BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie - Episode 175 - Delirious!

Episode Date: August 3, 2022

Phil Wang and Pierre Novellie chat City Gollum, the reason we eat the meats we eat, security and hygiene theatre (Security Theatre at the fringe), Montreal just for laughs, Bob Odenkirk, eating horses, Get bonus BudPod on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Budpod 175. Um, 175. Uh, pushing through the strife. Pierre is... I've just arrived from Montreal and I'm pushing through the strife of Jetlag. And Pierre has just got to the Edinburgh where he'll push through the strife of the Edinburgh Frange. That's right. I'm strifing through that frange

like you wouldn't believe. I'm here at the frange. You're living that strife life. I'm living the strife life. You know what they say. You know what they say. You know what they say. They say make strife your wife and live that strife life. It's a hard-on strife.

Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I'm up at the Frange. I'm in my Frange flat with my Frange friend, Alex Keeley, great comedian. Go see his show. Oh, is it you and Alex in the flat together this year? It's me and old Alex Kighley, great comedian, go see his show. Oh, is it you and Alex in the flat together this year? It's me and old Alex Keighley in the flat,

eating buttered bread, high-fiving. Wow. Excellent. What a day so far. And all for only £10,000 each for the month. Or a limb. Or an entire limb

yeah well actually well thanks to Alex and his partner we actually we've managed to get ourselves a pretty good deal so we should be we should be very grateful because everyone else is getting completely scammed oh I'm getting scammed big time

I'm only there for like 10 days and I'm paying more than I have paid previously for a month. Oh, it's as if the city of Edinburgh has gone, well, let's try and make up for everything we lost during COVID with this one month. It's an interesting approach economically. It doesn't seem sound, but well, you know, it could be egg on my face come September. If the show doesn't seem sound but well you know it could be egg on

my face come september if the show doesn't go well um it's your first is your first show tonight at the fringe yes tonight on tuesday the day before release so by the time you guys hear this the key knows kino b knows it will be done the first show show will be done. But there are many more opportunities to catch you for PodBuds in Edinburgh. I will be joining the gang

on the 15th. I'm doing my show from the 15th to the 21st of August in Edinburgh. So if you're around, do come along. Lovely. I'll be there the whole month except for a few random days off. So just go to the Monkey Barrel at 610 and scream my name and see what happens. Yes.

Can't wait to see the show. Thanks, man. I think it'll be good. I've been very bold and managed to get two reviewers in tonight, even though it's technically a preview and it's the first night. That's good. That's a good call. I think so.

I think so. We'll see if my boldness pays off. I'll tell you what. There's a sort of giddiness, a sort of optimistic giddiness those first couple of days of The Fringe that people rarely take advantage of. I think people get a little too scared about reviewers and auditors coming in early but those first couple of shows because people are still excited about the fringe at that point that uh yeah that's

true and you and you'd hope this year more than ever given the the fact that the fringe is only just sort of back right so maybe i hope you're right um and uh also like um do you get what i do what i get when i when i like have to pack for like a long trip and in this case i was packing for a month basically like you stand and you look at your suitcase all zipped up there and you think i know i've forgotten something but by definition i can't know what it is until I realize I've forgotten it. Yes, yes. And the unknown, yeah.

It's like the known unknown and the unknown unknown. Yeah, the Rumsfeldian unknown unknowns, yeah. Exactly. Donald Rumsfeld knew how to pack. That's what I'm saying. I made the opposite mistake going to Montreal. Oh, yeah?

I, um... Because a couple of days before my trip to Montreal, I brought a bottle of white wine to a friend's house party, and I have this freezer sleeve. It's like a sleeve packed with a sort of freezing gel that you put in the freezer and then you you wrap around the bottle so i was if i bring a white a white wine i i pop it in the sleeve and i pop in my backpack and i take it over um and then a couple days after i flew over to montreal and went through, got to my hotel room, unpacked my bags, and I had taken the wine sleeve across the Atlantic in my backpack because I forgot to take it out.

On a lovely trip. On a little trip. You know how sometimes you just bring things on a little trip? Like my gym clothes, I just brought them on a little trip. I put my gym clothes in my bag and they didn't come out of the bag they just went for a little trip you know when you you know when you have like a weekend away or a little work trip and you pack gym clothes in your bag thinking yeah i'll find time in my busy schedule to become a different person yeah exactly what if i wasn't

me for the weekend too yeah what if suddenly going to a slightly different place changes me completely? What if I absorb some of that incredible holiday and energy? Montreal was fun. So hang on, I have a question about the wine sleeve thing. Okay. Was it in your hand luggage? It was in my hand luggage, yeah. It was in my backpack.

I always take my backpack onto the plane. How did it get through? Surely it looks the most like a sort of suicide vest for a cat. Yeah, you're right. It's a suspicious little pack of gel, isn't it? Yeah, it doesn't get much more bommy than that, does it? That's a very good point i swear i swear stuff has been getting through those those checks more and more recently

like little bits of liquid are forgotten have ended up coming through yeah it's always frightening when you discover that because you sort of go oh i got away with it and then you go oh no i got away with it yeah exactly yeah what else are people got away with it. And then you go, oh, no, I got away with it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, what else are people getting away with? We have reached the full theatre end of security theatre. It is now no security in all theatre. I'm just going to take the microphone out of the stand and hold it because I can't...

I'm sort of half lying on a... Hang on. I'm half lying on a bed here, so this is a bit precarious. Ooh, louche. Yes, I'm recording this as if I'm in a sort of opium den. Sort of on loads of pillows with really long fingernails. That's what that clacking is.

Yeah, I love... I can't say enough about how much I love the term security theatre, having learned it. Oh, it's very good, isn't it? Great to throw around. And hygiene theatre. Having to wear my mask on the flight there and back, the whole way through.

I walked past a lady in Edinburgh, Scotland. I walked past a lady today in Edinburgh, Scotland, just wearing a mask on the pavement just walking around outside yeah in the windy scottish air and i thought i mean i guess but security theater i think is also one of the acts at the fringe this year isn't it it's one of the student improv groups well it's yeah it's a it's a it's a group of um it's a group of uh U.S. policemen. It's a group of cops from the U.S.

who've been suspended for terrible violence against civilians. And in their off time now, the police unions are funding them to come to the Edinburgh Fringe and do an improv show. And they take suggestions from the audience and they construct a way in which they try and make it seem like it was okay to shoot you so they just go oh give me give me a location and uh they say uh you just say just what just minding my own business in my garden and they go yeah i could shoot you there yep yeah i could next next location it turns out there are it turns out there aren't any locations

where they can't shoot you no no well that's the game is that they've said that if by the end of the month um if by the end of the month someone can figure out that figure out one where they couldn't just say no no i could shoot you there. They will finally release all their body cam footage. That's the pledge they've made. And they'll admit to all the actual murders they've done. So that would be nice. That's Security Theater on a 3 a.m. at the Glob. Can't wait to see them at the Glob. I've got my tickets already.

Everyone go see Security Theater at the Glob at 3 a.m. They're doing a big see them at the Globe. I've got my tickets already. Everyone go see Security Theatre at the Globe at 3am. They're doing a big extra show in the castle at the end of the month. Can't wait for that. What is the energy like in Edinburgh? Are people excited to be back in full? Are the locals annoyed already? What's going on?

What are the cabbies saying? Literally, I was about to say the guy who gave us a i was gonna say a lift i mean we paid him the cab driver who we paid to drive us from the the train station he was saying he hasn't been this busy in like 10 years so i mean hopefully that's true and not just a bit of cabbie banter it sounds like it might be cabbie banter because surely it's more it's so unaffordable for people this year well i don't know i mean like maybe it's unaffordable because everything got booked up so soon i don't know sometimes they use algorithms so the price maybe maybe it's hard to

know it's hard to know it's very yeah it's hard to know it's hard to be sure i mean he was just talking about how busy he was it seems quite busy um i think the energy's going to be quite weird, because it's like the first time the Fringes happened in three years, and people are still adjusting to socialising, and like, I think everyone's got this kind of like, slightly hysterical energy. Which is good for

a comedy festival. That must be nice. Have you seen my poster about? One of my tall guys. I got my tall posters in a couple of spots. Where have you got a tall poster? I got a tall poster. I got, I don't know, like one of those long standy things with the three sides.

Oh, the big triangles. Big triangles. I don't think so, but then I haven't walked around much. I've just been sort of i can't wait to eat in all my favorite places in edinburgh oh yeah man oh yeah good town for for eating for eating up foods it is a good time for eating foods um all kinds of foods i had to go uh i had to walk down a sort of bit of highway to a morrison's to get a phone charger because that was the thing I left Phil was I brought all the elaborate

crazy niche wires necessary for Budpod and I didn't bring my iPhone charger yeah there's always a way yeah just and I was lucky it was one of those Morrison's big enough that it sells random electrical goods well that's good that is good I was lucky it was one of those Morrisons big enough that it sells random electrical goods.

Well, that's good. That is good. Why did you have to walk on a highway? Well, because where we're staying is not near... Well, it's not like near a highway, but it's like... It was one of those Morrisons where they haven't planned for you to get there on foot. Right, yes.

Like it's that big a stop, stop, it's that big a shop that they're like, well, no one's, everyone's driving here. I mean, no one lives nearby. Like all the nearby buildings are like massive corporate stealing glass.

Very much a ring, a ring road vibe. Very much a ring road vibe. So I felt a bit like a character from Better Call Saul or something, just sort of wandering in on foot. Oh, yeah. With a wide shot and like a single lone tingling as you come in. Yeah, exactly, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I've got so much Better Call Saul to catch up on, I just remembered. Mate, you better. That'll be fun. Oh, you know what? Watching the plane over here. Speaking of Bob Odenkirk, who I saw live in Montreal, by the way.

Because, do you know Andy Kindler's State of the Industry address? Yes, yeah. Yeah, so Andy Kindler is this American comedian who for, what, like 20 years now? 25 years? He's been doing the State of the industry address at the montreal comedy festival where he basically goes on and like insults the industry yes it's great

and various comedians for like 45 minutes it's very good very funny and this year to announce him in person on stage came bob odenkirk, which was really exciting, really cool. And then on the plane over here, last night I watched the Bob Odenkirk movie, Nobody. Have you seen it? No, is it good? It looks exactly like my street, but I never got around to it.

It's very John Wick. It might even be by the same people as John Wick. Oh, sick. It's great. It's some really great combat. Really crunchy, violent stuff. It's brilliant. So he's like sort of slightly old John Wick or something?

Yeah, yeah. Old, secret. He's a secret John Wick. I say old. I mean, Keanu Reeves is fucking old. He doesn't seem old because of that demon he made a deal with.

Yeah. What else did you see? Any other celebs you spotted walking around in Montreal? Montreal. I think Sandra O came to my show.

My solo show. She was wearing a face mask so I could only see the top half of her face, but I thought, that's, oh! I thought. She came on her own, and I feel like celebs now,

they wear face masks to stay undercover. Yeah, the new baseball cap. It must be a real gift for a celebrity just to be like, no, I'm just a guy with a cold. Yeah. But the top half of her face was like, no, I'm just a guy with a cold. Yeah. But the top half of her face was like,

that looks like Sandra. Oh. And I've seen a lot of ladies over the last couple of years wearing masks. And at no point have I gone, oh, it looks like Sandra Oh. This lady looked like Sandra Oh. Okay.

I think. Did you point to her and go, Sandra? Oh. Sandra Oh. Sandra Oh. I think she came to my solo show Ho ho ho ho

You should have sung that While alternately pointing at her And slapping a buttock In front of everyone Sandra Oh I think she came to my solo. So I think I spotted that celeb. What's she most famous for? There would have been...

I guess at this point, Killing Eve, right? Yes, that's true. That's a recent hit. She first burst onto the scene in Grey's Anatomy back in the day. Of course. That's what I'm thinking of. Grey's Anatomy. I never watched it.

No, me neither. I've never really been interested in the whole medical setting, really. I mean, I watched Scrubs. Was it like Scrubs? Yeah, I watched Scrubs. Was it like Scrubs? Yeah, I watched Scrubs and I quite enjoyed Scrubs. I remember my uncle pointing out that Scrubs is actually sadder than House.

Oh, that's a nice observation. Yeah. I never watched House. Well, he was a huge House fan and then he was visiting from South Africa and we watched some Scrubs and he was like, he was like,

people actually die in this. He's like, this is actually sad. I know it's like they've got silly songs and stuff but like it's actually sadder than house because in house house wins the house always wins the house always wins so and i thought god that's a really good yeah really good comment really wise that's a that's a wise uncle comment that's a pretty that's a good uncle's observation uncle observations is a very good like new genre of comedy here at the fringe this year I guess it's uncle roger

isn't it I oh yeah that's true he started it Nigel Ng's Uncle Roger observing rice I speaking of food

in Montreal Pierre I ate my first ever bit of horse nay I ate horse I went

I was at a very fancy Frenchy restaurant and someone at the table ordered horse for the table, and then when it arrived, everyone was too grossed out to eat any, so I ate some. Everyone?

I was the only one who ate any. Even after you ate some and said, yum yum, I like horse, and patted your stomach? Neighing with pleasure. Wickering. It's like a very

rich beef really. It's like a very it's kind of like a gainy beef. If you told me it was beef I'd be like oh okay it's quite strong for beef but that's beef I guess. Did you get to see rich beef? It came with a fried egg on top and sauce. Did you get to see a rich beef perform when you were there? Oh rich

yeah yeah yeah. There's a lot of jazz in Montreal. Yeah, and he's a legend on the lounge singing circuit, Rich Beef. Really mellifluous, deep-tongued Rich Beef. A wonderful cover of Night and Day. Night and Day,

you are the one. I saw people saying on Twitter, have you heard Beef's Night and Day? Yeah. So hang on, you're saying the horse that tastes like rich beef and it had an egg on top, what? Yeah, fried egg, I don't know maybe that's the French way. Fried egg on top and then in like a

swimming in gravy. You would have hated it. It was wet, wet, wet. Depends, it depends, you know. What's the gravy? I'm going to send you a picture of it now and I want your reaction. Okay know what's the gravy I'm going to send you a picture of it now yes please and I want your reaction okay

what's the gravy made of what does the gravy taste like just like good good rich gravy really who is a comedian from the

vaudeville era rich gravy from the he's a real he's a classic end of the pier comedian. People would say, good gravy, and he'd put up a finger

and go, good rich gravy. And that was his whole thing. Okay, I've sent it to you. Oh, it's very, like, foncé. Yes. Do you say froncé or foncé?

Foncé. Do you think the fried egg on top is just like because the French do it with a fucking croque madame eh

a croque monsieur and a croque madame it's a toasty with an egg on you know yeah lovely stuff yeah but is that like that's clearly

a French obsession putting a little egg on it I don't blame them it's an Asian obsession too it's a good way to improve a meal put an egg on top it's true everything with but do you see how dark that meat is it's very dark it is dark i'm gonna describe the gravy to me looks almost like peppercorn sauce kind of like creaminess yeah it's that color but it wasn't it's a sauce it's the color of peppercorn sauce but it's not. What did it taste of? Just richness? Burnt flavours?

Yeah, just richness. Just richness. And meatiness. And did you guys each get one of these? Or is this like the central one to experiment with? Yeah, central one split among the table. Well, I say split. It was just me who had a bite.

And everyone else were cowards. Cowards. Cowards. Cowards. Whereas I indulged in pleasure. I cannot believe that even after you had indulged in pleasure, they didn't try it. Even a little bite. There's some sort of alarm going off um

where in my flat or is that the door hang on hang on is Pierre in an emergency I guess

we'll have to wait and see. Can he stay or will he flee? Is Pierre in an emergency? That's good stuff. I like that a lot. Thank you. You know what it is? Thank you.

It is Arsene's bronze order. Oh, Arsene's bronze. What did you Thank you. It is Arsene's bronze order. Oh, Sans bronze. What did you get? We rang up Sans bronze. Horse. We rang up Lord Sans bronze and we said, we want rich beef. We want good, good, good, rich gravy. Yep.

Horse humps. Horse lumps. Horse pumps. horse lumps horse pumps aka horseshoes yes and horse chumps e.g. us for eating all this crazy stuff

ah we're the horse chumps that's right yeah well you were the only horse chump on that table yeah we're just ordering supplies for the month

one other person took a bite chewed it and then spat it no so I was the only one who swallowed yeah supplies for the month one other person took a bite chewed it and then spat it no so i was the only one who swallowed yeah i was the only one who spat it out yes even though it tasted like rich back to that they did not like the taste of rich horsey beef i wonder where the french horse thing comes from was it just from like all the dead horses in the revolution or something did napoleon just have loads of extra i'm not sure i think i think to be fair to the french within france it's a regional thing i just can't remember what region it's definitely a stereotype that the english

like to mention a lot it feels like kind of meat that isn't when you eat a horse... Eating a horse, I didn't feel like this was slaughtered. I felt like this had died. You know what I mean? It's a part of my family. It didn't slaughter this horse. It just died. And then they gathered it and thought, let's not waste this. I can't imagine...

Are there horse farms in France? Horse farms for meat? I mean, there's got to be, right? Otherwise, it's like... Do you know when you go to a restaurant and you can pick a lobster from a tank? Yeah. Do you think that's what, like, the Grand National is? Like a horse race. It's like, and they're coming around the bend.

And there's people, like, licking their lips like, yum, yum. Can't wait to take a bite out of that little horse. People sticking their foot out Onto the tractor and trip on over Try and trip the most delicious looking one Try and trip up the plumpest horse Yeah so I can check that off the list I don't think I'll be returning

To horse I think they eat horse in Switzerland as well I think it might just be a kind of random bits of Europe thing. No, I have more power to them. But every time I try a strange meat, I come back to the same realization. There's a reason we eat the meats we eat. There's a reason we eat the meats we eat. It's good stuff. because they don't there's a reason we eat the meats we

eat from the tops of their heads to the bottom of their feet again another they taste real nice not covered in ice and they go with potatoes or fried rice. That's good. I like the idea of you saying they go with potatoes and then seeing objections among the crowd and holding up a hand or fried rice. Just heading off any criticism at the pass there. I know what you're thinking. Phil, that's another strong candidate for slapping your butt cheeks to keep rhythm

and pointing at Sandro. We eat the meat. There's a reason we eat the meat. We eat. You see that Ms. O is about to pull her mask down to object. Or fried rice.

Mask back up. Small nod. Small nod of thanks. What do you think would happen if you stopped in the middle of one of your shows and just started clapping your ass cheeks and going, there's a reason we eat meat sweet. People wouldn't know

what the fuck was happening. It'd be a real left turn in my style. I think people would die. People like, I think this is a new stage of Phil Wang. I think it would work really well precisely because people just wouldn't have a fucking clue

what was happening. There's a reason we eat meat. Meat we eat. From the tops of their head to the tips of their feet. Some of them salty, some of them sweet. There's a reason we eat the meats we eat. Slap, pat, tap, pat, pat, pat, pat. That's me on my butt.

Either patting the butt or jabbing an accusatory finger into the faces of the front row. There's a reason we eat the meat we eat. And with each jab, they kind of flinch a little bit. And your face is absolute, just fury.

Yeah, real serious. Gritted teeth. Not a glint of a smile on their face. There's a reason we eat the meat we eat. I'm like a man possessed. Yeah. And all the reviews are like,

great show. Good to see Phil back at the fringe. Interesting, slightly strange meat based song, but some people seem to enjoy it. Not sure. I'd be interested to see how the press try and deal with that. to enjoy it.

Not sure. I'd be interested to see how the press try and deal with that. I'd love to be in an industry bar full of all the great and the good and to overhear

people discussing yeah, something about meat. Yeah, have you seen this new eat some meat eat bit? I don't know. I don't know what it is.

It's like a song. I think he's doing like a song. But he seems to really mean it. Shall we meet? Shall we eat some correspondence? Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Letters. Emails. Phone calls. Your sister. Five years.

Five years. Correspondence There's a reason we read The tweets we read That's good I like that a lot actually I'm a very big fan of that Let me God I really wish there's such a brief period where I had the emails organized

and it was a really a brief golden age it was a golden age yeah bacon white a lot of compliments about your song now that we opened it up to the mainstream public oh great I'm so glad people have liked bacon white it's one of the great jazz standards and underrated jazz standard people often overlook it people always go to the cole porters and the gershwins but uh bacon white

you know that was for for a decade it was a mainstay of the great American songbook. Bacon white. Oh, I love you so pale and bright. Beautiful. Look. Beautiful song. If you were in the room when Rich Beef sang Bacon White, you remember. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

For a long time, he refused to sing about a different meat. Obviously, him being beef and bacon being pork. But his manager said, Rich, it's going to be a hit. I have a feeling about this one. Rich, there's a reason we sing the songs we sing.

He said. Rich, I got to tell you, I just came back from one of those college gigs and those kids I mean, by God, Rich, I hate to say you, I just came back from one of those college gigs, and those kids, I mean, by God, Rich, I hate to say it, but they were eating nothing but bacon. They were. They lead a modern lifestyle. It's on the up.

It's fast food. They like to move quickly and don't want to be weighed down by rich beef anymore. We're living in a bacon world, beef. Now see here, Beef. You're a beef in a bacon world. And yeah, you got to adapt. Beef, drop the beef with bacon. Sing about bacon, Beef.

Beef, drop your beef with bacon. Bring home the bacon with singing bacon. Beef, you got to drop your beef with bacon. Sing about bacon, bring home the bacon, sing a song. Sing a song about bacon. Beef, you've got to drop your beef with bacon, sing about bacon to bring home the bacon. Beef. Can you tell that Phil's got jet lag and I'm slightly distracted? Oh, boy. At certain points, this podcast is indistinguishable from some sort of stroke

a two man stroke a stroke is like a fire in the brain we have an email from Love Kush Love Kush? that is the coolest name Love Kush he loves the drug I don't know about that Love Kush? That is the coolest name. Love Kush. Love Kush, yeah. And he loves Kush, if you get my meaning.

He loves the drug. I don't know about that. But Kush is slang for weed. The name's Love Kush. Either nickname, Love or Kush, is fucking cool. It's a very sexy name, Love Kush. And I'm pretty sure... Love Kush.

I would bet my life that this is the Love Kush that I went to school with. Hey, man. This must be the sexiest name you've ever had. Love Kush. I would bet my life that this is the Love Kush that I went to school with. Hey, man. This must be the sexiest name you've ever had. Love Kush. No shade on how many mats. No. But Love Kush is wow. The International Legion of Mats, you know.

But Love Kush. So Love Kush says, Dear Phil, my wang with novel pee and air? Very nice. Yeah. It must be novel pee. I don't want any of this old hackneyed pee. I want the newfangled novel pee they've got going on.

New pee. By the way, I was wondering, what's the etymology of the novel as in the book? Is it called the novel because it was a new kind of book? Ooh, that's a good question. Because novel is just nouvelle, new in French, right? That's why novel means the other meaning of novel in English. That's a very fucking good question, mate.

That's a fucking good question. So Latin novus, Latin novellus, Italian novello, good question, mate. That's a fucking good question. So Latin Novus, Latin Novellus, Italian Novello, Italian Novello, Novella Storia, new story, then to novel. You got it.

Ah, well, well, well. Damn. Another triumph from Phil. Etymology, Wang. I love a bit of etymology. It's good stuff. Not to be confused with entymology about insects, which I hate. Yes, you hate it, learning about the origins of insects.

I don't mind a bug. I'm not grossed out by anything with an exoskeleton. Is that strange? That is strange, and it's one of your strangest qualities, may I say. an exoskeleton. Is that strange? That is strange and it's one of your strangest qualities, may I say. I think I'd go so far as to say it's one of my strangest strengths. I think that's fair. I think it is a strength

because it is such a common thing to be grossed out by and I mean for a TV show you did literally eat a cockroach. Many cockroaches. I ate many cockroaches. And a tarantula. And a centipede. But if you ask me to eat like...

Like... Boiled salmon. Like a toad. Or like... Oh, cooked salmon. Yeah, boiled salmon. I'd rather eat a thousand cockroaches than a single piece of cooked salmon. I swear to God.

That's so strange. There's a reason I eat the meats I eat eat the teeth full of squirming bug legs that's a reason i eat the meat i eat as cockroaches pour out of your mouth like fucking oogie boogie from nightmare before christmas they have nice hard shells and six little feet. You find them underneath the street. Jabbing your finger at a sewer grate. Underneath the street is such a feral way

to describe the sewer underneath the street it's such a it's such a goblin a horrible goblin way to describe a city sewer is underneath the street underneath the street

I find my is underneath the street. Underneath the street. I find my food underneath the street. I live under the street. It's very eyewear, a loincloth. Yeah, yeah. It's like Gollum of the city. Yes. City Gollum.

City Gollum. That'd be an interesting show. There's a show for you, City Gollum. City Gollum. Can just a humble country golem make it as a big city golem Smeagol in the big city

Oh what a show Just learning how to use buses and things There'd be like a funny bit where you see his face pressed up against the jewelers Sure he became

the shadow of Mordor, but how will he survive the nine to five? What about concrete Mordor? You definitely need a bit where he's like peering at loads of rings in a jeweler's window really excited, and he's like, the city's great. I love the city. He dodged the eye of Sauron, but how will he dodge the eye of his supervisor? Smeagol, I need those spreadsheets.

Oh, yes. Sorry, Mr. Johnson. Johnson? Okay, just don't let it happen again. Hey, me and the boys are going to the sports bar after work for a beer. You want to come? No, no. No.

He's just in a horrible little suit and and tie but he still runs on his knuckles such a good idea for a show city smiegel anyway we must get to a love love kush's that's a love kush's letter i love little kush uh it says praise redacted unlike many of your listeners i have the great misfortune not to have an edge of the seat poo story So instead I present to you a candidate For the official Bud Pod video game Oh

Yeah We don't have a video game So he says, a game in which one of the bosses Is the great mighty poo Okay Who sings in a majestic baritone voice And is defeated by reaching the flushing handle. Okay.

Okay. So this is a... Okay, so Lovecraft is proposing a game that doesn't exist. It does exist. He's got links to YouTube videos of it in the email. A game with an eclectic mix of accents, including scouse dung beetles, who being dung beetles roll big balls of poo for you,

a Texan pitchfork being egged on by a paint pot and a paintbrush to kick your ass and a genius german scientist trying to solve the mystery of the broken table leg wow a game filled to the brim with pop culture references from clockwork orange to the matrix as the video gaming aficionados among you will recognize i'm talking about the one and only Conker's Bad Fur Day Conker's Bad Fur Day if this game is deemed worthy of the title of official Budpod video game then may I suggest having a Twitch stream or Budpod reacts video

it would be a match made in the sewers of heaven I love that as a phrase the sewers of heaven Conker's Bad Fur Day is a 2001 platform game it's quite highly rated it sounds pretty sort of

esoteric and kind of for people who like things cult hit all that oh it appears to have a Lola Bunny in it. Oh, God. The sexiest woman of all time. Lola Bunny from Space Jam.

So they said, providing many hours of entertainment that we will savor. Or if that's too much, then we should at least get Phil's rendition of the great Mighty Poo song. Koji Lovekush. Thank you very much for that, Lovekush. Thanks thanks Lovekush, what is my mighty poo song? the song from the game there's a reason we poop the poops we poop what is the mighty poo song?

so it's called the great mighty poo song and it's something that is sung in the game by some sort of big poo oh I see I see so take a look at that and see if you could cover it by some sort of big poo. Oh, I see, I see, I see. Okay, well, yeah, we'll have to get on with this. Take a look at that and see if you could cover it. So that's not a bad idea. That's not a bad idea at all.

Mighty Poo song. Let's see if we can play that. Great Mighty Poo, sung by Thunderclash. Oh, this sounds about right. Thunderclash? Here we go. Here we go, here we go.

This is... Oh, this is fun. Yeah. So this is a big poo monster. He's coming out. Yeah. A big... Oh. Oh. coming out yeah oh here we go mighty fool and I'm going to throw my shit at you.

Wow. I'm the great mighty fool and I'm going to throw my shit at you. I mean, it's good stuff. Pretty bold stuff for an N64. Yeah, that's pretty edgy, man. You wouldn't catch Rich Beef singing that in the old days. Oh, no, no. The kind of

decency laws that Rich Beef had to navigate to get about it that time oh yeah oh yeah forget it well that's definitely something for us to consider um yeah we'll have to we'll have to have a slightly shorter pod guys i'm afraid because i've got to get my show ready for these two reviewers tonight so that they can both give me three stars and i could go home no man i think i think you're gonna have a real good one i can't wait to see this thanks man it's um i've heard i've heard i've heard good things already from me from me um thanks man I can't wait for you to be up here so we can go fill ourselves up

at Noodle and Dumpling again Noodles and Dumpling the greatest restaurant on earth so good yes well see you guys next week yeah see you guys and week yeah see you guys

and do come to both of both me and Pierre in the at the end of yes please do other than that see you guys next week

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