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journey. Hello,

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all you elegant listeners and viewers out

1:42

there, and welcome to Go, my favorite

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sports team. Your one-stop shop to learn

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about sports, find out about sports, hear

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are obscure and actually accurate about sports.

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We all know they all lead to

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Rome. I'm Tyler Schide, your master, your

1:58

teacher, the guy. with all the

2:01

balls and holes you can imagine joined

2:03

by my fellow host, Markiplier. I'm

2:05

in a bathtub! I really do want you to

2:07

turn on the water, like, if we record again

2:10

while you're in this place, I want you to,

2:12

like, be in a bubble bath in your clothes.

2:15

Uh, no, I'm not gonna do that.

2:17

This is for acoustic purposes only, and

2:19

the convenience of setting things up. I

2:21

could have put this anywhere. I decided

2:23

to put it here. Is anyone complaining

2:25

that you're taking over the bathroom for

2:27

all these recordings? No, no, this is

2:29

the other bathroom. It's the only tub, though. Well,

2:31

part of me thought that you're like, I'm taking the

2:33

break to work on this, and I was thinking, he's

2:35

taking a break because he has to poop. Yeah, I

2:37

wouldn't poop in my recording room. Who would do that,

2:40

Chica? How was that experience? That

2:42

sounded awful. It wasn't the room but bad,

2:44

but... No, I mean, it was fine. Amy

2:46

cleaned up most of it, um, except for

2:48

the fact that I haven't used it since,

2:50

I don't know why, I've been busy, but

2:52

also I haven't really been eager to. But

2:55

I found another spot of

2:57

poop that was missed on it that

2:59

I cleaned, and then I found

3:01

another spot of poop on my computer

3:04

monitor that I had somehow missed. It

3:06

was on the back. So

3:09

she pooped and then

3:11

must have wagged her tailors. I don't

3:13

know. Amy

3:16

cleaned up most of it, but

3:18

I'm dreading that I'm missing one

3:20

spot somewhere. Everywhere you look.

3:22

Yeah, I don't know. It's just like, it's not

3:24

a good conversation to start a podcast, but

3:27

don't worry everybody, that'll be the only

3:29

time we talk about that, right? Yeah,

3:31

100%. The only reason I

3:33

know about it is because I happened to listen to

3:35

a distractable episode, so... Anything

3:38

else? J'accuse! Oh!

3:41

J'accuse, yes. It's been, um,

3:43

a J'accuse by G. Natalee-y01

3:45

to me. I'm

3:48

gonna start this off with the J'accuse

3:50

to me. They say you have made

3:52

an enemy with all civil engineers. I

3:54

cannot even comprehend the statements made by

3:56

Mr. Mark I. Plier this week. Here I

3:58

am. studying for my

4:01

finals for my undergraduate civil engineering

4:03

courses and mark the face of

4:05

quitting engineering. The mascot, if you

4:07

will, has the audacity to claim

4:10

that civil engineering, and I quote,

4:12

has really not that many advancements

4:14

in buildings. This is the most

4:17

misleading and simply false statement I've

4:19

heard. I participate in a high-level

4:21

research group where we are creating

4:23

actual tested data on metamaterials, meaning

4:25

we can make buildings out of

4:27

material, made of lattice structures that

4:30

are just as strong, if not

4:32

stronger, than an infilled material. Topology

4:34

optimization is leading the world into

4:37

new, better, more awesome and cool structures.

4:39

Look at Dubai, not to mention. Look

4:41

at the roof over your head. That's

4:44

all us, baby. If you

4:46

didn't have our big juicy brains to make

4:48

and innovate stuff, you would be in a

4:51

building-less world with no roads, no bridges. Your

4:54

poop water would have nowhere to go. You wouldn't

4:56

have water delivered fresh to your tap. How would

4:58

you like that? Civil engineers are

5:00

the most important field of engineering in

5:02

the modern world and for the foreseeable

5:04

future and are a bad enemy to

5:06

make, Mr. I. Plier. I'm really sorry

5:08

to tell you this. I'm not apologizing

5:10

because I have nothing to apologize for.

5:12

Topology is not a field

5:15

of civil engineering. I'm

5:19

not trying to be the electrical

5:22

engineer who's like, oh, biomedical engineer, he's

5:25

just, you know, mostly electrical engineering.

5:27

It's not this. Topology

5:29

is a very important thing. I

5:31

never said civil engineering was not

5:33

important, but you got to admit,

5:36

there's not many innovations occurring in

5:38

the field of civil engineering. I

5:40

got to look up how long

5:42

it's been since roads have been

5:44

advanced. If anything, roads have

5:46

kind of suffered due to the

5:49

optimization not leading to longer-lasting

5:51

roads and like the maintenance

5:53

cycle. There's many things about

5:56

road maintenance and building in

5:58

materials. and contracts

6:01

towards the road

6:03

construction crews and stuff like that.

6:05

There's a lot of things for

6:08

that and I'm not saying that

6:10

material sciences aren't getting better but

6:12

you gotta admit it slowed a

6:15

bit compared to other fields of

6:17

engineering. I, who was going

6:19

to be a civil engineer and left

6:21

before I even started freshman year because

6:24

I was like, I really want to

6:26

build buildings. That seems boring. My

6:29

favorite thing about this is the fact that

6:31

I look up how long have we had

6:33

paved roads and it says about 4,000 B.C.

6:39

I'll tell you when we're only

6:41

now discovering, you know, why Roman

6:43

concrete was so strong. Do you

6:45

know, I don't know how true

6:47

this is but do you know why it took

6:49

so long to even recreate Roman concrete? Why? It

6:52

was because, and again, I don't know how

6:54

true this is but it would make total

6:56

sense. The recipe for Roman concrete was known

6:58

and we knew that there were certain types

7:00

of volcanic ashes and different sources that came

7:03

from that area that made the

7:05

chemical composition of it a little stronger

7:07

but apparently a lot of the time

7:09

and I'm gonna get as accused about

7:11

this, I know, I can already predict

7:13

it. A lot of times it would

7:15

crumble in contact with seawater, right? It

7:17

would start to degrade but the recipe

7:19

said the materials and water and we

7:21

in modern times assumed that meant fresh

7:23

water. You're supposed to make it with

7:25

seawater but

7:28

it was assumed that back then that

7:30

you would know if you're gonna probably

7:32

make large quantities or something or it

7:34

was known and it's like it's because this

7:36

is why historians have a tough time is

7:38

because things aren't always written out because people

7:40

assume it would be obvious. Yeah, common knowledge.

7:43

Yeah, common knowledge. They assumed it would be

7:45

common knowledge. I think in a Dutch dictionary

7:47

or something like that, the definition for horse

7:49

is everyone knows what a horse is. That

7:51

was in the dictionary back in the day.

7:55

But in this case, look, I'm not

7:57

saying innovation ain't happening but it ain't

7:59

happening for fast and there is

8:01

value in learning established knowledge. It's

8:03

okay to have had the right

8:05

answer for a long time and

8:07

hey, topology is a cool... not

8:10

cool but you know kind of cool.

8:14

No topology is actually a cool

8:16

field of study and I've

8:18

been looking into videos on spinors, a

8:21

funky cool concept that I'm not gonna

8:23

get into now because I'm not qualified

8:25

to even explain it but topology has

8:27

a lot to do with that and

8:29

also the fundamental understanding of the universe. Topology

8:31

comes into play in a lot of these

8:33

things. When

8:37

you build the space elevator then I

8:39

can say civil engineering is making strides

8:41

in innovations. I'll say it then. Like

8:48

from school because they were they were doing studying for

8:50

the finals they got expelled because they challenged you. Alright

8:52

next is jacuzz coffee life

8:54

support. I have a jacuzz

8:56

for the subreddit. Oh

8:58

hello elegant listeners slash viewers. I've been listening

9:01

plus watching since the start of GMFST as

9:03

someone who did sports all through school and

9:05

still loves playing casual sports in my adult

9:07

life and has been a great to listen

9:10

to. It brings up conversation in the community

9:12

about learning to do sports or learning more

9:14

about them. However I'm convinced too many of

9:16

you only half listen to the episodes. I

9:18

understand having a podcast in the background while

9:21

you do other stuff but if you're going

9:23

to jacuzz something please make it tangible. I

9:25

thought this aspect would be good to discuss

9:27

and debate sports with Tyler and Mark but 95 dare

9:29

I say 99% of jacuzzas just aren't interesting.

9:33

1% being the very few accurate

9:35

ones or just over the top for comedic value.

9:37

While listening I'm already pointing out the holes and

9:39

plainly wrong statements even before the guys begin to

9:42

address it. If you want to write good worthwhile

9:44

jacuzzas then listen back to the episode as

9:46

you're writing. Get your facts straight. Please make these

9:48

interesting. There's a team doing research for the episodes.

9:50

They even search things mid recordings. The episodes aren't

9:53

just improvised improved on the spot with whatever level

9:55

of knowledge Tyler has at the time. For me

9:57

that is true. I improvise based

10:00

on my current level of knowledge. At the time. Nah,

10:02

that's it. I say this with care as someone who

10:04

loves sports and wants to hear solid back and forth,

10:06

but the ones who are over the top, funny for

10:08

the sake of being funny, keep up the good work.

10:10

So if you're funny, keep being funny. If you accuse

10:12

me about stuff that I clearly have already answered and

10:15

proven that you're not accurate in what

10:17

you're saying, shut up. I disagree. If

10:19

you got something and you're wrong, post it.

10:21

Hell yeah. Lemme roast ya. Oh, roast it

10:23

so hard. What is this thing? I don't

10:25

know. For the bathtub. I'll rip you to

10:28

shreds. The civil engineer, you know, it's not

10:30

that you're wrong. It's more that I'm right.

10:32

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

10:34

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha It's

10:36

not you. I mean, it is you, but it's more

10:38

me. It's my thoughts

10:40

about you. It's like a breakup.

10:43

All right, enough of this. Time

10:45

to get down to the brass

10:47

tacks. By Leeboy Deesoy. Tyler, you

10:49

bastard. My father is alive. What

10:51

do you mean? I've held my

10:53

breath in the past on issues

10:56

like hockey, but today I break

10:58

my science. Oh, you're

11:00

breaking science. Oh my God,

11:02

call the reporters. For your

11:04

so-called primers, specifically the Muay Thai

11:06

primer, the primer I've yearned for since

11:08

the inception of this podcast, you stated

11:11

you wish to give the information for

11:13

us to get into the sport and

11:15

watch the sport, but no, you've conveniently

11:18

left out key details where we can

11:20

watch a fight. Where we

11:22

can watch, no, no, sorry, that's not it. Where

11:24

we can watch a fight, you got the chance

11:26

to go see one live, but where can I

11:29

go to see the same levels of competition? Oh

11:31

yeah, that is it. Where we can watch a

11:33

fight. You didn't even mention one championship or

11:35

any of the fighters who are prevalent in

11:38

the sport, like Super Lech or Rod Tang,

11:40

or even past superstars like Mati, Jedi, Bi-Tech

11:43

or Dragon Leg. I see, I disagree

11:45

with that because if you want to

11:48

get into it, it's really easy to

11:50

Google Muay Thai. So your answer is

11:52

just Google it. Pretty much. No, no,

11:54

no, no, no. This is a podcast

11:57

that is about stoking interest. I

11:59

think there's a... The point here because we need

12:01

to do whatever possible to get people

12:03

out there interested and it like gold

12:05

there and guide them towards these things

12:07

because the like. There's always this inhibition

12:09

for people to take action. We should

12:11

do with people all the tools they

12:13

need to take action if they wanted.

12:15

So tell them about where it can

12:17

be watched, where you give examples of

12:19

good things to watch. That's why the

12:21

things I think we did for wrestling

12:23

even though they're very angry is we

12:25

talk about Wrestlemania and Cliffs on You

12:27

Tube. I think we talked about that.

12:30

We job examples of things maybe biggest started

12:32

with be getting started is is very important

12:34

thing to talk about when we're talking about

12:36

the sports. I think that that could fall

12:38

in our responsibility. I mean my thing was

12:40

always about opening the door for them to

12:42

the tweet and first to then potentially further

12:44

venture into it on their own. but I

12:46

if if I need to hold their hand

12:48

a little bit more I'll I'll try to

12:50

do that. You know I've only got two

12:52

hands were maybe I can grow some of

12:54

your i ambidextrous know and next and. Will

12:57

start mixing them up I help people.

12:59

Okay okay well if you want to

13:01

I see moink hi. There. Are tons

13:04

of different areas you can do so. I

13:06

happen to go to Thailand which is the

13:08

first time I was able to watch it

13:10

on. It's very prevalent in Thailand so that's

13:12

one way you can go and find. ah

13:14

a way to watch it live. as far

13:16

as like movies hi I'm then. There's.

13:18

One happening on April twenty second

13:21

here in Anaheim, California. Either some

13:23

work out self defense workshops apparently

13:25

Wednesday this is all California stuff.

13:27

Ah but I k ask my

13:29

movie tie P B S C

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Point Boxing Spine Circuit There's a

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and moink Hi Academy that has

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a blog Us Open with High

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Championships take place in Scottsdale, Arizona

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on May ninth and Twelve. There

13:45

you go. There you have it

13:47

everybody. I have one last. To

13:49

Keys if you want? Yeah, I'm

13:51

ready. The Royal Pineapple Forty Eight

13:53

Me: you hypocritical even. You do

13:56

nothing but preach about lenses all

13:58

day, all night sitting in bed,

14:00

rambling non sent to the point

14:02

where you gone mad by for

14:05

two weeks or undetectable. Go! My

14:07

favorite sports team. Your video quality

14:09

was garbage. We're to artifact thing

14:11

like the inner leasing on analog

14:13

Tv. and it's not just me

14:16

as Mr. Underscore twelve with absolutely

14:18

spot. Quite frankly, if you're willing

14:20

to throw away your life and

14:22

sanity for causes, use it. At

14:25

least stick by it. And don't

14:27

even get me started on the

14:29

lighting. In a recent youtube videos

14:31

if you're going to have a face

14:33

can you should be able to receive

14:35

a face in Boston Marathon primer. it

14:37

seemed back to normal but if you

14:40

ever spread rumors about your greatness like

14:42

that against way of up to of

14:44

am Pst luck use is meant to

14:46

be a portmanteau of lenses and accused.

14:48

Also it's kind of Italian with said

14:50

look cues on the top of that.

14:52

Ah. Now okay, are you

14:54

trying to insinuate with your microscopic

14:56

knowledge of lenses that somehow my

14:59

choice of lenses affected the video

15:01

quality in your penis size? Marine

15:03

that can't take in two words

15:05

strung together in a single sentence:

15:08

Are you telling me that your

15:10

to neurons couldn't do a game?

15:12

A badminton to understand that the

15:14

lens had nothing to do with

15:16

the video quality the you were

15:19

receiving or was recorded send. You

15:21

couldn't deduce that the very internet.

15:23

And it may not have been your

15:25

internet board. It was minor. s has

15:27

nothing to do with oil is at

15:30

all unless you're talking about the fiber

15:32

optic cables and then you kind of.

15:34

It's actually a lens is affecting the

15:36

light waves but is nothing on my

15:38

and I'll have you know the the

15:40

lens that I am looking into right

15:42

now is the same lens I add

15:45

before I even got into lenses attached

15:47

to the same camera as I hear

15:49

them say before you even got into

15:51

the tub. That to that also

15:53

is true You think I would use

15:55

those lenses on this camera know does

15:57

have a those lenses don't have auto.

16:00

August yet and also the lighting and minors

16:02

and be as looks fantastic because I have

16:04

a really good understanding of how to craft

16:06

a light and also I was lazy and

16:09

didn't feel like doing a lot of. Sarajevo

16:13

light on his prefer to scout

16:15

sunlight which is nice so socket

16:17

The only thing that isn't like

16:19

a nice about your current sunlight

16:21

thing is it varies but that

16:23

also creates a dynamic environment that

16:25

makes it interesting. As. On Life is

16:27

variety. The stillness of indoor life that's

16:29

fucking destroy people. You need positive stressors

16:31

in your life so you can work

16:33

out those two brains well. We already

16:35

covered current events in the other episode

16:37

we recorded on this exact same day

16:39

as we're in the same clothing and

16:42

your and still in the tub So

16:44

ah an oral have any more to

16:46

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that experts say threatens the integrity

17:14

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17:16

players breaking league rules and placing

17:18

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17:20

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17:22

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17:24

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17:26

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17:28

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17:30

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17:32

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17:34

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17:42

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17:44

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17:46

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17:48

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17:50

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17:52

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17:55

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17:57

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interesting because I found out recently in

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the news that there was a and

18:36

see double a wrestler wrestling for the

18:38

national championship or champions i think with

18:40

the Big Ten Championship who was ah,

18:43

offered a bribe to throw the match.

18:45

Usually when that happens, there's gambling involved

18:47

in it, which is why I talked

18:50

about how bad sports gambling is as

18:52

a whole to the integrity of sports.

18:54

Because these things do happen when there's

18:56

an opportunity for somebody to guarantee a

18:59

victory, and when a significant. Amount of

19:01

money and he was offered I think

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with like three hundred thousand dollars. Pay.

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21:05

that we've covered the current event news, it's time

21:07

for us to jump back in time

21:09

to the days where we played

21:12

billiards. We played pool? Yeah,

21:14

we did. We played it in basements.

21:16

We played it, what was that, late high

21:18

school, a little bit in college when we

21:20

went to that bar that was very famous

21:23

for Wade's dating life when he decided to

21:25

date again? Oh yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, I

21:27

remember. What was it, Village Tavern? Village Tavern,

21:29

yeah. They had a pool table? Oh, up

21:31

in that, the upper area, that's right. Yeah,

21:34

that was when the penis

21:36

fly trap officially got its

21:38

namesake. What? Do you not

21:40

know this story? What? All right, let

21:42

me explain this because I

21:44

wasn't there, but apparently you

21:47

were. I was? But

21:49

the namesake didn't come until after. Apparently

21:52

you guys were there catching up. I think Jesse was

21:54

there. It was either with you or with Jesse, but

21:56

every time Wade went out and he would say he's

21:58

on the prowl, he'd go and- just sit in

22:00

a corner and watch like SportsCenter or something. Who's

22:03

on the prowl? What's on your prowl? The prowl?

22:05

I'm going on the prowl. That's what he'd say.

22:07

This is Wade, all right? Is that what he

22:09

would say? God, I must have blanked all this

22:12

out. I have no idea what you're talking about,

22:14

but all right, go ahead. But every time he

22:16

would say that, he'd just go and sit in

22:18

like, he'd go, he'd walk for like a second

22:21

and then he'd be like, ooh, sports, and watch

22:23

SportsCenter. So he'd sit on a stool and watch

22:25

the TV and somehow a girl would approach and

22:27

talk to him. So Wade

22:29

has created his technique as the penis fly

22:31

trap where he literally sits there and watches

22:33

TV and somebody approaches him. You'll have to

22:35

ask Wade about it in the next track.

22:39

Number one, I don't think that

22:41

ever worked. Number two, did that

22:43

happen? That happened multiple times.

22:45

Did it happen once? And then he

22:47

was like, it's my special move. Oh,

22:50

no, it happened multiple times.

22:53

What's multiple too? In all convenience sake

22:55

for Wade, I was never there to

22:58

acknowledge that it happened. But I heard

23:00

from him and from Jesse

23:02

that it happened. Both

23:05

when they'd go up to Miami, both at

23:07

the village tavern. Well, I never went up

23:09

to Miami with them. That's for sure. I

23:12

would only go to the village tavern. I mean,

23:14

in total, I've only been there maybe like 10,

23:16

12 times. Well,

23:18

the other time it happened was at

23:21

your favorite wing place that's no longer

23:23

in Milford. There's no why at whatever

23:25

it's called. Putters? Putters, yeah, it happened

23:27

at Putters. When? I would have been

23:30

there. When? Who

23:32

was he getting it picking up at Putters

23:34

when he's on the prowl? Was he on

23:36

the prowl at Putters? Was that man prowling

23:38

at Putters? But it was the model girlfriend,

23:40

the international supermodel, whatever, from Drunk

23:43

Minecraft that you guys were like, that's not

23:45

real. Yes, I remember. I remember that. That

23:47

was not at Putters. That happened at Putters.

23:49

That was not at Putters. That was at

23:51

Putters. Was it at Putters? When? I verified

23:53

it being at Putters because I went to

23:55

the... What kind of international model convention was

23:58

running through Putters in Milford? Oh

24:00

no! This doesn't add up. I think this is why I

24:02

was making fun of it in the first place, because none

24:04

of that story ever added up. I've been

24:06

saying this for a long time. Wade's been

24:09

lying about a lot of things. Number one,

24:11

his age, he is 10 years older than

24:13

he says he is, because he knows knowledge

24:15

beyond our time, beyond our time! He makes

24:18

references to shows that we did not grow

24:20

up with, that you would have to be

24:22

10 years older to even grow up with.

24:24

He talks about it with his childhood. I

24:27

think that man is some

24:29

eldritch being. Even

24:32

he doesn't know his origin, but he's starting

24:34

to wake. And you can't let the eldritch

24:36

horrors wake up from their dreams or else

24:38

all will collapse. You know, that would explain

24:40

why you can eat the way that he

24:42

does and has better health than either of

24:44

us. Exactly. How does that happen? How does

24:46

that occur? How does that- how does that

24:48

occur? He is a vacuum of meat. Sucking

24:50

meat in all day long, all day out.

24:53

He never stops. That man has put away

24:55

more food than I ha- than like 10

24:57

of me's. Does that mean he

24:59

is the one mythical being that could

25:01

beat 10 markipliers? No. In

25:03

an eating contest, maybe. In a fight? Nah,

25:05

nah, nah, nah. I go for his knees.

25:07

He might blind you with his shine off

25:10

his head, you never know. I'll close my

25:12

eyes. The best method to prevent yourself from

25:14

being unable to see is

25:16

to choose it yourself. But anyway,

25:19

we're talking about billiards. I don't know how we had

25:21

on this tangent, but we got there. There

25:23

was a pool table at Village Tavern. That was

25:25

how it all got there. And at Putters. Are

25:27

you confusing the two? Because I don't remember a

25:29

billiards table at Village Tavern, but I know Putters

25:32

had two in the back. Village Tavern had it

25:34

upstairs. I- because I remember the upstairs area we

25:36

spent a lot of time up there. I don't

25:38

remember a pool table being up there. There was-

25:40

there was definitely a pool table. It's still there.

25:42

Because I feel like it was more room up

25:44

there for hanging out and

25:46

if it wasn't a big area,

25:49

so if a pool table was

25:51

up there, I'm looking it up.

25:53

Oh, no, the pool tables were down. No,

25:56

they're up. I'm looking at a picture

25:58

and they're down, but that used to be- There

26:00

was like a mini little dance floor there. Did

26:02

they rearrange it again? No, I'm

26:04

looking at the upstairs There's no there's no

26:06

billiards upstairs because it's a small area look

26:08

I got a 360 view with that upstairs

26:10

area There's a brick son of a bitch

26:13

in the middle of it and there's like

26:15

a there's a shuffleboard table There ain't no

26:17

pool table up there and there couldn't because

26:19

look at that brick column there I'm looking

26:21

it up and I can't find it and

26:23

mind you I'm looking at a 360 view

26:25

of that that area and there is A

26:27

pool table that's in the back of the

26:30

area up there But I'm thinking sometimes they

26:32

might have taken it out to

26:34

clear more space for people to

26:37

Boogie down. I'm thinking that

26:39

your entire No

26:44

It was up there I think because I

26:46

went there when they'd have live music which

26:48

means they might have moved it up there

26:50

for the dance floor and Then moved it

26:52

down at different times How are they gonna

26:55

conveniently move an entire billiard's table up this

26:57

tiny staircase? They fold it up into the

26:59

mythical interdimensional space that is Wade's stomach

27:01

I'm gonna share my screen because you're

27:03

suggesting that I hear this is for

27:06

everyone who's watching Please don't look at

27:08

this if you're driving I'm gonna walk

27:10

you through the space of the mythical

27:13

village tavern What Tyler is positing is

27:15

that there was a billiard's table up

27:17

in this upstairs area, right? I'm about

27:20

to turn In it in

27:22

it in it in it in it in it in it There's

27:24

a brick the pool table is like

27:26

white where this camera was standing. What

27:28

do you mean? It's right where the

27:30

camera's standing There's barely any room for anything. You

27:32

wouldn't be able to walk around if there's a pool

27:35

table here the darts that didn't used to be

27:37

there They rearranged it. It would be from table

27:39

to table. It would be there would be no

27:41

room to aim They would not be here. It

27:43

was there it was out there

27:45

There was one down here way

27:47

in the back that used to

27:49

be up there There's no way it wouldn't

27:51

fit up the stairs. What are they gonna do

27:53

pass it up here over the bar? They

27:56

take it out the back door and then through the

27:58

ceiling. No What are

28:00

they gonna do around the back door to be able to do that? I

28:02

don't even know if that connects! There's no way that

28:04

they brought that upstairs for that. I'm going outside.

28:06

I'm going in the back door. Look at this.

28:08

There's the outdoor bar here. And yeah, it connects

28:10

up there. But it's a tiny little- look at

28:12

that! Look at it! It's fenced! You can lift

28:15

it over the railing! They lift it over the

28:17

railing and then they what, break the window every

28:19

time to get it through? It's not fitting through

28:21

that door! It was in there. I swear it

28:23

was in there. It

28:25

was not. It was not. There was

28:27

not. I think you're confusing reality because

28:29

our memories play tricks on us. Here's

28:32

the thing. I don't even remember the second bar

28:34

existing, but it's here. I remember

28:36

it existing. Blow me and find

28:38

out. What? That's

28:46

uh, yeah, you can't argue with that, that's

28:48

uh... Can't

28:50

argue with that. This is obviously pre-2020

28:52

because they're not gonna let multiple people

28:54

blow on the same thing. Well, they

28:57

probably had little straws to do this.

28:59

This is from six years ago. So

29:01

yeah, it would be 2018. Let's

29:03

just go back to a

29:06

GMFST meetup at Village Tavern and

29:08

it'll be great! Anyway, billiards. Billiards.

29:11

We've established- I don't think we need to go

29:13

over the dimension part of it because I think

29:16

we've covered the dimensions in pretty apt description at

29:18

this point. Correct, but we're not talking about traditional

29:20

billiards. We're talking about snooker. Imagine

29:23

a table like a billiards, but

29:25

wider, bigger, where mix of

29:27

mathematics, physics, geometry, hand-eye coordination

29:29

all come into play. This

29:31

chess-like strategy where you need

29:34

to think many moves ahead

29:36

and precision in aiming and

29:38

power is key. Angles, speed,

29:40

momentum, all must be considered

29:43

on each of your shots. Why are you talking

29:45

like an old wizard casting a curse? Ehh,

29:48

speed is yummy. Well, that's what this

29:50

sport calls for. It's called snooker. Do

29:53

you know what snooker is? I mean,

29:55

I do now. Or I will now.

29:57

But you've seen the oversized, like-

30:00

Red balls, lots of red balls. And

30:02

the people with the butlers with gloves

30:04

all around the table, it looks very

30:06

posh. But it's a cue sport played

30:08

on an oversized billiards table with 22

30:10

balls. A

30:13

what sport? Cue, like a pool cue.

30:17

Oh, a stick. You're talking about a stick.

30:19

Stick and balls, it's a stick and balls

30:21

sport. Has a reputation for being a sport

30:23

for the rich, which is what you just

30:25

explained, they're all like, fancy leek-led. Very posh,

30:27

very posh, yeah, very posh. Since around 90%

30:30

of professional snooker players make very little

30:33

money, somewhere around 20,000 pounds. So

30:36

you need a way to support yourself unless

30:38

you're one of the very top players. Even

30:40

if you're playing in pro match. One

30:43

of the top players, Ali Carter,

30:45

told BBC's Framed Podcast, It's been

30:47

really tough. Maybe 90% of

30:50

players on the tour have got no money. They're

30:52

earning nothing. 20 grand a year,

30:54

30 grand a year. After expenses, maybe less

30:56

than that. You could go and get a

30:59

job stacking a shelf in a supermarket. No

31:02

disrespect to anybody who does that. But these

31:04

boys have put their life into playing snooker

31:06

from a very young age. So it just

31:08

seems a little bit unfair to me. That's

31:10

all. Despite this, snooker has been

31:13

gaining popularity in recent years, particularly

31:15

in Asia. And there's an estimated

31:17

200 million snooker players in over

31:19

a hundred countries. The World Snooker

31:21

Championship, which is happening right now,

31:24

is watched by over 500

31:26

million people across the globe.

31:29

500 million? 500 million. Doubt.

31:33

I'm pressing X to doubt. You telling me

31:36

more people watch snooker

31:38

than bad mitten? Come

31:41

on. Come on. I'm merely reading

31:43

what the researchers telling me. I

31:45

don't even know if 10 million

31:47

people watch it. 500,

31:50

this is like inflated numbers where people

31:52

count all their social media accounts and

31:54

they're like, I've got 150 million followers.

32:00

the same people. Maybe they're looking at all

32:02

the TikTok views of all the clips too

32:04

of everyone playing Snooker, you know? Yeah, definitely

32:06

that, yeah. You know, while we can test

32:09

that, what we can't contest is history, because

32:11

it's written by the winner, so it has

32:13

to be right. Okay, yes, absolutely. Act

32:16

1, history of Snooker. It is

32:18

generally believed that the game

32:20

of Snooker originated... He

32:24

said perfect English there? You just need

32:26

to be aware that something went wrong

32:29

in your synapses. It's believed

32:31

that the game of Snooker originated

32:33

in the British Army garrisons of

32:35

India as a combination

32:37

of the various billiard games, mostly English

32:39

billiards, which were a popular pastime in

32:41

the late 1800s and early 1900s. I'm

32:46

crying. I

32:48

don't know why. No one

32:50

makes Tyler laugh like Tyler does.

32:52

What are you laughing at?

32:55

What are you laughing at? What

32:57

are you laughing at? We've got

32:59

a podcast to do. Get it

33:01

together. The most popular theory to Snooker's origin

33:04

is that... Colonel...

33:06

This better be the funniest shit I've ever

33:08

heard in my life. You've been reading this.

33:10

I'm so ready. I want to laugh. Kill

33:12

me. All right. The

33:15

most popular theory to Snooker's

33:17

origin is that Colonel C.

33:19

Neville Chamberlain of the Devonshire

33:21

Regiment claims to have named

33:23

Snooker, once being a derogatory

33:25

term for a first-year candidate

33:27

of the Royal Military Academy

33:29

in Woolwich in England. This

33:32

guy claims to have named it 1875. I

33:40

think in the last 10 sentences you had like a

33:42

40% pronunciation success rating. It

33:47

was... That was a train wreck. What

33:49

happened? Send it to me. I'll read

33:51

it. And If I have just as much trouble, then I'll

33:53

understand where you're coming from. What did you just read? Because

33:56

I didn't get any of it. I was gonna copy... Bennett

34:01

Coffee told translate the Tyler is

34:03

I'm they're the most popular theory.

34:05

The smokers origin is that Colonel

34:07

Sir Neville Chamberlain you said see

34:09

novel uses, see Carnival or something

34:12

like that, I could not understand

34:14

why. Name you pulled out a

34:16

somewhere just certain level Sir As

34:18

a knighted Neville Chamberlain of the

34:21

Devin Shire regimen claims to have

34:23

named snooker snooker ones being a

34:25

derogatory term for the first year

34:27

cadet of the Royal Military Academy

34:29

of Woolwich I didn't know what

34:32

you're talking about. Royal Military Academy

34:34

of Wool which which is a

34:36

city in England and Eighty Seventy

34:38

Five and this earlier version fewer

34:40

Bolivar use. They were positioned on

34:43

different spots, had different values in

34:45

the scoring sequence, and Ruth would

34:47

be unrecognizable to a follower of

34:49

today's game. So in essence it

34:52

was a completely different game. There's

34:54

no relation at all since this

34:56

is all made up bullshit. Who

34:58

made the team discrete? The modern

35:00

version of the game is a mystery,

35:03

but the modern rules for the most

35:05

part where used by Nineteen Hundred. It's

35:07

like the the rules evolved through a

35:10

series of individuals in the Army Officers

35:12

Mess or the English Gentleman's Club or

35:14

And Who Talk A Moon. Oh

35:17

boy his know who are going

35:19

to look it up. it's going

35:21

to be John Smith and your

35:23

few pronouncing it who talk on

35:25

moon Food Taco Moon Hills also

35:27

known as Booty India Ah added

35:29

more bosses again I'm sending you

35:31

this worse. Ron Johnson that's what

35:33

he just sent me. That as

35:35

I have like know it is

35:37

it's I don't auburn as that

35:39

O T Ac am you nd

35:41

the possible origins of snooker or

35:43

recounted in a letter published in

35:45

the Billiard. player magazine

35:47

in april of nineteen thirty

35:50

nine investigation was established soon

35:52

far from snooker having originated

35:55

at the said the game

35:57

was invented and zuber broad

36:00

In the year 1875, Vokonos Sir Neville

36:02

Chamberlain, who is fortunately still

36:04

with us and whose memory

36:07

is perfectly clear on the

36:09

subject, it befell during the

36:11

reigns that Sir Neville, then

36:13

a young subaltern in the

36:16

Devonshire Regiment, anxious to vary

36:18

the game of Blackpool, which

36:20

was played every long, wet

36:22

afternoon on the mess billiard

36:25

table, suggested putting down another

36:27

colored fall, which others of

36:29

different values were gradually added.

36:31

One day, a subaltern of the

36:34

field battery at Juba Poor was

36:36

being entertained by Devons, and in

36:38

the course of conversation, young Chamberlain

36:41

about the subgroup get

36:43

snooker for first year cadet at

36:45

Woolwich, quote Sir Neville's own words,

36:47

the term was a new one

36:50

to me. But

36:52

I soon had the opportunity of exploiting it when one

36:54

of us party failed to hold a colored ball

37:05

which was close to a corner pocket.

37:09

I called out to him, why you are

37:11

a real snooker. I

37:16

had to explain to the company

37:18

the definition of the word and

37:20

to soothe the feelings of the

37:23

corporate. I had it that they

37:25

were all, so to speak, snookers

37:27

at the game, so it would

37:29

be very appropriate to call the

37:31

name Snooker. The suggestion was adopted

37:33

with enthusiasm, and

37:36

the game has been called Snooker

37:38

ever since. If you had

37:40

to explain

37:42

what accent you're doing, could

37:44

you just enlighten the listeners

37:47

at home? That is the

37:50

accent of Chamberlain is Conos

37:52

of Devonshaw. What?

37:56

Chamberlain S. Conos of

37:59

Devonshaw? Lieutenant.

38:02

Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain. You couldn't

38:05

have said that because you didn't.

38:07

Chamberlain as com that's that accent

38:09

of kernels of Devon sire. Ah,

38:11

as we're at word. devin. Nunes

38:16

don't share those Ireland as

38:18

allegorize sub dialects of doesn't

38:20

factor. is this the the

38:23

old accent the you know

38:25

that before developed into something

38:27

new? Ah yeah the old

38:29

of ill eighteen seventy five

38:31

yeah. language. Evolves very quickly. I'm and

38:33

on of you understand that and he still

38:35

with us Today He still with us today.

38:38

That would said that's very scary. That man

38:40

is over a hundred and forty fifty years

38:42

old. Actually is closer hundred fifty. In all

38:45

fairness this was in nineteen thirty nine when

38:47

this article came out. So worth of war

38:49

of there was a war that was happening.

38:51

This and they tried. This was a feel

38:54

good piece. They're trying to distract people are

38:56

at those rich bastards way. When the. Does.

38:59

It meant Interviews. Are

39:02

occurring. It started September first. Well,

39:04

maybe it was before the war.

39:06

Happen sooner any for not playing

39:08

snooker or it. While the first

39:10

Professional snooker Championship without at Cam

39:12

Can, all Birmingham in nineteen, twenty

39:15

seven, the tournament was won by

39:17

Joe Davis Twenty Two Eleven against

39:19

Tom Dennis turn a first prize

39:21

of six pounds and ten shillings.

39:23

That's not very much. The tournament

39:25

has taken place almost every year

39:27

since then, except for during World

39:29

War Two. And for a few years

39:31

in the late fifties, early sixties, Or

39:34

this year's tournament is that the

39:36

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two. It's time

41:09

to play snooker. Yeah, I have

41:11

no idea how to play in all that we've talked

41:13

about. All I know is kind of like billiards. So

41:15

snooker is played with 22 balls, one

41:18

white cue ball, 15 red balls, one

41:21

yellow, one green, one brown,

41:24

one blue, one pink,

41:26

and one black. The cue.

41:29

Whoa, I don't know what happened to

41:31

my voice there. Snooker cues are normally

41:33

made from wood. Players choose the best

41:36

cue for themselves based on length, weight,

41:38

cue tip type, diameter, et cetera. There's

41:40

significant variation, however the snooker cue must

41:42

be at least three feet in length.

41:45

The snooker table. Regulation is

41:47

12 feet by six feet, with

41:49

six pockets, one at each

41:51

corner, and one in the middle of

41:53

each long side. Table usually has a

41:55

slate base covered in green bays, which

41:57

is the felt. line

42:00

is drawn across the width of the table 29

42:03

inches from the cushion at one

42:05

end. These two ladder items are

42:07

respectfully designated as the bulk cushion

42:09

and the bulk end. A semicircular

42:12

radius of 11 and

42:14

a half inches, also called the D,

42:16

is drawn behind the line with its

42:18

center point on the midpoint of that

42:21

line. So the cushion is

42:23

at the other end of the table is

42:25

known as the top cushion. That's what it

42:27

looks like. What in the hell? That's the

42:29

line with the D, the bulk line, bulk

42:32

cushion. So we get, imagine everyone at home,

42:34

you got a standard pool table that I

42:36

think most of us know. And actually it's

42:38

probably like one of the earliest introductions for

42:40

a lot of people to games and sports

42:42

in general. A lot of people have seen

42:44

it or had one. But then there's three

42:46

balls, like Tyler said, green, mauve,

42:49

and yellow. It looks mauve to me.

42:51

I think that's brown. That's supposed to

42:53

be brown. Mauve, mauve, brown. But also

42:55

this pool table is bigger, Mark, it's

42:57

much wider. Guys, they don't need to

42:59

be bogged down with that. It's a

43:01

little, it's bigger. But imagine pool table.

43:03

Green, brown, yellow, along the 29 inches

43:05

from the left side of it. We're

43:07

looking at it from the top, okay,

43:09

top down in a line that is

43:11

parallel to the short left side of

43:13

it. In line with the brown, the

43:15

center line, the center and subdividing it,

43:17

you got a brown is that's the

43:19

center line going lengthwise. So in that

43:21

parallel line in the middle of it,

43:23

you got a brown one, green above

43:25

it, yellow below it, blue, center of

43:27

the whole pool table, in line with

43:29

the brown, which again, center, but in the

43:31

middle of the table. Then you got that

43:34

triangle that you typically see on a pool

43:36

table made up of all reds, all reds.

43:38

It's over towards the right side where you

43:40

might expect it, but kind of a little

43:42

more towards the wall there. In

43:44

front of the triangle that's pointing towards the blue

43:46

at the middle, which is in the middle and

43:48

to the left of it is the brown. And

43:50

remember, above the brown is green and below it

43:52

is yellow, but go back to the brown. Now

43:54

go right to the blue. Now go right, there's

43:56

a pink in front of the

43:59

red triangle. of 15 balls,

44:02

which is the normal

44:04

amount of balls in

44:06

a pool break. Bonus!

44:08

Blackball to the right

44:11

of the triangle. If you're looking at it from

44:13

how you would shoot this at a normal pool

44:15

where you're approaching it from the short side, looking

44:17

towards the other side where the triangle is, you

44:20

would see the the brown, the blue,

44:22

the pink, the red triangle, and then

44:24

behind it hiding blackball. I hope that

44:26

painted a mental picture. Snooker has a

44:28

lot of rules and fouls, but the

44:30

most basic ones are this. Players take

44:33

it in turns to break with a

44:35

coin toss who decides who starts the

44:37

first frame. The break is made with

44:39

the cue ball in the D and

44:41

a red must be struck. That D

44:43

arc that's to the left of the

44:45

brown ball, the cue ball has to

44:48

start inside that zone. Says it have

44:50

to go around one of those green,

44:52

brown, or yellow balls. You have to

44:54

not hit them. Correct, because you have

44:56

to hit a red first. Okay, that's

44:58

tricky because the green, brown, and

45:00

yellow are there, but also the blue is in

45:02

the middle and also the pink is in front

45:05

of it. And you can't hit any of those?

45:07

No, it must strike a red first. Alright, understood.

45:09

If both players agree a frame

45:11

can be started, if both players agree

45:14

a frame can be restarted. So

45:16

if there's like a stalemate like there's not

45:18

an available shot or something like that, they

45:20

can restart. A push shot, which is a

45:22

foul, is when the tip of the cue

45:24

remains in contact with the cue ball as

45:26

it in turn touches a target ball. So

45:28

your cue cannot be touching the white ball

45:30

when it makes contact with another ball. And

45:33

the cue must only be played with one

45:35

clean strike. So this is very much like

45:37

pool. Correct. The referee may call a miss

45:39

if the player does not strike the correct

45:42

ball and is judged to not have made

45:44

a serious attempt to. So if they were

45:46

like, they aimed for something and didn't seem

45:48

like they seriously made an attempt to hit

45:51

anything. So you can't purposely miss to set

45:53

the ball into a more difficult position. The

45:55

other players awarded a foul and has the

45:57

option to make the player replay the shot.

46:00

All balls have to be stationary before a

46:02

shot is taken. The ball cue must hit

46:04

the nominated ball first, or if it is

46:06

a red, any red. Failure to

46:08

do so is a foul, as is

46:10

not hitting any ball or potting a

46:12

non-nominated ball. If the player touches

46:14

any ball with any part of their body or any ball

46:16

other than the white with their cue, it's a foul. Hitting

46:19

a ball off the table is a foul. Reds

46:21

are not replaced, but all other colors will

46:23

be responded. So the idea is you're trying

46:25

to clear the table, Mark. How do you

46:27

nominate a ball? That's a good question. I

46:29

don't have an answer for it right now. If

46:32

the spot on which a color would usually be

46:34

replaced is covered by another ball, the color is

46:36

placed on the next highest available spot.

46:38

If all spots are occupied, the color is

46:40

placed as close to its spot as possible

46:43

between that spot and the top cushion. The

46:45

ball must not be touching any other ball.

46:47

So basically, if there's like a red ball

46:49

where the blue ball usually goes and somebody

46:51

just scored the blue ball, they would place

46:53

the blue ball in one of the other

46:55

spots, which oftentimes would be like where one

46:57

of the red triangles were. But if that's

46:59

occupied, that area is occupied, they put it

47:01

as close to its original spot as possible

47:03

without touching the ball that's in its spot.

47:06

Okay. I didn't get any of that. Yep.

47:08

And I'm trying. This might be one of

47:11

the most complicated sports that I'm trying to

47:13

understand. I'm trying. I'm trying to understand it

47:15

too, in all fairness. Oh man. When the

47:17

cue ball is touching another ball, the referee

47:19

will say, Touching ball! And the player must

47:21

play away from that ball. This

47:24

sounds like made up rules by kids. Just sounds

47:26

absurd. If that ball moves,

47:29

it is a foul. If the player nominated that

47:31

ball, they can play away and it is classified

47:33

as already having made contact with that ball. I

47:35

wonder if your opponent is nominating balls. It's like,

47:37

make this one. But it doesn't seem like

47:39

it when I've watched a game. I never understood it.

47:42

All I've known is they try and clear all the

47:44

red balls. And then once you put the other balls

47:46

in the pocket, so you have to alternate. This is

47:48

based on my viewing of it. All right. You have

47:50

to hit the red balls first. Once you make a

47:53

red ball, you can go after a colored ball. But

47:55

then you have to make another red ball and then

47:57

go after a different colored ball. And the colored balls

47:59

get replace. So to maximize points, you alternate

48:01

red ball with colored ball until you eliminate

48:03

all the red balls. And then you make

48:05

one more colored ball and then they total

48:07

the score and each different color has a

48:09

point value. That's what I understand from watching

48:11

a game purely out of speculation. And I

48:13

think you're fair on that one because I

48:15

would love to see the snooker fanatics come

48:18

out of the woodworks and defend this one

48:20

because this is supposed to be an intro.

48:22

We're not supposed to go into the deep

48:24

dive but we haven't even gotten into how

48:26

to play it, right? It's tough. I think

48:28

the answer, correct me if I'm wrong, but

48:30

the answer to this dilemma for this

48:32

primer is if you want to get

48:34

started in snooker, play pool. Yes, that's

48:36

the first step. That is where people

48:38

should get started because if you get

48:40

bored of pool and you want to

48:42

make it 10 times more complicated then

48:45

you can take it to the evolution

48:47

of it with this other one with

48:49

all these different rules. We're getting

48:51

to the getting to the good part because there's

48:53

a line in here that your head is probably

48:55

spinning with all these rules. But let me finish

48:57

these rules first. Is that what's written there? It's

48:59

literally written there. All right, okay, cool. The

49:01

player must have at least one foot on

49:03

the ground while playing a shot. So while

49:05

taking a shot you have to have one

49:07

foot on the ground. There's no jump shoots.

49:10

You can't side saddle the table a little

49:12

bit? Nope, you can't jump shoot. You can't

49:14

go no footsies. Potting the cue ball is

49:16

a foul, just like regular pool. As

49:18

is a jump shot, you're not allowed to

49:20

have a ball leave the table and clear

49:22

another ball. Now we're at 14 of this

49:24

list. Your head is probably spinning with all

49:27

these rules but the absolute most basic information

49:29

you need to play Snooker is this. Why

49:31

didn't we start with that? I don't know.

49:33

Why didn't we start with this? I'm not

49:35

in control here. I, GQ's

49:38

our researcher, um

49:41

you alternate between shooting at red balls and colored balls

49:43

with the cue to earn points. I called it. You

49:45

must pot a red ball in order to pot a

49:47

different colored ball and you must nominate or call out

49:49

which ball you plan to pot. That's how you nominate

49:51

it. Any non-red ball is placed back on the table

49:53

after it's potted, which is being put in the hole,

49:55

in its designated spot while there are still red balls

49:57

left. After all, I'm going to do a quick quick

49:59

quick quick quick all the red balls

50:01

have been pocketed. Shoot the colored balls

50:03

in ascending point order. The correct order

50:05

for the colored balls is at the

50:07

end of the game is yellow, green,

50:09

blue, pink, and then black. So

50:11

the idea is to clear the table. You clear

50:14

red ball, then you can shoot a colored ball,

50:16

clear red ball, shoot a colored ball. And the

50:18

reason they do this is because the ball scoring.

50:20

Reds are worth one point. Yellow is worth two.

50:22

Green is three. Brown is four. Blue is five.

50:24

Pink is six. And black is seven. And you

50:27

hit them in this ascending point order? Yes. You

50:29

don't get to choose. You don't get the, well,

50:31

you get the, so when you're alternating between red

50:34

and a ball, you get to choose any of

50:36

the colored balls to shoot that. But when

50:38

you have cleared all the

50:40

red balls, cause they don't

50:42

get replaced like the other

50:44

colored balls, then you have

50:46

to score them. Oh, they

50:48

get replaced. That's what the

50:50

butlers were doing. Yeah. Oh,

50:55

okay. So the idea is to score

50:57

as many points as possible in your

50:59

section of snooker and foul scoring four

51:01

to seven points are awarded to your

51:03

opponent due to the severity of the

51:05

different fouls we talked about. For example,

51:07

fouling with a black ball would be

51:09

a seven point foul. So if you said you'd make

51:11

the black ball and you miss the black ball, it

51:13

gives the opponent seven points. Now it

51:16

makes sense. Yes. Now it

51:18

makes sense. It's all, this should have been

51:20

what we started with. It makes so much

51:22

more sense. It, cause now I see why

51:25

people would play it. I didn't understand why

51:27

it was any better to complicate it, but

51:29

the idea that you hit a red ball

51:31

in, then you get a chance to go

51:34

for the high point one. Then it's skilled

51:36

cause like, Ooh, that's an easy shot with

51:38

a low ball, but there's a high point

51:40

ball that I could do a triple bank,

51:43

get it into that pocket. If I'm skilled

51:45

enough, I can now I understand.

51:47

It makes sense. Yes. Now I

51:49

get it. Ah,

51:51

it also explains the strategy and you have

51:54

to be significantly skilled to like, be able

51:56

to maximize the amount of points because it's

51:58

like, not only do you. to be

52:00

able to make the shot, but you need to pick

52:02

the shots that you are more likely to make and

52:05

know you're gonna make it because if you miss, you

52:07

give your opponent points. You give them points.

52:10

Yeah, because if you nominate a ball, say

52:12

you nominate his blue ball, and you didn't

52:14

make the blue ball, it would be a

52:16

foul which gives them five points. I

52:19

understand it! Oh,

52:21

I understand it now! I'm trapped in a

52:23

box of this tub into my emotions! I

52:25

get it. It's making sense! It's making sense!

52:27

Everyone at home listening is like, I don't

52:30

get it, but we get it! We got

52:32

the breakthrough! We got the breakthrough! That's what

52:34

they were doing! They were confusing us, and

52:36

then so that we could have the breakthrough

52:38

in epiphany. Sir Neville Wimblebottom was trying to

52:40

keep this from us. He was, but we

52:43

broke through with our accents and our brains.

52:45

I might, I was not doing an accent.

52:47

I don't want to be lumped in with

52:49

that. All right, now it's time to play, Mark.

52:51

Now that we understand it, it's time to play.

52:53

Okay. Baby Mark arranged the 15 balls inside of

52:56

a snooker rack so they form a triangle. Did

52:58

it? Position one of the points of the triangle

53:00

and the pyramid is the spot located on one

53:02

end of the table, but carefully move the rack

53:04

of balls so they stay in the triangle. Place

53:07

the pink ball on the pink spot just in

53:09

front of the rack's red balls. People already know

53:11

the diagram in their head. They haven't lost that.

53:13

Done. Black ball behind them, blue ball on the

53:15

center point, then green, brown, and yellow balls on

53:18

their matching spots on the bok line. Once

53:20

the balls are placed, coin flip. Winning? I

53:22

win. Means you get to break and shoot

53:24

first. Going first can be huge advantage and

53:26

even give you, even lead to you winning

53:29

the game without your opponent ever taking a

53:31

shot. Yes, and I win. This

53:34

is called a maximum break or a one

53:36

four seven. To accomplish this, you need to

53:38

alternate putting the 15 red balls in the

53:40

black ball, then potting the colored balls in

53:42

order, scoring a total of 147 points. That's

53:45

the maximum amount you can score and clear the

53:47

table. Did it all in one turn. No flaws.

53:49

Start. Paste your cue ball inside the D and

53:51

shoot it at the red balls, breaking the triangle

53:53

cluster. If you're skilled or lucky, one of the

53:56

red balls will go in the pocket and you

53:58

can then nominate or call out which non-red

54:00

ball you want to shoot next. You alternate shooting the

54:02

red ball and colored balls until you miss your shot.

54:04

Hunt the cue ball or foul, making sure you place

54:06

the color back on their spot after

54:08

you knock them into a pocket. If you

54:10

miss your shot, your opponent will now have

54:13

their turn to score as many points as

54:15

they can while trying to avoid giving you

54:17

points by fouling. So if you miss, they

54:19

take over, much like normal pool. When you

54:21

and your opponent have pocketed all of the

54:23

red balls, you now have to sink the

54:25

remaining colored balls in their point value in

54:27

ascending order like we said, yellow, green, brown,

54:30

blue, pink, and then black. Congratulations, you

54:32

now know how to play snooker and

54:34

if that's a win, that tells you

54:36

you can also win at snooker. There

54:38

you go. Anyway, the winner is obviously who has

54:41

the most points in a frame

54:43

as the winner of that game. Matches are determined as

54:45

a best of number of frames varying from 11 frames

54:47

up to 35 frames for the

54:50

World Snooker Championship Final. Hell yeah. Once one

54:52

player has the lead of more points than

54:55

remain on the table, the opponent is said

54:57

to need snookers. A snooker is where the

54:59

balls are placed where the player cannot directly

55:01

hit the next legal ball. The hope is

55:03

to force a foul and earn 4 points.

55:05

If a player says they think they

55:08

cannot win, even by forcing snookers, they

55:10

can concede the frame. Usually when around

55:12

4 or 5 snookers would

55:15

be required in addition to all the remaining balls

55:17

depending on how many balls are left. Apparently

55:20

there's strategy to it in the sense of like,

55:22

you want to block them from being able to

55:24

hit and score a red ball when you need

55:26

to make a red ball in alternating fashion or

55:29

block them from being able to do certain

55:31

things which is like sometimes you make a

55:33

ball but then you miss to leave it

55:36

to where you're defending because there's not a

55:38

plausible shot for you so there's some defense

55:40

in that sense where a taking that foul

55:42

is worth it to then force them to

55:44

possibly make a bigger foul. More strategy layers

55:46

of it but nothing we need to know

55:49

for us beginners. BBC1,

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as well as MIGU

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and HUYA. M-I-G-U and

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H-U-Y-A. All right, sounds

56:16

good. If that 500 million

56:18

is true, I would love to confirm

56:20

that. I would love to take a

56:22

random sampling of 100 people and ask

56:24

them, do you enjoy watching Snooker? And

56:26

15 or so of them

56:29

have to say yes. Well, let us

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slash G-M-F-S-T is where you go. Put

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want us to talk about and use the

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episode idea. Mark, anything you want

57:10

to add? Nope, I got to go out of this tub. My

57:13

legs are asleep. All right, well,

57:15

make sure and enjoy the podcast wherever you

57:17

are in the tub, on the drive, everything

57:19

else. But make sure you don't watch while

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you drive. That's illegal. And also in

57:23

the next episode, we'll talk about how we

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possibly almost got somebody fired when they were

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listening to our podcast episode. Hell yeah. Bye.

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Bye.