Do Go On - 196 - Yuri Gagarin, the First Person In Space (with Naomi Higgins)

Episode Date: July 24, 2019

This episode is all about the life of the first human to ever leave Earth's orbit, Yuri Gagarin. From humble beginnings living in a mud hut in the USSR, Yuri went on to instantly become one of the most famous people on the planet. But much did this man actually have to do to become the first man in space? Featuring special guest Naomi Higgins from the Batch Bitch Podcast.Buy tickets to our live shows here: https://dogoonpod.com/events/Our website: dogoonpod.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Naomi's Batch Bitch Podcast: https://www.planetbroadcasting.com/our-shows/batch-bitch/Watch Naomi on Gamey Gamey Game: https://gameygame.com/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.history.com/news/what-really-happened-to-yuri-gagarin-the-first-man-in-spacehttps://www.syfy.com/syfywire/why-do-russian-cosmonauts-pee-tire-space-launcheshttps://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/ESA_history/50_years_of_humans_in_space/Yuri_Gagarinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarinhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Yuri-Gagarinhttps://www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.htmlhttps://www.rbth.com/history/330160-death-yuri-gagarinhttps://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/yuri-gagarin-8-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-first-man-in-space/

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates.

And welcome to another episode of Doog One. My name is Dave Warnocky and I'm sitting here as always with Matt Stewart. Hello Matt. Hello, Dave. But someone's missing today. But don't worry. She's been replaced. By the fabulous batch bitch herself and I say that in context because she's from the

Batch Bitch podcast. A returning guest, three Pete. Please give it up for Naomi Higgins. Yeah. Here I am. Welcome back, completing your trip titch. Great to have you here. Thank you.

I was going to do a whole bit about how I'm actually Jess Perkins, but... Did I really? You're going to ruin that straight out the top. But that's okay, because I've taken improv classes, so I can just roll with it. Oh, great. You can roll with being yourself. Yes. And I'm happy to be here.

Let's see your best Jess, all right? Okay. Now I'm just going to say something to you like you're Jess. Okay. Okay, let's see how to just play out the scene. What level in probably up to? Oh, great. Level two.

I did up to two, so we should be able to do this together. Just for scale, how hard is it going? All the way to the top? I think 78 levels. Yeah. I'm going to be honest with you. It's probably level three. What?

But it wasn't in level three. I'll try and keep up. I'll try and keep up with you. Okay, okay. I don't know if it's standardized anyway. All right, here we get. It's absolutely not. Hey, Jess, what are you being up to?

Oh, when, um, I've been to the beach. A classic. That is good, yes. She loves the same. She's always in the water. She is. She's a real water baby. Yeah.

Now we probably should explain Jess's absence. She's dead. Rock and rolling. Rock and rolling. She would say, quote on quote. At the. It's a funny name for drugs.

Well, she was at the music festival splendor in the grass on the weekend. I was shot with Chartish Gambino and the Hilltop Hoods. I believe who were there a late replacement for Chance the Rapper. Brutal. There you go.

And Jess is also there performing some comedy up there. I imagine she had a great time, but sadly, she has come down with a hard-core case. She has come down. Of Chance the Rapper. No, she's come down with the flu. Yes. Is it festival flu? Dave, why were you doing inverted commas when you said the flu there?

Seems a bit disrespectful. I did not do inverted commas. Well, I only just remembered that she was at Splendor, so I don't believe she has the flu. I think she has a huge hangover. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Yep. Anyway, look, I like to take her at a word. I trust her. You're an idiot. I'm sure she'll be listening back to this. So, hi, Bob. We are sad that she could not make it here, but she did send a message through Matt to read out to the listeners. I said, message her just before we start recording.

I said, any words you want us to share on the show? And she said, you know what word I want you to say. And then an emoji of a peeled banana. So I don't know. What word does she want me to say? I feel like you probably know better than I would. It's definitely banana. It's her go-to-word.

Is it? You tell her, think of a word, and she always thinks of banana. She does always, she's always thinking of bananas. But unfortunately... She hasn't had any improv classes. That's true. Yeah, she's on the grade one. And maybe, yeah, maybe that's why she's sick

because she's been saying banana and not eating enough and getting that potassium. Amen. That is true. That is true. So get well soon, Jess. But thank you so much for coming back, Naomi. Appreciate you. having here.

Hey. Having here. Hey. Jesus is my gain. People want to, you're here all the time. Really? I mean,

this was a Patreon bonus episode, but you were, you landslide one best guest or most favorite guest or something, whatever it was. Yeah, that's right. So at the end of the. At the annual Do Go On Awards,

aka the Golden Shini's. The Golden Shiny Garies. The Golden Shiny Garies. We did a rule where we got the Patreon people to vote for their favorite guest. And you were a landslide victory. A real slap in the face to Nick Mason who appeared on multiple episodes. And also if you added his votes up from the multiple episodes, I still beat him. So that felt good, I have to say.

It was a lot closer when you added up his multiple. But I still won. Damn right. In a landslide. Yeah. The people's champion. Anyway, should we start the show? Well, before we get into that, we've got to quickly shout out to some great cities that we are coming to over the next few months.

Oklahoma? Sadly. Is that a state? Damn it. Oklahoma City. Indiana? No. No, we are coming to Brisbane in two weekends time, August the 11th, the Sunday afternoon.

There's a Brisbane in Oklahoma. At the zoo. Yeah, there's a zoo there. No, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. We're coming there. I'd love to tell you, I have no idea how many tickets we've sold because the ticket report somehow is not working. I assume that there's like four left. So if you're one of the four people that want those tickets, get in quickly.

It is only two weeks away. We're coming to Sydney, which we announced last week on September the 21st, a big Saturday night show at the giant dwarf theater. Fantastic. We had the best time there last year, so we're hoping to back that up again this year. And coming over to Perth for the first ever time, also announced last week. And a lot of people bought tickets to that.

So thank you very much for the people that did that. Not a huge venue, which is the Comedy Lounge, and that is November the 3rd. So ages to go. It's going to be real fun. Please come. Show. In the Wild Wild West.

And if anyone wants tickets to those, just go to do go onpod.com. How about that? I put him on the website. Oh, you made them accessible to people? I did that. That's smart. I did that.

You are the brains. There's a couple of shows I wouldn't mind quickly plugging if that's okay. David, I'm doing a comedy show with Jess Perkins. This week? Who's that? Next week. She's sort of like you're, she's who you used to be. She's your past.

She's just somebody. You're the future. Come on. Yeah, I feel like the future. On August the 1st, it's called the Amazing Traveling Comedy Tour. and it's on at the Knox Community Arts Centre in Bayswater. Do we have any Bayswater listeners, Dave? We do.

And you know what else? Bayswater has a Dairy Bell ice creamery. Not many of those left. I suggest you go and get a thickshake after the show. Yeah, Dairy Bell, great fun. So me and Jess are doing it, and there's a few others, including Headliner Dave Callan. So that should be a real fun show. The Dancing Man.

The Dancing Man himself. And Jess and I are also doing our show Razzle Dazzle in Brisbane, just after the live Brisbane show. on August the 12th, 13th and 15th, or 12th, 14th and 15th? I forget which one we have the day off on. But one of those. Anyway, there's three shows. Definitely one on the 12th.

Definitely one on the 15th. Possibly one on the 13th, possibly one on the 14th. Couldn't be clearer. Can you tell that I didn't book that show? I didn't put that on the website. Are they two different shows? The one in Bayswater is called Amazing Traveling Comedy Tour. So that's like a stand-up night where you get to see what, five or six comedians,

including your Jess and Dan. Okay. And Sonia DiOrio and the, wait, maybe someone else. Wait. Wait for it. Naomi and I are just waiting for our invite to the gig. Who is? Will it be us?

Will it be us? You both quit comedy. What do you want? You want me to drag you out of retirement? Okay. Stand up is the only form of comedy. How dare you? Sorry.

Do I need to talk about my three levels of improv again? Thank you. Sorry, you're right. When you're right, you're right. I apologize for that. That's okay. Big time. Elitists.

Thank you. Eliteists in this town. I still have a yellow belt in comedy blog writing. Right. Thanks. You can find our details for all out at Matt Stewartcom. It's Nick Kappa. He's the other one.

Matt Stewartcomedy.com slash gigs. Wow. Nailed it. Absolutely nailed it. All right. We've got to crack on with the show this week. And if you haven't heard the show before, what we do here is take it in terms to report on a topic. It is my turn this week to report on a topic suggested by a listener.

And Matt Naomi, you guys have no idea where I'm. I'm about to talk about. No. Hey, or Naomi, where the SaaS twins? Are we? Yeah, that's the thing Jess and Matt do when I'm reporting. We're very sass the shit out of me. I think. Right, that's my default mode.

It's like I'm a teacher in your bullies. Oh, good. I'm already a bully, so this will be easy. Hey, Mr. Warnocky, your face is dumb. As an example. Thank you. May I have another? And I'm going to kill your family.

Sassy. Relatable. Should I pull it back? That's about Jess's level, I think. good. So as this is coming out tomorrow, over the last week or so, space has been back in the news. Oh, yeah. Big time, big time. 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, which I did a report on way back in the first 10 episodes of this show. Is that what you mean? Is that what you meant by back in the news? Yeah, that's right. Oh, I thought you're going to talk about the Area 51 thing.

Oh, no, no, I'm talking more about the moon landing 50th anniversary. Okay. Dave, different. Dave does, he works in memes. It's his day job is telling Peter Halley what funny videos and memes are. Do not work in memes. That's funny because not 10 minutes ago, I tried to explain some memes to you and some people. I did not work in memes. I work in news, but you would be better at working in memes.

Let me just tell you that. I don't understand your job, I think Dave. Well, one hell I'll explain it to you. Are you a maima? I'm not a maima. Okay. In fact, I kind of despise memes, but here we go. All right, well, that's a really vague thing to despise.

Are they comedy? Are they? Also, I don't really like gifts. I mean, Nick. Never sent a GIF. Don't like GIF. No. You don't like GIF.

Short videos. You know what I hate? MP3s. No, when people post them and they go, How original am I? Giff. And you're like, oh, okay. You hate reaction GIFs.

Yeah, sorry, that's what I'm talking about. Absolutely. No one is saying, how original am I? They're saying, I couldn't think of anything original. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. I love using them. You know what?

I also hate JPEGs. MP3s and JPEG Kill me Just use PNG for God's sake I'm not so arrogant to think that I could reply in a way that Will Ferrell's face couldn't Like who do you think you are

If you think you can reply better Than Daffy Duck shitting himself or something like that I can't I cannot think of any gifts A dog looking funny Michael Jackson eating popcorn That one that people always post under

It's like just leave the internet please yeah there's one it's an image of like a sausage dog and it's like shaking its head but it was clearly literally a picture and they've just animated it so it looks like the dog's shaking its head and it's really upsetting that's maybe the worst one you're on my side now reaction gifts for sure they make me want to die in a hole thank you so much that's what i meant i didn't mean i don't hate the the concept of a good yeah it's just a it's just a style of file right love the file style it's a file style it's a file style it's a file If you invented the gif, I apologize.

Dave, I'm funny your last tweet. He pronounces it gif. Oh, really? Yeah. Well. He is wrong. He's back on the bed. He probably also says Memi for meme.

Are you finding my last tweet? Was it a gif? No, it says, I'm just going to reply to it with a gif. Got to rile me up in about two hours when I get home. All right. First gift that comes up I'm replying with. Everyone's sending you. And it is Will Ferrell.

He's a great giffer. As Ron Burgundy. Anyway, we should start the show. And what's he doing in the GIF? He's nodding. The caption says, agreed. It doesn't really make sense to your tweet, but I just want to pee you right off. Thank you.

Well, I'm right up here. But the space was back in the knees. I've done a couple of space reports. This is completing my trip ditch of space reports. I've done the Challenger Space Disaster and Apollo the 11. But Apollo the 13. Apollo, the Creed. My question for you, as we always ask, to get onto topic is,

who was the first person in space? Me. Is that true? Lock it in. No. Okay. First person in space. That's right.

So I've talked about NASA and their American space. Do you agree with Peter that animals should have personhood? What? Is that something Peter Jones? No, people for ethical treatment of animals. Well, I certainly don't believe in all their crackpot theories. They are a little bit militant for my liking, because if you do... They kind of just let every other cause go, by the way.

But if I do, what would you say? I'd say that rat or whatever the first thing was up there. An ant? Was it an ant farm? We're talking people. Fruit flies, I believe, were the first animals in there. Fruit flies. Yeah.

Right, because there's been a few great chimps. Yep. But I think it was nearly always cruel to. the animals to do that to them. Do you reckon? Putting them in a tiny isolated thing that would be very confusing and shooting them up out of a rocket. Nearly always. It was a couple of times that I had a great flat time.

I thought they were fetching a stick. Do you have any answers to the... Person. It is a person. Not an astronaut, but a cosmonaut. Yeah, it's like... Vladimir... Shnaws.

Here we go, this is turning... Sergei. South pretty quick. Sergei? Vladimir Sergei. It's not Vladimir Nor Sergay. There's a... Bob.

John? I reckon I know this. Because I saw it. There was a cartoon that I saw once, and it was named after an old cosmonaut. What's it? John Hogben. First name, I'll just give you the first.

First name, Uri is all who I was thinking. Uri the Space Man was a cartoon I saw once. Last name. Slav. Serminov. Gagarin. Well done. Yuri Gagarin.

We did it. Is that Lady Gaga's? Dad? Yeah. She came to America. She dropped the brigand. She just dropped the Rinn. She just dropped the Rinn.

She dropped the RIN. I'm going to drop the RIN right there. You're going to be stuck here, but I don't know about this RIN. This RIN. This was suggested by Michael Gledson via Facebook. This is in the old old hat from years ago. Wow. The pre-Hat hat.

Before we met at Jack the Hat McViddy. So thank you, Michael. hopefully you're still listening about three and a half years later. We finally did it. So hopefully you're still listening after this long and tedious introduction before we go to the report. I know. I'm so sorry. So do you guys know anything about Yurigurin? First man in space?

No. He was Russian? Well, both. Or maybe he wasn't Russian. He was from back then. It would have been the Soviet Union, I suppose. That's right. He was part of the Soviet Union, but he was born in modern day Russia.

Oh. So I was on the right track with all my Russian names. Yeah, absolutely. He was born in modern day Russia. That means he's a time traveler as well. Born in modern day Russia, flew back to the Soviet Union. You don't know what happened.

Then shut up into space. No, he went up in space and that was sending back in time. Oh, come on. It was Earth all along. Damn you. That's interstellar. Okay. Let me take you back to the late 1950s,

the height of the Cold War between the United States and the USSR. Great. And you should give context for exactly what happened there, probably on the broader sense, just for listeners who don't know what it is, obviously I know a lot about it. The U.S.S.R, which is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Obviously, yeah.

Which if you ever want to go to a quiz night, you should remember that because that comes up sometimes. Does it? Union. Of Soviet socialist republics. That's what's... Which is modern day Russia and a bunch of other Eastern Bloc countries. And post-World War II, they went into the Cold War. It actually wasn't any actual fighting between the United States and USSR,

but they were bitter, bitter enemies. Is that why it was called cold because there was no fighting? Yeah. It's like one of those long drawn out over decades, capitalist US versus the communist USSR. And importantly in this... So no violence. No, but the threat of nuclear war just hanging over each country for many decades.

Right. So emotional violence. Oh, absolutely. And a lot of propaganda and hate. And importantly, this is also the height of the space race. In late July of 1957, the US announced that they intended to launch satellites into orbit, and four days later, the Soviet Union announced that they too would launch satellites in the near future. So it was a real tit-for-tat type of thing.

Someone would make an announcement, they'd say, we're doing that too. But they called them cosmolites. That's true. Just over... Matt. So that was 1995 rather. Just over two years later, in October the 4th, 1957, the Soviets won the battle, the first battle of the space race when they launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.

All up it orbited Earth for three weeks before its batteries died. Was that on... That's still pretty good. Yeah, was that the plan? Pretty good. And then it just stayed up there for another two months orbiting before it fell back to Earth. Oh no. Did it hurt anyone?

No one died. That's good. But at the time, you wouldn't have known. The sea. The USSR were very very very. very secretive about stuff like that. But was it the kind of just landed randomly, or did they have some sort of a... No, so after the batteries died, they couldn't communicate with it anymore.

I just sort of tracked it as it went round and round and around. But it was a real victory for the Union, and it freaked out the United States and other countries in the Western world who were worried they were falling drastically behind their Cold War enemies. The launch had caught them off guard and had been a complete surprise. 31 days after the Soviets launched this one, they then successfully launched Sputnik 2, Another satellite, and this time a dog named Lyca was on board. Sputnik 2, Return of the U's.

Secret of the U's. Damn it. Sputnik 2, Judgment Day. And your one, Naomi, is Sputnik 2, back in the habit. Yeah. I was going to say that. Billing in for old, Jess. So, Lika was the first dog in space, originally known as Kudrayavka.

She was later named Lyca, which translates roughly as Barker in Russian, as she barked over the radio when they introduced stirred to the world. Oh, yeah, like that's a space dog. That's quite a famous one. Just crying for help, hey. She was a stray dog, a mixture between husky and a spitz, and became the first animal to orbit the earth.

So you've told me that the threat of nuclear blast hung over a lot of people, and I was like, okay, that's bad. And now you've told me there was a stray dog, put one stray dog put in a little satellite. animals, dogs. That barked and I famously. I feel very, very upset. You're upset.

Well, my next sentence is, sadly, it was never planned for her to survive and she died of heat exhaustion. Heat exhaustion. I'm sorry. I call it a Cold War. You know what I mean? Feels like this cold war's really heating up. Oh, no. That laughs in poor taste, Naomi.

Yeah, it is. And I'm sorry. Oh, that sucks. But, you know, sometimes you've got to laugh or you'll cry. Amen. Comedy is tragedy plus time, plus a dead dog. She's like 60 years. That's the full equation?

Yeah, that's what you've been missing. Oh, that sucks. Yeah, that sucks. The fact that they didn't ever, like, they wouldn't get away with that anymore, you know? Peter. Yeah, am I right? You know, these PC police stopping your exploding dogs in space.

She didn't explode. She just got very hot. They couldn't have promised that she wouldn't, though. They would have had no idea. Will she explode? No comment. Okay, that's a weird answer. So the Soviets were leading the way both in animal cruelty and in space. And in response, the US were desperate to get their own satellite off the ground as part of their project, Project Vanguard.

Okay. The first real attempt was... They really wanted to sound cool, don't they? No, they went for the cool title. The first attempt was Vanguard TV3 two months after the launch of Sputnik. It was televised and US citizens watched on with hope as it failed. spectacularly rising only four feet off the launch pad before falling back onto the launch and exploding.

See, that could have been the dog. And you can watch it on YouTube and it is a huge explosion. The idea of school children watching that being like, yeah, we're going to take it to the Soviets and it literally four feet, a whole rocket, you can jump higher than this rocket car. And then it explodes. I love the confidence to, it's like someone televising

their first stand-up spot. Yeah, it's going to be great. Are you sure you don't want to run this through a few times before you put it out there to everyone? Nah. I think I'm going to kill. Hey, how we doing? Jump four feet off the ground and explode. So it was a spectacular failure and it appeared in newspapers under the names are flopnik,

stay putnik, kaputnik and dudnik. Some great journalism there. It really went to town. Is this American newspapers? American newspapers, yeah. saying we're falling behind. On January 31st, 1958, the US finally had success

and put their own satellite into orbit. It was called the Explorer 1. I've heard of that. It's not as cool, is it? Well, got the bloody job done. Yeah, got it up there. Got it up there. You're so,

mate, you're such an Aussie boy. Get it into you. What, the satellite? Get a dog up here. Get a dog. Not too far up. We'll dive heat exhaustion. All right.

What is that saying about? Before we started, we said another saying that was... Don't say we. All right. I said another saying that was confusing. Only once you looked at me weird. But what does get a dog up you mean? I don't know if I've ever heard that one either.

If you have to ask. Have you heard that before? Yeah, get a dog up, yeah. What does that mean? Does that mean like get going? Get a dog up, yeah. What does it mean have a beer? Most confusing...

baffling sayings mean have a beer. You can get out of most situations in Australia by just cracking a beer and the other person going, all right, you're okay. All right, cheers. And then the theme song for VB starts. I think this is probably not just Australia, but people will often say talking about a politician if they're worthy. And they'll say, I wouldn't mind having a beer with them or I wouldn't have a beer with them.

So I wouldn't, like, I won't vote for them because I wouldn't have a beer with them. Is it necessarily the best thing that, you know, your prime minister is a guy you'd have a beer with? Yeah, that's right. To a lot of people, yes. It's a weird thing. Sure, you'd have a beer with Doug at the pub, but would you trust him to run a multi-trillion dollar economy? I mean, he's a good bloke at the pub. Yeah, you've seen him go a scooter?

One go, man. I mean, think of how big that spreadsheet is. Doug can't handle it. All right, two very different definitions for get a dog up here. Top two Google results. The first one says, common way of saying go fuck yourself. Also can be used as a friendly term of endearment. It has many meanings.

And so depending on the way it is said, could mean almost anything. Australia is beautiful. Well, back to space. The United States then founded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, aka NASA. That's another one for your quiz team. Say that again, NISA? NISA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Remember that for your pub quiz points.

That's what this episode's about. So with the Americans catching up, the Soviets continued their space program in secret and were the first to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon. But what both nations were really... USSR were? Yeah. Oh, shit.

Land or crash? Explode. A lot of the time it did crash. They crashed landed a dog on the moon and it died. No, that's not true. It's believable, though. It's believable. But what both nations were really striving for was to be the first to put a man into space and bring him back safely.

Oh, thank goodness. Was there a reason back then for this? You know, people sort of talk about it now. It's like if we really do fuck Earth bad, we might have to go and find another planet. What was the reason back then? It's the final frontier. Yeah. And also, I think that they were worried about like if they're the first to get weapons up there,

they'll be able to control planet Earth, which obviously never happened. Right, yeah, having... And also it is a bit of a flexing of the muscles to be like, oh, you think your capitalism is so great in the United States? Well, look what we did in our communist society. Right. We're better than you. Yeah.

So it's a real tip for day. We heal the dog. Spending our people's money frivolously. And then, like, we're doing it real fast on explosions, basically. Yeah, but we go under the guise of everyone being equal when no one is actually equal. Hashtag communism. Unlike capitalism. Yeah.

Where everyone is equal. That's right. Well, at least we're honest about how unequal people are. I don't think that's true. Everyone gets a fair go. Hey, Matt, if you give a go, you'll get a go. No, I'd forgotten that. You'd have a beer with it, wouldn't it?

That is a quote from our current Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, aka Scomo. Yes, we call our Prime Minister, Scoomo. If you have a go, what is you have a go? If you have a go, you'll get a go. which is probably the most meaningful thing he said. The other thing he likes doing is just saying how good things are. He's got like a catchphrase there. How good is.

I think he knows people find it funny. How good is education? How good is money. That's something that we do at the project is make fun of him for that. And now he buys into it. Yeah, he's right in, I think. It's amazing how many things you don't have to take an act. stance on if you just say how good is it? How good is it?

You're not even saying it's good, technically. You're asking a question. That is the real-life version of sending a gift. I've got nothing to say, here's Will Ferrell. Exactly. Scomo is the reaction gif of this country. Through the episode, I'm going to slowly work through all your old tweets and reply with it with a different Will Ferrell.

I enjoy that. I'll look forward to that. So anyway, back to space. Everyone wants to get someone to space. So the Soviets secretly started recruiting men for what was considered a very dangerous mission. They had no idea what would happen if they send a space man up there. Well, why didn't they want to send a woman to her death? Well, because they sent a female dog up there, and she didn't survive.

Answer that. She ruined it for everyone, really. Absolutely. Making us look bad. Sergei Korolov, regarded by many, is the father of practical astronautics. And what a title. And the chief designer of the Soviet space program decided that the cosmonauts, must be male, between 25 and 30 years old,

no taller than 175 centimetres tall, and weigh no more than 72 kilograms, which means, boom, I am prime cosmonaut candidate. Congratulations. I take all those boxes. Now all you have to do is be in the USSR in... Over 50 years ago. Over 50 years ago.

You're not even in modern day Russia, let alone olden day. I know old day Russia. He also decided they had to be intelligent, comfortable in high stress situations, and physically fit. So I am definitely. I don't really have. Easy come, easy come.

Which of those three would you give yourself a cross on? You're a pretty intelligent man. Maybe I could maybe get, but they probably want some hardcore mathematics stuff. Not quiz. I do real good on trivia quizzes. I'll be like, I know it stands for the Union of Soviet Social Republics and they're like, so does everyone here. It's our country. Damn it.

How good is the USSR? Am I comfortable in high stress situations? being blast into space? Absolutely not. Am I physically fit? Fit enough to be blasted into space? Absolutely not. That's fit as a stray dog.

Actually, that's not true. You're not as fit of space. No way. You never survive out there. They work hard. So sadly I wasn't, but 200 men were shortlisted after an interview process. I'm so sorry that you didn't make it. I did not like my cover letter.

Too much. Too much glitter. I was also thinking I put glitter in there. Imagine that. A hardened Soviet general opinion. Ah, it's everywhere. Oh, God. Oh, no.

Look at this. It's a nightmare. So 200 men were shortlisted, not actually being told that they might go to space and then put through vigorous, physical and mental tests. I really thought. Like in that episode of The Simpsons?

It actually is like that. When Homer and Barney are chosen to civilians to go into space. It is exactly like that. Was that genuine excitement? Yeah, I love that. I can't stand no more when they're doing the G-Force test. Popeye.

Is that what happens? That is what happens? Yeah. Is that the one where Barney, he goes sober, and then has a non-alcoholic beer? Yeah, non-alcoholic wine, yeah. But that was enough for him. Yeah.

Placebo effect, I guess. Brutal. So 200 men were shortlisted, and one of those 20 would later grow up to be the main subject of our report, Yuri Gagarin First man in space So let me take you back

To the young life of Mr. Gagarin Born in 1934 in a small village of Kluschino 200 kilometres from Moscow And near a town that was later renamed after him That's when you know you've made it Wow To space and back Yeah, correct

That's the rule Everyone who's been to space has a town named after them His parents, Alexi and Anna worked on a, or probably Arnuk, worked on a collective farm and being the third of four children, he was mostly raised by his sister or his parents worked. And like many of his day, his family suffered under Nazi occupation during World War II.

They were forced from their home and had to live in a tiny mud hut on their farm throughout the occupation. What? So that's right. A mud hut? They had a mud hut on the camp. Why? No, they had to build it.

Oh. So they kicked out of their actual farmhouse. Why were they kicked out of their house? Because the Nazis didn't like that. the Russians. Where'd they get all the mud from? The farm. Whoa, is it a mud farm? It's a mud farm, yeah.

They were farming mud. They make mud. Yeah, they're farming mud huts. They had to sleep in their display hut. Wow. People came round. As you can see, it's got two bedrooms. Oh, it's got a fancy mud hut.

Yeah, it's like a California mud bungler. There's a rumpus room. Unfortunately, all the TVs are fake. Yeah, it's right there. The fireplace is also fake. There's mud in there. Those flames made of mud. Where's your improv level three?

You should be coming. You should be jumping on with this. I'm sorry. We should be taken off here with some mud probe. Yeah, I usually I love mudprov. I don't know what's got into me today. Mudprov. That's good stuff.

As a yellow belt in comedy blog writing, I'm impressed right now. Yeah, why you write it up? 40% of podcasting is mushing two words together. as if it was as if you'd said something funny. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Which is the podcasting equivalent of sending a gift. I don't know what I'm doing.

I'm not creative. But here's a joke. He really hate reaction gifts. That's like doubling down on things. They're so harmless. I think you're actually just annoyed by the popcorn Michael Jackson picture. I don't even think it is a gif, is it? It's a gif.

Okay. Do you know what a gif is? Matt doesn't know what a pun is. It's a moving picture. Okay. Like in Harry Potter. Yeah. I think about it.

It feels like that's a big part of Jay Carrolling's genius. Was that she was like, okay. Now, this is going to be a whole magical world. Come with me on this journey. Imagine paintings on the wall. Only they move. Okay? You're with me so far?

Never been creative before. Now picture a statue. Normally stationary. Am I right? Yeah. Not in this fancy world. What? They'll move around a bit.

No. We're going to have a horse and car, right? Only it flies. And the horses are dragons. I'm a genius. And then they give her money. She is. Well, I know she's, she's, I think she's been recently cancelled.

But before then, a real darling of the internet. Yeah. Has she been cancelled? Yeah, I think so. I mean, who hasn't? Are you anything if you haven't been cancelled? It's easier to list to me who haven't been cancelled at this point. Am I right?

I think it's just me to be honest. You're the last person standing. I nearly said, woman, oh my God. Well, I am a woman, that's fine. Yeah, but am I allowed to say that? Cancel. Yes, now you're cancel. I'm out.

I think it's your question yourself. I know. You must never question. Have a little bit more. The number one of cancel culture, never question. Just know the answers. Just know. Oh, but how will we ever get better at things if people just yell at you all the time?

The answer is we won't. And the answer is you're cancel. Cancel. It's not about you. It's about the people who are nearby in fear who won't make the same mistake. You're an example and you're cancelled. There you go.

Did we just take down cancel culture? I think we did. Do we solve it? I mean, I refuse to take down cancel culture because I don't want to get cancelled. Yeah, no, that was all joking with you, cancelled culture, if anyone asks. Right?

Laughing with you. We're all in this together. I cancel people too. Really? Yeah, just give me a person I'll cancel them. I'm trying to think of someone good, but all the people who come into mind are actually cancelled. Yeah, I can't re-cancel. Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama, both cancelled.

Yeah, see, that's changed. Pre-cancel culture, they were seen as being real good people. Yeah. Just for mealing, helping millions of unfortunate people. Yeah, I don't know if Mother Teresa was that good. I have no idea, really. I've never met her. I'd look it up.

Oh, good. Well, Dave, can you edit out all of that? No, I'm just sitting here eating popcorn la, Michael Jackson, watching you two continue this. Who is? Canceled. He is. Thank goodness.

And you know the manufacturer of that popcorn? Cancel? Yeah. Child labour laws. That gift has stopped lately, and I appreciate that. I think the... Cancel the gift. Whoever first did that popcorn gift, that's funny.

It's just the problem is the millions of people who jumped on after. Yeah. Similar to cancel culture. The first person who canceled someone, great. That's funny. That's the Staxon. I love a digital Stax on, to be honest, as much as I shouldn't. Sometimes it's funny.

Never do it to me. Someone told me to do go on here. Do go on. Thank you. As a teenager, Gagarin. This is a, yeah. Also, if you are a Russian or anywhere, that part of the world, I'm so sorry. I'm going to say some terrible pronunciation.

It sounds like an onomat opaque bird sound. Gagarin! Gagarin! Gagarin! Gagarin! Well, after he graduated from the mud hut, he witnessed a Russian yak fighter plane make an emergency landing near his home,

an experience that could really scar you, but no, instead it inspired him. In early 1946, at the age of 13, the Gagarin family moved to Gatsk, which is a bigger city, and he's joined his school's aviation club. What did he see that inspired him? a Russian yak fired a plane

make an emergency landing near his house. And he was inspired to make emergency landings? Yeah, I think he was just like, that looks cool. Next time I'm flying, I'm going to make that pilot make an emergency landing. I'm feeling inspired, I don't know. It's just something, walking with an extra peppermost step. And finally he landed a plane in the Hudson River. Gary Sullenberg, rest his soul.

Hopefully, because it's not time in America or not. He's sleeping. And his body, rest his body and his soul. He died. Anyway, he joined his school's aviation club. He began working on the docks for extra money to buy presents for his family. What a great guy. And then at the age of 16, he began an apprenticeship as a foundryman at a steel plant near Moscow.

He was selected for further training in a technical school where some sources say he studied tractors. Some sources. There you go. How many sources, Dave? Two. Okay, that's... That's... I mean, it's more than one.

That's some sources. But yet not enough that made you commit to it. He is saying. It just sort of made me laugh. The first man in space studied tractors. Objection, Your Honor. Beyond the scope. I've been watching a lot of the good fight lately.

So I know, I think there's like five big objections. Objection. Asked and answered. That's my favourite. So that's like, we already went through this. Yeah. She's answered that question, Your Honor. What about objection?

You're out of order. And then, no, you're out of order. No, that's not a good fight. That's the two good men or whatever. No, the few good men. Is out of order? Is that one of the main ones? I don't think, no, that's a judge thing.

So this is the opposing counsel. Objection. So beyond the scope, ask and answered. Oh, man. hearsay. Yeah, that sounds like one. Well, like speculation. Yeah, what is that one?

That's like when the witness says something that is just them speculating. What about leading the witness? Yeah, but I think they say, they're testifying, Your Honor. Like if the lawyer's doing the testifying and their question. It's like, are you getting to a question soon? Objection. Testifying.

Right, because you're questioning them. You're not giving a statement. Otherwise, get the witnesses out of there. So what does this got to do with tractors? I can't remember. What tractors have to do it with space? I don't know. I just wanted to mention that the first man in space once studied tractors.

I mean, there's hope for us all. I object. What was this guy's name again? John Deer? Guri Gugarin. Russian for John Deer. While starting tractors, allegedly, from two sources, he joined the local Aero Club and learned to fly light aircraft

and it became a passion and after finishing his technical training, he joined a military flying school. Whilst a cadet in flat school, Gagarin met Valentina Gora Chiva at the May Day celebrations at the Red Square in Moscow. She was a medical technician and they were married on the 7th of November 1957. the same day he graduated from flight school and they later had two daughters. Oh my gosh.

So they got married the day he graduated. Yeah. It's a big day. What an event. After graduating, he became a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force. It was at this time that the Soviet started recruiting people for the space mission and Gagarin was shortlisted. So we're back where I left off before.

Did a little flashback there. Don't have anyone noticed there. Storytelling. Yellow Belt, Comedy Blogger. Thank you. What is this comedy blog? It's a secret. You underwent a number of tests at the Cosmonaut Training Center being exposed.

This is the bit from the Simpsons. This is the stuffy. He was being exposed to low pressures, oxygen starvation tests. They lock you in a room and then take out. Just cubby amount. Yeah, they take the oxygen. Now try and breathe. You can't.

And also high G training or sensory fuge training, which is basically the Popeye thing before that spins really fast and exposes you. The Gravitron. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the Gravitron. Did you guys go on the Gravitron? No. It was always at the amusement parks in the 90s.

It featured quite a bit in the new Stranger Things. Really? And you really didn't want to vomit in there because everything stuck to the wall in there. Yeah. Right back at you, right? Yeah. Horrific. You wanted to go on someone else.

Yeah. Like a roller coaster. Yeah. They also trained extremely hard at this point. Alexei Leonov, who would later become the first person to complete a spacewalk, Describe their training at the time as if they were training for the Olympics. They also had to learn and practice parishth. Has he ever trained for the Olympics?

Yeah, what a slap in the face. What a slap in the face. Well, they also had to learn and practice parachuting. So it was all happening. It was a big time. Parachuting. This is like two weeks ago. It's longer than that.

But it's like a few months ago studying tractors. Now he's being spun around real quick at the Gravitron. And practicing parachuting. You know, you go to a drop zone for like two days and then you can like jump out of a playing on your own. It really doesn't take that long. I said they did over 50 jumps. Really?

It seems like a bit. Yeah. My mom's done, 200. Really? 300? Does she jump solo? Yeah, I mean, she doesn't anymore, but yeah. Wow.

My stepdad did like a thousand, I think. That's a lot of jumps. A lot of jumps. They have a real need for that rush. Oh, I guess they'd a need for speed. I guess you could say that. Yeah, mom's hardcore. Let's talk about these fucking 50 jump.

Yeah, 50 chump, nobodies. Idiots. I accidentally called him 50 chump. It became clear that Gagarin's personality was also suitable for that of a cosmonaut. A doctor who evaluated him described him as such, quote, modest. Embarrasses when his humour gets a little too racy. High degree of intellectual development evident, fantastic memory, distinguishes himself from his colleague by his sharp and far-ranging sense of attention to his surroundings.

A well-developed imagination, quick reactions, and also went on to write, does not feel constrained when he has to defend his point of view if he considers himself right. It appears that he understands his life better than a lot of his friends. Cop that, everyone else. Yeah. Cop that all the 50 jump chumps. I think that feels like the personality evaluation of you'd be really good up in space is also saying you're not so good on the earth, right?

All of those things that make you real good up there, some of them are like, You sound like you might be a bit annoying to be around. We don't want you here. Real buzzkill. Yeah. Well, because of his high results, Gagarin was further selected for an elite training group known as the Sotchi 6, who would make up the first cosmonauts of the Vostok program. Sochi, they did an Olympics there eventually. Yeah, the Winter Olympics, yeah.

Oh, look at you. Yeah. I know things. I know things. These six had even more intense training. They're no longer champs. They've now done. How many jumps?

55. I don't know, I'm guessing. Now they're doing some downhill slalom skiing. When's the jump from chump? Let me just tell you that they really earned their spots here. The six finalists were also the six shortest men of the group. I agree. Space being at a premium on a ship.

Why didn't they just do that from the beginning? I know. Why did you interview 200 people? And they just went, these six will do. Line up in hard order. You six come with me. The whole room is full of everyone. They start calling on.

out one by one and people are like at first get oh yes I made it by the six I was like hang on a second I think I'll see what's happened here it's like this isn't because I got a shit personality Sergei's like six foot eight in the corner crying bye

I could go on himself as a vampire he's a vampire for some reason yeah as all tall people are get away from me you freaks I want the goals of space Vampires also do very well without oxygen. Do they? Yeah, they don't need to...

They're dead. They're undead. Are they? Are they, is that zombies? I'm pretty sure vampires aren't alive. Hmm. Am I wrong here? Seems a bit prejudiced or something.

They definitely don't have souls. Oh, I fell for this one. They're dead to me. I got cancelled over vampires. I could go around himself for context. He was only 157 centimeters tall or five foot one. That is. basically my height.

Really? Yeah. That is awesome. I'm 156 centimeters. He did it. He is tiny. I'm very short. It was quite a small man.

People probably don't know I'm short because I've such a big personality, but I'm the same height as Ariana Grande for context. Okay. I mean, that gives me the context of how tall Ariana Grande is. She's about your hot. She looks tiny. Okay. Quick Google.

I look like a normal person. Is Arianda Grande is like someone who's, he's like. He's actually the same height as Kim Kardashian. Oh, Ariana Grande. Was she on Disney or something? Do you not know who Ariana Grande is? No, I know the name, singer, but what, what you? Jesus Christ.

I would not have been able to pull her out of a lineup. Are you serious? Has she been online? She's a super big star. Yeah, she's an a list celebrity. She's also a pretty shit person. Is that correct? She's all right.

I think she's nice Oh really I think she's quite funny actually I thought she was a massive diva and like horrible to work with No you just heard that because she's a woman Doesn't she also like

I only let you photograph one side of my face Is that correct Well that's just a marketing plan That doesn't make her a bitch Chris Isaac was like that too Are you calling him a bitch No he did a bad bad thing

And he knows what he did Canceled No I've definitely heard That she was not a nice person But there you go Yeah Dave That's only because A man who behaves like that

Sorry Amy, let me tell you some of the feminists on this podcast. Yeah, please. That's true. That's actually a feminist of the podcast. So if a man behaves in this way, he's decisive and a leader, a woman steps up and all of a sudden she's a bitch and a diva. So maybe a bit of self-reflection. Thanks, Dave.

Thank you. Am I on cancer? I can send you a very nice speech by one, Nikki Minaj on the subject. She's one of the associated acts. Are they friends? Yeah, they collab a lot. All right. She started on Broadway.

Ariana Grande does do a little. She tans a lot, though, to the point where some people have questioned if she is doing blackface. I've definitely heard that about her as well. Yeah. It's an amazing name, Arianda Grundy. It's like, she's still doing a tan. It's just, where's the point? But then she's Italian and it's a, it's, it's, I feel like there's still debate in the community as to whether that's white.

Italian? Yeah. What? You're my boyfriend and who's Italian. I always tell him that he's white. And he says, I'm olive. Would you know that I'm 116th Swiss Italian? Oh my God.

Yeah. I think it's one eighth. Swiss Italian too. Well, I think one 16th Italian if you split up the Swiss from the Italian. I think I'm one eight Swiss Italian. I think you're one in 32 Italian. How dare you? Sorry about that.

Sorry, you were talking about Ariana Grande. What were you talking about? Ariane Grundo, that's right. No, I was talking about how short Gagarin was. Arianda Grande's height. It wasn't just his height that made him excel. According to the European Space Agency, Gagarin was also favoured as a candidate by his peers. When the 20 candidates were asked to anonymously vote for which one they would like to see as the first to fly, all but three chose Gagarin.

Ah. Wow. Tall man, Sergei. I'm a fan. Bye. Bye. The group. Sogay's eight feet tall.

He's too tall. He'd picture of that Simpson's tall man character. Nelson made fun of him. And then he made him... We all need an automobile. Sorry, but I don't think I've ever met an adult man as short as me. Is this because people have gotten taller as time went on? Does that go back?

Are we not going back far enough for that to be a thing? No, that's definitely a thing. In the NFL, the Ruckman's in like the 60s were six foot tall. Really? Which is the equivalent of 181, 182 centimeters. And now Ruckman are 205, 210 centimetres. So they're like sort of seven foot. And I think that scientifically proves that people are getting taller.

I'm sure that is true that people are getting taller. But there definitely are people that are your height. Yeah, the only one I've seen is that bagel boss guy. Oh, yeah. He's a meme, Dave. What's a bagel boss? It's a shop where there's bagels and then just like a middle-aged guy who's my height and he's just screaming at all the women because no women want to date him on dating sites

because he's too short. And now he's an internet celebrity now. I think he signed a big deal and now he's a big deal. Can I have to say I hate the internet. It's awful. Please, Dave, do go on. Well, Gagarin, he made it to the final two alongside. I predict he made it to the final one.

German Titov. Gagarin was nominated as the pilot and Titov has his backup and this was just a few days before the actual flight that they found out. He's understudy, if you will. He was an understudy, he was swinging. When Gagarin and Titov were informed of the decision during a meeting on April 9th, Gagarin was of course very happy and Titov was reportedly disappointed. Then the next day, on April 10, this meeting was reenacted in front of live television cameras so there would be official footage of the event.

I don't know if they included Titov being disappointed or not. Imagine that they make him reenact it. That would be fun. Yeah, someone's there going. It's got to be accurate. Titov. Show us. Cry.

Cry. As an indication of the level of secrecy involved, one of the other cosmonaut candidates who I mentioned before, Alexei Leonov, later recalled that he didn't know who was chosen for the mission until after the space flight had begun. So they didn't want the Americans knowing that they were about to launch someone into space. So they didn't tell anyone except the pilot,

which was Gagarin. and his backer. So they didn't know what they were, like of a better word, auditioning for. Yeah, no, they, when they met to the final group, they were told what was happening. I thought it was a singing contest. When I said, understuddy, that was a joke, but then I really forgot the word apply. He passed the audition. Great.

He got a call back into the final six. During the intermission. Let's have to reset the stage, so if everyone could leave the theatre, that'd be fantastic. The spacecraft built by the Soviets that was chosen to flag a go. into space was called the Vostok. That's why it's called the Vostok program. The craft to describe it was made up of a spherical descent module, 2.3 meters in diameter with a glass window,

and this part house the cosmonaut instruments and an escape system. So it's a little bubble boy. You can, yeah, so it's like looking into a round dome with a man sitting in a chair. On re-entry, the cosmonaut would eject from the spacecraft at about 7,000 meters or 23,000 feet and descend via parachute while the capsule would land separately. It also had an ejector seat that could be used if there was a problem within the first 40 seconds of takeoff. After that, you were in trouble. The entire mission was controlled by, I didn't know this, by automatic onboard systems or by the crew on the ground.

Despite being an experienced pilot, Gagarin wasn't given control of anything on the ship, as they were unsure how a human might react to weightlessness in space. That's actually pretty smart. He basically just sat there. So he was just... Why do they need him to be smart? They're going to their stray dog. Yeah.

No wonder they just pick the shortest people. Why do they do those? This is rigged. An envelope was placed on board. He gets shy when you tell a naughty joke. And that's why he's perfect to sit in this tiny little circle. An envelope was placed on board and inside was a code that could be entered that gave Gagara and control in the event of an emergency. It was written in invisible ink.

But prior to the event, they broke protocol and apparently. Apparently several people just told him the code. I just told him it's one... 69 69. It was just 1-25. Is that real? Yeah. They just said, apparently they were like,

it's just 1-25 in case you need it. Let's find out if he needs it. Wait, so what was he supposed to have done to get the code? Open up an envelope. Get out the card. So you could just do that at any time anyway. Yeah, but I imagine like if the thing's spinning out of control or like you're like, got like, three seconds to do that.

Yeah. To get... What a weird system. Get him to write on the back of his hand. But he's not allowed to look at the back of his hand unless he needs. He's got to wear a glove. That would make more sense. Because he's going to have that, like the envelope's floating in...

And why can't he just know the code anyway? Yeah. He's only going to use it if he needs it. How about you get rid of the code and just make it a button? Yeah, hit the button. Just hit the big red button. Don't do it unless there's an emergency. We trust you.

You got a pretty good. good memory and you don't like jokes or something. He gets embarrassed for naughty jokes. Yeah, but he's very intelligent in other ways. Yeah. And? In his height. He takes feet off.

I mean, shoes off. He takes feet off. Chops them off at the door. He's real weird. He puts his feet up. Why do you think he's so short? He chopped his legs off. He's a normal.

He started saying, hang on, they're only short listening to short people. Give me five minutes. He came back in walking on just his knees. Call that short. I cut a full foot off With every day that went past The likelihood that the Americans would get to space First increased

So they always had their eye on the clock A few weeks prior to the launch A prototype of the craft That Kagarin would use Called the Vostok 3KA2 Completed one low orbit carrying a life-sized dummy name Ivan Ivanovich and a dog Avonavanovich is apparently

the Russian equivalent of John Doe Ah You know The dummy was so realistic Way more fun, Avanavanavage. Isn't that great? And the dummy was so realistic that a sign reading Mackett, Russian for a dummy,

was placed under his visor so that anyone who found him after his missions would not think that he was a dead cosmonaut or an alien. This man has turned to foam in space. The dead man or a live alien. The dog survived and Yvarn was sold in a Sutherby's auction in the 90s.

Oh, that's so nice. Did the dog live a happy life? Yeah. great time. Really? I'm pretty sure. Wasn't like sold and then immediately stuffed. No, I think a lot of the dogs, they,

the people, at least the crew felt sorry for them. So like it, the first dog in space before I read, that's one of the dogs owners, well, you know, the people, the crew felt sorry for it, so took it out for a walk and maybe even took it home the night before the mission to sort of give it some happy memories before it

died in space. Oh my gosh. So they weren't, they weren't that bad. Oh, no. No. But finally, moving on, the day of the launch came April 12th, 1961, and Vostok 1 took off at 9.07 a.m.

with a 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin on board. Wow. 27 Club, potentially. Potentially. Just like Amy Winehouse. Him and Amy Winehouse. Well, he doesn't have to live to be the first person in space, does he? He could still be out there.

Yeah. Floating on forever. I think probably would have run out of food by now. Oh, he's dead But he's just floating on for it. You'd be the ultimate member of the 27 club Just flying into space forever and ever and ever And they also, they didn't know anything back then, right?

Like they could be like, maybe in space, you'd just stop aging and you just live forever. I reckon I would have been theories like that. You don't believe that? No. Well, I don't know. I'm waiting to find out the answer. They weren't sure before if they were going to even know

how to fly a plane up there. How do you know anything? they thought an alien might come back and look like a dummy. I'm just saying they didn't know what was happening. That's true. It's not like being like, we don't know if we can get a plane up there. It's not the same thing as we don't know if you go up there, you become invincible and ageless.

I still don't know if that's not true. I mean, we haven't been to every bit of space. I reckon that if you hit a real sweet spot, you become invincible. It's like a fairy fountain in like Zelda. I need this. Like rolling the dice on this really badly. I'm going for that spot up there. I reckon that could be the spot.

When he set off of space, Gagarin was dressed in a bright orange space suit and a helmet inscribed with CCCP painted in red. These painted letters were a last-minute edition, marking Gagarin as a Soviet citizen so that he would be recognisable after parachuting to safety following ejection from the spacecraft. Otherwise, they were worried that whoever found him might worry he was a spy and possibly try and kill him. They really didn't think much of their citizens.

They have to mark a dummy and they have to mark a man. Not a spy. That's what a spy would say. Not a dummy. That's what a dummy would say. Not a spy. I really thought he was a spy. But now that he's wearing this big sign that says, I'm not a spy.

C, C, C, C, T. Oh, why did you say so? What does that stand for? I actually don't know. Citizen, citizen, citizen. Paul? Yeah. That's sensible.

There's a question mark at the end, obviously, the way you're up would inflective. Oh, yeah, sorry, I don't read that question mark here. As the Rock has blasted off, the control room radio to him. Preliminary stage, intermediate, main, lift off. We wish you a good flight. Everything's all right. Everything's all right. Gagarin's reply was, off we go.

Goodbye. Until we meet soon, dear friends. Oh, that's nice. And then the phrase he added as he took off was, Poe Harley, or Let's Go, which later became a. a popular phrase around the eastern block. That's nice. He basically...

He invented Let's Go. He popularized that phrase. Before that, everyone was just staying in. He invented them. The concept of Saturday night. And it took off really quickly. In order to escape Earth's gravitational pull, a ship needs to hit 17.5,000 miles per hour

a move at five miles per second. I can run that. Yeah, well, you can't now, but they couldn't back then. People are obviously a lot taller now. Imagine how short you would have been back then. Ugh, it would have been 4'9. Can you imagine?

The Vostock's capsules, cannonball shape, helped the rocket and spacecraft reach the necessary velocity. On board was 10 days of provisions in case the engines failed, but everything went to plan. And over the course of 108 minutes, Vostock 1 traveled around the Earth once, reaching a maximum height of 203 miles or 327 kilometers. 108 minutes.

So he was there for it. Yeah, an hour in 48 minutes and that was it. That's what it took him to go all the way around the world. Yeah. Whoa. That's pretty fast. Oh my goodness. Pretty zippy.

Yeah. Jeez. I'm genuinely very impressed. What's the mileage like on a little baby? It's pretty terrible. You get some sweet speed. You really got to put in a premium. It's not too good for city driving, but once you hit the upper road.

Once you're orbiting the Earth, you better believe it basically runs itself. Can't put any E-10 in it, though. Yeah, absolutely. Agar and wrote in his post-flight report, The feeling of weightlessness was somewhat unfamiliar compared with Earth conditions. You think somewhat unfamiliar? Fuck, he really was dry, wasn't he? Here you feel as if you were hanging in a horizontal position in straps.

You feel as if you are suspended. Thanks, mate. During the mission, he was promoted to the rank of major. So whilst he was up there, got a promotion. In order for the mission to be counted as an official spaceflight, the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. Oh, yes.

Oh, yeah, the FIA. The governing body for aerospace records at the time had determined that the pilot must land with the spacecraft for it to count. Right. What? Really, he ejected at 7,000 meters and then parachuted back to Earth. But the Soviet leaders told the world and the Federation that Gagarin had touched down with the Vostok 1, and they did not reveal that he ejected until years later.

And the Federation... Years later. Like over a decade later. The Federation later found out and changed their rules. But at the time, they lied so he could get the record, and he was recognized as the first person in space. He was the first person to leave Earth's orbit and head into space, and this instantly catapulted him to huge worldwide... fame. Upon his return to Earth, Gagarin, was an international hero, especially around the Soviet

Union, a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands of people greeted him in Red Square in Moscow. He was a poster child for the huge victory in the space race and was rewarded by being named Deputy of the Supreme Soviet Union, the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union, and he was appointed commander of the Cosmonauts Detachment. It was also named as Hero of the Soviet Union, and there were celebrations across the country. Okay, all he did was sit there, though, let's be honest. Yeah, that is pretty amazing that a dummy on that fight did the same amount of work as he did. Well, it also earned the title better than he did because it didn't eject itself.

Yeah, that's right. I mean, the dog did better than he did. Yes. I didn't mention the thousands of parades for the dog, though, did I? Oh, no, they did. They happened. Really? Absolutely.

No. Oh, I'm sorry. Why do you keep her? The media hype was so huge that at his first press conference in Moscow, it has been claimed that over a thousand reporters turned up to ask him questions from all over the world. There's been many reporters. People were one at a time. One at a time. I'll get to you all.

I love it when someone's doing a press conference and they're real comfortable and know everyone there. They'll take Greg's question first. Do you reckon he was doing that there? Okay, sorry. I think Jessica over here was up first. and I'll take you next Chobo. Am I skomowing it?

Yeah. Are you starting to sound a little anti-Scommo? Oh, I don't want to come across as political. Do you want to pledge in allegiance one way or the other?

Are you pro or no Skomow? I'm a famed centrist. What about Al- Elbow? More like Al-No. Okay. So you're a skomo.

More like skon-no. Anyway, enough scono. Please, Dave. go on. Well, a few months later, he went to the UK and visited London and Manchester, where of course, it was raining. Despite the heavy rain, he refused an umbrella, instead insisting that the roof of the convertible car he was riding in remained open and stood so the cheering crowds

could see him. His driver drowned. Oh, why? That's a weird place to laugh. I just thought that was such a funny image of him standing at the back of a car waving. It's just full. Slowly pulling with water and the drivers going, oh no, oh no. Oh, it really made me laugh.

But if he had an umbrella, then you could still see him. He didn't want to be seen as a weak person with an umbrella. Am I right? I wish he stayed up there longer, to be honest. Well, he went on a worldwide tour and visited a dozen countries within months. Meanwhile... So, okay, so I'm... The UK is in an alliance with America.

With the US. Yeah. So did the US like... him? Oh, no, no, no, the US hate him, which I was about to say... But the UK likes him. Yeah, so they were happy to host him, and all these European countries, and he went to Brazil and Central America and all these places.

But meanwhile, the jealous Americans cracked it, and President Kennedy banned him from entering the United States of America. Really? Petty. I doubt he even asked to come. They would not let him. The Soviets would not let him. That was, and it was after that maneuver that the Cold War got its name.

Yeah, that was. What a cold, cold move. Oh, my really popular enemy? Well, you're not even allowed to come to my party. He's like, bye. This is from a website called Russia Beyond describing Gagarin's reception around the world. He even had lunch with the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, and broke protocol by taking a photo with a monarch.

The president of Egypt gave Gagarin the golden keys to the gates of Cairo in Alexandria. While in Havana, Fidel Castro just hugged the hell out of him. Gave him a pair of thongs. I just hug the hell out. Yeah. No, they're Haviannas. Sorry. At least that last bit is true because there was a photo of them hugging.

Thank God I don't believe anything else that you're saying, yeah, because there's no photos. They did misspell Elizabeth the second, so I'm not sure how trust whether that website is. But I did enjoy hugging the hell out of being. Is that the same queen as now? Certainly is. Man, she's 953. She's fucking hell. She's on a long, long time.

Yeah. Good on her. She's 93. for someone well yeah yeah someone what i was just going to say we got a tweet a couple days ago someone was offended that we're a bit rude to the queen what did you say we did an episode on her like two or three years ago i have no idea what i think the comment also included i'm not a monarchist mate i think you are if you have to say you're not a monochist you're 100% a monikist i i enjoyed that that tweet feedback i did not know how to reply to it but i really did enjoy it if you

after listening. I love it when you have a podcast and someone will respond to something you said literally years ago. They'll be like, actually this. I don't fucking know. What are you talking about? That happens a bit. Yeah. Actually, once on my own podcast, someone sent me a message and I read it out and I was like,

I don't know what the fuck they're referencing. Turns out they were referencing my time on do go on. Multiple people were like, don't you remember this amazing riff you did? Too many to count. Too many to keep my brain. Couldn't keep them all. Yeah, I'm doing a great riff right now. Listen, are this gold?

Complement this one. It's very late. There's one that we get messages about, at some point, the Holy Roman Empire is mentioned, and I took that literally somehow, and people explained to me that it was not Holy or Roman

or an empire or something. That happens every month or two. I'll get a message about that. Good. Did you know that day? You obviously didn't correct. me at the time enough for them to be, to not want to. It's your fault.

Well, you would have known that. Why did you leave me hanging out of dry? From now on, I instruct you to reply with the same will, feral gift every time. Was that? Okay. It's always funny. No, I'm going to plead the fifth, which I think means. You don't have to talk.

Shut the hell out. Freedom to not say anything. I mean, you can do that at all times. Well, I should. It feels like tonight I should have more unusual. The party and constant socialising got to Gagarin, with numerous sources saying he may have struggled with drinking a bit too much after his accomplishment. Because everywhere he went, he would be...

There was a party forum, star attraction, they expected him to have a drink with them, and eventually it just sort of became part of his lifestyle. Meanwhile, the US was still desperate to catch up, and they didn't match the feat until February 1962, when astronaut John Glenn made three orbits in a spaceship called Not as badass as the previous one, The Friendship Seven. I'm sorry

They really changed their tune Do they? The Friendship Seven The Friendship Seven With John Glenn They were ten months behind And by this time Uri's backup Titov

The one that had been crying All over the shop Had already become the second man in space Oh well he got his then Didn't he? I mean he didn't get to be more He's less remembered He's not referenced on pub quizzes

Around the world Sorry about that Titov He's the buzz Aldrin of it all Isn't he? He really is Do you think they They named it The Friendship Seven

Because the other one sounded so cool and were so embarrassing. They were like, name it something dumb, and then if it does something good, then it'll be a good thing. Well, eight expectations. The Friendship 7 was Martin Prince,

uh, ham. We call them that because he makes... He enjoys ham radio. This is data. We're doing Simpsons references. Is that ringing a bell? No, I haven't seen...

I used to know all the Simpsons, but... Have you replaced that with memes? Your knowledge of Simpsons with memes? You can't know both. Yeah. Mames are like the modernist. Glee now. All right.

Glee. Back into Glee. You're watching Glee. Yeah. Right. I'm on the last season now. That was, I felt like that was, that was big and then it just disappeared. No one talks about it anymore.

Yeah. Unfortunately, the kids had to graduate, but it just dropped on Netflix in Australia. And everyone's watching, Jess is watching Glee. Yeah, right. Oh, yeah, sick. Oh, yeah. She's binging. Watching Glee.

I knew it. She can't pull herself away. Wow, that's a pretty good excuse. It was a Glee renaissance happening. It's the only excuse we'll accept. Ideally on a podcast, you would have done a portmanteau of Glee and renaissance. Like a Gleanaissance, then that would have been a good podcasting. So instead of...

Dave, do you go on. Just saying you missed an opportunity there. Some opportunities are best missed. Look, I'm not saying I like them. I quite hate him. I feel bad that I did one before, but that's just something you have to do when you're doing a podcast for some reason. It's true. But back to Yuri.

Please. Higarang was keen to do more missions, but the Soviets were very protective of him, not wanting to risk losing their hero in an accident. So they weren't keen on the idea of sending him back into space. He later returned to Star City, which is the cosmonaut facility. That is a cool name. Casino, isn't it? Isn't Sydney's Casano Star City? This is just called Star.

Oh. I probably is. It sounds very Hollywood to me. Yeah. Star City. He worked behind the scenes on aircraft designs and was eventually promoted to Colonel before being made Deputy Training Director

of the Cosmonaut Facility. Jeez, that feels like he's going backwards. Colonel and then deputy of the training facility. They're just keeping him in a little glass cabinet. I'm not a pencil pusher. I'm an orb, I'm an orb sitter. I sit in a thing for a couple of hours.

Best couple of hours of my life. Let's go. I became immortal up there, I assume. I'm going to live forever. I haven't died since. That is good evidence. He was eventually allowed back into the space program and Gagarin was chosen as a backup pilot for Vladimir Komarov

on a mission called the Sawyers One. Sadly, Komarov died on the mission when his parachute failed to open with Gagarin watching on. Oh my gosh, that's why you need a reserve. After this death, he was banned from training and participating in further space flights. They were like, whoa, that could have been you. Oh, he's...

Too important. Yeah, we can't let you. It would be embarrassing if you died doing that. What if... Yeah, such an interesting way of looking at it. If he's famous for supposedly being good at a thing, even though really didn't do anything, surely you want him being the guy who does stuff.

Yeah, I'm just like, oh my God, that was so... eloquently said. Thank you. They said to him, but you're one and done. You achieved the impossible. We've got to keep you alive. However, he was still allowed to fly aircraft. Sadly, Matt, all good things.

Oh, that's how Dave says people die. It's real weird. Less than one year later, this is after they said you can't be in space anymore, but still fire these planes. One year later on March 27, 1968, whilst on a routine training flight, Gagarin and another pilot called Vladimir Suriagin were both killed when they're MiG-15 fighter jet crashed near a town just outside of Moscow. I'm sorry, I just have to say that that other pilot's name is incredibly close to what my guess was.

Vladimir Sir, you again? I said Vladimir Sergei. Oh, that's true. Sorry, but back to Uri's death. We'll give that back to you. We'll give that to you. He died. The saddest thing about he didn't even get to see the Summer of Love,

which I don't know how much of that got through to communist Russia. Oh, they got it. Back in the USSR. Would they even have got to enjoy that Beatles song about them? Probably not. Oh. Sorry this. That was the coldest part of that war.

Yeah. Lack of Beatles. The bodies of Gagara and Suri again were cremated and the ashes interred in the walls of the Kremlin. Bit of an honour. But for years there was heavy speculation. Is that like the White House? Yeah.

Well, basically, it's, you know, next to Red Square in Moscow. There's that massive... Yeah, absolutely. In one of the latest Mission Impossible films, they blow it up. Dave's avoiding giving a strong answer because he does not want the emails. It's annoying when people email. It's not annoying. I love correspondence from our comrades.

I love getting fact-checked. Yeah, I love it. Especially ages later after you've forgotten about it and don't care about it. And when they have the power of Google and I'm just riffing off my mind. The fact-checking does not happen all that often. It's actually impressive. Mainly just people being very nice. But there is the occasional.

fact check. It's like, no, I don't remember saying the wrong thing, but I'll take your word for it because I say wrong things all the bloody time. Check out my Twitter fee. The important thing here is that there was heavy speculation over their deaths. I'm going to quote now from a history.com article called, What really happened to Yuri Gagarin? The first man in space. Quote, that sounds relevant. Sounds eloquently. An official investigation into the accident concluded that Gagarin swerved to avoid a foreign object, such as a bird or a weather balloon. sending the plane into a tailspin that ended with its crash into the ground. But many aviation professionals viewed this conclusion as implausible,

and rumours continue to swirl around the crash. Some thought Gagarin might have been drinking, or that he and Sir Yogan might have been distracted by taking photographs from the plane's window. That sounds unlikely. Oh, please have been drinking. Others suggested a cabin pressurization valve could have failed, causing both pilots to suffer hypoxia. more outlandish theories included sabotage for political motives, suicide or even collusion with an UFO, end quote.

Well, collusion and collision are very different things. Oh, collusion with a UFO. Yeah, could be. Do you think? I love it. For years. I love it. For years, the truth wasn't known.

That's a series. That's a sitcom. Yeah. Calus. No, no. One of them's a pilot. One of them's an alien. They're there together.

And cluding. I mean, how do I green light it? For years, the truth wasn't known, however, until the fall of communism. A KGB report that at the time was... Oh, Dave, what? All good things must come to do. Sorry, spoiler all that there. A KGB report at the time was declassified, and it blamed air-based personnel and bad weather.

That's what their actual report was. But in 2013, an astronaut I mentioned a couple of times earlier, Alexei Leonov, admitted that he was in the area on the day of the flight, and he announced what he believed happened that day. Are you going to tell us? He said, a second plane being tested that day, an SU-15 jet mistakenly flew far lower than its planned altitude of 33,000 feet,

instead passing close to where Gagarin's plane had been flying, around 2,000 feet. Such a large aircraft would be able to roll over a small one, like the MiG-15, in its wake, and if the two planes came too close, close together, it could have possibly flipped Kigaran's plane. Those are now generally the accepted version of events, but Stum, some. That's a, that's a podcast pun there?

Stum? No. No, some people are still suss on it all, so some people still think that maybe he was taken out by the government. By the USSR government. Yeah, maybe. Why would they take him out? I'm not sure.

Maybe he knew too much. That communism was bad. Maybe they knew. Are you an anti-commy? I thought you were red under the bed. I have to admit, I don't know that much about communism, but I've not heard good things. What it is.

It's the same about Ariana Grande. I mean, I can't fully comment. Oh, it's just misogyny. What I haven't heard isn't great. Right. Well, you've clearly haven't heard the song God is a woman. What if God was a woman? It's a great song.

Just a woman on a bus of mass. Bus a mass. It was ahead of its time that song. People are still trying to unlock the genius. Why would that guy wait until, when did he say this, 2013? Yeah. Why would he wait that long to say something? Well, because before the fall of the USSR, he was probably worried that if he said something, he'd be taken out.

Was the other plane a government plane? Yes, something to do with that. His reasoning was why, and they asked him, why did they cover it up? And he said he thought it was because, because at the time they lied about the events. One, because he was a national hero. And two, they were embarrassed that an accident of that magnitude

could happen so close to Moscow near a big city that a plane could fly in the wrong spot and take out their war hero. I'm always worried when I'm in a plane that I'm just going to see another one like flying towards it. Now you can too. Yeah, that's why I was sitting in the middle of the middle lane. So that's basically the report. But the final part I would like to say, the first human in space,

Yuri Garan left behind quite a legacy, both in the USSR and around the world. NASA's Apollo 11, the first mission to put people on the moon that were celebrating 50 years last week, landed in July. And we all celebrated hard. I, for one, knew about it. Oh, that's why Jess is sick. She's coming down from that huge.

Not too hard. Space flu. Yeah. Space celebration flu. Well, it was big news around the world. Let me tell you. It landed in July 1969 and the crew left behind a commemorative medallion bearing Gagarin's name, despite him being from essentially the other side, the USSR. They left that on the moon.

Yeah. Oh, that's so nice. They also left the names of all the astronauts that had died for them to get there. That is so nice. That's nice. They're putting litter on the moon. Oh. Do you have to be so cynical?

Let them have this. Sorry. Sorry, I'm still... God damn. You both turned on communism and that hurt. So I had to hurt something you love. Shit on the moon. Yeah, medallions and plaques.

I love littering the moon. I know you're a big plaque head. It gives life meaning, plarks. When the Soviet Union fell, many statues of former communist leaders like Stalin were torn down by the people. But Gagarin's, however, were left up because he was still a hero to the people. Oh, that's nice.

Before journeying into space. A real Grand Dania. Yeah. Yeah. You know about three quarters of our listeners aren't Australian. Oh, Google it. Sorry. No, no, what I was saying is, and the amazing thing is they all know Grant Denia.

Oh, great. Because he won a Gold Logie. And they all know what Gold Logies are. That's big news. Big news. Before journeying into space, cosmonauts visit Gagarin's grave in the Kremlin wall. And after arriving at the space space, space, space, they plant a tree.

The what? Space space. Okay. They plant a tree in the same grove. Put those two words together. Space. What do you get? Space space race.

Portmanto that. Space. Spraise? Sprace. I'm going to try the sentence again. Keep it a go. They planted a tree in the same grove where Gagarin planted his before his mission. And then they visit his office, which has been present.

reserved since his death. Wait, what? Can you say that all again? Sorry, Spraiserly threw you there. Basically, there's now a tradition where they visit him before they go into space. Who does? Cosmonauts. Oh, in Russia.

Yeah. So they go, they visit where his ashes are, they plant a tree in tribute to him, and then they visit his office as a bit of a superstition type thing. But perhaps his greatest legacy, like all great legacies. The energy shift. It's based in urine. What? On the way to his launch pad,

Yuri really needed to piss on the day of the mission. So he pissed on the tire of the truck that had driven him out to the launch pad. Before it was just called piss. It actually got changed the urine in honor of him. So he pissed on the back tire, something that he probably didn't think would still be a tradition to this day.

But five decades later, cosmonaut. Do you tell people about it? What people are people watching you to do this? Yeah, people just witnessed him do it. Why didn't he just piss on the ground? I don't know. You piss on a tire. Come on.

You're just like, it's fun to piss on. I'm pretty sure that's one of the weird old rules in Melbourne that you can still piss in the city on like the rear tire or something. Is that one? I've fallen for something there. I reckon you may have. But to this day. My boyfriend's definitely pissed on the rear tire of my car. Yeah, because it's legal.

You also piss in the boot of my car. That is for another time. So that's up to you. That's your business. Literally the first. final sentence of the podcast we're getting through here. To this day, five decades later, cosmonauts piss on the tire of whatever drove them to the tower on the day. But what about female cosmonauts? I'm not given a lift. Cosmonauts or my boyfriend. Sorry, please. What about

female cosmonauts? Well, live science claims that female crew members splash urine from a cup on the wheel. I knew it. So they get a little bit of piss and throw it on the tire. Their own piss. Now that is a legacy. Two things I want in my life. My hometown to be named after me and someone to piss on something every time they do something because of me. Someone to piss into a cup and then... Is it their own piss?

It's their own piss. They piss in a cup and then what? They just hold the cup in the car. I don't know if there's a piss cup boy or something that takes the cup back to the base. Are you serious? I don't know. It was like a chalice now?

Yeah, there's a piss chelisk. But basically that's it. We finally got there. That is the story of Eureka-Garren. It's a great story. Story. Lived a hero, died a hero to Sam. Died, yeah.

To me, I reckon he was taken out by dark forces. Based on any information beyond what Davis said? Just a vibe. Yeah, any information. I base that on any information. Anything. Tell me anything. Tell me anything.

I'll base it on that. That does seem pretty suss. I don't think they're just flying planes into each other. I think they're better than that It is a bit, yeah, I mean Seems like a weird mistake Was it rare? Like plane crashes were quite rare

Well, I mean, he was inspired By a plane crash in his backyard as a boy An emergency landing Hey, emergency landing Hey, one man's emergency landing is another man's plane crash Basically the difference is if you survive Yeah, I think that's pretty clear That's the only difference

Otherwise, exactly the same Right, oh, okay, yeah I'll see that. Oh, but that's it. I mean, but I mean, it seems like he... I think I haven't been disrespectful. No, he sounds like he's...

I mean, it is weird to be such a famous person for doing it. Because, you know, like Neil Armstrong is a genius, right? He had to be... Well, have we checked? Because... Maybe he hasn't. I mean, this guy was... Apparently really smart.

Now, if you remember the Moon Report episode, Neil had to take that thing into a fully off autopilot. And crash land onto the moon, basically. Really? And he was... Maybe I'll listen to it. He was seconds away from death. Really? Is that why they learned him?

With grey lead on pad, I think. He was having to do maths handwritten. He'd be embarrassed to have forgotten his calculator. Not a fool. He would not thought they could afford a scientific calculator. Naysa, right? Am I? Yeah, right? Get some of Casio.

Please. You idiot? Too much, too far. Too aggressive. Back off Naysa. If you say Naysa one more time. It really upsets me when you say Naysa. That's it.

It's very upset. Nisa? Are we got that right? Nisha? Nisa? It's Nisha. Nisa. Oh.

Sorry, I've been saying Nisa, but it's Nisa. Okay? It's very unsettling. Okay, but I'm saying it right now? Yeah. Okay, great. Absolutely. Hey, Dave, I really love that report.

It was fantastic. I didn't know anything about this man. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. And thanks again to Michael Gleadsden for suggesting that via Facebook and the old hat many years ago. But these days, of course, if you want to suggest a topic, just get our website. Do go on pod.com and there's a little tab there, submit a topic. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's pretty high tech. You got a website. If you got a website, you got a gym. Is that cool?

I think it's important that everyone knows that you did like a shuckers. Yeah, I did it like, hell yeah. Guys, I get gifts. I get them. I get pop culture. I get memes. Memes, whatever, which one? What was the correct pronunciation? It's memes. Thank you. I get them. I think that brings us to everyone's favorite segment of the show.

Thank you. We've got that boring bit out of the way. Please. So our Patreon, you can support this show on Patreon at patreon. At patreon.com slash dig on pod. And there's many different rewards you can get, including bonus episodes. And you can get shoutouts, which we're going to do shortly. You can also get the chance to help pick the topics.

Oh, this one I should say was voted for by the Patreon supporters. There you go. And one of the other rewards you get is on the Sydney-Shaunberg Memorial Rest and Peace level, you get to give us a fact, a quote or a question. I'll read out one of these each week. This week it comes from Patreon Zachary Briggs. And these patrons also get to give themselves a title. And Zachary gives himself the title,

Chief Happiness Manager and Informant of Do Go On, which is a very important role. Absolutely. He's, um, he hasn't checked in with me for a while, I've got to say, about my happiness, but. Yeah. What's that about Chief? Yeah, well, I imagine he delegates that to, yeah. Has one of his delegates?

Yeah, one of the underlings. Yeah, they've got to that. Yeah, great. He doesn't have much face to face time anymore. We know what delegate means. Yeah. And he has asked a question writing, I have a question for you. Wow, that's a dead giveaway.

But I feel. It's best to set the scene before asking the question. Okay. Geez, I really hope this, I don't read these before we do it. I really hope it's not Jess specific. But if it is, then jump in. Yeah, I will. In my home state of Vermont in the US of A,

we have something called a creamy, pronounced creamy. Well, I nailed it. It's written CRWE, M-W. Signs for these are everywhere. From gas stations to outside of gyms to pet shops, It's hard to drive through a main road of a town and not see at least one sign saying in big bold letters, they sell creamies.

My question to you is, what do you think a creamy is? What's your favorite day of the week? Creamy. C-R-E-M-M-E. C-W-E-M-D-E. You know what I reckon it is? I reckon it's a spider.

Ah, ice cream and lemonade. Ice cream in, creaming soda. Oh. Oh, okay. That's what we call that in Australia. Yeah, spider. Is that, yeah. A spider is a scoop of ice cream in some sort of what you'd call a soda.

Carbonated drink. Classically, you'd get blue heaven. Yeah, grab a soft drink. Creamy drink. I don't want to grab a softy now. I reckon it could be like... Get a softy up, yeah. No, that's worse.

There's little like coconut. balls that you see them sometimes eat in American shows. Oh. Oh. Oh, the like marshmallow-y ones? Yeah. Like the big ones. Yeah, I'm trying to think of the word for it.

Like, snowballs or something. Snowballs. That's what they called. Okay, creamy. Am I right? Okay. Okay.

Do we have an answer? Creamy. Yeah, he's going to explain it, but I'm going to have a guess. I'm going to guess maybe like a, I mean, it sounds like it's a dessert, right? I'm thinking like a some sort of a whipped cream pie. What if it's like a like a, like a milkshake? Oh. Well, yeah, I mean, you're pretty close.

see the way there with drink if that is right. Let me read on. I always love hearing the ideas from people who haven't heard of this before and I would love you, I would love to hear your answers. I'll also send you the correct answer down below. Oh man, I have not

gotten this part of it. I'm cutting pace of this. I'll have to go find it. God damn it. Just Google. Oh, I've looked it up. Finally, thanks for the laughs and good times, guys. I really appreciate all that you do for us, listeners. You are so welcome. Thank you so much, Zachary.

I know it takes a lot of time out of my life, my constant dedication of this podcast and being on it. But I do it for you. Thank you. To be fair, I've done two reports and that actually took a lot of time. Yeah, thank you. Honestly, genuine thanks there. I just said, can you come on again?

And I said, do I have to do a report? And she said, no. Then I said, okay. Okay, this is what Zachary says at the bottom of his thing that I didn't cut out, but I found his message again. It says, a creamy is a soft serve. ice cream, just creamier. It's incredibly delicious and I never realized it was an odd name until like college.

Why is it creamier? Yeah, I wonder. I mean, we're in the ballpark there, I guess. Absolutely. How do you spell creamy? C R-A-M-A-A. When we go to America Dave, we've got to get a creamy. Creamy from Vermont.

I'm Googling here. There are several different people who claim to be the creators of the frozen treat. I love the idea that this is its own thing, even though it sounds like it's just an ice cream, only creamier. So they just had more cream into it? Maybe they just think it's creamier.

Well, let's find out. Everybody, we're going to Vermont. Oh, I really would like to try creamy. That's awesome. So multiple people think that they've invented. It's kind of like the AB. A.B. That's it.

That's the end of it. The, what are you? you think AB means? Because they can mean different things. It's the Adelaide Cab. It's sort of like a, it's chips. It's not Adelaide, is it?

Yeah. It's it from Adelaide. Yeah. It's like cab shops, too. It's like chips and then like meat on top and sauce and stuff. They're called Halal snack packs here, right? Is that the same thing? Yeah.

But then the original name is apparently AB. One of, oh yeah. I know what it. I know what the two versions are. One of them's okay. Is it? I think so. I think the actual thing.

I look this up. A, B, Adelaide. Some people say it means abortion and some people say it means afterbirth. Yeah, no. I'd say you don't want to eat either of those. I think both of those maybe are atomic bomb. There's another one. Oh.

Yeah. Alan Border. Alan Border, that's what it is. The Queensland cricketer. Okay. Maybe Adrian Brody. This article seems to think that creamies are literally just soft serve ice cream. Oh, interesting.

But creamier. Come on, give them that. Give them that. Oh, okay. In the past, ice cream in Vermont was made with a higher butterfat content, which gave it a creamier texture. Hence, creamy. We cherish our creamies.

I get it now. Apparently, the AB was first served at the North Adelaide Burger Bar. Maybe Adelaide Burger? But don't they? Isn't there like someone over the road who just, It says that they did it first. Probably. I love how things like that are.

I love that it's a local feud. Love a local feud. Hey, Zachary Briggs, thanks so much for opening up this Creamy slash AB discussion. Give me a Creamy. We should get a Mail out of Creamy. Damn. No, let's go to Vermont now. Mail out of Creamy.

Is Vermont? Like northeast. North East. North East. I mean. Above Massachusetts and New York. Guys, I love this article. We cherish. our creamies, but don't worry. When we travel, we usually know enough to ask for a soft serve.

We're not complete idiots. The next time you're in Vermont though, you'd be wise to order a creamy. I mean, just to the fact that they're everywhere as well, like, in, I can't remember a place where everywhere you look is soft serve being sold. And how many soft serves are? You got to be proud of something. I love it. I love it. Pet shops. Yeah, I'm just thinking back what he said. gas stations, gyms, pet shops all sell creamies. I mean, you just need a machine, really. Not many people in. Just popping in to buy a collar.

Pat some puppies. Pat some puppies. Have a creamy. I have a creamy. What do we have in Melbourne? Coffee. Coffee. You've really got to try the coffee in a lane way.

That. Come on. Come on. On a Friday night of the G. Said, what else have we got? That's it. Coffee? footy, man.

And we all wear black, am I right? Damn it. I'm wearing all black. You are. God damn it. Such a hack. That's unlucky. It's unlucky I said that today.

Hack and black, smush them together. Hack. That's me. I'm getting really good at this. You're getting it. That's good fun. Dave, how are you going? Oh.

I'm just obsessed with Vermont. Second smaller state by population. Wow. Now I'm obsessed. Worthy of obsession. That is a fun. I didn't realize we're doing fun facts. I can't believe you checked out for five minutes of reading and that's the thing you pulled out.

Larger city, Burlington. Only 42,000 people. And that's the largest city. Wow, that's cool. Amazing. Boutique. And they all love creamies. I want a creamy t-shirt.

I want a creamy t-shirt. Creamy t-shirt. Why don't you get a creamy before you get a creamy teacher? Yeah, otherwise you look like that. Because you can mail it. Then you're one of those people who buys a t-shirt from a band when you can't even name three of their albums. Name their first three albums and then you can eat a creamy. What about, I'm just here for the maple creamy.

That's a t-shirt. Oh, maple creamy. Filled by... If you went to Vermont, that's probably why you would go as well. Can you get a chock-tock-tock creamy? Yeah, they look like there's a few different flavors. Filled by maple creamies, that's my t-shirt. I'm going to buy that.

Are they actually still... Are they actually still creamier than your average soft serve? If they're mild over. Like are they using local higher butterfat? Oh, right. I don't know about that. Oh, so a maple creamy when it comes to featuring local products, Vermont has it made with the maple creamy,

a swirling tower of maple flavored soft serve piled high. Because it must be close to the border of Canada as well. It is, yeah. Oh, wow. That's a meeting of cultures right there. A maple creamy. Oh, here's a photo of a creamy. It does look thicker.

Yeah, that looks. I love a waffle cone as well. I used to. It may even be too sweet for me. Yeah, that was looking up. I would keep me would love that but that looks very sweet. Were you going to say something before now? I was going to say another thing that we do on the end of our podcast.

Sorry, I'm still not, I'm still thinking about creamies. We shout out to some of our great patrons who support us at patreon.com slash do go on pod. And normally what we do, Naomi or Jess, if that's your real name. I'm Jess. Yeah, just what Jess. Just, as you know, what you know. I don't know why you're mansplaining this to me, but do go on. What you normally do at the end is you give us some sort of a game to play.

We read out two names each to thank people, and you give us some sort of a game to play that's relevant to the topic we just talked about. For instance, last week, I cannot remember, but we did a topic about this wild man who did a lot of bad things called, or allegedly did a lot of bed. What would be the name of your spacecraft. Oh, great, okay. That is great.

I was about to over-explain it, but you knew what I was talking about. I actually did know what you were talking about. I did it last time I was here. The Friendship Seven, for example. Yeah. That is great. That would, I would hurt my feelings if someone. Dave, do you remember what we did last week?

I just started that thought. John McAfee was that a topic? Yeah, and what was the game at the end? I can't remember. What would we have got out of that? I'm sorry. It was his company maybe. What company did he start?

I reckon that's what it was. Anyway, um... Sorry I interrupted you before. No, I was on a real role as well. So who knows what, Genius. Guys, I'm still Googling Vermont over here. Get over the cream.

I love it. I want to, Vermont's, sorry, Ohio, I reckon Vermont is rivaling you for my new favorite state. No. Riveling you. Rivaling. Ohio is classically my, uh, one of our favorite states, possibly my favorite. Ohio.

But, um, Vermont, I mean, I'm just rooting for it. Could we stretch the golden mile out to make it all the way to Vermont? Does that line up? Gary through Ohio, Pittsburgh. Keep drawing up. Can we keep driving from Pittsburgh all the way through to Vermont? I mean, we could. I'll tell you how far that is.

We want to drive from Pittsburgh to Vermont. Yeah. What are you talking about? We want to go to Belmont. The Golden Mile. Everyone knows you go from Gary through Ohio to Pittsburgh. That's the golden mile. Is it?

It's one of the famous road. That and Route 66. This is like Route 69. Yeah. Okay, the golden mile. Route 66, but horny. Well, if you want to drive from Gary to Burlington. He's doing Shackers again.

You're going to take 14 hours. Ah, yeah, no worries. I mean, we're stopping. And you drive via Cleveland, Ohio, second best date after Vermont, of course. Yeah. Whoa. I'm not calling that. You've jumped ship.

I'm not calling that at all. Maybe I have. Maybe I have. It's late. Do we start or end in Gary as well? Because Gary feels like maybe that's where you finish. Yeah. That's the big finish.

That's the... You know what else is set in Ohio? What do we finish with a crummy? Glee. Is Glee? All right, Gleys back on time. Sorry, Vermont. Is there any TV shows?

Now Glee is his favorite state. Set of mind. Is Ohio is also like where the Wright brothers were from and other flying things? Wright brothers and Glee, I'm sold. Yeah. That's right. Those are my top two things. Yes.

And LeBron. And LeBron, that's right. Not phased by LeBron. And the Black Keys. And Drew Carey. Really going downhill. And maybe the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Yeah, that's there.

Yeah, that's there. Running out of things. But let me tell you people born in Vermont. Calvin Coolidge. Chester A. Arthur. Joseph Smith. Jay Smith. All right.

So we're going to say people's... What were we going to say? Oh, they're spaceship. They're spaceship, no. That's great. Well, can I kick it off by thinking from Caring Bar in New South Wales, Australia? I'd love to thank Caring bar.

Yeah. Caring bar? Caringba? Yeah, I reckon it's Caringba. Yeah, Caringba. I'd love to thank the fantastic name, Tanya Wayne. How old is that, Tanya Wayne? Tanya Wayne.

Love that name. Waino. Thanks, Tanya Wayne. Thanks so much, Tanya Wayne. And obviously your spacecraft would be called the Flying Boll. of of legendary air. Whoa, the flying ball of legendary air. I wouldn't say it's as catchy as some other ones.

As the friendship seven. Okay. No, I like it. Flying FB. L. A, is that what it was? Yeah, the FBLA. Okay.

Yeah. That's not so bad. Yeah. That's big. I like the delivery. Tanya Wayne. So I think it's like a blimely. Limp spaceship.

Okay. So it's a big balloon, but because it's filled with awesome air, it is somehow okay. So it's literally a balloon? Yeah. I love it. Is she in it? Good luck, Tanya. There's a little thing.

It's a hot air balloon. And she's filled it with a lot of belief. Hot air and a whole lot of belief. And a whole lot of bloody Go get a M attitude. Hey, if you have a go, you'll get a little. go. Yeah. Damn right.

And I reckon Tanya really believes that. Thank you to Tanya. Who else we got, Matt? Thank you so much, Tanya. I'd also love to thank from South Yarra. Just over the other side of a city view in Melbourne and Australia. Oh, Chapel Street. Have yourself a bit of a shop?

I'd love to thank. You see a movie at Jam Factory. Oh, I get down to the Jam Factory. It's very, you work in South Yarra. Yeah, drop by Channel 10. Just drop by. Say hello. David and Waleigh and Peter Heller will be hanging out there.

Hmm. Interesting. I did a, I did Josh Shell's podcast with Peter Hellier at. name drop a little while ago and Josh goes Matt do you know Peter and I said if watching you on TV my whole life counts him yeah we go way back that's funny did he laugh

I can't remember did you die of embarrassment well look I'm instantly regretted and I'm pretty sure he's a very nice man too you really don't need to try no he was so nice afterwards he did ask if I did the podcast

with you and I said yes and he went oh No, he actually said you were funny. And he's a very nice guy. That's a shame. Oh, I was going to give him to listen. Not him all. Not for me.

No, he was very nice about you. He was great. Did he say anything about me? Hasn't mentioned you yet, but I'll bring him up tomorrow. It's one of those surreal things sitting there going, sitting in a room with Peter Hellier from both Dave's boss. And my life. And my life.

He's from before the game. Rovelife Before the game The panel Not the footy show theme song sung too before the game Yes It's brilliant That is good stuff

That is niche content If you got that That is really good Sorry Matt You got a thank From South Sierra Sierra, we're not said her name Sarah Young

Oh wow Can we call her Spaceship the Jam Factory Oh That sounds cool Jumping Jam Factory Yeah The Jumping Jam Factory

And it does have eight cinemas in it as well. Really? That's weird because Jam Factory has 11. You can't fit 11 cinemas in a space, but you're crazy? Sorry, I was banged up. We've got a cap it at 8. What are we dealing with? That actually makes sense because on one side you've got 11 cinemas

and on the other side you've got three. So it's clearly on the left side. We've lost the right-hand side in an accident. You've lost gold class, unfortunately. Yeah, she's not great. She wants to get to space And, you know, it's much like the cosmonologists, they had to only take the shortest people

So they only took the smallest and least luxurious cinemas. And the youngest woman alive. Yeah. Sarah Young. Thank you to Sarah. I would like to thank if I can a couple of people here right now. From Sarah. Okay.

To Amy. If you're at home, you're a patron, your supporting names Amy, is this me? Are you from Belfast? Oh, narrowing it down. I would like to think from Belfast, Amy Traynor. Any relation to Megan Traynor? I believe, yes.

Remind me, Megan Traynor? All about dat bass. See, I'm cool. I was hip about four years ago. Then I lost it. Okay. Singer slash DJ. I'm all about Derby.

Oh, that's Megan Traynor. No treble. And you're calling that, and you were saying that was cool that you knew that? Is that what you're saying? It was cool four years ago. Famously there is a picture of her. leaving a sex toy shop. With treble.

And it was scandalous. No, with her partner. Oh. Who is the kid, the little boy from Spy Kids, if that means anything to you. Yeah, I mean, is he still the little boy? No, he's grown up, actually. Oh, didn't get to space.

To a full adult man who buys sex toys with Megan Traynor. Good on. Very funny photo. I hope so good on you, Amy. Oh, Amy Trainer, no relationship. Actually, spelled it quite differently in the end. Anyway, but from Belfast, Amy Traynor. Naomi, what would you call Amy Spaceship?

I'll say you off here. The SS. Hard hat. Oh, I like it. This is true. She's still thinking about the sex shop. Shape like it. No.

The SS Hard hat. If you read any sexual tension from that, that is just you. I love the naivity of Dave and sex thinking hard hat. Oh, yeah, you've been aware. Yeah, you need it. You know you've got to wear protection. I've heard that you've got to wear protection. Come here, Bob the Builder.

Silk our boots on. I know what's going on here. Let's get at it. Do go on. I definitely say that every time. Do go on. Now, you were saying Naomi that it was funny that a photo of her was taken and leaving a second. Are you shaming people's?

I think the funniest part is that it's the kid from Spy Kids, to be honest. That is comedy. That is comedy. You get it. Comedy is... You see him as a kid in your mind. It really like it... It breaks your brain a little bit when you see him as an adult.

Yeah. With a plastic bag of sex toys. A plastic bag of sex toys? Like full to the brim? No. Overflowing. Just like two or three products. Like someone has bought too many.

He looks in over his head. I don't even know how half of them work. All of one of each. Surely one of these will work. I need something. I'm struggling. The tension's been building up for months. We're both about to explode

We need a release Looking for the release fell Oh yeah, that's in the second aisle over the background Thanks to Amy Train from Belfast I would also like to thank from Tulsa, Oklahoma Hey Eo From our Oklahoma

I would like to thank Megan Or probably Megan as she would say Megan Lynn Megan Lynn Megan Lynn They don't say Megan They say Megan Is that what you're insinuating there

What are you talking about? Yeah, yeah. I know they say Craig, not Craig. Do they not say Megan in America? Are you shitting me? Are you shitting me? That's why they call, um... I thought Megan was a different name.

What about Megan Fox? Yeah, what about Megan Fox? What about Megan Fox? Do they call it Megan Fox? Do they call it Megan Fox? Yeah, and Megan Trainers is also Megan Trainer. Sometimes they say Megan. Yeah.

Megan. Hey, I'm not here to tell you that you're right or wrong, Megan slash Megan. This is like how they say, Craig. I'm just trying to cover all bases here. Okay. I think that she probably would say, let us know. Are you a Megan or you're Megan?

Let us know. But what I would like to tell you is that your ship is called the Frontier Fiasco. Oh. Okay. I mean, obviously a fiasco is something you don't want to have. It's pretty negative. But. It is doomed.

What it was just cobbled together from other spaceship rejects But then it ends up being quite a good spaceship Alah this isn't true of it But the Millennium Falcon You know how sometimes it doesn't work But then when it needs to it does Built from the blood of others Yeah that's right

Is that a line from Star Wars? No, I just said it That's beautiful Thank you Thank you so much It sounded like it could have been a Lucasism Thank you to Megan, Megan, Megan, Lynn That is her full name

name actually. Yeah, that's true. No, Naomi, I don't know how you feel about reading people's names out, but you can do that if you would like. Okay. Can I have a look at them or? No, guess them. Open up the list, Dave.

There you two. Blow some dust off that, Naomi. Ah. The waiting time for people who are waiting for their names to be read out is about 12 months. From Stockton. Oh. Stockton, named after John Stockton, the Utah Jazz. guard from the 90s.

This is long enough. Yes. Jess isn't here to be like, well that's what Jess would normally be saying. Oh really? Yeah. I have to go catch a plane. I have to be on triple J. That's my impression of Jess.

Is that good? Yeah, I accidentally closed my eyes during that and forgot. Dave's either trying to imagine that I'm Jess or he's just fallen asleep. I mean, just take his home there. Tegan, do see him. Sorry, that's Tegan. What a doozy. What are the odds of that?

A Megan and a Tegan. A Megan and Tegan. Yeah. It's crazy. What about Tegan? And only hundreds of thousands of miles apart. Whoa. So where's Tegan from?

That's the distance that I imagine is between America and Australia. Oh, we're back home. Oh, this is Stockton. Yes. Stockton. It sure is. John Stockton. Beautiful tribute.

I'm thinking of a ho-down, something, the ho-down eclipse. The ho-down eclipse. That sounds like a good spaceship name. Really? I'd trust that. Ho-down eclipse. Is it because you heard the word Oklahoma before? I think I just sort of stocked it and I was like...

Oklahoma where the wind down down down down to bleary. Is it a ho-down? What? Is that a ho-down? The musical Oklahoma. The song. Were you singing the theme song to Gilles? Ligans Island?

No, it's Oklahoma from the musical Oklahoma. One starring. Wait, no. Australia is Hugh Jackman. It was the theme song to Green Acres. Oklahoma weather, wind about it in the rain. That's a thing. I swear to God, that's a real thing.

Are you telling me I'm making that up? Green Acres is the place to be. There you go. Do you remember when? I'm living is a life for me. Can you remember when Naomi said this is long enough? Matt? Matt?

It's something really magical about Matt Midsong. What he's trying to think of the next lyric, but he stays in the moment. He's going to be in the moment. And he stays in the post. Yeah. So that was the Hoh down eclipse. Ho down eclipse.

That's beautiful. Ho down eclipse is the place to be. A next person. Yeah, thank you. Please. Finally. Thank you, Tiki. from Clovis, California.

Beautiful name. Beautiful name, Clovis. Clovis. That's real. Clovis. That's on my list. That's up there now. Clovis, what state? California. Clovis, California. That's got to be well. Oh, my God. Clovis. California.

That's the full version. Please don't let that. No, Saturday, party. All right, finally. Clovis, California. Who's from Clovis? In the city of Clovis California. And what's that, the second biggest city in the entire United States?

Clovis. Yes. Yeah, second biggest population. You'd be obsessed with it. Sounds like a dog then. Is there a famous dog called Clovis? You're thinking of clover. Okay.

And no. And plants. Yeah. Have you heard of plants? Yeah. I heard this never ends. Who's from Clovis? You're so tired.

I know, I'm so tired. I'm so tired of export this crap. What is the time? 1137 p.m. Ian Goodlock. Ian Good luck. Ian good luck. Ian.

Yeah. Good luck. Good luck. In America, they actually do pronounce Ian iron, iron, don't they? Iron zearing. Do they really? Sometimes. Yeah.

They do not. The actor, Iron Zearing from Beverly Hills 902 and O'N. I pronounce it iron. I think? Iron zearing. His whole idea is like, actually it's iron. Oh, God. That seems like a choice at that point.

Well, Ian, or iron, is aboard the square bitch 11. Oh. Square bitch 11? That's nice. I like it. Is it actually a square bitch? Rombus. Oh, it's a rhombus.

Yeah. Clovis rombus. From one side, but the other side it looks like a square. And does it take off from Clovis? No, because that would be insane. If a spaceship took off from Clovis. Okay. I don't want to insult Clovis too much.

That's just a very funny way to arrange letters. Clovis. California. It sounds like a fake word someone made up to like mimic the English language. I'm so keen to get to Clovis. You're going to add that to you gold miles? It's a city in Fresno country and county. I wonder if they're represented by the Fresno Tacos baseball team.

Fresno Tacos. Yeah. Is that their mascot? Yeah. Tacos. Yeah. How good is that? I love that.

I love it too. It's real. Yeah, it's so real. And it's making me hungry. Dave, how you? Dave, do you want to boot this baby home? I just look out famous who were born in Clovers, California. I don't recognize any of them sadly.

But I can tell you famous person born in Vermont. John Deere, who we mentioned earlier in the episode. Wow. Born and the cameraman. Vermont. What are the odds of that? I know. He's probably had a cream.

me or two. Wait, how long ago does it feel like we're talking about Vermont? Is this the longest end of episode we've ever done? It totally is. Sorry, everyone. We've got to say, thanks to everyone that supports to you on Patreon. Thanks to other people we shouted out to. And if you want to join their ranks, you want to join their beautiful country,

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I see. Yep. Grow the pie? You need another slice of the pie. Yeah. I want another slice. You got a lot of pie. Let's go to New York.

Get a slice. Oh, I'm delirical. I was going to say we're delirious. That might just be me. But thank you so much for listening to the show this far. We really do appreciate that we're back. We'll be back next week with another episode. But before we go, what?

You going to plug my shit? Yeah, we're doing that right now. Oh, great. This is the bit. Well, we plug your shit. Okay. Naomi's been hanging out with us for the last two plus hours and we appreciate your time. I've been in this building for about 12 hours now.

Really? We insisted in Amid dual, quite a lot of prep. We won't let you leave until we tell the great people that you have a fantastic podcast called Batch Bitch, which is also on the Planet Broadcasting Network. Yes, it is. We're pod buddies. We're pod friends. Absolutely. Pod family.

It's about the Bachelor Australia. And we've obviously invited you three times under our podcast. We've never had a guest. Yeah. That's what I'm getting out. Probably if we had one, it would initially be someone who's. watch The Bachelor. Okay.

Well, I'm waiting. I've watched an episode. Well, the Bachelor, it's actually a very good time to log on because in a couple of weeks the new Bachelor starts. And it's an Aussie Bachelor? Yes. So is it a man dating women this time or a woman dating man? No, that's a Bachelorette.

Oh, sorry, I get confused. And has it been announced who the man is? Is a celebrity this time? No. So the last Bachelor who didn't pick anyone in the end. Everyone was very mad at him. was a rugby player, Honey Badger, Nick Cummins. And he couldn't make conversation with any of the women.

Because he only speaks in weird euphemisms, right? Yeah, he talks in Australianisms. I'm as nervous as a badger and... I've said Badger because that's his name. God damn it. No, he's probably said something like that. Anyway, so they've gone in the opposite direction now. They've got an astrophysicist, which you would love, Dave.

Oh, I love astrophysics. Yeah. Oh, your eyes lit up. I have seen a little teaser of that someone, he introduces himself as an astrophysicist, and one of them says, oh, that's great, I'm a Gemini. Yeah, which we did predict on our podcast. Really? Really?

One of them is definitely in and just like say their star sign in response to that. And wow, look at it. So if you want hot predictions and hot goss and also a majority of our listeners, I would say, do not watch The Bachelor. So do not think that that is a prerequisite. Not at all. But anyway, good time to log on. And then I also do gamey, gaming game every week, which is a YouTube show.

Also in this same building that I think I live in now. Yeah, that's right. It's about gaming. But again, you do not need to know anything about gaming to watch it because I certainly don't. Yes. And that will have links to both those things in the show notes. Yeah, there's a fun episode of Gaming Gaming Game actually where you just pop in, Dave.

Oh yeah. Because you're looking for some cables. A lot of people say that's their favorite episode. Because of the cable. Because of you. You just like step in and become part of the show. I felt incredibly rude. That's a bit of fun.

I found the cable, so... That's good. And I meant we could record a live podcast or something, wasn't that? Yeah, we needed them. We needed them real bad. Oh, yeah. Anyway, thanks for letting me plug my things. Hey, thanks for coming on, giving us your time and being a very funny human.

If you say so, but... We appreciate that a lot. Thanks for having me. What a joy. If I could sum this up... I hope Jess gets sick many more times. Well, if I could sum this episode up in one gift, it would be a certain, a disgrace pop singer

eating popcorn at a cinema what a great time so yeah get in contact with us get in contact with Naomi and let's all wish Jess the best by reinvigorating the old hashtag

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