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. 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. It is Wednesday, my dudes. It is Wednesday, my dudes. Watch him Wednesday. Watch him, dude. Watch him Wednesday. Watch him, dude. Watch him Wednesday. Watch him, dude. 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. 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.