CheapShow - Ep 417: Nightbussin' SL7

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

Paul and Eli are still recovering from their New Year’s celebrations so, to give you a Friday fix of CheapShow, they’re opening up the Patreon vault to deliver another thrilling edition of “Nightbussin”. It’s the Patreon exclusive podcast that sees the cheap chaps picking a London Night Bus route and travelling along its whole length! In 2024 they chose the Super Loop bus, the SL7, which travels from West Croydon in the South of the capital all the way round to Heathrow Airport in the West. It’s also one of the longest bus routes you can take! However, in this particular episode, there is serious doubt whether they’ll actually get to the Bus in time! It’s a mix of travelogue and “real time” psychogeography musings. Journey with Paul and Eli for another laid back Night Bus romp that mixes the dumb with the delightful! See pics/videos for this episode on our website: https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-417-nightbussin-sl7 And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow If you want to get involved, email us at [e-mail] And if you want to, follow us on Twitter/X @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid www.thecheapshow.co.uk Now on Threads: @cheapshowpod Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! MERCH Official CheapShow Magazine Shop: www.cheapmag.shop Thanks also to @vorratony for the wonderful, exclusive art & merch: www.tinyurl.com/rbcheapshow Send Us Stuff: CheapShow PO BOX 1309 Harrow HA1 9QJ

Oh, hello. Hi, everybody. Hello, everyone. So this week's cheap show, it's an old week's cheap show, but not a repeat cheap show. Why it's a never released publicly cheap show. Cause it is an episode of our ancillary spin-off podcast, Night Bussing. Night bussin'.

Which is a podcast we do, which is only for the patrons usually. Only. And that is where we take a night bus or a bus that runs after midnight. Ideally. Not necessarily an end bus, it could be just a day bus that runs after midnight, which makes it officially a night bus. Which is why we're doing this week's episode. Or a 24 hour bus that runs all night. They haven't got ends, they've just got that little sign that says 24 hour. 24 hour. Those are the hardcore on the bus scene aren't they? Running all night long.

Rough and tough bus boys. But anyway, this week's episode is a Patreon episode from earlier in the year, a night busing episode. It's SL7. Where we take the SL7 bus. Dee a Dee a wutly done Dee a Dee. Is that SL2? Oh I don't know.

I didn't know that was a reference, I was just singing along because it was fun. It is, that's so catchy isn't it? But tell them what SL means. Superloop. And what are superloop buses? They are a new bus service that has come out in this year of 2024. They need to get that old Chaz and Dave song to use to promote it.

Super looping bus, we like super loop bus, yay, here we go north and there you go south, on a bus in Lambeth! But it's basically used existing buses, it's basically a loop that goes all around the city of buses that are express. Like a chain of like... Express versions of routes. It's like a chain of like what 12 bus routes at the moment, something like that. And so they have less stops. Yeah. So it's an express route. And it kind of goes round central London. And you've got a pin badge and I would, we were both just stupidly excited about it. I know. Because I kind of got a great logo, rainbow, uh, Rondal. Yeah. Rondal. I really like the color scheme of it and the colors that they use to kind of say multi

bus. I've had good experiences, but apparently they have had a few teething problems implementing some of the SL services. Which makes a bit of sense though. Of course. Because they're not, strictly speaking, night busses. However, the last bus that they run, was it like 11.50 or something? So we managed to get, because of the strictures of night bussing, which we put under ourselves, which I...

It's our own handcuffs. Which I summed up earlier. Basically it has to be a night bus or a bus running after midnight. Yes. Or a 24 hour bus. Indeed and this route does fall in here. And that 24 hour bus we need to be taking after midnight as well. Yes exactly. But again...

You've got more... We have a little wiggle room with buses like the SLs. But 12? It was a 7. SL7. I could look it up. It was the SL7 replacing the X26. Okay, all right, it's that one. Anyway, whatever it is you're about to listen to is that, it's that route. And we, because we needed, basically those day buses have a last bus of the day, don't they?

Yes. And often it's not many past midnight. There's maybe one or two that go leave past midnight. I think this is like 10 to midnight or something. It leaves at 10 to, yes, and most of the journey was in fact after midnight. Yes, in fact quite a lot of it because we didn't get to the destination till like 2 in the morning or something like that. It's the longest night bus in London. So the plan with these episodes is that you'll hear us on a little mini adventure going from our starting point to the bus stop, and then once we get on the bus we'll wear the lapel mics, and then I think it is real time. I think you you hear the whole route. The whole route. I think like 90 minutes I think it was. Yeah, 83 I seem to remember. So it's the whole route from Croydon to Heathrow and then even after that we have a little

explore of Heathrow. It's a lovely liminal moment at Heathrow. Yeah, two in the morning. So I think this is a really nice episode to lure people in because hey, let's be honest, if you like this and you want to hear more night bussing and stuff, patreon.com forward slash cheap show. For as little as? As anything you want, give what you can honest, if you like this and you want to hear more night bussing and stuff, patreon.com forward slash cheap show for as little as anything you want, give what you can, but only if you can and it's certain tiers and levels you get access to the magazine or the podcast or all sorts of other stuff. There's also loads of multi-tier podcasts and things we do. So you know, it's staggered and you know, early access to support any level, the minimum level, you get all the night bussing episodes. And do we have plans to make more night busing?

Quarterly throughout 2025, I think the plan is now one every three months, right? I think that makes sense. Very cool. Yeah. They're always weird episodes for us to record because like we're always apprehensive going into it and then never want it to end once we're at the end of it. Yeah, we get into the flow. But last time, it was a seamless journey.

We got, we timed we spied it perfectly and there was no hiccups and it went really smoothly. But then as soon as we press stop, you had a terrible time trying to get a cab home. And then when you did, there was loud music argument with the wife from the driver. And I just plainly got on a bus and put both my feet into a pile of chipsick. And that's not an experience for you in a nutshell. So it went wrong after we parted ways and turned the recording equipment off. But anyway, we have yammered and hammered on too much. It's now, we're going to hand you over to the episode itself.

It's a night busing episode, SL7. I like this episode a lot actually. I think it's a nice big chunky bugger. seven. Seven. And I like this episode a lot actually. Great. I think it's a nice big chunky bugger. So to start the new year off for 2025, come with us, me and Eli, as we go night bussing.

It begins now. Enjoy. Hello, my name's Paul Gannon and this is a special Patreon podcast. This is... Oh, it's another night bussing. I'm just putting my coat on. Now I'm doing the zip. Right, good to go, I think. Yes, are we good to go? Are we good to go? Put me woolly hat on. For it is a nippy night. Huh? What?

What? Tell me your most... You look like a Dracula. Tell me your most... You look like a Dracula Tell me your most wanted desire That doesn't even grammatically make sense Why are you being such a prick? My most wanted desire Are you recording this?

No comment I'll tell you my most wanted desire yeah? You want to hear my most wanted desire? I need to fucking shut up Did you try and fart? You couldn't do one? No. Oh! Late, late. Shut up.

Come in with the late run there. Don't. The nose crossed the finish line first there, didn't it? Came with the late run. Anyway, hello. It's night busing time. No, this is when you're starting the night busing. It's night busing time. It's night busing time and today's route is the SL7 which starts in West Croydon bus stop and ends in Heathrow Airport.

And what is the most important factor that you've missed out? I do not know. It's the longest bus route. It's the longest bus route. It takes between it says online 76 minutes and 127 minutes I think we'll be close to 70 odd tonight because of traffic and stuff I will be timing it though Stop playing that New Orleans Cumbia street music

Okay Dad Can you stop it please Are you playing a lot of Colombian street music? Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia didn't he say cumbia? Cumbia. It knows his crappy boss telling him not to play. Oh his crappy boss? What about this thing about his crappy boss? Can you say it louder? I don't know. You can't you

know that. This is not the night bus vibe, night busing vibe. Every night is a different vibe. It's real, it's real. You just get worse and worse every single time. You get worse and worse every time. You're a pranny. You're a pranny. When are you ready?

You should fucking shut the fuck up. When are you ready to go? When? When I'm ready, I'm ready to go. We should be leaving actually, dear listener. It's 22 minutes past 9 right now. We agreed to leave the house by 9.30 from our secret location near Haringey. Which is where we are today.

We're going to get the number 29 bus to Finsbury Park. And then Finsbury Park we get the Overland, not the Overland, we get the National Rail Network. We have to get that south from Finsbury Park to I think East Croydon and then we walk from there. The journey takes about an hour and about 20 minutes they say, so we're hoping to get an 11 pm. There's no night bus per se by the way, we're hoping to get an 11 p.m. There's no night bus per se by the way. Like it doesn't go 24 hours so the last bus you can get is 11 o'clock so as long as we're there before 11 we should get a bus tour two options ahead of us and that's the plan. We're going to get that bus route, it's going to take us all the way through this and that and through Kingston

upon Thames and up past Tededington and all towards Heathrow and after that back to Gannon's for a quick cup of tea and I'm going to kick him out of the house. He wants to have a shit in my place and I won't let him. I don't want to let him do it. He keeps saying he should have a shit now and he could have had a shit any time he wanted but if he starts brewing one, if he starts brewing a shit and expects to crack one out in my house at 2am and then just fucking leave in an uber he can fuck off.

Don't creep up behind me like that. Fuck you I'll be taking your shit. You you're like a fucking human rights abuser. I'll be taking a shit where I need to. Well you can take it in the fucking driveway. Cause you're not coming in my house it in the fucking driveway. You're not coming in my house if you're egg bound. I'm not egg... you don't even know any of the words you use. Egg bound doesn't mean that. Egg bound means constipated. Yeah. So then

I wouldn't need a shit if I was constipated num nuts would I? Stop saying num nuts. Fucking idiot. Where did I put my shirt? I don't know. Where did I put it? Where did you go? It's in your bed. With all the rest of your fucking festering items. Anyway, the reason why I thought we had this conversation now is because we don't really need to record much of the journey down there and the bus route's going to be long so the plan is we're going to wear our lapel mics as ever, turn them on and keep them rolling the whole time, the whole journey.

There might be long years of nothing and if so I'll cut those little bits out but effectively this could be a long journey. Some of it is along the same route as our previous night busing episode I seem to remember. So yeah that's the plan. So we don't need to record too much of us out and about getting there because I think the bus route is going to be long. So we don't need to record too much of us out and about getting there, because I think the bus route's going to be long enough. You don't need to listen to a three hour night bus an episode. No one needs that and I'm not fucking editing it. Right then.

I don't know if you can hear the music in the background, but it's a very, very, uh, that kind of music, innit? I don't know what you call it. You can't even maybe hear it. I don't know. That kind of music, innit? I don't know what you call it. You can't even maybe hear it. I don't know. It could boost the sound, but it sounds ugly. Anyway, I'm going to stop talking now and I'm going to...

We're going to cut to a bit later when we're ready to go. That's this... SL9! That's this edition of Night Bussin' coming to go. That's this SL9 that's this edition of Night Bussin coming to you recorded on um what is the date Tuesday February 10th almost 25 past 9 we've got to be going now get our wiggle on just recorded an episode of Cheap Show today, one of our very best. What? You got your biscuits and shit?

Yeah. You got your big bag of food? I just need to double check everything. I can't find my fucking shirt. How have you lost your shirt? I don't know. You're going to get cold if you don't have something on. I'm going to need to attach the lapel to something. Well where's that fucking putty? I don't know, I don't live in a fucking big mound of mess

do I? Honestly boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, guys and dolls, jelly spoons and egg bags. Can you give me a shirt in there, Raggy? It must be in your bedroom. Twat! Tell me where you wanna go Tell me where you wanna go on the bus tonight Tell me where you wanna go Tell me where you wanna go on the bus tonight I'm the best tonight

I'm the best tonight Please keep your belongings safe. Make pockets operate at this station. Right, we're at Finsbury Park platform. we're going to go one stop aren't we? Oh there's a mouse! Oh you missed it, it went right through the gates and came out. Well we're standing by this grate here in Finsbury Park station and it's like a shaft isn't it? Stairs down into an entrance. No you can see the bottom there where the stairs end, can you see that there? Yeah.

It's a creepy weird space there isn't it? I reckon because you can see sort of bird crap there so it must go up to... Oh yeah, must be a ventilation shaft. Must be a ventilation shaft. Must be a ventilation shaft. Anyway we're waiting three minutes for the train to go south now too. It's quite horticool though isn't it? I'm gonna take a shot of this. You take a shot of it yeah. You know why it is four minutes? It's because there are delays on the... Right, they said there's minor delays. Two minutes now. Begging on London Underground trains and stations is illegal. Is illegal.

Customers are requested not to encourage this. Anyway, I just thought we'd give you a quick update that we've taken the 29 to Finsbury Park and they're going to go one stop south on Victoria Line, hybrid Islington, where we'll get our next connection on the Overground. Because we have revised our route. We were going to go to East Croydon, then walk 15 minutes. The chance of there being big boys who might chase us

are very high, especially in Croydon. There he is. There he is. Oh, he doesn't care. He doesn't give a crap. He's got an eye on it. I think he's found a chocolate bar. He's found it.

And then he's, oh, have a look up there. Oh. He's going to take what he can. He's a very dark very dark color so t isn't it maybe it's a little rat it's the mouse I think but I just think it's dirt that mouse is no fear well I bet it has a lot of fear but it's just quick and can skedaddle me oh yes take a picture of more always gone he went behind the grating can he get through? Maybe. Squeeze through. Much smaller than their body because they're little.

They've got a flexible ribcage as well. They're like the cats of the mice world. Oh here he is. That's the worst thing you've ever said. He's popping his head in and out. Look at him, bless him. Disney should make a film about him. Oh, come see, come see. Is that an apple core?

Maybe. It's tasty, whatever it is. I think he fucking loves it. Take a picture now, quick. He's gonna piss off the minute you get your camera out. You just know it. He's getting his nose right into whatever that is. He's taking a picture.

Right, picture's been taken. Right, anyway. It's quite thrilling stuff. I guess we'll put these pictures up on Instagram, I guess. It's probably a good idea. Right, let's turn this off and I don't know when you're here from us next, but. Well, let's put. It's like two minutes, he said, so that was.

Maybe when we arrive at. West Croydon. West Croydon station. Yeah, we'll see. Well, we definitely want to do a bit before we get on the bus. Oh, of course. Itself. Again, we'll see. Well, we definitely want to do a bit before we get on the bus itself. Oh, of course. Again, we are doing the...

Told them, don't worry about it. SL7. The SL7. Croydon to Heathrow. Yeah, but what did it used to be called? XL9. No, X26. X26, said that.

Anyway. You're such an annoying prick. Is this your persona? Like... It's my new one for 2024. Well it's just like the old one, it's just even more obnoxious. Yeah, it's good isn't it? No, I'm working on it, I'm workshopping it.

Anyway, goodbye Mr Mouse. Thank you for sharing your... ...a sklips into your life with us. A sklips? Shut up! Please stand back from the platform edge. Here we go. Update then, what's going on? Well, we seem to have miscalculated somewhere.

Along the line, we fucked it. I don't know. We fucked it basically. We either get to the bus stop in time for the last bus or we don't at this point and we're on the... We're cutting extremely fine. So fine. We're going to have to mic up before we can even leave this train that we're on because we're currently on the overground to...

West Croydon. West Croydon. So, oh dear, we fucked it mother. This will be terrible. And I'm blaming Paul. I'm trying not to... And I don't care. Paul, what happened last time with night busing, you'll remember everyone,

is trying to pull out, and any excuse. In fact, I suspect he sabotaged on purpose. Why would I do that? I've done this boss route before without you. What does that have to do with it? It just means I have no fear of this route. I'm not saying you have a fear, you have a laziness. I'm not lazy. And you don't want to do night busing.

No, I said... You don't support night busing in the soul. What if we don't, if we miss it, then what we need to do is find another night bus we can do somewhere else instead. Okay, I'm up for that. I said we can use this line we're on to get to a part of London where we can easily find an accessible night bus. But we might be able to...

But we're going to try and leg it once we get it. Because we are due to get into West Croydon a few minutes before the last SL7. And we've checked, the bus stop is right outside the station. It should be less than a minute between the... I hope it is, but it is going to be a bit of a mad dash. So I reckon the next time you're going to hear from us, we're going to be mad dash mode with the lapel mics on. There'll be a change of audio quality and panicked fat men running.

It's a good idea for a show, isn't it? No. Panicked fat men running. No, because why not? I'll have to take my idea for a quiz show I came up with earlier today. Not speakable in... It's called Cash for Questions. Yes.

And I'll tell you about it later on in called Cash for Questions. Yes. And I'll tell you about it later on in the podcast. Okay. Fine. Good. Bye everyone. The adventure is afoot. We're at New Cross now. That's good. That's a good sign. Shaun of the Dead Country for those in the know. Good. Yes. I'm anxious now.

I am anxious too, but it's thrilling. I'm so sweaty. Yeah, that's just because of your lifestyle. You can shrug all you like, but you are in bad shape, mate. I am not. You're a big man, but you're out of shape. You're an idiot. You're an idiot.

This is the projection of your health problems. Jack, have we got that train? That's a template one. Bet we could have got that. We should have got that. Doesn't stop at this station anyway, so we couldn't have got it from here at least. Yeah, but we could have got it all the way.

Could have got it from Victoria. It's your fault that. Anyway,'t stop at this station anyway, so we couldn't have got it from here at least. Yeah, but we could have got it all the way. We could have got it from Victoria. It's your fault that. Anyway, we'll speak to you a bit later when we should be in the thrust of the action. Let's see what happens next. I'll be on the SL survey. This is more drama than last time, here. Just a little bit.

It's not really. It's the same. It's the exact same drama as last time. What's wrong with us? I don't know. Anyway, we're at, what was it, Annerley Penge. What's the same. It's the exact same drama as last time. What's wrong with us? I don't know. Anyway, we're at... What was it? Annerley, Penj. What's the one?

This is the London Overground train to... Yeah, I know this one. Annerley. Paul, can you take me... Don't. I will not take you to Annerley. I'm starting to put it... Annerley, isn't it? It's Annerley, yeah, but it looks like anally. I didn't find that.

Oh, this is a pench worst anyway. I've got a pench before, like, anally. I've got a huge pench on. Yeah, good. Nice stuff. So we are onto the lapel mics now because we have cut again. Speak at a regular speech otherwise it won't probably pick it up. What do you mean speak at a regular speech?

Speak at a normal tone. I'm talking just to... What? Just to bossy pants. Is that okay? I don't know which one's me. Okay, apparently I'm that one. Come here. Yeah, you're that one. Okay it's 11 o'clock. Our train departs in 15 minutes, officially. And that is the last. Plus you mean? Yes.

The SL7. I'm looking for my sweets. I shouldn't have opened this bag, I'm just going to demolish it. You're going to get diabetes. Yep. Do you want that one? Go on. I'm sharing my drumstick squashie with Eli.

Original flavour. Original. O.G.O. Which is raspberry and vanilla, isn't it? Yeah, I think so. Or is it milk? Milk. And raspberry.

Yeah. I'm going to have to move this. I to move this. Yeah that's better. Annalee. He took me Annalee. Annually? Annually and Annalee. Angulally for 165 degrees. He took me Annalee in Annalee, ain't it Le he? He wouldn't like me when I'm Anglee. He wouldn't like me when I'm Analee. Invading your spaces. Oh dear.

Good times. We walked all the way down to the end of the train. Oh yeah. I'm a fucking lot of people getting off... At Analee. The only worry is that we're not going to be able of the train. Oh yeah. Providing that. I'm fucking like a lot of people getting off. Annerley, please mind the gap. At Annerley. At the end of the platform.

The only worry is though, if we end, this end of the train, but for some reason the platform exits that far. It could be, but I just assume. I mean, nine times out of 10. It's this end, isn't it? The front end, yeah. But, we've already fucked the goose

a couple of times already, so. We've more than fucked the goose, we've kicked the goose down the line. Nudged the goose into the abyss. I'm hoping though that we can pull out a miracle. Just make sure you're all zipped up so you don't drop anything on the run and you have to go back and collect all the pressures. Still heading for arriving at 13 minutes bus 11. That gives us two. Two minutes to exit the station and find the B3 bus stop. Beefy bus stop? I want to go to the beefy bus stop. B3 bus stop.

The beefy beef beef beefy bus stop. Come on beefy bus stop's fun. Don't deny me beefy bus stop. I will never deny you a beefy bus stop. Thank you. Look at my girl in front of a beefy bus stop last night. Hello, did you? She couldn't walk for a week. What? They're like half a mile long or something, these trains. Half a mile, not half a mile though.

They're very long. 500 metres or something. Yeah, but that's not 500 metres. 200 metres. Long enough. Yeah. Take a picture, right there. I'll stand here so I can see the whole train and then you in it. Look at this. Look at this guy. Nice. Is everything buttoned down?

I mean, I am. But, you know, make sure you're zipped up so when we run you're not going to throw your car keys out the window or what. No. I hope I'm not really muffled on this, Mike. No, you're not. You're not. you're not going to throw your car keys out the window or what, no. I hope I'm not really muffled on this, mate.

No, it should be fine as is, like that. All right, are you all buttoned up? Yes. You've still got three stops. This is Norwood. This is the ultimate. South Norwood? No, there's only Norwood.

Norwood Junction, that's it. Then it's West Croydon. Norwood Junction? Yes. Yeah. That's what I's it. Then it's West Croydon. Norwood Junction? Yes. That's what I said. And then it's West Croydon. Yes. You're beginning to act like Murdoch in the A-Team.

I like Murdoch. He was the mad one. Yeah. And I am. Didn't he have a hat? I'm both face and I am Hannibal. No you're not. And you're Mr T in Murdoch.

Okay, I'll take that. See, it's not a bad trade-off. Come on. Thrilling stuff this, isn't it? Oh look. Is that it? It's 312, that bus, do you see that? Well I wonder where that goes. If we do miss. We're going to create a plan B. We will do another route won't we basically. We'll figure it out. If we do we'll pause this recording

on our lapels as we figure out and then realign. Really? Yeah. So I don't want to record everything. It's a huge... I don't want this to be a three hour episode. We're in Croydon. We are in Croydon, the London Borough of Culture. I didn't know it was. No. Probably could have got a national route to here. Yeah. Yeah. But I presume whatever stops here stops at West Croydon anyway. Well we do. Okay. Right, this is it.

We don't know how far away we are but... What side is it going to be? We don't know. How are we doing for time? I don't know. Six minutes past we might be alright. We're in the lot under ten minutes before it departs. Nine minutes. Say nine minutes. Nine minutes. Thank you. Jesus. Stop looking at my mic. It's a pleasant evening, racing, not too cold tonight. No, it's quite pleasant. I'm sure the Superloop bus will be cosy as well. Is it a new bus or a rebranded?

At this stage most of the ones that are Superloops are rebranded. But once they get the route going I think they're going to start replacing them with more eco-friendly USB hub fitted buses. I didn't think I was going gonna bring my superloop badge. Look at it, it's a big station this West Croydon, innit? Are we coming into it now? Well it looks like, look at all the depots and interchanges and stuff. Well it's the end of the line isn't it? Yeah, this is where trains come to sleep.

I think we might make this, you know. Well. It looks like we're coming in already. If it comes in slow though, you know what I mean? It seems to be. It like just puts its tip in a little bit and then it was slow. It was everything with you. Until the balls were right up against the back of it.

What balls? The train balls. Yes. Train balls. So this is largely going to be a real time episode. No, but it isn't called. Look. It's a called... It's a sell horse depot. It's a sell horse depot. It's not. Should have tried to take a picture of that,

but I can't get my phone out of my fucking pocket. Oh, I've fucked it now. No, no chance. I've missed cell for depo, all because of the wonky zipper. Oh, look at this. Look at it, though. Look at that platform. That's crazy. Is that where they washed them or something?

Yeah, that's where they washed the train's tiddly bits. Oh, that. You see that curved thing there? Could be a national plan. That's crazy, is that where they washed them or something? Yeah, that's where they washed the trains tiddly bits. No, that, you see that curved thing there? Could be a national platform. I don't know, it's not a platform. Look, it's where they wash them, look those are hoses. Maybe it is a big train wash, or cleaner, with a hoover as well.

Oh look, that's the Crystal Palace, that's the radio antenna you can see. Yeah, that's the one you can see from Ali Pali, yeah. Sisters separated. Right mate, where are we? Eight minutes past. The bus is due to depart. At quarter past. Six minutes.

In six minutes. God, this is so tense, I can't bear it. I'm feeling strangely mellow. Yes, this is so tense, I can't bear it. I'm feeling strangely mellow. Yes, because you want this to fail. I don't want this to fail, do I? Okay. You also said that last time. Because you did.

You were going, let's go home. Let's go home. I didn't say that. Let's just go home. Why don't you go home? I'm sick of you. Already, I want to turn this train around and go home. Why don't you go home? I'm sick of you already. I want to turn this train around and go home. You won't turn the train around. Oh it's so dark out there. It's going to be really tight this. Yeah I like it tight. Please stop. I like it real tight. I don't

think we're gonna make it. Mate you don't know do we? I think if we get in at the latest 12 minutes past that gives us three minutes to do a one minute run. All right? Chill. Your vibes doing my head in. Look at this. Your vibe's doing my head in. Look at this. Your vibe constantly, throughout the years, does my head in. Yeah, but guess what? You're stuck with me now, aren't you? What else have you fucking got?

God. Ah, you're such a like a... We don't even know what side of the train we're getting off. I haven't looked out this window yet. I mean, you could just get your map out and see what Google Maps says we are. I'm really used to the station. So I'll do that. Get an idea of how far away we are.

It's just going to have to run. Watch this. Goggly Maps. Find me please. Oh, look, we're nearly there. It's just going to have to run. Watch this. Goggly Maps. Find me please. Oh, look, we're nearly there. What time is it? 10 past now.

There we go. See? A minute, two minutes. Three minutes is what we're going. Look how fast we're going. Look. Oh, it jumped a bit, and then you didn't miss it. Right now, we're going past Sirigurusings-Guadalcroydon. Clarendon Road. Clarendon Road, even.

Sydenham Road. Mate, we'll be there in a minute. We're going to be fine. Look. Look where we are. Look. Where's the station? There. We've traveled that, like, look where we are.

Where's the station? There. We've travelled that, like all that distance in the last 30 seconds. Okay. We might do it. We're going to do it. We've just got to get a wiggle on. All right?

At least the bus stop we need is right facing the station. So it should be right there when we come out, or at least right there opposite a station. Right, here we go. We're coming into West Croydon station. There. We don't know, it might be facing the front. No, it's just there by the side.

That's what the map showed. Oh dear. Well, I think we're gonna be all right. We're getting off and not playing on the to be alright. We've got four minutes or so. Yeah, we've got four minutes. This is Croydon. London Bridge. We could have gone to London Bridge.

We could have done almost anything else. I did this on purpose. To really get you going. Because you don't want to do it. Shut up. How do we get out? Which way is the exit? Have we gone past it? Have we shot it? No.

Way out. That way. Use ramp on platform 3 to exit car park. We're not going to the car park way. Right, here we go. Here we go. And we're off. That's platforms three.

Why are you going out that way? That's wrong. Oh wait, it's that way. I thought you'd gone the wrong way. Hehehehe. I'm pretty sure it would have been fine. I think it would have been fine actually if I'd been going the right way. That had to do it twice. Bus stop. Okay, heading to the bus stop, running left. Oh, here we go, we're outside. The bus stops this way.

This way, Eli, he's far behind. What time have we got? 30 minutes. Okay. Oh no. I see the super loop. I see it. It's over there. I'm gonna leg it so if at least one of us gets it we can hold it for the other. This here would be a super loop. SL7. Okay.

Okay. Here it comes. Do you see it? Yeah, just there. No, it's coming around now. I know. Come on, let's get it. It's coming. Which way? Oh, there it is. Let's get it. Take your picture now please. Thank you. And we're on. Amazing. Right at the front. Fuck me. So fine. Exactly the same as last time. Thanks. Right up top, right at the front. And now so here we are on the LS7, SL7. Here we are. You're going to hear as much as you can at this journey, but I might cut out long goes of nothing while we breathe. We did run there. We would have missed it probably if we hadn't run, right?

Yes. Wow, I've never seen West Coydon. Or, actually, I think if you'd warped you would have seen him able to stop him and get on. It was very close though. Literally this is it, 11.15. It was a part of my brain. It left on time, it left it before. Oh yes it has. Yeah. Okay so we're on the last SL7 to Heathrow from West Croydon of the whole night. Yeah, and this now was a 70-odd minute journey. Oh, there's the tram lines.

We're on the tram lines. High five! You did it, mate. Well done. I'm sorry I over-doubted you. Well, to be fair, that was scientifically... You couldn't scientifically measure that in terms of getting off straight on straight on.

So we were pushing our luck somewhat there, all it took was one idiot messing around with the door or red light changing in the last minute. Yeah, one little delay but no we did it, we managed it, amazing, just like last time. A little less panic because we knew. Yeah because last time we didn't know where we were running to. We consulted the map before we got off. So where are we now? This is West Croydon. It's mad, isn't it? I've never been to Croydon.

It's like a whole city, and a whole other city, down here in Croydon. So much building in the 60s. This type of stuff. Oh yeah. But this is the bus that used to be called till very recently, the X26. Right.

And it is, I don't know about time span but it goes the furthest of any London bus. Yeah. This is the longest route I think it's 24 miles on the clock. About 24 miles isn't it? All the way to Heathrow and I was saying to you earlier Paul, it goes through some of the same places that you think that we went through last time we did 9th blessing which was on the N199 wasn't it? Yeah. And I love it here I've got to come down and look at all this brutalism down here. Yeah I'm not, I've got to go to Vintercroiden. I mean see that thing? Yeah. That Apollo House. The Apollo House, that's well brutalist man.

I'm going to try and rein it in with the... Please do, because it's getting a bit to one note. You don't say anything. I don't have an opinion on brutalist buildings, I've decided they're not my cup of tea. No, not that, just on anything. You have no interest in anything. Well I will say I have done this bus route before, but from here I did a few stops onwards I don't know I'll point it out when I see it we managed it right from the start the very last bus of the night yeah I'm proud of us God there's so much 60s architecture everywhere isn't it it's crazy it's a new... That's what I mean it was like... Town? Yeah. What city? It was a it was a it was outside London wasn't it? Yeah. And then

they decided to... What make it a borough? I think with the rejig of 65 or whatever when they... Move postos around the ship? When they redid it I think this became part of Greater London then. Don't quote me on that but it's something look look at it's all 60s stuff. That one looks older that one has the vibe of almost in terms of architecture of some place like downtown LA or something doesn't it? Ish yeah. You know what I mean it's so built up so high rise that's a very famous... Box Kirk building. Which one? I don't know what you're looking at. Look, we're actually going to see Croydon. This is Croydon, East Croydon station, so that was the walk we would have done if we'd got off at East Croydon. We could have gotten, I guess we could have

got the bus stop here then at that point. Yes, but it wouldn't be the start of the route, would it? And that's the rules. Here we are, first super loop, last stop. Yes, take a picture of the lovely sign. Because you know it's a signify of our route on the way. I mean I've said it before and I'll say it again, I do like the logo for Superloop and that makes me a drastically depressing person. It's a nice bit of design. Lovely bit of stuff. Paul, another bit of London infrastructure news that's happened is the renaming of all

the separate overground lines. Are we doing local radio? I'm just saying, do you have any opinions? No, no. The Goblin line, do you know what that's going to be? Suffragette. Goblin or Suffragette? I don't. I mean. Was Goblin line ever a thing? A like, or just a thing? No, it's a truncation of Gospel Oats. No, I know.

Was it like, was it something you came up with or was it like something a lot of people say? It's something a lot of people say. Right, that's what I wanted to know. Yeah. No, I didn't come up with it. Popeyes. Oh, they've got one of know. Yeah, no I didn't come up with it. Popeyes. Oh they've got one of those.

Apparently they've like Popeyes chicken sandwich completely re-changed the game of fast food in the whole of the United States. Why? Because it was such a hit there, hot chicken sandwich. Right. And that's led to the McCrispy, the McSpicy, all of these people are coming out. The KFC, Wanzinger and stuff. KFC has to do one. What's older, KFC or Popeyes? I think KFC is, I'm not 100%. Have you ever been to a Popeyes?

No. When I visit my family in Florida, they're like, oh, the Popeyes, if there's a Popeyes, it's a sign that you're in the ghetto, basically in the ghetto basically yeah they're more down market or whatever okay they know their audience a bit like Star Burger or something yeah you know there's always a Star Burger Wimpy's yeah chicken cottage Oh there's the Queen's Garden. Which Queen? I do not know. But I'm always impressed with Croydon House, like a city it is, just stuck down here, another whole city. But again I've never been, I never needed to come to Croydon, I don't know what's here for me to do anything. It's a bunch of offices I think mainly isn't it? Yeah.

We're on these big roads here. I don't know it's all a bit of a mystery. The A232. So they're probably a bit, when we start approaching Heathrow itself I think we're gonna be quite sort of rural that we're gonna be in No, not really motorways. No, it gets more like How's planned housing areas and main cook your carriageways and stuff? Yeah The ones we get on a raised road now going over Going over an old high street cool Yet another modernist car park

like Hammersmith in it yeah this whole area we're on a flyover of some sort then I want this one's called maybe the Croydon flyover great reviews look at this see all the way down there yeah this is nice isn't it? Hey look at that fire station. See all the red fire trucks in the mud? That must be it. Intimidus. Yeah we're on the A232 to Sutton. Exciting isn't it? That was actually extremely thrilling for me. I love it, absolutely love it. This is why we do it Paul. That's why we do it, full of the chase isn't it?

But honestly it was quite thrilling the way I thought we were going to totally miss this bus but we didn't. Hopefully we'll capture that with our urgent breathing. Yeah I'm really out of breath, you're right I'm totally out of shape. I've read around about three steps. This is why when you say I could have you in 100 metres or whatever it is. I could. I don't think you could. Listen, we both, I want to get into shape, better shape. Yes, I agree.

So, it's a positive thing, we shouldn't sort of just... No, no, no, no, no. If I want to get into better shape, you know. And I think it'd be good for you, you know. Yeah. Put a few more hours on your day. Give you a bit more life. I was roller skating last year, but I haven't managed it this year.

You haven't touched it, but later on, have you, now? It's just been so wet, basically. Every time you know, you think... It's been miserable. It's been horrible. It's fucking country. And one thing you shouldn't do is roller skating the wet. If you fall on your ass. Some mock Tudor buildings there.

Wadden Hotel, mate. Wor buildings there? Wadden Hotel mate. Wadden Hotel? Wadden? The word you're looking for Paul is Wudden. No, but it was W-O-D-D-E-N. This is Wadden? Yes. And what did I just say?

I've never heard of Wadden. No, because apparently you thought I said Wudden. I didn't think that, I was being a fun fun. Well I didn't get it and it wasn't funny, so stop. Now would you like a Kinder Bueno chocolate egg? No, I'm OK, thank you. What about a finger of fudge? You've got mini fudges, don't you? You've got a mini finger of fudge if you want. No, I'm OK.

In that case, one last offer of my drumsticks. No? Oh, we haven't timed the bus. Well we've gone on exactly a quarter past. You made a whole point of us saying that. So we're good. It's been nine minutes already. So make sure we make a note of the time when we get in the final stop. Yeah. Yeah. See, we're right past that bus stop. We're gonna to miss lots of stops, aren't we? Yeah. Because that's the superlative. So it probably takes a shorter amount of time

than the old X26 used to take. Yeah. Because it used to have to stop everywhere. Yeah. So it is a slightly different route, isn't it? But was that a 24-hour route, that X20-something? No. OK, so it isn't removed.

No, it isn't. It's a 24-hour service, though. Although they are thinking of making it. So this is night-ing everybody, but... It is night. We will be travelling... Will we still be on this bus up past midnight? I think so, yeah. Besides...

Because we wanted to do the longest route in London. And this is it. And this is it. But it's not a night bus or a 24 hour bus, but it does... This last one does travel after the witching hour This is familiar I think it was somewhere around here when I got on originally It looks like we're on diversion because the sun the signage has gone. Yeah When there's a star it means that they're not listening the stops because it's on diversiondiversion. Yeah, but also it doesn't need to list all the stops does it?

No, but it always will tell you the next stop. Okay. I think it's just having a rest. It's not just having a rest. I think it's having a little sleepy bye-bye. The signs don't need sleepy bye-bye. They might, you don't know do you? Oh, there's the Croydon skyline behind us. Looks quite modern.

Look at that little pathway up there. Yeah, wonder where that goes. It's very suburban now. Much more suburban than Croydon. Oh yeah, because we're in the interlinking segment of all these towns. That's what I mean about Croydon, it's like a city separate, so you can go north of Croydon towards London and it becomes more suburban, even though you're still... South of the river, yeah. Do you know what?

I need to say my inhaler, because that has just... Beddington Park that is, right? OK. Here we go, flying past another stop. Right past it. Okay. Here we go, flying past another stop. Paul did run ahead of me, didn't he? And you would have tried to hold the bus up, should it have been... Would you have done that thing for me?

My logic was, at least if one of us gets to it before it leaves, we can hold it for the others. Yes. And that was not necessary in the end. It wasn't necessary in the end, but it was, like I keep saying, well close. Would you have done that thing for me, where you put your one foot on and the other foot off? Yes, of course.

I have played over in my mind the funniness of not doing that and leaving you there. Once you got on the bus, well that would be it. Yeah, but ultimately... I'd have to go home, wouldn't I? Yeah, ultimately. How would I get home? Get the train back the way you came. Are they still running though?

Yeah, because it's only 11 o'clock. They'll at least 1 o'clock or 12.30, then they'll just drive from it. Yeah, probably. It's only this bus that was specifically we had to get or we'd missed it. It still hasn't showing any destination stops. Oh there you go. Here's one. Come back. This is so suburban now. There's a Thor 10 behind us.

Going to Waddington. What did I bring? I didn't. I've had a Red Bull. Yeah. I've got some coffee in my new flask. Oh yeah, you've got coffee. Would you like a drop?

I would like a drop of coffee please. You would? Okay. Yeah. Let's do it. Kebab time. Nice. With an hourglass. Hey, you haven't done that.

You could have made it into one of those pillar things. Like a doner of the elephant's leg. But like into an hourglass. That would have been clever. Yes, but they didn't do that. No. But also, Paul, it's called kebab time, and there's an hourglass.

But does that mean when the hourglass runs out, then that's when kebab time is? No. Seems a bit of a weird thing. You turn it over all the time. It's always kebab time. Think about it, mate. Think about it.

Carl Schulton. Carl Schulton's one of those places I only know from a Monty Python sketch. Oh, right. They mention it or something. There's something about trains to Carl Schulton, though. Well, it's like that other bloody thing. It's like, um, Cryo Arts. What's that about trains to Carl Scholtz and all that. Well it's like that other bloody thing it's like um. Cryer Arts, what's that? Cryer Arts. Cryer Arts, it's a little theatre space. This must be Carl Scholtz and High Street. Yep. I've never been here before in my life. No, again

why would you need to? Well it's quite pleasant isn't it? It's a little villagey isn't it? It's a very villagey. Coats and horses on the corner there. Look at that old school coats and horses. Oh there's a DJ on. They're having a raver. Oh look at this. There's a bridge across it. Carlton North Street. Oh that's cool isn't it? Yeah, bit like Hampstead. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'll come out and check this out down here. It's kind of Hampstead actually. Yeah, less hilly, but yes.

Yeah. There's rivers. Parks, palms. There's another little brook down there. Must be Carl Sholton Brook. We're in the Carl Sholton Village. We are. Pres Car Sholton Village preservation area I saw. Pound Street. What do they call it? Restoration area? No, preservation area.

Like a heritage site you mean? Yeah, it's basically you can't knock down in these houses and put a McDonald's or a car park or something. That's a big gate. Is that into a park or a graveyard? It looks like a sort of manor park doesn't it? Or a manor house. There's a Chinese sacred area called Wokpapa. When's it St Patrick's Day? I just saw balloons and decorations. March 17th, so it is coming up. You'll be away by then. The day after I'll be in Florida. The day after my birthday. March 16th is my birthday. Is that

why you always go over at that time of year then? Often yeah. I've been on Christmas quite a few times. Yeah you have. Yeah and also it coincides with my sister Lulu's, she's a teacher. So she gets spring break off. So everyone can be together. So we can hang out, yeah. Otherwise she just got to work every day. And because it's Florida, not driving there is like... Impossible.

You can't get anywhere. No. I was surprised by how easy, quote unquote, easy it was for us to get around in LA when we were there I can't imagine it's that simple in Florida No, although they have ubers but it's just like everything's so spaced out every time you get an uber to do anything It's gonna be like 50 bucks or whatever, you know, yeah But they do have a train line going up from Miami where where I'm going to fly to, to where they are. Are you going to get the train then?

Yeah. Have you done it before? I did it on the way back last time, yeah. And was it good? Easy peasy. It goes all the way to the airport. But like quality train? You know there's double-decker trains there in the States.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, look at this. Going over a ravine of some sort. Don't know what that was. Sutton. Again look at this. Going over a ravine of some sort. Don't know what that was. Sutton. Again Sutton. We're in Sutton. You sound a bit panicked. As if you were lost on movement to the army. I can't believe I'm thirsty again. I managed not to bring any water again, did I? Have you got any water? No. I was relying on you and the coffee to sit down.

No he's dropped something. My phone. Good job you got that case. Should have brought a bottle of water. Well, that's what I thought you were popping into that shop for. I've got a massive red ball and no water. Oh, so you didn't prioritise very well. No.

I think I'm gonna have a finger of fudge. Wow, you haven't stopped eating chocolate since we were... And Kinder Bueno eggs. Well that's chocolate, isn't it? Yeah, but it's a different type of chocolate. Fudge, egg, squashy. Which sounds like, yeah, very squashy. Sex act. Fudge, egg, squashy which sounds like very squashy fudge egg squashy give me the fudge egg squashy special

this is very much Sutton and I'm very unfamiliar with it night route though so far can you imagine it being a drag in the daytime there when you've got more traffic? Well there's traffic, it must be at night there. I reckon it, well what was the range? It was like 70 minutes to 130? Two hours basically or 70 minutes. Yes. What's all this?

It's some kind of depot thing there. Some kind of big depot, B&Q depot, there you go. Oh yeah, massive B&Q depo, there you go. Oh yeah, massive B&Q. Rock and roll. Entering a more built up area here, this must be Central Sutton I guess. Yeah, maybe. Oh that's some kind of court building. See the lion and the unicorn there. Manor Park. Perhaps I was right because that's the other corner of the park, does it stretch

all the way down there? I thought that gate looked very much like a manor. It's a big park. A manor estate. Perhaps it's a different park. It might be. I think wherever I got on was just past here. Okay. Because I don't remember any of this. Or do I? I know I definitely got on for Kingston. Do you think there's going to be a... Like with the last bus we got, there was a point where a bunch of youth got on,

like they'd been partying and whatever, and they'd got on for a while. Well, you don't know. You just don't know, do you? I think this is the kind of place... But also night buses have more stops, so they're more likely to be used by people... Yes, so... ...going home, whereas this is more like a route for people who live further away from where they work. Well that's what the super loop, that's the purpose.

Yeah it is. They're meant to be sort of like a fast service aren't they? Fast connected service. Oh here we go. There are some people getting on but they seem to be lone travellers. Going home after a day's work or whatever. I'm loving this now, Paul. It's quite angsty, obviously, when I thought

we were going to miss it. Would have been a bummer, but. I just saw it like being in a car crash, just go limp, and hopefully it all works out fine. You missed it inappropriate tonight, aren't you? Can I remind you, you called mice the cats of the mice world. Yeah they are. I actually said they're the cats of the mice world.

That's what I just said. You said mice are the cats of the mice world. No I didn't. That's what you said, the mice were the cats of the mice world. You are full of crap. Geeks. Not that place, it's Geeks Cafe for something or other. Hello change makers, it says on the door. Oh, maybe it's like, they've used the word geek to mean like IT or stuff.

Like coding, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh god. It sounds very corporate and nice. Funny how it's gone from a phrase you gave to somebody who worked at a carnival or a fair, who did freaky things and bit their heads off chicken etc, to now being the guy who runs the IT department. Yes, but in between it was very much a nerd, wasn't it? Or even lower than a nerd, wasn't it really? No, no, I would say geek and nerds are completely separate things, but geek overtook the word for nerd by and large.

That's what I mean, they were, yeah. They're related. Put it that way. They're different, but related. But a lot of words like that. Outsider, like punk. A geek was like a punk geek. A lot of those words to describe a subculture or a type

change, but get reused. Hipster being the case in point. Yeah. Hipsters were jazzers, weren't they? I don't know. Yeah. Right in the 30s or something. Yeah. They were were jazzers weren't they? I don't know. Yeah. In the 30s or something? Yeah. They were hep cats, they were into jazz you know. Right.

Who's the Mini the Moocher guy? Cab Calloway. Cab Calloway. He was a hipster. In fact he wrote the book of hep slang. He wrote a slang dictionary. Hep cats? Yeah. Yeah. So hipsters is what like a a deviation of het-cat? I think it's due with being hit or het. I think those two words were kind of interchangeable. Right. But no one says, people still say that someone's hip to this day, won't they?

Oh, yeah. Isn't that funny? But they won't say, hey. Louis said that. He was hip to be square. Yeah, but that was 30 years ago, 40 years ago. Still a maxim I hold true to my heart. Cheam.

Christ, do you see all that then? What? It's like a driveway out of a house, and it was just nothing but paint cans, like stacked on top of each other. You know, like the giant's coal way in Ireland. Oh, yeah. Imagine that, but with paint cans of different sizes,

just packed out of the garden in the driveway. We're on Cheam Broadway. Cheam, do you know why Cheam because someone rings a bell for me? Another red comedy reference. Doug, yes. Yeah. Douglas Adams' meaning of lift. Oh yeah. John Lloyd, is it John Lloyd and Douglas Adams? Yeah. Cheam was like an unidentified substance found on a, in a British rail sandwich or something. It was like, you know, something filthy like chene. It's kind of got a smeggy sound to it as well, doesn't it? A grotty, smegmary kind of thing, yeah. Finally enough, on the train that we got on,

did you notice someone was reading Dirk, gently holistic detective agency? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder if we'll have any more Douglas Adams references or synchronicities. There's one for you, the Harrow. The Harrow. That's where you live. There's a synchronicity isn't it, but what does it all mean? What could it all mean? Jung coined the term synchronicity. Did he? Yes, in our modern... Okay. A meaningful coincidence is how he defined it. But it's meaningful to each subject, different... Oh, charity shops here and all.

So he said, because he was a Jungian, he was after Jung. It was like the dream interpretation. So, I mean, he was after Freud, beg your pardon. So he said the way that Freud would read the symbols in a dream, he said you could read them in a synchronicity in a similar way. So it's what that synchronicity means to you, what it's telling you, if you know what I mean. OK.

It's not when two things just happen to be in the same place at the same time? Well, that's a coincidence. That's a coincidence. That's a coincidence But you've said it's a meaningful coincidence So The harrow is a meaningful coincidence. It's like, you know in the number 23 keeps coming up The thing is that's only a thing when you observe it You know thousands of them every day. Yes, it is subjective to you. So that's why you were saying

Because you've noticed this synchronicity, it's saying something. Why are you noticing those things? Yeah. In the same way, why are you dreaming about a red apple? You know, you know. Well, it's like yesterday was in Watford, right? Look at this, you can see. Yeah, you see the city. We're in North Cheney. But, like, so instance, synchronicities, the other day, I speak to a woman over the counter and I say, can I have a bag for the thing? And she says yes. Is she a grocer's?

No, it's a charity shop. Right. So I say, can I have a bag for this stuff? She goes, yeah. And I note, and she tells me her name. And her name is the same. Why did she tell her name? Oh, because she goes, can you do this thing for a raffle?

Blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. And then she writes her name on it or something to say that she's done it. Yeah. I was like, fine. And she goes, tell us me your name. And I was like, oh, that's my man's name who recently died.

She goes, OK. She gives me a bag. I walk out the shop. And as I open the bag to check out if it's in there, there's like a sticker on the side of like, who's donated the bag or something. And it was my Nan's surname. Oh the surname and the first name, okay.

So that's a synchronicity. Yeah the surname was on the bag but the woman who served me had my Nan's first name. So again it's a coincidence but it's only a coincidence to you because you know who the man is. Oh exactly yeah. You see what I mean, so it has a personal... But I did find it funny that my Nan who had recently passed on those two names come together randomly Yeah, I don't I don't think anything of it, but I did think no an interesting synchronicity mate. It's interesting to you, but You don't give a fuck but the point is people over the years have claimed that synchronicities are you know?

Omens and shit omens of the super natural proof of the supernatural or proof that we're living in a simulation They're like a glitch. Bollocks. You see it in all of this stuff, you know? Bollocks. But you obviously are seeing it because you know and you've been thinking about your nan because you're past in all of this, so it comes up, you know? Yeah.

It's those domino effect of what it all brings together. Confirmation bias. This is where I got on. At last. Yeah, this is where I want, actually I thought I was a lot closer to Croydon than I was. This is Kn Cheam again. So yeah, this is the stop. Another Superloop bus.

How funny. It's on every five stops or something, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, because I remember. Because I got off another bus randomly. And then I realised, oh shit, there's no quick route back to mine. And then this bus was coming around the corner. And my brain did all the maths of SL7.

Where does that go? He throw. Oh, I'll grab on it so I jump on it. back to mine and then this bus was coming around the corner and my brain did all the maths of SL7 where does that go? Heathrow? Oh I'll grab on it so I jumped on it and then the rest of the journey is from here. This is when you were just on one of your late night rambles. Sometimes when I'm deeply depressed or super full of anxiety the only thing I can do is get out the house and start going on buses. Good fellows I think they're a... I don't know, state agents or something.

I think they're like those things, friends, associations that aren't banks that are like. Oh, like a building society? Yeah. But they aren't a thing anymore, are they, building societies? No. You still get associations of friends, which

are these other sort of entities that. Like community banks or something? Yeah. It's that sort of thing. Weird. So anyway, yeah, when I'm super depressed or when I'm super stressed, I just take night buses because they help me zone out. I love to have night buses.

Let me tell you, the SL7 is a corker. It's going through everywhere. All the nooks and crannies of South London. We're even halfway through. No, we're not. And that was a strange thing. I thought I'd done most of the journey because it was quite long when I was on it.

But here we are, we've been on the bus for exactly half an hour before it even picks me up. So it's going to be, we are around the half way point? Well no, we're just under. About a third through? I think so, yeah just over a third. I don't think it's going to take a whole hour and a half. We haven't got to Kingston yet, or Teddington.

We've got a location in mind to end the... We do. ...when we ride at Heathrow. We're going to end on a special nook. This is Worcester Park. There seems to be another village that's been... Yeah. ...conurbanised, or whatever the word is.

Conurbanised. I would like a little bit of that coffee to sup on if I can. I'm a little bit dry of mouth. Of course. I think it's all that sugar I've had. Yeah, you can tell them. Loan is sugar. I mean, I did have a big Red Bull.

I love this old art deco terracing stuff. Shops, houses, below shops. Yeah. home, terracing stuff. Shops, houses, below shops. Look at that one with the spire. This is Worcester Park, now this is a village I've never even heard of at all. No. Leaving the name. Oh dear. What, has it leaked? No, I've taken the wrong... Oh yeah, you're meant to just pop the top aren't you? You're not meant to unscrew the whole thing. What, has it leaked? No, I've taken the wrong... Oh yeah, you meant to just pop the top, aren't you? You don't mean to unscrew the whole thing. Nice, certain bushy road 213.

Oh, we go through bushy, I think. Yeah. I don't think you need to undo the whole cap either, you know. Oh yeah, you're right, aren't you? I think that's just there as a stopper. There you go. I'm going to share that with you, so... That's fine, I'm just seeing if there's a... Right, I'm going to put my lips with that little black mark there so you know not to drink from that. Because I do have syphilis.

I think you need to... Is that okay? Yeah. Nice. Kept it hot? Hot enough. This is my new flask everyone. You saw it in the episode about London sounds. It is a Lionstar branded flask. Talk about it on the podcast. It's old news. You're using it. I'm going to call it your camera flask because it reminds you of an old camera. Well I'll be bringing it along to the live show later this year everybody. Yeah What's the Park station now? Oh, yeah live show in November or no is it?

Oh, it's October either way as soon as we get the details patreon people are getting it first. Oh that coffee's okay I need to chase that up actually cheerfully for things. I think we can we can start selling ticket rolls soon. Good thing I brought it up then. Yeah it is. Another thing I'll end up doing, because you have none of the admin skills in this podcast. Well, if you would like me to do something, you can give me a chance. Oh, I don't think I can trust you mate. I'll be honest. Exactly, there you go.

That's the problem. I don't find you a reliable source. Oh look, it's that dimension where we're going, Heath Polly. Well, that's because the destination of this place is that. It's still far away. It's quite far isn't it? Would you like another little? Yeah, it's putting this in the same place. Well, that's because the destination of this place is that. It's still far away. It's quite far, isn't it? Would you like another little? Yeah, it's quite nice, that.

Is that that new brew you bought at the Tesco? Yeah, it's quite fresh-tasting, isn't it? Yeah. You didn't grind it. So what do you do? I'll grab it with my finger. Yeah, and then it kind of comes out this palp. See?

See? Just think about it, right? If you're camping yourself, you don't want to have to completely unscrew it the whole time. No, it's a nice, it's a very nice flask. It's not got the greatest heat retention, I don't think. Because it isn't metal and glass, but it has a thermos function. Thermos function. Don't worry about it. Oh I knew I saw that bump coming in the road.

Quite tricky, this is very semi-rural. It's like the Golden Child where Eddie Murphy has to jump over those things with a cup of water in his hand. There he's taking a nice big sip there. See you do it on the swing or the curve, because the pull kills it into your mouth. That's why I like to have a Red Bull when I'm on a car ride, because then when it goes over a bump, it just shoots the Red Bull straight into your stomach real hard.

That doesn't really sound like a healthy idea. It gets you quick, you know what I mean? Either way, not a fan. You get a hot Red Bull injection into your... Main lightning or whatever they call it. Main lightning. I feel very awake, I have to say it right now. I've woken up considerably.

I don't have to get up tomorrow, This is such is the life I live. No, that's true. These are all very similar to those suburbs up around where you live in Harrow. In terms of the architecture. Kenton and Kingsbury. Yeah, all that shit. Very similar. It was all built at one time, I guess. It all just spreads out. In the 50s there was a big spread, wasn't there?

It all just rolls out. In the 50s it was after the war, obviously, so that's when it all started to happen. In a big ring around London, I guess. Mate, we still haven't reached Kingston yet, has we? No. Remember, that's where all the bus faces... Oh, we're in New Malden. You know what New Malden's famous for? No.

Korean restaurants. Oh, really? Yeah, there's a big Korean expat community here or whatever. Oh I did not expect that. Wow this is far out because this is like 25 minutes. Portsmouth that way mate. Wow this is 25 minutes at least from like Liverpool Street. Yes. On the train you know so it feels like you're out of London already. But also think about this way we're not heading into town. Are we we're heading we're still gonna be outside. Yes Okay, so you're whenever gonna feel that level of getting east west basically. Yeah

Yes, we're kind of staying at the same distance from the center as it were yeah, hence why it's called the super loop Yeah, we're looping. That was a big road, the A3, that we just crossed over, big motorway, essentially. That's the one that goes to Portimouth. I'm loving this, mate, I'm telling you. It's one of those ones that I just can imagine, when I was a bit down in the dumps, and I just sat on here with my headphones

and listened to music, doing this route. It's quite nice. I've been listening to Death Dream music. What's that? Basically, I watched some video. Like Synthwave or something? It's related to Vaporwave, yeah. It's a Vaporwave sub-genre, essentially.

I watched some video on YouTube about the darkest, weirdest music on the internet, or some click-baity title like that. But it said the weirdest genre, the darkest genre on the internet. And Death Dream is this sort of sub-genre of Fakerwave, like you say. But what makes it unsettling? There's sort of stories around its creation,

so they've got sort of these myths, like he, you know, the guy committed suicide or. Oh, so it's like a creepy plastic kind of thing but it is also quite dark the actual sound of it it's like very very scary ambient music sort of it's hard to describe but it's quite affecting now I was listening to this one called White Death by an artist called Father and it was really taking me to a weird place. While I was on a bus. Not like an unhappy place, but just like it was really... Or just uncanny, is the word. It's sort of liminal music.

It takes you to a weird... I might try that out later. To me it sounds like you're describing the music they use for like Blue Jam. No, it's really hard to describe. But it's very ambient, very nothing, but there's a lot going on. I would recommend... I'll give it a go, you know, because I like my synth wave.

White Death by Father. Oh, it's Mother, I think. Maffa. It's one of the two, I don't know. Maffa. Yes, but there are sort of creepypasta style sort of weird stories around some of the artists who've done Death Dream. Which, you know, Chiny Reckon on that book, yeah, it all helps the around some of the artists who've done Death Dream at Alps.

Which you know, Chiny Wrecking on that book, yeah, it all helps the ambience of the piece. Yeah, they're these sort of weird stories that people don't know that it's true, because there's this guy, an artist called Begotten, right? Right. Who did like six albums and they're going to be the best Death Dream albums. Right. What is this place, man? Ooh, my word, how brutalist is that? Where are we? Kingston. Heading into. Wow that was, did you see how? Yeah. That was very modular, very brutalist. Quite oppressive I thought that one. It had a sort of that, yeah. Like did people live in there or was it offices? I think it was offices, but you'd have to... It had a very dystopian, 70s, so-so vibe.

Didn't it, though? Do you know what I mean? Like, THX 1138 sort of vibe. No, not that cheery. Look, I'll admit, a lot of brutalist stuff is dystopian. It doesn't mean I can't sort of like it. No, no, that's fine. I get it. I just saw a naked mannequin. Kingston Reag... Did you? In the corner of that room was a bathroom and I saw a man towel himself down after getting out of the shower. So he was obviously at

least top naked. Weird. I didn't want to bring it up in case it jinxed you. There you go. And with Billy Bollock's radar on. Please go. Ambulance passing past. The blue flashing lights. So yes, this artist Begotten has a six album run. Right, but then what? He disappeared off the face of the earth? Yeah. And we only know about him from the producer of the record label that he sent his stuff to so there's some Rumor, but it's their proof. That's a room. Yes exactly there's room with that He's in fact is this record label that's what all those kind of weird stories that people don't know the truth about

To me that sounds more likely Cuz like it's just great music the reason I bring it up is it is great music if you're just By yourself riding the night bus. Right, that kind of thing. Yeah, really atmospheric basically. I often like listen to a lot of 8-bit music albums. Yeah. That kind of stuff.

Do you do that? Yeah, Shinobi and all those kind of soundtracks or Streets of Rage. Streets of Rage soundtrack, mate. Really for this kind of journey. Yeah, yeah. Highly recommend it. You know what there's another thing. In fact if you're listening and you go on a night bus journey try some Streets of Rage and Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack music.

I'll mention one more album that I discovered recently. I think we're heading into Kingston now. Yeah there's Favorite Chicken and Ribs. Yeah in fact there we are at Kingston Station. Lamb Ribs they'll do in there. That's favorite chicken and ribs. Yeah, in fact, here we are at Kingston Station. Lamb ribs they'll do in there. That's a quite popular brand, can you see that? Yeah, you see it all over the place. Well look, there's another SL7 coming back. What's the SL7 going the other way? There's no one on that bus. One person.

Tooting. I'm just worried that my mic is all... It's fine, it should be fine. I mean, I've checked the levels and it's still picking us up. But I'll check them again because as you quite rightly suggest, it's not good to be careless. Just like this funny thing

has a little connection where it goes to sleep and you've got to wake it up by kind of taking it in and out. The album is Acid Mount Fuji by Susumu Yokota. Acid Mount Fuji. It's Yokota. Acid Mount Fuji? Yeah, it's like really trippy... This is a different artist. Yeah, ambient house music basically. Really nice.

So you can look, we're still going. Yeah, cool. But when we did the video... Thank you again Tom for giving us these. These are a bit of godsend. I think Tom listens to Nightbusting. Yeah he does, he's a Patron supporter. Thank you Tom.

Thanks everyone, Patreon. And thank you all Patrons for helping us do this. Honestly Paul, this is a special thing for me, night busing. I really love making these ones. Do you remember how we started, the idea of it? We were on a night bus. It was when we did the um, mostly unhaunted episode, mostly haunted episode, where the guy, where everyone was pretending that some, that there were spirits. And then we had a nice time on the bus. Barry Beans. Barry Beans. And we had a nice time on the bus home, didn't we?

From Finchley. Right, this is that episode again, because it does count as an out and about episode. But I'd like to do another proper ghost hunt for this year's. Please, but do I have to pretend to be, can't I just? No, I mean like a proper ghost on board. Like a private thing. Like I was thinking of trying to whip some cash together to

rent out the Hellfire Caves for the night. Just us and a few other people. Yes. You've been talking about this. Because I mean it would be expensive. But if everyone ships in 60, 70, 80 quid, we could probably rent it for the night. Anyway, I just thought I put that idea, would you, if you're listening to this, whoever you are, should we try and rent out Hellfire

Caves? See, look, that estate agent is called Seoul, as in the South Korean capital, isn't it? Well, here's the thing, it's Seoul, but it's the E that's dangling. It's dangling in between the S and O. But it actually actually says estate agents the E is for estate agents. Weird. It's a synchronicity. I'm doing weird shit with my mind. I think that's kind of a flaw of the design I think because it makes you think of Seoul when it's meant to be. Yeah, but maybe that's on purpose because we do know there's a large Korean community right here. See what I mean.

Well pointed out. Less law and space, less ordinary. It's not, though, is it? It looks like one of the most generic spaces I've ever seen in my life. Flexible off its space. Inside there's a blowjob donkey. You haven't seen a blowjob donkey before? They're stubborn.

I say that for them. Is that why it would be less ordinary? That's what you thought if there was a blowjob donkey? Come on, if there was a blowjob donkey in there, would you not agree that was space less ordinary? It would be, yes. Or would you think that was common or garden things to see in London? I don't think they don't get common or garden blowjob monkeys. I mean, you can get monkeys as well.

They're more hands-on. They have hands. Well, that helps. Yes. You have hands. That's a terrible sign of space, that's ordinary. Yes. Jut alors. Kingston Station, we're coming up to now. Yep. Now this section of the journey is similar to the other night bus we did that time. Is it really? Yes. I haven't recognised it. But it's coming from a different direction. Yes. No, you'll recognise it when we get in. Once we get in here you'll be like, oh yes we came through here. Remember there's the old, the marketplace that goes up through there.

Old London Road that says there. Yeah, remember we had a discussion about it on the last episode. We did didn't we? Because your mate used to, I don't know, do something round here or something. No, nothing round here. No, there's something you've mentioned going up it or there's a market up it. Alright, well just, you know, don't... Shopping arcade. I don't know. So far I don't recognise this but... It's warm on this bus.

What? It's quite warm on this bus. Yeah. But also my coat's really warm so that helps. My coat's quite warm. Or rock and roll. Fighting cops. That looks like a rock and roll bar.

Yeah, and you said that last time as well. Did I? Yeah. OK, you know what would really cement this, is if we see another bus stop that says 199 on around here. I think we will. I think actually the bus stops at it. OK, cool.

Because this is where it crosses with that night bus we did. What was it, the N? The 199, the N199. Is that really the number of the one we did? Yes. So this is our third night busing. Our first was the N18. Yeah. Which is a nice, fun one.

Then the N199. And tonight we are doing the SL17. No. No. SL7. Yeah. This goes on. Yes, this is Lewisham.

Look at that. Wilcox. Wilco's gone. It's gone, it's empty. It's crazy to me that Wilco's is gone. V&M's going to move in there though, you can just tell. You think? They'll sweep in, expand too quickly, then they'll close a few years later. I don't recognise this. Yes, why don't you? N65, right, let's look. Okay, now we should be heading towards Cat this. Yes you do, why don't you? N65, alright, well let's go back. Now we should be heading towards Catford. Yes I do, yeah.

It was quite early on in that journey this though, wasn't it? Because we came in from what is it, say Mary's Axe or whatever. Orpington, yeah. Through Orpington and then... So basically we've come at it from a slightly different... A little bit south. Further south, yeah. We've come from the west over where we came from south last time. Yes, that's right.

And whereas this would usually go straight up. Here we are. Kingston station. We're skimming on the outskirts of the M25. Dune 2. Wait. Are we inside or outside the M25? Way inside. Way inside. Really? Yeah. Wow, okay. I'd be interested to know whether... Oh, that's another bus that goes to Heathrow. Yeah. I'd be interested to know whether we cross the Thames at any stage during this journey. We're south of the Thames now. Is Heathrow south of the Thames? No, yes it is. We shouldn't need to go anywhere near it. We won't then. If he throws his south with the Thames as well.

I'm loving this. This is mad round here. It's all, you know... Does this stop here as well? Alright, cool. This is Wood Street. Oh look, it says SL7 but it's not a super loop stop. Maybe they just haven't put the sign on yet. They have put a little one underneath it.

They haven't put one on. Perhaps there's an issue with Kingston upon Thames. Maybe they can't afford to put those ones up on every bus stop. I imagine they take a lot of wiring and stuff. It's just a thought, yeah. There's a John Lewis here. There's a Fennec here. Do you know what else has a John Lewis and a Fennec? Brent Cross.

I fucking hate that. They might come down herec? Brent Cross. I fucking hate that. I might come down here instead of Brent Cross. Next time I need to do. I think there's more to do around here. It's more visually interesting, I think, King's Creek. Oh, yeah.

No, there's a lot more around here. Just a bit more history. Brent Cross has a place in my heart. I know. And it has a place in my arse. My bumhole. Oh, we are crossing the Thames. Blow.

Is it? Yeah, what on earth is this then, if it isn't the Thames? No, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just like- Take a shot of that. Kingston on Thames, they call it, don't they? Don't know if I can get it in with the reflection. Yeah, I can't get shitted. That's nice, isn't it?

It's too dark. Crossing the Thames, mate. So, do you think we're going from north to south now, or from the south to the north? In which case we would have to cross back over at some point to get to... Are you sure he froze south of the river? I don't think he's shitted. Mate, shut up. I'm just going to look now. So... Because we're north of the river now.

Yeah, this is the River Thames, so I think we go across it there. We're going across it that way, so we'll come out of the Hampton Court Pass on the other side. We're going to cross it again then? Yeah. That's cool, isn't it? What a route, man. What an excellent route.

Oh look, we're passing another SL7 going the other way. Hello Mr SL7. This is epic. Even more epic than the 199. Oh yeah, look see, that's the basic route that we're doing. Yeah so we cross it twice. So yeah, we are. Actually, we've done more than halfway. Yeah. Oh wow, yeah, we might actually get this done. Oh, it's past midnight though, so it's no count.

So we're officially night busing everyone. Congratulations. Congratulations. It took a bit of time, but look at all this. Hampton Court Palace is all this side of it. Yeah, they're all like, uh, allotments, I think. Oh, is that Hampton Court? Yeah. Mad. So yeah. Some lovely art depot.

Early 20th century. So we're south of Twickenham because yeah there's a Eel Pie Island. Eel Pie Island. A few miles north of us. We went to Eelpire Island on another... Not another pagan Christmas... Pagan Picnic episode. Trickenham, yeah. So that's near here, isn't it? Where we are now. Teddington. Look at that, it's an old house. So yeah, we're heading towards Teddington, Twickenham, Hounslow, Felton, Heathrow.

Didn't the early Rolling Stones do gigs in Eelpire Island? No, they recorded, didn't they, in that studio on the island? I'm just messaging my friend because she said, oh, you just drove past my house on the bus, because you followed me on Twitter. Oh, really? She's like, oh, your route just goes right past my house just now. Crazy. We've got the estate of Hampton Palace, Hampton Court. To our left here is a big road, a big wall, and a mad dark,

open space there. Yeah, that's all there. The bus is actually going around this outskirts of the perimeter of Hampton Court. Yeah. What was Hampton Court Palace famous for? It was like, it had royals in it. Was it like, canvases? outskirts of the perimeter of Hampton Court. Yeah. What was Hampton Court Palace famous for? It was like, had royals in it.

Was it like, can be the Aventer? Yeah, I think it was like... Is it haunted? Probably. I think it is. It's got the maze. Oh, I don't know if you can see it. Yeah.

It's got one of those rare hedgerow mazes. Right. I can't see it from here. Can't see the maze from here. It's too dark. Yeah see look, I have to end for 481. I thought I was going to say a different number. Ignore me. This is definitely not the same route as the 199 here. No, not here. No. They both go through Kingston but I think that's it. They approach and exit Kingston via different... Yeah, they swing through. Ships in the night.

Different routes. Ships in the night. Mate, how cool would it have been if we spotted a 199? It would have been great. It would be spooky. And we looked at the bus and we were on it. And we were on it, but we were old men in sailors' outfits. Like we'd been on in sailors' outfits. LAUGHS

Like we'd been on a boat or something. We'd been demobbed. Funny. Or if we were in like... Look at that little house. These are all innkeepers' or groundskeepers' houses, aren't they? There's a Haddon Court Palace there. Yeah, it must be.

This is getting hamster-y again, isn't it? Yes, but it's much more, this looks much more like a royal, huge manor, you know, with a big warp. Queen's Road. There you go. It's unsuitable for heavy loads. Did you read that? Unsafely for heavy loads.

Queen's Road is unheavy for safe loads. Yeah. I'll give her a safe load. I'll give her a heavy loads. Queen's Road is unheavy for safe loads. Yeah. I'll give her a safe load. I'll give her a heavy load. Trongus McDonghus. Trongus. McDonghus. Look at those windows. Yeah they're great aren't they? Stained glass and. Oh that's office place. I like them, nice windows. It's all very picaresque around here isn't it? Yeah. Oh here's the Queen. Probably quite expensive to live in. Oh, is that Victoria? Maybe Victoria. That's called the Angola.

But maybe Queen Victoria lived out here. None of the modern royals did live there, did they? No, fucking... They're too busy fucking... dying. Oh dear. The park. See, that's a big one. Is that a pub? Yeah. God, that's a big one. The park. Is that a pub?

Yeah. That's a huge one. And a hotel. It's like a Victorian hotel thing, yeah. This is Teddington. Again, a place I have very little knowledge. See I've been to Teddington because I've seen sitcoms recorded at Teddington studios. Oh really?

Like I think I saw Red Dwarf recorded here. A BBC studio? I definitely saw Black Books recorded in Teddington. Oh okay. I saw an Dwarf recorded here. BBC studio? Definitely saw Black Books recorded in Teddington. Oh, OK. Saw an episode of that. Again, it's very like Twickenham. It's got a Twickenham vibe. Yeah.

Well, it's not too far away, is it? No, yeah. The charity shop. I love all the charity shops around here. They're much more cluttery around here, the charity shops. Look at the little British art. Are you saying they have a? You should come down here for them. But you need to come south more for charity shop. I love all the charity shops around here. They're much more cluttery around here, the charity shops. Look at another British art fair. We should come down here for a... We should need to come south more for charity shops.

We do. Blue Cross. Where are we here? Hatten Cross. Right, we need to go to Hatten Cross. There's another charity shop. I've just seen five in the street. We're coming to Hatten Cross, mate. We're doing a Hatten Cross. All right, cool. We should do an episode like we did.

Oh, look, it's the R68 bus in front of us. That's a proper local. What does army mean? Richmond? Yeah, it must refer to something like that. Because like the Harrow bus is a H. Yeah. And T.

It's a single decker. Yeah. So there's some of the great buses. Perhaps we'll do some, look. Look at that. Manor. Oh, what's this? Looks like a shopping centre.

No, it's not. It's some kind of think that says something. Oh, what's this? Looks like a shopping center. No, it's not. It's some kind of business park or something. Weird. Actually, it will say the Hatton Cross station.

It says, oh, physicists laboratory or something. It's a lab. They're labs. Yeah. NPL, National Physical Laboratory. Looks like a David Cronenberg film set. It's where a creature would escape from in the middle of the night.

Half man, half beast. A genetic mutation, yes. And it can only live on the bone marrow of humans. And it will go, Laura, Laura. And tries to make love to a real human lady. Laura, Laura. Ain't no way. Oh, look, there's some fancy old houses up here.

I bet they're haunted. I bet all these houses are haunted up here. Especially that one. Fucking hell, even the willies just looking at it. It's spooky, huh? Really imposing. Yeah, that one. Yeah.

What's wrong with that house? It's got a right fucking attitude. It's quite magical, this bus route, I tell you. That was a real creepy haunted house looking thing. It was cool. That's the first time a building's ever given me the willies just looking at it. They were giving you willies because it was looming up there. There were no lights on either.

And it was taller than all the other buildings around it. And it had that faux gothic, almost Disney haunted house look. Yes, it did in terms of its silhouette. Yeah. Oh, jibble terms of its silhouette. Yeah. Oh, jibble jibble. Jibble jibble indeed. We're coming to Hatton Cross though, I'm definitely going to do this. There's a restaurant called Chow Chow.

You like Hatton Cross? It seems quite spread out because we're not even at the station yet. I don't know, we're not. We'll find it, but wow. We'll take another bus, won't we? We've tried out because we're not even at the station yet. Oh no, we're not. I wonder what that... We'll find it, but wow. We'll take another bus, won't we? Yeah, but I, you know, I liked whatever... Oh, I mean, I guess NPL was close to it. So, if I look for NPL, I'll probably find it.

NPL labs, yeah, whatever, yeah. Oh, is this a line crossing over a river? That's a train line. Oh, is it a train?'re crossing over a river? That's a train line. A little tribute. Oh, is it a train? Yeah, it's a train line. Oh, a lovely Beetle. Nice colour green. Not a real Beetle, the car, obviously, the VW.

Virgil Hay used to have a red Beetle. Did he? It was so clapped out. Crazy, you know what I mean? But that's the thing, the personality of those cars oversells the shittiness of them. I mean, they are, yeah. Because my dad had a Mini, proper little Mini.

And have you ever been in a Mini, an old proper Mini? I have, yeah. There's nothing separating you from the rest of the world. Or the ground. When my dad would pick up speed, it felt like being in a go car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just, you're not going particularly fast, but it feels fast because it looks like. You feel the air sort of pressing,

like rushing underneath you sort of thing. Yeah, zipping by. Yeah. Gives it kind of a motorsporty kind of thing. No, but the new ones, I mean, they're just a joke, aren't they? Well, they're just normal cars with a badge on. Yeah, basically. Normal.

But all that normal design of car, that modern design, it always looks like they've shat their nappy the cars You know, yeah, but that kind of fullness packed up. Yeah Charming felt him. I won't feel Haunted as fuck the house I guarantee it that's got a real sort of New Orleans style... Antebellum kind of thing. Balcony. Although you could tell that was a big house chopped up into three. Yeah, it's kind of depressing. I looked in through the window and you could see like an obviously set up wall and two front doors. Landlords man. Have you seen those ones where they build a wall and and there's like a radiator that sticks

through that kind of shit? That should be illegal though. It should, it absolutely should be illegal. They don't want to, but they all, listen, everyone in the Tory party is a fucking landlord themselves anyway. Well then they should make change happen because they obviously have an invested interest in providing better things for people. What? you saying? I'm not you. Are you cynically snortling? Yeah. Well, we live in dystopian times with

crazy people. We certainly do. Tell you what the most dystopian thing we've seen tonight though was. That building. No, it was the Taco Bell in the old bank building in Finsbury Park. Finsbury Park full stop. It's always been rough there. 2001. It's always been rough for years there. Finsbury Park. The park itself used to have a reputation as being quite dangerous. Dangerously full of yeah. At least it's not a bank. Drunks. No. Oh yeah I'll be now. This is a big Sainsbury. No this is Hatton Cross station. It's been Hatton Cross station for the last three miles. Well you complained before it wasn't telling you what the next station is. Well it just means I don't think that place was

Hatton Cross. No it wasn't. But NPL was what I remember. It's really warm on this bus. If you weren't a hat, I'd wear my hat. The hat's off now. Because I was really hot until I took my hat off. I'm like Tom Jones who was telling me to keep it on. That guy. That's good you got to that gag and then we can just put that aside and not go back there. Thank you. I'm reading that Dashiell Hammett book that the Coen brothers based on. Blood simple. No. Millers crossing. Oh okay. And you know that the hat is a central image in that film. Yeah. It is a central sort of MacGuffin in the book as well. Right. Very excellent book. What's the book called again, did you say? The Glass Key. Glass Key. Dash

or Hammett the Glass Key, yeah. And he wrote it specifically trying to get it made into a film so it almost reads like a script like a screenplay right and it got made into two other films apart from Millers Crossing isn't a straight adaptation no it's not but there were two straight adaptations one in the 30s and one in the 40s. Both starring... Different people, one had Alan Landon. You know Alan Landon, yeah. Yeah, he was a horrible cunt.

Was he? He was horrible to his... Who was his famous daughter or something? He co-starred with Veronica Lake, was always paired with Veronica Lake. Yeah. He was a cunt to her, yeah. Well, certainly he was a cunt to his kids

and like, well, basically like saying you can't have anything, fuck off. Didn't want to give him any money. Something like that. And also I think he was getting in the way of their career. Something like that. I read something recently I said basically about Alan Ladbroke was a cunt to an actress or something. He was in a lot of those classic noirs of the 40s, I believe.

Right. But the character in the, this is why it's quite an important book in the history of crime. Because it's almost like, it's got aspects that are very much like a potboiler who've done it. Right. With a sort of explanation at the end and stuff. This is like boss and mate, not Eli fucking reads a book.

But he's also putting in lots of different things like the, he's not a detective the main character even though he solves the crime which is... He's just putting in lots of different things like the... He's not a detective, the main character, even though he solves the crime, which is... He's just a dude. Well, he's like a political mover and shaker sort of thing. He's very compromised. Like an Alistair Campbell kind of thing. Yeah. Like the character that is... It's funny to think that...

Is it Gabriel, character in Miller's Crossing? He sort of plays off people against both sides and sort of, you know. Well, that's kind of like, yeah, what is it, Rashomon? Yeah, it's not quite like that, but it's... You can see how it was, at the time, probably very unusual for a mystery to have such a morally dubious main character. Right. And a lot of drinking in it and stuff. Oh dear.

All right sorry, just talking about what I'm reading. You know what it is? I'll be honest with you. I need to poo. Well. I'm sitting on top of the world mate. You know what I mean? Well I need a wee. Well I think I'm gonna be alright but I'm just saying. Well I hope so because otherwise it's like a pressing concern. I think night busing would have to, we'd have to renegotiate everything. Shite busing. I don't know what else to say. All I'm just, I'm afraid of just like dotting the i's right now. You know. I had a little bit of a moment where I was like having a bit of a spasm on the bottom, I was just trying to bite it back.

All right, did you need, you could have taken another one. No, you know what it is, the urgency swung in on during Kingston. Okay. Okay, well. I'm just saying mate, if I'm being honest. No, it will subside probably. Oh yeah, no. It will swallow back up and climb back into the hole. I'll gulp it back.

Here we are on another big very wide suburban street. Oh it's got one of those bridges. Oh it's still Hattencross Station. It's been about 18 miles. Is that right then? Can't be right. What does that say? Wasn't Hattencross where the state accident was? Was there an accident in Hatten Cross station? I feel like there was, yeah. Because that name rings a bell. Well, there's Hatten Gardens with Clark and Well, which is the famous jewelry quarter. And that got robbed and stuff.

Yeah. Maybe I'm thinking of that. Thinking of Hatten Gardens, maybe. The Hatten Gardens Heist. You know what? I'm going to check my phone and find out. I do hope. That's called the Airman, that pub.

Maybe there's an airfield. Oh, Heathrow. We must be getting near, mate, because that pub is called the Airman. Car turning. Oh, where are we? We're near. We haven't gotten to Hackencross yet.

OK. But are we close? Oh, look. We haven't gotten to Hackencross yet. OK. But are we closed? Oh, look, we're going over some kind of flyover. What's this up here? Felton. We haven't had a bus stop in ages, have we? That's what I mean. And we're going past.

I don't know where that is. There's a train down there. Yeah, it goes to Felton. It goes up that way. Oh, yeah. Love it. Yeah, Hattencross is up ahead. So we're still a good five minutes away.

There really were no stops at all. No. It really is a very effective bus service if you were flying out of Heathrow very late at night and you lived in Croydon. Yeah, if you had to save money, this would be a good way of getting from. Well, it's £1.75, it's one single...

Uber would cost you fucking, well fucking shitloads. The first time I became aware of this route is on the Jeff Marshall video where they're trying to get, seeing how far you can get on the lease money. Oh that's right. And that's this as well, as well as being the longest bus route in London, it's also the most distance you can travel on one fare on the lowest amount which is just one single bus fare because we're also outside of zone one and stuff obviously yeah yeah but that's not affected by buses oh it's not your bus is just a

single fare whatever that's right and you can keep using it. Right. Feltem. Yeah we're finally getting to Hattencross though I think we're going to be there. Wow crazy. Two, three minutes. I can't believe we made this bus call it was so, so drama, it was so drama. Wasn't as much drama as before. No that was a bit mad because I think we were both unsure, really unsure where to go, where we were going. Yes, we didn't know. St Mary's Axe was a much weirder, smaller place. Was it called St Mary's Axe? It was called something like that, yeah. Mary's Cross or... it was Axel Cross or something. Something like that.

Or Axel Rose. Or Dirt, Dirt, Dirt, Dirt, Dirt, Dirt, Dirt, Dirt. Famous Bir biryani, god I'd love to get something there. I do the biryani right now, that's not really nice. Nice biryani. Lovely dish of biryani. Digger hire. How can you dig hire? Hire digger. How do you dig hire? That's what I said when she was scooping out your cloth box. How do you dig higher? That's what I said when she was... Scooping out your cloth box. Now we're off.

Now this is Hattencross, I think. God, wow. Still going to Hattencross station. Yeah. Perhaps we're in some kind of weird, in the mouth of madness time loop. We're going to see an old kid go cycling past to get older. We'll see us in sailors outfits.

I'm obsessed with that. Wouldn't it be weird if we saw ourselves coming the other way, riding horses in sailors' outfits? In the sky. 30 years older, riding an old bicycle. That's what it is in Mount of Madness. I love that bit. Does he see himself older?

Doesn't he see a weird old man? No, he sees a kid. And basically, that kid's been trying to cycle out of the town forever. And he keeps cycling and he just skids over. That's so eerie, that bit, isn't it? The film peaks around that bit, if you ask me. But it's good the whole way through, isn't it? I think that's when it reaches high peaks.

It's one of his most underrated films, I think, John Carpenter. It's his last good film. It's his last good one, yeah. Geodis. Geodis, is that another, looks like another lab. To me it looks like another lab, I don't know, because it's got a great big it's a depot of some sort. Where are we now? Still not at Hatton Cross station. I don't know. It is stopping though. Fantastic route. Where is this?

Look at this. I don't remember this bit to be fair when we were here. When you did it before? Yeah. You rode all the way to Heathrow before? Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. Because I sent you pictures when I was on the bus. I remember showing you the British Airways thing. Oh, I love the Superloop, man. I like the Superloop too. We're entering, we're getting close to Heathrow now, it's all opening up, there's a whole field of lights performing. Oh, here's Attencross. Wow. Finally. It must have been saying that for like 20 minutes.

Yeah. When we were way back in Teddington, that place was way back. This is quite close to Heathrow. It must be. Look, it looks like Heathrow is over there. We can see the twinkling lights of the airfield over there already. Look at that. I wonder if we'll see a plane coming down. You will and if we're lucky you will. There's a sign to Heathrow. We're almost there Paul. I wonder

how we're doing for time. Well I don't know we left at quarter past 11. You think there's going to be a toilet at Heathrow? Yes. Are you going to lay some cable at Heathrow? Yes. Well no I might just bike down to get home. Here's a super loop stop. Hatton. Hatton Cross Station. London's longest bus route. God, it's really hard to take a picture when you're fucking wobbling around. Look at that. It's like, oh. Hanging on with dear life as trying to take a fucking photo.

This is Heathrow, essentially. It's just such a huge site. Yeah, let me regard the map. Heathrow Central Bus Station is next to the last one. Is this the last stop, though? Yeah, now it's the last stop. All right. Look, yeah, we're going to go around the actual bus route. We're going to go around the actual bus route. Yeah, let me regard the map. Heathrow Central Bus Station is next. Is this the last stop though?

Yeah, now it's the last stop. Alright. Look, yeah, we're going to go around the outside of it now basically. We're going to do a big loop now. Literally around the perimeter of the airport. Cool. So you get to see... There's the British Airways.

This is where it's all down here. See some planes. Business, long stay, Terminal 2, 3. Where's the Hilton? Hilton Garden. Oh, let's go back to LA, come on, fuck it. I would love to go back to LA I have to say. All right Brian we're back. No, we need to get an Airbnb next time.

If we can afford to. As great as it was, but yes. I think. Have somewhere where you can just work in the garden or whatever. Yeah, fair enough. Look at that though, look at all that. Big fat planes in there. A big plane shed. British Airways those are.

Yeah. I'll be coming back out here in March to fly to Florida. Oh yeah, this is the road that goes all the way around to the side. We are... You are going around the perimeter. Around the perimeter of Heathrow. And we're doing alright, what time is it? It will take about one hour and twenty minutes.

It's over an hour we've been on already. Yeah. I thought you were going to have a little break from talking. It's been too exciting hasn't it? I know, it's been thrilling, we've been matching planes. This is great. Look at this, all those planes. An exciting bus route. For the purposes of our needs. It gives us a bit of everything, a bit of country, a bit of city, a bit of modern, a bit of old. It is a great route.

And it ends here. And it's all bits of London that I'm unfamiliar with. It doesn't really go through any cliched sort of. It's Clapham. It's whatever. Or like Houses of Parliament, I don't think, does it? You know? No, bollocks. There's Longstay Car Park.

God, it's just such a vast, flat field, isn't it? Full of machinery. What are these little houses? This is where just the old houses are. Such a vast area. Flat fields, isn't it? Full of machinery. What are these little houses? This is where just people live, I think, isn't it? Or security. I don't know. There must be all full of workers. People can't live there. Oh, they're offices.

Weird. Right by the airport. Yeah, look, there's a little kitchen in there. Oh, they are offices, aren't they? It must be just sort of airport support to start off with or whatever. Brilliant. I think that was all the British Airways planes. Yeah. Hangars.

Where they all sleep at night. And they get their bum bums washed. I mean... Every plane has its bum bum washed. Does it? Yeah, it's a little rosy little... The weather's been very clear and nice tonight. It's been quite a pleasant evening.

So far, it hasn't rained on us during any of these. Look, that's the runway there. We're going down past the end of it. That's the runway. No planes coming down. down. Don't they stop at midnight or something? They stop at a certain time of night. I think they've stopped. Honestly I think it's over. But planes still land though right? I don't know because think about it, if the planes went all night then this bus would go all night wouldn't it? So this is the last one to arrive here, so maybe there's one or two other departures, but there can't be many.

No. No planes, is that one tagged here? Maybe a private one. Oh, this is fantastic. This whole area's funny though, isn't it? It's like a whole, it's liminal to be frank. Weird empty road in an airport. Kia.

Car in front of us. Now I've just got to the point where my brain's just shouting out random stuff. Another hotel? Amadeus, does that say? Amadeus. Amadeus Hotel. Never heard of that. Opposite the Marriott. Oh, oh, oh. What? Amadeus, is that how you say it? Amadeus Hotel, opposite the Marriott.

Oh, Amadeus. Oh, you got it! You thought I was saying OOO. Yeah, no, good stuff. That was good stuff. Yeah, it was funny that. Laughing all the way to the bank, Mr Silverman. No, I wish. I wish I got paid every time I made a joke about it. I so do fucking I. I wish you'd get paid for being funny.

This is great. It's out of service. It's one of those shuttle things. It looks like a shuttle airport shuttle doesn't it? It doesn't look like it's on the TFL. This is fantastic, man. With all the lights, the runway lights arrayed out. That's another hotel. That one was built in the 60s. The Renaissance. That's very brutalist, very nice. The Renaissance. Did you see it back there? Yeah. Oh, these are all 60s ones in town, yeah.

Look at this. Very modular, very 60s. I've enjoyed the architecture on this route, man, I tell you. It's been a nice mix of everything, innit? Some Victorian, some very old stuff up by Hampton Court. Maybe even Tudor. Yeah, and there's Mock Tudor, plenty of Mock Tudor as well. Mock. Or Pseudo-Tud, as I like to call it. Tudor.

What's that? Some kind of modernist building. Offices. Anyway, I think this goes into the tunnel now. Look, this is where, when you come in by car, you always pass this plane, which is like an advertised. It was funny, because when we went to LA, when we went to LA, my Uber was coming in via this way.

And we went from my place to here in almost no time flat, my Uber was coming in via this way. And we went from my place to here in almost no time flat but one was like here for like 10 minutes, crawling around. Often you do crawl here. This I recognise. This is the main entrance by road, isn't it? Yeah. United 4L. Did you meet me at the airport when we went to? Yeah, that was cool, wasn't it? It was a morning flight. Because you got the train or something, didn't you? Yeah, Piccadilly Line all the way.

And I got Uber. You just have to make sure you get on early, but it does go all the way. Yeah. We are now at a red light, but also... We're facing a plane, a little fly-in. The advertising plane. It's on the middle of the roundabout. middle of the roundabout. Well, I hope the listeners will enjoy this as much as I have. Certainly they hope they'll more than I have.

It just feels, you know what I love about doing this podcast as well? What? Everyone else is sort of going home or whatever. I really feel like I'm going and doing something weird just by trying to get this bus. It's that same feeling we had when we would do a stand-up gig and finish at fuck o'clock in the morning and then fuck about and then get like Joe would

drive us early morning through London City home. Yeah. And I had that same vibe like people were getting up and we were like haha we're doing something that everyone else is doing. Yeah. I do like it. Doing this. The pattern seems to be trying to get the train down south in time to get the last bus. We should try a west. A different type of route. From the west.

We'll think about it. We'll think about it. We need to find a good western route. There's that other very long route. Is that why you're getting confused with the overlap? Because there is that other very long route that's similar to the 199, but longer, that we we looked up but that does overlap much more because this didn't overlap at all didn't go for catford like you said it didn't go for any of those no i guess not it only went

through kingston that was the only place it i guess i just falsely remembered yeah he falsely remembers it went along a different road but god did we nearly fuck up because i was on a lot of different buses that day on that evening, so it's easy that I could have crossed over and then ended up on this. Anyway, I'll look into it, but I think there's another bus in that sort of region, the 199, which is also very long. Everything's stopped. There's a little car saying stop. There's a traffic officer car with a neon stop sign in the back. Oh, that's not a neon stop sign.

What's that called? Dot Matrix. Dot Matrix or something, yeah. Either way, mate, what if terrorists have taken over the airport? And we end up being the saviors? Die hard, stuff. No, we wouldn't be able to do that

because one, that's a fictional story. Yeah. And two, we wouldn't even be able to do that. All fictional stories. I ran for about three steps back there and I was in some truck trouble. Yeah, no, we'd be in trouble. Oh blimey.

Well, the lights are still red though. It's not like... I don't know what's happening. Well, this is really adding some minutes to... Maybe it will take 80 minutes. But this isn't fair though because... This is adding minutes, but yeah, it's adding minutes to the journey. We can't get off here.

I tell you what, it's adding inches to the turtle's fucking neck, mate. I know that for a fucking fact. I've got a turtle of my own starting to nudge its way around. OK, the traffic control car's moved now. They must have been having to do something with... Because these are all highway maintenance guys, aren't they? But there's no-one really coming into Heathrow because all the planes have stopped, I reckon, for the night. The yawning turtle has become a snapper.

Did you see that news story about the alligator turtle found in this invasive species? It's one of those ones really pointy, looks like a brown rock. No. It's been found, like pets, and they've started breeding. Jesus. They're not good. Not good to have in your ecosystem are they not they're vicious fuckers here we go everyone likes a tunnel in the tunnel now almost that herow Central Bus Station where we will be departing. Getting

off the bus. So far it's been 77 minutes. Yes, I concur. And look, there's an N105 to Greenford station. Where's that? Who knows? That's not a night bus, is it? No. Maybe it's a 24 hour. It must be a 24 hour. They get dispensation. They don't need to hold an end. Are we going to get another Super Luke bus tonight, aren't we? Back up to Harrow. Yeah. That's the plan. Look at us. Now we're in, out the tunnel, heading in to the bus stop. Here we go. Look at this. A big, what's this, Turkish Airlines.

Big Turkish Airlines. Big ball with planes on it. And here we are. This is the end of the route, my friend. There's a smoking area there. Is there? Yeah, just there, so we can have a fag. Or I might see if there's any places.

Sometimes they have a coffee shop open. All right, that's it. Give me a coffee shop open. That's it. Don't leave your can with you as well, don't leave trash. Cunt. You know who we are off the bus. This is it, this has been our

night bus adventure. How exciting. How exciting. Where is he? Come on, love. Come on now, darling. There's a bin here. There's a bin here. Bin there.

There's a smoking area? Yeah. It's the only place you can smoke outside the station. You've been here before? Smoking and vaping, yeah. When I was depressed and I was like fucking... So, I'm going to see if the coffee shops are open every now and then. It might be too late now but I'm going to check if it's still open. And if not, I'm going to see if there's a coffee shop still open every now and then. It might be too late now, but I'm going to check if it's still open.

And if not, I'm going to have a cigarette. Shall we end this segment of the podcast with us a thing? Yes, but we're going to go to the chapel, aren't we? Oh, yes, you go there right now. Is it going to be open this time of night? Let me just see if you want to pop in here. Yes, it's open all the time. Well, I want to just pop in anyway and just see if there's a coffee place.

Yeah, Black Sheep Coffee. I'm going to get a coffee. You're going to get a coffee? Yeah. You'll be up all night. I'm going to get a decaf. Are you? Yeah.

So here we are. We're in the bus terminal. There's the W.A. Smiths, an exit D, and there's toilets and shit. And I'm going to try and get a, do you have coffee? Gonna get a coffee. Was he telling everyone to go outside? No, I think one particular coach has been. One particular coach. Now this kind of strange feeling being at Heathrow and not getting on a plane or having just

got off the plane. 7-1-3. 7-1-3. That's it. Right, we had a bit of trouble there working the computer. You did. I'm... What, are you going to go for a wee? Yes, but... Should we turn your microphone off then before you go for a wee?

I know you don't want to. I know you love the sound of people moving. I would honestly prefer to give it a break now and then turn it back on. What are you doing? I've got this weird sad feeling, it's like a nostalgic feeling because I'm not getting on a plane. Oh yeah. You know? Yeah. It's like I've weirdly arrived somewhere and I'm not going anywhere.

It's like waiting for someone to land instead and you're waiting for them. I'm not waiting for them. No one's waiting for someone to land instead and you're waiting for them. I'm not waiting for them. No one's waiting for no one. You know what I mean? Yeah. Anyhow, yeah, I'm gonna go to the loo. Do you wanna turn this off then? Yeah.

Actually, we go back to hand mics. Yeah. All right, I'm gonna just... Right, we've turned the lapel mics off and are back on the handy camp. So this is sort of the debrief I guess, isn't it? Where are we heading to again, can you remind me please? There is a chapel at Heathrow, we're at Heathrow Central Bus Terminal Station and there is

a chapel with a Garden of Remembrance which is a quiet space for reflection right in the midst of Heathrow and we'll go there to reflect right now and finish this edition of night busing a fantastic route Paul did you enjoy it I like it I really did it's a great route very long oh yeah yes it was we got off the bus? Yes it was exactly half past I think, hang on. Where's that fucking... Yeah I think it was like 35 past. Is it down there now? I imagine it must be. No it's here look. Oh yeah pedestrians look right, do not feed the birds. How long did it take then? An hour and 15 minutes or something, an hour and 20 minutes. This is great.

An hour and 20 minutes. This is great. Staff access to terminals. I mean, I don't know. This doesn't look like a chapel of remembrance mate. It looks like a roundabout. ID centre. It's not going to be this way.

Yeah, it's got to be this way. Come on. Back the other way. Do not feed the birds. All access to terminals. Oh, I don't know mate. But anyway... I know, I'm looking for it, aren't I? I'm invested in finding it.

All the coaches coming in out of this particular spot, going to Poole or Southampton or whatnot that one's going to Gatwick via Wickham I think it's this way it's got to be this way look left is it up this way st. George's Harrow seems very strange where is this chapel yeah it this way. There's a big sign saying chapel. Look at this weird place in the Heathrow. Oh, I know. It's because it looks like we're going down a spooky... Take a photo of it down there.

Yeah, you could take a picture of me going down. Just underneath the Hilton Garden Inn. It's quarter to one in the morning right now. But this is where the journey ends basically for us. So there's going to be a night bus or a super loop. No, no, we can't get a super loop. A night bus now back to Harrow, my neck of the woods. And then from that point on, he can fuck off in a taxi

and I can go to bed. Start editing this bloody podcast. Well, not this one, but the one for this week. And this one that you're listening to right now is probably coming out the week or a few days after that episode. I'm just talking shit. Look at this. So weird, it feels like I'm in between two motorway, and literally in between two motorway paths. It's weird. So

weird. And isn't this two roads? Or it's like... Yeah, very much in amongst the sort of infrastructure, this chapel. But it has a little garden of remembrance. Look at this, it's really cool here. But underneath two flyovers. Where are we going now? It's round the corner here. Bloody hell, it's a bit of a walk to get around. Everybody welcome for God loved the world so much that he gave his only son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. What's in it for God's son if you

ask me? Here we are gardens of remembrance it's a big patio area with a cross in the middle. Should we tie you to it and leave you here overnight? What a strange space what's this big mega structure black thing that looks like a Star Wars fucking ship. Take a picture of me in front of that. With that in the background. Oh. There's all plaques all over the wall. That's what I mean, that's the remembrance.

Of the people who have passed away. Of their pilots, I believe. Maybe of our son, brother, missed. And colleagues at Terminal 2, so he must have worked here. Rebecca. Wow. Donato. A lovely man with a heart of gold, great character, remembered by his friends. I wonder how you get permission to be on it. They're all pilots or relatives. Typically killed, lest we forget these guys. yeah what did I say actually when a plane accident happened

XA 897 an RAF Avro Vulcan crashed attempting to land at Heathrow Airport so they've actually got during a World Showcase tour I guess they don't make a big deal about this because people are nervous flyers you've actually got somewhere to come and chill and get you to you wouldn't want to come here because you get reminded of people who died in airplanes I'm going to that chapel to have a nice remembrance of them and just clear my head before I take a flight That's probably why they don't advertise it to people. Over there let's have a quick look because there's loads of names on this one Garden of Remembrance and this is a uh this plaque commemorates the 66 passengers and crew who were lost from

the Comet 4B of the British European Airways, flying from London to Athens, crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in 1967. And there's a chapel over this little church there, St George's Chapel. So restore, refresh, look at the cross of Christ. But just remember, if you, you know, for some reason came really early for your flight and had some time to kill this, it'd be a nice place just to relax as on a nice day, wouldn't it? You can't have a smoke, but you can just sit here. You can't, can't you have a smoke here?

No. No you can't. I think that would be... No smoking? Definitely no smoking apart from that one area up by there. That's the only place I know. So shall we say we say goodbye? Yeah. We're going to have a rolly in that smoking space.

Yeah. But I just want to right now. And then we're going to get on the SL what? You don't know. No, there's no super loop from here to Harrow. There's a night bus from here to Harrow. I'm getting that. It's the X104.

See, they used to be called the X, didn't they? The Heathrow buses. Because the one we got tonight, the SL7 again, used to be the X26, didn't it? Yeah, and that's no more. So that's it for night bus in this episode I'm not going to say this week or month because no we'll do another one. More is apprehensive but they went to get into the groove of it they all end up being quite reflective and nice experiences, mellow, vibey. Oh I love it I absolutely love it there's something there is something therapeutic about a pointless night bus journey. You know, it's the pointlessness of it, the futility.

The random, endless wandering. The fact that you don't have to be anywhere at any particular time. But then we seem to make it... Or necessarily stressful. Stressful, because we're trying to get the last one. But if this had been a 24-hour bus, we wouldn't have had any of that stress, because we could have just got the next one yeah but I'm glad we did what we did well the last SL7 basically empty for most of the run yeah I don't think there

was many people on it at all stopped five times it felt like the whole and it did stop by some bus stops it should have stopped that but there was no need to pick up or drop off so should we say goodbye then yes in that case we hope you've enjoyed this edition of night bus and hey maybe you're a local resident listening to this podcast and you can recommend the bus route we haven't done. However remember it must be a night bus unless it's a good superloop route. It has to be a bus that runs after midnight at some stage. A night bus or a 24-hour bus route. Or a bus that as long as they are, you're able to get one that runs after midnight yeah fine all right well then any bus give us any boss will

do it and that's it for now we'll see you next time take care night night goodbye bye I do have to have a shit though