Incongruent

S2E6: Toys

December 06, 2020 Hashim Riyan Season 2 Episode 6
Incongruent
S2E6: Toys
Show Notes Transcript

Santa is coming to town and we all know what that means! Toys... or at least that's what the boys are thinking as the girls have mostly deserted us for this episode leaving Lydia to provide an alternative, and more intelligent perspective on this week's theme.

Hosted by Hashim Riyan: @hashim_riyan

With:
Arjun Radeesh: @arjunrads_20
Lydia Vourlidi: @lydia_vrl
Stephen King (on saxophone)

Hashim:

Ladies and gentlemen we have today with us the one the only on the saxophone for our festivities Dr. Stephen King

Stephen King:

I hit that not

Hashim:

Hello and welcome back to another edition but the edition of the Incongruent podcast. Boy Do we have a show for you guys today. Today in terms of the festive season, all of us are looking forward to this very, very cold season wherever you may be. Even if you're in the middle of the desert like us, it's still gonna be colder than usual. But we're focusing today on something very special to us something that went through chimneys and that finds itself underneath trees all the time and this festive season we are talking about toys, our favourite toys, what do we like about toys? And today I am joined by our June Maria and our very own Stephen King on this episode. So our June toys. What do you like about Toys R June? What do you have to tell us about the festive season and your history of toys?

Arjun Radeesh:

In my history of toys normally I am not I okay. When I was a kid I was having a nice What? red coloured teddy bear? Okay, which when I was like second or third the teddy bear went, Okay, so you know you start you got to stop crying. You got so much soft toys with you. Okay. Um, I was just having like this one particular water from monkey kind of, like, I'll say a bunny or something. Like it's very fluffy. Okay, I sometimes like hugging deep. But that the now that like after, okay, after a certain point I was pretty What? Crazy with cars and planes. So So till today I have my toys of cars and planes. So look, my car, okay, they have like literally scale models of a GCC three, as well as what a Land Cruiser and a Nissan 370 z. Like the scale models I do have I still keep them some No. And normally, when it comes to like, there, there were times where we were halfway, we used to have this remote control cars, like the big Range Rovers or like, do what I normally do that as the guy stopped painting that I'm sort of like I was pretty what in love with pigs, and whatever I see like toys, I sit and paint that. But that to a certain point, my mom's took off the paints for me because she was like, Okay, I was doing such a dirty business of making the house even more dirty. Okay, make the house dirty with the pins. And she was like, literally behind me for that. And right now, I'm just sort of like, I still have toys. Okay, I still have like the cars as long as my plane models, like the treaties of the triple sevens, those plane models, so I have, unlike sometimes so I don't take that I feel sometimes, like take the plane like, okay, since it's having wheels. I tried to like put it over the floor of this, like, just like food in this I tried to do. Okay,

Hashim:

I think that's a that's a fair representation of your history with toys.

Arjun Radeesh:

I just I just wanted to add on one more thing. So doing okay, so when I think like when I was sort of like in my 20s when I was 12 years or something. We used to have something called us beyblades a bad boy. It's called the bay blade. Okay, so basically you put it on a spinner, and you have to pull this trigger so that it sort of, Okay, I can't have a sophisticated Tip Top some tips or something like that. Like, okay, have you understood right?

Hashim:

What he's what he's talking about, Yo, dude, I got away. It's a big question mark or June. I like that. I do make some some curiosity of the show makes you want to listen. Yeah, babe. Beyblade is basically you get like this plastic container, and it's usually two v two or four v four. It's like this metal Inception type thing. The thing that he spins, but there's a string on it. It's very, it's very pre 1950s. And then you just pull the plastic and it spins. And whoever spins the other ones topsy turvy thing the outside of the thing he wins. Yeah. Right. Well talking about talking about being progressive, we have a female with us on the show, the only one that actually cared enough to show up. Lydia, let me ask you what happened with you and toys when you were young? Did you have anything that you were anything that you were obsessed with? Or anything that you'd like to add with your history with toys as a kid?

Lydia:

So Well, we don't like I don't know any girls that have like toys per se, like I did have like Barbies, which was nice. Not stereotypical at all. But I used to have a Barbie doll house, which gave away to charity. When I grew up. I did have some Teddy's. I kept some more sentimental, but like toys, toys. I prefer like, like games like card games, or like floor games. We love playing card games in Greece. Because everybody, like can make their own teams and like, fool each other. So it's very nice. So yeah, you guys like I never had like cars. But I had like the train thing that were you built in. And it was like a Christmas tree that we had you make the train and you built it and you that goes through the Christmas tree and all that, which was nice. So yeah, that's my

Hashim:

Did you did you have any card game where you were so addicted to it that you had to stop like, you made you lose some friends when you kept playing it?

Lydia:

certain games can be card games can be very addictive, especially a few. So I really like bluff. bluff is basically each person has four cards. And you have to put a card on the table and you have to convince the other person that what the card is. It's not. It's not the correct. It's not sorry, it's the correct one. So let me let me give you an example. So you can understand. So basically, I'm putting a card on the table and I'm saying this is Ace, if the person the other person believes that I am lying. They can I can show them the card. But if they're correct, I, I take all the cards that are on the table, so I lose. But if they're wrong, they take all the cards and then lose. So yeah, it's a pretty fun game, especially at parties or like trips and all that because it's like it's very bonding game. And another one that I like is twisters. Basically, you have it's on the floor, and you are supposed to sit at the one end of the circle and then there is a referee that will tell you to do certain acts. And yeah, whoever falls down in the end is the loser.

Hashim:

So yeah, I like that. You mentioned Twister because I like Personally, I like very physical games or games that you have to move your body and not that I was Stephens looking at me like Yeah, I like very physical games cuz I don't like to sit it sitting down to one corner and spinning blade alone. I was a very social kid, even though like they wouldn't reflect the same emotion most of the time. But hey, I was I really liked physical games and things and especially WWE figurines, the action figures. Because I grew up. I grew up in the 2000s that was my thing. The the build all the fake tattoos that they had. Which other stuff was what? What?

Lydia:

Isn't it better t socialise with people rathe than just doing everythin online? I don't know. That's m humble opinion

Hashim:

No, I think it's good just to have one girl on the show. It's, it's okay. I used to love because I was I was a short kid. So I used to love Ray Mysterio. And like his, his mystery with the mask, and I'd watch him on TV and this guy would be flying, like a lot like this guy have turbo boosters in the shoes, and then I'd lose my thing and that I'd read don't try this at home. And um, ah, I can't I couldn't do it that did not come down there like seven feet. And he's like five foot two. So that gave me you know, hope. Yeah, so I just bought the figurines and tried to reenact and, and yeah, after three years, they're missing limbs. So they look like they were really, really used.

Lydia:

Even Nowadays, people don't really care about toys, or sentimental gifts of that matter. They're more like buying electronics. And I think that now given the situation of COVID-19 I don't know if people will buy many toys. But looking back at previous years, many people did use to buy electronics like phones and laptops. So I think something that we're missing from this kind of era. I hope I'm pronouncing that word correctly. It's buying gifts that are more sentimental because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter the kind of gift it matters that this person gave it to you and has a value to them and you So yeah, that's the message of the day by me.

Hashim:

what do you want for the season video? Because I know,

Lydia:

I want everyone to have heir health. That's all I want. o I don't think anything else akes me full. So I think health s a very important important alue. I don't want to say hing. It's an important value or every person around the orld today. So yeah,

Hashim:

yeah, I don't really need anything anymore. I mean, I could use a couple new bow ties. I mean, wink wink, if anybody's listening and you know, my audios, you know what I mean, you can help a brother out in this. It's really cold outside. Yeah. But

Arjun Radeesh:

To all those lovely people out there, if you want to get Hashim some free bow ties, please dm Hashim on his Instagram. He's very active over there. He'll give you all the address details, blah, blah, blah stuff. And also send us all to something for free, please.

Hashim:

And I think that wraps us up for today. Thank you everybody, for listening. And now we're going to listen to music from the one the only Stephen King with the seasonal selection.