Today we're hilariously mishearing lyrics and I've decided I can't hate hard work..
BUT I CAN OF COURSE (AND STILL DO) HATE KETTLE BELLS
That really hasn't changed from a few years of throwing them about. And for the record, it's not their existence that I hate, more the feeling the next day I have from using them. Because more often than not after a purely KB session, I'm often facing the next day devoid of energy and motivation. I'm tired, sore and if I don't get my coffee, potentially cranky.
And today after throwing them all over the shop the day before, I was feeling as flat as a pancake.
Maybe it's because at 8kg, these things are too easy to swing through the air at the time and I move faster than I should. Maybe these kettle bell sessions are doing me a world of wonder internally, I just have to suck up the rough feeling the next morning.
Maybe I'm just getting old?
Either way, surely I'm not the only one hating these things..
YOU'RE SINGING IT WRONG
It's okay to admit you don't know ALL the words to popular songs. And that's the overfilled lunchbox we unpacked today on the show, exploring those times when someone tapped you on the shoulder and said 'Er...I don't think that's the correct line there sunshine' or words to that effect.
(Or perhaps you finally Googled what they should be and discovered how incredibly far off the actual words you were.)
This was inspired by this song, Michael Jackson's 'Wanna be starting something.'
Because we played the song on the show and Lu starting singing the vegetable part, a part I thought she'd misheard. Michael Jackson's calling me a vegetable? Surely not! But not only is he doing that, apparently the listener is an unwanted buffet too! The more you learn!
Which then naturally led to songs you've been stuffing up since day dot. See if you can name the original song title and artist, based on their misheard lyric:
Dirty deeds, thunder chief!
Cheap wine and a three legged goat
Once I smoked, a dynamite cigar
Like a 9 stone cowboy..
Hear her scream as they're kicking the dancing queen
There's nothing 100 men on mars can really do, I guess it rains down in Africa..
DON'T HATE THE BEAST
I've decided that I can't hate Mr Beast. Not that I've met him, interviewed him, sat down for a meal with the man or had my Uber taken by him while waiting to be taken to an airport, it's more than I've been exposed to a lot of his work over the last few months and I've reached the conclusion recently that my dislike is purely based on envy and that's no fault of his is it?
Let's backtrack for a sec though hey? To paint the picture - I don't watch his YouTube stuff per se, but my kids do and they love it. To the point where my son Jackson is keen to eat at Mr Beast Burger and in between anything even remotely Harry Potter related on the tubes, my daughter Sophie likes to get into the occasional Mr Beast effort too. And so a couple of days ago while I was typing away here (more than likely working on the following book to this one) Sophie had YouTube blaring on the TV behind me and I worked to the sounds of both Harry Potter songs and the Beast himself getting up to various shenanigans.
First there was some kind of candy factory challenge where people competed to win an actual candy factory through a series of endeavours. At one stage Gordon Ramsey showed up to judge things and at the end of it all, the winner was offered half a million bucks to sell his newly won candy factory and run off with the cash, which he did (and so would I to be honest.)
Then there was a boys vs girls team sleep deprivation stay in the circle or get eliminated challenge very much in the style of Squid Game (only nobody got shot in the head when they stepped out of the circle) where the team with the most members still standing at the end of it got to split half a million dollars.
Finally there came the adventure where he turned up with a team of mates and a hired truck and proceeded to buy everything in a store, and I mean everything that wasn't nailed down, ultimately paying a few grand more than he should to save the stunned store owners having to tally every last bit of clothing up.
Now if you've never heard of this bloke then I'm sure we've established by now that he's filthy rich which would automatically put him in the realm of people I should be annoyed at because I'm not rich in the slightest. And when you're the fifth biggest YouTube personality on the planet and the world's hunger for content seems to be growing exponentially by the year, well he has every right to be. If you can make any kind of video with the chance to win half a million sheckels or more...that's nothing many content creators can claim is it?
(Closest I've come was playing five bucks a voice for this project. It's still up on YouTube naturally but it never generated the billions - or even hundreds - of views I'd hoped it would.)
But my little green eyed monster of jealously has to take a step backwards here because I realised he's having fun and loving it. He's not showing off a new Ferrari each week (look he might, but my kids aren't watching it), trying to sell my impressionable offspring an entrepreneur lifestyle nor broadcasting in a penthouse somewhere where a naked lady acts as a coffee table for him to eat sushi off as only the stupidly rich could do. He genuinely seems to be enjoying himself, he's happy to splash the cash and the fan faithful are loving it (104 million audience and counting) and if money was no object and I got bored, well I'd probably look for fun creative ways to do stuff like this too.
Is he perfect? Oh god no. There's plenty of controversy surrounding him if you want to go looking for it, including occasionally being difficult to work with. But he's built himself up, he's giving the audience what they want, he's tapped in to exactly where he needs to be and it's working for him. I can't hate the successful efforts of hard work now can I? I won't be adding him to my subscribe list because it's not my flavor of tubes but I think he's a good case of Don't hate the player, hate the game.
(Oh and while we're at it, feel free to subscribe to my YouTube where if I get enough subscribers, I will give away $10. I know, staggering. But we've got to start somewhere! :P)
THE IDIOTS ARE AT IT AGAIN
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| I've blurred out the link so you don't rush there and hand over your hard earned. |
It's been a while since I've had a dodgy Whats App friend, Nigerian 419 scam offer or suspect SMS but while I was writing this, boom, here comes another one. Which is quite laughable given I don't have a Spotify and that it came from a regular looking mobile phone number - because every business in existence uses one to send messages like this.
Look, I don't think I have to remind you (but I'm going to anyway) that when you get a message like this, treat it as inherently suspicious until proven otherwise. And when I say proven otherwise, I mean if you suspect there's a grain of truth in a message like this firstly don't click the link in it, ever but rather ring or email the company it's supposedly from and check.
If it's true, pay your bill already.
If not, at least you didn't click the link.
Or if you're like me, scoff at the idiot message and smash the block button. Until the next one comes along anyway..
Right, that's me for today - chat tomorrow
-Almigo
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