Three Bean Salad - Olives
Episode Date: April 10, 2024Trigger warning for any misophonia sufferers this episode (although Henry probably weeded these people out long ago). Olives is this week’s topic with thanks to Lewis of Lewisham. Obviously no one r...eally understands what an olive is so it’s a tough one for the beans but the beans battle on gamely nonetheless. Giant snails also get a mention and about ruddy time.Join our PATREON for ad-free episodes and a monthly bonus episode: www.patreon.com/threebeansaladWith thanks to our editor Laura Grimshaw.Merch now available here: www.threebeansaladshop.comGet in touch: threebeansaladpod@gmail.com @beansaladpod
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Pam Pam Pam Pam Pam.
Good start to the day.
Just got a lovely shot of Pam. Mike just gave us.
Yeah. Chillin out.
Mike, when you patted Pam just then,
Yeah.
It created a very resonant sound.
Did it?
Because you sort of... it was just your hand patting Pam, but it created something, a resonance,
and I had an emotional reaction to it, which is to do with just a man and his dog.
Yeah.
Okay.
There was something very, very ancient going on.
This wasn't an ASMR thing.
This was more primordial.
It could have been.
It could be if I was to ask you to do it for say 15, 16 minutes at a stretch.
Was quietly whispering to the dog.
Well, quietly whispering to the dog.
It could easily turn into an ASMR experience.
Do I need to be eating sort of barbecue crisps at the same time? Well it depends
what kind of ASMR perversion you're on. I don't go for
moustache-head man eating barbecue crisps, some people do. A sort of
subsection within the ASMR community. Okay well Pam is now, she's now licking herself all over, I don't know if that's punching
through to the microphone, but she's providing a sort of a soundscape, which is quite ASMR-ish.
It's just something...
Let me take the mic.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
That was disgusting, sorry.
That was absolutely foul.
That was a bit like Dune 2.
That was something like, that made me think of a sandworm.
A sandworm sort of suckling its young in a scene that was too disgusting to make the
final film.
It's a thin line with ASMR, it goes over into gross quite a bit.
Yeah, we pushed it way over there.
I don't think I clearly have no understanding of how I just pushed it way over the line.
That was a stellar but very brief career that Pam had in ASMR, which we've just witnessed.
The rise and fall of.
There's a thing isn't there called misophonia which is people who can't stand like mouth
noises of other people.
Yes, I know someone that has that and it means that I can't really go to the cinema with
them because my tendency to clean myself with my tongue during the trailers. It's something I like to do to get
myself nice and ready for the film.
But that little dog sound would have been like absolute kryptonite to our Mr. Fond of
listeners.
Oh completely. Yeah, I know someone who's like that and he can't catch a train without
getting into a bitter argument with someone.
I really?
Because it's quite a long range I think. There's always inevitably someone on the carriages busting open their packed lunch, you know,
at 7.30am or whatever.
Yeah.
And he can't, he can't handle it.
Yesterday I went to the cinema to see Anatomy of a Fall.
Oh yeah.
Huge yeasay from me.
Great film.
Oh my god.
I haven't seen it.
Don't know anything about it.
It's on, it's on the art house circuit, Mike. So don't worry about it.
Has it got Bruce Willis in it?
No, that's almost one of the defining qualities of an art house film.
It doesn't have Bruce Willis in it. So it wouldn't have got through the kind of
the Devon sort of, um, well, they would have been, cause there's a kind of
redaction system, isn't there? There's kind of Starz-esque.
It wouldn't have got through.
Yeah, if it hasn't got Bruce Willis in it,
then you can fuck off.
It's the very clear policy.
And it's actually quite nice to have a clear policy
from a county council from time to time.
It is, for once.
Often this stuff is quite murky, full of caveats.
And that's why there's a black market now, isn't there,
in digitally inserting Bruce Willis
into art house films and selling them on the sly, which will happen around some of the
art colleges.
Some of the art colleges haven't been shut down yet.
Well I really enjoyed the piano until someone told me actually what was going on there.
Yes, I really enjoyed Manon de Source, the Bruce Willis cut.
Yeah.
And normally it's just his head pokes out of a glove compartment in a film.
Just because once you put the money into to get that effect, then you might as well just reuse it. You know, it works. People like it. People are reassured.
Even if there isn't a scene set in the car, they'll fit the glove compartment into,
can you put a glove compartment anywhere?
People around here are very used to a smash cut to a glove compartment door opening.
And then you're back in the drawing room or wherever you were.
In Shinto Japan.
So Ben, you went to see a film yesterday.
Yeah, I went to see Anatomy of a Fall and it sounded like you were about to slag me
off for some reason.
I was, yeah.
Okay.
So what I'd like to point out is that, because you texted me about this yesterday, you did
something which I see as an absolute cardinal sin.
Okay.
Cinema.
Which is, A, you missed the beginning, which already for me, I'm not watching the film.
Okay.
Because I'm not going to understand the full narrative arc, am I?
So just to explain, I got in about, I think I missed maybe the first 20 minutes or 15
minutes.
Ooh. Yeah.
So act one.
Yeah.
You missed the setter.
You missed establishing the status quo.
So you've got no idea what these characters do for a living, what their cold, what their
main relationships are.
You've completely missed the setter.
So call to action.
You've no idea.
I missed the opening dance number.
You missed the Adele theme tune.
You've missed the Adele theme tune. You've missed the Adele theme tune?
You've missed the Stuffed Seagull question.
Is there a Stuffed Seagull or not in the first couple of scenes?
Check off Seagull.
Check off Seagull.
If there is one, it's like it's come back if there isn't one.
But if the one does appear later on it will be...
It won't be satisfying, will it?
It won't be satisfying.
So probably get a three star rating on Rotten Toms.
So yeah, because Ben, I once fell out with a friend,
right? Semi permanently. The first issue we had was, and by the way, this really date
this this is going back. This was going to see... Was it Steamboat Willie? No, it was
it was Batman. Which one? What are we talking, Keaton era?
It was Keaton Batman.
That's going back a long way.
It was Keaton Batman.
I remember the specific cinema, it was the Hampstead Heath cinema, it doesn't exist anymore,
is now an M&S.
Great.
Or Progress as you'd call it in Exeter.
We had some issues with parking.
I think the fact that we were both 12 and driving was pretty, I'm
pretty sure there was a parking problem. I don't know if we were, anyway, we were basically
a bit, we missed like the first 30 seconds or something. And I was furious with my friend
for the fact that A, he made us late and B, insisted on us staying to watch the film.
Because I was like, no, it's over. The chance has gone. We are going to miss the narrative arc. Do you mean? Whereas he was like, what's the big deal? So
that that and the other issue had was he I once went on holiday
to Paris with this guy. Weirdly, you know what I'm starting to
put together the story now I've never but basically, so I went
I went to on holiday, this guy to Paris.
You've usually given them a nom anecdote by now.
OK, let's call this guy.
Sven Porridge.
OK, very clever, because you just switched his surname and his first name.
Very clever, because you just switched his surname and his first name there. He was always Porridge Sven of the Svens of Hampstead. And it was Porridge Sven, it wasn't
his brother Barley Sven, it wasn't Weetabix.
Or Cousin Gruul.
And what was his sister? Actually I'm just going to have some marmalade on toast, thanks.
Sven.
Anyway, so we went on holiday to Paris, me and this guy, he did two things
which annoyed me. One was he slagged off Paris the whole time. Yeah. Now a patriot, a true
patriot. So I don't know how you feel about this issue. I think that once everyone is
paid up to an experience, EG going to the theatre, going to the cinema, going to a country,
going on holiday, going to a restaurant, you just have to, you just have to pretend you're having a good time.
I totally agree.
I totally agree.
You've got to, otherwise what's the...
Yeah. If anyone starts slacking off while you're doing it, you're like, what? No.
You mad? What?
Yeah. No, that's why I only go to free admission art galleries.
It's the loophole.
Yeah.
You've got to make the best of it. That's probably my motto for life.
100%.
Make the best of it. And Mike, for example, if Mike's in a modern art gallery, part of
having fun with it, if you're in London, say...
So you've trained Fanta to react to the idea of modern art. You've trained her so well,
Mike. It. Just an extension
of you.
She will attack strangers, but she knows my take on art.
So anyone with a beret, for example, she'll take down, presumably.
Well, it depends if they're doing funny caricatures and stuff.
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Stools that people are sitting on.
That might be these days. Can we stop talking about art soon?
Sorry.
Sometimes.
I sometimes, it's very triggering for Pam.
Sometimes I didn't even know if my wife's part of the art, maybe.
And then you said that, didn't you?
And then actually, well, it turns out was if Damien, your wife was actually Damien House,
wasn't it?
Dressed up.
It was really embarrassing to you, wasn't it?
Because he had been part of the art.
It was a durational, experiential art piece.
Yeah.
And I had to go off and sit in a cafe somewhere and take each of those words and break them
down and try and work out what all that meant.
What the hell it meant.
That was none the wiser.
Difficult day.
So Sven Porridge.
Sven Porridge, he was going around slacking off Paris.
What age is this? Is this a similar, is this young?
No, this is a bit older. So this is, I think about 20.
I think it was first holiday of university. So it was university, but one of the holidays,
I went and did a brief job in Paris for a bit. And I lived in Place des Abes, which is a lovely little square
halfway up Montmartre. Oh my God. With a super amazing, one of those lovely metro stations,
you know, with the, the nouvelle arts sort of. Yeah. It was so good. It sounds like you
were living inside the sort of movie that Mike would splice Bruce Willis into. Yeah,
it really was.
It was incredible.
Great Tracy down those steps.
Couldn't you?
Oh, you could.
Yeah.
You do superb.
Praise Tracy.
And there were literally cafes and just.
Very clad, you know, baguette wielding attractive young people everywhere.
You looked, it was superb.
And I was a stone's throw from
a fairly bleak red light district. That was Pigalle at the bottom of the hill. It was
one of those weird things where on the one hand it was living the perfect, it was a perfect
experience in a way. I was living in this lovely little courtyard. When I go back to
Paris I will try and find it normally.
But you never can.
Because it's a CNA now.
It's a really, really good CNA.
Anyway, lovely, idyllic experience.
One drawback was the smallest toilet.
I'm gonna try and get your head around this.
At the same time, it was the smallest toilet I had had or have ever seen since. The one I had to use in there.
The smallest toilet I'd ever seen.
It was built for an 18th century Frenchman.
I think, yeah.
They were mistaken for monkeys back in the day.
Exactly. Yeah. But not only was it the smallest toilet I've ever seen before or since, it
was also the shower.
What?
It was just, it was basically a toilet shower. That's how I remember it. So to sit on the toilet, my knees were up around my ears. If the door was going to be closed, it was that small. Plus that was the shower. I can't remember how it worked.
It does sound idyllic, you're right.
It almost feels like you and Claude upon Claude of sopping wet bog roll.
lot of sopping wet bog roll. Yeah, exactly. And now I look back at it at the same time, I kind of feel like there was an opportunity there for me to innovate and create a multi
billion pound sort of super hygiene toilet business during that could have been the idea
that sparked all you had to do is spin yourself around 180 degrees and flush yourself and
you're ready to go. If you think about it, a toilet that's
also a shower is actually a cleaner story than a normal toilet, which isn't a shower.
It's actually, you could argue it's a more hygienic story. In my head, I'm just imagining you
constantly flushing it and then just turds coming up with a shower. I'm not sure why,
but that's the mental picture. It's a perfectly circular system.
Oh, it was circular plumbing. Yeah. Oh yeah. Sorry, did I mention that?
What was I saying? Oh yeah, the other thing, there's another gross story.
It depends how far into the story I go. It starts not gross, which is,
Eddie Izzard was doing a gig in Paris at the time. I saw a poster. This is how old...
Yeah, bit arty as well. Bit arty end of comedy, isn't it, Eddie Izzard?
Yeah, quite imaginative, isn't it? A lot of it.
A lot of it couldn't actually have happened.
It's so cruel the way you skewer Mike in this way and completely unfounded, but
I'm still all in if everyone else is.
Yeah, I saw a poster Eddie is on.
Cause do you remember, Eddie is on quite famously did some gigs in, in France.
Yeah, in French. Yeah, in French.
Yeah.
And he's done ones in German sense. Yeah
Yeah, I think it was the first one he did of those went to see him
Really really good loved it. Absolutely brilliant. I could leave the story there. Is that a story at that point? No, okay
No, no, it's just an account at the moment. It was an account, wasn't it? Yeah, I'll tell you the bit which involves turds then
was in a camp wasn't it yeah I'll tell you the bit which involves turds then
Digestive tract talk we are so into the ideas are I was so excited about couldn't my just before he's about to start there I really need to go to the toilet
I was bursting to go to the toilet I suppose I'd probably been saving them up a bit because of my
flat possible I've been saving them up a bit basically I sat flat. It's possible I've been saving them up a bit.
Basically, I sat on the loo, I was about to go to the loo.
And this is totally disgusting, but there was no loo roll.
Right?
So, I made a deal with the devil.
I made a deal with the devil that night.
I clean anus, but at what cost?
So I was like, what do I do?
I was desperately, Eddie was about to start.
What do you do?
Do you know what I mean?
It was a real crossroads moment.
Welcome to What Do You Do with Henry Pinker.
The latest Scrapes podcast is episode 73. And we're still just going over the idea is our
poop incident.
Cause we've still not got to the bottom of it.
Well, I guess I'm thinking about what I would do.
It would depend what implements and accoutrements I had on my person.
So I had all the utensils from a French brasserie.
Which I'd swiped earlier in the day.
So I'm flombaying it off.
You've got a flomboy. You've got a selection of like different sized ladles, ladles within
ladles. You could reduce it.
Banmery?
You could banmery it. No, what happens is I thought, I don't want to go and watch it
desperate for a bit to go to the loo because I enjoy it. I really want to go to the loo here. So I had this thought, I thought
to myself, you know what? I've never been a gambling man.
I'm going to put it all on Brown.
I'm going to put it all. I'm going to put it all on dry poo.
Oh, what you say?
Oh no.
I put it all on dry poo.
So you gambled on the fact that you wouldn't need to wipe.
On the one.
Which happens for me once every hundred thousand times.
It's incredibly rare and very, very special.
Oh, very special.
When it does happen.
So anyway, essentially in roulette terms, it'd be like
putting everything on, on one number, putting everything on six or whatever.
Anyway, long story short, I had to take off my underwear and use that.
To wipe my bottom with,
yeah, it's about all going back into the auditorium with one sleeve, isn't it?
Just going to raise more questions.
Even though it was Paris, very cool, very creative place.
It wouldn't have fitted in with the rest of my look.
Well, I think Henry, you probably did, so you gambled and lost and then you did what
the only thing that was open to you.
Yeah, but although I hadn't, I never thought of that as a solution, but you just, you
find these things when you're in, when you're under stress in a way you work at,
you find out who you are.
But what did he do with the shit stained underwear?
Cause that's, that's not getting flushed down a Parisian bog.
Is it?
Well, let's hope not.
No, that ended up in a, in a toilet bin.
Okay.
Anyway, the gig was absolutely brilliant.
I had a lovely time. Good. And didn't miss any of it. Okay. Anyway, the gig was absolutely brilliant. I had a lovely time. Good. And
didn't miss any of it. So anyway, as I said, I went to the cinema this week. I haven't
told you one other thing, which is now I genuinely I haven't told you the other reason I fell
out with that friend. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I thought the other reason was that he was slacking off Paris.
No, there was another reason. Okay. We were late to get a train to Euro Disney. We were
running late and he refused to hurry along to get to the train because he had a holiday
pace. He walked out and he refused to walk beyond his holiday pace.
He said that I'm walking my holiday pace.
That's that's unbearable.
Yeah.
Is that why you're such a rigorous timekeeper now?
Henry?
Exactly.
That's where it comes from.
Mike, there's always a backstory.
Yeah.
There's always a reason.
Uh, that's mad though, isn't it?
Yeah.
That's really, it's a really odd thing to do.
It was really odd and annoying.
Anyway, Ben, can you fit the love of God, get this story out?
Well, it's not even much of a story, but, um, so as I said, I was late.
We missed, we missed the first 20 minutes.
And as you say, Henry, there's a, there's a decision to be made.
Do you just give up on it?
Has it gone or do you just watch the two thirds of the film that's left? I was with my partner. She was very much, I
think she was kind of of the view like, we can watch this another time. Like, this is
done.
Yeah, that's what I would have said, definitely.
But I said, no, no, no, no, no. As we rush from the car park to the cinema, I will read
the first third of the Wikipedia plot summary at you. Oh, what a splendid way to enjoy cinema.
Henry's struggling with this.
But actually, do you know what?
Any listeners who've seen the film would know this.
In the film, there's a big incident that happens that I missed.
It's the fall, the titular fall.
Okay.
Yeah.
Everything stems from that.
But then basically the rest of it is kind of like a court case
interrogating what happened.
Yeah.
And so unwittingly, I put myself in the point of view of the juror who hadn't experienced or seen
the event, but was prosecuting it.
And so I think I hacked the movie and made it better.
Well, I think you've, you've demovied the movie.
You've turned it into an actual court case.
You've changed what the movie is.
Yeah.
Cause you could make that argument about quite a few movies, couldn't you?
And you just, your point of view, you get from a sort of incidental character, if you
just stay for seven minutes from the point of view of the...
The ferry operator who briefly sees Jason Bourne.
Anyway, I enjoyed it.
And the reason I brought it up is because Misophonia wise, it's quite a quiet film.
There was only four other people in the cinema and they looked arty as hell.
Right.
They were Cardiff's creme de la art.
Asymmetric hair.
Yep.
Little sort of tiny glasses, little tiny one.
So we're talking about art again.
Pam doesn't like this.
Why haven't they got normal haircuts?
Sorry, Pam.
They can't help it, one of them lives in London.
The great thing with Pam is they don't have to instruct her anymore.
She sees anyone with dyed purple hair, she just attacks them straight off the bat.
She can handle a blue-ridged split as far as she's willing to go.
It's okay, Pam. They're virtual, they're not really here.
So yeah, so arty types, maybe like like some with like a couple of fairy dice hanging off
the forehead. Isn't it creative?
One trouser leg is a grandfather clock.
Yeah, very big in East London at the moment.
And then kind of the other end of that same spectrum, like just wearing black, black,
black, black, black, black, you know, like super cool. Yeah.
So I felt that these were serious people and they're watching their serious movie.
Yeah.
But I did want to eat my huge picnic of popcorn magnums and a chicken sandwich that I bought from
Tesla on the way. Ben, can I say?
Yeah.
If I'd been your partner, yeah, last night, I'd have been absolutely crawling up my own
rear end in embarrassment. Not only are we turning up late, we've missed the narrative thrust of the film.
He's got a chicken sandwich though.
He's got a chicken sandwich to be fair.
Actually, maybe they were sitting there thinking, damn, of course he's going to see it from
the juror's point of view.
He's hacked a movie!
He's hacked a movie.
Why didn't we think of that?
This is real art house.
Here I am sitting here with my dry eyes coming out of aerial office.
Just an affectation.
Anyway, so the problem was, as you say, it was quite embarrassing to come in so late.
We're obviously oiks.
What happened was then, obviously normally you open the food during the trailers and
nobody minds, but once the film's going, if you open Foodie it just sounds awful.
And then you're at a crossroads. So my partner's very much trying to slowly open it over the
course of 25 minutes.
It can be done. It can be done. It's very tense. It's not, again, you're not probably
enjoying the film quite as much as you should be.
So this is bereft of helicopter explosions to snap open a... Well exactly.
...vanini packet.
Well that's why those were all initially put into films, wasn't it?
Explosions and helicopters and stuff.
Of course.
So people could get their crass max open.
But yeah, much harder than an art film, isn't it?
I've done that, the slow motion crisp packet open or whatever.
It's about controlled pressure because you need huge finger pressures to do that.
But controlled.
You're never doing as good a job as you think though.
No, that's true.
No, and it's just annoying for like 20 minutes for everyone there, rather than five seconds.
Yanking the plaster off sort of thing might be best.
Well that's me.
So that's me.
I just bag, bag, crunch, concentrated 10 seconds of like...
Yeah, and get it over with.
But I can't work out which way is the way, but that's my way
is what I worked out yesterday.
Tricky Ben, really tricky. It sounds like you've really covered yourself in shame.
I had a great time.
Let's turn on the bean machine. This week's topic is sent in by Lewis from Lewisham.
Okay.
A bit confusing.
So it's the Lewis, it's King Lewis of Lewisham.
King Lewis.
Is olives.
Okay.
Oh.
My initial thought is that the olive is the traditional bedfellow of the continental cured
meat.
Yeah, very much so.
They do a sort of flirty dance, don't they, with each other on the platters of the B&Bs
and hotels of Europe, don't they?
Between 7 and 9am.
It's richly symbolic.
Richly symbolic.
The ham, of course, represents the simple farm wench and the small, bitter olive is
the...
The corrupt baron.
The corrupt bar Baron's son.
Who's had his centre bored out by a machine and filled with a little pimento.
Because he failed to cover himself in glory in battle. That would be the punishment.
When do you reckon olives landed on British shores in terms of like, I wouldn't call them
an everyday snack necessarily, but you know, because they're ubiquitous now.
I reckon olives would have taken about 500 years at minimum to break down the British
palette and to get people because I think just initially they're just disgusting, aren't
they? It's just like, what, what, what is this foul nonsense?
I think for centuries, most people, a British person, if they'd been taken to a place where
there, there were olive trees growing, they would have just assumed this tree is dead. We need to cut it down and burn this
field and evacuate everyone who lives within a 10 mile radius of it.
Yeah, before it spreads.
And while we're here, grab those urns.
Because they'd look lovely on a little museum I'm setting up down the road.
You know what, imagine daffodils in that urn. It'd be lovely next to a wheelbarrow full of
ham.
They'd look lovely.
Full of ham and Mesopotamian scrolls.
I think ham is the British olives.
Oh, interesting.
That's a strong take.
That's a very, very strong take.
And it's shaped history.
It has been said, hasn't it, that if you want to invade Britain, the first thing you have
to do is set fire to all the pigs.
Which is really hard to do.
Which is why technically it's still legally imperative for farmers to keep their pigs
wet, isn't it?
From the polionic era.
You'd always see, they're always wet, a pig.
They're always wet, they're always outdoors.
We've taught them to wallow. Exactly. They think the way you eat food is you get into
a big trough full of swill and sort of ride about. That's how they eat. It's just a sort
of defence tank. Keeping them wet. Because obviously it's much easier to set fire to
olive groves, isn't it? Which is what, that's what you would do if you're invading, you
know, Italy or something or Greece. Is it the Romans did that? You trash all the
olive trees because they take like 70 years to grow or something. So you're absolutely
clustering the local community's ability to have cheese and wine dos and have like
finger food.
So the elite dies off in wheat.
The elite dies off.
You try and do a book launch without olives.
Yeah, so the intellectual classes got rid of as well. Yeah. Yeah. You just left
with the proles and you even, you leave some pigs there for them. So they, the proles move
onto the ham diet. They become sluggish. They become easy to control. Yeah. They become
sausage like sausage, fingered sausage brain. That's where the phrase, that's where the
phrase sausage brain comes from. Olives. I think they're one of those things where, but I think, I imagine a medieval,
you know, a medieval person in Britain seeing an olive would just be like, is this the way
a witch gets around? She compresses herself into this vile pod. Let's, let's cut it open
and see what's inside. Yes, it is a witch. It's a hard little horrible witch.
That cannot be killed.
That cannot be killed or reduced.
By earthly means.
It's like an atom you cannot subdivide the pit of an olive without blowing up the whole
country.
No, but because it's so, by a lot of metrics, it's incredibly crap food, isn't it?
And I think, you know, like the wisdom of children.
I think that's why children know.
I mean, no child likes olives.
But we kind of drill it into them, don't we?
And gradually we convince the adult that olives are an acceptable food.
But a child is just looking at things that this is by any metric of crap food.
A waste of my time.
The yield is small, the taste is foul.
The pip to flesh ratio is the most, the biggest piss take in the food kingdom.
Isn't it?
I mean, it's basically all pip.
It's not clear whether it's an animal or a plant.
Don't call it a fruit.
You're about to call it a fruit, Henry.
And that would really upset me if you called it a fruit.
It's actually technically a fruit.
Yeah.
As are pigs.
No. Yeah. As our pigs.
So both of you, big question. Yeah.
Yeah.
Green or black?
Black, I would say.
Ooh, Mike.
That's very classic, Mike.
I like that.
That's cause it's, that's an intense man's olive.
That's not, yeah, that's, that's.
You're messing around.
No, but it's also eighties pizza olive.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. it's also 80s pizza olive. Yeah, yeah.
It is 80s pizza.
Yeah, and I do need to be served on a pizza and I will eat around it.
You return them to the restaurateur at the end of the night.
In a envelope with a thank you note inside.
Yeah, that's the way we did it in the 80s. And they can reuse them the next time I'm in. That's fine. Put my name on the packet.
Yeah, it's fine.
It's a bit like shot in a partridge or game bird. If you accidentally got it in your mouth,
you'd spit it out instantly, wouldn't you?
Otherwise, yeah, off to see the dentist the next day, aren't you? So Henry, green or black?
I would generally lead towards the green because the black is quite bitter.
I see it's a bit like coffee.
It's a bit like the blacker it is, the more dark and bitter it is.
I feel like you have to train your palate over years, over a lifetime, to be able to
eat a really intense black olive and enjoy it.
So I go for the milder greens.
Well in Italy and Greece, on your deathbed you're given the final bitter olive, aren't
you?
The final bitter olive.
And that sends you over the edge.
Yeah. And if you start to make a recovery after that point...
Well, you're bludgeoned to death. Because you're too powerful.
Yeah. You're bludgeoned to death with the...
With olive branches. It takes a long time.
Ironically, because we often see the symbol of of peace and if that doesn't work then um they will again ironic way they'll shove
they'll shove a um a live dove down your down your throat and ironic white flag up your ass
if that is the way they'll ram you through with the pipes of peace
I'll ram you through with the pipes of peace. But what I will say is I do like black olives as well and I was actually going to ask, what's in your olive cupboard?
Oh, I've got, I've got some olives I can get.
I've got some olives.
Should we do live olives?
Let's do live olives.
Have you all got olives?
Spexon?
Yeah. Yeah. Because here might get you in his car. We're going to the airport. Shall we do live olives? Let's do live olives. Have you all got olives? I expect so.
Yeah, because here might get you in his car.
We're going to the airport.
So we're playing What's in Your Olive Cupboard.
I've got the little Meadow Fresh Olive Trio. Oh, okay.
So there's a, you've got a, what's the trio?
I can see black olives and green olives there.
What's the third?
So on the back it says pitted Calamon olives, pitted green Halkadiki olives and pitted green
Halkadiki olives filled with red pepper in a red pepper dressing.
So those are all being found in a meadow. Is that what they're
saying? Meadow fresh.
I'm going to challenge that as a concept because I've been
thinking what is an olive? It's not a traditional, crunchy
vegetable that's crunchy when raw. It's not a grape.
Yeah. You don't boil it.
You don't boil it. So what the boil it? What the heck is it? Is it not like a pickled
thing to some degree? It's sort of treated. I mean it's not, what I'm saying is it's
not, if it was meadow fresh it would be inedible I imagine. You can't pick an olive off a tree
and eat it, or can you? I think you can, I think it would be wonderful. But don't they
all just sit in vinegar? It's a vinegar infused something.
I think that's what we've got used to here.
I don't know. I don't, I literally just, this is what happens when you don't know,
but feel the need to speak.
If there's any olive farmers who are listening.
Let us know.
And can give us a Pompidou discount.
In Puglia.
I once went on holiday to Greece and there was some olive trees and the olive farmer
was beating the tree with a massive sort of paddle and all the olives are falling out.
It was brilliant.
Wow.
And there may be people from Italy that have had a similar experience on holiday in Britain
and seen a farmer whacking a tree with a paddle and there's a pig's falling out.
Which is a lovely sight.
Henry what are your olive? I'm packing a jar. I've gone for Calamata.
Authentic Greek. So these are sort of, they're kind of black olives actually,
but they're closer to kind of a bit purpley.
Purple. Yeah.
Yeah.
What have you got, Mike?
Uh, I've got a jar of your black pitted.
Right there.
Oh, those are, they are, and they are pure black. I've also got a jar of your black pitteds right there. Oh, those are, they are, and they are pure black.
I've also got a jar of your black Calamon with...
Oh, I'm on the Calamon train as well.
I've also got a tin of green Manzanilla Picante.
Oh, well done. Good range.
And I'm also going to throw in, just for good measure,
a little jar of black olive tapenade.
Don't mind if I do. Oh, nice one. You've got a very smooth olive cupboard. Olive paste. So basically it looks like
Mike's just won what's in your olive cupboard. Well done Mike. Thank you. Right, I'm going to eat one. I'm going to eat one.
Misophonia time.
Achilles, I will fight with you this day.
And I'll see you next in Valhalla.
Even though that's a different mythos system.
Giving my smallest, skimpiest set of armour.
Yes, the one with the six-pack on it.
It's just a codpiece and some spurs, you know the one.
It does make me want to put on some of those little gold shin pads they would wear.
Parasandals.
Big sword.
Winged headdress.
Winged headdress.
And, um...
Slaughter some priestesses.
Yeah.
Because the oracle decreed it.
And maybe, you know, after the battle later on, go on a date with a swan.
Have it off of the swan, see what happens.
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
Bigget, some sort of swan demigod that's going to probably in a couple of millennia come
back and do for you.
And it'll be in the form of a child born with the head and body of a human, but the neck
of a swan.
And the intellect of a swan and the intellect of a swan.
And the same reaction to small dogs of a swan.
My olive review of these Meadowfresh little olives is they taste like a cheap buffet at
a works event.
That's what I've gone for with my selection.
I went for one of the pitted black.
Mine very much were, yeah, abandoned buffet section of European Continental Breakfast
Buffet.
So they're both buffets that have been laid on by institutions which are up against it
financially to some degree.
Yeah, and it's a buffet that's been laid on in a loveless way, which is nobody wants
a loveless buffet.
Oh God, I forgot. Can we get the runner to go out and just, no, don't go as far as M&S.
There's a place up there. We haven't got time. Just pop. There's a place on the corner. There's
a bin on the corner.
So if there's any olives or anything and it just looks like there might be olives, no
one's going to eat them. So they don't need to be safe to eat. They just need to look
like we're might be olives. No one's going to eat them. So they don't need to be safe to eat. They just need to look like we're serving some olives.
They're going to want to feel that we're...
They're going to stay in a place where they might get olives.
They're going to want feeding.
Yeah. So where are your olives, Henry, inspired you to make love with the swan?
They really are. I just feel I'm on the plains of Troy.
Whereas me and Mike are at the photocopier.
I'm half Turkish.
There's one element of Turkish cuisine, it's probably Greek as well and maybe lots of cuisines
in that area, part of the world have this, but there's essentially,
there's a kind of glorious combination of flavours that come together that is superb,
but absolutely love, which is black olives, feta cheese.
Oh yeah.
Tomato.
Tomato.
It's a Greek salad.
It's a Greek salad.
Or a taco.
But yeah, basically Greek salad. It's a Greek salad.
But yeah, basically, for some reason, you take out one of those ingredients, it doesn't work, but the three, it's the kind of a bit of basil.
Basil would be good or dill. No.
Russian salmon roll.
You chuck a bass in the middle of that.
Nonsense.
Yeah, the whole thing is being eaten off of the, off the back of a massive sea
bass that's alive while floating in the ocean.
It's the most intense olive experience.
There's no dill.
If you eat just feta cheese, it's too salty.
Olive has. Olives are also a bit salty, aren't they?
It has a kind of sour quality and then the tomato kind of freshens it up and it creates
this kind of virtuous circle of just beauty in the palate. It's lovely. I absolutely love it.
But there's a black olive by itself. I've just eaten two and enjoyed them, but it's a bit much.
But they just all complement each other perfectly.
And then it's really good.
I would say Greek salad is on my weekly sort of lunch rotation. I'll have one a week.
Really?
Yeah.
It's a good, it's an excellent meal that takes sort of four minutes to make.
You can even bung a little bit of red onion in there.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Cuc, cucumber.
Yeah, a bit of the old cuc.
I don't like cucumber because when I was a teenager, I had two African land snails, those
huge big snails you can get.
And it was their favourite food.
And I just associate them with snails now, so I can't eat it because they were gross.
And so the mystery of Bonjamin is solved.
The origin story.
The origin story of Bonjamin.
Betsey was horrified by it.
Bonjamin origins.
Or Bonjarin-s.
Bonjamin Bonjarin's.
To begin with, I didn't feel they were gross.
Now I remember there was this like a moment, there was a kind of like turning point, or
one day I looked at them and I was like, those are fucking gross. And they live in my bedroom.
Yeah. And what age is this?
12, 13.
Very formative. Yeah, this is the origin of Bondurman. And then you look out of the window
and you're going in a way, people are snails, aren't they? Just without shells and they've
learned to put on shirts. Just feet that keep going all the way up. Just feet with a haircut.
And then they hibernate. So when it got to December or whatever, they went into their
shell.
And you'd just be thinking, please don't wake up. Please don't wake up. They didn't wake
up. Coincidence.
Nothing I did.
No.
But it was so sad.
Yeah.
And because you can't tell if they're dead or not, you just have to wait to see if they're
going to come out.
And they just never came out.
They never came out of their shells.
Yeah.
Or did they pull off the greatest escape story in modern times?
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. Let's sound a classic locked perspex case mystery.
Two snails. One snail tank and one twelve-year-old git.
Four tonnes of missing bullion.
And Alan Davis.
Playing the priest.
So is it possible, Ben, has this ever been fully explored as a possibility, that the
snails, as they will do in an extreme situation, e.g. exposure to a mean with his cucumber 12 year old git will escape their shells and
look for another dark cavernous place they can live. Two of them, two nostrils on that
12 year old boy. Two snails. They're there to this day.
I knew I shouldn't have snorted those two giant slugs.
Is it possible then that they're actually in you right now and they're controlling you
from the inside of your brain and you think you're talking about two snails you didn't
like, whereas actually two snails that didn't like you are talking about themselves through
you.
You finally understood why occasionally you have the urge to feed a cucumber through your
left ear.
Doesn't make sense of that, doesn't it?
And also, why Ben didn't turn up to R-Cover yourself with Salt Party last year.
Time to read your emails.
Yes, please.
When you send an email, you must give thanks to the postmasters that came before.
Good morning, postmaster.
Anything for me?
Just some old shit. When you send an email, this represents progress.
Like a robot shooing a horse.
Give me your hoof.
Woooah!
My beautiful horse!
This is from Dr Jacob.
Hello Dr Jacob.
Hi Dr Jacob.
Historically, much has been made of the banality of evil.
Related brackets sometimes integral to this concept is cruelty by inattention.
This can be manifest, for example, in inaccessible hospital architecture, lazily designed prisons full of blind spots,
oblique welfare bureaucracies, or non-functioning government websites.
Spending the last couple of weeks completing your jigsaw.
My wife and I found ourselves drawn to this dark field of study. Combining the madly similar and arbitrary pieces required the close analysis and anticipation of a plan that soon revealed
itself to be no plan at all, just a fluke of whimsy, an accidentally constructed labyrinth,
the fart of some unknowable Leviathan upon upon whose wings we are vaingloriously calling ourselves puzzlers."
Yeah.
It's so rich in metaphor, the puzzle, it can mean different things to different people.
It's one of those things anyone can read anything they want into it, because it has that quality
to it.
"'We did complete the puzzle, but I fear that the question to which it led us in our
dark nights of frustrated labour will continue to haunt us. These questions about trust, about our foolish impulses, about
the assumption of intelligence and the chaos of this world, are likely to remain a puzzle
evermore. Kind regards, Dr Jacob.
Golly, what a journey Dr Jacob has made. Presumably that's why Dr Jacob was awarded the doctorate
in the first place.
That's right. That's right. He was previously Jacob and he's now, yeah, he has a doctorate in advanced
advanced despair ology.
We've had a bollocking. This is from, I think, RAFE, R-A-P-H, RAFE or RAF.
R-A-P-H?
Yeah, I'd say RAF. Maybe RAF, R-A-P-H, RAF or RAF? R-A-P-H? I'd say RAF.
RAF, maybe RAF.
Sorry, RAF or RAF, whichever it is.
Dear beans, I often find myself reviewing older episodes while waiting for the latest
bean release.
Upon a re-listen of your Assassinations episode, following a discussion of new metal, Henry
suggests that his teenage heaven was, and I quote, 17th century Bach.
Oh no.
As Mike and Ben will no doubt be aware, the earliest compositions we can describe to Johann
Sebastian Bach came from circa 1703 or 1704, when he was merely 18 or 19 years old, and
crucially during the 18th century. Not the 17th!
Yeah, but you were talking about Bach's great uncle, weren't you?
Bach the Elder. Sorry, but which you were talking about Bach's great uncle, weren't you? Bach the Elder. Yeah.
Sorry, I should have been specific.
He used to do sort of lewd ditties.
He did, well, lewd loot, as we called him.
He was the lewd lootster.
Yes.
Sorry.
And a lot of people like the early stuff of people, of artists, as a way of
making themselves cool.
I go even further back.
I prefer-
Go to the uncle level.
Go to the uncle level of early.
Raph says, unless the teenage Henry had access to a time machine, or ground breaking new
musicological research unearthing pre-1700 Bach compositions before he was 16 years old,
I'd call bollocks to Henry's assertion that he listened to 17th century Bach
and demand on behalf of all music history purists that he accept this baroque Bach bollock.
Well, I don't accept it.
The last few sentences have reaffirmed something I suspect anyway, which is that essentially
because of the way in which we label centuries, 17th century, is that 1700s?
No, that's 1600s.
It's not clear enough anyway, because I think there he said 17th century, then 1700s.
It's not clear which century anyone's referring to when they say 17th
They mean the one where each one starts 1700 or is it the 17th 18th century?
Which is the next one because we start from year zero, which doesn't count as a number zero
Is it in the same way that it's impossible to know whether you've got?
When someone says something's happening in ten days, it's impossible to know what they mean
Do you mean because do you count do you count the initial day or not?
That's why it's impossible to actually know for sure if you've got 10 of anything because
are you counting the first one or not?
Do you know what I mean?
Is it one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10?
How many things have I just said?
I don't know, because did I say, do I, do you know what I mean?
Do you count the zero?
It's impossible to, especially around the turns of the centuries,
early 1700s, it's particularly unclear where anyone's at. It's not an exact sign.
Also, if you watch any telly from the early 80s, it seems a bit like the 70s, right?
Exactly.
And things from the early 90s feel like they're from the 80s, but they're actually from the
early 90s.
You get bleed. You get intersectional decade bleed. If it was early 1700s, is it true?
Could we say it's late
80s? It's got late 80s, 18th century vibe. We could be saying that. Yes. Would we know
what we meant? No. So and in a way, is that what Bach's uncle's music is trying to tell
us? Maybe it is. Maybe it is. I'd go back to the uncle stuff and give it another listen
and then just keep to yourself. Don't get in touch again. Thank you very much.
No, no, it was lovely to hear from you.
Thanks.
It was actually.
Time for another bollock?
Sure.
Why not?
Now we're warmed up.
This is from Nicholas.
It is with great sadness that I have to deliver a wallop of a bollock to Wozniak.
In a recent episode he stated he would fenestrate an orca with a machine gun.
That means plant trees all over it?
Well no, he says technically fenestration would involve putting a window in the Orca. I suggest he may have meant defenestration, which is the favoured
way the Putin regime deals with awkward doctors and about 50% of political enemies. Delighted
to deliver the bollock, yours Nicholas.
Well he's obviously never messed with Mike. Mike'll stick a window in you in fucking three
seconds.
Yeah, I could have obviously just cut the Orca to ribbons with a machine gun, but
you know, that's not, that's not our deterrent, right?
Took them out to Terrence.
Yeah.
Whereas if I send an Orca back to its family and I've installed a Velux in it, yeah, and
not even using the usual tools, but using the sort of bus of a submachine gun, people
at the Orcas en masse are going to know not
to mess with.
And just so you know, if it does do that to you or one of your relatives, just a little
note, do register it because it does have the VLUX warranty, but that's only if you
register it within the first two weeks, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, Michael double glazed your
ass. He'll stick a window in you. Who do you think
you are?
I'll stick a window in our French window, your auntie, you know. Don't care who knows
it.
And he'll open them up and go for a stroll. Then come back a bit later.
Install some curtains.
Install some curtains. He doesn't care.
He'll patio your ass.
He'll stick a car window in your leg.
He doesn't care.
I'll turn your school friends into a conservatory.
You will.
It's not Harrow Rules boxing, mate.
You're going to get glazed.
You're going to get a porthole where the sun don't shine, rendering it useless.
Yeah.
But a nice feature from a design point of view.
But until your turd start building up against that glass, you've got nowhere to go.
So is that fair to say, Mike, that's a bollocking rejected?
Rejected?
Oh, of course.
Yeah.
I mean, words are my weapons.
We know that.
And I choose them.
The idea that I would misspeak madness.
Madness?
Reflecto-Bollock.
At this juncture, we'd normally play the Patreon jingle in a player version sent in by one
of you. This one is so good. This is from Jez and Evie from Huddersfield.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
They write,
Dear beans, for some time now my daughter Evie and myself have thought that the reversing
sound on my father-in-law's Honda CRV sounds like your Patreon jingle. We've recorded the sound from his car and then recorded
the great man himself, my father-in-law, Mr Geoffrey Stott, saying the words. Now, this
is even better than I thought it might be. I don't fully understand why... do cars make
a noise when they reverse notice
Well vans beep but it's not that is it what yeah where sounds different doesn't it's different sound quality to how is it
Anyway, let's see
Yeah, but I'm wondering if it's an electric car and they've put a sound in oh
To stop you reversing into people people not noticing. I see cuz I said quite
Here we go.
It's time to pay the furry man.
Patreon!
Patreon.com
forward slash
three bean salad.
He's got a brilliant mind. First up, great work by Mr. Jeffrey Stock there.
Incredible.
Hats off to Mr. Jeffrey Stock.
Beyond the Call of Duty for Father and all that, isn't it?
Yeah.
Way beyond the Call of Duty.
Superb.
And what a haunting sound your Honda CR-V makes as it reverses.
That's got to be electro, surely. That sounds like a car of the future.
It's beautiful.
That's outstanding. Thank you, Jess. Thank you, Evie.
Thank you. That was absolutely amazing.
And Mr. Geoffrey Stott.
And of course, Mr. Geoffrey Stott.
They write,
You may have heard of Mr. Geoffrey Stott as he opened the first video rental shop in Huddersfield
in 1982. It's Mr. Jeffrey Stott as he opened the first video rental shop in Huddersfield in 1982.
It's that Jeffrey Stott.
That Jeffrey Stott.
Yeah, okay.
So if you like the sound of bonus episodes, if you like the sound of ad-free episodes.
Or maybe you'd like to have a little wander around Film Corner.
Yes.
We recorded a new Film Corner, which is our Patreon only film ramble podcast. Where the three of us discussed June 2.
It's very unlike other film podcasts because they will often try and review films
when they come out or just, you know, immediately before.
Whereas we'll be when it's just after the buzzers die.
But not long ago enough for it to be interesting again.
Anyway, also, if you'd like a shout out from Mike in the Sean Bean Lounge, you can join up at the Sean Bean tier.
You certainly can.
Mike was in the Sean Bean Lounge last night.
I was as well.
There has been a bit of a queue to get in recently.
So Sean Bean Lounge, don't panic if you've not got in.
But we did, there was a bunch of us in last night.
We had a right-o right.
Cause of course it was the...
Well, it was the non obscene Grecian Ernst night, wasn't it?
Oh my God.
Thank you Henry.
It was.
And here's my report.
It was non obscene Grecian Ernst night last night
at the Sean Bean Lounge.
The evening was held in the east wing of the lounge which Frances Rayner had melted down
and refashioned into a gigantic events urn equipped with toilets, kitchenette and CD
player, for which she was awarded the Sean Bean Top Bastard Medallion and a lifetime
supply of Sean Bean.
Nicholas Sutcliffe presented an urn which wasn't obscene but could have been construed
as obscene in a thick fog, and so was castigated, ejected and generally made an example of,
simply to underscore the point that the Grecian urns were meant to be non-obscene.
Robert Cremer, Tegan Renrose, Adam Cann and Emily Ward presented an urn
depicting a scene from a holiday they all took in Whitby, but not together and not at the same time.
Poppo presented a narrative urn in which the hero, William Ned Blake,
did battle with Dr. Joey J. Dogg for the sacred Marks and Spencer's Fleece of Gavin Elstead, before being tempted
by the funky baseline of Guzzle and Faff, by the forbidden fruit of Stephen Ayers, and
by the forbidden fruit-flavoured yoghurt of Max Tweedle, after which he sought counsel
with the oracle of Yoni Evans who advised him not to go into caves with the offspring
of Zeus and a bull, with the offspring of James Irwin with an I and a bull, the offspring
of James Irwin with an E and a bull, with the offspring of James Erwin with an eye and a bull, the offspring of James Erwin with an E and a bull or with strangers.
Alison Erdly used an urn to recreate Fall of a Birdman, also known as episode 6, series
2 of Bergerac, and instead of painting collaged Sean Bean lounges onto the urn.
David Robinson appeared as a young John Nettles, Dan MacDonald as a young Celia Imrie, Catherine
Page as a young Donald Sumter, Alex Marsh as a young Richard Griffiths, Joanna Fallon as an old Richard Griffiths
doing Ruby Anniversary DVD commentary, and Barnaby Gurling, picture perfect as Terrence
Alexander's rapscallion Charlie Hungerford. Nathan Miller and Colin J. Broadbent's earn
showed the mating process of the heron, this being the least obscene avian mating process
the urn was allowed as educational. Bethan R's urn about the history of urns was felt to be strong meat by Harry Kidd,
dangerously subversive by Frederick Yesen, part of a conspiracy involving the CIA and
Honda by Kerry Flynn, not as good as the original book by Rhys Mayne, and it reminded Barnaby
Britton of his primary school head teacher.
Jordan Arshad won plaudits for attending as a non-obscene Grecian urn, having been hollowed
out by Jack
Facley using Lawrence, given handles made from the legs of Matthias Holl, and glazed by Laura
Butterbean using a solution made of TJM and Soda Feldspar. An optional lid was constructed from
Team GB synchronised lid silver medallists Alan Martin, Amanda Dochin and Peter Hegemeyer.
Mark Allen presented a Gresham-Grecian urn. Esther Kate, an urn depicting
instructions for playing the ancient Greek equivalent of a five-string banjo. Ash Richardson,
a ready-salted urn. Harry Bingham, an urn with a trap for making smaller urns disappear. And
Brigitte, an urn you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. Mark Duncan made an urn in the image of
Becky Duncan before realising he already was an urn made by Becky Duncan in the image of himself
in a case that's ongoing. Elsewhere, finally able to use their long sidelined catchphrase, there's no eye in
urn, Chris Miller, Freddie Armstrong and Ginger McGarrity showcased a team effort urn that
would have put the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers to shame.
Least obscene urn yet with something of a wink and a nudge went to Tess, Dan Watson
received a special commendation for his magic eye urn, and Karen Martin Bond took home the gold for the fastest time to escape from a very large urn that's full of lots of much smaller urns.
Thanks all.
So that's the show, we'll finish with a version of our theme tune sent in by one of you.
This is from Graham in Florida.
Oh, thanks Graham. Blimey.
He writes, long time listener, first time emailer.
I'd been meaning to send in a version of your theme tune for a while now, but I haven't been sure what it should be. Then it hit me!
Your theme tune is perfectly suited to being played on a set of boomwhackers. Boomwhackers
are a favourite tool of music teachers. They are plastic tubes tuned to various notes when
they are hit against the knee or hand. A set of boomwhackers has a range of notes due to
their varying length. So please find and attach my boomwhackers has a range of notes due to their varying lengths.
So please find and attach my boomwhacker rendition of the theme tune.
Yours, Graham from Florida.
Thanks, Graham. And thanks everyone for listening.
Yes, until next time.
Thank you, bye.
Goodbye.
Bye. So Thanks for watching!