Ashley, you will go on my first whistle. JD, you will go on my second whistle.
Contestants, ready? Gladiators, ready?
3, 2, 1... Gladiators!
Top 10 intro.
Right. So, as you might have imagined, not the same reason, there's going to be a new series of Gladiators.
And they're going to start recording the episodes in Sheffield at the rehab of what they used to do in the MSC.
And so I just thought I'd bring up that old 90s classic nostalgia feel for this episode there.
So, you used to watch Gladiators, didn't you? Yeah. Sub-Banana.
Sub-Banana. The Wolf.
Was it in your favourite? Yeah. Yeah, everyone's favourite.
What was that song you used to do? What were the neat pieces of...
If he lost, it would be that fucking...
Who's afraid of the deep bed?
Yeah, I used to pretend to go angry at the crowd.
Yeah, proper pissed off. Like WWE style.
Because I always used to think, he looked like my dad if he had fucking hair.
If our Frank could actually grow his hair long, then that was just Frank.
He was always fucking aggressive back then, weren't I?
It was always a good programme, weren't he?
Yeah, I used to look at the end when the... I can't remember.
You know when they used to run up the escalators? Yeah, and stop the illuminating.
Yeah, and then swing the rope through the old mesh paper.
That's it.
Because they might have run up the struggle.
I mean, you're already fucked anyway.
And you're trying to run up that ramp that's pushing you back down.
And you just see them blowing out their arse and fucking struggling.
They try and handboard themselves.
It just never worked, would you?
But, oh God, that was certainly not TV Prime that was.
And then it was Brian Conley, I think his name was.
And he was fucking...
He'd zone out poppies.
And he'd have a puppy on his hand and he'd fucking slag it off.
And he'd eat it and whatever.
I can't remember that.
I can't remember the same, but I can't remember the show.
He did a stuntman thing on it as well.
So it was essentially like a sketch show.
And he had a silver jumpsuit on.
And he had the string attachments and he'd flop around a stack.
If you don't always end up hurting himself.
He was funny, he was.
Stars and Roses as well.
I remember that one.
And Tonight, Murphy.
I can't remember that show.
I don't know, actually.
I might be wrong.
I know there's a show similar.
It was essentially a carry over, wasn't it?
And it sounded similar to The Fast and the Metrology.
I've seen a show where there's three people.
So if you wanted to be James Brown, I'd have three singers.
He'd be the James Brown one, I'd see him.
And then I'd have the three singers singing.
And then the judges would pick then who was the best.
I don't know what that's called.
But I've literally only seen that James Brown.
I've seen a few of that James Brown ones.
Just stick to my other than one.
Well, probably because they're all shit really.
They were all good to be honest.
Yeah, they were all good.
They didn't sound like him.
So it was more like an impersonation.
I always felt though it'd be hard to get the accent right.
Obviously when you're from a different country.
Because your vocals are a bit different.
Yeah.
But it's different.
I mean it's different.
Being English, British.
It seems more harder for us.
Because we don't grasp the sense of how to speak other languages.
How to think in other languages.
And that in general.
Whereas other countries they can do.
There's a lot of them that sing in English as well.
I saw a clip of, what was it?
Nega.
Grace Keller the song was.
So he was on, I think it's the French version of The Voice.
And sometimes they have the celebrities and actress singers on.
So he's sitting there doing the piano and he's singing in French.
And then the odd word that comes through is English.
And it's, you know, I watch it on all kind of platforms.
And they're doing that really.
I mean, again, clever people, weird people, shit.
But, yeah.
There's sadly no TV.
It's just nowhere here is good news.
You know, that Antindex tag plays.
Not as good as even when that first started off.
But sadly TV and channel.
What would you all go to on a Saturday morning?
If I remember correctly, it was Pokemon episodes.
And then we had the old COTV, or Carly, or Fox Kids, whatever it was back there.
I think you could sit on two.
Yeah, it was just, I think that 90s approach.
Like early 2000s, late 90s.
And any cartoon was just wild ahead of anything.
I mean, Pokemon, Pokemon Rangers, the Archeroopers, Big Bang Beer Books.
Big Bang Beer Books.
Goosebumps.
But I remember on a Saturday morning, I used to get up.
I'd pack myself a cup of tea.
I'd have about seven ball guns.
What, how old was you, Joe?
As soon as I could reach the work, I thought I was making my own tea.
Well, I had to, but that didn't work.
So it was literally, because most of the time I would be at work.
And Shannon would probably still be in bed.
So I'd get up, move myself and go to the tea.
Seven ball guns, pulled up on the chair next to me.
And if there was a broken one, I wouldn't eat it.
But you know, when you get a broken piece, you can call it a problem, like that.
Never eat it.
What?
I don't know. I was just weird.
What happened was just like a little, I don't know, probably autistic thing or something.
Because I remember going on top, he used to wear a white ADIOS thing.
Yeah, that was because of that, he'd become more of a sponsor.
He used to buy some everything back then.
Yeah, gosh, I don't have to pay for it myself.
So I'd have my seven ball guns stacked up.
Don't come in with tea, eat it.
And yeah, power rangers, as soon as that was coming.
And I used to record every episode on the old day at chess.
Every episode of power rangers.
And I'd watch them back over and over again.
There'd be so many people now, really.
Yeah, chess.
Yeah.
What do you think of that?
It was a big cassette, which had a video on it.
Do you remember when you sat through one of it?
Yeah.
And if you were pulling some stuff, you'd just do it with your fingers, just stick around.
Just the baseball minutes.
I remember once, the system had been recorded over one of the VHS videos.
And I got up at 7 years old and something, and I had a roll shot.
Did you used to go back and watch them?
Yeah, yeah.
So you used to watch them live and then go back and watch them on the video?
Yeah, yeah, sometimes straight away.
You could really enjoy the episode or, you know, they were just there, ready, whenever I wanted to watch them.
Well, I do feel that obviously people are trying to jump on the starch, obviously,
but brought back, well, Nekik's released Mighty Morphin Power Rangers once and always.
Yeah, which is a majority of some of the original casts and then from the season two and three so forth.
But yeah, I've not watched it yet.
But there's always, I mean, Power Rangers is still going on now anyway.
I think they're on season 27 or something now.
And every now and again they do bring back old casts.
That's not a special event, special episode.
Because I'm one of them, they've brought back all the Rangers, didn't they?
I've seen that a lot and I've watched every Power Ranger from Mighty Morphin Turbo.
Apart from Turbo, I've no idea what the rest of it is.
I remember there was a pirate ship.
I think that was a big whale.
Yeah, well, I think with that special event, the only actual original act that I've brought back was Jason David Frank,
Rest In Peace, and the rest of them were just people in the costumes and the Rangers.
Yeah, they've done it loads of times.
Again, with the remakes they've tried on them as well, the Power Rangers film that they've released a couple of years ago.
I already enjoyed that one.
Why not let the people in work?
I already enjoyed that one.
I thought it was good.
I think they've added deeper zords in that, the actual zords.
It would be to try to make them realistic.
I know they've changed it for that reason, but because I had the nostalgia of wanting to see...
He wanted nostalgia and not...
Yeah, he was like, they weren't...
They weren't cut up and run off.
They were... I don't know.
I expected more Transformer-like, whereas there was more animal-like.
I get that.
I thought it was fine. I really liked it.
I thought it was probably one of the best movies of that year.
It was pretty nice, I would say.
But I really enjoyed it.
I went in...
I think he and I, it's not going to be that great.
He's just a remake.
I already enjoyed Ariel, the story arc I think he did it.
And Jason, and then at the end, the guy with the old jumps.
And Hope, well, Hope doesn't have to be Tommy.
Yeah, the green range coming in for him.
And the Shrek and making a new arc again.
Yeah, I think they were talking about another reboot, but I don't know if they could have just continued with the past.
I mean, I know the one where he was in Stranger Things and that then as well, so maybe it's because he became popular.
And he hasn't had a Tommy.
No, because then it would make the show more popular.
Yeah, the manual does.
Yeah, but I know I've seen that you don't do great on the ratings if I'm running smart on it.
I think it was probably too many people with my expectations.
Not that I expected it to be like the original Power Rangers film because that was a bit over the top in some places.
But I think people expected it to be more of a normative feel when it was the reboot to bring it into the new century.
The Sandbag Transformers was essentially, you know, that's nowhere near the cartoon films and the programs that he was.
He was made by Hulks essentially.
Yeah, no, just going back to the Power Rangers, obviously, because the old movie, I tell you, keeping you up on the movie.
Yeah, DVD.
A lot of people don't know about DVDs as well.
The one thing that I understood from that movie, when the Discord died, was, was he a snowboarder?
I don't know what he's got on it.
He's a snowboarder.
Boy, look, I don't know if it's a thing.
When you're a man, you'll have to say.
Yeah, not Cowabunga or whatever.
You see him roll a blind with what the paddy does.
I think stuff like that was just to fill time in the movie.
It was the actual storyline of it, the plot.
He could have been done in two episodes.
It's always been a bit cheesy with the science.
Oh yeah, it always was.
I mean, even going to once and always a new one, the cheesiness is still there, tenfold maybe.
But yeah, just with the Power Rangers, you've got an old arc, it's coming off of yours.
Obviously, Narky's grown up a bit again.
We've got a few things here to speak about.
Jack, so going back to your childhood, what's the top three movies that you've watched all over and over again?
Yeah, you said you used to watch the Power Rangers after.
What would that be?
The Power Rangers one, he's up there to be fair.
I was still on the DVD.
And then I had it on the computer, so I'd have to watch it while I was in bed sometimes.
So that's probably the top one that I used to watch as a young adult and teenage.
I remember that one.
Yeah, it kept you going.
And then the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I used to love watching those films.
Because it was so realistic, the costumes and the voice.
It was just, to see it as a child, no CGI or anything, it was just real.
And then the cartoon from the cartoon, because he had that cartoon feel of it as well, the voices sounding to barn and the characters and that.
He was just always a good watcher.
I think there was three films of that origin as well.
And then one that not many people, I don't think, would know of, because any time I had bought it up, no one seemed to know.
The Ninja Kids, so it was three brothers, and they had the costumes, obviously the karate costumes.
And I think the youngest one was in yellow, then the middle one was in blue, the top one was in green.
And Hulk Hogan was in one of them.
Hulk Hogan was in one.
And then the movie Hulk, there's another one of the Ferrel, the original Hulk.
Oh, Baglia.
Because again, there was three of those.
I used to just love it.
See, when you were speaking, I thought you were talking about Samurai Pizza Cats when you started off.
Do you remember that? Samurai Pizza Cats.
No, it wasn't that.
Because obviously back in the day, there wasn't a blockbusters everywhere in the UK.
We only had a few, got around three of them.
But where I grew up, on a pro-day, we used to walk up the road, and then there was on the corner an old video shop there.
And we used to go there and I'd always grab these free karate kinks or the free ninjas, whatever it was called.
I'd get it pretty much every week, and I'd get back and I'd watch that note.
Because I used to love it, because Mom used to order us a pizza or something.
And a pizza with a pizza, I'd never have them on from there.
It was opposite the old McDonald's anyway.
Oh no.
Yeah.
So I think the names are coming to me. Tommy, Rocky, I don't know if I'm getting mixed up with the power.
I'm sure one was called Rocky and Tommy, and then the other one was called...
I think Colt was the oldest one.
Yeah.
I used to love it.
No, just going back obviously, because you just mentioned Power Rangers.
Sorry.
Do you know Ninja Turtles?
Do you remember the arcade game?
The actual arcade one or...
I think they brought out the Sega as well.
Yeah, I remember playing it on the Sega.
How was it? Was that game also the Simpsons arcade game?
I don't know about that, but it's the three Simpsons, the hot air balloon.
I think the best Simpsons game was the Alien Run.
On the PlayStation.
Yeah, yeah.
Talking about a good game, do you remember Rugrats?
Oh, yeah.
That used to be a good game. You got around the house and you did the Michelin.
Yeah, because even with that...
PlayStation.
I just remember driving around on... because there was a race on one of the levels.
You just drive around, just do that over and over.
I was just trying to beat my own score.
That would have been better today.
Yeah, but this installation feels obviously going into all corner aspects of it.
You just picked up on the games.
Obviously, we've got Final Fantasy.
It's whatever you started off on and then obviously it still goes on now.
Yeah, yeah.
Final Fantasy VII, that started off more in love with the RPG genre really.
Because in a few weeks, they're bringing out a new remaster of the original six Final Fantasy games.
Okay.
So you buy it as a full package.
It's still the same artwork in that century, but they've just made it so you can play it on modern TVs and it's not going to blur or anything like that.
So I think we'll get into that soon.
Yeah.
Roborged, yeah. Before playing any of them, it was on the old Sega Mega Drive.
I used to bash the Power Rangers game on that, to be fair.
Sonic.
Sonic 1 and 2.
Street Fighter.
Streets of Rage.
The Blackboard game.
Hours and hours of fighting.
I think it was Level 4 when you had the two white ones.
I used to blow a fire out of the mouth.
Yeah.
I don't want to judge you then.
Yeah, yeah.
I used to call the police and they used to say, just send a bazooka.
Air strike and that.
That was all.
I mean back then it was so amazing.
Because I remember when Sonic and Knuckles came out and so you got the Knuckles attachment that you'd stick Sonic 1 and 2 in the top.
Just so you could play with Knuckles on the original games.
I remember that blow my mind and then there was another attachment that you could play CD games on it then.
And then he went on to the long term Playstation 1, Dreamcast.
The game that, for me, moving on in the old video.
Grand Theft Auto, Little City.
When that came out, that just changed everything.
I think that was inspiration for a lot of games then.
There was Taxi.
Just that open world feel.
Yeah.
Driver as well.
Yeah, you'd open it up to a lot of games like that.
I'd say a mix of that and the Final Fantasy games.
I opened it up to the likes of Assassin's Creed and that really to keep that sort of...
You ain't got a linear passage you can go as and when.
I mean Square Enix, they really did open up everything.
It's not just Bonn Fantasy that's got Dragon Quest and all that.
Their RPG games are just...
Kingdom Hearts as well.
Kingdom Hearts, yeah.
And the soundtrack.
The soundtrack.
I know we've picked up on this before during this podcast.
Yeah, but right now we're going to Star Wars Jack.
And obviously still keeping on the trend of still going on odds of capping that.
Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Super.
Oh my god.
This, besides Pokemon, is just really like when I think about childhood.
Dragon Ball Z, Fire PM, Karno Network.
And I just remember it just seems to be flying like.
I think we spent about six weeks just watching the Battle of the Freeza, didn't we, Ripper?
Yeah.
And because the super speed, obviously super strength and that,
but they're having these battles quicker than you can visibly see
according to the people standing down on the floor.
But they're having normal conversations.
It's a lot of super speed speech as well.
It's just crazy.
But I think Trunks, Trunks is probably the best intro of a character ever, really.
I know, just comes out of nowhere, fucking Freeza and that,
and comes from space and runs into attack.
Yeah, he's gangling. I think it was Freeza's father.
Yeah, and his brother as well, I think.
So obviously, Caller.
Caller was a movie separate to the series.
First of all, was he just his father?
His father, like I'm down here.
Again, he was, I can't remember his name, but he was a cold,
a cold word now, the world he lived in.
So yeah, they've come to invite, Goku's not there yet.
He's still on his way back from Nani.
Yeah, because he'd been training down there.
No, it wasn't Nani.
Nani, he was coming back from Nani because he got in his shit with Freeza's shit.
He was over to get back to work quicker then.
I'm pretty sure that's how he went down.
I thought he went to another planet,
and that was where he learned the instant transition.
Ooh, he might be right.
He was probably dead.
But yeah, just couldn't wipe long enough for Goku to call.
Freeza gave him an hour, and then just out of nowhere,
he was in the trunks with his sword as well.
Always got a sword.
Just chops Freeza up into little pieces.
There's that moment that Freeza's always blinking as well on the floor
and Goku just gathering up.
Yeah, I think that was the start of the South Star War then, wasn't it?
When it changed to Dragon Ball, that was a big difference.
I remember watching the original Dragon Ball.
It was just a normal little adventure here and there,
and that battle and blah, blah.
But it just stepped up a little when it changed to Dragon Ball.
The original Saiyan saga, Vegeta, and then...
What's his name?
The form of G, and that was like...
Krillin?
No, not Krillin.
The other Saiyan.
Nat Ba?
Nat Ba.
Yeah, with them coming over and chanting into a giant ape and stuff like that.
It was coming up.
It was a big step up.
And to sit there and watch it...
It was 30 minutes, but with the adverts and everything, it was only a long 10 minute journey.
And that's just annoying.
Everyone used to speak about it the next day when they were not interested in going back to school.
Probably one of the only cartoons that as a young teenager in secondary school,
he could talk about and not be called a nerd or anything like that,
because he wanted to talk about fucking Pokemon or whatever.
You're on the snide, yeah.
Fuck off, you geek.
Yeah, Dragon Ball Z was.
Everyone spoke about it, literally.
The one kid that gets asked to...
We want to talk about Dragon Ball G too, because it's dark and it's terrible.
Yeah, but went off the couple beat.
Yeah, it just obviously...
The breaking new ground, obviously now, of Super Saiyan Club mode.
Yeah, I think the names are going a bit much.
How many levels can there be, really?
Yeah, yeah, like...
Don't forget it was the first Super Saiyan Club in a million years, supposedly.
It was a legend before that.
That's his breaking new ground.
Yeah, everyone won.
I think Ghost and Come Out as a Super Saiyan, as well as Toilet Drunks.
Yeah, so...
I feel like watching it again now.
I feel like Dragon Ball Super Go in terms of there's a lot more combat than just talking.
It's a lot more what you want to see from Dragon Ball.
I remember just a load of filler episodes of Dragon Ball Z.
Like, the folk who learn to drive and stuff.
It's just...
Episodes that didn't think they had to be there.
I'll get it when they're flying around and the driver fucking trying to learn that.
But just stupid episodes that didn't need to be there.
And then Water Foggy would go on and go up and be the great Saiyan man.
Oh, he just ruined himself and went to the floor like that.
The one thing that I remember vaguely was when it was all flying to the Cell Games.
When the cell set up the tournament.
And that was probably about two weeks.
It was about ten episodes of them flying.
Especially in other episodes that flown around the world or ran around you for seconds or something.
It takes them two hours to get fucking across the country. Fucking crazy.
So what would be your top three anime or kids TV shows?
You've done your movie. What would be yours?
Well, again, Power Rangers.
Literally the first five or six seasons of that.
I'm still happy to sit down and watch them all night.
The original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Then it went on to Zero.
Oh, was it Zero before Turbo?
Oh, you have told me man. It went on to Turbo.
I can remember which one it was.
Yeah, I'd happily sit and watch those again.
Then after that, I think it was...
Yeah, so it was Turbo and then it went to In Space.
I'm not going to really like all of them.
I don't know the exact chronological of them.
But yeah, it sort of went off a bit too much.
Only the original cast had gone by the end of Turbo.
I think I was at that age then that I was getting out of the children's TV theme anyway.
Yeah, so Power Rangers would be tough.
Then again, Dragon Ball then as well.
Back to that.
More so Dragon Ball Z.
I've watched that before. I've watched Dragon Ball as well.
I don't think they ever put that on Cartoon Network.
No.
Originally anyway.
Yeah, yeah.
And then there were three more.
Simpsons, Old Crown, Pidgeymon, Cloud Guide.
I have to say it would be Pokemon.
Simpsons, I was never really a massive fan of Pokemon.
Futurama?
I think that was more as young adults and that was in it because it was more adult themes as well.
But even the Simpsons, you understand more jokes.
Yeah, it was because I was older then.
There's jokes that just when you keep going flying out of your head.
Yeah, I'd have to say it would be Pokemon.
It's good actually I'm glad you brought that up.
With this nostalgia for feels, obviously 26 seasons in, my favourite TV show.
Ash left the show.
He's not my character.
I've never watched a TV or cartoon.
When I've seen all the clips on TikTok because it hasn't aired yet in the UK.
I can't leave it.
I won't go into it and catch any scenes.
There's still these spoilers.
That nostalgia for feels there when he cheered his goal was just unreal.
There's only a few times.
I mean how many years can you be ten for?
That's the one thing that really knocked me about it.
Is he older than when he left the house?
I've never really picked upon that.
No.
I never understood him.
He'd go to a new region.
Start from scratch.
I knew obviously you had to get the cartoon out of here.
He could have just easily paved through keeping the chars on.
I'd say for both of them that touched everyone's hearts.
The nostalgia is hard because on the later part of the season you do reconnect with the person that he is.
Obviously you get all those goosebumps feels back.
Or the games or the cards.
But again when Red and Blue that was another one that blew everyone's minds.
Everyone had to play.
Again in school we were allowed to talk about that.
You couldn't talk about watching the cartoon but sitting there on weekends and getting the old Link out of the game.
Or trading Pokemon and stuff.
You could do that but you couldn't talk about the cartoon.
Also, same with anyone that's listening.
Email in.
I got stuck for about three days.
So before you fight LT Surge and you need to get caught.
I didn't know that move could ban that kind of trick.
So I was like, what did I do for three days?
He's Jim as well though trying to bomb the rock switches in the bins.
That used to crack me up.
You didn't want to save right in front of you in case you needed to trade your Pokemon for more.
But you didn't want to lose the pack once you got the doors open.
It was just hours and hours of spent basing on that.
But it was all part of the fun though wasn't it?
The games are a little bit easier now.
But the hours and hours have grown into leveling up the Pokemon back and forth.
I still think there should, obviously, because there's a new generation and our generation playing the same game.
I do feel there should be an adult version where the games would be a bit more tactical.
It should just be the same as a lot of these games where you've got your easy, normal and hard mode.
So it should just be a literal switch between the two where you can have it as you have to individually trade all your Pokemon separately.
Or if you want the easy just to enjoy the story in front of the game, have that.
Because that's the main thing really that we don't want to have going after nostalgia bins.
It's too easy just to get your whole team up to a maximum level.
Whereas back in the day it was hours and hours.
But the good side about it now, we are adults and we don't have enough time to just sit there and waste all that time away.
That's true.
Playing the games.
So I suppose it helps us on that sense.
But yeah, it was, I'd say, game changing.
I remember us going into the Birmingham Town Centre.
One of the games, we were standing outside.
Game Station.
Yeah, Game Station used to be called.
Yeah, it was at the top of the ramp for the Palisades.
And we were thinking there was going to be loads of people there, but it was just us two.
Was it for Pokemon Crystal?
I think it was Crystal.
Yeah, we were getting on the bus early in the morning, going there.
We didn't know until about 9am.
It was there at half 7am. I was like, I'm going to get these in. It's going to get these in. Just us two.
It was a good old time.
But then getting back, just bashing straight out of line.
We got to play for as long as we could.
And some batteries died on that.
It's all about fucking the Game Boy balance.
And that makes me want to go out and start playing some of the games.
There weren't really many Game Boy games outside of the Pokemon one.
I did enjoy playing.
No, it was a bit off the Game Boy fantasy.
So I want to buy them for Pokemon.
Yeah, I mean, when it comes to the PlayStation, it's obviously the original one.
The Final Fantasies, Crash Bandicoot, had all of them.
Gran Turismo, racing games and that.
So I had a good mix on the PlayStation.
It's never been an Xbox person.
And then these days, no, it's just the...
I haven't got a PS5 yet.
I'll go and get one at some point.
But I've got a PS4.
It's just a couple of Final Fantasy games.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
And then the Switch.
That's what I've just played.
I've got a couple of different ones on there now as well.
It's mainly just the RPG games I stick to these days.
I did get the Crash Bandicoot when that came back out again.
Played through that.
You get the memories coming back out a bit.
It's not the same as when you're a kid and you're playing it.
I'm sure the game was harder.
The other game was always hard.
It was.
Oh, it was fun.
Yeah, I've got so far frills on.
I haven't been struggling this much.
But I'm not going to pick up an old PS1
so I can just test to see if it was just as hard.
I've got the Tony Hawk's, probably.
The Remake or whatever they call it anyway.
But I've got that.
I've played it literally not once.
I've got a lot of good ones I'll remember.
Yeah, when that game came out,
Tony Hawk's was just bashing it for fucking days.
Just fucking the challenges.
I used to have to do Maze and then.
I think it's probably because I didn't have the same skill level
that I used to have.
You used to have to try to collect the skates.
Yeah, collect the letters.
Eat certain targets, pull them always.
There was certain or fucking prime for fucking these bonus and whatever.
And it worked.
I think that was good as I used to be.
The grand three's my, I used to go out like that.
Hours and hours at a time.
Weeks and weeks.
Knee for speed.
All the time.
Fang out the sun, dummy.
He just sits there.
The window.
I think Guts had a lot of fucking police pursuit or something.
It just went down.
Sometimes I try to get them out too quick though.
Especially with that knee for speed.
So on the games as well, I remember Bayblade,
playing them on the PlayStation.
I think they tried too much with that.
There's only so much you can do
crossing a cartoon over to a game in general.
But with a spinning top tour,
there wasn't much you could do.
With the new Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh,
when they've got the trading card games for it,
they were a bit easier to play for.
With Bayblade, you couldn't physically level up the person.
And it was just, you upgrade Bayblade,
upgrade the endurance and whatever.
But it just wasn't the same.
It didn't feel as good as a game.
But I'm feeling toward the Digimon games.
They were such a grind.
The original one that came out on the PlayStation 1,
I don't think they ever actually completed on the PlayStation.
It was such a grind.
I think every time your Digimon died,
you'd have to start from the beginning.
Yeah, start it off straight out of the box again.
You'd spend a couple of days in the game
just getting a new ball back up to champion, ultimate, mega and that.
So I don't think they ever completely completed.
I think they just had to get a new release one again,
which came out on PlayStation 4, I believe, back in 2020 or 2019.
I played it then.
I purchased it for a Switch, forgot that I played it,
and then remembered I played it.
So I completed that again.
I didn't do it.
I didn't spend time trying to get every Digimon,
trying to do all the different stats to get a specific one.
I just literally, while I got level them up and go for it and done it.
It was a good enough game.
The recent other one, Digimon Survival,
which I've not played or seen trailers of,
I will get at some point.
That's in a different style of play, different story line and everything.
Did you use to play the Chicago double on the PlayStation 1?
I know I had it.
I don't think I did too much with it, to be fair.
I wouldn't really go into that game.
But I completed that game and won the other two games.
I completed it.
Digimon World, I enjoyed that one a lot.
I'm sure that was still on the original PlayStation.
PlayStation 2, again, it's just a mix between FIFA
and fucking Final Fantasy down for a look.
Yeah, so I think what we've kind of picked up on this is
the stats of what, the ball-wise, normally comes to,
especially when it comes to gaming, going forward,
and then obviously, the anime, you still...
All the calm pictures I make, starting a new anime from scratch,
you just be the ones.
And even as we spoke about games,
I think it would just be the same game.
Yeah, the ones that are sick on Netflix and that,
where it's like 12 episodes and stuff,
obviously you can watch those.
But to go through, I mean,
I think the main big one that comes to mind is
the One Piece on the Ruto.
I've watched so much in the Ruto,
but there's not a thousand episodes in there.
I've never watched...
I've seen one called One Punch Man.
Yeah, I've watched the first season of that.
It's in English.
Is this like an old cartoon or is it like a newer cartoon?
I think it's only a few years old, really.
I always saw that One Punch Man in the Ruto.
There's probably...
I know there's always Dragon Ball Z, but...
I mean, there's not a thousand episodes out.
Oh, yeah, they just banked it out.
I'm not sure if that one,
One Punch Man, started out as a comic,
but a lot of them do, yeah.
It was okay.
It was just something to just watch while I had nothing else to watch, really.
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Right, so now that we've had those nostalgic feels,
with a sort of trip down memory lane,
I thought I'd bring up just some
cheat that I've been seeing on TikTok this week.
So, the first one,
another potential Mannella effect.
So, I know you don't do a great bit of cooking yourself,
you know the basics,
and then still when you see it on TV and whatever.
But let's just say you've got yourself a piece of chicken
and you're about to season it.
So, if you're going to season it,
with two basic seasonings,
what I do say,
so I'm going to put on some...
Salt and pepper?
Salt and pepper.
So, no.
So, you've said it in that order, salt and pepper.
Yeah.
Salt and pepper.
Apparently, in that, it's always been pepper and salt.
I'm going to put on the seasonings chicken,
with pepper and salt.
I've never heard anyone come out with it
until your dad.
And there's clips going back from fucking years,
going on with people saying,
on TV, I've got to say,
I don't eat vodka or anything,
one of the chefs on the Simpup,
just, look, on the seasonings of pepper and salt.
It's just, it's so strange,
I've never fucking seen that before.
So, I thought I'd just get your...
Yeah, it just seems backwards.
But I'll tell you how Stab reminded me of,
just because he just, the way...
So, I've seen a video of a mother asking her child
how she would answer the phone.
And then, it all started to you,
how would you answer the phone?
You'd pinch your knuckles up,
think your thumb out,
and go to ear and mouth, and do a phone.
It's where kids now just
press, like, a full palm open.
Well, that goes back to an age thing.
And a camera.
Yeah.
And the dad doing, like, it's...
Yeah, so that is an age thing,
because with an old phone,
you have to pick it up off the receipt,
and then you have the headphone,
the old phone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was just funny, it was just, like, weird,
because obviously, in your psyche, that's normal.
And then, obviously, as I said, with the camera,
you would do, like, a picture of you holding
one of those old, quarter old cameras,
and then you press the button to actually click it.
I know you can still bother the disposable cameras as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can wind up...
And you flip the flash on and...
Jeez!
Fucking jeez.
Yeah, I thought that was...
Well, I'm not saying that.
I thought that was interesting, how different the psyche is now.
Yeah, it is just a generation of nosing.
I mean, I saw a video a long time ago, Nan,
where this chap
was handing a cassette
to his kids,
an old cassette player,
and they're like, what's this?
He's got music on it.
He's got music on it, and so they're trying
to put it through the air as if it was a phone,
trying to listen to it, and
putting the fingers in the rear-end,
and it squeals and this and that, and they're
trying to look for a forks out there,
and fucking, so a headphone jack,
and they just couldn't stop to see
these old pieces of what you do,
and you've got an old fucking car
where it's got the cassette player in it still,
and they were like, oh, you just want to
put your phone in there.
So after you've struggled out in B-side, didn't I?
Yeah, A-side, B-side.
More nostalgic feels.
So, again, while I was just randomly
scrolling through and tweeting that,
the main viral one
that I've seen floating around this week was
another one of these idiots
fucking jumping
onto the snooper table
and throwing the orange powder everywhere,
the just-stop-oil-now
protests.
Are those, is that in terms
of petrol?
Yeah, so
the fossil fuels are
the main aim for it, so yeah,
petrol and diesel.
I understand what they're trying to say
is that it's not going to be a viral
effect, but they're not looking at the logistics of it.
So, wait,
is that from the snooper tour?
Yeah, I think it's the world championship that's going on
at the moment. What happened?
So he's literally, he's obviously
paid for a ticket to get in,
and then he sat there waiting for an opportunity,
that he'd snoop out. There's not a
whole demand for security.
There will be some sort of, but they're not standing
at the moment because they'd be fucking
fucking up. It's not going up, yeah.
So he's just got out of his seats,
ran onto the
little
standing, beaten, not standing,
but ran onto the floor, jumped onto the
table as someone was about to take
a shot, and then he's opened the bag
of orange powder and probably
fall in the air, so it's like he's all over the table.
And then shortly after that,
there is two security guards that come in,
grabbing him off the table.
But that's just, well,
a whole mess that's made
of a cleaner table, re fucking start
the priming, and it's just fucking stupid.
It's,
there was a woman at the trial to do it, I don't know if it was
on the same event or a different
event than that, but by the time she
got there, because they were already aware that it
might happen again, she's brought by the
tie up, and so they could have managed to grab that.
I'd love to say I'm trying
to do it somewhere that
it'd actually get crowded. Could you imagine
boxing events? Boxing or darts
is one of our animosity. Would you imagine
trying to go out and mention a fucking bag of
orange powder and a dart or
everyone's pissed there.
No one wants that to ruin their night.
They're all fucking having a good time.
I can just see fucking someone
chucking a dart at them.
Are these the same?
The one thing I've seen
that I think is these,
is by the same group,
they're spray painting, paintings?
Is that the same?
They're not spray paints, they're
chucked to Mark's feet or something
over paintings.
And then they've been super good with their hands
to the roads
and block buildings and stuff.
There was another one the other day
where, I don't know if
it was by a tennis gang
or something, but essentially the video that I saw
this scouts lad's
laughing at him because he's walking along the field
and they're on the outside
of these sporting events
going on anywhere.
And the tie wrap themselves to
the metal fence and the
three little groups of three and the lad's just
laughing at him.
I get the cause
but they're not going to be the role models.
And also, they're trying to stop
using fossil fuels.
But all of the fossil fuels
are getting took up in the middle of the East.
That's where it's
Russia,
America,
export.
It's the wrong place to be doing it for one.
What would make me laugh?
These I'd say could not have been drawn.
Because obviously,
if you hit the critical, you're never going to
bus, you're never going to play,
you're never going to taxi,
just cycle and train.
And a lot of them
are just, essentially, they're on the dot.
They're fucking leaving up
the taxpayers' money.
I know there's some of them that are
falling over, spooning them out, so
they haven't got to worry about money in that sense as well.
They don't work normal jobs. There's a lot of students
working. So again,
they're already in debt
after student loans. They're going to get paid
up by the taxpayers' money in the end.
They're not looking
at the actual logistics
of it.
The government actually turns around and says,
yeah, we're not going to buy any more bloody petrol
things or whatever.
We can't run, we haven't got enough electric vehicles.
The electric grids
are mainly run off of these fossil fuels
still anyway.
There's just no means of actually doing it.
The whole country could come to a shutdown
because there'd be no way of transporting
food around,
any sort of sub-border blocks or whatever.
The farmers need to farm the crops
because they're not going to be able to do it by hand.
It is weird because
when you think about where it's all
coming imported from, that would be your key
to target them areas.
Obviously,
these are the same ones that
I've seen
in Morgan's interview
on his show.
They're the same lot.
The lad that was on there,
he was a royal. He'd come across terrible.
That's literally how boring these people are
when they're actually getting on TV.
They're not likeable.
Even their actions are not likeable,
but how he'd come across on
the show is just
not likeable.
It's instantly, they're all just attacking the host.
They're not actually
providing proper stats
and valid reasons
for what we should listen to them
and do what they want.
As I said, you wouldn't have to do it instantly anyway.
It has to be sold over 30 years or so.
He slags him off
and says
coming from the person that
hacked into dead people's phones
for whatever reason.
He used to run the Daily Mirror Group in there.
He was a part of it.
I seen him when he
faced the liar up
and he said he was going to get sued.
You could see he thought about it
because the camera was right.
He had to try and keep that on.
He'd come across terrible.
Even if he thought the cause was right,
the way they
came about it
and the way they went about it
was just not the right way.
There was not a lot of putting their approach.
It's the same like they were doing that
in the middle of all this stupid stuff.
When you're
stopping other people from enjoying
themselves and going to work
you're not lovable.
There's got to be a better
approach.
It's only over here
as well that
we're allowing them to get away from you so much.
There's women who are doing it in France.
They were just getting out of their cars
and fucking whatever
and just grabbing them, hitting them,
back over to the other side of the road
or getting the fuck out of the way.
You've got to get them off the get.
Bit of cheese
fucking.
Drawing on the wrong side of the road anyway.
Since I'm already on
a bit of a rancy
point of these
fucking idiots.
Again the other day I was sitting there
or
sending emails, doing whatever
and then as I looked up
because it was getting on
I've got channel 4 on the TV
in the background. I'm not paying attention to it.
Then as I looked up
I've seen a pair of teeths
and obviously the initial thought was
oh oops, what's this?
He did yeah.
These nipples pointing out the nails
I don't fucking know what's going on here.
So I put the phone down
and I started looking at it
and it was a programme
so it was on channel 4
it was called Naked Education
and there's
adults that are
completely naked
starting off with winging, they're all there
people with shapes, oldies, whatever
and as the camera spans
around again there's children
sitting there at
old fashioned school desks
and they're talking to them about
how to transition
from transgender
you want to be male, female, whatever
in between
and this one girl
she starts crying, it's emotional
because she's got feelings
that she wants to be a boy and whatever
and then it switches on
to men. So there was
two of them
facing each other. There was a woman
that's in the middle of transitioning
to become a man so she's got the scars
where she's had the boobs removed
and then it's this man
who's fully transitioned
from a woman
for one it was ridiculous
because the soul is a cock, just fucking
flat, it was absolutely ridiculous
it's got the fucking elephant horn
just hanging down. So they're explaining
the process for it now
so we get that sort of programme
where it's trans and trans daughter
saying it about the experiences, what happens
and that sort. Then the next
thing it was that same
broken other
transitioned men
standing in front of the same
group of kids again
and I just thought how disgusting
is this because these kids are under the age
of 16 for starters.
Impressionable when you're young
you think in a
lot sexual
it's a bit too
it's too heavy
in my opinion
It just screams
fucking white section in the broke here
and
a bit nonsy to me
because the kids
obviously the most of my consent
from the kids and the parents
but it shouldn't be a show in the birthplace
No, you are right there
I mean I would have been
I would have loved to have heard how that
producer went into Channel 4
he said or something
I've got an idea, we'll do a naked
trap show
we've got one, naked education
it's a bit heavy
I mean that naked attraction is like
weird shit but
it is heavy
the one thing
I'm trying to think
back from when I started hearing
about all
transitions and unborn
I can't think
of a tongue, it just seems like
last year and a half maybe
Yeah, the last couple of years it has kicked up a lot
I mean it was always around
the normal transgender
to a certain degree
before we was around you know
the baby boys have been around forever and
this and that but
again it was seen as cross dressing back
in the day as well wasn't it when a man
felt comfortable wearing women's clothes
and you know drag queens
and stuff all over
again, rest in peace
he was
he's programmed blankly blank
really savage
you know
that was probably the
open scene for it really
to make it sort of popular
in Newcastle
but he literally has
you know obviously
the gay role it's got
the legal obviously same sex
marriage and this and that
gay pro is always been a big thing I mean we've been
out several times over the years
as part of those celebrations
but it's
just it's gone too far
The thing going
with me and the whole issue not just
this issue but obviously with the
gay role one is
is
if you are that way inclined
what's that to be
what's everyone having to know
yeah that's the
it's like you have
you can't
it just has to be pushed
yeah
I know we've already ranted about it before but
it doesn't have to be thrown in our faces
I don't give a shit
what way
you are you know
you're a man you want to be with a man
whatever and that don't care
don't push the
values onto us
and it's getting worse because the pushing the values onto the kids
they're already
confused
it's hard not being a kid in general
because school and everything is fucking
education to do well
you've got friends, family,
sports and then
everything is always fucking
the social media
you've got to look a certain way
you've got to act a certain way
it's already hard
and so about these extra elements of trying to
think
was I born in the wrong body and that
so going back to this show
what's the conclusion of the show
just to show kids if
this is how you feel, this is how you
go about it
I couldn't watch all of it at the end to be honest
because I was starting to get a bit annoyed
because I'm always up
getting tired anyway
but I think it is just to try and educate them on
the process of how to transition
what say it's just
they're underage
they're not legally
allowed to do anything
so they shouldn't be legally
allowed to make this choice
I mean
is there an age
where you can start to transition
if you feel
I've seen a video
I think it was this week actually
of a woman explaining
her
experience of her son
transitioning into a girl
from the age of two
on earth
has only got sisters around him
I think his
father works way over Tom
he was a merry cat
he might be a trucker or whatever
so he's planning
with his sister
father Tom's whatever
and then as he's getting older
he's
planning dress up
putting on sisters clothes
and whatever
and then in nursery
I don't know why there's girls clothes
in nursery just lying around
or were they spare ones for accidents
and stuff
but apparently the nursery school
teachers were not allowing him
to dress as the girl
or allowing him to dress in
the clothes for a short period of time
and then make him get back into his own clothes
that he was sent into
what nursery he was at
and then he sort of
mothers fucking kicked off
transitioning
so he's now about four or five years old
and transitioning into being a girl
but it's
just too far
you have feminine boys and masculine girls
doesn't mean that they're going to be
that white
how many times
do you fucking see a straight man
that is a big fucking camp
and then all these women that are out there
that have the short haircuts
and fucking
just masculine
completely straight
everyone's different
to force these fucking
ideas and fucking
ways of life
just because you think this is how it should be
don't force it onto other people
and don't force it onto children
they're going to grow up and learn
what they want to be themselves
it's too open
and having this access
again I don't even think we've been on the podcast before
but I saw a video of fucking
men
stripping and pole dancing in front of
fucking innocent little children
the parents are sitting there with them as well
but they're literally fucking dancing in a ballroom
and I think they're fucking
had corn hills on them as well
on the same show?
yeah it was a TikTok video that I saw
a good couple of weeks
going out and I thought yeah
and again that screamed fucking
balls to me as well because why would you even want to
dance around essentially naked
in front of children
and this is what was going from a head
while I was watching his naked education the other day
the fact that he's comfortable
completely naked in front of
children is just wrong in the
first place
you shouldn't even want to do it in front of your own children
let alone fucking children that you don't know
and it was just really fucking frustrating
and to top it off
I was working at the NEC fucking yesterday
and I was throwing past a fucking poster of Sam Smith
fucking dickhead
it has been a few weeks
well so now that we've got the
weekly fucking
eating Sam Smith done
you haven't the same, you've missed a few weeks though
you haven't missed a few
nah I think it's only one week didn't it
one or two
one or two still
yeah I think we should
call it a pot now then
rant over now then
and I think I'll need a fucking beer after that
so yeah
we'll see yous next week then