Two In The Think Tank - 165 - Christmastime Mysteries 2 (Back In The Habit)

Episode Date: December 19, 2018

It's our annual Chrish-Mish special! And because sequels are always such hits, it's a follow up to last year's Christmas Mysteries episode. Each of us did a mini report on a different Christmastime mystery, each more mysterious than the last... Recorded live at The Phoenix in London.2019 Melbourne Comedy Festival tickets now on sale. Use the code "christmas" for a discount on tickets, including season passes. Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/ZYYPSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPod Instagram: @DoGoOnPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/ Email us: [e-mail] Book tickets to Matt's stand up show (in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne) with the early bird discount code: dogoon via mattstewartcomedy.com/gigs  Check out our other podcasts: Book Cheat: https://omny.fm/shows/bookcheatPrime Mates: https://omny.fm/shows/prime-matesREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING: THE WARMINSTER THINGhttps://www.express.co.uk/news/science/602435/Warminster-Read-1965-report-of-bizarre-public-meeting-after-eerie-UFO-events-shocked-townhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8694000/8694729.stmhttp://www.ufo-warminster.co.uk/timeline_top.htmhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-32972518https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/602316/UFO-invasion-eerie-noises-killed-flocks-birds-stopped-cars-Warminster-The-ThingIS DIE HARD A CHRISTMAS FILM?https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/4729e8ae-ca0b-4d4a-a43a-36e29cc33296https://www.slashfilm.com/die-hard-interviews/3/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/DieHard

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He's doing three and a half weeks of his show Bone Dry. And if you haven't seen that before, now he's not here. I can tell you that he is a fantastic stand-up comedian. So I definitely suggest you get along if you can. He's also visiting Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane next year for festivals. Or in the first few months of the year, if you use the code, do go on. You get a cheeky discount on those tickets. And all the details are at matchduetcomedy.com. Slash gigs. Nice. And finally, you might want to check out our spin-off podcast book cheat and primates.

I just released the book cheat Christmas special yesterday with Matt and Jess as guests. So basically it's an episode of Do-Go-On with me doing a report on Charleston's a Christmas Carol. We had a lot of fun. It was very late. We did it after one night. We recorded an episode of Do-Go-On and wow, Jess was very hyperactive and Matt was overly tired which meant he was also hyperactive so it was very loose, but a lot of fun there. Somehow, shortest book we've done and one of our longest episodes for book cheats, thank you. Matt's episode of Primates last week featured Comedy Legend, Tony Martin and Podcast Planet

Broadcasting Legend, Josh Earl and I've got to say it was one of my favorite episodes of that show so far. But that could be beaten by this week's episode, which Matt tells me features Alan Andy from Two in the Think Tank, talking most valuable primate to Colin, most vertical primate. Man, to be in that writers room. So much genius at work. Okay that's enough plugs. Thanks so much for listening. We hope you have a great Christmas or holiday period wherever you are in the world. Usually we ask people to tweet Facebook and Instagram as pictures of what you're eating on Christmas

day and I'd love to keep that tradition going. We'll post some photos of what we're doing. We love to see what you're doing. That is always very very nice. So without further ado enjoy this episode recorded live at the Phoenix in London. You there, what day is it today? Why, today is November 18th. Yeah. I, yep, sorry. Sorry, we're doing this sort of for the podcast. We're doing like a Christmas. I think it's a bit whimsical and cute.

So if you could just do that better, thanks. Yeah, I'll be more specific. All right, let's go again. How about this? Oi, you there boy. What day does this podcast come out? Why? Today, when the podcast comes out is either December 12th or 19th, depending on scheduling or 13th or 20th, depending on time zone.

Right. I think we're really just trying to get you to... Sorry, can you... Sorry, okay. So it's a Christmas special. So just fucking say Christmas. Okay? Go again.

Alright. Awesome, let's get this down, alright. You there, boy. What day is it today? Why so today is Christmas day? Is that right? So please don't hurt me. Sir. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network.

Visit Planet Broadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. I mean, except for, do go on, you could probably skip that one. I do not sanction their buffoonery. Hello London, how you doing? That's hell yeah. That's nice, thank you. and how you do it! I tell you! That's nice, thank you. Oh, all right, you did it for Dave, and then I talked and I body the energy. I hate you bloody ask for it.

Matt, the secret is to ask them how they're doing. Oh, okay, um, subcunts. Oh, for... Very close, no, for us. Welcome to another episode of The Do-Go-On podcast. My name is Dave Wanke, and I'm here with Matt Schubert and just Perkins Lane, gentlemen. Yeah! There's a baby, there's literally a baby in this room and I still drop the sea bomb. The majority of work done in editing that weekly podcast is me being edited out saying Clarence Hunt or the

I think I know what that baby's first word's gonna be. It's gonna be mad. I mean nice isn't it? Guys thank you so much for coming out to the Phoenix here. This is a lovely venue and it is our Christmas special! Woo! Merry Christmas! Christmas! Yeah, you thought the shopping centers were going early this year? No, no!

We also have gone pretty early. But by the time this comes out and people here at home, it will be very close to Year Old Christmas. Yeah. What's on the list this year, Jess? Anything you'd like Santa Claus to bring you? A tricycle. Okay.

A pony. And my dad to come back. Oh, I'll be able to. I'll be able to. Yeah, I'll be able to. I'll be able to organize two of those. I'm afraid the tricycle shop is completely sold out, so. But dad's coming home. Your dad is a complete sold out, so. But dad's coming home! Woohoo!

Your dad is at home, right, man. Yeah. I like to give the illusion that I come from a broken home and I have a dark past, but I'm fine. Because there's nothing funnier than a broken home. Yeah. Yeah. And everyone's fine.

I had a good education and middle class upbringing, so. Yeah, the comedy to be honest. Love the affluent east. All right. Matt, how about you? How any Christmas, you're a big Chris, so we call might me the festive boy on the show. That's one of my nicknames if you don't know. But Matt is actually the festive man really. You're a big, big Christmas guy and it pisses you off that you're not the Christmas guy on the show

I should be the Christmas guy because I am the Christmas guy But yeah Christmas may isn't about what you get. It's about what you give Okay, and what are you planning to give for this Christmas? Yeah, a bit of that bit of this but up It's a bit of that, a bit of this, but up. A bit of that. Gross. You guys are wearing matching shoes. And you and I are wearing matching shoes. All right, everyone show me your shoes.

So this is the show. Shoot time with the get boys. That's right. Now, there's always a few people that I've never heard the show. But first of all, we start with, give me a round of applause if you have heard Doogalon before. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thanks, Oll.

Very nice. Thank you so much. That is really fun. On the other end of the scale, please do not be shy. If you've never heard the show before, please cheer now. CHEERING She was well, and our tech. Dave, our staff. Dave, you said you listened to a bit on the way here.

Yeah. You were lying. It was lying. He's being polite. Thank you. Do you say that to bands, too? Yeah, I love your songs. Yes.

So what do you do? Yeah. Well, that's awesome. Thank you for those of you coming along. I've probably been dragged along by a friend. Some of this won't make sense. So we do. Well that's awesome, thank you for those of you coming along. I've probably been dragged along by a friend. Some of this won't make sense, but just, you know, have a good time, I guess. I'll explain those bits.

Yeah. Who's the close to me who doesn't know? Who's never been? A couple of me. Alright, you all address all of that weird stuff to you. What's your name? Jordanash, alright. That is a great name.

That is a beautiful name. I think, is it? Do you say Jordanash? I love it so much. Jordanash. That is beautiful name. Sorry, what did you say? Great to have you here, Jordan.

Thanks for coming out. Appreciate that. Yeah. So the people that haven't heard the show like yourself, George, what happens is usually each episode, one of us does a report on a topic suggested by a listener, the other two people on the program. Don't know. Program! Oh, well, I'll be there soon.

Yeah, that's right. On this week's program. This is radial four. Huh? That means something here, doesn't it? All right, anyway. Local reference. Tick, how good is posh spice? You do a reference, Bob.

Do a reference. Yeah, the queen is a thing. That's a big one. That's a good one. That's a good one. Nigel Mansell. What? It's the first one that came to mind. Also, Magical Mrs. Markle.

Yes. Markle. What's her name? The one who married the prince. Markle. Markle. What a beautiful name. Matt, your name's not George Ash Markle.

Oh man, imagine. Any question? Any question? Changing your name. Oh yeah, you should change. Anyway, we'll do the show and then we'll chat about your name. Anyway, the program, that's where we were. The other two don't know what the topic is going to be, but for our Krischmisch special, we've decided to do a mini report

on a Christmas topic each. And Matt, what is our overall Krischmisch theme this year? What's the same as last year, it's the sequel. And everyone knows the sequel's always better than the original. Krischmisch Time Mysteries. Oh! Oh!

There was an audible yes. Yeah, did he say yes? Which is nice. He's saying yes? Yes. You want some death? Yes! That's not related to the podcast at all.

She's just a psycho. All people are. Mole people. Oh, going early but yeah, probably. Probably. Always. I'll find a way. Jermine, have I kick off with a little mystery?

There is death in mind, so. Woo! Because Matt, last year, if you haven't had a Christmas special, did five topics. Three of them were very death-filled. Yeah. Which is fun, sure. But in a room of people who kind of look around at one another going, oh, that could have been us, it's less fun. So good luck, Maddie. Yeah, we found that out all over again in Manchester when we talked about serial killers.

It was very tense in the room. Yeah, that was our bed. No refunds. What the door. When you're finding yourself saying you know a microphone, any family members of the victims in tonight. Oh yeah, you're right. Don't say it again, Jesus.

That wasn't good. Whoa. Because we did focus on ones from the UK, and mine was very recent. So, it was a very real possibility. That episode will not see the lot of you. So, maybe the the light of it. So, no. Maybe the patrons will hear it.

All right. Here is my question. So we ask a question, George Ash, to get on the topic. And my question is, which of the five classic senses was terrorised in a mysterious fashion in the English town of Warminster in the 1960s. Well, let's... I good you thank you, but it was a decade, but sure.

I mean, good years. Adapt the catchphrase, mate. Okay, so let's go with the census. So we got smell. Balance. Okay, we've got smell. Balance. OK. We've got balance. Touch, taste, vision. That's five.

Sense of self. Hearing is one. Thank you. So we're already up to six. Is it any of these? Yes, hearing. That guy got up. Oh nice. Hearing. Yeah, again, the crowd now is it. Sucked in, Dave. You're the worst nerd.

You got all those shit things about being a nerd. What? I'd love for you to list some of the good things about being a nerd. It's funny because we've been to an hour and a half weeks, we've been sharing so much space, so we're getting pretty brutal with each other. I should not be bringing that into the public forum. So, sorry about that Dave, obviously you're the best of the best. Love you. Alright, here is...

That's not what he's been saying back to the accommodation. Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Has come up a lot. I have not been saying that. So, it was hearing. So, it was a weird question. I did write that in that small room over there But I was hearing and their hearing was terrorized by a mysterious thing called the warmenster thing

Oh Which is the topic that I'm going to talk about anyone heard of the warmenster thing Ah really Supposedly it's the biggest thing like this in UK history. You guys get educated. Am I saying warm-inster right? Sick. All right, let's go. Warm-inster is a town in Western show out around. I mean that is the worst thing you've ever done on this podcast. Shame him. Shame him. Sorry, I was wrong. They've got all the worst things are being inert. It's around two hours south west of London.

Events that occurred in warm and stuff, like I'm going to be nervous about. Over 50 years ago, boggle the mind till this very day. It boggles the mind! I just said that because I knew Jesuit really liked it. That is one of the many classic catchphrases. FIND IT BOGGLES! Still one of the many classic catchphrases. The FINE! Did FOOTLE! Still one of Dave's best lines. You may well ask, you want to ask, um...

You want to ask, boy, on what day did the events occur? Boy, on what day did the events occur? That was beautiful. Very good question. Very good mic technique, too, very good. Great projection. Why they occurred on Christmas Day? Oh! 1964. Oh, thank you. That's great. Obviously two years later the saints

on their premier ship, sorry, George Ash, the saints are kind of the best and the shit is team of all time. It's a real dichotomy, but anyway, we'll get to that later. Loud noises were heard in the town. Some towns people were woken from their sleep. The noise... Was that one of the loud noises that was heard? Is the concept of sleep, like I had some to eat. Oh. Some townspeople were working from their sleep.

Oh, just a, it's kind of a one-time thing I guess. Had to be there. The noises were described variously as pounding vibrations. Christmas is about giving! All the way down to ear-splitting wines. It's more your end of the spectrum. I think it's sound a little something like this. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Is that right? Yeah, that's it, pretty accurate.

One line before. One local woman even reported being knocked down and left paralyzed by invisible fingers of sound. Oh, keep your fingers to yourself. In his book The Warmen's The Mystery, local journalist Arthur Shuttlewood described the events thusly. Any Shuttlewoods in tonight? We're saying that right. It's shit of foos. The air was brazenly filled with a menacing sound. He wrote real good. Sudden vibrations came overhead, chilling in intensity. They tore the quiet atmosphere to raucous rags and descended upon her savagely. Shockwaves patted her head, neck and shoulders. Mmm.

Pervy shockwaves. Yeah. Yeah. LAUGHTER Similar sonic attacks were reported around other locations in the town as well. At 125, I am mildred head reported that... What did mildred head report? She reported the ceiling came alive with strange sounds lashing her roof, as if twigs were brushing the tiles. She had a tree above there.

It ended up with a noise like giant hail stones. And I believe that there weren't any hail stones at night, but I'm not 100% sure. At 612, Marjorie Bay reported the Sonic Deluge broke with full fury. There were weird crackling noises, menacing sound, sound vibration, shockwaves of violent force. They're sort of just bits and pieces of the quote, I guess. Feel in there. As no one had seen it, they weren't sure how to describe it.

As such, the phenomenon... I mean, every describing word ever was used in that one sentence. As such, the phenomenon was dubbed as the warm-inster thing. It's mysterious. What is it? I would have called it the fingers. These early reports seemed to open the floodgates of hearings and sightings as lovers of the paranormal flock to the town. By the middle of 1965, sightings of unidentified flying objects were being reported around the

town. It was variously described as an orb, a cigar-shaped, or dome-shaped, with colours of red and orange and bright like the stars. Okay. Cars would temporarily break down when the thing was around and it even reportedly killed. Oh! That's good because this is like a big pantomime country so. Yeah. Who's behind you?

That's something. What is... Oh, now I don't actually understand. Who's behind you? That's that something what he Now I don't actually understand Either what you said or what you're referring to but what's the other catchphrase people yell at pantomies? Oh, no, it isn't All right I really do they're quite brainwashed It's quite amazing that your country is also the home of Shakespeare. It's behind you!

I'm on a really rocky chair. Check this out. I'm like a really rocky chair, check this out. I'm like a bucking rock, oh! Do you have a watermelon? I really hope someone's brought a Christmas pudding today. Somehow they knew? I told a couple of people, pudding people. So yeah, we're up to the killing bit. You guys are in February of 1965.

After speaking with witnesses included David Holton, it was reported that a flock of pigeons was killed in flight. When tangling with the thing, they brushed into fatal contact with paralyzing sound beams in woods in Crocodton near Walminster. Stiffwing, they plummeted Earthwood. The thing in its most stunning guys was directly responsible. A number of people testified to hearing high-pitched droning. What's that sound like?

I'm not the man of a thousand noises. Just a thousand watts. He's just a droning low. What's high-pitched droning? I guess it's droning like mmm and then so it'd be like this. Ah! Yes. Yeah. That's pretty good. That's my best guess.

I haven't practiced that one. And I should remind everyone I'm self-taught. So. So. In March, resident Joan Brown reported that the thing made their roof quiver under the on-rush of noise. Her pet cat was sick in various rooms in the house. The thing!

This has all been collated by experts in the field. So's so fun. People are on, so you, yep, cat had a vomit. Yeah. I have a witness stand. How many say experts in the field? You were a phologist. Yeah, like, stand on Friedman. I don't remember him. No.

Come on, he was in the Roswell expert, and his name is Stand on Friedman. And he looks exactly, as you're imagining right now. And he also sounds like all your other characters. No, that was the... Hello, I'm Stanton Friedman! No, that was the sheriff you fucking idiot. Yeah, you fucking idiot.

Come on. In his job at the local paper, Shuddlewood was collating a sizeable dossier on the thing, talking to everyone who reported seeing or hearing it, but as he was yet to see it for himself, he was skeptical about whether it actually existed or not. I mean, but that cat vomited in several rooms. That all changed in September of 1965

when Shuddlewood himself reported seeing a UFO from him home. From him, I heard. Well, sounds like he's been affected by this UFO. That night he was converted into a true believer. You're not going to correct what you said. You're just going to move forward. That is bold. Good for you.

I'm not editing this. Great. But whoever does, could you put me saying his into where I said him, I thank you. Shukunat, yeah, dicksteak. So you know what the sense is, instead of saying come him home to become his home. No worries. I think Jess and I will be able to edit that in, no worries. Oh man, how'd you go? Yeah, I came home. Poor. You may be shocked to hear that there aren't many photos of the thing.

Warm-inster local Gordon Faulkner saw it on the 29th of August in 1965 and described trying to capture it on camera saying, as a flu fast and low over the south of the town, I could just make out the unusual shape. It was, it made no noise, which is weird. That's a big twist actually. Made no noise. Hoverly, I got my camera free and pointed at the craft. But the line of sight was too fast to follow. So I held the camera well in front of it and pressed the trigger as it entered the viewfinder. I did not dream I would get anything on film at

all. And this is what he got. I mean can you describe that? It looks a bit like a pod with... I mean to me that looks like an alien space crew. Yeah absolutely. Okay well to a hat. It kind of looks like a hat. It looks like an upside down mushroom. Or just a hat. That kind of looks like a hat. It looks like an upside down mushroom. Or just a mushroom.

It looks like a mushroom. This became the most iconic image of the thing and was published by... I wonder if you've never heard of it. Published by both the warmenster, by both the warmenster journal and the Daily Mirror. He wrote in a little bracket, get Dave or Jess to describe this And then I pointed at it and he deleted it As if that would make me forget it Oh, can't read what's up there dickhead

Can't believe you found a loophole, but and don't worry worry, Matt, I think we did you proud by describing it. But saying, uh, it looks like a... Pod. Pod. Lips. Ah. Ah. You sexy thing.

Uh, the photo gained a small town, a lot of publicity, and attracted thousands of paranormal lovers to see. Oh, it's a thing. Well, it's funny, I've not read this yet. Oh yeah, there's only one thing that turns me on, it's UFOs baby. So they came to town, well they wanted to see the thing for themselves.

The town was a bit flustered by it all, and a town meeting was called on August the 27th, 1965, at 7.30pm. UFO researcher Lionel Beer was there, and he wrote a report about the meeting soon after, saying that upwards of 300 persons crowded into the hall, and several hundred more thronged the stairs and corridor

and overflowed into the street outside. The town was freaked out. They were freaking. No, they were freaking out. All these people came to hear the public discussion on the mysterious lights and sound, The town was freaked out. They were freaking. No, I freaking. Wow. All these people came to hear the public discussion on the mysterious lights and sound, which have been reported from the warm-inster district in recent months. I didn't need to say that a bit.

Attending the meeting, Mrs. Atwell told of how she had been very frightened by a strange and eerie sound accompanied by the apparition of a brilliant star. I loved the idea of this meeting and just a line of people getting up and saying, yep, I saw a thing in the sky and it was real scary. Thank you. I was also a reporter that eight children had been scared by the thing at various times. But their parents requested their name should not be published, so they weren't. Yeah, I was scared of sand when I was a baby.

Sand. At the beach. I live in Australia. It's all beach. So what do you do to get the sand in you? The sand is love. You would have hated that episode of The Simpsons where Homer got sand in his underpants. Someone was just pointing the other and I would into a Simpsons reference. So I shoehorned that one in there.

And what a quality reference that was. Same list, yeah. Marge. I've got sand in my underpants, me too, homer. Let's go home. All right. That's good stuff. I don't give a fuck.

Lionel Beer concluded his report saying that the meeting ended about 10 p.m. and it ended inconclusively. The meeting didn't come up with the answers. You believe that? What a waste of a meeting. But with all those people telling them that their kid was scared. Still nothing.

Nothing. Sightings continued over the following years, but started dying down by the 1970s. This is partly to do with the fact that less people were visiting the town to look for the thing, but also due to it probably not existing. I only see slight correlation between those two. Ah, there are still... No, that's not true. I want to believe. I'm so shattered. It's really near Bath where we were a couple of days ago

and we didn't fucking go because I had not chosen this topic yet. Ah, there are still true believers in the town though and sightings do still happen only less frequently. The town seems to be starting to embrace its place in paranormal history as well, with semi-regular events celebrating the thing, including a recent 50-year anniversary event at Ann Ball at the Town Hall,

and a mural being painted in the center of the town, which has a glow in the dark paint on it. Oh. The article's so cute. The mayor and everyone's talking about it I think so good. And we didn't go. It's gonna be one of my life's great regrets. It seems like the true nature of the warments, the thing is gonna remain a mystery.

I really do hope that the mystery is one day solved though, as the thing needs to be brought to justice. It does have pigeon blood on it's hands. That is my report. I'd love to hear what your theories are. Anyone got a theory? Well, people. Had anyone heard of it before? I mean, some of those weird blogs that I read really made it seem like this was a big deal here. I was led astray. Anyway, I think, yeah, probably real. And probably, is that...

Look. I mean, you turn it to a Q&A. We've got no cues. I am... It's the government. It is the... Well, there is also a thought I didn't talk about that the government have covered it up.

There was a recent explanation from the MOD, which I don't know what it is, but it's a British thing. And yeah, right, well, they said it was something to do with plasma. With giant otters. I mean, these are all good answers. But anyway, the UFOologists are like, no, it's not plasma. No, that's dumb. Plasma is so dumb. It's clearly giant office. Yeah, anyway.

Good on us all. That's joining his report, yeah! Yeah! Cheers. Merry Christmas. What a time to be alive. And now it's my turn. To be alive. Yeah, my turn to be alive. And now it's my turn. To be alive. Yeah, my turn to be alive.

I am also going to kick it off with a question which I wrote just before we started. Well bloody done. Better than I normally do. And my question is what beverage was the cause of riots in 1826? Tea. That is so exciting. Eggnog. Eggnog. That's a Christmas thing in America. Anyone who ever heard of eggnog?

I heard about it. Thank fuck, it's why. What is it? It's just like egg. Right. And no, no. I think the no, thank you. I'll feel this one.

I think. I think the no thank you. I'll feel this one. I think I Think the no is just like brandy or something You're noggin on some brandy big time. Any further questions. Thank you But yeah, I saw that I first heard of egg nog on the Simpsons and it went a little something like this Oh, I'm tricking to makeog! Alright, I'm gonna go... Oh, maybe just... Oh, that's okay. I have not had a drink in six months.

So, anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing this report. So, Matt seems less surprised about this than I was. Eggnog. Eggnog. It's an eggnog riots. It was mainly because it was a Christmas related topic. Oh, right, right. So you came across this one.

No. Just use the old eggnog. Oh, eggnog. Sorry, sorry. Use the old eggnog and mate and pick it up. Good luck. To me, I feel like I was the only one in this room that was like, it's an egg dog ride.

You were like, yeah, of course. And I was like, what? I'm the only one with a question thing though. Well, I can probably tell you a bit more about it if you want. No, I'd rather not know. Live. All right, cover your ears.

Live in a world of mystery. So this occurred in the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York in 1826. A good year. Well, yeah, it's fine, I guess. I don't know. Nine years earlier in 1917, a good year. The academy.

1817? Yeah, probably. And even better year. Definitely did write 1917 though. But that's impossible. Oh. The millennial book. Yeah, no, 1817. The academy was taken over by Sylvanas Thayer.

He took command at the military academy. He was a Brigadier General. Oh. Brigadier. So, Jordan Ash, we love the Brigadier General. Oh! Brigadier! So, Jordash, we love the Brigadiers. At some sort of a rank, in some sort of an army. But mostly... And I'll get enough.

It's a fun word to say. Have a go, yourself. Jordash... Brigadier! I did not make it through the first report. Okay, on three, everybody say Brigadier, one, two, three. Brigadier. Oh, it's so satisfying. Ah, Brigadier.

Such a fun word. Brigadier. So he was a Brigadier, general. He was brought in because he was a hard-ass, and the Academy really needed some work they were known to be pretty shit. He revolutionized the Academy with his strict rules. Students at West Point weren't allowed to leave campus,

cook in their dorms, or jewel. Wear that that rule had to apply. But before the end, jewelline was very common. Yeah, they were just like, I challenged you to a jewel all the time. And he was like, stop jewelline. We're running out of students. I call it bedazzling. But it was a different time. We didn't know any better back then.

It's 1820s. He's discipline style, succeeded in turning the academy from a chaotic institution to a respected place of learning. Before he arrived, the Academy was a few shotty buildings and four teachers teaching a handful of students and students were admitted at different times of the year, so there's no real structure, it's a bit of a mess. By the time this event happened in 1826, the Academy had 36 men serving as faculty and four recognized departments. They had mathematics, engineering, natural philosophy, natural philosophy, that's fun, and military tactics. So we turned it into like a proper

school. The place I should go. Now, EGNog, which is what we're talking about, was a traditional part of West Point's annual Christmas celebration, but Thay is banned on alcohol through a wretch into the festivities. Obviously, as expected, when you put a bunch of young people together, some of the cadets said about smuggling in alcohol. One of the cadets was a man named Jefferson Davis. He had a history of bad behavior with alcohol. He was the first student to be arrested for going to Benny Haven, which was one of two taverns

located near the academy. He got arrested for going. And the ban on alcohol didn't just stop at the academy. Wow. So there was a couple of taverns around who were also not supposed to serve alcohol to the cadets, but Benny Havens cadets could butter blankets and shoes for booze, though they put in some rules and they weren't allowed butter or anything from school like uniforms. They, I mean they had principles, you know, they're like sure I'll take your shoes. So this is sort of a dorm full of people with no blankets and no shoes. Yeah, but they're having a good time. Another time this is this is the guy Jefferson Davis. Another time he was reportedly so drunk that he fell down a 60 foot ravine.

Oh, we've all been there. Don't worry guys. His shoes will break his fall. He wasn't one to show away from a good party and he was very enthusiastic and on board when the other cadets planned To bring booze to the holiday party. So he survived the 60 foot fall. Yeah, sick 60 feet is a long way to fall in a ravine. It's ten ms. Matt stand up so everyone can imagine that. Now. To scale.

Ten of those. I'm set by ten. Whoa. Now you get it. We should use Imperial Matt measurements more often. Because it's not like you guys deal with feet all the time. Yeah. Ten mats. So they decided they were going to get booze for their holiday party, but Benny Havens was

too expensive for the cadets to get all of their liquor. Too many blankets. They just didn't have enough shoes. Instead, a few days before Christmas, three cadets crossed a Hudson River to the East Bank to procure whiskey from another taban called Martin's taban, not very creatively named. They had a few glasses there themselves obviously and then they took the contraband booze back across the river to the academy. At the dock they came across a

soldier standing guard but they paid the man 35 cents for him to turn his back while they unloaded their cargo. 35% that's probably a lot back then, but now it sounds, it's a different time. It's 1800s, that's probably a lot. The cadets hid the containers of alcohol amongst their private possessions and they hid them until Christmas night. It was about a total of three or four gallons of whiskey,

so it's a fair bit of booze. They are, they are the Brigadier. He was very strict, but he wasn't an idiot and he knew, he anticipated that this would probably happen over the festive season and he even discussed it with his colleagues. And he assigned two people, Captain Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Lieutenant William A. Thornton,

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A third cadet who's also drunk refused to show his face using a hat as a makeshift mask. These people with military tactics, they... Many tactics seems to be, have I gone see you, you can see me. It's always a good tactic. And warfathers put their hat over their face. And the enemy's like, where'd they go? Where'd they go? You can't shoot, what you can't see.

That's probably, no, it's not true at all. So H.Cog's demanding that this student hiding behind a hat reveals his identity and he refuses to... Oh, it was clearly working. Who's that? Not saying. A few angry words were exchanged and some of the other cadets nearby got enraged and after Hitchcock left they shouted, get your durks and bayonets and pistols if you have them. Before this night is over Hitchcock will be dead! Bit violent? Did you

enjoy that? You love death. It was a threat of death. Yeah. Oh, you're just a whinersh. Yeah. Could be something. She is also wearing a scarf and what is the hottest room in London, so that's bad ass. It is nice that they've put on the Christmassy Australian heat for today. It's just like home. Soon enough, Hitchcock heard a commotion coming

from floors below, seemingly larger and routier than the party he'd just broken up upstairs. Soon enough, Hitchcock heard a commotion coming from Fores below. Simily larger and routier than the party he'd just broken up upstairs. As he walked into the room, so did a drunken Jefferson Davis, who burst into the room along with Hitchcock and announced, put away the grog boys, Captain Hitchcock's coming. He was already in the room. LAUGHTER Davis is a bit of an idiot.

The other guy who was sort of patrolling and trying to keep some kind of order thawntin, in his own attempt to break up gatherings, he had a cadet threatened him with a sword. And another cadet actually hit thawntin' with a piece of wood knocking him down. Things weren't going much better for Hitchcock. He attempted to break down a barricaded door. A cadet pulled a pistol out attempting to shoot him. And at this point, Hitchcock thought he probably needed some backup.

He found a colleague and told him to bring the comm here. And by the comm, he meant commander of cadets. But rumors quickly spread through the barracks that Hitchcock was summoning the regular artillery men who were also at West Point who the cadets all hated. So somehow they've confused those two now they've decided that that's happening So they hated the artillery men. They viewed Hitchcock's summoning of them as an affront to their integrity.

So in the North Barracks, they began taking up arms and an attempt to defend the building from the artillery men who weren't coming. They're ready for war. I like it, so they took it as an affront to their integrity. These drunk soldiers. Yeah. We're very integrity. They're ready for a fight. So violence within the barracks escalated as cadets smashed crockery and windows and broke furniture. Oh, that's how you defend a building classically. You smash all the crockery. That's what they're doing. Great weddings. They're just trying to defend the building. That's beautiful.

Is that a thing that happens? Yeah. You guys don't have Greek weddings here? You're much closer to Greece than we are. So um, the other side. Whopper! Ah, George Ash. That's a Greek phrase. Men, and alright, let's party.

And you're all caught up. The artillery men, of course, never arrived. They never were coming. And slowly but surely the drunken mob began to sober up. Eventually, the commander of cadets, William Worth, arrived on scene, and his authority was enough to put the egg-nog riot to rest for good. Oh no, Dad's here! Out of around 260 cadets, as many as 90 could have been charged for the night's events.

However, the Academy was still trying to recover its reputation and didn't want to be seen as a place of anarchy and mayhem. So they chose to deal with only the most aggressive offenders, expelling 19 cadets. Jefferson Davis managed to escape the evening unscathed, due to the fact that when Hitchcock told him to go to his room, he actually did. LAUGHTER

And I was like, no, he's a good boy. But obviously, the mystery remains. Why the fuck would anyone drink eggnog? Thank you. Wow. What a Christmas mystery. It's haunted my family for years. Wow. And we'll never, ever get an answer to that question. Well, yes, that was a lot of fun. Thanks, Dave. And now it's time for another report. Woo!

This time it is for me and I've got a question to get us on the topic. This is our final Krishmisch mystery. My question is, Mmm. Are you getting the guns out there? No. Smash the crockery, defend the stage. Okay, my question is, for you guys, what film do I watch with my dad

every single Christmas? The answer is die-hard! And my topic and my mission, which I chose to accept, is to solve the Christmas mystery, Is it Chris Miss Fille more? Is it Chris Miss Fille more? Is it Chris Miss Fille more? Listen up and we'll find out. This topic is suggested by a couple of people, Henry from New Zealand and Libby from Melbourne, who I doubt are here tonight. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do.

I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do.

I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. I'm going to ask you guys to come and see what I can do. Listen up and we'll find out. This topic is meant to be suggested by a couple of people, Henry from New Zealand and Libby from Melbourne who are doubt are here tonight. That would be cool though. No? No. It looks like a Libby. What's your name? Laura. Laura is so close to Libby. Alright, let's try it one more time.

What's your name? Oh, I guess, I guess first. I'm nearly saying, you'd say your name and I'd say, that's what I was thinking. Sarah. No? I mean, there's so many names. I know, but that's how good I am. Sarah, what is your real name?

Alice. Alice. Quite different. Arguably. I am. I'm gifted. That's just not my gift. I'm still looking for my gift, but I'll find it. Alright, so as we all know today, it's a very special day for the film Die Hard. It is 30 years since the film debuted in Norway today.

30 years. I think one of our London shows we were definitely having some Norwegians in. Are you in today? No. Alright. I want to be in way more exciting. So what I'm going to do here is I'll give you a background to the film Die Hard in case you haven't seen it.

And then I'll give some points for it against as to whether it is a Christmas film and I'll get both you, Jess and Matt and the audience to decide once and for all if they think it is a Christmas film. There I'll get both you, Jess and Matt, and the audience to decide, once and for all, if they think it is a Christmas film. There will be a few spoilers in this report, so sorry if you haven't seen the film from 1988. Go, sorry. Give me a round of applause if you have seen Die Hard. Laura has it. Maybe it's Goteds.

Libby and Sarah haven't seen it. Cannot believe it. A round of applause if Sarah haven't seen it. Cannot believe it. I ran away if you haven't seen Die Hard. Okay, great. Do yourselves a favor. No, Nate.

Dave's going to tell them everything. I'll give you the gist. You'll love it. Are you going to act it out? Yeah. Are you going to do accents? Are you? German accent.

I will... I will get to the German at the end of this report. So this is the background. The story of Die Harder's based on the book Nothing Last Forever by Roderick Thorpe. What a great name. But the character in the book is called Joe Leland and they change that to John McLean. That was a good call. It's a much better name. If you don't know the film, this is the summary without too many spoilers, but there will be a few later on.

In the film, New York cop John McLean aka Bruce Willis is travelling to LA to visit his estranged wife and their kids. He goes to his wife's Christmas party at the Nakatomi skyscraper, and whilst their Hans Gruber, bad guy played by Alan Rickman, takes over the building in order to rob the building's vault. Now it's up to John McLean to save the day. Tingle, I'm tingling, I'm tingling.

Get that checked. Yeah, there's not in a good place either. The book, Nothing Last Forever, serves as a sequel to The Detective, which was made into a movie in 1968 starring Frank Sinatra. His original deal said if they made the sequel, the role would have to be first offered to him. So at age 73, he was offered the role, but he declined. Oh, that would have been a great film. Instead of the great film that it is.

It would have been. Wow, a 73 year old man running around in a bit of feet in glass. I would have loved it. There's a lot of glass, if you haven't seen it, a lot of glass. One of the main characters is basically the glass. Anyway, before Die Hard was made, Clint Eastwood owned the rights to nothing lasts forever at the time. Eastwood had considered himself for the role in the early 1980s, but for whatever reason, nothing came of it. So then eventually it was put into production.

Die Hard was directed by John McTianan, who the year before had directed the Arnie film Predator, and who has since gone on to go to jail for wiretapping a colleague's phone and lying to the FBI about it. There you go. What a guy. The cinematographer, Jan DeBond.

He was mentioned in Matt's Birmingham report and who later directed Speed and Twister and famously speed two. He's best worth. Yandabont. Yandabont. God, that is a good name. Love that name.

In the, in the, anyway, it doesn't matter. He was scalped in that report. Anyway, that's weird out of context. Good guy and a good filmmaker. I'm going to drop the mic back down. Well, being a pretty unknown actor at the time, mostly known for his role in the comedy drama TV series Moonlighting, Bruce Willis was not the first choice

for the role of John McLean in this action film. The role was room to have been passed on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bert Reynolds, Richard Gear, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro, Charles Bronson, Nick Nolte, Mel Gibson, Don Johnson, and Richard Dean Anderson, before Willis Scott the call. And although he was about the 39th choice, when he finally got the role, was paid a handsome five million dollar Edo's

Five million that's about a billion pounds. Yeah Carry the one Yeah, my conversions pretty good. The film was Alan Rickman who is the bad guy his film debut and What a role a stage actor you. And what a role. A stage actor. I talk well. Stage. What a role. Stage actor at the time. The casting director just happened to see him playing Vellmont, who's like a bad guy in a stage production of Dangerously A's on and offered him the part. He initially wanted to turn it down as he didn't want to be in an action film. Yeah, nah, fair enough.

It's not a porno. Just do it! Action films! They're the cool ones! Are they the cool ones? They are the cool ones. Yeah, they're the cool ones. Porn is also very cool. I'm sure there's a dial in porn parody. It's just, it's called...

Yeah, you can't top that I mean I was gonna say T-Cars we are but well-placer there is a baby here yeah first words will these first phrase be dickheart. Oh. Well, the sequel, dickheart too. This time it's personal. Now, dickheart too, back in the habit, in brackets, this time it's personal. In brackets again, judgment day. Why don't you go with the actual sequel to die hard with a vengeance? Dickheart with a vengeance?

That's funny. Now that's funny. That's funny. Funny that's funny. That's funny. Funny is funny, Dave. Now, you'll be surprised to know if you haven't seen the film. This action film features quite a lot of gunfire. And the, oh no, wow. That was the biggest spoiler.

You thought it was a lot of hand-drawn combat. Oh, the director John McTinnon, one of the guns to look real, so insisted on using extra loud blanks. This caused Bruce Willis permanent hearing loss. But Bruce wasn't the only one who had trouble with the loud gunfire. Alan Rickman couldn't stop flinching when he shot his pistol. Something that doesn't look so good when you're supposed to be the ultra tough bad guy who doesn't give a fuck. supposed to be the ultra tough bad guy who doesn't give a fuck. See? Yeah, obviously he goes,

I don't like it. So director John McTenon was forced to quickly cut away from Hans Gruber's face almost every time he fired a gun. Or when a gun was fired near him because of his constant wincing. He's the English shactor in the film, right? Yeah. APPLAUSE One of the best villains of all time. We did a report on him. Do you remember that day? I loved it. You repeated it quite a few of the

facts already, as if you were saying him for the first time. I think I am saying him for the first time. I just have made her, you say them. Well, that's a, that's a, that's enough fun facts about Alan Rickman. Are the crew? The crew had to constantly apologize to people working below them in the building for gunfire, because the building, they filmed it, which is actually the headquarters for folks, were still being used as an actual office. John McTinnon, the director, would have to send someone down to explain the loud noises.

Quote, we'd have to periodically run downstairs and apologize to the lawyer beneath us saying, we're about to fire machine guns. Will you excuse us? So that's a bit of fun. The film was a big hit and grossed over $140 million off a $28 million budget, so it was very well received. It was nominated for four Academy Awards.

There's often listed as one of the greatest action films of all time, and a since spawned four sequels that have grossed over $1.4 billion. But, is it a Christmas film? Yes! Yes! Well, let's enter this once and for all! I'll give you evidence for and against, and you tell me what you think at the end.

And when we all disagree and hate each other, I'll give you some more diehard fun facts. And then we'll have a bit of fun. Oh, good. Okay, so the reason why it is a Christmas film. The film is set on Christmas Eve at a Christmas party. Without Christmas, this film does not exist. I honestly think I could just stop there.

But I'll go on. Why is Bruce Willis there to visit his wife? What is his wife's name? Holy! Compelling arguments, Ely. Bruce Willis murders a man. Bruce Willis murders a man. And if that's not the Christmas spirit, I don't know what is. But then he puts the man's body on a chair, makes him don a Christmas hat and writes, Ho, Ho, Ho, now I have a machine gun on him. That would be weird if it wasn't Christmas time. Right?

When you get a Christmas hat otherwise, You can only get them at Christmas time. Or six months before when they start selling them. So this film is set in a small six month window of the year. Another gun in Christmas mashup scene, Bruce tapes a gun to his back. What does he tape it with? Yep, you guessed it. Christmas tape.

What does that mean? It's tape that has a Christmas pattern on it. Christmas tape That what does that mean? It's tape that has a Christmas pattern on it. It's Christmas tape That makes sense. Are the film closest with the Christmas song? Let it snow places it snows Something that very rarely happens in Los Angeles Are the Santa-Trac also features the Christmas songs the Christmas song Christmas in Hollis by Ron DMC. That's two Christmas songs. Speaking of Christmas songs, Alan Rickman's name is very similar to Hans Gruber, which

is very similar to Franz Gruber, who composed the song Silent Night, a Christmas song. Hmm? Hmm? The film is very different to the book, but one of the main things that they kept in was the Christmas party setting. Christmas is clearly integral to this story. Hans Gruber is basically the Grinch. I read that on entertainment weekly. Even though we're clutching its rules. I downloaded the script to die hard and I read it through it and this is the opening part of the script. This is the opening description. The opening word is Christmas. Christmas tinsel on the light poles. We are looking east past Englewood into the orange grid of LA.

Christmas tinsel. Yeah. In fact, these, so in the script, it features the word Christmas 18 times. That doesn't sound like that much. Well, some other Christmas classics that I downloaded the scripts of. Yeah, it was a bit bored last night.

This is how many, in the film The Holiday, which many, no one would deny that's a Christmas film 23 times. Right. So not many more? Home Alone, 25 times, and it's a wonderful life, 36. So it's a wonderful life, so often pointed to as the best Christmas film ever. So it's half as Christmassy as that. So it's half as Christmassy as the best Christmas film ever. Need I go on! I mean you will anyway. I will.

Diehard was also the best Christmas film ever by Empire and Forbes magazines. So that's the reasons for it. Here are some reasons why it may not be a Christmas film. I'm very impressionable by the way, so I'm probably going to go with whatever you say last. So you probably should have, by the way. So I'm probably going to go with whatever you say last. So you probably should have done these the other way around. Oh, no. Oh, when you're back. All right.

I'll ask Christmas public opinion and data company you go of here in the UK, pulled over 5,000 adults with the question. They pulled them. Christmas is about giving. Oh, they asked them, did anyone here get pulled by Mike of? Five thousand were asked, do you think Die Hard is a Christmas film? And just 30% voted yes.

30%. 52% said no, 18% they don't know. Good day, love. You get that, like, why are you asking me this question? Well, like, I don't care. Who cares? Well, this follows a poll in America in 2015. 62% of voters said they do not think diehard qualifies as a Christmas movie. Clearly, a lot of people do not think it is. I also said the film closes with the Christmas song. Oh so I thought! Let it snow is played on radio stations during the Christmas season is often covered by various artists on Christmas themed albums. But it actually makes no mention of Christmas. It's more of a song about snow. Try and deny that this film is about snow.

Try. I wouldn't dream of it. Thank you. Thank you. The National Catholic website, who may have a slight bone to pick, with diehard being in Christmas film, they write that just because it's said at a Christmas party doesn't mean it's a Christmas film. Quote, Harrison Ford escapes from the law by joining a St. Patrick's Day parade in the future,

did it? Does that make it a St. Patrick's Day movie? Nah, don't think so. LAUGHTER LAUGHTER Matt, as our residents laps Catholic on the show, what do you think about that argument? Um, yeah, they make a good point.

And so eloquently said. Yeah. No. No. What were you talking about? Where did you go? I just zoned a little bit out towards the end of that, but it did seem like a good point about some Patrick's day. Yeah. We changed topics. In a way. Yeah. Look, I'm nearly there, then you get to vote. Bruce Willis himself briefly weighed in on the question earlier in the year.

His celebrity roast in July, he announced that, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it's a God damn Bruce Willis movie. Up. Which is a point that few are brave enough to argue with. It is technically a Bruce Willis movie. That is a great line. That's funny. Well, funny is funny, mate.

Yep. No, you're right. Many of the haters who say that this is not a Christmas movie put that as a definitive answer. But it should be pointed out that in 2017, Stephen DeSousa, the co-writer of the film's screenplay, and one of its creative forces announced that he thinks it is indeed a Christmas movie. He pointed to the many Christmas references in the film, and last year he was even linked on his Twitter to a Christmas picture book for children based on the film director.

Oh, that is good. I mean, he may have just been trying to sell a few units, but he definitely said it is Christmas movie. I like that. So those are the points. That was the last one. You heard the last one, so it is a Christmas movie. Remember that.

Right, okay, sure. Give me your own applause. Oh, actually, first of all, Jess and Matt, do you think Diad is a Christmas movie? Yeah, I always thought it was. I mean, it's all the Christmas stuff makes it feel that it's hard to even argue against it. I don't understand what you're talking about when you're saying Anyone thinks it is in a Christmas movie. Do I have to quote from the Catholic website again? Please don't

I mean, yeah, you could because I missed it the first time, but So that's a yes for Matt. Yes, absolutely not it's not a Christmas film. I just wanted to be the point of content Yeah, for a bit of drama, you know. I can't believe you think that. Absolutely not. You guys never agree. You've logged, now I'll take out more. Ugh. It's not Christmas, it's a Bruce Willis fucking film.

I don't care. Why can't it be both? Alright, give me a round of applause if you agree with Jess and you think diehard is not a Christmas film. A smattering. A few people. My favorite type of applause. Is it mainly because you haven't seen the film? Probably.

Yeah. Didn't feel Christmasy to you. That's fair. I mean, the constant Christmas references didn't. I mean, what do you want? You want reindeer? All right. Are we gonna... there were toy rindies in there somewhere, probably.

There's a Christmas tree. Pretty sure? There is a Christmas tree. He didn't have a present at one point. I mean, fucking grow up. All right, other end of the scale a round of holes if you think diehard is in fact a Christmas film Wow Mystery sold

Mystery solves. But I did promise you some fun facts about this Christmas suit. You haven't done, like, someone did it before. Are you not going to mention the catchphrase? It's one of my fun facts. Great, all right, all right. Shut the fuck up, man. You're ruining everything. Uh, one of, uh, priceless, most famous lines in the films is

Yippee Kaya Motherfucker. It doesn't sound like that though. Yippee Kaya Motherfucker. Very good, Dave. Uh, the line has been used by... Dave's study drama. I think they can tell. The line has been used by John McClane in all five diehard films.

You're overdoing it by... In that three, I reckon. In parts of Pakistan and India, it takes on a different meaning, because in Urdu, that phrase means, here, eat this. LAUGHTER I'm trying to enjoy this fun. That's fun.

LAUGHTER In 2013, Bruce Willis admitted that Yp. Kaie motherfucker was really just a joke. He said this to Ryan Seacrest. It was just a throwaway. I was just trying to crack up the crew and I never thought it was going to be allowed to stay in the film. That is classic Bruce Willis. Classic Bruce Willis film.

He's so funny. He is pretty funny. Yeah, no, I said that. Oh. Die Hard is several alternative titles in different countries. In Greece, it was called very hard to die. In Norway, it was called action skyscraper. In Russia, it was called hard nut.

Getting out to get that removed. Hungary probably has my favourite translation though, where diehard was known as give your life expensive. The sequel is your life is more expensive and of course the third film was called The Life is always expensive. There's all very beautifully true. I love that. A lot of the script and storyline changes that were filming it was very haphazard in the making of it.

If the creative team liked a character's performance, they let the actor stay alive in the film longer. The sews of the screenwriter are of course, we've got to kill somebody every 10 or 15 minutes. But let's kill this guy instead of that guy. I'm not being told, sorry mate, you're going to die. He's really good. Wow. And finally, my favorite fact on the IMDB trivia section for Die Hard, which only 13 out

of 112 IMDB users marked as they found this interesting, is when John McLean is pulling the glass shards out of his feet, he says he would rather be in Philadelphia. Briss will us later start an unbreak, which was set and filmed in Philadelphia. That's the most boring part. But that is diehard, a Christmas film. Okay, I want to hear everybody. Well done. Now we have the definitive answer. The definitive answer, you heard it here.

And I do look forward to watching this Christmas day with my dad every year we watch it. That's nice. It's a lot of fun. Anyone who hasn't seen it, you're welcome to come over. What's the address? Actually, no, I was going to say it, but then this will be released with people hearing it at home.

So no, I was like, you'll never make it down there. I tried to trap him. I tried to let you guys go to Dave's parents' house, but it didn't work, and I'm sorry. So close. So that's it. That's it. Mm-hmm.

Oh. Oh. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Thank you so much for having us here in London. At the Phoenix, give it up for the venue at a fantastic place. Awesome! We got a thank Dave on Sound over there. Did a great job. Thank you Dave.

Thank you Dave. Our two organizers and manager Mark Chattilly is here. Thank you so much Mark. He's somewhere there. We would not be here without him. So thank you so much Mark, he's somewhere there. We would not be here without him, so thank you so much. It was so happy enough for the death count today. I'm so sorry that more pigeons didn't die, but... I can confirm that 12 terrorists die in die hard. And also that snooty businessman, who's maybe the best bad guy character in any of the other. Oh, Alice.

Alice, so funny. And also, Bobby. Apparently that line was improvised, and Ellen Rickman's response to that was genuine. Like, what the fuck is that? Oh, it's Bobby. Also, my report was set in the 1800s, so they're all dead now.

Yeah! Woo! There's also that great, didn't mention the great fact about Ellen Rickman that when he fell to his death. I had that in there, but I thought you probably said it earlier. He fell to his death, but he didn't say- He's the bad guy, of course he dies.

When the director said we'll drop you on the counter three, and he had this, you know, like, what is it? About ten of me dropped to a mat on the floor. Oh, that's weird. And anyway, so... And the director goes, all right, we're going to release you on the count of three. And he goes, one, two, and they dropped him. So his face is actually shitting himself for real on the way down. Great fact.

That is a great fact. Yeah, what on that? APPLAUSE But that does bring us to the end of the episode. And all we have to say is Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. And to all the good night. Thank you.

Bye-bye. Thank you so much everybody. LIDA. So there it is. And you're back with Dave in his dining room. It's the sun sets over the place that I live. Nearly said the suburb, but why are we doing that? Okay, thank you so much for listening to that episode. It was fun for me to listen back to

all the great times we had. Still, honestly, sometimes I have flashbacks to us being in the UK and I think, did we do that? Did that happen? It was coming for so long and before that I was dreamt up for so long and then it's now it's happened and it was so much fun. It was like, wow.

And we've had a few American listeners being like, hey, you fit the Patreon goal that says you're gonna come over and visit us. So we are definitely starting to get the, we're very, very small steps to get the ball rolling, but hopefully 2019 is the year of the American do-go-on tour. All right, this is the part of the show where I like to

shout out to the people that support us on Patreon and you can go to patreon.com slash do-go-on pod. If you'd like to shout out to the people that support us on Patreon. And you can go to patreon.com slash do go on pod. If you'd like to support the show, that is probably the reason we're gonna go to the USA next year, would not be possible without our supporters at Patreon. And in exchange for your support, you get some little rewards from Matt Jess and I, including bonus episodes.

We do two every single month, that only the Patreon feed get to devour and also things like shout outs, I put the, for example, the mail and comedy festival tickets so it went on sale. When we do the American tour, eventually the tickets will be on sale first of all to the patrons there. When we did the UK tour, basically a lot of the tickets were sold out so quickly because the Patreon people jumped on them so quickly. So if you want to be the first to know about stuff, Patreon is the place to be. And I'd like to thank a few people by name that support the show, one of the rewards.

And I've got six lovely names sitting in front of me. Each more? No. Each as beautiful as the last. That's right. You're all in an even-blowing field here. Oh, and usually we have a game, and Jess usually comes up with a game of How I think the people but because this is the Krishmish episode and it's just me here What I thought I would do is I jumped on to the old Google machine and I asked if there was any I'd what I asked ask for permission if I could find a Christmas message like a random Christmas message generator. And these are the Christmas messages that that generator that I found gave.

Some of them, fantastic. Some of them don't make that much sense. But here we go. I would like to thank, first of all, from Canberra, in Australia, which is for the overseas people, you want to imagine this comes up in quizzes overseas, The capital of Australia is, of course, the Australian capital territory, Canberra. And I would like to thank from that beautiful place, Kalinda Chatterton.

Kalinda Chatterton. Thank you so much. Kalinda Chatterton, thank you so much for supporting the show. And this is the random Christmas message that Google wants you to know. There are three stages of man he believes in Santa Claus. He does not believe in Santa Claus. Then he is Santa Claus.

Deep. And true for me too because my first uni job when I was just 19 was dressing up as characters at birthday and Christmas parties. And when it came around to Christmas time, despite the fact that I at the time weighed 52 kilos and was 19 years old and looked about 12, I donned a Santa outfit. And I got beaten up more than once on two occasions. I got beaten up dressed as Santa another time. I don't think I've talked about this before. The final ever gig I did and that's when I decided I am leaving this industry, this business, was I got booked at the last minute to do a Christmas party as Santa and they only had the extra, extra large outfit and left over. And as you can probably tell from that description that I just gave

you, being 19 and 52 kilos, I was probably the other end of the scale, extra, extra small. So I put it on, went to this cricket club, There was no one there. There was about two kids. It was very, very strange. And my pants fell down because they were just so big. Luckily, the person booking the gig was looking the other way when this happened. But otherwise, I could have been in a lot of trouble. Not a good look for Pantitl Santa, Delusius P pants. Panta. God, I'm good. Well, thank you, Kylinda Chatterton. You are an amazing human being for supporting the show. On to another amazing human being that I've met many, many times at our live shows. I reckon that the name I'm about to read probably holds the record

for the most live shows attended by anyone. We had a few people come to four UK tour shows, but this person has been to multiple Melbourne anyone. We had a few people come to four UK tour shows, but this person has been to multiple Melbourne shows. We've seen him in Brisbane. We've seen him in Sydney. He gets around, he's a mover and a shaker, and a fantastic photographer if you can find him on Instagram.

From Northcut, it is Mr. Philip Kitt. Phil Kitt. Hi Phil. Thank you so much for your support. In the real world by coming to all those shows and also online through Patreon and this message for you Phil. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. What about female angels?

What do they get their wings? What do they chop liver? Love that every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. If that was true, I would be bringing the bell all the time. Help an angel gets his wings. If that was true, I would be bringing the bell all the time. Help an angel out. Suddenly the angels have 30 pairs of wings and there are all these freak angels and they're freaking around and they all fly in different directions. It's not very good. But that is our Christmas message for you Phil. Hope you hope you get something out of that bit of wisdom. I would like to thank now from Hebe City in Utah, Utah.

Me, Bull, give me two. Point break, have you seen that? See that film? What are the characters, Utah. Anyway, Alex Sparry is the name I'd like to thank. Alex Sparry, thank you so much. It sounds a lot like Alex Perry, which is a some sort of fashion guy in Australia

who always wears glasses. He's sunglasses on top of his head, Alex Perry. And for some reason in my mind he always says, I'm Alex Perry. I don't know if that's true, but he's a bold man with sunglasses basically superglue to his head. And he looks like a legend. Do I mean that? Probably not.

But Alex Perry, I would like to thank you by giving you this word of advice. There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas. Is that true? They think you have Christmas, I think they think you have Christmas, which is a very magical word. But Merry Christmas to you, Alex Verri, and thanks for the support.

Over the months, the weeks, the years, the decades, I imagine you continue to support this show, long after it's finished, but you'll be there supporting every week, thank you. I would like to thank now from Namboar in Queensland Carrie Belphore. Oh Carrie Belphore thank you so much supporting the show great to have you on board and remember let's actually have this quite start remember this December love weighs more than gold. Which, scientifically, I don't think is actually true, but the sentiment is very nice all the same. Love weighs more than gold. Don't forget that.

Carribelle fall from Nambo. And I would like to thank now, also in Nambo or in Queensland. This is not a coincidence you're both listed at the same address. So I imagine you do know each other, possibly listen to the show together, but imagine if you didn't, you signed up at a similar time to support the Patreon this is your dirty little secret and really you're both like the show so I'd like to thank from Nambor and Queensland Rowan Bell for same last same and everything Bell for Rowan

Bell for not sure if you're a couple brother and sister father and sister, father and son. No, mother and son. Sorry, Carrie, that was my bad. But Rowan, thank you so much for supporting the show along with Carrie and your Christmas message just as deep. Possibly a little bit deeper. Just when you thought it couldn't get any deeper, lift up the rug, some stairs into a basement of deep. And my quote for you is, the excellence of a gift lies

in its appropriateness rather than in its value. One of those things that I think sounds smarter than it probably really is, but the excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than its value. I imagine what they're trying to say there is don't buy some $140,000 sex toy because yes people will be impressed that you had that much money but also it's not appropriate for Christmas. Don't buy a sex toy for Christmas Rowan. Grow up as Matt would say. But thank you so much for your support. Carry in Rowan Bell for much appreciated. And, I would like to thank all the way from Gainesville in Virginia. Love it when Virginia comes up on the show.

Although sort of Northeast and States, we don't have as many supporters, but from there, but always, always a pleasure. And this supporter is called Avalino Perry. My goodness. Avalino Perry. Thank you so much for your support, Avalina. And my final quote for Christmas for you is, there are no strangers on Christmas Eve. What does that mean?

If you go out on Christmas Eve, you know everyone? Avalina, hey, you have my permission to go out and partay this Christmas eve. Because there are no strangers. There you go. Not sure what that means. There's something for everyone there, I think. A little bit of wisdom, little bit of bells, little bit of whistles, little bit of love,

weighing more than gold. But thank you so much. I'm rambling now, to be honest. But thank you to everyone that supports the show at Patreon. We do appreciate that from the bottom of our hearts. And remember, love weighs more than gold, but gold is accepted at more banks around the world. So go to patreon.com slash do go on pod and all the links to everything that for ways to get in contact are on our website do go on pod.com including tickets to those Melbourne Comedy Festival shows I talked about way back at the start of the episode. And all the other stuff, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,

YouTube, we're all on it at do-go-on-pod or slash do-go-on-pod for all those things. Do-go-on-pod at gmail.com, if you want to drop us a line on send us a Christmas message. We have sent out our Christmas cards to our Patreon supporters, so fingers crossed. Before Christmas, they will be hitting your post boxes around the world. My goodness

there were hundreds this year that we sent out to I think every continent except Antarctica has a Christmas card on its way man that would be so cool if anyone has anyone that lives or works in Antarctica if we could somehow get someone on board liking the show enough even if that don't support the show we could just send them a Christmas card and say we're sending one to every single continent. That would be, that would be amazing. Let us know if you know someone who works in Antarctica there, I know there are scientists down there, but also people that help operate the bases in the airports.

So there is, there's a chance that you know someone, so get in contact. But that is the end of our Christmas special. I hope you have a safe and wonderful Christmas and New Year's period. We will be back next week with another episode Been crafting up a report all week. So hopefully it will be a good one. That will be the last episode for 2018. And we were not taking a break.

We're going straight through into January. So hopefully hopefully give you some And to listen to over the, I was going to say summer period. But for many people it's not summer at all. Hopefully keeping warm in the Northern hemisphere. But thanks again for listening. I'll listen to over the summer period, but for many people it's not summer at all. Hopefully keeping you warm in the Northern hemisphere. But thanks again for listening and until next week I will say goodbye! This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network.

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