I could probably get by with a knuck or a raspberry pie for what I'm actually using it for. Ask The Hosts – Episode 8 I'm Joe, I'm Phelum and I'm Kevin. Ask The Hosts – Episode 8 I'm Joe, I'm Phelum and I'm Phelum and I'm Ken, I'm The whole thing they could do, destroy stuff. Interestingly, say it rather than he or she. It's a girl. The thing is, we haven't picked a name yet. Ah. How long does she been with you? About four days now.
So the first vet visit was actually quite funny because they asked me for the puppy's name. And I said, I don't know. And they're like, well, then we'll just leave it as new puppy. Hopefully you have a name next time. And I was like, when's the next visit? They told me in about two weeks. And I was like, oh no, I'm on a time limit now. So it's new puppy until we think of something better. We did the same with our son for a better month. Really? Yeah. Couldn't think of the good.
Yeah. And then you watched the Star Wars break, and thought, oh yeah, Liam Nason's cool guy. That's quite a lamb. Yes. Fatty, you've got a house full of him, yeah? Yeah. So we used to have a lab at charity, but he died. Whoa, don't know. Was it just before COVID? Maybe the year before COVID? Oh, I've got to count. I remember now this one. So for quite a while, we weren't ready for another pet. But we already had the cat, and then about two years ago, yeah, I think it was about two years ago.
We got a labrador, a black labrador puppy, Luna. And she's Luna, because our son said, yeah, it's a great name. And we were like, okay, a black dog called Luna, fair enough. But it soon got its name proper, because it's Luna for Luna tick. Like she's bonkers, absolutely bonkers. Well, she came from a litter of eight. And a few months later, we met the owners of one of the other puppies. They were a really old couple, lovely, went walking with them for loads of times, and stuff like that.
But then they ended up getting sick. I'll find now, but they realized they couldn't look after dogs. So we ended up with her sister. So we have a dog that was already named called Lulu. So we have Luna and Lulu. And I sure have got it. I can never get, I don't name right. And I mashed the two of them together. It's dogs. Come over here now. Oh, well, at least they get on with each other. Yeah, you think that?
Did it just think called teeth fencing where they just kind of make their mouths as wide as possible, and bash in, teach it or go, ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra, with the teeth all the time. It's great. And I don't know if I had 10 cents for every time they released a fluid or chewed a thing, I would be a very, very rich man. And what about the cat? Is this the same one that pissed on your UPS? Yes, that is the very cat. She's the boss of all them. I mean, she's a lovely cat to me.
Nobody else kind of gets as much attention out of the cat as I do. But it's a very sort of tenuous sort of relationship where you go, given a rub, rub, rub, rub. Oh, Jesus Christ, she's clamped on. And then she's like biting you. And you're like stuck like that for about 20 minutes. And you can hear the skin on your arm like tearing as she's like slowly biting in each bit. And it's lovely. It's, you know, love is pain and all that. But is she making eye contact during this time?
Oh, she's making ears back crazy. Looks at her eyes like I'm going to cut you boys. Oh, God. Oh, no. Well, I have basically got a cat, which seems like a weird thing to say, right? But we've been fostering cats for three, four years now. And we used to have them for, I don't know, anything from a week or so to a few months at the most. Then COVID happened, everyone wanted a pet. And so we'd have them for sometimes 12 hours. And then they'd just go straight away, even old cats.
And then things sort of calmed down COVID-wise. And we got quite a difficult cat. She is about 10, we think. And as long as you leave her to do whatever she wants, she's pretty much fine. She doesn't come up and attack you or anything like that. And she's actually quite a friend. She'll come and jump on you and sit on you for a bit. But the second, the second you do anything, anything she doesn't want to do, she just turns and like, hisses, scratches, bites. So she's a cat. Well, you'd think so.
But most cats, you can kind of, if they jump up on the worktop, you can pick them up and put them down or whatever onto the floor. But not with this cat, man. She will just hiss at you and bite you. Like I say, if you leave her alone, she's lovely. And I remember shortly after she arrived, I was put in water down for her. I was like, refilling her water bowl. And she was already eating at that point. And because it was next to her, she just like swiped at me because she felt a bit threatened.
And so that's a bit shit. But it turns out that we think she's got neurological problems. So she just has these weird moments that we can only really describe as seizures, where she just like moves all weirdly for like two, three, four minutes. And then she's back to normal again. So we just don't really know what's wrong with her. She's seen a vet and the vet couldn't find anything and they said that it'd be expensive tests and whatever. And ultimately, there's not much they can do anyway.
So on the one hand, she's a little shit because she just bites you and stuff. And at one time, I was in bed and she jumped on me and I was like, you know, feeling nice and friendly as you do when you've had a few drinks. And, you know, I was like, you know, giving her strokes and pets, whatever. And then suddenly my hand was aching and they're like, I got my phone torch and looked and there was like two big white marks where she bitten me. She hadn't broken the skin thankfully.
But that's just part of it with her. You just don't have to kind of accept that. But then she has got these neurological problems so you feel really bad for her. So I don't want to shit talk her too much, but I don't know. My wife has got this special connection with her where she doesn't seem to bite her very much, but anyone else, yeah, good luck. That wasn't a happy story at all. I know. Sorry. Good off to hook my cat now, even if it hurts.
All right, Sean asks, what's the best YouTube video you've ever seen? This is a setup I know because you have the greatest video of all time and I hate you. And I want your video and I have nothing almost. Well, carry it a better go faster. I'm gonna pick a specific channel, although we could go with the very first video of this channel and it's the retro gaming mechanics explained, which to me is absolutely fascinating.
The way that the animations are done in this video is fantastic, the way that they're explained. And it turns out retro gaming is super complex. There is all kinds of things that these developers had to do with the limited constraints of the consoles of Yesteryear. So hearing somebody break that down and all of the tricks and hacks that these developers had to go through in order to create these iconic games is fascinating. Just done with the best animations I think I've ever seen.
So that would be my pick. I don't like you, Kevin. This is a time sync that I think I'm gonna lose so much of my workday into. I don't need this channel. I hate you so much. You're welcome. Well, mine is objectively the best video on YouTube. And it's called Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama. And it's from a channel called Bobby Fingers. And this is an Irish fella. I think he's in a hip hop group or something. But he also makes these clay models for TV and movies and stuff.
And it is a mixture of amazing craftsmanship, just the most amazing model making, both macro and micro almost. Like these tiny dioramas, but also he makes like a life-size thing and scans it in first. And it's this 25 minute story of how he made it interspersed with weird stories and comedy. And I can't really describe it. All I can say is you have to watch it because it is amazing. It is pretty amazing.
Anybody in Ireland who's feeling like they don't have any talents, yeah, it's got that guy stole them all. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, because he's like musical as well. There's a song in every one of his videos. He's done four or five of these, I think. And they're all really good. He did Mel Gibson get interested for drunk driving. He made a boat out of Jeff Bezos' face recently. The effort that he put into it is amazing. Putting all the pours into his face and everything.
And then he just turns it upside down effectively and then just rows it. And he normally makes the dioramas and buries them. And then if you find it, you get to keep it and this closes us to where it is throughout the video. It's really amazing. Make sure I've got a link to it in the show tonight. So everyone can watch it. So did you come up with one then, Tony? So we were outside Ireland for quite a while. And then we came back in 2010. It was the year at a big freeze.
And I'm going to post a video to the pair of you so you can watch it. It's only a bit a couple of seconds along. And you can just enjoy how it's just daft videos. People get wrecked. This is a famous guy. He's pretty much world famous. It's the slip on ice guy. It was on the news. And yeah, let's just say it's very sore looking. Only 410,000 views. I think there's multiple copies of it out there in embarrassed. Right, OK. So it's just a man going arse over it on ice. Come on. It's genius.
That's it. That is. That's real reporting that is. I would say if you're going to get into that level of things, Charlie bit my fingers probably better than that. That's so boring. Come on. At least have the fail blog. What's that famous Annie song? Hard not life. The fail compendium of hard not life. That's brilliant. But it's so say, I think all these are pulsing up your daft choice. Well, I'm pretty sure I win this. All right, hobby and many, many other people have asked similar things.
What hobbies slash interests do our hosts have other than Linux slash podcasting? Do we have time for anything else after that? Well, yeah. You are struggling to answer this, Philly, aren't you? Massively, I mean, unless going to heavy metal gigs, about what, three to four times, if I'm really lucky that year, in which case, a band has actually shown up in the country. But yeah, I mean, I have maybe partially pleasurable chores.
Sometimes cutting the grass is exciting and enjoyable, but most of the time it's walking the dog and the rain gone. Yeah, cool. But I mean, I allow myself a weekly hobby in the, I don't know what, a week in between Christmas and New Year's is, that's the best week of the year because generally nobody's looking for you. You can do sort of like cabbage days on a couch or you can do something and I usually try and build something or break something or take something apart.
Like this year, I'm gonna be making some cases for some pies that are getting too hot and too noisy. So I'm getting a five volt large radius fan that I've got a few of and a bit of plastic art. No, it doesn't count. That's Linux stuff. No, it's harder. It's cases. I mean, I'm putting a pie in it. It could be anything. I mean, I could be putting, I don't know, a budgie in there for all I know. No, that doesn't count. Why about all the military shit that you're into? Doesn't that count as a hobby?
Oh, that's true. Yeah, I know, like I track planes and stuff like that, but I mean, again, that's a pie running Linux that's tracking it with an antenna. So I mean, yeah, I would really struggle to have no stuff in there. But don't you watch videos and read articles about military shit as well? That's too, but you don't appear like a crackpot. I mean, people might get the wrong idea here, but yeah, I guess I do. And yeah, the Ukraine footage and stuff like that. It's just fascinating to watch.
It's like history taking place in real time. Yeah. It's a bit morbid, but did you speak in the army? So it's just, it's interesting to see it all happen. It's amazing what the things have changed and stuff. It's just weird. But I do like planes too. So I mean, flykier, but again, it's a good bit. Right. I think like you, I also struggle because my hobbies are also things I got lucky and found a job doing things that I like doing. Exactly.
So my hobbies also tend to be the things that I get paid for, which happens to be well in the like Linux and developer space. So if I discount all of those things, and we've already said that taking an app on the weekends is not a hobby. I definitely love doing that. Then there's a few other things. I like to do your normal reading things of that nature. I also like to go to concerts. I love going to concerts, but I do it far, far, far too infrequently for my taste.
If I could, I would go every week, which my younger self probably did. More kind of bands though. I like to go to both metal and country concerts. I know that's a very weird mix, but I like both of those genres. I also like to skydive. That's probably the most exciting thing that I've done. However, that is a very expensive and also dangerous hobby. So my wife doesn't really like when I do that. How much is it then to do a skydive?
To actually skydive if you have your own rig, it's about $20 per jump. So that's pretty cheap. However, if you don't have your own rig and I don't, you have to rent the rig, you have to pay for the airplane ticket to go up. It just adds up really, really quickly. That and you have to drive out to the drop zone. It just ends up being a whole thing. What, several hundred dollars a jump then? Several hundred dollars a day, yeah. That's between two to four jumps a day. Somewhere in that range.
So in between that, you are repacking that same shoot yourself. You are repacking it, yes? Oh, dear God, no. But that part's okay. You can just refold the tent that we spent three months looking at, drying going, we should fold it up, yeah, we should. Let's not do it today. There is no way I'd be repacking that thing two to three times a day and my life depending on it. See, that's actually the better part.
Because if you just grab a shoot off the wall that you're renting, I don't know what's in there. There could be somebody's lunch like in a cartoon. So I much prefer to repack it myself. Yeah, I suppose. Do you want to get yourself to blame then? Very true. A short trip of guilt at least anyway. Yeah. Well, I have two hobbies at the moment. One of them is guitars and playing guitar and collecting guitars. Although I haven't bought a new guitar for a while because I run out of space.
But I like to look at what's available and what not and guitar pedals and all that kind of stuff. And I never actually make any music. I made an album once upon a time. Well, I sort of collected together a bunch of songs that I'd made over the last 20 years and called it an album. So I suppose you'd call that a hobby. But more recently, I bought a dartboard. And so I've just been practicing that. And I do quite a involved, shall we say, exercise where I hit every segment on the board.
So I'll do like all of the big singles, all the small singles, all the doubles, all the troubles. And then 25 and bullseye. And when I first started, it took me more than two hours to do it, whereas I can do it in under an hour now. So I don't know why I'm practicing. I'm never going to play anyone. Except for my playing my friend in Australia, where he's got his board, I've got my board, and we'll just get on a call and then just be honest about what we're hitting.
Yeah, no pre-recorded segments. It's like, what do you, what'd you share change color three times? What? No. The sun is setting in the background. Yeah, exactly. But we were talking about doing it and rigging up cameras and everything. And I said, we just need to just get on a call like, and just be honest. And he's like, yeah, actually, we don't need to fuck around setting up cameras, do we? So, yeah, playing darts, it's not very productive, but I don't think I'll be should be productive.
I think they should just take your mind off stuff. Although, shit, I've just realized, this doesn't count. Because you know what I do? While I'm practicing my darts, list of podcasts. Yeah. Oh, we can be doing things simultaneously. Oh, no. Oh, that really is, oh my gardening, then Jesus. Yeah. That doesn't count. And yeah, making of your pie stuff, that doesn't count. Yeah, you're listening to podcast all that, but, yeah, Jesus. I mean, I have got one or anything, but it's Linux as well.
It's like collecting mint conditional Riley books. I buy them to read them, but I never read them. They sit in the shelf and they're mint conditioned and then about 10 years later, when they're really woefully out of date, I can't even sell them. Yeah, but you wait long enough. They'll be an ant-taking, you better sell them for love. Yeah, so someone wants post-fix from like 1997 in the year 2030, I'm sure it's likely that happened. You never know. You never know. Background music