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96. Rating our 2024 Predictions (Mythic Legions, Cosmic Legions and Figura Obscura) · The Euro Legions Podcast

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  My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
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  I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
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  It turns out that Attila the arrogant so and so he's got a
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  fake hammer. Oh.
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  A fake Whoa. As I say, Dick.
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  Welcome to episode 96 of the Allegiance podcast.
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  The the one before the one before Christmas, I think we
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  call this one. And this week we're going to
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  look back at our predictions from episode 47, which was the
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  first one we did in 2024. So when I got through all the
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  pimping of our Patreon we did in that episode, I found that we
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  did some predictions in the last 30 minutes of it.
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  So, you know, if you're going back to listen to that, but I
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  have plenty of clips here tonight that we're going to play
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  and we're going to go through. I had to obviously listen to
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  them. So I know what they say.
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  The boys kind of have forgotten. That's a year ago.
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  I mean, you guys are old, so no. I forgot what I said last week
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  on podcast a year ago. No chance.
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  Yeah, as long as it's not libelous, you're fine.
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  You don't need to remember exactly.
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  Yeah. Yeah, just remember, just
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  allegedly pour everything allegedly.
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  Yeah, that doesn't even work. You know, I know people do that,
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  but it doesn't work. It works in America mostly, but
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  it doesn't work in Britain because of the libel laws there.
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  Really doesn't work to just say allegedly.
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  Otherwise, radio stations would be would be saying a lot more
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  than they than they could about certain things.
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  You need to become an MP. That's what you need to see in
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  the UK. You can say whatever you like
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  in. House, Parliament.
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  In House Commons and it's completely safe, so yeah.
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  Anyway, so yeah, I've been sick as a small hospital all week, so
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  that's been fun. Head cold and everything.
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  And so if I sound like bullshit, it's it's just because I sound
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  like bullshit. So don't worry about it getting
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  back there though. The kids were the same, all of
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  us actually were. It was, but it wasn't bad enough
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  that like, I think the kids had to stay home one day from school
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  and it was really just because they were coughing too much.
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  But it wasn't so bad that, you know, everyone was wiped out,
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  but everyone was just hacking. It was like everyone had taken
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  up smoking or something. That sounds like my worst
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  nightmare. I'm not good at people coughing.
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  Yeah, it winds me up even when it's my own family.
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  Yeah. So yeah, this is the household
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  real. Kind of hacky hard cough.
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  And yeah, so hopefully it gets better in the evening.
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  And then, yeah, I think when you're sleeping at night, then
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  it kind of goes back to kind of set everything settles down to
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  be coughed out again the next morning.
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  So fun. But the happy part of the week
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  is that we get to do this podcast and so we're well enough
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  for that. So.
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  So anything else going out, you guys?
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  I had my Christmas present from my mum to me, which obviously I
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  ordered because, you know, I know what I want.
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  Arrived from China yesterday. I was in the office.
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  I'm actually my wife going, oh, what have those things been
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  delivered? She's like, yeah, she's like,
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  hopefully they were like Lego type things.
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  Otherwise they're smashed to bits in the box because it's
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  just rattling away. And luckily they were Lego type
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  things. So no, it was some more of the
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  blockies, Transformers, blockies.
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  Oh cool. I like I liked it so much I
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  bought 2 cases. Oh, nice one.
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  I got the transformer I meant to message you and then forgot I
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  got the Transformers one just puts so.
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  Just put them, put them up there for us there again so you have a
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  proper look at them. So this is from Transformers 1
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  Orion packs. Wow, there you go.
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  D16 with Cog as is described in the So yeah, I let Rich explain
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  what they are a bit, but they're so fun, so relaxing.
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  They're brilliant, aren't they? They're basically like a
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  slightly more complex Lego. So they're what, 3 1/2, four
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  inches tall male. Something like that maybe, yeah.
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  And this. Massive.
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  Very massive. Yeah, yeah, 10 inches as we tell
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  people. But yeah, they come.
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  They come just in Baggies and you have to connect the the
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  joints and everything sort of thing, but it's really simple to
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  do and they're just really cool looking little Transformers.
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  So so I got Inferno a few weeks ago and was showing you guys and
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  then we're so impressed that I've now ordered two more series
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  worth of them. So be a very Merry Christmas for
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  me. Well, a blockies, they, I've,
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  I've seen they also do well. They're doing it recently.
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  In it, they've recently announced Sesame Street.
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  Yes, I saw that, yeah. I'm I'm not too worried about
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  them, but they do look good. They've now that they already
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  did masked ride which or which I'm not that fussed by, but they
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  look kind of cool still and they do.
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  I don't know what what it's from something what's, I forget what
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  the actual name of the series is called, but it's things like the
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  Monkey King and all sort of magical creatures and they've
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  got like little robot suits in that one.
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  That's so tempting. I've almost seen that.
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  That sounds good. Yeah, I'll find on the screen
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  could could be very slippery slope for me personally they
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  look. What did they have?
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  They had Big Bird, Oscar, the Cookie Monster, Elmo.
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  All the big. Hitters might mean Elmo.
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  Yeah. Could have been, yeah.
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  Right. Yeah, very, I think.
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  It was Oscar maybe what? Maybe I was thinking of Elmo
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  rather than Oscar the Grouch I might be thinking of.
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  Elmo, don't send me the link. Don't send me the link to those,
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  please. Yeah.
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  They've also got appreciated. They've also got Marvel license
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  now as well, so there's a Marvel series on the way it.
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  Was a bit Iron Man heavy for me though.
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  It was well, that's because they're they're sort of just
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  chunky and blocky, aren't they? So for Transformers that work
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  perfectly for, you know, Iron Man, they work great.
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  But for other stuff to. Be honest, one of the reasons I
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  picked them up is my mate who is a Transformers fan had picked a
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  few up and I was having a mess with them and they balance so
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  well and pose. Ridiculously.
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  Well, for what they are that I thought I might do a little bit
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  of outdoor photography with them.
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  You know not. Oh that would be cool.
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  See, you're messy, so might do a bit of that.
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  Have a bit of fun with that being.
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  Urban, obviously you don't. You don't need to go to a forest
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  with them. Then you can go.
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  Well, I live, I live near one of the largest parks in Europe, in
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  Sutton Park. So there you go.
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  You. Can do it there well Rich I'm
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  just going to make myself big here I I got a little delivery
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  this week that you might person I'm just going to push my
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  microphone away there so you can see look at that beautiful.
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  That is incredible look at. Look at the quality of the.
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  Art doesn't it actually? Well, so I got them from a red
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  bubble store and the quality is really good.
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  Impressed. Kind of same type of T-shirts
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  you got. Legions gone print is really
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  good. It's, you know, kind of into the
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  material and it comes out very well.
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  The text and everything is beautifully done.
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  So I'm very, very happy with that.
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  So we'll be, we'll be sporting it throughout the year and of
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  course the next year at Legions come.
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  That's amazing for listeners. That's the new art, the art of
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  Richard Jones Red bubble page we have with Haagnon, Methator and
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  Malleus. Yeah.
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  Together, yeah. And there's T-shirts that I got
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  from there in green with the logo.
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  So yeah, it it's awesome. So yeah, if you're that looks
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  really good for T-shirts and different.
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  I also got a You're one of our kind of wallet logo ones in
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  purple just to make the purple gang jealous.
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  Yeah. Nice.
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  Background to yourself. And again, the print was really
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  nicely done on it. So yeah, quite happy with that
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  and delivered pretty quickly. So yeah.
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  I shared that link with my with my work team today.
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  There was just lots of laugh emojis and this sort of stuff
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  and just like what the. Where's the sales guys?
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  Come on. Yeah.
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  And then they were so. Impressed.
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  Buy you a shower curtain for Christmas or something?
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  They were so impressed that they've asked me to we've got a
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  Christmas quiz, Christmas themed quiz next week as part of our
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  end of year team meeting sort of thing and they've asked me to
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  draw Christmas representations of Christmas movies.
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  So I have. I have 4 done already.
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  I've embraced it. I took one through to show my
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  wife and child earlier and they're just had looks of it's a
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  horror on their face and my wife was like what the hell is that?
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  And she got it eventually, but initially she was just like, no.
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  So that's that's exactly bog standard for for your art.
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  It's like what the? Hell, is that basically?
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  What? You guessed it in the end, yeah.
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  And then it's exactly genius. Yeah.
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  And then every time you look at it, you can't Unsee it, you
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  know? It's.
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  Yeah, exactly. It is actually kind of an
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  artistic process. Now I'm understanding here.
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  You know, I think Curtis has opened my eyes here.
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  Curtis bought a duvet cover or a comforter, I think they call
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  them in America and for himself. And so we.
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  Yeah, Curtis, you are the best. You know that already.
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  I have a very special transition this week for when we go into
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  the prediction section. There will be a very special
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  transition, you know, one of those that we've been doing.
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  And Curtis, I'm sure you will. If you manage to get get through
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  that without crying, laughing or crying, I'll be impressed.
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  I, I, I don't want to sound beheaded here, but I am
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  genuinely excited about the fact of Curtis wrapping himself up in
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  my heart. It's.
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  I can't wait for the selfies you're going to get from it.
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  You're going to have to open the separate chat and messenger, you
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  know, just for that stuff so me and Mal can step out if you
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  don't mind. No Mal, I'm going to include Mal
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  in every single chat I'm in about my art because he loves
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  it. Just tagging in Mal here the
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  explanation. The world's gone mad.
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  Yeah, well, come on, Somebody was selling a banana tape to a
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  wall for 10 million or whatever it was the other day.
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  So I mean rich as artists and the guy way above that.
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  Did you see what happened that the guy that bought it then ate
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  the banana? Eat the banana, but they just
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  come with instructions on how to replace the banana.
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  So, you know, but when it was on display in Korea, some school
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  student apparently came and just took the banana and ate it as
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  well. And he got like, I think he got
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  some sort of a fine or whatever. Fair enough.
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  I kind of don't blame him. And when he was asked what he
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  did, he said I was hungry. Wasn't like some sort of a
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  protest or you know, it was just like, oh, I'm hungry.
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  I was a banana. I'm just.
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  Reaping all around, yeah. Didn't have my cereal this
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  morning, didn't have my core flakes.
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  So anyway, should we get on to a little bit of normal
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  proceedings? So we got this this week, the
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  reveal of the Skeleton graveyard skeletons box art, which is
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  going to be in black and white as well, which I think is very
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  appropriate because skeletons are in that scheme.
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  So I'll just read a little bit of the blurb.
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  So Jeremy says when we first solicited the special set that
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  it would would we said that it would come in seasonal packaging
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  and the artwork is done by Tom Tall Man.
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  Tom has been working with Nate and the studio on some packaging
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  art lately and he absolutely killed this latest project.
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  In addition to look at the sex sets package, we're also excited
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  to announce that we are a bit ahead just schedule on this one.
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  So this is even better news than the packaging, which was cool in
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  itself. We thought they would ship
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  initially in Q2 2025, so that would have been April to June,
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  but now they're going to be in late Q1, so March and into fans
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  hands. So I'm guessing the retailers
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  will probably get them a little bit before that.
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  So I imagine the street date will be sometime in late March
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  for those. So very exciting.
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  And yeah, the last bit, as you know, get them now from your
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  retailers before they sell out because retailers would have
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  probably ordered a little bit of overstock.
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  But if they're going to come quite quickly, those could start
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  disappearing. I've already seen one or two of
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  the European retailers that the stock has disappeared and one or
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  two of the others, the price has kind of crept up a little bit
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  from the normal. So it's been like a 1010 bucks
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  or whatever put up €10 put on the price.
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  So meaning that they're probably at the end of their stock as
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  well. So yeah, as.
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  I said to you boys, I coincidentally ordered my set at
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  the weekend before this announcement came out, but I'm
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  glad I did. Happy accident there.
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  Yeah, yeah. Are they are they still
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  available I wonder in UK? Let me check for you and I just.
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  Service for the for the UK listeners, that would be good.
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  You know, oh, except that's, I mean, sold out.
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  Yeah, that's true. It's a funny one because I mean,
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  I've ordered 2 two boxes, but I keep going.
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  Do I need more? Do I need one?
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  It's like no, you ordered 2, so 1/8.
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  Skeletons, customs 8 skeletons smell, and of course, one you're
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  probably going to keep in that wonderful package knowing
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  knowing you. No, no, no, no, not not these.
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  These are for builders and well, one will be on the shelf with
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  the. Somebody mentioned in one of the
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  posts I saw about this that Lone Wolf Labs, you know, the DIO
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  guys that we were beside the first year at Legions can that
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  some of their gravestones is used in in the art in the back
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  of yours. It's in the art is so, so good.
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  So, so good. I mean, the photographers can be
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  fantastic, but the art is. Yeah, So the black and White's
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  perfect, isn't it? It's perfect.
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  Yeah, it. Is looks amazing, doesn't it?
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  It is really, isn't it? Any update there for the UK
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  listeners then Rich? Yes they are in stock so run and
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  grab them quick while you can before mile buys another $0.10
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  and. What's the retail price there in
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  in? It's £100.
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  His Majesty's Pounds £100 There you go.
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  Yeah, it's about $125 or so at the moment.
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  And then last week we had we had a chat about maybe put into was
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  it the red vampire head that came with the Cosmic 2 pack at
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  Legions Con on Red Death and our friend Dylan sent us some
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  pictures on Instagram. AKA Wolfie.
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  Legend Collector 1321 and on Instagram you won't find them
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  under Wolfie. You might if you search
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  Facebook. Was Facebook down earlier on
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  Instagram today I noticed. Facebook was playing that for
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  me. Whenever I tried to like
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  something, it just refused. Yeah, I heard it's.
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  To me all the time, but my mate's just messaged to ask if
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  there's problem, he's having problems with Facebook or it's
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  fine to me. So maybe, yeah, maybe there are.
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  It's going around the houses. So anyway, Dylan sent us these
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  two awesome pictures that we have up here on the video
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  version. And so it is the redhead from
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  the Cosmic 2 pack, which I think works.
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  Yeah, you could definitely get away with it.
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  Yeah, I red colour is too, too different for me.
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  It's enough to stop me rushing out and buying.
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  Yeah, I got you a red mask. But it does.
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  Stylistically, it definitely works.
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  Oh yes. 100% and then also the the translucent redhead mouth
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  from. That works better because, yeah,
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  and I like lens better. That's quite cool, yeah.
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  I think when that picture first came up I thought why is he
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  wearing wrap around sunglasses and then I realized it was just
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  a translucent effect. It's like, OK, that makes more
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  sense. I think you could get the other
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  head to match the red better if you just a little bit of a
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  darker red. Dry brush for any of the
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  paintings, Sir. You might get it close or close
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  enough to it not mattering. The only problem is that you're
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  basically the head is on the body and there's nothing in
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  between. So it's not like you have
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  pauldrons or something to kind of separate the Reds.
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  So you really have to probably be be quite close in the in the
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  match. But yeah, pretty cool and always
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  awesome for people to like Dylan to send us stuff to help our
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  ineptitude. Or the fact I do with that head.
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  Oh, there we go. We have him on that.
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  Works well, Matt. On Fisher Rice I.
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  Put it on the Fisher Rice. So he's going to be one of the I
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  forgot Adventure Squadron or the whatever they're called the.
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  Awesome. Whatever their property.
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  Shadow circle is it or something?
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  Shadow circle. That's it.
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  Yeah, our bulk order should be arriving soon.
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  I haven't got them yet, so it'll be next week and next week we're
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  just to say we're going to do the The Best of 2024 episode.
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  And so I've sent some questions out to the Patreons if they want
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  to answer what their favourites so we can shout them out and
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  I'll do a public post as well with some that you can comment
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  on so on our Facebook and just to.
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  Confirm is when you say sent them out.
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  How have you done that if you sent?
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  Through, through Patreon and through the Discord.
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  So both, both. So if you're on Patreon or the
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  Discord through Patreon, you should be able to see that post.
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  Couple people ever applied. So it's out there.
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  And yeah. Or the
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  eurolegionspodcast@gmail.com if you want to just send in
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  whatever you want there. Any ramblings?
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  We'll definitely read them out and but yeah, I'll probably put
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  some. I put a cup, I put.
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  A You're not. You're not allowed.
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  Yeah. You're not allowed to be all
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  about my heart and how much you dislike it.
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  It's not allowed. I'd put, yeah, I put a couple of
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  charac categories on the Patreon.
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  I'll probably just put like the top five for for anyone in
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  public that wants to comment on it and then we'll see if we can
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  squeeze them. And we will definitely, Yeah.
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  So. And then the week after that
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  episode, there's a, we won't give any details away, but
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  there's a very special episode coming along.
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  Yeah, for a little Christmas theme, maybe.
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  Yeah. You got the decorations up
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  there, I see, Rich. I got my tinsel which actually
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  has been here all year if anyone has been paying attention.
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  Put it up last year. Yeah, this room is quite, quite
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  modestly decorated. There's a couple of sets of
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  baubles hanging up and the Happy Christmas.
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  It's the the other rooms that have really probably festooned
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  with stuff. You got the tree and all.
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  We haven't got the tree. Yes, we put the tree without
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  decorations on Saturday to see if the cats attacked it.
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  They didn't, so it's now fully decorated and they could not
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  careless, which is good. It's good about yours.
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  Do they leave the tree alone, John, or do they?
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  Yeah, yeah. I mean, they might, they might
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  float around like kind of suspiciously rounded for the
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  first day or two, but after that it's normally fine.
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  If you leave both some of the bottles a bit too low, they
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  might start playing with them. If he is, if there's any
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  expensive ones or ones that you're you're of sentimental
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  value, I'd put that. I'd put them higher up out of
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  reach. But yeah, we haven't got a tree
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  yet because my wife is completely slammed with work.
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  It's very busy for her. She's teacher and a lot of stuff
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  going on and she's correcting papers.
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  She's probably still correcting. And it's now 9:00 PM and between
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  kind of telling the kids to go to bed and she's been out all
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  day and all day yesterday and probably all day tomorrow when
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  she's not at work. So yeah, that's been fun.
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  And yeah, I'm not going to get a tree.
• 19:41
  So the kids are like, when's the tree?
• 19:43
  Good. Ask your mum.
• 19:45
  It's up to me. I'm not going to bother.
• 19:46
  I. Was going to have a week earlier
• 19:49
  than normal just because we have my brother or sister-in-law and
• 19:52
  nephews over at the weekend so it's like to have a Christmassy
• 19:55
  sort of thing. So you're not going to see them
• 19:56
  again before before the new year?
• 19:58
  Yeah. So, yeah, so we went up a week
• 20:00
  earlier than normal because normally Kerry's, my wife's
• 20:02
  birthday is at the start of December.
• 20:04
  So you have to wait till considerably after that to put
• 20:07
  decks up normally. Got you.
• 20:11
  Yeah, If I had a fake tree I'd probably already have it up, but
• 20:14
  it's just the whole thing of going out and getting a tree and
• 20:16
  all that kind of crap. Yeah, I mean, because of the
• 20:20
  kids or anyone else, I don't bother doing anything.
• 20:22
  It's just like. I'd be fine with the little, you
• 20:24
  know, those little like, you know, whatever.
• 20:27
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Little 2 foot tall little tree
• 20:31
  that you can put on your your drawer, you know, kind of we've
• 20:34
  got a. 3 foot fibre optic 1 Somewhere here that I had when I
• 20:39
  live by myself and which Kerry got furious about because I left
• 20:43
  it up till April and she's like, it's a Christmas tree, what the
• 20:46
  Hell's wrong with you? I was like it.
• 20:47
  The lights aren't switched on, it's now just a house plant.
• 20:49
  This is Yeah, look, it just. It adds a bit of greenery to
• 20:51
  the. House, this is a block's
• 20:53
  apartment, you know exactly do you think I have plants and you
• 20:57
  know stuff going around you know this is as close as you're going
• 21:01
  to get right? Should we get into the
• 21:03
  predictions then just go? For it.
• 21:07
  And then at the end of the show, we'll, if you want to stick
• 21:10
  around, we'll also talk about movie and TV and whatever
• 21:14
  watching recommendations. We have a few of those if you're
• 21:17
  interested because you might have some time over Christmas to
• 21:19
  catch up. You can see what we think is
• 21:22
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• 21:42
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• 21:45
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• 21:50
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• 21:55
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• 22:10
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• 22:13
  So we'll definitely keep that one on file.
• 22:16
  And Despite that, he still bought a duvet slash comforter.
• 22:21
  Exactly. Yeah, type of guy he is.
• 22:23
  Yeah, right. I have first prediction then.
• 22:27
  So as I said, episode 47 from last year, we knew nothing.
• 22:31
  We don't know nothing now either.
• 22:32
  But we know what happened this year, so if we can remember.
• 22:36
  So let's see who's first up. New factions.
• 22:39
  That's the first thing on my list is at last when that's met
• 22:42
  with all due respect to all the other current factions, we'll
• 22:46
  get new factions this year, probably AG com.
• 22:49
  Wow, pretty good. Well, I'm done.
• 22:53
  I'll head off. I'll see you guys.
• 22:55
  Straight out the gate. If only Liverpool could score
• 22:58
  goals like that. We just leave it on the
• 23:02
  second-half, it's the easiest way.
• 23:05
  Do you know the name of the faction that we got?
• 23:08
  Oh God. No.
• 23:11
  The the followers or disciples of something or other.
• 23:15
  It's the Dragon Clan. Yeah, the dragon, the dragon
• 23:18
  folk. Really.
• 23:24
  Damn it, John, that's a good question.
• 23:25
  I don't know the answer, Mal. What is it?
• 23:26
  Quick. Give me a SEC, I'm looking.
• 23:28
  Let me hang in here, Mal. Come on.
• 23:32
  They don't have an option. Updated on the Factions section
• 23:34
  of the Yeah, they're not they, they're.
• 23:37
  In there though. Sure.
• 23:41
  Yeah. No, they don't have it up there,
• 23:45
  so it is called. It's somewhere though the you
• 23:51
  can see all the characters and maybe.
• 23:53
  Just just tell us, John, this is painful.
• 23:58
  I'm nearly there. I'm nearly there.
• 24:01
  Sect of his Ari Ari ever ever ever.
• 24:06
  That's what I was going to say. Yeah, and Arya, the Talon
• 24:13
  bearer, she's the one that's that's up there.
• 24:16
  So there we go. Yes, and then we've also got Ray
• 24:20
  Gore and Arizak as secret members as well, though.
• 24:23
  I'm totally, totally going to win.
• 24:26
  I think I need to get a bit more display space, so I'm going to
• 24:29
  work that out and I'm totally going to display them as the
• 24:32
  sect rather than in their current factions I reckon.
• 24:36
  Right, next prediction. Because I don't necessarily
• 24:40
  think we will get new factions, might get one.
• 24:44
  And I've said I think we'll see an end.
• 24:46
  We will see an end to that versus element.
• 24:50
  OK, so not bad. Well, you know, you sat on the
• 24:53
  you, you. Sat on the fence.
• 24:56
  We should actually have a little one of those little things up in
• 24:58
  the corner for every time Mal sits in the fence on these.
• 25:02
  We should. We should make it a drinking
• 25:03
  game so quickly our listeners get absolutely hammered.
• 25:07
  So you, yeah, you, you pretty much.
• 25:09
  I mean, you said no factions and then you completely rolled back
• 25:12
  on the one. Immediately but but I did
• 25:14
  specify 1. I was just lucky, Yes.
• 25:19
  Well, I suppose these are all lucky guesses, so pretty good.
• 25:25
  Next up. Do you think this might be the
• 25:27
  year we get a dragon? There you go, simple.
• 25:32
  There we go. Straight to the point.
• 25:34
  Year after you did. You did talk a lot about it
• 25:37
  being Year of the Dragon and obviously the 20.
• 25:39
  I didn't clip all that mean we don't listen back to all that.
• 25:42
  And it must be said, it was before it was then it was being
• 25:46
  put out there quite so much as well, wasn't it?
• 25:48
  What I do? Oh yeah, this was January, so
• 25:51
  nobody was talking about Dragon much then.
• 25:54
  They were talking about All Stars.
• 25:57
  Yeah. So a. 100% agree, we'll
• 26:00
  definitely definitely see a dragon this year but I'm
• 26:03
  wondering I could be completely off here whether it will come.
• 26:07
  It'll be an in stock drop. Oh, you're so doing so well and
• 26:12
  then totally failed, although the difference between, you
• 26:15
  know, rich with his definitely, definitely, definitely.
• 26:18
  And if we go back to Mal and. Do you think this might be the
• 26:22
  year we get a dragon? Come on.
• 26:27
  You know, and Richie, yeah, we'll definitely get Dragon.
• 26:29
  So I think that's the difference between both of you really, you
• 26:33
  know. There's a, there's a Washington
• 26:39
  Commanders podcast I listen to. It's four guys that do a sports
• 26:41
  radio show. And one of those is like 100%
• 26:45
  there's no way we're going to lose.
• 26:46
  Absolutely nailed on. But the rest of my, well, we
• 26:48
  went, it's like, no, no, no. So I'm, yeah, I'm in that boat,
• 26:50
  basically. You're him under no half.
• 26:53
  Measure. So yeah, with the in stock drop,
• 26:56
  I mean, come on, what were you thinking?
• 27:01
  I mean this technically isn't in stock drop, you just have to
• 27:04
  wait a year for it because it takes a while to ship.
• 27:05
  It's like a Mezco in stock drop, yeah.
• 27:07
  Yeah, basically, yes. OK, let's see what we got next,
• 27:12
  because we've got nineteen of these, so we shouldn't delete
• 27:15
  more down for smaller Dragons, you know, a wave of five little
• 27:20
  absolutely, you know, 12 inch Dragons or whatever.
• 27:24
  I guess I got the scale wrong, but I mean wave of five.
• 27:27
  Got the. Five.
• 27:30
  That was the yeah, that was due to my research of all the No, it
• 27:34
  was just number plucked out of. There's there's, there's
• 27:38
  potentially another 5 continent, so.
• 27:42
  Probably thinking as it's a bit like Game of Thrones, you know,
• 27:44
  there's all the good Dragons and then or like, I mean, OK, there
• 27:48
  was one evil ice dragon, you know, at the end.
• 27:51
  So I was thinking the bad factions maybe get one bad
• 27:53
  dragon and then and then the rest of Dragons are kind of on
• 27:57
  the good side. But you know.
• 28:00
  If they're if they're really thinking about it, they'll make
• 28:02
  one of the Dragons a bad dragon. Just so you go, well, OK, I'll
• 28:05
  get 2 then I'll have a goodie and a baddie.
• 28:08
  Yeah, even if I can't at all 5. We're getting all 5, aren't we?
• 28:13
  Let's be honest. Well.
• 28:14
  I mean, I mean, you know, I'll release them.
• 28:16
  I mean, whether I'll have space and the funds four or five is
• 28:20
  another matter entirely. I mean, people are, you know,
• 28:22
  going to be complaining about maybe spending 4 or 500 on the
• 28:27
  dragon, but like people spent maybe 800 sometimes on a custom,
• 28:31
  which is completely insane, you know.
• 28:36
  So, you know, if if you have the money for it, you have the money
• 28:39
  for it. If you don't, it's tough.
• 28:41
  But I think they'll, you know, the horseman will try and make
• 28:44
  it as available as possible and pain and stuff like that.
• 28:48
  Yeah, for people. Worst case scenario we get one
• 28:50
  between US and just timeshare it so you can spend four months a
• 28:54
  year with each of us. Yeah, measuring the shipping
• 28:57
  cost for that. Oh, Jesus.
• 28:58
  Yeah, yeah. You have to come over and get
• 29:00
  it, John, when it's your turn. I did hear somewhere, I can't
• 29:03
  remember which show it was, but the Jeremy mentioned it's going
• 29:08
  to be basically about the size of two troll boxes the way
• 29:11
  they're going to package it. So the shipping will be
• 29:15
  completely insane in that. Yeah.
• 29:18
  Where do they cover that? In the Legions Lounge.
• 29:20
  They mentioned, they mentioned it on yes, Legions, Yes, it was,
• 29:27
  yeah. OK, I'm just going to check.
• 29:30
  I think this is the next one. What if it's not a dragon and
• 29:37
  because it has been suggested and mentioned it is something
• 29:40
  they'd like to do, we get a playset.
• 29:43
  Oh wow. And we?
• 29:44
  Get the Castle of Four Sides playset.
• 29:47
  Yes. I mean, that would have been
• 29:51
  cool and that could still come. I think that's not something
• 29:54
  that's. Ruled out Whatever.
• 29:56
  And I think if they weren't going to do the dragon, which in
• 29:59
  hindsight, if I think we even said it at some point, it would
• 30:02
  be insane not to do the dragon this year with all the things
• 30:05
  like I did there this year or never was kind of, you know, and
• 30:09
  still it's OK, it's next year, but you know, it's been
• 30:11
  announced so we can say it's this year.
• 30:14
  But castle the four sides, I think people will be really down
• 30:18
  for even dial pieces, even, you know, a castle, you know,
• 30:21
  imagine just a kind of a castle wall and Batterman's kind of
• 30:26
  thing, you know, a bit like cosmic Dios set with maybe a
• 30:30
  bigger piece for be be great. People would be all all over
• 30:35
  that. And now that they've got the
• 30:37
  really big thing out of the way with the dragon, you know,
• 30:38
  people that you know, have it in their mind.
• 30:41
  Oh yeah, there's big stuff. There's big stuff.
• 30:42
  So. Definitely, I I did just have to
• 30:46
  do it maybe in a way that you could kind of switch it around
• 30:49
  so that you wouldn't get everyone just taken their foot
• 30:51
  top photographs and they're all got the same background exactly
• 30:55
  because of, I don't know, there must be a way of doing it that
• 30:59
  you could do a couple of different looks of it.
• 31:01
  But again, that's for toy designers and smart people in
• 31:05
  that way to think about. It's not for for me exactly.
• 31:09
  Or for a talented artist, just to draw, you can print it on a
• 31:14
  A3, stick it up, bump, dump. The Word Microsoft Word castle
• 31:22
  walls coming soon. Could charge at least $70.00 for
• 31:27
  that. Can't.
• 31:28
  Easy, can't remember which company it was.
• 31:31
  One of the companies put out a castle walls diorama recently
• 31:35
  didn't they? Which is basically just thin
• 31:36
  super. 7. Was the Super severed?
• 31:38
  Didn't surprise me. I mean, OK, maybe if it's
• 31:42
  further like retro, whatever, five points of articulation
• 31:45
  line, I mean that kind of has a charm.
• 31:48
  But yeah, if it was first, you know, the Ultimates are 6
• 31:51
  interviews. What were you saying today to
• 31:53
  me? Mad about NECA and their VIP
• 31:57
  club This was? Hilarious.
• 31:59
  I've only, I've only seen one mention of it, but in one of the
• 32:03
  groups, I mean, they're sending emails around inviting people to
• 32:07
  be a member of their VIP club next year, but you have to have
• 32:13
  spent $400.00 this year. So this person in particular was
• 32:17
  like with them on their at their in the NECA store.
• 32:22
  And so this person's e-mail was like, you only need to spend
• 32:26
  $260 more this year. And as I said to you, if NECA
• 32:32
  was a person, you would think they were having a mental
• 32:35
  breakdown. Yeah, with all the shipping
• 32:37
  problems they've had, just not, and I mean, these emails could
• 32:39
  be going to people that have spent 2 grand in Target getting
• 32:43
  the fig NECA figures and then they've been asked to spend 260
• 32:46
  more to be a VIP and like they're they've literally got
• 32:49
  shelves everywhere full of NECA figures.
• 32:51
  Yeah, yeah, insane. Just right.
• 32:55
  Let's listen to past us again. My thing with Mythic Boy left
• 32:59
  for this year is I don't think there's going to be an All Stars
• 33:02
  wave this year. That's my prediction.
• 33:04
  I say, I think there will be. Yeah, I think we'll be a.
• 33:08
  Little drive by on the two of you by leaving that in there.
• 33:10
  Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a fake file.
• 33:13
  That last bit with me me, it sounded like you just cropped it
• 33:17
  from somewhere else. Yeah, no, All Stars, it wasn't.
• 33:20
  It wasn't an outrageous suggestion because there was
• 33:23
  hints about maybe All Stars not being their best selling thing
• 33:27
  and that, you know, there was possibility they might skip you
• 33:32
  or do something. So, yeah, but we got that right.
• 33:36
  I mean, we take one of us wins, we take a win for the whole
• 33:39
  group. Except that.
• 33:40
  Absolutely. And the change they've, the
• 33:42
  change they made is, is by far and away better.
• 33:44
  As. Well, I know there's some
• 33:46
  initial like me from people that she's about Bendor, but it's
• 33:48
  it's new characters. And there's a genius little
• 33:51
  prediction from you coming up as well, Rich so.
• 33:54
  Yeah, golfs. Just going to add, just going to
• 33:58
  add, especially with what's been announced at Gcon along with the
• 34:02
  way they're going to do that like Ashes about Bendor and it
• 34:05
  seems potentially like we're going to get stories from the
• 34:09
  library each year now that's ready for next week.
• 34:15
  More Lord. Yeah, yeah.
• 34:17
  John, can you ask me my predictions first when we do
• 34:20
  them, please? I just made a note of an old
• 34:22
  idea straight on that. Tales from the Library.
• 34:27
  OK, shall I go next? Yeah.
• 34:30
  So I think slightly differently with the All Stars.
• 34:32
  I think this time they're going to go down the route like go big
• 34:36
  and then potentially stop it because they talked about not
• 34:39
  doing it etcetera, etcetera. So I think rather than just like
• 34:42
  1 alumni character like last time, they might actually do
• 34:45
  quite a few this time. So it might be like, you know,
• 34:47
  all the older figures that we've not had released yet that they
• 34:50
  don't intend in version twos of they're all in that you can get
• 34:53
  three or four of them. So you kind of mystery boxes
• 34:57
  prediction there a little bit. I'm going to take it as.
• 34:59
  Yeah, yeah. And also the the myth allegiance
• 35:04
  legacies or whatever it's called.
• 35:07
  Yeah, that fits as well. So.
• 35:09
  Yeah, but I think all the older figures that they, they just
• 35:12
  wanted to get done, I think pretty much in there.
• 35:17
  Yeah. People in a in a way that wasn't
• 35:21
  financially disastrous for them in the mystery boxes.
• 35:23
  They didn't have to do a full run of every figure.
• 35:27
  You know, they tried to get them out there and it kind of dampens
• 35:30
  down the secondary market as well for those figures.
• 35:33
  OK, you might still have to pay 80 or 70 for for some
• 35:38
  characters, but not the 100 odd, you know, not the 150 that some
• 35:42
  of them are going for. So I think that was good.
• 35:44
  I mean, the warehouse finds, that's a different thing.
• 35:46
  Some of them I think people would still like to get their
• 35:49
  hands on. They're pretty rare.
• 35:52
  But I think a couple of them though there is a potential
• 35:55
  we'll get version twos. It's just they were literally
• 35:58
  warehouse finds, weren't they say.
• 36:00
  Yeah, but the likes of like, Cador, the Shadow as Sir
• 36:03
  Godfrey, you could fill your boots with them at Legions Con.
• 36:06
  I mean, you could literally come home with a dozen of them.
• 36:08
  Might say no bottom. Yeah, there was.
• 36:10
  They had plenty of them. And why anyone doesn't cadors I
• 36:14
  have no idea but. He's a cool figure a dozens
• 36:19
  recoveries, I don't know why. Oh, that's no, that's totally
• 36:22
  normal. Don't hell is wrong with you.
• 36:24
  No, I mean, if if you haven't had the Templar, yes, but if
• 36:27
  you've if you've got the Legion builder Templars from a few
• 36:29
  years ago, you don't need Sir Godfrey.
• 36:32
  You don't know. That's why I didn't pick him up.
• 36:33
  It's just like now. And we're getting the cloth good
• 36:37
  ones now. So it depends.
• 36:38
  It depends what you prefer, of course.
• 36:40
  Some people prefer the OK. I think they do the alumni
• 36:44
  thing, but then to to really go for it in style.
• 36:49
  I wouldn't be surprised if they released the four great beasts
• 36:53
  at the same time. Oh, is, I mean, you're
• 36:56
  predicting kind of next year, but it was announced this year.
• 36:59
  So we got the four great beasts? Pretty much, yeah.
• 37:02
  On the way. Happy with that?
• 37:04
  Yeah, not at the same time as as the alumni slash mystery boxes,
• 37:09
  but. No, I can see the way why they
• 37:12
  did it the way they did though. I mean, that would have been,
• 37:14
  you know, obviously they want to get the price to a particular
• 37:17
  point. And if they choked in ether on
• 37:19
  and Sly loner particularly ether on loads of new sculpting, then
• 37:23
  yeah, just pushed it over. Yeah.
• 37:25
  And I think as they're going to, they're not doing a re release
• 37:28
  of those two. They're doing an updated
• 37:30
  version, I think. Yeah.
• 37:31
  That's going to be cool. So because it's so Year of the
• 37:35
  Dragon thing and the All Stars and that sort of thing.
• 37:37
  But I've also been thinking about the the 20th.
• 37:39
  I think too much about this, the 25th anniversary of Four
• 37:42
  Horsemen and it's the men bit that has got me thinking.
• 37:45
  So I'm I'm hoping maybe we get like some beast men like
• 37:51
  Warhammer beast men something so it ties in without loneliness
• 37:55
  stuff. That would be great.
• 37:57
  Or dragon men. Again, the year the dragon, it's
• 38:01
  the horse men thing. So maybe, you know, a few Dragon
• 38:04
  Men characters might be a really good thing to get as part of
• 38:07
  that as well. There we go, nailed it.
• 38:11
  Snake men and hyena. It's basically what I said.
• 38:15
  I didn't know what to make of that one, but I I knew you'd
• 38:17
  find a way of twisting it. Yeah, we kind of get to find out
• 38:21
  what it's like to work with Rich.
• 38:25
  What do you mean? That was that was perfect idea.
• 38:27
  Look how it worked out. Yeah, you told me to do that.
• 38:30
  Well, you say I told you to do that.
• 38:31
  Let's let's go back, shall we? I strongly hinted with.
• 38:38
  And then it was up to you to decide what was the best course.
• 38:40
  Yeah, unbelievable. OK, are we ready for another one
• 38:47
  which has which has declared that one a winner?
• 38:50
  Maybe no MO 2 characters as there's no power con this year
• 38:54
  so no MO 2 homages. Yeah, that wouldn't be a bad
• 38:58
  thing, I don't think. Yeah, well, at all.
• 39:01
  You're not the biggest fan of the mayor.
• 39:03
  It depends on what they're. The cosmic The two cosmic ones
• 39:06
  worked really well I think. I think if they stuck with the
• 39:09
  cosmic stuff then that could be a way to go.
• 39:13
  So you won't again they're rich really at the end we got and to
• 39:16
  fillies. So in Cosmic was the only one we
• 39:18
  got I. Was wondering where that was
• 39:19
  going because I was thinking like, John could have stopped
• 39:21
  this. He's trying to drag me into his
• 39:23
  bad prediction as well. And then we got that.
• 39:25
  OK, that's fine. Yeah.
• 39:27
  So I think they wouldn't have done no to accept that David
• 39:29
  Williams did the awesome yes and to Phillies or you know that his
• 39:34
  original custom that that was based on.
• 39:36
  So I think they they knew that they could do 1 and that would
• 39:40
  be perfect balance for it. So ideal and no power card again
• 39:45
  this year by the looks of it. Well I mean he keeps suggesting
• 39:49
  that might be but but no information.
• 39:52
  Yet no info. It would seem like it would need
• 39:54
  to have been announced already if it's going to be he's.
• 39:56
  Going to say because it's getting quite late isn't it?
• 39:58
  If it's meant to be in August to to not have any details yet.
• 40:01
  Maybe they want to make it a bit smaller, I don't know.
• 40:04
  OK, next. So for Gcon, so I can see what
• 40:08
  Miles saying about the dragon being a Gcon, and I get that,
• 40:13
  but I'm hoping it's not because I'm hoping that we'll have the
• 40:17
  two new factions, one of which would be lizard men, maybe with
• 40:22
  snake men. Now you know my passion for
• 40:24
  this, so it's maybe me hoping rather than thinking sensibly.
• 40:28
  And also some sort of race of sea people.
• 40:32
  Oh, getting ahead of the game there with the sea people,
• 40:34
  maybe, but. Could be predicting next year
• 40:36
  with that one. Yeah, I think that's an open
• 40:38
  goal prediction. So yeah, lizard men and snake
• 40:43
  men. I mean, you had to.
• 40:44
  Predict the half right? And yeah, in fairness, yeah.
• 40:47
  Whenever you know, whatever year they had decided to release
• 40:50
  those, I could have gone. I told you 10 years ago, I told
• 40:52
  you it was you. Oh yeah, and we we did a whole
• 40:58
  lot of predictions at the end. I didn't cut them.
• 41:00
  Now was about when stuff was going to arrive and when stuff
• 41:04
  was going to be announced. They were awful.
• 41:06
  Oh Jesus, I was going to say it but they were awful.
• 41:09
  Don't remind people of the bad bits, just the good bits.
• 41:12
  Exactly. Here we go.
• 41:13
  No, I mean, I pretty much took all the predictions here.
• 41:15
  So it wasn't like it was good. It was just all the ones about,
• 41:18
  a lot of them are boring stuff, like about when stuff was going
• 41:21
  to be shipped. So it wasn't boring at the time.
• 41:23
  It's boring now because we have the stuff in hand, yeah.
• 41:27
  I wouldn't be surprised if we get a new mount type of some
• 41:29
  sort. Type of mount, so not another
• 41:31
  horse. Yeah, no.
• 41:33
  So not horse. So maybe they could do a goat or
• 41:36
  a boar or something like that. Yeah, you were already those
• 41:38
  legs open for that with Red Suns, weren't you?
• 41:43
  Yeah. I mean, those those legs would
• 41:45
  sort of be fairly interchangeable.
• 41:47
  So you just need a new main body part for for, you know, and a
• 41:51
  head sort of thing. So maybe something like that
• 41:53
  would be good. Or a shark if they go down the
• 41:57
  ocean. You were just this is just your
• 42:01
  shopping list. You know, this is just your your
• 42:04
  Amazon wishlist. If if it was if it was shopping
• 42:06
  on Amazon. I'm beginning to realise I'm
• 42:08
  nothing if not predictable for. Me it's it's the.
• 42:14
  Oh the ball. Or, oh, a shark.
• 42:25
  We went from mounts that are not horses to a shark man.
• 42:29
  Yeah, absolutely amazing. Now next one.
• 42:38
  Jeremy, if I remember rightly, Jeremy's already said that
• 42:40
  they're going to do the reveal of the wave, which will be the
• 42:43
  summer G con, I guess, but ish con this year.
• 42:47
  Yeah, which is cool. That's because it's filling that
• 42:50
  power con slot and I think it'll be Ox Crew book 2 or book three,
• 42:56
  and then the other reveal in the year will be the other one.
• 43:00
  Yeah, so we moved on to Cosmic now.
• 43:02
  So we do get our crew book 2 actually.
• 43:05
  Yeah, we got in there. I.
• 43:06
  Like it was Ox crew book two or three.
• 43:10
  You were, you were also predicting, you were also
• 43:12
  predicting 2 cosmic waves after that.
• 43:15
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was that was.
• 43:17
  I didn't contradict you either though.
• 43:18
  So I think we all thought we'd get 2 cosmic waves, but I think
• 43:21
  logically the way it went, that's probably enough with the
• 43:24
  one for the. Yeah, I'll be.
• 43:26
  I'll be interesting to see this coming year actually.
• 43:28
  And that's another show, obviously, but they slowed
• 43:30
  cosmic down last year, so interesting to see if they
• 43:33
  continue. They've been a bit slower.
• 43:34
  I think so, yeah. Of course, it also depends on
• 43:37
  maybe which one's more popular and what they want to do that.
• 43:44
  But yeah, we've got Mythic Wave now and then we're probably
• 43:46
  going to get the dragon pretty soon after Christmas.
• 43:51
  It's more mythic. So cosmic probably be early
• 43:56
  after the dragon then. I don't know.
• 43:59
  Wouldn't be great for Cosmic to put it right after the dragon.
• 44:03
  Yeah, I don't know. I think it'll be, I think we're
• 44:06
  going to stick to cosmic. It'll be if there's.
• 44:09
  Well, no, I think it'll be Ishkhan again.
• 44:11
  You think it'll be? Yeah.
• 44:13
  There's another prediction that I should have waited till next
• 44:15
  week. Screw book. 3 Thraxian shark men
• 44:24
  sun shark. Let's see how many.
• 44:26
  Oh yeah, there we go. Let's see how many lizards Rich
• 44:29
  predicted in cosmic here. Or I don't know what the Yeah.
• 44:31
  I wouldn't be surprised if we get escaped back in a different
• 44:33
  colour, or maybe one with a saddle on or something like
• 44:36
  that. Bungie, I will take that one.
• 44:44
  Yeah, absolutely. Nailed it.
• 44:47
  Nailed the Bungie. It makes sense checking the.
• 44:51
  Saddle on it. What's that?
• 44:53
  I'm just saying checking the saddle on anything lies.
• 44:55
  It's just common sense really, and good practice.
• 44:59
  And strictly speaking, another type of mount so.
• 45:02
  It is a good point, Mal, Yeah. It is indeed, yeah.
• 45:06
  And yeah, I'm really looking forward to that.
• 45:08
  That one actually more than the skate back, but we're going to
• 45:11
  have to wait longer for bungee. But I think, I know I'm excited
• 45:14
  about both. But yeah, bungee is going to be
• 45:16
  Oh yeah, I'm excited about skate back as well.
• 45:18
  But I think bungee is even cooler, which I didn't think
• 45:22
  would would be possible after the first skate back because he
• 45:24
  was pretty cool. I thought they would go maybe in
• 45:28
  a different direction. But yeah, make him cute.
• 45:33
  Why not, right? Shall we see what the next one
• 45:36
  is? This is a longer one.
• 45:40
  I don't think we'll necessarily get a wave.
• 45:42
  I think we might get the retailer version of the Monkey
• 45:46
  King because of how popular that's been.
• 45:50
  Yeah, I'm not so sure about anything else because I think
• 45:59
  it's too soon for maybe Marley and I suppose, you know, they
• 46:04
  maybe not. Yeah, because it's just it's
• 46:08
  just going to be pre-order anyway, even if it's yeah.
• 46:12
  So yeah, it'll still be another year probably, but the time they
• 46:15
  get in. I'm not sure how they do a brief
• 46:18
  celebration of mask with Red Death.
• 46:22
  Reverse the colors, Richard. Obvious.
• 46:25
  When you think about it, it's really obvious.
• 46:29
  So Matt wasn't sure, but he did get the Monkey King right.
• 46:33
  Wasn't hard. I think that was obvious, wasn't
• 46:35
  it? Yeah.
• 46:37
  I said it's going to be a long one.
• 46:38
  And then Mal spoke. I was like, yeah, here we go
• 46:40
  then. That's mean.
• 46:43
  No, that's mean. I do like the way I do like the
• 46:46
  way I went. Maybe we'll probably get.
• 46:48
  Maybe. Oh, maybe not.
• 46:49
  Oh, maybe. We will, you see.
• 46:55
  Where you called you on the. 8 ball or something they're going
• 46:57
  yeah, you see where you. Called you on the fence.
• 46:59
  You know it's not. It's not because we're mean.
• 47:04
  Yeah. So it shows you we didn't even
• 47:06
  know about the retailer wave back in January and we already
• 47:09
  have it in hand or pretty much in hand, so.
• 47:13
  Really well, really well with that one.
• 47:15
  Yeah, so some of them is quick. With new characters.
• 47:17
  Just those G con waves that take the time it is they.
• 47:23
  Want to get the? Yeah.
• 47:24
  Oh yeah. We bend.
• 47:25
  No, absolutely. Yeah, right.
• 47:29
  And it'll just give us a choice of 2 1/2 thousand figures at
• 47:31
  Legion's gone this year. It's going to be insane unless
• 47:37
  they have completely got rid of all their stock that they have
• 47:41
  now and just do the new stuff. I don't know.
• 47:43
  But even then it'll be insane, right?
• 47:46
  Three more to go. So OK, any idea?
• 47:49
  I mean it predict and figure obscure us, but I mean we
• 47:51
  obviously think maybe next Christmas the ghost of.
• 47:54
  Yeah, one of the. Ghosts, yeah.
• 47:58
  That's kind of the tease, isn't it?
• 48:00
  And then other than that, I've suggested maybe a bit something
• 48:03
  a bit more horror themed again towards October, but maybe not.
• 48:13
  You had it till the end. Next time, can you leave off
• 48:19
  the? Oh, maybe not.
• 48:23
  Don't be being genuine to our listeners.
• 48:25
  Also, I have to get really in there and clip it out then and
• 48:28
  it's going to sound weird. So yeah.
• 48:33
  So I mean, OK, Frankenstein, who was going to get Anubis and
• 48:36
  paste, I mean, Rich could have accidentally said it because he
• 48:38
  wanted Egyptian stuff, but I don't think he would have put it
• 48:41
  in figure. I think he would have put it in
• 48:43
  mythic, wouldn't you? 100%.
• 48:46
  So but I'm. Extremely happy they're doing
• 48:48
  that. Yeah, it was.
• 48:49
  Was that? Springtime.
• 48:53
  March. No, it was.
• 48:55
  It was May. June.
• 48:56
  Yeah. It was the first one of the
• 48:57
  year, but it was a bit later, wasn't?
• 48:59
  It the normal? Yeah, it was around the same
• 49:00
  time we got Monkey King in the year, so around the June time.
• 49:03
  Yeah. OK, second last one.
• 49:08
  Yeah, the only other thing I'd check out there would be, and we
• 49:11
  mentioned it before, but Blackbeard.
• 49:12
  Oh yeah, I think we're going to. Use it and he's, you know, he's
• 49:17
  the most iconic hire. I would say, particularly with
• 49:21
  the fuses in his beard and all that, you'd make him really
• 49:23
  quite demonic, almost. I mean, still a cool prediction
• 49:28
  slash suggestion. You know Blackbeard?
• 49:32
  Horribly wrong, but you never know for future.
• 49:35
  It's indeed right, and the last one maybe my favorite.
• 49:42
  To a dragon being ridden by a lizard man, then this is.
• 49:45
  He's desperate for those lizard man.
• 49:47
  Really are just had to get another lizard man referencing
• 49:52
  maybe? That's when I get the dragon.
• 49:58
  Now I'm going to have to have the snake men riding it out.
• 50:00
  I just do make a point. Exactly.
• 50:03
  Yeah, so. But no saddle for the dragon.
• 50:06
  So, you know, I think I think that's cool.
• 50:07
  I think the IT figures can just grab onto the talons or
• 50:11
  whatever. You know, that's what they do in
• 50:13
  in Game of Thrones, isn't it? They don't have a saddle in
• 50:16
  them. No, they nobody.
• 50:18
  Yeah, they're not. Game of Thrones, they didn't.
• 50:21
  House of Dragons they. Do oh, do they OK, Yeah, I mean,
• 50:25
  I've seen House. Yeah, it's like professional
• 50:27
  dragon riders versus some Yahoo that's just got three Dragons
• 50:30
  out of nowhere and go no, just up on the back of one of them.
• 50:33
  Makes sense if you think about it.
• 50:34
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 50:35
  She, she doesn't really know what she's doing, but she has
• 50:38
  the instinct. Yeah.
• 50:42
  Right. So that's the predictions.
• 50:43
  So shall we do recommendations? And then I think we're good.
• 50:48
  Did we want to talk a bit about Christmas as well?
• 50:50
  Did you win for that or? Are we good?
• 50:53
  Yeah. We can do a bit about Christmas,
• 50:54
  can't we? Yeah.
• 50:56
  That's the same. My mind is rotted so you guys
• 50:58
  might have to leave on that one. Right, and then seen as it was
• 51:04
  his birthday this week, we'll we'll do the transition with our
• 51:08
  friend. Hello there, this is your guy
• 51:12
  Kempool Collects and you are listening to the Hero Legion.
• 51:15
  So cheeky fellas, there's Kent. So happy birthday this weekend.
• 51:22
  Hope you had a great time. You got loads of messages on
• 51:24
  Facebook because you're popular guys, so I'm sure you had a good
• 51:28
  one. In my head, he's wearing a
• 51:30
  dressing gown. When you recorded that, I'm sure
• 51:31
  he wasn't. Yeah, with the the Deadpool,
• 51:33
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That I can't.
• 51:36
  I can only see him like that now.
• 51:37
  So yeah, yeah, we have to do for the for the cover, the YouTube
• 51:43
  thumbnail for this one. We have to do just a picture of
• 51:46
  us all like each of us with their head in our hands.
• 51:49
  Better predictions. You could send me over those.
• 51:53
  That would be great. I could do that.
• 51:56
  Get someone else to take the photo.
• 52:00
  You can do one hand, you know. Just just asking the office
• 52:05
  mall. I won't think you're weird at
• 52:06
  all. Yeah, that's it.
• 52:07
  Could you just take a? Photo of me.
• 52:09
  I need it pretty early though, if we're going to get this out
• 52:15
  to our lovely patrons in time for them to listen tomorrow.
• 52:19
  Right. So Christmas then wanted to just
• 52:24
  as it's kind of coming up to Christmas, talk a little bit
• 52:26
  about what our Christmas traditions were when we were
• 52:30
  kids or what kind of what, what Christmas was like.
• 52:33
  I know for me, we had, you know, this was the time when everyone
• 52:37
  kind of came back home. There was way like my sister and
• 52:40
  my brother when I was, they were, they're good, but older
• 52:44
  than me. So they always were home for
• 52:45
  Christmas and we had family dinner and all that kind of
• 52:48
  stuff. Christmas tree obviously.
• 52:51
  And then loads of mass was brought up in a Catholic family
• 52:58
  and there was midnight mass, there was Christmas Day mass.
• 53:02
  Then there was the thing after mass of going around to all the
• 53:05
  relations houses in the town drinking cups of tea and the men
• 53:11
  would be given Brandy usually, and the women would be given
• 53:16
  either just tea or maybe like a hot 1 hot whiskey or some.
• 53:20
  And yeah, it was always my mom's challenge not to let my dad
• 53:24
  drink too much Brandy because then he would be just to write
• 53:27
  off for that. I didn't really know that as a
• 53:29
  kid, but when I was like a teenager, I realized like, yeah,
• 53:31
  that, you know, the the my aunts would always be like, oh,
• 53:36
  Brendan, do you want another Brandy?
• 53:38
  Do you want another Brandy? Oh, yeah.
• 53:39
  My mother would just be at the corner go.
• 53:40
  No, because he would basically just after dinner, after
• 53:45
  Christmas dinner, then he would be gone to bed.
• 53:48
  Completely. And he wasn't like, he wasn't
• 53:52
  crazy drunk or anything. It was just, he was, he's, he
• 53:55
  couldn't handle his drink, you know, in terms of just being
• 53:57
  drunk. So like two or three brandies
• 54:00
  and he'd be, you know, talking absolute horse crap.
• 54:05
  That wouldn't be anything bad, but it would be embarrassing.
• 54:07
  The head off my mother. Yeah.
• 54:09
  And the one thing Irish mammies don't like is being embarrassed
• 54:14
  in front of other people. It's all about the appearances.
• 54:18
  So yeah, that that was kind of the main memories of the
• 54:21
  Christmas traditions in terms of that.
• 54:22
  And then so the 26th year guys, Boxing Day, we call it Saint
• 54:26
  Stephen's Day, that was just everyone going to the pub
• 54:30
  because the pubs had been closed for a day.
• 54:32
  What the hell? So, and as I got older, that was
• 54:37
  the big, that was the big kind of football Premier, Premier
• 54:40
  League. Well, it wasn't as big of it.
• 54:42
  I mean it was always a thing, but it wasn't as big as a thing
• 54:45
  on TV in Ireland until mid 90s I'd say.
• 54:50
  And then it was like, yeah, just this kind of big because it was
• 54:53
  football. It's football all day, isn't it?
• 54:55
  On the 26th? Americans have the American
• 54:57
  football on Christmas Day, don't they?
• 54:59
  Christmas. Day.
• 55:00
  I know that's just. Whereas the Premier League
• 55:02
  football is on Boxing Day, which means those poor footballers
• 55:07
  have to probably not eat too much on Christmas Day, which
• 55:10
  that's got to be tricky because they're.
• 55:12
  Tapping their eyes with their with their thousands, hundreds
• 55:16
  of thousands of pounds, they can.
• 55:18
  I think, I think, I think it was one thing we could say about
• 55:20
  them. They're not poor.
• 55:22
  They have a very. Nice summer, yeah.
• 55:26
  And then for Christmas, yeah, I, I like we had, I had, we had
• 55:30
  Santa as a tradition and he always, it was Christmas
• 55:33
  morning. He always got the gifts.
• 55:35
  I never thought of anything different until I came over to
• 55:38
  where I live now, where everything is done on Christmas
• 55:41
  Eve or on the 5th of December is the Saint Nicholas day.
• 55:46
  But we just had Santa coming overnight, 24 to the 25th.
• 55:49
  And I just remember so often not being able to sleep and, you
• 55:53
  know, tossing and turns the one night of the year where, you
• 55:55
  know, basically it was just too hyped up to go to sleep.
• 55:59
  And yeah, it's awesome. We get the loving, it's fair to
• 56:04
  say. I was a good sleeper as a child.
• 56:06
  I still am now, because my dad used to, you know, big, big
• 56:10
  pillowcase at the bottom of the bed, which is where Santa left
• 56:12
  the presents. And my dad was the clumsiest man
• 56:15
  in the world. And never once did I wake up.
• 56:18
  And God knows how many times he tripped over stuff, dropped
• 56:20
  things, all that sort of stuff. So it's fair to say I was a good
• 56:23
  sleeper as a child. I'm not a good sleeper anymore,
• 56:27
  but I must have been because yeah, my dad used to do the very
• 56:29
  same thing as one of the memories I do have is going into
• 56:34
  my my folks room early on. I was, I look back, quite an
• 56:38
  annoying little shit. Hey, there must have been a sort
• 56:42
  of a wait or just about wait because we go in and then my
• 56:45
  sister came in not long after or with a bag of toys and I'm like,
• 56:51
  I didn't get anything. And they were like, Are you
• 56:52
  sure? Go look at the end of your bed.
• 56:55
  And I'd walked past it even like a big bag of toys, you know?
• 56:58
  But not. You got them at the at the end
• 57:00
  of the bed. Mine were always under the
• 57:03
  Christmas tree down in the sitting room.
• 57:05
  Oh no, mine was always end of the bed thing, Yeah.
• 57:08
  So my my gig was a little bit easier for Santa than he was.
• 57:11
  He didn't risk waking the child. Yeah, I think, I think some of
• 57:18
  my Christmas memories bit like you John, it was like, you know,
• 57:20
  the olden days as it were. So it was going round to friends
• 57:24
  houses Christmas mornings, you know, like new parents, friends
• 57:27
  houses, Christmas morning and a few drinks would be had and that
• 57:29
  sort of stuff. And then off to see my Gran on
• 57:34
  my dad's side sort of late morning on Christmas Day.
• 57:37
  For some reason they never seemed to come over to us.
• 57:39
  We always had to go over to them, the Christmas Day thing.
• 57:41
  And I remember vividly getting massive universe figures there
• 57:46
  that Santra delivered them there.
• 57:48
  So I picked up, picked those up there.
• 57:50
  It was the only four I ever had. It was like, hell, he's all
• 57:52
  right. But do you vividly remember
• 57:54
  getting them? Yeah, I got some for Christmas
• 57:58
  for sure at Transformers. I remember getting an Oculus
• 58:01
  Prime. Yes, one of my favourite it's
• 58:04
  not it's a run up to Christmas, I guess is when I I was old
• 58:08
  enough to know that obviously Santa, you know, spoiler, it may
• 58:11
  or may not be real if his children listening to this.
• 58:14
  So I, I was like, you know, full onto Transformers.
• 58:17
  Some folks like or just, you know, what Transformers do you
• 58:19
  want? So outcomes the Argos catalogue,
• 58:22
  which for American listeners, it's a shop where you can't see
• 58:26
  anything. Basically they just have a
• 58:27
  catalogue and you flick through it and you take a bit of paper
• 58:29
  up with a number on and then they go out the back and then
• 58:31
  bring you the the toy or whatever else you're buying.
• 58:33
  Kind of like Internet shopping like in the 80s.
• 58:37
  Although then one of the other quirks of Argos was you'd order
• 58:41
  this and it could have been that, that, that, that or that,
• 58:45
  and you didn't know which one you were getting.
• 58:47
  Yeah. Oh, like if it was a wave of
• 58:49
  Transformers, it'd be just one of them.
• 58:52
  Yes. Like, yeah, if there was like 6
• 58:54
  fig, I don't know Marvel figures in a wave, then yeah, you'd just
• 58:57
  get one because they're all under the same skew number.
• 58:59
  Yeah, yeah, and you could order two and end up with two of the
• 59:03
  same one, essentially. Ridiculous, but.
• 59:07
  Yeah, that was the year I got the Dyna bots, I remember.
• 59:10
  So I was there. Obviously there's five and I
• 59:12
  just like my folks, like, you know, I'm five.
• 59:15
  It's like, right, OK. And I spent so long trying to
• 59:17
  decide which three I want to do. I think I got four.
• 59:19
  And then they got me a bonus one as well sort of thing.
• 59:21
  So then they just left you one regard.
• 59:23
  I never had. That never had him.
• 59:26
  You never had who? I never had the Dyna.
• 59:28
  Swoop. Swoop.
• 59:29
  Pterodatal. Yeah, yeah, I never had the
• 59:32
  Dinobots either. They think they maybe passed
• 59:35
  learning by or I don't know what it.
• 59:37
  Was and then related to that sort of thing.
• 59:39
  It's we because I lived in the backwaters of North Wales.
• 59:43
  So the nearest it wasn't, it's not even a big city, but the
• 59:46
  nearest biggish city was Chester, just over the border in
• 59:49
  England. But in those days there was no
• 59:51
  dual carriage race. So it was like, you know, best
• 59:54
  part of two hours to get out there, sorting the rules, like
• 59:56
  potholes, windy roads and horrendous.
• 59:59
  But we'd go sort of early December every year sort of
• 1:00:01
  thing. And they had a toy and hobby
• 1:00:03
  store, which I'm not sure when they went out of business, but
• 1:00:06
  it was a long time ago, but effectively a Toys-R-Us, but on
• 1:00:08
  a slightly smaller scale. And it was just awesome because
• 1:00:11
  you just go in and there's just, you know, instead of having
• 1:00:13
  Woolworths with like a handful of toys where I lived, all of a
• 1:00:15
  sudden there's this. Proper toy shop with just racks
• 1:00:18
  of GI Joe figures. Oh my God.
• 1:00:20
  Literally was a once a year trip because it was so it took so
• 1:00:23
  long to get there sort of thing. So it was like a big like, oh,
• 1:00:26
  we're going to Chester, We're going to Chester.
• 1:00:28
  Amazing. Yeah, I had that.
• 1:00:31
  Before I was, the Galway is the big city.
• 1:00:33
  It's about only 14 miles away, but that seemed like, you know,
• 1:00:39
  a lot longer as a kid. Yeah, we had to.
• 1:00:44
  Sorry, John, you go. No, it was just, yeah, the road
• 1:00:46
  was, yeah, it was about a 40 minute drive or else you get the
• 1:00:49
  train and you know, you could. So 1/2.
• 1:00:52
  Yeah, but yeah, yeah, no, we had to go through a town called
• 1:00:56
  Conway on the Welsh coast and it was, it wasn't quite single
• 1:01:00
  lane, but it was so narrow that it may as well have been single
• 1:01:03
  lane at one point. So you've got all these people
• 1:01:05
  and it's like the only route through North Wales and just
• 1:01:07
  people trying to get virtually through a single lane cap.
• 1:01:09
  You're like looking back up now there's a tunnel underneath the
• 1:01:12
  estuary and they've tunneled through two of the mountains.
• 1:01:15
  So the dual carriageway all the way through.
• 1:01:18
  But yeah, in those days it's painful.
• 1:01:19
  And you can, it shows order on the Internet so.
• 1:01:22
  You can, I'm getting delivered. Yeah.
• 1:01:26
  And in terms of Christmas dinner, you, it was always a
• 1:01:28
  big, a big deal in, in your places, in your homes.
• 1:01:35
  Well, I'd sort of have to just talk a bit about it.
• 1:01:37
  This is really sounds so miserable.
• 1:01:39
  But it wasn't. We do.
• 1:01:41
  We used to for as long as the like I, I was a lot, you know,
• 1:01:45
  from my youth. My mum was a nurse or the RGN,
• 1:01:49
  which is like the registered nurse at a nursing home.
• 1:01:53
  So for most Christmases, she would work.
• 1:01:56
  So we'd get up, do the presents and then she'd be off to work.
• 1:01:58
  Oh yeah, yeah. So we didn't really do much
• 1:02:01
  after that, you know, Boxing Day, depending on whether she
• 1:02:05
  worked Boxing Day or not, we'd then do what you guys have
• 1:02:08
  talked about of either going to a family member or them coming
• 1:02:12
  us and and we'd probably have dinner on Boxing Day if we were
• 1:02:15
  going to do it again, depended on if my mum worked both days or
• 1:02:20
  just Christmas Day. She was doing it so other people
• 1:02:23
  didn't have to, you know, which, fair play to her.
• 1:02:26
  Yeah. Yeah, no, we weren't full on.
• 1:02:31
  Yeah. Sort of, yeah, Everything,
• 1:02:33
  everything you can imagine. My mum still does it.
• 1:02:36
  So you go up there and it's like, you know, there's piece of
• 1:02:39
  blankets and you're like, she's late 70s.
• 1:02:43
  Wow. So yeah.
• 1:02:44
  So you go up there and there's this like insanely big Turkey,
• 1:02:50
  you know, as if there's 1000 people coming round.
• 1:02:52
  It's just like, what? What the hell?
• 1:02:53
  No, no, no. And then there's pigs in
• 1:02:56
  blankets. So I'm not sure if that's the
• 1:02:59
  Americans have that, but it's sausage dropped in bacon.
• 1:03:01
  I think they, I hope they do, yeah.
• 1:03:03
  Yeah. And then and then there was this
• 1:03:05
  portion of sausage meat. You're like, why have we got
• 1:03:08
  sausage? We've already got sausages.
• 1:03:09
  What? And then the stuff and then the
• 1:03:12
  stuffing, another stuffing as well, which always had sausage
• 1:03:14
  meat in it as well. Sausage meat, meat.
• 1:03:16
  Stuffing there. Yeah.
• 1:03:18
  Christmas thing. Yeah, so it was just insane.
• 1:03:21
  It was like you had this like Turk, you know, a big Turkey big
• 1:03:23
  enough to eat you now mind the other way around.
• 1:03:25
  Plus 2/3 of a pig probably. And it's just and it's still the
• 1:03:29
  same now, I mean. I I always cook, I always cook
• 1:03:33
  Christmas dinner now here. And but like, we just get
• 1:03:36
  chicken because there's four of us and like what?
• 1:03:39
  My daughter doesn't eat meat, so there's only really three of us.
• 1:03:42
  And that's even then we still have leftovers for 2-3 days,
• 1:03:45
  four days depending on. So yeah, the Turkey is
• 1:03:50
  completely overkill unless you have like another family or two
• 1:03:53
  coming, you know? Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:03:56
  Last year, my mom was like, oh, let's get a Turkey crown.
• 1:03:59
  And we've almost came to blows, the two of us in the supermarket
• 1:04:02
  on Christmas Eve because you wanted like, I need this massive
• 1:04:04
  one. I was like, no, you don't.
• 1:04:05
  There's just four of us. Just get the smallest Turkey
• 1:04:07
  crown. You go no.
• 1:04:08
  And it won't take 8 hours to cook.
• 1:04:11
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we used to when I was a
• 1:04:15
  kid, we used to eat Turkey. But as I got older, I think it
• 1:04:18
  was whatever, you know, just the easier to do other things and
• 1:04:22
  and my sister cook has always been and got more and more picky
• 1:04:26
  about what she would eat. So.
• 1:04:28
  Oh wow. OK.
• 1:04:30
  Yeah, as an adult, we, if we ever we have Christmas in our
• 1:04:32
  house, we never ever have Turkey.
• 1:04:35
  We had beef Wellington one year, which was glorious.
• 1:04:38
  That's nice. But yeah, it's always beef or
• 1:04:41
  something like that instead. Not even a chicken necessarily.
• 1:04:44
  Yeah, cool. And favorite.
• 1:04:48
  So favorite thing you got for Christmas?
• 1:04:50
  I mean mine I remember getting obviously Transformers got some
• 1:04:55
  Masters of the universe. A big thing I wanted was a
• 1:04:58
  dartboard and I got one some point probably when I was about
• 1:05:02
  10. And then a console was the kind
• 1:05:05
  of last thing I got before, you know, the last thing I got from
• 1:05:10
  Santa who say, and it was bloody Saga Masters.
• 1:05:16
  I went to the Mega Drive, which is the Sega Genesis for for in
• 1:05:21
  in American, but I got the 8 bit.
• 1:05:23
  So the the masters, the Genesis was 16 bit.
• 1:05:26
  The Master system was 8 bit and but I still loved it.
• 1:05:30
  We had great time with it and I was the only one that had one
• 1:05:32
  because other people had the Mega Drive or Nintendo.
• 1:05:36
  So you know, kids used to get friends used to come round to
• 1:05:39
  play it because they didn't know the games.
• 1:05:42
  And it was actually quite good because the Mastersism games
• 1:05:44
  were more available for some reason in the low in the toy
• 1:05:47
  shop that I used to go to the big toy shop.
• 1:05:50
  And I think a lot of them got dumped in our, the Master System
• 1:05:57
  got dumped in our And I spoken to Australians as well about
• 1:06:01
  this and they say it's the same, that the, the Master System was
• 1:06:06
  huge there. And I think that, yeah, it
• 1:06:08
  didn't sell well in certain parts of the world.
• 1:06:11
  So a lot of it got kind of offloaded to certain countries
• 1:06:13
  that were maybe a little bit behind on the technology front
• 1:06:18
  at the time. So yeah, but it was great.
• 1:06:21
  So I'd say 3-4 years I was getting games for the big
• 1:06:24
  cartridges, really, really grim looking boxes.
• 1:06:28
  That was just, it was like, you know, your, your maths kind of
• 1:06:32
  homework copy book where you do your maths with all the squares.
• 1:06:35
  It was like a page of that with a little image on it.
• 1:06:38
  It was the boxes all the same, you know, except for the image
• 1:06:43
  of whatever the game was. And they had a couple of good,
• 1:06:46
  good games. Remember, they had a tennis game
• 1:06:48
  that was awesome. And this game called Enduro
• 1:06:50
  Racer, which is basically going at a diagonal on a on a moped or
• 1:06:55
  motorbike, jumping over more and more difficult ramps.
• 1:07:00
  And yeah, in the end it just gets to an insane difficulty
• 1:07:03
  that you can't manage anymore. And the machine I got came
• 1:07:08
  packaged in. It was built into the board.
• 1:07:11
  This game called Alex Kidd in Miracle World, one of the most
• 1:07:14
  difficult games of all time. And there's a point in it where
• 1:07:18
  you have to play rock, paper, scissors and you get like three
• 1:07:21
  goals. If you don't get them right,
• 1:07:23
  it's game over. So it's always the same.
• 1:07:26
  So you have to write it down and like, and then but like, you
• 1:07:29
  just get game over to the first time you get there.
• 1:07:31
  If you get it wrong and you get further, it happens further and
• 1:07:35
  further into, and you might have passed this impossible bit.
• 1:07:37
  And then you have to play rock, paper, scissors.
• 1:07:39
  And it's like, who taught of this?
• 1:07:43
  Yeah. It's hard to believe, isn't it,
• 1:07:46
  that I mean you're all the time, but the fact that you just that
• 1:07:49
  was it you the amount of times you restarted games and you
• 1:07:52
  pretty much play them through and then.
• 1:07:54
  You weren't. And then Sonic came out for it
• 1:07:56
  and that was mind blowing and I got Sonic one and two I think on
• 1:08:00
  it. And we're still pretty decent,
• 1:08:02
  although probably unplayable these days.
• 1:08:04
  But back in the day, you know, it's perfect.
• 1:08:07
  And you guys, Mal, Christmas presents, can you remember?
• 1:08:12
  I've only got sort of two memories, one more clear than
• 1:08:15
  the other, so I guess these must have been my favorite.
• 1:08:19
  So the big one is, and I've talked about this before, the
• 1:08:22
  Amiga 500. It was, you know, under a cover
• 1:08:27
  and we were doing normal sort of Christmas.
• 1:08:30
  I actually don't think my mum was working that year, but
• 1:08:32
  because I feel like she was around all day that day.
• 1:08:35
  But yeah, you know, doing the normal open, the bit, the, the
• 1:08:40
  smaller presents and all that. And then my dad was like, oh,
• 1:08:43
  what's that in the corner? He's like, what?
• 1:08:45
  What? I hadn't even noticed this huge
• 1:08:48
  thing under a cover and then whipped it off and it was the
• 1:08:51
  illegal. And of course it's for the
• 1:08:53
  family. You're sharing it.
• 1:08:55
  So you're kind of lying for your time that day.
• 1:08:58
  And I had it was the one that came with Batman.
• 1:09:02
  And I can't remember whether it was Dizzy or Rainbow Island
• 1:09:07
  because my sister got those quite quick succession.
• 1:09:10
  But for me, yeah, it's Batman mainly awesome.
• 1:09:13
  And yeah, and I feel like it was Dizzy.
• 1:09:16
  That was that was a hard game was imagine.
• 1:09:18
  So it was Batman. They were all heard back in the
• 1:09:22
  day. Yeah, and then the other one is
• 1:09:25
  I do. And it's a vague memory, but I
• 1:09:27
  do remember, you know, it being a Christmas, kind of getting
• 1:09:31
  Castle Gray School the one year. So yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
• 1:09:37
  I don't think I ever had Catholic grace got like, I kind
• 1:09:40
  of remember it, but I don't. Maybe one of my mates had it.
• 1:09:43
  I don't remember, personally haven't.
• 1:09:48
  It no, the the I was going to say this.
• 1:09:50
  Yeah. Still.
• 1:09:52
  This two that I remember so again like you guys, it's a
• 1:09:54
  computer 1. So I got an Amstrad 464, which
• 1:09:58
  is a very you know, cassette loading like a proper cassette
• 1:10:01
  games sort of thing. And I remember again Chester
• 1:10:05
  went to Chester got this one and there's a big debate about
• 1:10:08
  whether we should get just a green screen monitor or a colour
• 1:10:10
  monitor. I think it went with the green
• 1:10:12
  one in the end because it was. Considerably cheaper growth.
• 1:10:14
  Yeah, but yeah, you know, it's the game.
• 1:10:18
  The days of the the games are on tape.
• 1:10:19
  So you put it in, it would take 25 minutes, then you come
• 1:10:22
  upstairs and turn it over to the other side, pop it back in for
• 1:10:24
  another 25 minutes, and then just for the end you go, no,
• 1:10:28
  there's a problem, and you start the whole thing again.
• 1:10:30
  How? Much time did we have that We
• 1:10:32
  could do that, you know. Apparently years and years to
• 1:10:34
  play these games. Yeah, I think we slept.
• 1:10:37
  You know. But no, it came with like, you
• 1:10:39
  know, some basic games like Commando.
• 1:10:42
  Don't you guys remember that one?
• 1:10:43
  Just scrolling up the screen? Akari Warriors.
• 1:10:46
  I love those sorts. Of Warriors was my favorite
• 1:10:48
  arcade game as a kid. That and Double Dragon.
• 1:10:51
  Oh yeah, and actually found an emulator of it at some point a
• 1:10:54
  couple of years ago. OK.
• 1:10:56
  Ages and then I got it on the switch.
• 1:10:59
  You can actually get a you can actually get a it's a it's a
• 1:11:04
  game that comes with like 40 different games from this
• 1:11:06
  company. Oh that's interesting.
• 1:11:09
  The Carrie Warriors arcade version is on it and it's
• 1:11:12
  exactly as I remember and it's still.
• 1:11:14
  I will be looking for that. Thank you, John.
• 1:11:15
  I'll. I'll get you the name of it, but
• 1:11:17
  yeah, came out, yeah, good while ago.
• 1:11:20
  And then and then my other what my other memory, particular
• 1:11:23
  memory for a, a toy, you'd never ever be allowed to buy it
• 1:11:27
  nowadays. But these were, you know, they
• 1:11:28
  were more relaxed times in terms of health and safety.
• 1:11:30
  And there's a game called Crossfire, and it was, it was
• 1:11:34
  really Tasering. People.
• 1:11:36
  It must have been at least 5 foot, probably 6 foot long.
• 1:11:39
  I've forgotten at my moment. I should I should measure it
• 1:11:40
  next moment there massive game and there's, you know, like air
• 1:11:44
  hockey. Yeah, think of that sort of of
• 1:11:47
  board. So it's got like a little
• 1:11:48
  plastic sides and that sort of thing.
• 1:11:50
  But at each end, you've got a gun that's attached to the
• 1:11:53
  attached to the the game. And you fire metal ball bearings
• 1:11:57
  out these little. It's like an ice hockey puck in
• 1:12:00
  the middle and you're trying to hit, hit that into a goal at the
• 1:12:02
  other end and you're firing metal ball bearings like full
• 1:12:06
  on. Yeah.
• 1:12:08
  And it's. Someone at the other side, I
• 1:12:09
  suppose. Yeah, sure.
• 1:12:10
  Yeah. Somebody in the red trying to
• 1:12:12
  trying to get into your thing, you know, so if anything gets
• 1:12:14
  stuck and you put your finger out to try and move something,
• 1:12:16
  you know you could break a finger with your opponent.
• 1:12:18
  It just decides to. Find it it's it's they came out
• 1:12:20
  of quite a force or. Oh like, Oh yes, you've heard it
• 1:12:24
  was finger breaking sort of force.
• 1:12:26
  They would never ever get it nowadays.
• 1:12:29
  It's insane. But yeah, because I think
• 1:12:32
  because it was just so dangerous, I think that's
• 1:12:34
  probably why I remember getting it and just set it up and like
• 1:12:36
  just blasting. It's probably it's probably
• 1:12:40
  quite rare on eBay these days, isn't is it?
• 1:12:43
  I need to check because I still got it in box at my mum's house.
• 1:12:47
  Could be funding legions gone 25 not safe for anybody game.
• 1:12:54
  Yeah, Yeah. I wonder if you may be like,
• 1:12:55
  yeah, you can't sell that. That's that's too dangerous.
• 1:12:57
  You have people like injuring themselves using that, no?
• 1:13:01
  Yeah, So that's that. Anything more for Christmas or
• 1:13:06
  should we? We.
• 1:13:07
  I think I've talked previously about my GI Joe Alpine climbing
• 1:13:10
  the Christmas tree over. There of.
• 1:13:12
  Course of the festive period and I had AGI Joe classified Alpine
• 1:13:15
  arrive last week, so there's a pretty good chance he's going to
• 1:13:19
  be going to tree. This year need need photographic
• 1:13:21
  evidence please. You're never too old for that
• 1:13:23
  sort of thing. So that will definitely be
• 1:13:25
  happening. Yeah.
• 1:13:27
  And I think, I think there's an adult too.
• 1:13:28
  I think one we used to. Holly's too old now she's 12.
• 1:13:31
  But in the days where, you know, she was convinced there was a
• 1:13:34
  Santa and Watson, if there is or not kids if listening, but she
• 1:13:37
  was convinced there was a Santa. So we used to go to these like
• 1:13:39
  Christmas themed events sort of thing.
• 1:13:41
  So one year Kerry was like, I know there's there's a down in
• 1:13:44
  Bristol Harbour. You get on board a little boat,
• 1:13:47
  you poot around the harbour for about half an hour.
• 1:13:50
  You have mince pie, you know, glass of wine or whatever sort
• 1:13:52
  of thing. And Father Christmas comes on,
• 1:13:55
  AKA Santa gives the kids a present.
• 1:13:58
  Oh, that sounds pretty good. So this is the three of us and
• 1:14:01
  Kerry's best friend and her and husband and two kids, the seven
• 1:14:04
  as we get on this boat, it's a tiny little boat, but we get on
• 1:14:07
  and the kids kids are quite young.
• 1:14:09
  So the kids, probably Holly was probably three or four, and then
• 1:14:14
  the other two were a couple of years older and a year younger
• 1:14:16
  sort of thing. And it's all great.
• 1:14:18
  And then all of a sudden the captain goes, oh, Santa's over
• 1:14:21
  there. See, everyone looks out the
• 1:14:23
  window of this little boat and there's Santa stood on the
• 1:14:25
  quayside and he's waving with his bag of presents and this
• 1:14:28
  sort of stuff. So, so we go over and Santa gets
• 1:14:31
  on board and Santa is paralytic drunk.
• 1:14:35
  I mean, he's like hammered, hammered drunk.
• 1:14:40
  So he, he, he, he wobbles onto the and bear in mind this is a
• 1:14:43
  boat, obviously. So it's, you know, it's a little
• 1:14:45
  bit, you know, it's a harbour. It's not particularly choppy,
• 1:14:46
  but it's a little bit. So he's like, ohh.
• 1:14:49
  And he gets to his seat and he gives out like one present and
• 1:14:52
  he shouts the captain, where's Santas special drink And you're
• 1:14:55
  like, oh God, this is an episode of Father Ted now Jesus Christ.
• 1:14:59
  And it and it arrived and he wolfed it down, then gave a
• 1:15:01
  couple more presents out. He's like, where's Santas
• 1:15:03
  special drink and this. And it's like, God, no wonder
• 1:15:05
  he's doing this is like his fourth or fifth boat trip of the
• 1:15:07
  day. No wonder he's so drunk.
• 1:15:09
  It was amazing. And then like the adults were
• 1:15:11
  just wetting them. The kids didn't know what was
• 1:15:12
  happening. We were just wetting ourselves
• 1:15:14
  laughing. It's like this is.
• 1:15:16
  I wondered, did Santa? Was Santa getting paid in a
• 1:15:19
  special drink then? Maybe.
• 1:15:22
  Yeah, it was so funny. That's a memory that will stay
• 1:15:25
  with me forever. Oh, I love that.
• 1:15:27
  That's perfect. I think that rounds off our
• 1:15:30
  Christmas section perfectly. Right, Let's get on to
• 1:15:36
  recommendations. Hi, I'm Paul Zach Wally 22974 on
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  Instagram and you're listening to the Euro Legions podcast, the
• 1:15:44
  best podcast. Oh, thank you, Paul.
• 1:15:47
  Thank you, Paul. Awesome.
• 1:15:49
  Thank you. So yeah.
• 1:15:51
  Thank you that beer as well. Legions Conduit.
• 1:15:52
  I just have so many, so many things on the soundboard now
• 1:15:56
  because of all those clips thing.
• 1:16:00
  I was like, I couldn't find where my people were, right?
• 1:16:04
  So we've got some recommends. So the first thing I want to
• 1:16:08
  recommend, I actually remembered it and it's really old thing,
• 1:16:12
  but I remembered it from talking about Christmas in the 80s and
• 1:16:15
  whatever on inner in my downstairs toilet here.
• 1:16:18
  So we're starting a bit grim here.
• 1:16:20
  I have a little stack of books that I read because I try not
• 1:16:23
  to, you know, just be on the phone, on the toilet, trying to,
• 1:16:28
  to read again. But it's not books, it's books
• 1:16:31
  that I've read for years. And I actually found them the
• 1:16:35
  last time I was back home in Ireland, my mother's house.
• 1:16:40
  The Adrian Mole books, you remember them?
• 1:16:42
  Did you read them? I never read them, but I know of
• 1:16:44
  them. Sue Townsend is the author and
• 1:16:47
  she's hilarious, and she has a couple of other books that are
• 1:16:50
  I've read as well. They're quite funny.
• 1:16:52
  But yeah, the, so the Diary of Adrian Mole aged I think 13 3/4
• 1:16:57
  is the first one. It's from 1981 or two.
• 1:17:00
  And I think it just, if you want to find out what the 80s was
• 1:17:03
  like, especially in Britain or Ireland, I think to an extent
• 1:17:08
  it's just perfect. It's so funny.
• 1:17:10
  It's so dry, humid. It's so like he, he's, he's not
• 1:17:16
  aware of half the stuff that's going on, but it's, it's, it's
• 1:17:22
  just so funny. And yeah, he's a bit of a
• 1:17:25
  disaster, but he thinks he's he's not.
• 1:17:27
  And he wants to be a poet in the end and all this kind of stuff.
• 1:17:31
  He has all these ambitions, ends up in, you know, kind of a
• 1:17:34
  boring office job. And yeah, it did.
• 1:17:39
  They still weren't good. Yeah.
• 1:17:41
  They still. She did them up until he was in
• 1:17:45
  his 40s or 50s. So like that.
• 1:17:48
  There is one from like just a couple years ago.
• 1:17:50
  I think she died not so long ago, but I think I read that.
• 1:17:55
  I listened to the last one on the audio book.
• 1:17:57
  That's how recent it was. I love them.
• 1:18:00
  I just love the character. He's such, a, you know, he's
• 1:18:03
  such a miserable guy. Makes you feel better about
• 1:18:06
  yourself. So that it kind of makes me feel
• 1:18:09
  nostalgic, which is weird because I don't try and do
• 1:18:11
  nostalgia with toy collecting as much.
• 1:18:13
  I mean, I like some of the older stuff, but nostalgia doesn't
• 1:18:16
  tend to be my driver. But I get nostalgic sometimes
• 1:18:18
  about old stuff like that, like books or movies.
• 1:18:21
  If I watch Only Fools and Horses, even though I never
• 1:18:24
  lived in London or you know, that it somehow makes me
• 1:18:27
  nostalgic for the 80s. I don't know why, you know?
• 1:18:30
  And that's a real British show, so it's funny.
• 1:18:33
  Anyway, So what have you guys got to recommend before I people
• 1:18:38
  get sick? Listen to me.
• 1:18:41
  Rich a Christmas film I would and would recommend is and
• 1:18:46
  people probably I mean you know some of the like you know, the
• 1:18:49
  best Christmas film ever Scrooged Bill Murray, but
• 1:18:52
  everybody knows about that one. So a lesser known one I would
• 1:18:55
  recommend is a Finnish film called Rare Exports, A Christmas
• 1:18:59
  Tale. This is described on Wikipedia
• 1:19:02
  as a fantasy, action, horror comedy film.
• 1:19:05
  I think that pretty what much sums it up.
• 1:19:08
  I saw the trailer for it a few years ago.
• 1:19:11
  Oh, it's 2010, so quite a few years ago now.
• 1:19:13
  And it starts off with, you know, it's Christmas, everyone's
• 1:19:16
  happy. And then he just goes to a snow
• 1:19:19
  covered field with just reindeer parts spread all over it just
• 1:19:22
  and you're like, OK. And the premise is that Santa,
• 1:19:26
  that Santa is a, a demon basically who was imprisoned
• 1:19:32
  centuries ago. And these gold miners or oil
• 1:19:35
  miners or whatever they are, oil diggers free him accidentally.
• 1:19:38
  And then it just goes horribly wrong.
• 1:19:40
  And it's such a good film. So does Santa have a demon Wang?
• 1:19:46
  If he did, he kept it hidden, but probably that's.
• 1:19:48
  Probably good then that, although that recommends the
• 1:19:50
  film even more so. It's probably cold.
• 1:19:53
  Yeah, he might have retreated, but yeah, yeah, I thoroughly
• 1:19:57
  recommend that for an oddball Christmas film.
• 1:20:00
  But it sounds bonkers and I'm sure I'll never watch it, but
• 1:20:03
  I'm sure there is people that listen that that would.
• 1:20:05
  Be Mouse mouse smile the scenes I mentioned.
• 1:20:07
  I I bought it on the first time I heard of it because I couldn't
• 1:20:12
  find it anywhere. I bought it on DVD so and.
• 1:20:15
  Is it in English or is it a subtitle job or?
• 1:20:19
  Both. It's both.
• 1:20:20
  Yeah, subtitles. Finish, which funnily enough was
• 1:20:26
  one of my recommendations as well because it's I always do
• 1:20:29
  because it's something not everyone's seen.
• 1:20:31
  So yeah, but one of my other recommendations I finally got
• 1:20:36
  around to watching Violent Night with David Harper playing Santa
• 1:20:40
  Claus. Is that good?
• 1:20:41
  I've still not seen it. It's really good.
• 1:20:44
  I actually want to buy it on DVD.
• 1:20:46
  So OK, when it goes off the streaming services, oh, we
• 1:20:50
  should say rare exports you can currently get on Prime.
• 1:20:53
  Thank you. Now for people, no problem.
• 1:20:55
  And violent night is currently on Netflix for anyone who's got
• 1:20:59
  that. But yeah, Santa Claus, he
• 1:21:02
  without saying too much about what goes on, he he's getting a
• 1:21:07
  bit fed up with Christmas. It's his only day that he has to
• 1:21:13
  work. What's wrong with him?
• 1:21:15
  Well. That's why he's fed up.
• 1:21:16
  Behind yeah, there's a story on that as well.
• 1:21:19
  He's and he goes to drop this presents off at this this house,
• 1:21:24
  this wealthy family and it's all gone a bit wrong and kicked off.
• 1:21:28
  But it's it's really good. It's a good action film.
• 1:21:32
  It's good. It is genuinely funny at points
• 1:21:36
  and David Harper's, he's excellent.
• 1:21:38
  I think he's quite underrated as an actor, to be fair to.
• 1:21:43
  Another random 1, and I'm not sure if I've covered this on the
• 1:21:45
  show or not before, but another random Christmas film called Fat
• 1:21:48
  Man starring, starring Mel Gibson as Father Christmas.
• 1:21:54
  And the the premise is that Father Christmas doesn't deliver
• 1:21:59
  a present to a young boy and that young boy gets extremely
• 1:22:02
  angry and hires a hit man to take out Father Christmas.
• 1:22:07
  And Father Christmas is quite a bad ass.
• 1:22:09
  So it's not as if he's like, you know, worried, particularly by
• 1:22:12
  the hit man. It's, it's, it's really weird,
• 1:22:14
  but really good fun. And Walter Goggins plays the
• 1:22:16
  hitman and Walter Goggins is great in everything he does.
• 1:22:20
  So yeah, it's it's very weird, but very good.
• 1:22:23
  I thoroughly enjoyed that. I got the ones ATV series
• 1:22:30
  actually that I that set well it was released last.
• 1:22:34
  Christmas or the Christmas? Before Swedish series on Netflix
• 1:22:39
  again called Elves, and that's another horror one about elves.
• 1:22:47
  And that's all I can, I really want to say about it.
• 1:22:51
  It's. Yeah, it's, I think, I think you
• 1:22:54
  can. It's either subtitled or I think
• 1:22:56
  there was an English dub to it as well.
• 1:22:59
  But yeah, yeah, it's a good one. Yeah.
• 1:23:01
  Worth the what? And Fat Man's available on Prime
• 1:23:02
  Video if anybody wants to watch. This could be just in the UK
• 1:23:06
  though, because prime is random. Potentially, yes, Yeah.
• 1:23:10
  Although probably UKUS is probably similar.
• 1:23:14
  Yeah, I know in this foreign language countries like I'm in,
• 1:23:16
  it can often be different. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:23:20
  Netflix will be a bit different, unfortunately for us, but yeah,
• 1:23:24
  yeah. But yeah, at least it's it, it
• 1:23:27
  does exists on some streaming service.
• 1:23:29
  So if it's on a streaming service in UK, it'll probably be
• 1:23:32
  on the streaming service in US. And can I check a couple of non
• 1:23:36
  festive series that are out but they're out?
• 1:23:37
  That's what. Now that's all I have.
• 1:23:39
  OK, yeah, not some non ones, so. But I'll just do one then first
• 1:23:44
  and you guys can pitch in. The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix.
• 1:23:48
  Series 3 dropped in October. I think we're just getting
• 1:23:51
  around to it now. Brilliant series.
• 1:23:54
  Lawyer that does all his work in the back of a Lincoln because
• 1:23:56
  he's so busy. So as a show for, hence The
• 1:23:58
  Lincoln Lawyer. I think there's a film with
• 1:24:00
  Matthew McConaughey donkeys years ago around the same thing.
• 1:24:04
  Yeah, it's a different actor playing it now and it's like a
• 1:24:07
  series. It's based on the book, isn't
• 1:24:09
  it? It is, yeah.
• 1:24:10
  There's a series of. Books, I think like a famous
• 1:24:12
  writer, one of the famous kind of thriller writers.
• 1:24:15
  Yeah, but I highly recommend that on Netflix.
• 1:24:17
  Yeah, it's a great series. I watched it probably around the
• 1:24:21
  time we came out. Then it was kind of we didn't
• 1:24:23
  have much on our list and it came out at the right time.
• 1:24:28
  Yeah. I'm currently watching the Day
• 1:24:30
  of the Jackal on prime. No, not on prime.
• 1:24:32
  It's on Sky, HBO, Sky. So HBO in the in the US it's
• 1:24:39
  amazing. It's with.
• 1:24:41
  The. So the guy that plays a news
• 1:24:46
  commander in Fantastic Beasts was a bit different in this one,
• 1:24:49
  but it's brilliant. Yeah.
• 1:24:51
  So he's he's an assassin basically.
• 1:24:53
  And the 1st, the 1st 10 minutes of it and you're already like
• 1:24:58
  writing booked. I mean, it's absolutely
• 1:25:02
  fantastic. And yeah, I think there'll
• 1:25:06
  there's 9 episodes out already and I think the last one might
• 1:25:09
  be this week or there's two more, I'm not sure.
• 1:25:11
  But yeah, it's really, it's really good story and based on
• 1:25:17
  it's based on a book. I can't remember who wrote it
• 1:25:20
  again, but it's a friend. Of a Forsythe book, isn't it, I
• 1:25:22
  think. Might be.
• 1:25:24
  Yeah, the day of the Jackal, yeah.
• 1:25:26
  Yeah, it's Frederick Forsyth, I'm sure.
• 1:25:28
  Yeah. And yeah, just just excellent.
• 1:25:31
  He is amazing in it. I mean, he doesn't have a lot of
• 1:25:36
  it. He doesn't have many lines, but
• 1:25:38
  you know, because he's he's a bit of a cold guy in the in the
• 1:25:41
  way. And he's also leading the kind
• 1:25:44
  of a double life behind the scenes as well.
• 1:25:45
  So yeah, just really well done. And I think they've obviously
• 1:25:49
  modernized it because, you know, a lot of it's done through the
• 1:25:52
  Internet in terms of, you know, how he gets hired and stuff like
• 1:25:54
  that. So they've modernized the story.
• 1:25:57
  But yeah, absolutely, highly, highly recommended.
• 1:26:00
  Now, I haven't seen the finale yet, so hopefully that doesn't
• 1:26:03
  become a damn script, but I don't think so, you know?
• 1:26:07
  So yeah, that's one. That's one for me.
• 1:26:09
  Mal, have you got anything else? Oh yeah, I've got a load up.
• 1:26:12
  I wrote quite a few things down Let's go movies though, so yeah.
• 1:26:19
  OK, so recently watched Hellboy the Crooked Man.
• 1:26:23
  I saw Jesse Arnold mention this and how good he thought it was
• 1:26:28
  on Facebook and I've got to agree with him.
• 1:26:30
  It was really, really good. It's funny because it's probably
• 1:26:33
  lower budget than the previous Hellboy films, but he actually
• 1:26:36
  feels the most like Hellboy and it all OK.
• 1:26:43
  Yeah, it's really good. The Crooked Man is sort of a
• 1:26:48
  myth demon type thing and it's actually set.
• 1:26:54
  Is it during the war? What are the first or Second
• 1:26:56
  World War etcetera? Must be I think it was Second
• 1:26:59
  World War etcetera. So yeah, it's a bit further back
• 1:27:04
  in time, which adds to the the interest.
• 1:27:07
  It's a good then another one I've watched recently and I
• 1:27:13
  actually spotted this on the plane on the way to did it.
• 1:27:18
  Was it on the way to? Yes, it was on the way to New
• 1:27:21
  Jersey, but it's it was one of these that wait, so I should
• 1:27:29
  explain what it is. It's set in, it's set in Belfast
• 1:27:34
  and it's about a real life story of a rap group that became
• 1:27:38
  figureheads, unexpected figureheads for the civil rights
• 1:27:44
  movement and helped bring back the Irish language in Belfast.
• 1:27:50
  Oh, that's quite a recent thing, isn't it?
• 1:27:51
  Yes, Yeah. Well, it's the band in.
• 1:27:55
  The band plays themselves in it and it's called Kneecap, which
• 1:27:59
  was, I don't think that was the name of the band.
• 1:28:01
  I don't know if that was the Well, is that the name of the
• 1:28:03
  band? Yeah, that's on Prime and
• 1:28:06
  actually started to watch it on the plane to New Jersey, but it
• 1:28:10
  starts off Irish language and I thought, I'm not sure in the
• 1:28:13
  mood to sit and read the subtitles, but it does.
• 1:28:16
  It switches back and forth throughout and it's absolutely
• 1:28:19
  fantastic. It's really funny at points and,
• 1:28:23
  you know, and really, it handles the troubles really well.
• 1:28:28
  You know, it's not too in your face and too heavy, but it's
• 1:28:31
  also very poignant at points as well.
• 1:28:34
  So really worth the watch. And then the other one I've
• 1:28:39
  seen, this is a little while ago now, but very good Late night
• 1:28:42
  with the Devil, which is also on prime.
• 1:28:45
  A horror, a horror film starring David Dalmatian is it, who was
• 1:28:52
  who's been in a lot of things. And he he plays a talk show host
• 1:28:57
  and they bring a girl onto who's possessed and it it goes
• 1:29:02
  horribly wrong, as you can imagine.
• 1:29:05
  Yeah, yeah, cool. A few TV shows as well, but
• 1:29:08
  other people talk. Can I, can I pitch in very
• 1:29:11
  quickly? I don't want to do it at the end
• 1:29:13
  because it'd be a negative finish.
• 1:29:14
  But what we're recommending films, can I recommend one for
• 1:29:18
  people to stay away from because it is God awful and it's one I
• 1:29:22
  found. Well, I think it was prime
• 1:29:24
  recently called Out of Darkness. And it's about it's about a
• 1:29:27
  group of Neolithic hunters who travel to this far off land to
• 1:29:31
  try and find good hunting ground.
• 1:29:34
  And it all goes probably wrong and there's like a demonic
• 1:29:36
  thing. I I can't say how I finished
• 1:29:38
  because I gave up three quarters.
• 1:29:39
  The way through this is just terrible.
• 1:29:40
  You walked out of your own. You walked out of your own
• 1:29:42
  syndrome. Yeah.
• 1:29:45
  It's really low budget and to I think to make it worse, they
• 1:29:49
  have them speaking some sort of dialect, like completely
• 1:29:52
  made-up. So you have to listen to them
• 1:29:54
  speak into this nonsense made-up language and watch the subtitles
• 1:29:57
  and like, you are kidding me, aren't you?
• 1:29:59
  This is not as if it, this is like no on the earth.
• 1:30:03
  It's just terrible. I think avoid like big problems
• 1:30:06
  with Prime, although I pay for the shipping as much as I pay
• 1:30:10
  for the movies. It's there's just hundreds,
• 1:30:13
  possibly thousands of really low budget movies and they're
• 1:30:18
  dreadful. Most of them are awful.
• 1:30:21
  This one is just some student films I've seen.
• 1:30:24
  They've seen some really good student films.
• 1:30:26
  And these are worse. And yet somebody's given them a
• 1:30:29
  decent budget to make them and without, you know, getting my
• 1:30:34
  soapbox now. And they're just, they're just
• 1:30:38
  dreadful. Yeah.
• 1:30:39
  And you can tell they're, and, and there's such high concepts
• 1:30:42
  like that at points and they, it's like, why?
• 1:30:45
  Why did you why didn't you do something simple?
• 1:30:48
  It would have been so much better.
• 1:30:50
  Yeah, anyway. Just something I wanted to
• 1:30:53
  quickly shout out. So you were talking about the
• 1:30:56
  Northern Irish band Whatever. I'm listening to podcast at the
• 1:30:59
  moment called Steak Knife. The actual podcast is called
• 1:31:03
  Cover and the season is called Steak Knife on BBC Sounds, and
• 1:31:10
  you'll find it in all the podcast players.
• 1:31:12
  But it's about this British spy inside the IRA.
• 1:31:16
  True story from the 80s and it's fantastically done and the
• 1:31:23
  production is done by these the best probably the best podcast
• 1:31:29
  producers in Ireland that we have.
• 1:31:31
  They had they went out their own and Patreon.
• 1:31:33
  There's there were sports podcasts and they went down
• 1:31:35
  their own and Patreon in 2013 or so.
• 1:31:38
  They were on the main talk radio station in Ireland and they
• 1:31:44
  wanted to, they were doing the late night kind of slot with all
• 1:31:46
  the sport and they wanted to kind of get a daytime slot and
• 1:31:50
  they wouldn't give it to them. So they all mask quit and formed
• 1:31:53
  their own company and they do podcasts now.
• 1:31:55
  So I listen mainly to their sports show, but they have this
• 1:31:58
  show that they produce for BBC and they do different seasons on
• 1:32:01
  different things every year. And this one is it's not
• 1:32:04
  finished yet, but it's really well done.
• 1:32:06
  It's really well. Oh, that sounds really good.
• 1:32:08
  It's very good. Obviously all of the news over
• 1:32:10
  here, wasn't it? Yeah, a couple of years.
• 1:32:12
  So it's a very interesting topic.
• 1:32:13
  Yeah. So, yeah, the the second episode
• 1:32:19
  is basically he spends the whole kind of day driving around with
• 1:32:22
  the father of the guy, one of the guys that got killed in this
• 1:32:26
  and who was a former member of the IRA as well.
• 1:32:29
  And they kind of traced the whole route that the guy went on
• 1:32:33
  that kind of between the time he was kind of taken and murdered a
• 1:32:37
  couple of weeks later or whatever.
• 1:32:39
  And it's just really, really, really well done.
• 1:32:42
  They know how to do, you know, produce an audio kind of
• 1:32:45
  documentary show. It's really good.
• 1:32:47
  So anyway, that wasn't one of my list, but it just jogged my
• 1:32:51
  memory there. We mentioned.
• 1:32:53
  Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
• 1:32:55
  And the yeah, the Brit, the steak knife was the name of the
• 1:32:57
  code name of the British Army spy inside the RA.
• 1:33:01
  So that was basically. And what was the name of the
• 1:33:05
  actual podcast? Again, cover.
• 1:33:06
  So cover. They have a couple of seasons on
• 1:33:09
  BBC Sounds and I think if you listen to it on BBC Sounds
• 1:33:12
  itself, so on the app, they're they're a week ahead on the
• 1:33:16
  episodes. So and it's free.
• 1:33:19
  It's not you don't need to pay for BBC Sounds, right?
• 1:33:23
  And you lucky guys in the UK don't get ads.
• 1:33:26
  US BBC listeners outside of the UK have to suffer through ads.
• 1:33:30
  It's not too bad, but you know. That's always a weird thing.
• 1:33:33
  We're in America. I bring up bring up BBC Sport
• 1:33:36
  when we're in America and there's adverts all over it,
• 1:33:38
  like what the hell? Yeah, it's like I downloaded a
• 1:33:41
  couple of podcasts and you know, in the hotel for the plane on
• 1:33:44
  the way home, you know, halfway through the normal podcast and
• 1:33:47
  listen to this big American ad. And I'm like what?
• 1:33:51
  I realize just when they download it in America, you get
• 1:33:54
  the region specific ads kind of because the ads are just
• 1:33:57
  automatically inserted by the companies that produce the
• 1:34:00
  podcasts or that are host podcasts.
• 1:34:03
  And like if we had a couple of thousand more listeners, we
• 1:34:06
  could get advertising on our show.
• 1:34:10
  Don't think it would be to be recommended.
• 1:34:13
  You need to be doing a lot of numbers to be making money off
• 1:34:16
  that kind of stuff, right. Anything else you have said you
• 1:34:20
  had a lot so. Yeah, I've just, I mean, some of
• 1:34:24
  them are pretty old, so people have possibly seen them.
• 1:34:27
  But I've recently finished watching Cyberpunk Edge runners
• 1:34:32
  on Netflix and it was really, really good.
• 1:34:34
  I think you're going to have to kind of like anime and cyberpunk
• 1:34:37
  to to appreciate it, but I really, really enjoyed it.
• 1:34:44
  Star Trek Lower Decks is currently into its new season.
• 1:34:49
  It's about eight of seven or eight of 10 episodes.
• 1:34:54
  I've sort of held off watching it to Trump because they're so
• 1:34:57
  easy to watch. You fly through themselves.
• 1:35:00
  But I can't help it. I did.
• 1:35:01
  I need to see it. And comfort television.
• 1:35:03
  First couple, yeah, yeah, first couple have been more of the
• 1:35:07
  same. Did you see?
• 1:35:08
  I can't remember which Star Trek show it was.
• 1:35:10
  I want, I want to say strange in Your Worlds, but it might not
• 1:35:12
  have been where the lower deck crew came through as real they.
• 1:35:15
  Did a crossover. They did a crossover.
• 1:35:17
  It was so cleverly done. I've never seen Lower Decks, but
• 1:35:20
  I knew what it was and it was so cleverly done that they came
• 1:35:23
  through as real people. Well, I'd tried to watch Lower
• 1:35:26
  Decks before I started watching Strange New Worlds, and I just
• 1:35:30
  wasn't keen. I couldn't get into it.
• 1:35:31
  But then I saw those episodes of Strange New Worlds with Lower
• 1:35:35
  Decks guys, I thought, I've got to give it another go.
• 1:35:38
  I've got to try again. And the I got into it that time
• 1:35:40
  and you know, me too, excellent. So I don't know.
• 1:35:43
  I might give that a go then. Worth a watch Monarch on Apple
• 1:35:46
  TV's worth a watch that's about Godzilla and you know that world
• 1:35:54
  of monsters Monarch being the company that are chasing
• 1:35:59
  Godzilla, trying to harness all the is there.
• 1:36:01
  Somebody quite famous in that. Yeah, there's the Russells.
• 1:36:05
  So Wyatt Russell and Kurt Russell are in it.
• 1:36:08
  Kurt Russell isn't going to be Yeah.
• 1:36:10
  Yeah, who is also in if you want another good Christmas film,
• 1:36:14
  Christmas Chronicles, which I watched.
• 1:36:15
  That's a great one. Yeah, that's.
• 1:36:18
  That's one of the ones that my wife tolerates.
• 1:36:20
  So yeah, that's that's going to be on our TV this weekend.
• 1:36:22
  Kurt Russell though an older one but worth a watch because
• 1:36:27
  there's a new series coming early next year is SAS Rogue
• 1:36:31
  Heroes. I don't know how people outside
• 1:36:33
  the UK watch it because it's on iPlayer.
• 1:36:36
  I do think you can get iPlayer outside the UK.
• 1:36:38
  Kindly no. It's BBC thing.
• 1:36:41
  No, no, but it might be sold like.
• 1:36:45
  On BBC America or the equivalent, whatever they do,
• 1:36:49
  but yeah, SAS, rogue heroes, it's kind of the is it a the?
• 1:36:52
  Fictional true story. OK, It's a drama, OK Yeah, yeah,
• 1:36:57
  yeah. It's not a documentary or
• 1:36:58
  whatever, no. But use it.
• 1:37:01
  It's using real, you know the actors are playing the real
• 1:37:04
  people. But gotcha.
• 1:37:05
  Yeah, it's based on the drama based on.
• 1:37:07
  The of it, yeah, of course. Got to make it for TV.
• 1:37:11
  Yeah, yeah. Anything else for you, Rich?
• 1:37:15
  Oh I was just going to say, started watching Star Wars
• 1:37:18
  skeleton crew on Disney OH. Yeah, I'm kind of, let's know,
• 1:37:21
  loving it. So OK, it's good.
• 1:37:24
  Great. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:37:26
  Got everything I like. It's the.
• 1:37:28
  Very. And space adventures, so.
• 1:37:30
  OK, I'm very skeptical on Star Wars.
• 1:37:33
  Now I need to get back into the zone.
• 1:37:37
  I didn't watch the the series before this one.
• 1:37:40
  I can't remember what it was called.
• 1:37:41
  The live action one. Polite.
• 1:37:43
  Yeah. Yeah, no.
• 1:37:44
  I still really know mixed reviews on that.
• 1:37:46
  So it's like and then they cancelled it.
• 1:37:47
  So it's just like. There was good things and bad
• 1:37:50
  things about it. I didn't hate it as much as a
• 1:37:53
  lot of people did, but I thought there's some really cool stuff
• 1:37:56
  in here. But it's a shame it got
• 1:37:58
  cancelled. I'd have liked to have seen
• 1:38:00
  where it went. I struggled with Andor as well.
• 1:38:03
  I know lots of people loved Andor, but I couldn't get
• 1:38:06
  through it. And or harder to watch.
• 1:38:08
  Yeah, go through it. I had a real love hate
• 1:38:10
  relationship with it and I got into a period of of watching
• 1:38:12
  quite a few in a row and then for some reason didn't watch the
• 1:38:15
  last ones. I got distracted and so long
• 1:38:16
  gone back to it. Yeah, that's when you know.
• 1:38:18
  And that that sums that sums up my thing with Andor I think.
• 1:38:22
  Yeah, I think if you if you don't automatically go back to
• 1:38:25
  it, then sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:38:28
  The first episode was like, what?
• 1:38:29
  Get on with it, you know? Yeah, Oh, the first two I think
• 1:38:32
  was just so slow. And then it peaked and then it
• 1:38:35
  frittered out and it was like that waste of a.
• 1:38:38
  Couple of series 2 is coming out next year, isn't it so?
• 1:38:41
  I'll give it a. They felt the need.
• 1:38:42
  Yeah, it. Was very popular.
• 1:38:46
  There's also next year an Aliens TV series coming out as well.
• 1:38:51
  Yes, so excited we look. Really good.
• 1:38:53
  Yeah, very excited about that. Be good, Yeah?
• 1:38:56
  Peaked and frittered out. Man, that sounds familiar.
• 1:39:02
  And Oh yeah, I watched. So because I watched, I've
• 1:39:07
  watched the, the The Beatles documentary on Disney so many
• 1:39:13
  times. The what's it called now again?
• 1:39:19
  Get back, get back The Beatles documentary.
• 1:39:21
  And there was a new one called Abbey Road, If these walls Could
• 1:39:25
  Sing. And it's basically a documentary
• 1:39:27
  about Abbey Road, the studio. So it's not just The Beatles.
• 1:39:29
  It's like a lot of different things, but The Beatles is a
• 1:39:31
  focus on it. Really enjoyed it thoroughly.
• 1:39:35
  Just cool if you like music and you're into that kind of stuff.
• 1:39:39
  It's just really well done. I think someone, it's one of
• 1:39:47
  the, I can't remember, there's a lady that works there now that
• 1:39:51
  kind of is seems to be she's Linda McCartney's daughter.
• 1:39:55
  So with Paul and Linda McCartney's daughter, she kind
• 1:39:57
  of runs it these days. And there was one thing I wanted
• 1:40:00
  to shout out. So Paul was out on the, you
• 1:40:02
  know, the famous Paul McCartney was there, and he must be 18 or
• 1:40:05
  whatever because it's pretty recently done, still in great
• 1:40:09
  shape. And he was out on the, you know,
• 1:40:11
  the zebra crossing where the famous picture is from.
• 1:40:14
  And he was kind of, you know, just talking about it and the ID
• 1:40:17
  he had with the photo. And, you know, that kind of it
• 1:40:19
  was just something they came up with off the cuff and they
• 1:40:21
  decided to do. And you know, it's still going
• 1:40:23
  now. And as he was kind of kind of he
• 1:40:25
  was halfway out in the road can talk, but this guy in a Prius
• 1:40:28
  just kind of zips around him and nearly runs him over.
• 1:40:31
  That's bloody Paul McCartney there.
• 1:40:33
  And you're there with your Prius and you're like running them off
• 1:40:36
  the road. Now, I know like, you know, you
• 1:40:38
  probably had somewhere to go, but come on, dude.
• 1:40:42
  So that that kind of jolted me out of my seat.
• 1:40:45
  It's like, yeah, I'm sure they wouldn't have shown it, you
• 1:40:47
  know, if it did happen. So you know who maybe died
• 1:40:51
  today? Jesus.
• 1:40:55
  I really, I really don't like The Beatles.
• 1:40:56
  If I'd realize it's probably would hit him bridge.
• 1:41:00
  Blasphemy, blasphemy. We'll have to move past that.
• 1:41:03
  And I'm watching Bad Sisters on Apple as well.
• 1:41:06
  It's not quite as good as the first series, but it's getting
• 1:41:10
  getting better. The first episode of Two was a
• 1:41:11
  struggle that was good still, but it wasn't as good.
• 1:41:15
  But it's it's starting to the madness is starting to return
• 1:41:19
  it. So that's on Apple TV and the
• 1:41:23
  last series of Outlanders on as well.
• 1:41:25
  Watching that with my wife. We've watched a whole lot of
• 1:41:27
  that. It's getting a bit.
• 1:41:28
  It needs to be over now. I think under it.
• 1:41:31
  I still like it, but you know they they separated again and
• 1:41:35
  everything always goes wrong when the two of them are not in
• 1:41:37
  the same place. Together, it's another one, it's
• 1:41:41
  another one. I couldn't get past the first
• 1:41:42
  few episodes. I just found it real hard work
• 1:41:45
  so. It's good, but I think it's
• 1:41:49
  more, I mean, it is quite a like, it's quite, it's popular
• 1:41:53
  with women really because it is a little bit of a romance story
• 1:41:57
  mostly, although there is a lot of, you know, fighting and
• 1:42:01
  battling and action as well. But I think the main thread of
• 1:42:04
  it is the love story between the two characters.
• 1:42:07
  So you have to be invested in that.
• 1:42:10
  And once you are, then that'll pull the rest of it long.
• 1:42:14
  But I do think they're probably getting out at the right time
• 1:42:16
  now, you know? But I'm interested to see how
• 1:42:18
  the ending is, you know, that'll be.
• 1:42:20
  How many series of that they done John I?
• 1:42:21
  Think this is 8. Eight, OK.
• 1:42:26
  About 14-13. Fourteen episodes.
• 1:42:29
  It's not the 20 odd episodes series.
• 1:42:30
  It's like usually. And some of that, like the
• 1:42:33
  second season in Paris is really, really good.
• 1:42:36
  Really enjoyed that. And the first one in America was
• 1:42:42
  very good as well. But yeah, I think they'd peaked
• 1:42:46
  kind of in the middle and starting to, but really, you
• 1:42:51
  know, really invested in the characters now.
• 1:42:52
  So just want to know what happens and, you know, and a
• 1:42:56
  beautiful Irish lady playing an English, posh English woman.
• 1:42:59
  So you know. There you go.
• 1:43:03
  They couldn't find an English actress.
• 1:43:05
  But she's great though. I mean, I understand why they
• 1:43:07
  they obviously they cast them based on the chemistry between
• 1:43:10
  the two main actors. Although I don't see how he
• 1:43:13
  could he, he had to be Scott, you know, that was for sure.
• 1:43:18
  I don't think they could have got a non Scottish person to
• 1:43:20
  play his role. But I think it's pretty easy to
• 1:43:23
  put on a generic English accent if you're from Ireland, you
• 1:43:26
  know, I think that's not too hard.
• 1:43:28
  She does very well. Yeah, right.
• 1:43:32
  I think that's all I have. So what do you you guys need to?
• 1:43:35
  Another series that Kerry and I watched recently is on Netflix
• 1:43:39
  called A Man on the Inside. Oh, that's so it's the pop out
• 1:43:42
  of my recommendations. Yeah, it's, it's a, it's a we
• 1:43:45
  should watch. It's just a really nice comedy.
• 1:43:48
  It starts to it's by the people that did and was it a nice place
• 1:43:53
  or something like that. The Good Place.
• 1:43:55
  Good place. Thank you.
• 1:43:56
  So same people. Yeah.
• 1:43:58
  So same people that did that. And it starts Ted Danson as a
• 1:44:00
  retired college professor whose wife passed away.
• 1:44:03
  It's just. The same role again for him
• 1:44:04
  isn't. It.
• 1:44:05
  Yeah, basically his wife passed away and he's just at a loss of
• 1:44:08
  stuff to do. And then he sees an advert for
• 1:44:10
  somebody to go undercover in an old people's home because some
• 1:44:14
  jewellery's been stolen. So he goes along to that and
• 1:44:16
  it's it's funny, it's heartwarming.
• 1:44:19
  It's just a really nice series. There's about, I don't know, 810
• 1:44:23
  episodes, like shortish. Yeah.
• 1:44:24
  It's just, it's just really nice.
• 1:44:26
  Yeah. And then Holly and I on Netflix
• 1:44:29
  watching and it's an older series and I don't normally
• 1:44:32
  watch anime stuff, but it's a One Punch Man.
• 1:44:35
  Oh that's a pretty fan. Which one hasn't watched?
• 1:44:37
  It. Yeah, Which is wrong because
• 1:44:38
  it's just. Yeah, it's a superhero that just
• 1:44:41
  with one punch just destroys any bad guys.
• 1:44:45
  Sure, Yeah. Which in itself is good.
• 1:44:46
  For the animators, you know. Yeah, but it's it's balanced out
• 1:44:50
  by the fact that he's he just doesn't care.
• 1:44:52
  He's just like me. Tell if he's just me.
• 1:44:54
  So if he was, if he was Manny and maniacal about after power,
• 1:44:58
  you'd easily get there. But he doesn't care so.
• 1:45:01
  Yeah, like these villains are threatening him and he's like
• 1:45:03
  Bam and like that's, you know, that's the end of it sort of
• 1:45:06
  thing. But he he's like got a couple of
• 1:45:09
  sidekicks and he just, they just got wound up because they're
• 1:45:11
  like, well, what did you do to get these?
• 1:45:12
  Because he's more powerful than anybody.
• 1:45:14
  What did you do to get all these amazing powers?
• 1:45:15
  And he's like, oh, I did like 100 press UPS every day and ran
• 1:45:18
  10 kilometres a day. And they were like, is that all?
• 1:45:21
  But it's turned him into this like insane superhero that gives
• 1:45:25
  take on it's it's very good. Rich becomes anime fan your
• 1:45:32
  legions anime next year art do the anime art.
• 1:45:38
  That's it. We'll start to see a change in
• 1:45:40
  his art style and it'll start to look more anime.
• 1:45:45
  Yes, I'm think I'm good then if I can swap swap some.
• 1:45:48
  People, you'll be getting copyright strikes in your art
• 1:45:52
  because it's too similar to anime that you've.
• 1:45:54
  Never seen I'll be getting a little a little stylus for the
• 1:45:59
  the the mouse pad and, you know, really going for it.
• 1:46:02
  No, that's when you're getting too.
• 1:46:03
  Good, because you're crazy. Are you going to graduate?
• 1:46:07
  To Microsoft Paint. Oh my God, when Microsoft Paint
• 1:46:12
  is an upgrade, that's that's when you know you're working.
• 1:46:18
  Cool. Any more recommendations?
• 1:46:20
  Mile to shout out no? That's my list, Yeah, I'm sure.
• 1:46:25
  There's a lot of I've got good stuff, but one more than it's on
• 1:46:27
  Paramount Plus, it's Tulsa King, OK, Sylvester Stallone, who's a
• 1:46:32
  Mafia captain. It's like proper high up mafia
• 1:46:35
  guy who gets out of jail after 2025 years in jail.
• 1:46:39
  And the Mafia family don't want anything to do with him.
• 1:46:42
  So they just send him off from New York to Tulsa.
• 1:46:47
  You know, there's middle of nowhere small city, Midwest
• 1:46:49
  City, you know, nothing going on there and he has to make do for
• 1:46:52
  him. So it's like a fish out of water
• 1:46:54
  sort of thing. But, you know, he's just
• 1:46:56
  scheming. You know, he gets involved in a
• 1:46:57
  cannabis shop, you know, because it's legal there sort of thing.
• 1:47:04
  And it's just really well done. Sylvester Sloan's very good in
• 1:47:06
  it. There's two series out at the
• 1:47:09
  moment. Yeah, I highly recommend that.
• 1:47:12
  Oh, I got one more actually, because we're watching it now,
• 1:47:14
  but I've I've only three episodes in.
• 1:47:15
  It's really good so far. So you know, if it if it goes
• 1:47:18
  down there after that, don't kill me.
• 1:47:20
  Black. Black doves on Netflix.
• 1:47:23
  Yeah, with Keira Knightley, who's beautiful lady and good
• 1:47:29
  actress and is that? Her Is it Sarah Lancashire?
• 1:47:32
  Yes, Sarah Lancashire. Yeah, and Ben, I've seen Wishaw,
• 1:47:36
  the guy who plays Q in the modern James Bond.
• 1:47:39
  Brilliant in this so far. Fantastic.
• 1:47:41
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so she's married to Keira
• 1:47:45
  Knightley, is married to the minister or the defence
• 1:47:47
  secretary in the state in the UK, so minister of Defence.
• 1:47:52
  And she has a secret double life as a as a kind of an agent, so.
• 1:47:58
  Yeah, kind. Of private, It's a private
• 1:48:01
  security firm or something like this.
• 1:48:03
  Yeah, probably sell the services to the highest bidder kind of
• 1:48:06
  firm. And and we also started to watch
• 1:48:09
  Slow Horses. I've heard good things about
• 1:48:13
  that. It's really good.
• 1:48:14
  It's a different type. It's with the, what's his name
• 1:48:18
  plays Sirius Black in Harry Potter.
• 1:48:22
  Oh. OK.
• 1:48:24
  Is it Gary Oldman? Gary.
• 1:48:25
  Oldman yeah, yeah, yeah, he's fantastic in it and yeah, he's
• 1:48:30
  kind of he runs the part of MI Five that they send everybody
• 1:48:35
  that's met a huge screw up. So the kind of bin and basically
• 1:48:42
  they get all the crap jobs to to kind of do and you know, it's
• 1:48:49
  basically he's basically trying to get them to quit.
• 1:48:52
  Is is seems to be what the the gig is there, but I'm sure a
• 1:48:56
  money episodes into that as well.
• 1:48:58
  That's on prime. Yeah, that's where I got it and
• 1:49:03
  it yes, it's really good. So for the 1st 10 minutes of it
• 1:49:07
  are amazing. Now it slows down a bit after
• 1:49:09
  that, but the first 10 minutes is really the intro to the show
• 1:49:13
  kind of they're kind of really, really high paced and really
• 1:49:16
  good. So definitely worth the watch, I
• 1:49:18
  think. Yeah.
• 1:49:20
  But what happened was we had a problem with the with with the
• 1:49:27
  streaming service that that was on.
• 1:49:28
  And then we ended up finding something else on Netflix, which
• 1:49:31
  was the Black Doves. That's why we're watching two
• 1:49:33
  things kind of simultaneously. But I think Black Doves only has
• 1:49:36
  a couple like six or seven episodes.
• 1:49:38
  So we watch that to the end and then we go back to Slow Horses
• 1:49:40
  because that has plenty of episodes, a couple of seasons.
• 1:49:43
  So yeah, anyway, all fun and games.
• 1:49:46
  So there's plenty of stuff for you to to get stuck into over
• 1:49:49
  the holidays if you've got some time off.
• 1:49:51
  So I think we leave it there, will we?
• 1:49:56
  Sounds good to. Me Next week we have the awards,
• 1:49:59
  your Allegiance awards. So top fives, 10s, yeah,
• 1:50:03
  fifteens, 20 fives from now. Prizes to give out, but can.
• 1:50:08
  I check are we doing, are we doing a black tie event this
• 1:50:10
  year as well just so I can dress appropriately.
• 1:50:13
  Do you have a black tie? But you know, I could find one.
• 1:50:20
  We we could eat and drink whilst we do the podcast.
• 1:50:23
  That'd be a new experience for this.
• 1:50:26
  Yeah, say quaff in Prosecco while we do it.
• 1:50:30
  I have, I have my kids, both my kids parent teacher meetings
• 1:50:34
  tomorrow which they insist on bringing the kids.
• 1:50:36
  We have to bring the kids to the parent teacher meeting.
• 1:50:38
  Never heard of such rubbish. The school is hopeless.
• 1:50:41
  So I was thinking of dressing up in a kind of full suit just for
• 1:50:45
  that, for the crack to make make them think I'm more important
• 1:50:49
  than I am. But yeah, my daughter is making
• 1:50:52
  them do it in English. I can, I can do it in
• 1:50:57
  Luxembourgish. But she's like, no, I want them
• 1:50:59
  to do. I want to do it in English
• 1:51:00
  because I prefer to do it in English.
• 1:51:02
  And I'm using you as an excuse. And I'm like, OK.
• 1:51:07
  And I want to make my teacher speak English.
• 1:51:13
  Gotta love her anyway. Better press the outro,
• 1:51:18
  otherwise there never get done. Stay safe out there everybody,
• 1:51:24
  don't dig up any demonic Santas. Good demon legs.