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Beer of the week Dez - Fierce Beer Iron Brew - scotland Marco - Rye River Brewing Co - Coastal IPA - Ireland Part 2 of our Grand Return! Marco discusses the last thing which really helped his journey into parenthood and then its all downhill with all the tech that didn't make the grade or actually made things worse! A candid, practical episode about modern tech, real life, and adapting fast—without the gimmicks. This time we review our beers!🍺📱👶

Beer of the week Dez - Fierce Beer Iron Brew - scotland Marco - Rye River Brewing Co - Coastal IPA - Ireland This week we crack open a couple of standout beers, then dive into life-changing news: becoming a parent and how tech suddenly matters a lot more. We answer listener mail on which phone to buy right now, explore why some gadgets become essential overnight (and why others are absolutely useless), and talk about gaming, AI, and media in a world where free time comes in unpredictable bursts. A candid, practical episode about modern tech, real life, and adapting fast—without the gimmicks. 🍺📱👶

Beer -  Dez - St Bernardus Christmas Ale, Belgium GADGET   AI may be the talk of the town but did it make any gadget indispensable in 2025? Flighty app GAMES - Steam Replay - Helldivers 2 - Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty (most time), - Balatro - Ghost of Tsushima - Robocop: Rogue City! TV SERIES Tv maybe better than cinema nowadays? So many to choose from, but did some shine brighter than others? MOVIES Did anyone go to the cinema to watch a sequel this year? We Did! Were any of them worth it? - Inside Out 2 - Despicable me 4 - Dune Part 2 - Deadpool vs Wolverine - Gladiator 2 - Civil War (NOT A SEQUEL!) SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE Like it or not we own nothing and everything is a subscription. We all have some, but some are more worth it than others and we really should be more ruthless with cutting these. - Spotify - Prime Video/Amazon - Disney - Netflix - Cloud gaming: Geforce Now vs Boosteroid!

Beer of the week: Dez - Hip Hop IPA Italian Pale Ale - Target 2000 Riccione Italy Marco - chamomile vanilla and manuka honey tea Main: Original Gladiator review: Best movie ever? . Gladiator 2 review: How can a sequel 24 years later live up to the original and the hype? Discussion: - Can Ridley Scott keep up his youthful energy and focus at 87? - How much do we care or should we care about historical accuracy in movies?

Beers Dez - Robert The Juice IPA, C*ld Town - Lab, Scotland Marco - Trappist Westvleteren 12, Trappist Westvleteren, Belgium News - AI Artist Is Unironically Mad That People Are Stealing His AI Artwork - link Terrible Glasgow Willy Wonka event - link FIVERR, latest victim of AI? MAIN Two movie franchises with similar trajectories Robocop and Terminator Once groundbreaking and almost lost to ridicule after the umpteenth remake. BUT enter TAYON!!! Can new life be brought back into classic franchises?

Beers Dez - Session IPA, Mahou, Spain Marco - Aero, Birrificio Granda, Italy Weird - Who is Joe Crombie? -Borderlands movie flop? News - SpaceX Polaris Dawn - Annapurna Interactive staff walk-out - https://www.eurogamer.net/annapurna-interactive-sees-exodus-of-entire-staff-as-negotiations-break-down - Concord - Sony’s 250 million dollar failure - Sony ps5 Pro - is it worth 800dollars - Apple fall event - Samsung event - Pixel event

Beer of the week Dez - Cerveza - Mexican Lager with Lime - Fierce, Scotland Marco - Quaffzilla - To Ol - Hazy Session IPA - Denmark News Boeing in trouble - Brief and inaccurate conversation on the recent aviation and space woes of the once mighty Boeing! Bonus Easter Egg - did you spot the hidden reference? Hint - Remember the 90s Main: X-Men ‘97 - Disney+ - Sequel of original Animated Series from the 90s Batman: Caped Crusader - Amazon Prime -New animated series from creators of legendary, Batman The Animated Series, and new influential producers

The Retro Future Beer of the week: Dez - Hop On Board - Rudgate Brewery for LNER, Golden Ale, UK Marco: Korenwolf - Gulpner - Wheatbeer, NL News: - The new n1 Podcast platform -AWESOME TRAILERS Metroid Prime 4 Gladiator 2 MAIN - Retro gaming is becoming Expensive - Collectable, Scalpers, or genuine rarity? - Hardware vs software emulation - Analogue Pocket mini review - Playdate by Panic! Mini review DISCUSSION - Lot of modern tech Retrograding - Rise of dumbphones - ipod modding community and the return of monotasking products

Beer of the Week Dez - Pear of Peaches - Avery Brewing Co - Imperial Hazy IPA - USA Marco - Pear of Peaches - Avery Brewing Co - Imperial Hazy IPA - USA Main: -Everyone’s doing AI? Is it any good? Is it the seismic shift we expect? -AI devices to replace smartphones? Are we on the verge of a new shift? -Humane AI Pin -Rabbit R1 - Next gen devices incorportatining Gemini/OpenAI etc - Real use cases of AI

Beer of the week: Dez - Che Guava, Radical Lager - Williams Bros Brewing, Scotland Marco - Levensgenieter - Kompaan - NEIPA - NL News RIP Google Podcasts ?Long live Youtube Music Main -Fallout Tv Series -Fallout Games -Civil War

Beer of the Week: Dez - Aero - Granda (birrificio artigianale Cuneo) - Italy Marco - Arcade Made - Brewdog - DIPA - Scotland MAIN Only Murders in the Building https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11691774/ See How They Run See How They Run (2022) - IMDb Detective for a Day https://detectiveforaday.com/en Death and Other Details https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15439048/ Knives Out https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8946378/ Glass Onion https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11564570/

Beer of the week Dez - Luminous Nights - 71 brewing - Dundee, Scotland Marco - Bloesem Blonde - Gebrouwen door Vrouwen - Netherlands Main - Ghost of Tsushima - Rise of the Ronin - Shadow tactics - Blue Eye Samurai, Netflix animation - Shogun, Disney+ Honourable mentions - The Last Samurai - Tom Cruise (side note - Tom Cruise running https://youtu.be/09MiWO8uDfc?si=XD3eWUf-OHMVJS4W - 47 Ronin - Keanu Reeves

Beer Dez: St. Mungo, WEST brewery (founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow) 4/6 Marco: Tripel - Westmalle Trappist  - Belgium 5/6The Malty-Verse Spiderman themed episode! Fun fact, I discovered it’s spelled Spider-Man and not Spiderman Marvel’s Spider-Man Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 ( ⁠Spider-Man 2 Is Missing This Major New York City Landmark - Game Informer⁠) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Beer of the Week: Dez - Banana bread beer - eagle brewery (Carlsberg), Denmark Marco - chimas blu, trappist, Belgium, News: - Tesla Cybertruck is out! Very interesting from engineering PoV - GTA 6 - Baldurs Gate 3 - Movie - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - I have a PS5! Tech News -  - Apple's ubiquitous iMessage blue bubble may soon be replicated on other systems, but not without a fight and a story. Discussion: - How can we interpret Apple's behaviour. - Have smartphones become too distracting?

Beer of the week Dez - Quasar,Black IPA,  Dogma Brewery, Serbia Marco - Nouveau Western, West Coast IPA Gallia, France News- Matthew Perry sadly passes away Main Premise: we will rant about problems that are very specific to the times we live in. We realize these are 100% first world problems.