, then
what would happen is you have a sitting president that
essentially dies. And then the replacement, which
would be Kamala Harris, I would imagine, just picks up, right?
Well, yeah, I think if the president dies, then the vice
president comes in. But yeah, that's why.
It's, it's not good. Like I mean cancer's, but
aggressive. First it was cancer, then it was
an aggressive form of cancer, and then they're like it has
metastasized to the bone or something, which can't be good.
No. Once that happens, I don't think
there's any there's any gum coming back from that, no.
So that is what's bad and. Now it's time for.
Did anybody die? The only one I've got is George
Went, who was Norm from Cheers right again.
I'm sure he did other things, but that's what everyone knows
him from. Well, I know him from OK.
There was a movie in the 80s and outside of Australia the movie
was called Gung Ho and it had Michael Keating in it and George
went was in it. He was like a MAGA, A MAGA guy
in it. And in Australia they named the
movie Working Class Man and it had the Jimmy Barnes on Working
Class Man. But outside of Australia, it was
called Gung Ho and it was all about, yeah, like a Japanese
calf factory, like setting up in the US And like the US workers,
it's very much like now like, you know, this China Asia tariff
thing, you know, but it was with the Japanese instead of China.
And there was like these MAGA and he was one of the MAGA guys
that would sort of oppose like these Japanese workers coming to
America to so-called take his job, blah, blah, blah.
So yeah, he was in that. So he was in that movie.
Like he was 76 past away peacefully in his sleep, which
is the best way to go. Oh, I just I just saw this.
His death coincided with the 32nd anniversary of the Cheers
series finale. Wow, wow.
What's the chance of that? A poignant detail noted by fans
and media alike. I think you'd want to double
check that. But if that's right, that is,
that's something that's. Spooky.
Yeah, he appeared in all 275 episodes of Cheers from 1982 to
1993. Oh, he was in Fletch.
Yes, he was. Yes, he, he sat on the beach.
He was the drug looky lookout guy on the beach.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I need to watch Fletch again. Yeah.
He also portrayed Edna in the Broadway musical Hairspray.
OK. Interesting.
His nephew is Jason Sudeikis. I did not know that.
I didn't know that. Either.
Wow I've probably never mentioned this.
I am on a very slow rewatch of Cheers.
Like I literally watch a few episodes a year but I am getting
through it. Like I'll go through a stage
where I'll watch like 20 in, in like a in a month or two and
then I won't watch it for six months.
I'm I'm somewhere around season 8.
So I'm, I'm almost done. OK.
I've only got like three seasons more, so it'll probably take me
about another 12 years or so, right.
But yeah, that's it's, he was great, but that's the only one
I've got. So that was.
Did anybody die? So now it's time for.
E-mail. Emails.
Also emails. Yes, we have two emails.
We put the call out. The people have spoke, replied.
Yes. Written.
Yeah. So first we got an e-mail from
Lisa, I think literally a day or two after the last episode.
So, OK, it's a little bit late. Almost two weeks ago.
OK, here we go. Lisa.
Hey, Lisa. The subject is Mum's the word.
I guess we'll get to why. Hello, Captain and Player.
Captain. It sounds like you had quite the
whirlwind experience seeing all those comedy shows.
Do they all start to blur together after a while?
I've never been to a comedy show before, but I agree that it
seems far more suited to small clubs than big arena shows.
Absolutely yeah. Do they all start to blur
together after a while? No, they don't.
Like everyone I saw was like this individual unique person.
There wasn't like, maybe some of the jokes.
If I like, try to remember something someone said, right, I
might get that wrong and say that it was somebody else.
But probably not because I can usually when I remember
something like that, I can see their face saying those words.
Yeah. So the answer to that is not OK
I have yet another McDonald's update.
Here we go. I went there again recently to
get some breakfast after an early morning appointment.
I got a breakfast sandwich meal, which includes my favorite, the
hash brown. Yes, and coffee breakfast
sandwich meal. So I'm guessing that's like some
sort of Mcmuffin sausage or? Yeah, bacon and egg.
OK. By the way, they charge you an
extra $0.40 to get a medium sized coffee.
Yes, I paid it. Yeah.
OK, that's OK. You gotta have coffee.
When my meal was ready, I picked up the bag and walked out of the
store. The bag felt a little light to
me. I heard Captain's voice saying
how you should always check the bag before you leave.
Yeah, you should always check my job.
My work here is done. If I if I've got that through to
just one person on the planet, I'm happy.
Yeah. Always check the bag.
Sure enough, there was no hash brown.
Oh, my God, The the travesty. I went back inside and got it.
And the dumb thing is, they weren't even busy.
Yeah, that's about right. Yeah.
Oh, well, standard. The food was actually very
fresh, and it was worth it for the famous hash brown.
This is. You said something like this not
long ago, Like they stuffed up an order and they weren't busy
at all. And it's like, what else are you
you even doing if if you've got 10 cars in the drive thru,
there's people waiting in store, OK, make a mistake.
But when you've got nothing else to do, come on.
There's no excuse. It's not that hard.
I know you hate your job, I know you got minimum wage.
Life's not great. But come on, just give me my
hash brown. You know what?
They're getting the orders wrong
because there's some idiot ordering A2 Patty burger and
that's saying -1 meat. What's this listening?
You listening? What are you doing?
Just do it right next time. Oh my God.
That's why they're getting the other orders wrong, Yeah.
On the last episode you were talking about the Olympics and
what a huge waste of money it is.
Yes, I will never change that stance.
For last year's Summer Games in Paris, they kept making a point
about how it was the first green Olympics.
I remember them talking about how the beds the athletes slept
on were made out of cardboard and recyclable.
Yes, I do remember that. And I remember the athletes
complaining how uncomfortable they were.
I don't think I saw one media outlet not ask someone in the
village what are they like when you want to, you know, have some
fun times with somebody else? Every single question that was
what they asked. Oh, my God.
Geez, get a life. Apparently they weren't as
uncomfortable as it sounds. Well, yeah, it was.
It was about 5050 from what I heard.
Some people said it was fine. Other people said not so much.
They also mentioned that the buildings where the athletes
stayed were going to be used as apartments and office space
after the games were over. OK finally some common sense.
I've done some quick research and it says that 95% of the
venues were pre-existing or temporary.
That's interesting. Much of the sports equipment and
computers were rented. OK, and the games were powered
by renewable energy and lower carbon emissions, whatever that
means. I totally see your point about
the wastefulness of it, but it sounds like they really tried to
lessen that in the Paris Games. It will be interesting to see if
this trend continues with the next Olympic Games.
I think the major thing with everyone having to build new
stadiums and all this stuff is because the IOC just keep
ramping up the requirements. It's like you have to have a
stadium that has to have this and it's got to have this and
it's got to have all this stuff or we'll just go and give it to
somebody else. If you can't do it, that's it's
like it's, it's our way or the highway and everyone's just
like, OK, we'll do it. Here's $100 billion of a new
stadium. So in Paris, I mean, that's not
an option. Paris is very old city.
There's no spare land for them to build new stadiums.
They don't have a choice. They just got to use what they
got. And I guess for whatever reason,
the IOC was just like, OK, it's Paris.
Yeah, for whatever reason, they just conceded and said, OK,
yeah, but if they can keep doing it that way, wow, they would be
saving literally billions. So, yeah, good plan.
Yeah. Now, OK, it's her final comments
on the the AI. Here are my notes for the last
few AI theme songs. Episode 2 Five four 1950s Rocket
and roll Elvis style. The music is actually pretty
decent and catchy, but the lyrics are still clunky.
Also it's kind of long, but it's probably my second choice for
now. OK.
Episode 255 early 2000s bluesy guitar and piano pop Reminds me
of Gavin DeGraw, Jason Mraz or someone like that.
It's just OK I guess. Episode 256 Female singer.
Yeah, generic pop sound with acoustic guitar and slightly
country electric guitar. One of the shortest of the theme
songs. I swear AI is against women.
Yeah. It's like it refused so many
times to just give me a female song and then when it did it was
the shortest one of them all. Come on.
Yeah, not much going on. Pretty bland episode 257.
Modern dance pop very mediocre. That last one I didn't mind.
I didn't mind the last one. It had catchy chorus but but
very mediocre. The dance beat gets repetitive.
Not much else to say about this one.
My top pick was the one from episode 253.
But don't let me be the only one to pick the song.
Maybe you could do a multiple choice survey for the?
Although if I'm perfectly honest the theme songs are all much
longer than most other podcast theme songs so I'll probably
just skip over it each time. I did actually listen to the
Peach and black theme song every time though.
Thank you. Toe jam, shoot the duck.
Classic. OK, so here's a recommendation.
Recommendation. It's the Netflix special of
Conan O'Brien receiving the Mark Twain Prize for humor at the
Kennedy Centre. It was really funny, lots of
great comedians and his acceptance speech was top notch.
Definitely worth checking out. Would you believe, Lisa, I
literally watched this a day or two before I got your e-mail.
OK. Because the house sit I was
doing, they had Netflix and I flicked through what's new?
Conan Kennedy Centre. Here we go.
Right. And it was like an hour and a
half. I've got time.
And yeah, it was great. That's telepathy.
It was great. It was so many funny people.
And of course, the last guy to come out and talk was Letterman
and he gave him the award. Oh, it was really good.
Yes. Agreed.
It was good.
And we have a new Pope. I was raised Protestant.
I was raised intestine so it doesn't impact me much directly,
but it's still an important historical event and the first
American too, which is interesting.
So I guess I'll recommend Princess Song Pope as well,
although it's not very religious at all.
A loop is a loop is a loop. Yeah.
Lastly, yes, we like that. We are members of the secret
Super Checker Mania Society. Nobody else knows it exists.
Exactly. Yeah.
Have a great week, everyone. Lisa done.
Thank you, Lisa. Great, great, great, great.
So. There's that Thank you, thank
you, Lisa. And now another e-mail from
Brian and may I say it, may I say this is I'm gonna I'm gonna
say it a return to form. Wow.
I think I think I really hurt his feelings and he was he was a
bit sort of offside for a while, but I think he's come around.
I I read this e-mail and I'm like, this is almost back to the
old Brian so. I'm bracing myself for a for a
clip clop clip. Clop yeah, I'm happy to say
Brian is back. So he's back the the subject
Hopscotch, flip flops, belly flops and chip shops.
There you go, There you go. There, there you go.
How did I know? How did I sense?
Dear George and Mildred. There you go.
Yeah. I still can't get my head around
that you guys on the other side of the planet would be aware of
such a niche culture as the very English 70s sitcom George and
Mildred Mesh. It was big.
Yeah.
Let me say Yeah. Just like there's some
Australian shows which I've almost never heard of and people
in the UK say, oh that was massive.
George and Mildred was massive here.
It was like 730 Thursday or Friday night.
It was like prime time viewing for years.
It was like a big show, So and even like, was that the spin off
from Robin's Nest or was it the other way around?
I think yeah, something like. That Yeah, all of that, all of
that UK 70s sitcom got repeated here like non-stop through the
80s. Benny Hill, Ohio.
Yeah, yeah, some mothers do have them.
All of that stuff was because we barely made any decent comedy
till about 1986. So up until then it was just all
UK like import stuff and American, obviously, right.
But a lot of UK stuff anyway, I trust I find you.
Well, me. I'm quietly stressing out over
my best man's speech that I'll have to perform at my brother's
wedding in a few days. I'm sure he could nail it now
he. Can write out the best
hopscotch, flip flop, belly flop speech no problem.
No problem. I wouldn't have any doubts, no.
We have no doubt for Brian. No, I mean, who doesn't love
public speaking where you have to entertain and be funny,
right? Oh well, I'm sure it'll be fine.
We had the obligatory stag do some weeks back at a Butlins
Weekender at Skegness. Ah man, classic.
Yeah, could could it be anymore cliche stereotype exactly where
the theme was late 80s and early 90s dance and indie music?
Yep, it was a blast. But keeping control of a group
of 25 blokes wearing Cobra Kai outfits is like herding cats,
let me tell you. Oh my goodness.
Well, I can just see it now. I could, yeah.
I could imagine it any road up. You say that there's a load of
people listening to Slash downloading Super Chuckle Mania.
Can you give us numbers please, Captain?
It would no doubt be of interest to the four corners of the world
for such important data. Well, it's it's under 10.
We know that. Look, there's there's four
corners of the globe with occasionally one or two extras.
So less than 10 there. There's a lot.
But like I said, the tiniest percentage actually interact,
which still just blows my mind how some people they just it's
not an interacting thing. It's just like you do your
podcast thing and I listen to it and the the Twain Never Shall
meet or whatever the saying is do.
You know what I think it is? I think it's like they listen,
but they're listening out for us to mention print stuff.
I I'm sure there's a few, but that can't be everyone, yeah.
But OK, when when we have to Jim and MC on the the numbers went
up. Oh yeah.
When we talked about celebration, the numbers went
up. So like these people like I
think it's yeah. There you go.
Well, yeah, that that that is indicative.
There are people waiting for us to talk about Prince right after
five years now, right, And we still really hope we still
rarely do, which is right. And when we do, it's, it's
probably quite negative, I would say.
Anyway, talking of data, a little nugget of info that
caught my attention and thought I'd share it with you all as I
thought it was very interesting. I listened to a very interesting
interview on the excellent podcast Leading with Alastair
Campbell and Rory Stewart from the Rest is Politics podcast
with James Manika about AI, how it works, and what it does and
can achieve now and in the future.
It's very illuminating and certainly a recommended listen
if you're interested. Why I flagged this is that it
also touched on quantum computing, and although a fully
proper functioning quantum computer is a long way away,
scientists have an intermediate, not perfect computer that can
already do extraordinary things. For example, they did a
computation that was solved in under 5 minutes.
Guess how long it would have taken the world's fastest
supercomputer get this 10 to the power?
25 years. That's 10 septillion years, or
10 with 25 zeros after it, which is older than the universe
several times over. Mad.
But hey, if you couple that with AI Wolf.
Yeah, exactly. I let your minds have a think
about that proper head Buster. Unfortunately, it would take
that same amount of time to check the result.
I only hope this technology stays in the right hands.
Well, we know that's not gonna happen.
Yeah, exactly. I think that's the Willow chip
that he's referring to. I haven't even heard about this.
Very interesting. Yeah, just Google or watch
YouTube videos on quantum computers or quantum computing,
OK. But yeah, like it's supposed to
solve like the world's problems, you know, because it can do it.
So like fast and and breakneck speed and all this sort of
stuff. It's it's quite fascinating.
Do you know what we don't need computers to solve the world's
problems. You know what will solve the
world's problems? All the billionaires could just
pay their taxes and that'd solve almost all the problems.
OK, instead of having $200 billion in the bank, how about
you only had ten billion? What's the difference?
You're never gonna spend it all. Just fix things instead of
trying to make more profit, you greedy pigs.
Exactly. Is that a fair statement?
Yeah. God, it's ridiculous that it's
ridiculous that it even needs to be said.
Yeah, that is how screwed up the world is.
Now that's something that simple.
Oh my God. Anyway, back to the e-mail.
Talking of AI, my favorite AI tune was on Superchecker Mania
Edition 249, and to be perfectly honest, none of them are a patch
on the intro music you currently have now, as Mark so rightly
points out. OK, so that look, that's two out
of three, which is what I joked would happen.
Two out of three. Now just keep the original.
After all that, keep the original.
Oh OK, so recommendations? I'm banging to an excellent
Aussie series called Mr. In Between at the moment which has
gained A cult following in the UK.
You should check it out. I was just talking about this.
I've never heard of it, but you know, it's, it's blown up in the
UK and I don't, I don't have a clue.
It's the George and Mildred of Australia.
What is it? Is it like a drama?
I think so. Or it wouldn't be a sitcom,
because I would have seen it. OK, you should check it out.
Although, Captain, you probably won't.
Why waste time on Mr. In Between when you can watch Mr. Spock's
Lost Toenail in Deep Space 9, series 345.
Right? Well, yeah, I'm.
I'm getting back to Star Trek soon, don't you worry.
Another one I haven't seen the classic live love sexy tour
from. Was it Dortmund?
Germany? Yeah, Dortmund for decades
because I watched it so much when I was younger and it's been
burned into my retinas. But I dusted it off the other
day and watched it and wowzer, what a gig.
What a tour. What an era for Prince.
Absolutely loved it and it brought back so many memories.
Oh wow. It was the first Prince tour
that I saw live. You lucky bastard.
My God, I even went to Paris to see the opening concert because
having been stiffed by a ticket operator for Parade 86 and then
Prince cancelling the Sign of the Times UK dates due to the
freaky weather in 87, I made sure I was not going to miss out
again. So I went to Paris as well as
Wembley in the UK. But yeah, watching him let RIP
on my favorite of his guitars, the Blue Angel, as well as all
the theatrics, the piano medley, the great band, I don't know,
all of it. The Paul shebang was just
brilliant and brought back so many memories.
I was lucky enough to be in the 4th row at the Wembley gig and
got to touch the Thunderbird. Wow.
Which was a neat little buzz. I could bleed on about it all
day. Wow, what a gig Prince at the
peak of his powers. So if it's been a long time
since you've seen it, crank it up and check it out.
I watched it like about two or three weeks ago 'cause it was a
version that went up on YouTube that had like AAI.
Upscale. Upscale on it, it looks really
good. Oh wow.
OK. Good.
Like the close up shots look really good.
Some of the long shots, yeah, some of the long shots don't
like this in pixelation and stuff, but some of.
That's just 'cause it's so dark, but yeah.
I can. I can just imagine on videotape.
Yeah, I can just imagine those close-ups on his face in the
piano solo. Yeah, they would be great.
Yeah, I haven't watched it in a long time, but you know what?
Before I would watch that, I would go and watch some of the
the audience shot ones like there's Pittsburgh and Toronto
and. There's a few Toronto.
Yeah, like they're pretty bad, but I just want to see a
different show. Right?
Like him. I've seen that one so many
times. I know every millisecond give me
something different. But I might look at that upscale
now that you've said it. That's all, folks.
Cheers, Brian. PSPS.
I was down at my local gardening centre the other day and imagine
my surprise when I thought I saw Michael J Fox there.
Unfortunately I couldn't be sure it was him as he had his back to
the Fuchsias. Oh my gosh.
Oh, I told you he was back. I told you he was back.
Yeah, OK. Local gardening centre back.
He had his back to the fuchsias. Classic class.
That's classic Brian. He will have no problem at the
wedding so I swear to God if he comes back and says it was a
disaster, I won't believe. It No, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't even. He could just go back through
all the emails he sent to us and come up with the best speech
ever. Well, he could like, he could
like, Oh my God, living like a a wedding.
Speechwriter. He could be a speechwriter for
the the politicians. Who knows, he could might
actually make them funny. He might be a speechwriter for
Trump. I mean, a lot of the stuff that
he comes out of his mouth is. Quite.
Oh my God, like that idiot as a speechwriter.
Actually, he does. That's the crazy thing.
He barely sticks to it, but you can tell when he's reading off
the prompter because it sounds nothing like him.
And he keeps saying like, furniture instead of few because
he can't read because he's a dumbass.
I love it. Anyway, what are we up to now?
Thank you, Brian, for the e-mail.
Thank you, Lisa. So then look, that's two out of
three votes to keep the original music, which is probably what I
thought was going to happen, so that's fine.
Yeah, predicted. But it was a fun, it was a fun
thing to do. That's a fun exercise.
Yeah, we went, we went through the AI songs.
Remember we had the AI lady for a little bit and everyone's
like, Nah, I don't know about that.
Now we've done the AI songs, they're like, Nah, I don't know
about that. I see it's not working AI.
It's not. It's not there yet.
Let's say that, yeah. It's got it's got a bit to go.
OK, so now it's time for recommendations.
Recommendation. I need a recommendation.
Do you have a recommendation? What's your recommendation?
I have a recommendation for you. I've got a song if anyone
followed my Instagram. I listened not that long ago to
all of the Aerosmith albums. Yes, yes, yes.
And a song which wasn't even on any of those albums, if I'm
correct, it was only on like the greatest hits and everyone knows
it. It's from the movie is a deep
impact. No Armageddon.
Yeah, Armageddon. It's.
I don't wanna miss a thing. It is just one of the best power
ballad songs it is. It is good.
From pretty late, like power ballads, you know, late 80s,
early 90s, this came in like 98 and just wiped the floor with
any anything else for power ballads around that time.
It was like, I think that might have been why I did so well
because no one was doing power ballads anymore.
Exactly. It's so good and it's one of the
best songs to sing along to in the car.
Oh my God. The problem was I was listening
to this like a week or two ago and my voice I was so worried
about like screwing my my voice and like having some relapse and
it's so hard to not sing that song at 110%.
Like belt it out I'm. Trying to do like 70% and it's
just like, oh, this is just dumb.
Yeah, I can't do it. Just stop.
Just listen. I couldn't do it, but you've got
to put it. I want to miss a thing by
Aerosmith. Done.
What else? Oh my God.
OK, the song. It's OK.
Here's the thing. I was listening to one of the
Aerosmith albums and I heard this song and I didn't know it
at the time. Is it called hands up?
No, no, no. It's called remember in brackets
walking in the sand. And I just heard this.
I just heard arrow. Walking Sand, The Prince song.
I just heard Aerosmith singing this song, remember Walking in
the Sand? And I heard a quite familiar
refrain. And I'm like, that is the same
stupid sound which I've heard on a billion Instagram reels and
YouTube Shorts, right? And so then I started looking it
up. It's not even an Aerosmith song,
but I I never even knew it was what it was.
It's from the Shangri Lars in 1965.
Here's the stupid sound. Everyone knows that dumb thing
from all the stupid video clips you've seen, right?
Yeah. So I want you to add Aerosmith
version of of this song because the you've heard the original,
right? I think it's pitched up for the
stupid meme. It's pitched, Yeah, Yeah.
But the original song's fine. OK, but I heard Aerosmith do it
and I'm like what the heck is this?
I had no idea. Anyway, that's the two, two
Aerosmith songs. There you go.
And not Neov. Ohh yes.
Oh my God, the K pop song. I sent that to you.
I've totally forgot about it. Yeah.
You don't want that added. Yes I I sent you this song
going. I cannot get this song out of my
head for like 3 weeks now and then I totally forgot to mention
it right now. And you mentioned it earlier.
You said is it called hands up? It's called hands up right?
I'm guessing it's supposed to be pronounced meow, but it's MEOVV
because K pop love doing weird stuff with English letters.
All right, again, all these K pop songs I recommend.
It's just got this really catchy chorus.
Yeah. And yeah.
Oh my God. OK, have a list of that or go
and watch the the music video. One or the other.
Yeah. OK.
What about you? Well.
I'm gonna recommend Blvd. Breezes by Ronnie Hudson and
Diamond Ortiz. It's just an instrumental song,
but it's it's like, listen to it with headphones.
It's really good. I'm also going to recommend
Burning Blue by Mariah the Scientist.
Mariah The. Scientist.
Yeah, it's a bit printy, the song, it's a bit lean drummy and
it's it's cool. I will add these to the list but
I'll also recommend which I can't add to the list.
Today I saw Final Destination at the cinemas Bloodlines.
OK, explain what that is. OK, final.
It sounds like a video game. No, no, no.
It's a movie franchise, OK, where people die and they die.
They die in like, ridiculous ways.
One, ridiculous ways, but two, it's like serendipitous effects.
Like you know someone will bump something off a table which then
links to it like a chain of events that end up like people
dying. OK.
It's kind of like that, yeah. It's kind of like all these
little things happen, but they end up being big things and all
these people die and then it's like, I like a curse, but like,
then it happens to other people and yeah, it's pretty cool.
So that's recommended, yeah, that's what is it.
That's Final destination. It's called Final Destination
Bloodlines. It's about like I think six or
seven other movies in the French in the series, but they were all
filmed in like the 2000s. And this one, they haven't done
one in like a long time and they've just, they've just done
this now, so. Again, something that just
totally part. I never even heard of it.
Yeah, now I'm thinking of Final Fantasy.
That's the video game, isn't it? Ah.
Yes, I guess. I don't know anything about the
game. I just know there's like about
25 of them, right? It's just every, every, every
time I look, there's another Final Fantasy something.
Yes, yes. Anyway, so that's our
recommendations. Recommendations.
So that's it. That is it.
I don't have to remind you. Don't have to remind me about
the AI. See, now that it's not there, I
remember it. I was just thinking, I don't
have to say the AI thing because it's not there.
So it's time for what did we learn this week?
Holy cow so much numbers are meaningless counting.
It's pointless. Right.
Well, what I learnt is people didn't go for the AI song.
They're, yeah, they're quite happy with the original song.
Should we? That's what I learnt.
Should we be surprised? I guess not, Right.
I mean, it's not there. It's a tool.
Again, I've been using it for travel planning again and again.
It just gets to a point where it just starts making mistakes it
just cannot handle over a certain amount of information.
Yeah. And like you can't get.
I must apologise, I'm sorry. You can't get more memory.
You can't. You know it, just you cannot
expand. To do the cache.
Yeah, you've gotta go and delete all the previous memories and
then it forgets stuff that you've told it.
And I mean, maybe if you pay more, that's always gonna be the
answer, isn't it? Oh, you could pay more to get
more space and more memory. Yeah.
But yeah, until you do that, it's a stupid little thing which
can't do very much. Yeah.
So yeah, it's just not there. Yeah.
But see, that's the thing. This is the how they do
everything. They come out with this great
new thing and it's free. Yeah.
Chat, GP AT Gemini, Grok, They all come out.
Here's this great new AI, finally.
We've been talking about it for years.
Now we're finally putting it out.
Here you go, go crazy. Yeah.
And like they get you addicted to it.
Yeah. They did keep a tree for a
while, but then straight away, now there's like, yeah, you're
saying there's gonna be ads coming up every bloody time you
ask it a question, right. And there's already paid to get,
you know, a higher level and get more features.
It's like, now stuff your features.
Yeah, exactly. I'll just use it for what it can
do and then I'll just delete that and start again.
Well, that was the show. That was it, thank you for
listening. I'm player, that's captain and.
What a way to kick off Season 4. Season 4, We'll be back next
time and here comes the music. We'll catch you then, see you
later. Bye, bye, bye bye. 58.