Hello, this is Jerry from 2 Blokes from Blighty.
And today before we get into the episode, we're going to hear
from a very beautiful podcast duo in Josh and Alex from
Talking. Hey Josh, I'm finally ready to
do something fun every Wednesday.
Alex finally we're going to talk superheroes, movies, animation,
comics and much, much more. Right, yes, but we're also going
to talk Star Trek. Make it so, my friend, catch
talking smack every Wednesday on your pod.
Catcher of choice. We'll see you there.
Smack heads. I do love that he calls you
smack head at the end of it. It's good, good advert.
I love Josh. We all love Josh.
I hear Thunder, but there's no rain.
This kind of Thunder breaks walls and window panes.
Welcome back to two blokes from Blighty.
I normally say here I'm joined as ever by my brother Tim
Fitzgerald. But Tim is not here.
He's 6000 miles away. If you're following his
Instagram, he's spending a ludicrous amount on mystery box
vending machines and getting absolutely fuck all for the
pleasure. But I'm joined instead by the
most lovely man in all of podcasting.
I'm joined by Dan. How are you, Dan?
I'm really excited to be on here and yeah, I like to think of
myself as an honorary brother, an honorary.
Brother, it's not even honorary at this point.
It's just just straight up brother Dan, how are you?
I'm excited, of course. Well, yeah, I'm very good, thank
you. It's a yeah, it's a it's an
honour to be asked back on here and as kind of, well as a Co
host, no, no less tonight. Co host?
Yeah, there's none of this guest nonsense.
Well, you were the first and only guest we've had on 2 blokes
from Blatty. That was a long time ago and I
believe what you said before that podcast was that you were
worried you'd get yourself cancelled.
Are you feeling the same tonight?
I I, I was literally going to say I'm both nervous and excited
that that that feeling has persisted since you approached
me about this. But yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm going to
mark another little notch, as it were.
So I won the weird news in season 1.
I've been a guest. I've yeah, I won a joke in a
week, which I don't think I'm going to do this week.
Spoiler alert already, but yeah, now, now cohost.
So, yeah. But we've we've great
responsibility comes great fear. Rightly so, that's how we like
to instill all of our codes. Me and Tim are constantly
terrified, whether that be of cancellation or of our own
demise. So, Dan, I believe you have been
an absolute gentleman and encouraged us to keep our
format. So our listener, that's it.
One really feels at home here. Are you ready to get into public
quiz question? Absolutely.
Let me play that Jingle. Pub quiz question of the week.
Not a Jingle. That's a sound effect at best.
What we have there is a fucking Jingle, Tim.
It feels like he's here in the room.
Doesn't. I was going to say I had a
little tear in my eye then because I miss him so much.
So Dan is very kindly I said that before, like I didn't know
the answer. Dan's very kindly messaged me in
advance and said I've got some pub quiz questions for you Joey.
So yes, the floor is yours mate. Yeah, I didn't know if these
were going to be too easy or too difficult, so we'll we'll just
go through them and see what happens.
It's. A low bar.
It's a constant lobe. I thought I'd start topical,
actually talking about Tim. I was going to say, what's the
national flower of Japan? The cherry blossom.
One out of 10 you go. Get in there.
You could have really turned around and got one out of one
wrong. Now you're 100% so far.
Let's go for this one. I've started before anyone
shouts at me, I've started off with a couple of easy ones just
to to get him in a full sense of security.
So how many stripes are there on the US flag?
50. I know it's the stars.
Oh shit, 26 I don't. I'm not American.
Why would I know that? We went 50% of that.
Oh, so that's it? I'm wrong?
This is how you said it was easy, Dan?
Oh wait, did I cut it right? So did I get it right?
No, it's 13, but I've given the answer away, so let's do another
one. It's up a brewery.
Welcome to two blokes from Blighty.
Dan bit right? I've ruined the show.
What's that? 3 minutes?
I've got a couple alike. I want to, I want to say all of
them now. OK, what is added to a martini
to make it a dirty martini? Mud.
OK, maybe we should leave that till the end then.
I have no idea. As someone who doesn't drink, I
don't know what I don't know what a dirt is it.
A cloudy martini is it? A specific something?
What do you think? No clues.
We'll leave this.
Milk. There you go.
There's my guest, Dan. No, no.
You. Mean I'll feel the answer at the
end. We'll reveal the answer at the
end, although I have to tell you so we're recording this on a
Tuesday, so Dan doesn't hasn't listened to last week's episode.
We forgot to give the answer to the question.
So Dan, you're going to know it and no one else will.
The answer to what is the smallest mammal on the planet is
some kind of shrew. That's all.
I edited the episode and uploaded it and I text him
immediately after saying shit. We forgot the answer to the pub
quiz question and he said that's what's called a cliffhanger.
I'm going to look really clever in the discord tomorrow now I'm
going to, I'm going to say I knew it straight away and.
Then seven days later, you'll be exposed.
Dan, we've got we often what we will today as well move on to a
day of the week. So, Are you ready to choose a
day of the week for our listeners?
Yeah, let's go for it. This is normally where I play
the best Jingle in all of podcasting history, but I can't
do that because this is Tim and Joey talking loud.
So I thought I'd bring back an old classic just for you, Dan.
It is Wednesday, my dudes. It is Wednesday, my dudes.
Watch him Wednesday. Watch him, dude.
He'd be Wednesday. Down the street He'd be
Wednesday to the beat. He'd be Wednesday down the
street. He'd be Wednesday to the beat,
my dudes. It is Wednesday, my dudes.
It is Wednesday. You know, I'm sitting here
laughing because I was driving home from work thinking about
you and the podcast, as often do, and I thought, you're going
to play the new Jingle and it's brilliant.
But I had in my head, I was going to say straight away to
you, I miss that Jingle. Well, don't need to miss it.
So Dan likes that Jingle so much that he texts me when we stop
using it to ask him to send him the MP3.
Did they ever do that? No.
I'll send it to you afterwards. You can enjoy it in your car on
the way home. I'm on loop, but only on
Wednesdays. Dan, I've got a couple of days
for you. I'm going to be real with you
March 5th. It's not the best day for days.
We've got Ash Wednesday, the Wednesday before Lent starts.
Any feelings on that? No, no, no.
OK, National Cheese Doodle Day, which I believe is the American
version of What's it? OK, OK, I'm liking that one.
OK, cool. And then National Absinthe Day.
Now let's go for the cheese doodle.
I mean, the absinthe could get messy.
Yeah, I mean, who doesn't? That's from Modern Family, which
I know you love, as well as a pepper line.
Who doesn't love pepper? Do we go for cheese doodle all
day? Yeah, well from now on March
5th, we'll be known as the Dan on 2 Blokes from Blighty Day.
But. Well, Bucket, let's make our own
national Day. National Dan Day.
How do you want people to celebrate Dan Day?
Yeah, maybe I should. Listen to casting views.
That's how you should do it. Yeah, listen, actually that's
very good. You're a bit of marketer for my
my podcast tonight. I can say what I want on this
podcast, right? Because it's not it's not no,
no, let's do cheese doodle day. And I think yeah, you have them
for breakfast, lunch and dinner and snacks.
It's. Is that is that your
controversial take that you had to ask if you could say anything
that? Was well, no, no, well, I was
thinking, you know, it's it's not very balanced diet and all
that and. Like fucking get them up, yeah.
Maybe half in them. You know, fill your bath up.
Paul goes swimming. You know, like Scrooge Mcduck at
the start of Duck Tales. Yeah.
Do you know what I've always thought about that, Paul?
Full of cash when he dives into it, wouldn't it be like dive
face first into a concrete floor?
Yeah, but. That'd be a very different set
of cartoons then, wouldn't it? Yeah, DuckTales didn't often
start with a neck brace and an ambulance, did it.
It's far more family friendly than that.
Let us know where's the strangest place you've eaten a
cheese doodle. Where's the strangest place you
used at? You've ever eaten or wants it
now. I think we should move on to the
next segment. Before you get doxed and or
incarcerated. What would you?
Which one of those days would you have chosen?
I don't know, to be honest with you, this is what I give it to
Tim. I feel too much pressure on
choosing the days because Tim likes to set our listeners
homework. And I can almost comfortably say
that no one listening to this podcast has ever done most of
the things that Tim has asked people to do.
So I think I, I struggled to kind of know where the line is
of what you're asked to do. This is what you want to do.
I think Tim finds it hard to tread that line sometimes.
Dan, we can go a few ways here. This is the true to Blows from
Blighty experience. You will be charged at the door.
Do you want jokes, history, or do you want to talk about the
story that you've brought? Hey.
Let's do history because this is always fascinating me, this
segment. OK, all right, let's do history.
Oh, history, History. Oh, history.
December 24, a magical day. Christmas Eve.
What things do you associate with Christmas?
Christmas. It's probably one of the few
times that the year I'll allow myself quite a few drinks.
Big Meal obviously presents giving lightly.
James Bond on TV, sad storyline in EastEnders.
OK. And so, so you started there
with quite a few drinks, which is pertinent to this story.
If you were to think about classic Christmas drinks, you
might not have to like them. You might not even needed to
have tried them. What would you say?
Fantastic Christmas drinks, well the one for me is is Bailey's,
but most people like that. OK, an American one.
Very American centric here. Eggnog.
Have you tried? I've always wanted to try that.
I've never had it. Yeah, sounds disgusting.
It sounds it, but at the same time also I'm quite fascinated
by it. Are you?
You're a braver man than me, far more exotic than I am.
I've got a story for you about eggnog on Christmas Eve.
It's Christmas Eve, 1826 in the US Military Academy, West Point,
NY. Have you heard of the Eggnog
Riot of 1826? Faithfully say I haven't.
OK, strap in, this is fun. So I'm going to give you a quick
timeline. It's only like a day or two,
this timeline, so it's not like one of Tim's.
Where last week we had one that spanned 30 years.
This one spans about 13 hours, so it's quick, snappy, and
delightful from start to finish. So in the evening of December
24th, 1826, the West Point cadets, stick of their eggnog,
being tragically boring and sober, decided to smuggle in
gallons of whiskey from a nearby Tavern because what is Christmas
without a little or a lot of illegal boos?
I am reading this from my script Dancer.
December 25th the clock ticks over to midnight and it is
Christmas Day. The cadet party kicks off and
cadets start spiking their eggnog.
The vibe is Immaculate. There's singing, yelling, and
general drunken tomfoolery. A few officers hear the chaos,
but assume it's just wholesome Christmas cheer.
Two hours pass and it's 2:00 AM on Christmas Day.
Nope, turns out it's not wholesome at all.
Drunken cadets begin breaking furniture, smashing windows, and
waving swords around. It takes another hour for
Officer Hitchcock to try and shut things down.
A drunk cadet throws a punch at Officer Hitchcock and another is
heard yelling get him. The officer barely escapes,
questioning his life choices. Another hour passes and more
officers show up to restore order.
The cadets respond by escalating the situation.
More destruction, more broken stuff, and someone pulls out a
musket. In the next hour, the commander
is now wide awake and very unhappy.
He storms into the barracks, catching cadets mid drunken
rebellion, and some try to hide under their beds like guilty
toddlers. All it took was one very, very
angry commandant to shut the riot down.
The sun rises and West Point and military academies absolutely
destroyed 70 plus cadets were in deep deep it.
This riot resulted in 19 cadets being court martialed, 30 other
cadets getting off with punishment and the others were
let off with a lifetime ban of eggnog.
What's interesting about this is during these riots, 4 of the
Connect cadets went on to become incredibly important military
leaders, proving that even future generals can have an
absolutely terrible night if you spike them with gallons of
whiskey. Most people probably have a bad
night. Yeah, maybe, but that is that is
weird history. There's a couple of things with
that. One is when do you ever think
mixing a place with weapons and people that know how to use them
with large copious amounts of alcohol is a good idea?
I turn that around and say when is it not a good idea?
But also, how do you give somebody a lifetime ban from
eggnog? How are you going to police that
I? Don't know but.
Acing all the bars and. That number room have a lifetime
ban from from drinking eggnog. Apparently that's something you
could do in 1826. But yeah, 19 cadets being court
marshalled because they can't handle their booze.
Wow, wow, have you you ever been court marshalled or banned from
somewhere? I haven't.
We've all had bad nights, haven't we?
We've all had bad nights. We don't all have podcasts where
we talk about them though. Dan, when was the last time you
shat on a toilet seat? No, I never have done but that
do you know, because that was quite early on in your, your two
blokes history as well, wasn't it?
And I remember listening to it at the time and actually
rewinding it because I thought, did he actually say that or have
I heard it in my tired days? Have I misheard that?
No, no, he definitely said that. Yeah, he definitely said it and
he definitely did it. He still sticks by it now.
Literally. Well, you wouldn't sit in it
now, but I think though that that story, if I remember
rightly, came from me saying when I was a student and we were
trying to save money, we used to go into the library toilets at
Leeds, met you, which Tim went to, not me and Nick, the toilet
roll used to get these massive rolls of toilet roll.
We go in with the empty backpack and come out with the enormous
rolls of toilet roll so we didn't have to buy loo roll.
And then Tim opened up with a shot on a toilet seat.
There you go, I've. No, I've never done that.
I mean, on the subject, please. I mean, I've never really been
one for a massive drink, but I remember, oh God, the first,
first company I was at, we went for a Christmas night out and I
remember getting a lift there, but I had no idea how I was
getting back. So it's always going to start,
you know. No, I was in for a rough night
anyway, you know, with there was, I think it might have been
a free bath, at least for a part of the night.
And there was drinks and you go someone else and there's another
drink, another drink. And by the end of it, I don't I
actually don't know how I got home.
I remember waking up the next day being home not knowing how.
But the other thing was when I'd got home, I clearly project told
vomited everywhere as well, pretty much.
But the thing was. So that was a weekend and I
remember on Monday going into into work and, you know,
everyone was saying, oh, bloody hell.
You know, we were so rough that night, you know, because there
were people sleeping under tables, you know, that they've
got they got that drunk. They were saying, but you, how
did you handle it? I said, yeah.
I said, you're all lightweights. Of course I didn't tell them
that I've got home passed out, didn't know how I got home.
And, you know, vomit everywhere. I left that bit out.
But yeah, they were like, bloody hell.
You can really hold your drink, can't you?
I think there's something. About There's something about
work nights, work nights out. They're just the worst kind of
drunk. We did a full staff off site at
Oxford University. Don't ask me why we went there,
but we stayed in the halls at Oxford University.
But there were rumors that one of the bars got broken into.
I can assure you, and I'm not joking, that that wasn't me.
What I did was I sat on a table full of people that didn't
drink. I did drink at the time and they
did a very fancy meal where they budgeted half a bottle of wine
for everyone and it was about a table of 6 and me and one of the
person on the table did drink and we thought we can't leave
this to go to waste. So I drank a bottle and a half
of wine before going to the pub quiz and drinking lots of beer.
I don't remember loads of that but I do remember the next
morning when the CEO was walking past the window.
I was on the 3rd floor on the opposite side of the courtyard
and I had to be sick out of the window and then hide immediately
so he didn't see who it was. Called my mum on my way home
after that and told her what happened and she said I'm not
very proud of you right now. In that tone.
Something like that. 11 more One more quick story again years
ago, this was sort of sort of just turned 20, probably 21.
Me and my cousin in the summer, we'd meet up, we'd go for a
drink and I remember it clearly because it was, we're just going
to go down the pub for one quiet drink.
That was it. So we have one and we say look
let's have another and then a couple of mates join.
It turns into a few more and like 5 hours later we're at one
of their house and we're doing drinking games, you know, so
we're playing cards and playing drinking games.
And one of them was, and at this point we were like drinking
whatever I think you had in the house.
And there was this really, I, I think it was wine.
I don't know, but whatever it was, it was really horrible
tasting, right? So nobody, everybody was pulling
out of this game because they hated this.
And, and I think I was, I, I, you know, I don't drink a lot
and I'm not competitive, but when I'm really had a little bit
of drink, I can get competitive anyway, we would play it then
disintegrated into, rather than it being a card game, it was
just whoever picked the highest, right?
It was, you know, it's like and and the loser had to win, had to
drink. And it was a final.
It was like a glass full of this liquid.
It was, it was the last of it. And I remember I picked, I think
a king, say he picked an ace. And so I'm cheering because I
thought he'd lost. He starts cheering because he
thought I'd lost. And we'd we hadn't settled.
We had never said what an ace would be, whether it was highs
or lows. We're arguing and arguing
because neither of us wanted to drink this drink, right?
And it got to a point where I was just so fed up.
I, I got the drink, I downed it. I said, right, I'm not having
any more of this. I downed it.
I said to my cousin, we're going, let's go now.
I just stormed out the house. I'd left one shoe in the house.
And I think I left my drink because I just got so angry.
I got so angry that I had to drink that drink and just go
just to end the game. Wow, I would not put that as tea
down. I would never put you against
that. When you said we were just
playing who can do the highest, I thought you meant say the
highest number. I thought you were pissed that
you were going 14. That's how it goes. 15 you go.
11/4. No, you've won again, right,
Dan? I'm excited because last time
you were on you won goats and you said you prepared them
earlier today. So let's do some jokes.
Are you going to do the trumpet at the end or do you want me to
do it? No, I'd like you to do the
trumpet. I'll do the drunk.
That's pretty funny. To be fair, that joke was weak.
I'm a friend that has. That's the joke of the week.
So welcome to our Joke of the week section where Dan and I are
going to tell each other jokes with the sole aim to make the
other person laugh. Now the twist here is when the
other person laughs, the joke of the week section is over and
that joke is D, the joke of the week.
Dan, are you feeling ready? I am do you.
Want to go first or second? Let's go first because I'm
worried I might laugh at your first one, OK?
Close yours. Right, I've got a real mix of
some awful ones and rubbish ones and I think it might be a good
one. So let's start with this.
Knock, knock. Who's there?
Spell. Spell who?
Who? Wow, really?
You nearly got me there. Damn.
Just because it was so poor? So my mother was surprised, I
told. When I told her I was born
again, she said didn't feel a thing.
Good. OK.
Biology based. Yep, Yep, biology.
Based A bird was sleeping in his nest at top of a tree.
Suddenly he heard a lot of noise and the whole tree starts to
shake. He looks down and saw there was
a very fat and comes the elephant climbing a tree.
The bird says hey what are you doing why are you making so much
noise? The elephant said, I just want
to climb up there and eat some pears, Bird said there aren't
any pairs here. Stupid elephant.
This is a pine tree, the elephant said.
I know, I've bought my own pairs.
I really wanted that to be funny.
I enjoyed the imagery. OK, we'll move on.
Dan. I've spent a lot of time and
effort childproofing my house. Bloody kid still gets in.
It mean? That one is it is me, and I
don't feel good about that one. I went to the doctor today and I
told him I broke my arm in two places.
He just said stop going to those places.
Good one. Yeah.
That was that was funny.
If athletes get athletes foot, what do astronauts get?
Mistletoe. Oh.
I like that, like that I've gone for some quite.
Light jokes, but no, I might live to regret.
It this is this is a slightly long one.
OK but 3 couples are trying to get married at the same church
as a young couple, a middle-aged couple and an elderly couple.
They they all meet with the priest to discuss when they can
get married. The priest says, if you want to
get married in my church, you must all go one month without
having sex. So one month later the couples
return and they talk to the priest.
So he asked the elderly couple, have you completed the month
without sex? They said, Yep, it's easy, you
know, not a problem for us. The priest enters the
middle-aged couple and he says, how about you?
And they said it was hard, but we didn't have sex for the whole
month. And he goes very good, That's
the young couple. And and they say, no, we
couldn't do it. And the priest says, tell me
why. Man says, well, my girlfriend
had a can of corn in her hand. She dropped it.
She bent over to pick it up. And that's when it happened.
The precinct says, right, you 2 you're not welcome in my church.
And man says, well, we're not welcome in the supermarket
either. Good.
Yeah, it's good. I'll remember that one.
I like a long joke with a really snappy punchline.
Dan, what do you call a chicken who crosses the road, rolls in
mud and then crosses back over again?
No idea. Dirty double crosser.
Why did I laugh at that? Why did I laugh?
I'm sorry listeners, I see it was the accent.
That's pretty funny to be there. That joke was weak.
I'm a friend that has. That's the joke of the week.
The damn the joke of the week was what do you call a chicken
who crosses the road, rolls in mud and then crosses back again?
A dirty double crosser. It's a voice, I think that
should be banned. Is it?
Do you want any more of my jokes?
I can give you some more. Yeah, I've got one that I really
like. If you've got any more that you
want to give Dan, you're, you're more than welcome.
I can say them because yeah, well, I thought the the the
priest and the sex joke was going to do it, but I've got a
viewer it. Was.
Close. I've got I like this one, but
this says a lot about me. I've I have an inferiority
complex, but it's not a very good one.
I. Think we've had that one on the
show before. Yeah, it's a good one.
Then it is good. There's just two more, just the
two, and they're making me laugh.
I've got a new pen. It can write underwater.
It can write other words too. That's.
Good. That would have worked.
That's good. And I gave a handyman A to do
list, but he only did jobs 1-3 and five.
Turns out he only does odd jobs. I like it.
Yeah, they were good sad jokes. Then my one was.
There's a couple actually, one was one that Alex sent me is
cool trick Jesus, but check it out.
I can turn water into pigs. That's that's one.
And then the other one is I read that someone in New York gets
stabbed every 52 seconds or guy. I think you've had that as as #1
fan. I think you've had that.
Yeah, yeah. Well, I meant I had.
I hope I die peacefully in my sleep like my mother, not
screaming like her passengers. I was, I was getting ready.
I was thinking if if we're going to struggle, I was going to say
I was going to pull out the bucket joke, but.
But the bucket joke works on Tim.
He's he's the weak minded boy that laughs at the bucket joke.
He won't mind me taking the piss out of him constantly on this.
Don't worry. So Dan, you said you brought a
story. You said you brought something
you wanted to talk about. Well, there was a couple of
stories, but I'm going to set one.
This one, it's not like weird or anything like that, but I, I
just wanted you to put yourself in this position and also ask a
question around it. So I might, I think I might even
have have talked about this guy on one of my episodes, but
there's a man who believes he accidentally lost a Bitcoin
fortune in a council rubbish tip.
But he's now looking at the possibility of buying the
landfill site itself before it shuts.
So James Howes from Newport, South Wales, claimed his
ex-girlfriend mistakenly threw out a hard drive containing
thousands of bitcoins in 2013. A 39 year old IT worker now
believes they're worth more than £600 million and he's been
trying to locate them ever since.
Newport City Council are planning to close and cap the
site in 2526 financial years. So that would mean he's got no
chance of finding it, but he's now looking.
Oh sorry. He did bring a case but a judge
dismissed the legal case to force the council to allow him
to search the site or award him £495 million in compensation.
So yeah, at the moment he's now looking at can he buy it?
So I think you have had this on on your show because it's, well,
it's familiar in your voice. But Tim has also told me about
this guy, so I think he must be pretty certain that he got
thrown away for to to buy that. But I believe that he's also
approached the council and said I'll give you £30 million if I
find it. And really.
Yeah. Yeah, 5%, how generous.
There's so many questions around this.
I mean, you know, landfill sites and he reckons it's 80 to 90%
full so. So bear that in mind.
How are you going to find that? How do you even search for it?
Do. You know what though?
For £600 million I think I'd troll through the ship.
Find it. Just imagine all the hard drives
you find and what could be on them as well though.
That's the thing I mean. Worse than what's on?
Nevermind. Yeah, cut that colour.
No, but but seriously, how do you, how do you search for it?
How do you know it's there? How do you know it hasn't been
destroyed? It's.
Yeah. Also, how do you live with the
fact that you know you've actually got £600 million in
there? What I've said on this show
before, when Bitcoin first became like popular, I remember
seeing signs in computer exchange saying we accept
Bitcoin as payment. And I just have this really
funny thought that someone has paid for like a second hand
Shrek DVD with Bitcoin that's now worth.
I think one Bitcoin is worth something like 65,065,000 lbs.
So it better be the best bloody copy of Shrek you've ever seen.
There's a story of someone who you've probably, I think you
might have covered this in your episode, someone who paid for
two pizzas with Bitcoin and they were on national American news
because they had paid for two Margarita pizzas with something
that was now worth over $100,000.
And the guy was like, well, at the time it made sense.
And I think that's, that is the crux of it.
And that is why I still think cryptocurrency is a complete
waste of time because it fluctuates in and, and in ways
that you have no idea and can't, can't track, can't even pretend
to understand. It's all about demand and if
you've got Bitcoin or you've got, is it Ethereum, the other
one that's popular? Yeah, yeah.
Then you. You're pretty OK, like it's not
going to go mad but it can still drop dramatically.
But then there's other ones like Tim's dopey dogecoin that went
to like 0 when he paid for it. He was lucky and managed to get
it out a small profit but that's a five years and it was the same
amount. He would have got an interest if
it was in a savings account. Yeah, I I just think because the
reason this story came up again and I wouldn't have featured
this, but is about him trying to buy it.
But you not think like Netflix or someone is missing out here.
Don't Do you not think there's a documentary here where they
should partner up? They should.
Do a documentary on absolutely everything else so it's I just
I. Think.
It was years ago that it was thrown out, so is it not going
to be like terribly water damaged and utterly useless?
I mean, that's what you'd think in, in, in a landfill site, you
know, in. Wales, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I just think he's probably so
desperate. But that's why I think, you
know, there could be sponsorship deals, you know, I think who
could, who could partner up with him and, and make, make a, make
a, some theatre out of this. Who would you think is the
sponsor for this ludicrous Bitcoin search?
Oh. It's someone who would have to
be willing to sponsor ridiculous shit like Tesla.
Is it, I was thinking boring, like it's got to be an insurance
company, you know, insure your valuables.
Yeah, that is it. That's a good one.
Yeah, or, or, or something, you know, cash.
It would be like money money. She doesn't sponsor it.
You wouldn't get this with with cold hard cash.
Yeah. But I did have a question.
Much easier to find than in a dump than a hard drive.
Yeah, I I did have a question for you though.
Not saying it's a hard drive worth 600 million, but have you
ever lost something that you you turned the house over for or?
I don't know where my bank card is.
Does that count? So I've got hold on I've I've
got this one here and this is what I thought was my bank card,
but this is actually my old one because it expired last year.
So it's utterly useless. So I went to get my Barber is is
very above board and doesn't accept card.
He only takes cash for no suspicious reasons whatsoever.
So I went to go and get cash to get a haircut today.
I was like, shit, that card's totally useless, but I had to
ask my wife very nicely if I could take some money out of her
account and pay her back. But Dan, I don't think I've ever
told her on this podcast. If ever you talk to Chris, so
Chris who's in the discord, he will tell you how notoriously
shit I am at not losing bank cards to the point where my
record of losing a bank card is probably less than a second from
when I first had it. And it was because I lost a bank
card. However it was, I knew the score
by now. They probably knew me first name
basis at the bank I was at, and they sent me this card and I was
like, right, I've got my mail, I'm going to go to work, I'll
take it out of the thing. And when I opened it, I opened
it too quickly and the glue wasn't on the back of the card.
I opened the letter, the card fell out and immediately fell
down a drain. And I had to call them on the
way to it. Like they were like, you don't
need to call this number to activate this card.
And I was like, well, you're never going to believe this.
So, yeah, less than a second. I had that card before I had to
cancel it again. But that I think I don't lose
loads of stuff. I'm not the most organized
person, but I live in organized chaos.
But bank cards I'm fucking terrible with.
What about you? What's the most?
What's something like that that you've lost?
Nothing, nothing of, of no or value.
But I about a year ago now, I lost an earbud that they're not,
you know, Airpods or anything like that.
They're they were just generic of of Amazon.
I woke up and I, I couldn't find one.
Like, you know, you open up the, the little box and it and it
wasn't there. And we've searched.
Now I live in a small house. We actually downsized a few
years ago. So it's not like I live in a
mansion or anything. It was.
I searched The West Wing. Sized from.
Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, I searched The West Wing.
It wasn't. No, but we, we've looked
everywhere. Me and my wife have looked
everywhere and I'm so it's not. So I bought another set because
like I said, they were chips. It's not the value.
The thing that's annoying the hell out of me is where can this
be? I know it's on the property.
I didn't lose it out, you know, I didn't lose it on a walk.
I didn't lose it in the car. It's somewhere here but I just
can't find it. One day you'll find it and
you'll be like you talk shit. Yeah, just one quick final
thing. Sorry.
There was a funny story Sunday. I was in London with and my
Danis, who's a frequent voice on the show of mine and I don't
think he, he'd clocked that. But I've got 2 pairs of glasses.
I've got the long distance and the, the, the reading glasses.
So when we, when I'm travelling, I, I'll have the long distance
ones on. But when we're in an event, I'll
put the, the reading ones on. I'm going around this thing and
I thought I'd lost my other pair.
He hadn't seen me change them. I'm, I'm like in my pocket.
I was thinking, I've got my phone, I've got my wallet, just
missing my glasses. I think, shit, I've lost a pair
of glasses because you know, there's not that they're they're
designer ones, but they cost a fortune.
And so Dan goes, you're right. And I said I've lost my glasses.
And he looks at me. He goes.
They're on your face, not those. Ones you must have lost a pair
of glasses only to find them on your head or something I've
done. That all the time I've done that
yeah, I've done that before I'm. I'm thinking wearing my glasses,
but yeah, no, I, I thought I'd, I thought they'd fallen out or
I'd left them on a counter somewhere.
Well, do you know I did while you were talking, remember
something I had lost, which is terrible that I would forget,
but I'd lost my wedding ring before we went swimming with
Jack. Sorry.
I need to, I keep doing this. I need to cut out.
I'm sure I've said his name before, but regardless, we went
swimming with my son and our local pool is quite a cool one.
They've got wave machine, they've got rapid, they were
slides. I took him in the Rapids and I
was wearing my wedding ring and my wedding ring isn't like it's
not tight at all. And I took him out and then we
got into the main pool. I was like, yes, I can't find my
wedding ring. And I thought I've definitely
lost in the Rapids. So I've been there panicking
because I I can't find my wedding ring.
Can't find my wedding ring, the pool, the, the lifeguards were
like, here's some goggles, go and have a look.
So I'm there for ages and must have looked like an absolute
Nutter wearing goggles, going round the Rapids round and round
and round, searching all the corners for this.
And I just kind of got to the point where I was like, it must
have gone into a filter. I'm never going to get that
back. And I was really upset about it.
And about a week and a half later, I got a call from the
pool. And they were like, did you lose
a wedding ring? And I was like, oh, my God, have
you found it? And they said, yeah, yeah, we've
got it here. Someone just found it by the
side of the pool. It's like by the side of the
pool. Yeah, not even in the pool.
And it took them a week and a half.
Either they had it for ages and just didn't call me or or
everyone in there where I live is blind.
Right, Dan? We're going to leave it.
We're going to keep it short and sweet this week.
You've been an absolute treat to have on.
Thank you so much for filling in Tim's incredibly sizeable shoes.
You've filled them very, very well.
But it would be totally awful of me not to give you a couple of
minutes now just to plug the wonderful casting views where
people can find you and what they can expect if they TuneIn
every Sunday. Firstly, thank you for having me
on, it's been brilliant. I do love this show.
Yep, I host casting views. It's a general topic podcast
every Sunday. You can find me on all the
podcast platforms. It's it's a bit of everything
really. One week I might be having Joey
on and Alex. We might be doing the origin of
phrases. I've discussed some semi serious
topics like AI and like advances in medical science.
You know, I do a lot of funny ones like bizarre laws, bizarre
crimes, I think, which both featured you.
So yeah, I've, I've got a couple of sub series where it's more
like an interview type thing where it's a mind wipe, where I
challenge people to to come up with things they'd love to
relive again for the first time. And a dinner party episodes.
Yeah, it's a little bit of everything.
And while I'm here also, I just want to say thank you to you
because you've you've done a lot of the thumbnails again
recently. And it's always the joy when
they pop through on the WhatsApp.
I say, say Joey, I'm doing an episode on, I don't know, like
amazing, amazing coincidences or something.
And Joe's like, I'm on it. And I said, but that's all I've
said. Then I should get some random
picture. The best one, I think my
favorite one I've ever made for you is still Your face on Stone
Cold Steve Austin's body. It just works so well.
It just works. I didn't think I wasn't.
Very happy with that one. I didn't think that was for an
episode, I just thought that was for fun.
Dan. Yeah, I didn't even ask you, did
I? No, you didn't.
No. No, the Oasis one.
I love the Oasis 1 you did when I had Griffin on SO.
You and Griffin from Reboot D, but well, let's use Griffin as
our as our shout out of the week.
You should also listen to Reboot D Boot on on Spotify, where you
can find episodes with Dan. I think that one's exclusive to
Patreon coming out soon, right? Am I not allowed to say that?
I don't know. No, that's I think that's fine.
No, it's yeah. So he's been on my show a few
times, but yeah, I'm doing one with him which will be on
Patreon. But yeah, keep an eye out for
that. Nice, nice.
Well, thanks again, Dan. Anything you want to say to our
listeners? No, no, no.
Actually that sounds really rude.
I mean yes, no go. You mean take that you bastards.
I was, I was literally going to say it.
I was. I was going to say take that,
you bastards. You bastards.
We'll see you next week. Bye.
Hello post credits listeners. Did you think we'd forgotten to
give the pub quiz answer this week?
Really. Well yes we did actually.
But here we are and Joey has charged me more money to come
and record this little extra bit here to give you the answer.
And here it is. Olive brine.
Olive brine is what is added to a martini to make it dirty.