Phil Wang
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Podcast Appearances
Hold on a second.
You might have to explain that, Phil.
What are you talking about?
It was for a project called Metal Guy 4.
It was for Rome Total War, which is a video game, a real-time strategy game I've always been a big fan of, and they were remastering the original Rome Total War
And to coincide with it, they wanted to do a funny travel documentary about the Romans, but it was COVID, so we couldn't go to Rome, so we did Roman Britain.
And for one episode, it was about Roman British food, and they ate loads of oysters.
Did they?
Yeah.
Roman sites, archaeological sites, are full of oyster shells, and their walls are full of oyster shells, because they reused and put in the cement.
That's very cool.
And so we went down to the Whistleblower Oyster Company, which is the oldest company in company house in the UK.
The Whistleblower Oyster Company is the oldest company in company's house that survived.
They keep growing as well.
Sorry, this has become oyster trivia.
They keep growing.
Yeah, on the beach where the oyster farm is, there was an oyster that just dropped off one of the racks years ago, and it was like the size of this table.
It was massive.
The guy who showed us around the oyster wrecks was a very experienced oyster fisherman, and he was trying to get me to shuck them, which I couldn't do because these oysters are so sharp, and my soft, soft city hands were just breaking against the crust of these oysters.
And he said, you're a city man, Luke pointed at my hands, and he went, you know what we call those here?