BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie - Episode 36 - BudSquared!

Episode Date: November 6, 2019

Episode 36! BudSquared! It’s a telephone pod! Pierre Novellie and Phil Wang talk about the rugby world cup, learning mathematics from 17thcentury warfare games, we admit being in the Illuminati again, being near water makes you wise, Japan is a nation of ASMR. We also discuss how the Tories have kicked off their election campaign by returning to their insane, evil roots and how the population might be a gimp. Some good correspondence too! Phil went on a DREAM date with HOOP earrings, Number Weapons Matt gets back in touch to describe a very cringe moment indeed and Angus breaks Phil’s heart with regards to the blackcurrent flavour Lemsip. Get in touch at @thebudpod on Twitter or [e-mail]! Get bonus BudPod on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's episode 36. Episode 36. Is 36 a square number? It's uncool. It is 6 times 6. Yes, it's 6 squared. Hey, there we go. Do you know how I know that, Phil?

Do you know how I thought it was a square number? Oh. You had a pair of sick frame glasses on. Because it didn't have a day for the prom. I thought it was square because I used to play... It's time for... We need a jingle for this. It's time for some more video game nostalgia.

Oh, yeah. I don't know. Is that like an old Mario-y kind of... What was the noise when he died? It was like... Another Spiderman. Yeah, nice. Okay. Well, I used to play Cossacks, which if you wanted to form

your little pikemen into a square, you needed 36 of them. Oh, cool. Oh, I see, yes. Like a regiment sort of thing. And you know what? Why don't we teach kids maths using 17th century warfare anymore? It's how my father learnt maths and how his father before him. If it's good enough for them.

Yeah, exactly. How are you, man? How is... We are recording this late like bad naughty children on a Bud Pod morning. Yes, a crisp Bud Pod morning. You can hear the birds farting. Yes, we are late, boys, because you are on tour. Yes, we are late boys because you are on tour

Yes, I am on tour carrying various various bags for Frank Skinner being his bodyguard, protecting him from all the Three Lions fans fending off David Baddiel He swears

they're friends He swears they know each other He's photoshopped loads of pictures of Frank Skinner doing Three Lions solo to make it look like he was involved, and it's very disturbing. Do you have a show in Cambridge last night? You're in Cambridge now. I'm in Cambridge now. We did the tour show here last night,

and it was a little strange, listeners, because the show was in the Corn Exchange, which is a big old room. It's about 1,700 people. But that's not why it was a little strange, listeners, because the show was in the Corn Exchange, which is a big old room. It's about 1,700 people. But that's not why it was strange. It was strange because I have done so many exams in that room. Yeah, of course. Pierre and I are Cambridge alumni.

Yes, we're in the Illuminati. We're part of the elite. Yes. We are part of the elite. Yes. We are elitists. It's why we're so elitist, it's because we're in the elite. You know you're in the elite when you go back to your old exam hall for work. Yes. Yes. Yes.

I think you know you're in the elite when you have a moderately popular podcast that's mostly about turds coming to life. This is why Brexit happened. Podcasts like this. The working people of this

country, Phil, are sick of filthy toilet humour and innuendo of the elite are people excited about the election in Cambridge? Can you feel it in the air? I think I can feel it in the air although it might just be mist

I think they are because well it's controversial Phil because of course Cambridge is a famous Lib Dem Labour switcheroo battleground. Yeah. And the Tories are always a pretty distant third here, so I'm not sure what any kind of tactical advice would be, given that it's going to the, well, sort of going to the Remain side either way, depending on... Yeah, I guess you can count on that, at least in Cambridge. It's funny.

Yeah. on. Yeah, I guess you can count on that, at least in Cambridge. It's funny. A city full of scientists and clever people want to stay in the European... I mean, I don't know if it says anything that they're among the smartest people in the country, and they all want to stay in the European Union. I don't know if that's

worth considering. It's probably just a coincidence. Hey, hey, Phil. Well, what about in the parts of the country that are still unaccountably dependent on fishing you know maybe maybe that i mean that it's definitely not a sign that fishing as an industry is uh ecologically devastating and should be stopped in general anyway and that those people should be retrained and given money to do other things uh, it is a sign that for some reason people who do fishing for a living

are inherently wise. Well, they have those beards. They have those beards. And those tall tails, those nautical tails. I think, yeah, and if you're on water a lot of the time, you just become wise. Floating about, I don't know, makes you wise.

I think it does make you wise. If you live near a stream or on the sea, you are wise know, makes you wise. I think it does make you wise. If you live near a stream or on the sea, you are wise because water makes you wise. Yeah, because whenever there's a wise, I was about to say a wise guy. Whenever there's a fucking wise guy. Just looking out at the sea, all these fishing trawlers,

look at all those wise guys. What a bunch of wise guys. Or just an Italian mobster leaving a Buddhist monastery. What a bunch of fucking wise guys. Even when you have a wise man who's on like a mountain,

he's still on a mountain near a trickling stream. Exactly. There has to be some kind of fluid sloshing about. Do you think it's like ASMR? Like if you hear lovely sloshy noises, it just chills you the hell out? Yeah. Yeah, maybe enlightenment was just the first bit of really good ASMR

when Buddha sat under that tree and he rubbed the back of his head against the bark and it made a sort of noise. And he went, I should start a YouTube channel. Well, the rustling of the leaves. And he thought, ah. I mean, in Zen gardens in Japan, in Zen Buddhism,

so much of the meditation is to do with raking little pebbles and that's a kind of that's a kind of ASMR sound isn't it do you think that's absolutely an ASMR sound I mean Japan as a country is like if you turned the idea of ASMR into an archipelago

if you turned ASMR into 127 million people, it would be Japan. Everything's just a bit quiet. I am always astonished to be reminded that Japan has 127 million people. And me and my flatmate were talking about this the other day, about how a lot of Brexit is to do with, like, not enough of us in the UK have a good idea of how small our population is

like globally so like every time like now it's one of my favorite questions to ask people i go hey how many how many people are there in japan because they inevitably subconsciously they've looked at japan on a map and seen it's like a sort of island and gone well it's the same as the uk it's like asian uk and they just say the same they go oh 60 70 million it's and seen it's like a sort of island and gone, well, it's the same as the UK. It's like Asian UK. And they just say the same. They go, oh, 60, 70 million. It's like, no, it's like double. Vietnam has like 96 million people.

That's a lot. Dude, it doesn't feel like there are 30 million more Vietnamese people than British people. You'd think you'd bump into them a lot more on holiday or something. My favourite is Nigeria. When I ask people how many people are in Nigeria, and they go, 20 million.

And I say, 190 million. Extraordinary. 190 million people. That's half of the United States. Yeah, incredible. Incredible stuff. Anyway, we didn't come on here to talk about populations. No, although it's always

at the back of our mind. I've been really enjoying the Conservative Party's absolute car crash start to this election campaign. They've really sat and thought, okay, let's just go back to our branding roots.

What do people know us for? They know us for cruelty. They know us for being fancy, but not in a way that's actually tasteful, like gross fancy. They know us for being weird, and they've just really gone in for that it's like it's the coca-cola classic reboot yeah conservatives classic i mean the idea that jacob reese mogg

can go on the radio and then be like it was very stupid to to follow the advice of the fireman and then andrew bridgen or whatever brick bridgen really bridgen and he goes on and goes jacob's very clever and he's he's a natural born leader not like these oiks it's incredible it's incredible like like if you put that in a satirical sketch people would be like oh come, come on. At this point, I don't know why MPs even go on the radio. What is it to achieve by going on and being... All you're doing is entering

in... entering into a disaster lottery. Yeah. Where there's a 1 out of 10 chance you'll say something disastrous. Why go on at all? But I don't know why they don't just say things like, hey, do you know who's not allowed to go on the radio anymore? Those guys

who are awful. Just don't let them. Just say to them you can't go on the fucking radio. Just reduce the available pool of radio people to like the four smoothest people. Yeah. I don't know why they don't do that. Maybe they try and they just go, I have a responsibility

to my constituents to be evil. I was elected on an evil platform. They'll still do pretty well, probably. I mean, they're still polling really well, which says something about how the UK views itself and its own people. Yeah, I think if the Brexit referendum proved anything, it was that a large

proportion of the British population is willing to stomach the most heinous shit in the election campaign and still vote for the same thing they were going to vote for anyway. Yes.

Do you think that the UK population is like a gimp? Yeah, it just likes to be whipped. It likes to have a gag in its mouth and it likes to be whipped and it says more please at the end.

And if someone goes on the radio and says that stuff, a lot of the UK population listening going, yes, lead us, we are stupid. Insult us again, we like it. We haven't said yet, congratulations, Pierre, on South Africa's rugby win. Oh my God, yes, of course.

The big RWC with everyone's favourite sportsman, Faf de Klerk. Faf de Klerk! I love Faf de Klerk. It's my favourite new word. Faf de Klerk. That is like if an insensitive person had to come up with a South African name for a dumb sketch show. Yes, yes. It's verging on, it's just going like, well, the first name is always some kind of gibberish nickname. The first name is a sound effect,

and then the first name is a comic book sound effect, and then duh, and then like, just sort of like an animal sound. After clerk, there we go. Also, or like they just went, a sound effect, and then the surname of the last white prime minister president guy. Yeah. The last white president of South Africa, so there we go, that's what we know. Coming up next is Pau Duplessis. And Zing Fanny Kirk.

I don't watch very much rugby, but I watched some of this tournament. And I have to say, as a sport, rugby is up there with golf for athletes who look the least like athletes. Yeah, and it's worth noting that historically speaking, this is the most like athletes they've ever looked. Yeah, these are the fittest rugby players in history. And some of them still look like lorry drivers.

I mean, there's a guy on the English team who honestly looks like an orc, or like a bodyguard who gets killed in Game of Thrones, because he's too slow. Oh, the dude who's got no neck and a bright pink bowling ball head. Yeah, he does all the English throw-ins. What was his name? The annoying thing with rugby is they don't have the names on the backs of the shirts.

That's how un-egotistic the sport is. That's how brilliant it is, how calm and relaxed and fun everyone is. Let's see. I'm going to see if I can find this guy because he does look... He looks like... He looks like his name is Terry Grunt. He looks like he's about to start a fight

somewhere in Tenerife. Yes, yes. Because they've run out of prawn cocktails. Yeah, he looks like he's about to, because he's bright red, so it looks like he spent the day in the Canarian sun. I think he's

the hooker, if he's doing all the line-outs. I can't find him. He's the one who looks like he's made out of pink chewing gum and rage. Yeah. Were you a rugby boy at school, Phil? You're kind of from a rugby town?

Well, I moved to Bath only for a couple of years for A-levels, and they're very much into rugby. The West countries are very into rugby. When I went to boarding school in Brunei, that was the first time I ever played rugby. And I was looking forward to starting it because I was such a big boy, especially in Malaysia. I was never really good at any sport.

So I thought, ah, I'll be able to do rugby because I'm a big boy. And I was still kind of rubbish. Yeah, I had a very similar thing. Yeah, because you're very big. But there is a place in rugby for just big guys who can stand there. Yes, if you are hard to tip over, we have a vacancy for you.

It's just you and a couple of cows, and you make up the back. What's it called? The back? What's the part of the team that's just at the back? The extras? There's the backs and the forwards. You'd probably be in the forwards if you were a big boy.

When I was a giant 11-year-old, they would just go, go in the scrum and don't move. Right. My job was to consistently weigh more than other 11 year olds by god I did

my duty yeah I just found it's too aggressive I'm a rugby if you want the ball that badly you can have it I don't want it I couldn't muster up any natural aggression until the other side did

something that made me angry. I don't know if you had that. Oh, we're like, I was like, well, we know why should I tackle them that hard? And then they would do like,

they would scrape you with their studs or they'd be like a hard tackle. And I'd go, Oh, okay. Now I feel like I'm justified in doing this. Yeah. You have a real Hulk switch. Whereas I never did.

If someone scraped me with their studs, I'd go, I'm sorry, my shin was in your way. That was my fault, probably. Well, you're a natural-born engineer, so you'd have the Batman response, which is to go into hiding and slowly learn how to build various tools to sort of robots and cars to come and defeat them later. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors, like high blood pressure developed during pregnancy, which can put us two times more at risk of heart disease or stroke. Know your risks. Visit heartandstroke.ca. Okay, because it's going to be a shorter one, listeners.

There's going to be some emails sooner in the podcast than normal. Some lovely correspondence. Now, Phil, this one is from Charlie. Charlie, make us smiley. Charlie, Charlie, come from afarly. Oh, nice, nice. I was trying to think. No, that's terrible. Charlie, Charlie, come from a farley. Oh, nice, nice. I was trying to think. Nothing really rhymes with Charlie. Charlie says, hi, PowerPoint.

That's good. That's good. Last night I had a confusing dream about you, Phil Wang. Yes, tell me more, tell me more. Did we go to the park? You kind of did, actually. Really? We went to the park? Um, you kind of did, actually. Really?

We went to the park? Well, so, Charlie says, in my dream, we had been texting for a while and decided to meet. Sounds like me. You met me at the railway station, and a romantic montage began, in which we strolled through meadows together, ate spaghetti, and wild... Ate spaghetti. What, like Lady and the Tramp? Yeah, and wild away the hours. You Yeah, and whiled away the hours. You had both ears

pierced with a hoop. Or just one hoop connecting the two of them. No, to be fair, a hoop in each. Okay. So you had like sassy hoops in each ear, Phil. I thought it was like one hoop that went through one ear

then came around the front of my face and then in through the other ear and then around the back of my head. So I looked like a delegate from a Star Wars council. You looked like you were there to talk about intergalactic trade. Okay, so I've got a hoop in each ear. I would never do that.

You had both ears pierced with a hoop in each. You said it heightened your productivity, and who was I to question you? So this person goes, oh, you've got your ears pierced with hoops. And you went, yes, it just makes me more proactive. It's just a good place to keep your keys. At the end of the date, we agreed to meet again, and you left. However, I then received a phone call from you where you told me that you felt extremely anxious.

I asked whatever could be the matter, and you replied, your comments about the comedy circuit in Malaysia were unforgivable. Ah! comedy circuit in Malaysia were unforgivable. What did they say about the comedy circuit in Malaysia? What did Charlie say? Maybe they were unforgivable. I didn't know what you meant.

You hung up. We never spoke again. Well, I stand by it, Charlie. It was bang out of order what you said about the KL comedy club scene well I mean maybe she was saying

hey it's too multilingual people keep doing punchlines in Malay and it's alienating for me she said all the comedy clubs stink too much of spices it wasn't cool, really. There weren't enough swirling tablecloths. We have a love...

It's lovely to feature in someone's dream or nightmare. I guess it turned out to be a sort of anxiety nightmare. Yes, and I like the fact that Charlie's subconscious decided that in this dream you would have enormous kind of salsa dancer hoop earrings. Yeah.

To be honest, if you came on stage with hoop earrings and never mentioned them, I think people would just go, okay. Do you think people will just go, okay. Do you think people, yeah, people probably go, oh, I never noticed he had earrings. They probably wouldn't even be like, he's recently added earrings to his face.

They'd go, oh, I guess he had earrings. Are you ever tempted to do mad things and then just tell nervous white people it's a Malaysian thing? Oh, yeah. Well, I did.

I grow my fingernails a lot. Like, my fingernails grow very quickly, and I never cut them. And I like to have, like, long thumbnails. And when people go, ugh, your nail's really long, I say, oh, it's a Chinese thing. And they go, oh, sorry. And it kind of is, but it's on the wrong finger and that's not why I did it. You should start saying it's a Chinese thing

to just be late and not shower and just generally become a real tramp. And not pay my taxes. Yeah. Yeah. Number Weapons Matt gets back in touch. Oh, yeah. We all remember Matt gets back in touch. Oh, yeah. We all remember Matt and his number weapons.

Hi, Pierre and Phil. Story one, I have a really awkward story from a stag do. I was invited along to keep the groom's brother company on a stag do to Bognor Regis. So he's not a proper guest guest. Okay. He's like the brother's friend. You know, to like, oh, that's nice,

isn't it? That his brother has a friend as well. Wait, his brother is at a stag do? No, no, no, no. He was invited along to keep the groom's brother company. Oh, okay. So Matt says, I only knew the groom's brother

and the groom. And he didn't know anyone else. The rest were ten other proper Essex lads. Okay. One bloke stood out as giving everyone a bit of grief or banter. Believing himself to be an alpha male, he was changing shirts in front of us.

As expected, when shirt shirtless he had some crappy tattoos I seized the moment to banter back and to win some of the group over to my side and I said nice Pat Butcher tattoo of course Pat Butcher

being I think from EastEnders okay yeah a lady she's like the oldest one, right? Yeah, she's got a... Can I speak to the manager haircut? Okay, yeah. A blonde bob.

I think so, yeah. So he goes, Nice Pat Butcher tattoo. Rather than laughter, the room fell silent. He then explained it was a tattoo of his recently departed mother. Oh, God. Oh, and that's the worst person in the stag dude it could come from, the groom's brother's mate.

Yeah. Oh, Matt, I feel for you. Yeah, he says, and that was on Friday night during the pre-drinks. mate. Yeah. Oh, Matt. I feel for you. Yeah, he says, and that was on Friday night during the pre-drinks. It was a very long weekend. Oh, man. That's really funny.

Story number two. Oh, sorry. What were you going to say? I don't know. Yes, insulting someone's dead mum tattoo is pretty high on the list of and by extension

saying his mum looked like Pat Butcher when she was alive pretty terrible all around well you could save it you could be like Pat Butcher's a very beautiful woman or what a lucky fella you are to have had a Pat Butcher like mum that's true

I'm sure you miss her you're right to miss her I think that would have saved it what a lucky fella you are to have had a pack butcher like mum. That's true. I'm sure you miss her. You're right to miss her. I think that would have saved it. And then his second story is that the police were banging down his door on a Friday morning. He came down in his bathrobe, opened the door and there are four police officers and a police van. They're convinced a burglary was taking place.

This is because my flatmate at the time would invite her man in through the window as a romantic gesture. And this guy also enjoyed climbing and booty calls presumably. Wait, so like a little roleplay thing? I think so, yeah. So this man

clambering through a window with a visible erection has been reported to the police. And rightly so. It's like that meme from Fifty Shades of Grey when he's like, I'm into some strange things. And she goes, show me. And he opens the door to a room full of whips and dildos. Yeah. But he's like, I'm into strange things.

And she's like, show me. And he just opens a window and points out of it there. Out of coming from there. Or he just points and she goes, subway? Bank of America?

What are you pointing at? Or he just opens a window and leaves. And that's it. That's the end of the film the police were not amused and so he got he says, so I got her down to explain they wanted him to come down as well, but he was too excited well he had a big old boner

he didn't want to show the cops his boner yeah, he didn't want to show the police his truncheon so he couldn't come down. Let's see. Oh, we had something about... Oh. Hang on a second. Singing a song over the phone while Pierre reads an email.

This time it's over the phone that I'm singing. I'm usually singing in the same room. Angus gets in touch with a nice little email. Delicious Angus beef burger. Yes. Hello, Phil, Adelphia, Pennsylvania, and Pierre, South Dakota. Is there a town called Pierre in South Dakota? You bet there is.

Wow. Ooh la la. Imagine my excitement in finding it on a globe when I was nine. Did you? I certainly did, Phil. Great. I believe it's the capital of South Dakota. Wow.

Angus says, I've been listening to the podcast since August after seeing Pierre's excellent Edinburgh show. Sorry, Phil, you were sold out. You must add on some Angus beef, man. It's very quickly become my favorite podcast and I'm recommending it to as many people as possible. Bless you, Angus. Thank you so much, man. Thanks, Angus beef, man. It's very quickly become my favorite podcast, and I'm recommending it to as many people as possible. Bless you, Angus.

Thank you so much, man. Thanks, Angus. You the Mangus. You the Mangus! You're the Mangus, Angus. Despite the fact that Wednesday is the middle of the week, I always wake up happy because I know there will be a Budpod waiting for me. Oh, not today.

Sorry, buddy. So quickly betrayed. Unfortunately, I don't have any embarrassing poo anecdotes but if you drop the G my name is very on brand that's good however I did previously work at the company that makes Lemsip

oh yeah so my ears pricked up more than usual and Phil mentioned it and I would also set myself on That's right, he says I would also set myself on fire for blackcurrant-only LemSip Yes, thank you

I'm glad we've got a mole Phil is entirely correct about the paracetamol or acetaminophen for any Americans being behind the bitter aftertaste I also share Pierre's disappointment that the blackcurrant flavour doesn't taste like hot Ribena even though the Lemsip powder itself

has 90% sugar and sweetness. What is it? 90%? Yeah, I guess it would be. If it was all paracetamol, we'd be dead. As to why shops tend to stock the lemon flavour, lemon is simply more popular. I don't... But this is where nudge theory comes in.

You have to tell people what they like. If you stock the shelves with blackcurrant, people will like blackcurrant. As to why shops tend to stock the lemon flavour, it's simply more popular. There's a very pervasive perception that a hot lemon drink can defeat colds and flus. Yeah.

People are sheep. Yeah, people are sheep. Yeah, they are sheep. They're lemony sheep. They're sour, bleeding sheep. Lemony sheep, of course, was another great jazz musician. Who are the others again? The other is, we've got Willy Tubes. I've got a list of them right here, actually.

We've got Miles Scoliosis. Yep. Big Wrigley. Yep. Willy Tubes. Brown Squiggles. And now... Giacomo Coffins.

And in fact, me and Frank have said a couple that I've written down. Yeah? Oh, Frank Skinner. Yeah, me and Frank Skinner. Minty Grazer. Minty Grazer, yeah. Krusty Goujons. Yeah. And now Lemony Sheep.

And it's quite the big band. Yeah, it's a long roll call of solos. Yes, but every single one of them plays the single string double bass the music is awful um so it's just a real mushy so low grumbly sound so um angus has a coolest uncool most uncool cool oh yeah so he says the coolest uncool thing is abseiling. Hmm.

So abseiling, that's when you connect yourself by a rope at the top of a cliff and then you just kind of fall down it. Yes, he says it's uncool because it takes at least four Louies getting to the top of the abseil point and setting up all the ropes. But once you start to abseil, it feels and looks pretty darn cool. That's true, isn't it?

That's like you feel a bit Mission Impossible. Yeah, I guess, until you realize, oh, wait, you only had to come down because you went up. Yeah, exactly. And there's no mission at the bottom. Yeah, I think it's cool if you're doing it down a building to smash into a window. That's pretty cool.

Yes, they should provide. Imagine how much you'd pay for an abseiling experience where you get to abseil through a kind to smash into a window. That's pretty cool. Yes, they should provide... Imagine how much you'd pay for an abseiling experience where you get to abseil through a kind of sugar glass stunt window. Oh, great, yeah. I'd pay 50 quid for that. I'll probably do that in Dubai or something. Well, they'd probably let you do it with real glass and shoot a bunch of Filipino workers on the way in.

Wow, it's so realistic. They really look dead. Yes, yes. Realistic. Please, this way. So he says the most uncool cool is, and this is a good back reference for us as well, pilots. Oh, yeah.

I'm a pilot! How am I supposed to be cool now? So pilots, he says, maybe it used to be a cool job, but these days it's just sitting in a chair for 15 hours at a time monitoring a computer occasionally radioing airports or control centers to let them know what the computer is doing was it so different before well i mean certainly pre-computers you were like well i better hold this handle for 15 hours or everyone dies. Yeah. I guess I better not take a nap for 15 hours.

It was like being on an enormous highway for 15 hours. You go, well, I really need to concentrate at least a bit. And only really taking the controls when something goes horribly wrong. Angus, that's good stuff, man. And he says, I'd also like to suggest a BudPod greeting for the more risk-averse of us that would prefer to avoid using the BumBumBinBags version. Yeah. Question, how do you sign off emails?

Answer, keep jacking it. Ah, yes. Yeah, it's a little on the nose, a little... Yeah, it's a little on the nose. Yeah, it's very clear. There's no ambiguity there, is there? What were you talking about? Yeah, and it's very rare for someone to ask you how you sign off emails. Yes, yeah. And I guess it wouldn't be too embarrassing if they would just go, best regards. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too, me too.

Yeah, I thought so. Yeah, you'd sort of think so, that that just wouldn't really... Yeah, you'd think that that would not come up by accident very easily. Like, that's a pretty safe bet. Yeah. Okay, I think that's pretty good, Angus. What was the last version we had

of the Bud Pod secret greeting? Oh, it was something mad like... Are you having a bin bags... No. It's like, are you... Are you having a bin bags day? Yes, well, it is a bum bum life. Was it?

Was it? It was something like that, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was more risky. It was someone... I think it was quite risky because it was like going up to someone and saying, are you having a bum bum day? Which is a risk.

I don't know. Anyway, look, Phil's got to go disassemble the pillow fort that we were hiding in last night. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. From all the fireworks. It's really structurally sound, so it's going to take a good couple of days to deconstruct it safely. I'm going to try and employ a sort of safe demolition. What's it called?

An implosion? A demolition? A controlled demolition? Yes, yes. And it's very sturdy because Phil's an engineer and I'm an early medieval history graduate. So it's like a sort of a Roman fortress, but with modern materials and pillows.

Yeah. Memory foam, a memory foam fort. A memory fort. Yes. Yeah, a memory fort. And what memories we made. Okay. Where are you off next to, Pierre?

I am staying in Cambridge for the die. Oh, lovely. And then tomorrow back to London and then Friday off to Birmingham. Which should be a pretty big gig for Mr. Skinner of course. Yeah, it's his hometown.

Pretty much, yeah. So it should be really raucous and fun, hopefully. Well, that'll be nice. What about yourself, Philly boy? What am I doing? Well, I'm off to China on Monday, so I'm going to prepare for that. I'll get a pack in, practice my Mandarin. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what I'll do. That's going to be great, man. Oh, and thank you very much to the Budpods and the Isle of Man people, who are also Budpods, who came to the Wolfson Howler in Cambridge, where I was hosting and Phil was headlining. And as one of them pointed out, it was like a secret accidental Bud Pod show. It was, for any Pod Buds in the room.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Neat little Easter egg. Yeah, and thank you for coming up and saying nice things to us afterwards and outing yourselves as Pod Buds. That was very nice. Yeah. Other than that, keep emailing in

and by God, eventually we'll catch up again. We'll get back to zero inbox, whatever they call it. Inbox zero. Sweet, sweet inbox zero.

We're close. We're close, but we're far. We're close, but we're far. Yeah. Okay, everyone. Thank you very much

and keep jacking it. Bye. Bye. Bye. much and keep jacking it. Bye! you you