Do Go On - 290 - Corrupted Blood, The World Of Warcraft Pandemic

Episode Date: May 12, 2021

In 2005, World Of Warcraft was rocked by an unforeseen virtual pandemic. An infectious illness meant players started dropping like flies, and chaos reigned. Cited as an example of how the world might react to a real pandemic, how does it compare to the world we find ourselves living in?Come to our live screening of The Mummy + Live Frasing The Bar on September 10: lidocinemas.com.au/mummyMatt’s New Show, The Beer Pioneer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej4TUguJL58 Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Buy tickets to our streamed shows (there are 12 available to watch now! All with exclusive extra sections): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoon Check out our AACTA nominated web series: http://bit.ly/DGOWebSeries​ 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] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2807%2970212-8http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/746700.stm

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. And welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and as always I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins.

No, I am Dave Warnocky. Oh, well, I'm so confused now. I always thought he was Dave Warnocky. Gosh, who am I? Well, I'm definitely Matt. No, you are Dave Warnocky. Oh, no. Line.

Who am I? Sorry, I've been recast. Dave, uh, here's your line. We've got a line. show coming up. Oh yeah. Speaking of great scripts, how about the script to The Mummy,

1999? We are screening the Mummy at Lido Cinemas in Melbourne in Hawthorne September the 10th. It's a Friday night. We're going to be hanging out. First of all, we're going to watch the movie as God intended.

No interruptions. And then after we're going to have a little break, hit the candy bar, come back, and then we're going to record an episode of phrasing the bar, our podcast about Brendan Fraser Films that we release on Patreon, live in the cinema.

Remember, remember. September the 10th. Yes, it's that easy. And looking at the map, looking at the map, it's a, you get to allocate your own seats. You get to pick where you want to sit.

That's fun. And the centre of the cinema is basically all packed out. So, you love a wing. Yeah. Or if you want to get the last remaining seats in the centre. You can get on it now at ledocinemas.com.com.

com.com.com. Or click the link in the description of this very episode. Wow. Gosh, I'm excited. Now, Dave, how does this show work? Well, it's not all about the mummy. But sometimes it is.

But maybe not this week. We're going to take it in turns to report on a topic, often suggested by a listener. One of us goes away, does a bit of research, brings back that report. The other two don't know what it's going to be on. This week is my turn to do the report. And I like the part where you go away.

This is the worst part for you. Yeah. Because I'm back. This bit sucks. But the part where you go away, I'm like, I love to watch you go. And I come back and I'm like, Now I've got some facts.

Yeah. I've got to let the listeners at home know. Jess is being joke nasty. How long is that going to go on for? I don't know, as long as I can remember. Yeah, fair enough. It was not as well, I think nasty. I was saying he's got a nice butt I like to look at.

Oh, thank you. You're being joke horny. No. I mean, yeah, joke, joke horny, yes. Well, we always start with the question to get us on the topic. And this question actually was suggested by someone who suggested the topic. Oh, I love that. How about you lead with this question?

Love that. Daniel from Provo suggested this question. Thank you, Daniel. Provo. I say, before even hearing the question, just the thought is lovely. Is that Provo in Utah? It's in Utah. What?

I believe. He didn't say Utah, but I didn't look at Provo. It is in Utah. Absolutely right. I don't know why I know that. Wow. Congratulations. That freaked even me out.

And that was his question. Where am I in the world? No, Daniel. I'm usually unflappable. You've been flapped. But I've been flapped. The question is, Question is, what plague killed millions of people in 2005?

This does sound mummy like. Was it Tutankarman's tomb? No. A plague in 2005? Mm-hmm. Oh, SARS? No. Mad cow?

No. Locusts? 2005. I could, uh, I've also got my own backup question because Daniel wanted you, this is what Daniel intended. Oh, he's sent us down a path. A garden path. I'm trying to think where I was in. 2005.

High school? A play. Is it going to be like Pokemon or something like that? Yes, it is. My backup question is in which video game, which video game saw a massive pandemic hit it in 2005? Sims? No.

It's not the Sims. Oh, Tomb Raider. Pandemic. Mario Brothers. It's a massive game. Still played world. Cods. World of Warcraft.

It is World of Warcraft. Well done. Jess Perkins. Put that on the ledger, which I mean, I think we've been contacted by our dear listener that tallies who answers the questions correctly. You've pulled away from me into second place. Matt's still, well, Matt's in second. Overall is no one. Yeah, no, we are all losing to ourselves.

But I'm fourth. Jess, you're a video gamer. When I said cods, was that something? It's near something, isn't it? Call of Judy's, cod. Call of Judy's. Oh, okay. Thank you so much.

Thank you for calling me a gamer. You're the gamer. in here. Yeah, okay. Gameist of us all. Yeah, I'm the gamest. Yeah. So this is corrupted blood, the world of Warcraft

pandemic. Oh, I don't know anything here. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not sure I understand most of the words you just said. I'll try and explain them all, one by one. Okay. I put up three options and this one was voted for by our Patreon supporters, and it's been suggested in our hat by a few people,

Daniel from Provo. Thank you for that question as well. In Utah, I believe. Utah. Correct. Give Jess another point. James... Hey, give it two. Fantastic.

Do we want any oranges? No, no thanks. We've got a lot. Why does he say we've got a lot of oranges? What a weird scene. James from Birmingham? Dave, just a quick thought. One day we should do a live episode

where we do the film Point Break. Point break. Much like we're doing the mummy. I know it's not related to the phrase, but somehow we could figure that in. Gosh, we get a cameo in there or something. Yeah, come on. There's a good cameo.

from the, if I'm remembering this right, the singer from the red hot chili peppers. Oh yes? Anthony Kedis. I think Anthony Kedis is in there. Fantastic. He says, what does he say? He's got some line like,

I can't remember or whatever else, but it's something bodacious for sure. He's playing a real bodacious 90s surfer. Well, a guy. Probably not wearing a shirt. Definitely isn't, yes. Watched it recently.

Still not wearing a shirt. He's about 60 years old. Yeah, no shirt. James also suggested this from Birmingham. Marcio from Gonnett in Argentina. Very cool. And Alan from Dublin.

Thank you so much for your suggestion. Wow. So widespread these suggestions. Lovely. This World of Warcraft really is worldwide. Mr. Worldwide? Not Mr. Worldwide. I mean, that's a man.

You hear the tone? Not. No. I mean, don't like a right. I'm Mr. Worldwide. Okay, so cards on the table. I do not play World of Warcraft. Okay.

Is it a card game? Why are you putting cards on the table? Well, I've done that, and they've laughed me out of the game. Oh, no. Because they said, you need a computer. This isn't Magic the Gathering, buddy boy, huh? Reference. Pretty good.

To a game? No offence, if this isn't it, is this a nerdish game? No, I mean, there's no offense intended. Nerds are great. I'm a nerd in some ways. Some. In other ways, you're a bodacious rad dude. In other ways, you're a Mr. Worldwide.

Yeah. So in the late 90s, I used to play Warcraft 2 at my friend Nick's house, his older brother had a copy, but I really only remember that one of the cheat codes was glittering prizes. We type that and you get some free stuff. It's pretty good. And if you clicked on a peasant character, they would say, yes, me lord.

Okay, me lord. That's a bit of fun. So fun. Yes, me lord. Sean Connery. Yeah, he fell in hard times in the middle of late 90s. I was going to say he had a bit of downtime. But then The Rock really brought him back.

Oh, another movie I'd love to do is a live. Oh, my goodness. One of my absolute favorite movies. Oh, Hormand fuck the prom queen, or something like that. I did fuck the prom queen. What in the name of Zeus's butthole? Nicholas Cage's absolutely going full cage. Caging the bar.

I really think that could be a future series for us. He's, his films have really crossed a lot of genres. I mean, there's too much crap in there. I was going to say, which doesn't mean a problem. Johnson. Oh. He has gone into a lot of kids films, action films. Why don't we do?

Our next series could be just, rock films. So anything to do with rock, we could do back to the future because Marty McFly plays rock music. We could do the boat that rocked. Yeah. Spinal tap. Spinal tap. There's options here. Yeah. But if we did want to do the rock, we could get up to the mummy too. Yes. Which I believe features Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Oh, right. And then from then, yeah, exactly. We veer off into the Scorpion King. Yeah, okay. This might be baffling to new listeners. We do a show on our Patreon called Frasing the Bar, which is all about the

films of Brendan Fraser. And we're What are we? About 10 films in? Oh, yeah, we'd been going for just over a year, one a month. And that's why we're doing the live Mummy episode. And that's, I mean, none of this is relevant to Wow. There's a few wow types in now. Um, wow's a shortening of World Warcraft.

So you do understand gaming. Thank you. And you know how they got the name wow? It's because they had a The guy who invented it Wow Jones who used to play for Carlton He had a W tattooed on each cheek

So when he bent over and spread him It said wow And he's like that gives me an idea for a video game Is that Lil Bow Wow's dad That is Little Bow Wow's dad Yeah I thought so Who now actually

He now runs a pub in Fitzroy But he's also the father of Little Bow Wow Little Bow Wow actually does just go by Bow Wow now Is he's no longer Lil Oh, fantastic. Soon he'll be big bow wow. Big bow wow.

Old bow wow. Old bow wow. Dead bow wow. Yeah. Hopefully in that order. Yeah, it'd be very weird if it was the other way around. All right, I've got my cards on the table. Let's not forget that.

I'm just trying to adjust to people that love this game. I'm not a game must. I'm probably going to get some things slightly wrong about Warcraft. And for that, I apologize in advance. But that said, here we go for nubes like me and possibly you two. Here is a bit of background as we open a game. can and cheers to the world of Warcraft. Cheers to the world of Warcraft.

We are the world of Warcraft. Do you guys know much about the world of Warcraft? I don't know anything about it. I have started watching a show on TV, which is about a game that I think is maybe based on this. Do you know this show I'm talking about? With the guy from Always Sunny. It's called Mythic Quest.

So that would have probably been good information to leave. Well, I wasn't. I was trying to get to that. I didn't remember the name until I said it. No, I haven't heard it. But I think it's sort of like, you know, like musly people in loincloths and swords. And they're sort of like other people are playing with headsets in other places. And they're sort of walking around.

You get it. Is it an RPG? Is that a term? It's not just an RPG. It's an MM-O-R-P-G. Oh, a multi-oh, I do know what this means. The G's game. Okay.

Let's work backwards. I'm actually going to get there. Multi, real quick, real soon. Okay. All right. But a basic thing. Warcraft is a franchise of video games. It's so many things.

Novels, movies, magazines, other types of media created by Blizzard Entertainment. Blizzfest. You get it. The first game Warcraft, Orcs and Humans was released in 1994 and was a real time strategy game where you took the role of either the human inhabitants of Azaroth or the invading orcs,

and then you fought each other in completed missions. Okay, Dave, is it a real time? game or a real time game because you pause there making it sound like it was a real time game yeah i mean if you don't use time to emphasize time what are you doing yeah well i'm glad i pulled you up on that that whole sentence baffled me if you don't use time to oh no i actually forgot where the following words after that i might stop uh basically it was a game that you you could play against other people but it's it's a strategy game yeah right it was a success for Blizzard and was followed by two similar games.

Warcraft 2, Ties of Darkness, yesh me a lord. Warcraft 3, reign of chaos. And in those games, you build towns and cities and try to take over and destroy your opponent's settlements. Right. Sick. So you build farms, but also a barracks that, you know, and then knights come out and you fight dragons, all sorts of fun stuff.

And again, they were successful and sold a few million copies, but they paled in comparison to the worldwide phenomenon that was to follow. Oh. World of Warcraft. Warcraft. That's the porn parody. World of War Arse.

Was released in 2004, the porn parody at the same time as the game. They really thought this was going to be big, and it was. And unlike its predecessors, it is an MMO RPG,

a massively multiplayer online role playing game. Game, see? Told you. So RPG was sort of right. Yes, it is. Thank you.

I've had a couple of wins here today. Yeah, you're crushing it. I'm so proud of you. And just to emphasise, to quote from Britannica, massively multiplayer refers to games in which thousands, even millions of players, may participate online together, typically in open gaming worlds, with characters that are stored and then reactivated whenever a player joins. Yeah, right. So you pick your one character and then you go off into the world.

It's fun. The world of Warcraft. Exactly. Right. You get it. So you get to create your character or your avatar. Like when we played Dungeons and Dragons for our Patreon, you get to choose from different races and classes.

You could be a druid, a priest, a rogue, something called a paladin. Oh, that sounds fun. Yeah. An orc. They do bike races in. Very, is that good? It's pretty good, yes. Not anything.

It is. They break away from the paladin. Yeah, that's right. That was close. And it was a bike racing adjacent. Druids are the breakaway group. And as players explore the world, characters they control become more powerful as they complete quests,

kill monsters and find magical items, artifacts and weapons that boost their abilities. Characters advanced by killing other creatures to earn experience. Once enough experiences acquire, the character gains a level which increases the character's powers. Is this like experience wink? Sort of, we fucking these orcs? Yeah, oh yeah. Can you fuck?

You can fuck it at the top. Yes. You better believe I'm fucking this orc. The orcs are the trees, aren't it? Yeah, I'm an environmentalist. Yeah, that's right. A fuck tree. Even on line.

I imagine, you can do anything in this game, so I imagine you could have sex. Oh, the hippie is hugging the trees. Yeah, well, I'm taking it to the next level. How much do you care about these trees? We need more trees. I'm going to make more trees. I've added a couple of trees offspring. Where else the trees come from?

You want to repopulate the earth of trees? Good luck. Drop your dax. Get to work, mate. So the higher the level, the higher... Get a branch up, yeah. Root, that's where the term root comes from. Yeah, I'm rooting.

I'm rooting for my country. Rooting means bony. Explain that to us? Well, no to the Americans, because in America, rooting means supporting or barricing. Yeah, like rooting for. Routing for your team over here. We root for it.

Well, Jess and I are there rooting on the side whilst you root your tree. Yeah. Go Matt. Yay, Matt. Show that tree. Root it. Show that tree? You dick.

I thought I'm not punishing the tree. Show the tree you dick, though. Yeah, get it out. I thought he meant, like, show the tree, who's boss. No, it just means open up, show you tree, dig. Enjoy that palm. That's where the term Mrs. Palmer and her five daughters comes from. It means wanking a tree.

A palm tree. Can we edit out some of this last, maybe the last three, four minutes? So the higher your level, the more powerful you are, and the more trees you've probably fucked. And the World of Warcraft, or wow, as Matt said, was huge. Its subscribers peaked at 12 million in 2010. Wow. The game had over...

I didn't even feed that. I just thought that was a large number. That is a large number. It's more than Australia. Shit. We're our numbered. The game had... Oh, my God.

They're coming for us. How many people do you think live in Australia? It's about 26, 27 million. Right. Slight larger than 12 million. Oh, I thought he said 30 million. That's weird. Why don't I hear 30?

I don't know. Whatever. Hey, whatever. You're probably fucking a tree. Probably leaves in your ears or something. This gum tree was tongue in my ear. The game had over 100 million registered accounts by 2014. See, that's more.

That's crazy. That's what I heard. The following sentence. Sorry, okay. More than 100 million accounts. In 2014. In 2014. Jeez, that's heaps.

But in 2010, they had 12 million playing at one time. Yeah, right. Wow. All paying a subscription. So that's that work. You pay a fee per month. So they were making hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars a year. The game, by 2017, had grossed over $9.2 billion in revenue.

To this day, nearly 17 years after its release, it is still popular. Wow. Cool. that old version of it. Yeah, because what they do is they keep releasing new worlds, new patches. Yeah. So there's been about six expansion packs. Yeah, right.

So it's definitely not as popular as it once was, but still millions of people play it every day. That's crazy. Wow. But one of the most notorious incidents in the game occurred way back in 2005. That's what you mentioned at the start. So now we've got a bit of background. Mad cow disease.

I keep saying wow. And I'm just saying it genuinely. but now I'm feeling real self-conscious. Yeah, you're also spreading your cheeks at the same time. Shone off those Ws. Well, I'm not allowed? Well, it's a bit much. You've never once protested in five years.

But it's making me feel uncomfortable. Okay, well... But you look very comfortable. Not in front of Matt's tree, girlfriend, please. So Blizzard, the company that makes the game is constantly releasing updates and expansions with new places to explore in the online world. It keeps the game in time. They put it in a pub, shopping centre.

Of course, you know. You've got to check out the new town square. Yeah, you've got to check out the town square. It's got a fountain. That's fun. Someone put shampoo in it last night. It's been bubbling up a store. Killed all the fish, but still quite funny.

Very funny. Just a little gold fish. Who cares? In September... Poor fish. 2005, at a time when there were approximately 4 million players worldwide, Zul Gurub Dungeon was added. which gave players a chance to confront

and kill the fearsome end boss Hacker soul flayer who's the god of blood. God of blood. Blood, bloody out. Wow. Shit. What a weird thing to be a god of?

Yeah, blood. I thought of that liquid inside of you. That's mine. That's mine. That's mine. I'm the god of that. Got that blood nose. You're welcome.

I could ask for that back at any time to see you know. Yeah. That's on loan. I can control that. That would be, you could really fuck people after you control their blood. Send it backwards, it goes back into your heart. Yeah, you're making people, you're going, all right, I'm, I'm lowering the sugar level.

You could really, you know. Hey, you feel a bit dizzy, don't you? Yep. I did that. I did that, you're welcome. Yeah, you better fear me. I am the god of blood. People did fear this, because it's the end boss.

You've gone through this mission, killed all the other characters. This is the big bad you've got to kill at the end of this mission. Can you make and decorate a little house? Get a job, get a career progression, have a family. Yeah. Is this the Sims? Because that's the only game. You can go to the fridge and have a quick lunch.

Oh, that's fun. This does feel like Sims only you can, like, really, you know, I know you like to put people in a pool and take out the ladder. But this feels, I think you can actually, you know, like stab people and stuff. Yeah, but where's the fun in that? I'd rather lock people in the room with 50 swords and they'd step on them like a rake. Yeah. Somehow this way more violent game seems way less psycho than Sims.

To be fair, I haven't killed a Sim in a very long time. That's fun when you're a kid. Right. Yeah, it's a bit of fun. I reckon if I got back in there within 20 minutes, I've killed a Sim. Nah, I just make them bone all the time. Oh, nice. Yeah, it's pretty rad.

That's fun. And, you know, work on their careers. That's what I do. Okay. Yeah. Don't kill them anymore. That just sounds, yeah, that sounds like a lot of people's probably day to day. Yeah.

Make your career at day. Yep. Boning at night. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Everybody. Every single person out there.

That's what everyone does. Career all day. Well, not quite everyone, but. Yeah. Dave's a real career guy. I'm in the pool. All right? I'm looking for the fucking ladder.

I swear it was around here somewhere. I mean, how else did I get in? Oh, well, keep swimming in a circle, getting a bit tired. I feel the God of Blood is really... Give me a bit of a light head here, but that's right. So this update to go into this dungeon with this God of Blood, this is the first 20-player raid that was released in the game. So it was this new thing.

A raid is where a bunch of players... You know, you could be anywhere in the world. They team up together. In this case, their mission is to kill Hacker, the God of Blood. Hacker, pretty good name. Yeah. I like it. And you look him up.

He's pretty terrifying looking. Is he? It looks quite tall. Is he bloody? Yeah, references to blood. He's got red hair. Is tall scary to you, Dave? Oh, he's fearsome.

Okay, well, you just, the only thing you used to describe is he's tall. Fearsome. But, I mean, I can't, I think he's wearing like a, he looks a bit like a dragon-esque. Oh, dragon man. Yeah, he looks like a dragon man. He's a dragon man with wings. Wow, okay. Devilish.

Now you're doing it. And handsome? Yes, he devilishly handsome. Oh, this guy's hot. I'll show you a photo. This is him. Is that guy? Oh.

Oh, he's way more colourful. I forget that it's 2005 level graphics. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah, that's right. So that's the aim. And if you kill him, in his death throws, the winged serpent hacker hits foes with a spell, now called corrupted blood,

an infection that can instantly kill weaker characters. This was unlikely, though, because to be facing Hacker deep into the dungeon in this complicated part of the game, in theory, characters were more experienced and of a higher level. Right. So if you get there, you're able to withstand this. Okay.

And for those characters, it was only supposed to damage them for about 10 seconds. A cloud of blood would explode from infected characters. You'd be getting hurt and then you'd go back to the battle. Right. So it wasn't too bad. The condition could spread to other players if they stood close enough to someone who was infected, like many communicable diseases in real life. To the powerful players who were battling hacker,

the infection was just a hindrance designed to make the particular combat a bit more challenging. Fortunately, after 10 seconds, or if the boss was killed, the condition was supposed to end. The problem was, it didn't. Oh. You see, in the game, as well as characters, there are also animals or pets. Jess, you love this bit. Because I like pets? Yeah.

And that doesn't really get the concept of pets. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I like animals, but I just think they should be out of room free. Amongst the trees. I agree with you. And I have a dog. But, like, where else would he go? I can't set him free, you know?

Yeah, it's crazy. I think we just let him go, let him go, see what happens. Off you go, mate. It'll be a reality show. Pretty sure, yeah, I mean. Put a GoPro on him, that'd be fun. Where's he go? Probably comes back home, actually.

They probably, yeah, they don't exist. A lot of breeds of dogs would just stop existing, I guess. Yeah. That all sort of just, you know, merge into, like, wild dog mungrel breeds. Yeah, cats would probably be fine. Yeah. They seem resourceful. They'd get bigger and bigger.

Feral cats, that's quite a problem in Australia, isn't it? Feral cats, there are plenty of feral dogs as well. But I think they're ningoes often, aren't they? So they're not really feral, are they? They're wild. Native dogs, wild dogs. Anyway, so you can have pets and animals. Yeah, these animals can be summoned to fight alongside players during battles.

But much like Pokemon, the animal can also be recalled and put away. Okay. The game punishes you if you allow your pet to die. Oh. So they're often with... withdrawn or record of injure to prevent them from being killed. You don't want your animal to die.

Sure. So if it gets attacked or it's, you know, it's on its last leg, you bring it back in before it goes. The problem with this is that these animals have all the conditions that were applied to them during the battle until they are brought out again. So if they're poisoned or burnt or whatever,

if they're withdrawn by a player, the animal stays infected or burned until it's let out again. So what happened with Hacker? That's horrific. So it says, yeah, it's just suffering in your back. Jesus. So what happened with Haccarus...

In your backpack. Sorry, that's just a funny image. I've got a wolf in my backpack. A little sick dog in the backpack. And it's suffering. It's burnt. So what happened with Hackeras, players would team up to kill him. This is the big serpent.

Oh, you know, winged thing. They'd call out their animals for support. The animals would get hit by this corrupted blood and then get recalled because they were injured. But in their little hibernation, they'd stay poisoned until they'll let back out again. and if they were close by other players or other pets, they would infect them, and then those players would infect others. And the designers of the game did not think about this.

When they coded this section, they didn't think about it. Oh, that's amazing. So it's supposed to be in that part of the game only, you fight the guy, and then after 10 seconds, you're like, cool, go back to my world now. That's fascinating. But it's like how the bubonic plague was spread by rats. This is a...

Very similar. So similar, yeah. You'd bring the rats, you put them back in your backpack. You know they were suffering. but they'd be fine and so you bring them out again. Flues and stuff have been like infected, have been brought out by like ducks that don't actually have symptoms or whatever. So they travel around and then it just goes from there.

So this was originally spread by animals. Now, a little illness that was only supposed to be seen in a tiny part of the game was able to be taken to other parts of the world. And because characters can teleport around the playable world, once characters with their infected animals in tow teleported out of the dungeon and into the heavily populated cities, it was able to spread very, very quickly. And you've got, so you've got a character, and that's who you are forever.

And then so it dies, you just can't play the game anymore. No, you respawn. Oh, you respawn. Yeah, so you die, you come back. Right. So a lot of people who have put a lot of effort in, and they're just having it go back to square one. Yeah, I'm not sure if you go back to square one or like, yeah, maybe you're about to level up or something, but you lose all that sort of thing. So, like, it's very annoying to die.

especially Can we just clip that out? It is very annoying today. Especially if it happens over and over and over again. Oh. As we are about to discover. Right, because you come back weak again. Yeah.

And it's just going to happen against. Oh, no. Everyone's sick around me. This happens to me when I play Starjoo Valley and I go too deep in the mine and I get, I get killed. And then you wake up, you're alive still, but sometimes you lose stuff from your backpack. But you were just mining. in the mine of Star Jew Valley. What's Star Jew Valley?

It's a really cute little game on Switch. Yeah, right. You're a little farmer. Sounds like a little lolly. Are you thinking of Starburst? Maybe I'm thinking of Starburst. Starju. Because Jubes?

Yeah, Stooges. My grandma loved Jubes. My dad loves Jubes. It's an old person. I love Jubs. Every old person in my life loves Jube. I hate Jubes. I love Jubes.

My favorite, the Lifesaver Pastels, my favorite. Okay. I made Musk after Musk. Oh, Musk. Another old person. I'm with you on Musk. I love Musk. Musk's amazing.

Yeah, big fan. Oh, there you go. Finally something we all like. That's funny. I would have thought Jubes was a child's thing. Not an old person. But it'd be like, well, I can't eat anything too hard. I'll have a Jube.

These are easy to chew. Yeah. Love a Jube. I don't know. I know. I know you're getting for your birthday this year. A lifetime supply of Jubs. Oh, yeah.

And Musk. Imagine if you could make Musk jubes. Stop it. Is that possible? I don't think it is. We'll look into that. Look into the science. Yeah.

As in like musk lollies, or do you like musk sticks? Like musk, yeah, I like the crunchy musk sticks, the skinny, crunchy ones, not the soft, fat ones. Oh, yeah. And I like the musk lifesavers. Yeah, gotcha. But, I mean, I haven't had these in years. No. I remember that I like them.

Yeah. I'm thinking, I can think of the flavour right now, and I'm enjoying that. Yeah. It's very distinctive flavour. Musk. It's not a nice name. It's like, ooh, a bit musky. Yeah.

That's musty, isn't it? Yeah. But I smell musky. Yeah. Delicious. Oh. Well, more on this plague and possibly lollies right after this fantastic message, Jess. A few decades ago, private citizens used to be largely that private.

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Well, now imagine all of that data being crawled through, collected and aggregated. Oh, no! That was funny because Dave kept saying, for work purposes, for work purposes. Well... Oh, no, they don't know that, though. They don't know that, a big government. It's all being compiled by third parties into a permanent public record, your record, Dave. Oh, no, gosh.

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And go to expressvPN. Dot-O-G-O-N to learn more. Now, Dave, back to this report about this beautiful wow. Well, Matt, before long, disease was raging across the online world. To quote from the Washington Post, cities like Dwarven City Iron Forge and Ork City

Orgama were overrun within hours. Whoa. It really, once the cat was out of the bag. That is amazing. So, I mean, you'll get to it. Quite literally, once the cat was out of the bag. The cat's like, I'm sick. Don't I'm out?

You were cue me, you bastard. Give me a mask. You thought that I could fight a demon? I'm a fucking cat. Jesus. I'm good for like peering and looking cute and shit. Put a little bow tie on me. I'm guessing the people at, what was it, Fizz?

What's, no. Blizzard. I wonder if the people at Blizzard must be, they must be frantic at the moment, trying to figure out how to recode or whatever. Yeah, being like, oh no, this is not what we intended. Yeah. Go on a Gavin. What did you fucking do?

Gavin. You're in charge of the dungeon. Oh, Gavin. But he Googled some of the shit. Work purposes. Oh, Gavin, you're already doing some research on the dungeon. What? Am I working on the dungeon?

David, the end, can you see if there's any porn parodies of World of Warcraft? I certainly would. I have a funny feeling. What would it be called? I mean, I already called it in a World of War arse. It works too well, if anything. World of Porncraft. or something like that?

Yeah, that's good. That's good. Yeah, that actually makes some sense. It is a craft. Dave's got it. World of War shaft. There it is. Imagine it.

Imagine it. I don't want. Everyone. Imagine it. Have a go. At home, have a go. Stop. Pause this.

That was amazing. Have a little think. All right. But it was devastating. Remember for a very high-level characters that affected them temporarily and was a bit annoying, but basically,

no worse than the common cold. But for low-level characters that got infected, they died instantly. Wow. And it was like a scale, too. So, like, if you were not a very high-level character, you died, but not straight away. Uh-huh. You're lingered. That's more annoying.

Cities were quickly filled to the brim with corpses, and streets were literally white with the bones of the dead. Because if your character dies somewhere, yes, you respawn, but your corpse is there and stays there. So I've seen pictures of it. There are, like, just bones everywhere. characters were dropping like flowers. That's incredible. How confusing were that have been? You must have thought, is this on purpose?

Yeah. Honestly, just if you're a low-level character, because that means you haven't been playing the game as long. Maybe your mates have just talked to me, oh, yeah, yeah, I've played this game. I've heard a lot about it. At the time, it was very much in the zeit cast. Oh, World of Warcraft, okay.

What? I'm just... And then, because when you die, you respawn. This made the body count even higher, because you die and then reanimate, and they could quickly get infected again. and then die and start the process over and over again. So your body's just out there 15 times in different spas.

It was actually more deadly than most real-life pandemics because in the real world, most viruses don't really like to kill their hosts because they can have a much wider impact if the hosts don't die. So they can circulate in the community much longer and spread far and wide. That's why something like Ebola that kills 40 to 90% of those infected doesn't spread as fast as something like COVID. Because the people die out often before they spread. Oh, that's fascinating.

Which is awful, but that's one of the most deadly diseases. I never connected that. Yeah, that makes sense. So there'll be a big outbreak, like, you know, in a town, but it won't travel as far and wide because... Because people aren't going, I'm going to catch a flight overseas. I'm feeling a bit abolory. Yeah. Because it just said hits that quick.

Hits and everyone on the eyes. It's awful. So grim. A bolory. A bit of bollery. I feel a bit of bollory today. But in Wow, it was deadly and so. spread like wildfire.

And with people dying and at the speed at which the outbreak was occurring, people panicked. There was total chaos in the game. And I've seen... I love the idea of you're seeing the chaos on the screen and then you zoom out and it's just a guy sitting in his room clicking. Chaos. Click, click, click, click. Every now that he makes little noises like...

Oh, fuck. Oh, wow, died again. Oh, this is chaos. I'm going to go to make a sandwich. Might have a break from this game Might go play cod Cod. Cods, please.

I can't die in Cods. Oh, what? What? So total chaos. I've seen footage on YouTube that I'll link to, but you can see hundreds of players just standing still with what looks like blood

sort of exploding out of them. Oh, and then... The blood would be loving this. Yeah, he's just evil laughter in the dungeon. And then so the blood starts exploding out, then they drop dead, leaving bodies everywhere.

It's a game from 2005, but it's still pretty full on just to watch these people just sort of helplessly standing there and then the character's going, blood, like it's sort of like blood like pumping out of them and then they just dropped it.

And he can hear them going, hacker would be loving it. Now, the response was interesting because so many people were affected, the reaction was seen as a good example of what people might do during a worldwide pandemic. Imagine.

Imagine. Which until recent, we hadn't properly seen on a world-wide scale in modern times. So this event and the reaction was studied by epidemiologists and academics. Really? Yeah. Wow. A reference a couple of papers in this that have been written on this incident.

That makes sense. That's why we're not allowed to keep sick pets in our backpacks anymore. Yeah, not like the good old days. In real world-wide consequences. I'd chuck three, four sick cats in my backpack back on the day. Now they won't even let you. Now I'm on an adventure with my sick cats. I can't do that anymore.

My sick cats have never been on an adventure. I never get to experience the joy of adventure. Only when they're healthy. My truck healthy cats in my backpack. Oh, sure, of course. They can't put the sick cats in there. Not the sick dogs. I've got so many cats.

One of them's always sick. Passes it on to the next one. They're probably like dominoes there. The pandemic in my backpacks. So at the time, and for a few years after the incident, it was seen as this thing of being like, oh, maybe this is how people will respond in a real worldwide pandemic. And now we've had... Logging off.

Getting a sandwich. Playing a different game. This game's shit. I think in a worldwide pandemic, I probably have made noises like... Click, click. Yeah, you got to do the click first, like the... Oh, that sucks. I'm going to have a nap.

Yeah, I will. Yeah. I'll just play a video game. Crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, that's a chip packet. That's me eating chippies. Whilst lying down. And that's what it sounds like to you. Crinkle, crinkle, crinkle.

Yeah. Not just the cut of the... Well, I mean it... How would you do the noise? Well, you're not even thinns, are you? Fuck, he's good. Wow. Man, a thousand noise.

That I pulled out the skill in a while. What number was that? I think that's 8-79. That's me coughing like Jess. That's 642. Wow, you can do it while speaking. Yeah, very skilled. You're very good.

Yeah, okay. Sorry, Matt. All right. Actually, that's probably about enough of that from me. Sorry, really. Are you feeling okay, Matt? Yeah, no, I mean, I'm perfectly healthy. I'm no sick dog.

Happy for me to go on? Jess has coughed a badge off, fallen off her jacket. It's quite a cough from Matt. That's how good my impersonation of Jess coughing is. My little badge fell off. So it's quite interesting. because now we've all had a worldwide pandemic that we've all experienced. It's interesting to see the similarities in response because at the time they were like,

well, this is exactly what people would do. And reading it through, some of it, you go, oh, yeah, people do this. Okay. So as the bodies... People did binge Netflix in, wow. As the bodies piled up in densely populated cities, major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in, and players rushed to evacuate to the relative.

safety of the countryside. Something we've sort of seen here in Australia. Yeah, big time. People wanting to leave the city and move to the country. Get out of the ring of steel. Yeah. The problem in the game was, as people traveled on mass out of cities, they spread the disease to previously unaffected places.

So it made the pandemic worse. Which is what they were worried about. Yeah, people were worried about, don't. No, you city folk, get the hell. Spread it to the region. Or like people for a while there, I think you heard about when Victoria, our state was the COVID hot spot in New South Wales. People would be like booing and yelling at cars with license plates from Victoria on their

streets. We don't want you in here. Go back to your plague state. Plague state. Yeah. That should be our new license plate motto, Victoria, the plague state. Some players selflessly rushed to help using their healing powers and acted as sort

of like first responders as doctors and nurses. That is awesome. They were obviously putting themselves at risk, but they were trying to help. As nice as that sounds, and similar to our world, relying on doctors and nurses, in an article in the Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal, published in 2007. I love that. It's called The Lancet. So good.

And it was written by Nina Pfefferman and Eric Lofgren. Two great names. Say that again. Nina Pfefferman and Eric Lofgren of Tufts University School of Medicine. Okay, none of this is real. Is this an in-game? University. Yeah, that's right.

The university of wow. I would do the university of wow. That's fun. That's impressive. They write that their behavior, this is the people, healing people, may have actually extended the course of the epidemic and altered its dynamics,

keeping infected individuals alive long enough for them to continue spreading the disease and by becoming infected themselves and being highly contagious when they rushed to another area. Never do. good. Never help someone. Sick.

I mean, it's pretty clear. I've never done it, not once. Because of this, because I know it's not helpful. Yeah. It's actually selfish to help. And I like to stand at a distance and go, yuck! No. Ew!

I'm not helping and that's actually helping. Yeah. I'm brave, I say. Yeah, I tweet stuff like that all the time. But like, I know it's not the same thing of spreading the disease, but obviously a lot of doctors and nurses in our pandemic have been highly affected. Yes. And infected.

Both. And I boo them. I stand outside hospitals. Say boo. I say at Ambulance, Victoria. Boo. I've read something from Tufts University. You might think you're doing good.

But boo. But boo. But actually, you're not. Have you read Lofgren? The Anteferman? The developers behind the game, Blizzard Entertainment, tried to impose quarantine measures, isolating infected players from as yet uninfected areas. So they can't just, like, recode it so it disappears.

Not quickly enough without resetting the whole game. So, like, we'll try something else first. Can I just say quickly? I don't understand anything. Like, I don't, you just feel like they could just, like, change a letter to another letter in the code? Blu, bloop, bloop, blu, blix. But that's amazing that it's not even possible. It made it worse.

What I just said there was quite naive, someone saying at home, yelling at their iPod. That's not how it works. Do you even code, bro? No. No, I don't. No, I don't. So they tried at first of quarantine. And this quarantine failed for two reasons.

Number one was the disease was highly contagious and it spread anyway. But also because some people resisted the quarantine and broke the rules. No, didn't wear a mask. Sound familiar? Yes. Ah. They used a nebulizer. Is that something?

I'm a very specific reference, but yeah. Well, I think we're only doing the show for people of Victoria these days, the plague state. They get nebulizer material. They get it. I mean, material's strong. Some characters flagged themselves as infected to keep others away. Like, stay away, I'm sick.

People self-isolating. Yeah. But this was rendered useless because non-playable characters who could not die due to special coding could also get infected. Oh, so they can't die, but they're... Would you call them a super spreader? Yeah. Like, because they're like a character that you go up to and, you know, you can talk to them in the game.

Right. Like the game's created them. They can't die, so they get infected, but they just stay alive to be a super spreader. And even though they couldn't die, they could spread the illness, so anyone who walked past them got infected. So they're kind of like a super spreader slash asymptomatic carrier at the same time. Oh, my God. They're a symptomatic character. Okay, wow.

Neither of those things really mean anything to me, but... A symptomatic character. They're a symptomatic character. Carrier. Are they a symptomatic carrier or an asymptomatic carrier? Oh, my God. I don't... Dave.

I'm broken. Are they a symptomatic character or an asymptomatic character or an asymptomatic character? I don't know if I misspoke or are you misheard. Well, that's the latter. Almost definitely. Probably both. Um, so. So you can see there are parallels to what has happened in our lives.

Some players... There's people in the world who can't die, but can spread COVID. Yeah, that's right. Well, it's more like people that, like, don't even know that they're sick. Yeah. They spread it to everyone else. And they go to eight different barbecues galore. That's right.

Some players attempted to enter infected areas to witness the chaos, then rush out before contracting the disease themselves. That sounds clever. Some even created accounts after they heard of the pandemic so they could have a look for themselves. These are non-wow players. And of course, this resulted in the further spread of the sickness because people are signing up as a newbie character

just to walk into purposely and then they get infected and die. Some have said, like this voyeurism is a bit like journalists reporting on an event and they bring the disease. I don't know if that's what they were saying that could happen in real life pandemic. As a journalist, Jess, how do you feel about that? I obviously. Are you journalists much like people who log in and start a new World Warcraft account just to have a look?

Will all journalists take an oath that in the... Hypocratic. Hypocratic oath, but in the event of a, yeah, highly contagious disease, we are to immediately lick an infected person. Just to see what it's like. Just to write like an hour-by-hour blog. Exactly. How could you possibly report on how a disease affects someone?

If you don't know how it tastes. Exactly. You lick so you can report back. Exactly right. And you'll say you lick it because you like it. And the answer? Musk. This plague.

It's got a little bit musky. A world of Warcraft as a whole economy going on in it. And some players would send their knowingly infected avatars to work or off to a market, seeing them as having to work. A bit like people in real life who've run out of sick days. They just go into their job anyway. Right, of course. So you're playing a game where you're like, oh, but my avatar can't take a day off.

The drudgery of... I love to escape into this World of War Workcraft. Apparently there are entire... Back in the day when it was the biggest game in the world, it was something like the six of the ten largest supercomputers in the world were dedicated to mining gold in the game of World of Warcraft. When you think about all the things that could be doing with these massive computers,

I think it was in Japan, Korea and China. Wow. Now they're doing Dodge Corp. Dedicated. Am I saying that right? Doge? Dave, you're saying it now. You're right the second time, yeah.

Thank you so much. Some of the behaviour took a darker turn. Quoting from another journal article here. Another journal article. That's what we call them, Jess. Ballasor wrote this one. In the journalical. That's cute. I enjoy it.

I love it. Jernicle. Can I change my name in the group chat to Jernacle? Great. What is it at the moment? It's so confusing. It's so confusing for me because both of you are star slubber and star slither or something. I never have any idea who's talking.

I'm the same with you two. One of yours is wizard jiz and one of them is star slubber. I'm star slubber. What am I? Star jelly. So I've got to work out who's slubber and jelly is. I just got to click to see who. All right.

I'll change myself. to journalicle. That'll clear everything up. Thank you very much. That'd be great. What was that from? I'd have this conversation on pod. That was from the Kentucky Meat Shower episode. Yes. A live one.

Now we get a live one. So, from one of these journalicles here, quoting. For me. From Jess. Some observers have suggested that the unexpected spread of this virtual infection was the deliberate strategy of malicious players. It's possible that

players who are able to sustained the transmission cycle of the disease by keeping in close contact with another player whilst constantly healing each other until they'd reach populated cities. If so, this incident may also count as the first virtual act of bio-warfare. Whoa.

So these players were essentially accused of online e-terrorism. World of Bio-Worcraft. Which, I mean, it's funny to me that people are accused of terrorism for killing other characters, but the whole aim of the game is really to kill other characters. Yeah. How dare you kill in a slightly different way? A slightly different way.

Because if you kill other characters, we'll give you points. But not like this. No, don't do this. We took a code of honour. A bunch of players left the game because dying over and over again isn't that fun. Sure. You believe? Cowards.

To quote from NPR, players were crying out in this virtual world and shouting for the people in charge. That is the game creators to do something. Won't somebody think of the Warcraft? I guess that's a bit like people in real life shouting out to the government, please do something. Fortunately, unlike in real life, the creators of the game were able to reset. At least three servers were affected

and on October the 8th, Blizzard had to reboot the entire game to correct the problem. So it was about a month before they did this. Was this some sort of a PR nightmare? At the time, lots and lots of articles written about it. A PR nightmare, but also some of it was. people were signing up just like a have a go. So maybe sucked people in.

Hey, any news is good news or whatever they say. Is what they say? Any publicity. Any news is good news. That is not what they say. There's bad news. Well, that's good news. Oh, news.

Sorry, did you say news? Great. Would you say that this is a news event? I remember teasing my mum one time that nobody had texted her. Like she checked her phone. She had no messages. I was like, ha-ha, no one wants to talk to you. And she was like, oh, I always see it's a good thing

because it means everyone's okay. Oh, fuck, mum. That's very sweet. That's so cute. So you imagine you text your mum? It goes, ding, she goes, oh no. You get to a certain age. You two wouldn't understand this, but you get to a certain age.

Most of the times you hear something, it's about Bethel or Gerald dying. And I can't wait to tell you, you know, off pod. That's all that I ever talk to you about is. Bethel and Gerald. He's dead. Yeah. He'd be like, remember Gerald and Bethal and Beth. Of course.

And now I'll say, well, they're dead. Oh, no. Yeah, you're no fun to talk to anymore, actually. Just listing dead. A lot of doom and gloom. Yeah. Other people from the Wals Club, we haven't quite made it through the week.

Yeah. Not quite. How's Judith doing? She's pulling through? No, she's dead. Oh, no, Judith! So, she ain't so. Judas!

Sorry. She'd been hit by corrupted blood? Yes. Hacker. Hacker. Another victim? Oh, gosh, she's exploding a cloud of blood. Yeah.

She was on two. lower level to survive. Oh, Judith. Too young to explode in a cloud of blood. Oh no. She was 95. But a young 95. Young 94. We all thought she'd get her 96 at least. Easily. Anyway. R-op, Jude.

Yeah, then that cloud of blood got her. So Blizzard, they reset the game and they made pets unable to be affected by corrupted blood and that kept it contained to the dungeon where it belonged. Wow. That was it. It was just Wow! That's crazy.

Sorry, I keep saying, wow, I can't stop. I know. It's your catchphrase. Dixote to the wow. Everyone, you hear wow, you go, oh, you've heard her go on her. Thanks very much. Jeff, Wow, Perkins. It's very much this. I mean, don't act or weird.

It's fine for you to meet me. It's fine. I know Jess. Quite well. You know where I live. I do. Don't tell people, though. I usually do.

Oh, no. Got to win them over somehow. You're no address? So Corrupted Blood was over, but it should be noted that the corrupted blood incident wasn't the first virtual sickness. Oh. It had previously affected a game much closer to home. Pong. Oh, to home to Australia.

Oh, okay. No. I've been to Irwin games. Have we got any games? Untitled Goose games, us. Is it really? Yeah, we did that. Oh, yeah.

Crash bandy coot? Is that some sort of... Is that us? Bandicoot. Well, I mean, bandicoots are an Australian animal, aren't they? But it's not Australian, is it? No, but I'm bringing it closer to the home of Dougal 1 is what I mean. Oh.

The first incident, and I'm sorry to say, JP, happened in the year 2000 in May, affecting players of the Sims. What? Oh, no. Who were outraged when their game characters died of an infection contracted from virtual guinea pigs that had not been adequately cared for. Oh, no. Do you know anything about this?

When was the first time you're going to play the Sims? Well, I thought I played about the age of 11, which would be in 2001. So you thankfully missed this awful, awful period. I didn't even know. So that would have been Sims 1. I didn't even know you could have guinea pigs in the Sims. You had to look after them. Or it was bad news for you.

Maybe you did, yeah. And according to the Sims fandom page, quote, Sims can catch it if they are bitten by a guinea pig that has a dirty cage or from other sims who have been infected with the disease. Sims infected with guinea pig disease will sneeze and cough frequently and their comfort and energy motives will rapidly decline and infected sim will die if they're not treated within time.

Wow! That's nuts! I'm looking up Sims one guinea pig. And to annoy everyone, this really annoyed play is due to a glitch a sim who dies from guinea pig disease cannot be successfully resurrected by the Grim Reaper. Once they are restored to life, they will immediately die again.

Ah. So you're cursed by the guinea pigs. Oh no. Cursed to die over and over again. Pets? This is why you shouldn't have pets? Yeah, that's right. They're always going to get it back to us eventually.

Well, all plagues sort of started with animals, don't they? Let's just let them live somewhere else. Yeah, another planet. Oh, we could have an animal planet. There's something in that. That's not bad. That's not bad. We'll have one planet of the apes.

Yes. One planet of the dogs. Yes. Oh. And so on. Et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. Planet of the sea urchins.

Yeah. How are we going to make all these planets? How do you make the planet? Planets exist already. Billions out of there. Sure. So I just find a sea planet and we'll send the urchins up there. Yep.

Um, forest planet. Uh, we'll send up the apes. And, uh... And Tom Hanks. Yeah. Then you've got, uh... Um. I was like...

Very dumb. Sorry. No, that's good. No, I edited it out. I assume you added out all bad jokes on this show. That's why we all come, always coming to 20 to 30 minutes long. Yeah, that's right. Short episode, we'll be recorded for six hours a week.

So onto the Sims, the disease could only be transmitted to other characters on the same lot. Okay. Yes. All the same street, really. So if it didn't spread on, it didn't spread on a huge scale like in World of Warcraft, But still, bloody annoying for these characters. There were some stern letters at that time in the year 2000 to the creators of the game. The BBC reported on this in an article written in 2000, and it sounded awful.

Were you already playing in 2000? When did you discover the Sims? The following year. We did discuss that. I'd already played SimCity, I think, sometime in the late 90s. SimCity 2000? Yeah, maybe it was. It was like a Super Nintendo game.

I've still got the camera. cartridge at home. Oh, that'd be worth a mint. But the console was stolen. Oh, because it was worth a mint. I've told you. So I've still got cartridges for like half a dozen games, but no, nothing to play it on. Yeah, that's disappointing.

Saddest thing I've ever heard. I should give them to someone. If any listeners have Super Nintendo and want games like SimCity, and you can continue on My City, which I think was called, Farr Q. That's a... That's very good, but I don't get it. Who style the...

I remember telling Dad about it. I'm like, Dad, check out my city. It's called Far Q. He's a... Come on, Matt. I thought it would have got past him. Like... Come on.

He won't understand this. He's too old. He'd be like, yeah, far Q. I don't see the very beautifully hidden second meaning. I just thought it was called... And I was, it's like, Far. It's a far... Fuck you, Dad.

Was it your dad who took the Nintendo away? Maybe it was. No, our caravan was broken into. No. And they took the console. But they left the cartridges. They left the cartridges. Foolish.

And the controllers. I mean, who needs that? So then it's just to piss you off. Yeah, it was interesting. So what I was laughing at before is that my high school boyfriend's auntie one time tried to convince us. She was explaining to us, us young kids. We were like early 20s.

She was trying to tell us why the saying is, like, it cost a mint. And she was saying it was because mint used to be very expensive. Even more expensive than Musk, the most expensive flavor. I was just like, you don't think it has anything to do with, like a mint? You don't think that? She's like, no, no, no, no. It's because mint was very expensive. Mint's actually where they make coins and currency that were named after the flavor, mint.

Wow. Oh, it's very funny. Because they cost them, they cost them. Mints, too. But that's not a coincidence because they name them after pepper. Originally, they were called the peppermint. Where do you make? What do you make all that money?

Had the peppermint. Okay. But they got shortened over time to the mint. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because there's so many of the types of mint. She's, I'd be very, very funny if your friend is right. No. I don't think that's true at all.

But it would be funny. It would be funny. But. There's nothing funnier than someone going, Okay. I'm being wrong. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Idiot. Sorry, Dave. We've really derailed. Oh, no. There was just the BBC wrote about the Sims one in the year 2000. I enjoyed what they wrote. The discussion area of the Sims website has rung with questions about cures for the six Sims and how a Sim can recover from the career setback of spending a few days in bed.

A setback? Some child Sims with bad grades have ended up in military school after spending a day or two in bed recovering from the cold. Yeah, I forgot that. They used to send you to the military school if your grades were bad. People are so pissed up because the kids infected by a guinea pig. They're like begging the military people, don't date my kid away. Wow.

It's not my fault. I didn't clean the cage. So the army. Oh, I've seen a conspiracy year. The army's infected that hamster. Right? Or guinea pig? Oh yeah.

They always want people. Just a boost numbers. It's the modern day conscription. Oh my God. Send the guinea pigs out. Do you dirty work? Send out the guinea pigs? Release the guinea pigs.

They ended up updating the code making the guinea pig disease give you a cold rather than resulting in death. So that's that. But because this is one of my shorter reports, I thought we could finish off with some potentially fun facts. Oh, I can't wait to hear what Jess has to say. If they're grim, I'll let you know. But for new listeners, Jess seems...

She doesn't allow Dave O'Roy to talk about anything that's a fun fact. She says she's the only one who... can tell if something is fun. That's why I've written these as potentially fun facts. Yeah, exactly. And I am the authority on grim. Yeah, and I've never tried to step on that. Don't worry.

Matt, I've got one for you as well. I don't know why you're coming for me. I've got something for everyone here. And I'm the Queen of Fun Facts. I'm coming for the Queen. Well, fuck off. Watch the throne. I'm coming for it.

No, fuck off then. I tried to cover fun and grim here, so hopefully we've got a wide spectrum. Matt, a number one rule of coming for the throne is don't tell the Queen sitting on the throne that you're coming for it. Well, you better look at that throne. I'm sitting on it. I can't look at it. I'm sitting on it.

Fuck off. I don't want to. Watching it. No, because I'm watching you. I'm coming for that throne. I'm coming for the throne. For the throne. All right, here we go.

Fun, grim, or? We'll decide. Possibly both. What's your specialty, Dave? There's going to be something else. Nice? Lame. Yeah.

Or just fact. Factually fact. Yeah. I just fact check people. I'm just googling... Incorrect. I'm Googling Mint right now, so... In the game, you can pick your race.

Dwarf, ork, night elf, etc. The most popular race is the human race. Oh, the most beautiful ship is the friendship. That's so lame. I know, isn't that? That is a lame fact. But, I mean, the fact that people do that is pretty lame. You can be anything you want.

There's like 12 or 15 of this or something. I'm going to be a human thing. Yeah, but I mean, you say that, but do you know the amount of times I've chosen the stand-up comedian career in the Sims. That's an option. That's funny. Do you get to see them do their bits?

In Simmish? Do you get to see their bits? You get to see their bits. Yeah, that's why you play. If you've got a certain mod, yeah, you can see their bits. Really? Can you see their bits as they're drowning in the pool? Yeah, probably.

What were we, when we did the D&D, which we are going to do again, now that we're allowed out again, we're going to do another series of dogo on day and day. What have we called it? What do we call it? Do go Ons and Dragons. Yeah. Or Dungeons and Dogo Ones. I don't know.

Or do go Dungeons and Dragons. Oh, yeah. We had many options. But we're going to do more of that. But anyway, do you remember? I can't remember. Was that a Hobgoblin? I don't remember.

I feel like I was like a sub. I was a monk. I think my name was Gary Gregson. Something like that. Something like that. I was casino musgraves. That's right. I think I had a good name too.

Can't tell you what it was. Something shooting star? Yes. And I found love. That was great. All right. If we play again and we're going to pick up. our characters.

I think so, yeah. That'll be, all right, we're going to have to do that again. Keep an eye on the Patreon. If people haven't heard, we're on, on the page, you go to patreon.com slash dogo on pod or dogo on pod. And, yeah, there was a four-part series where we played a do-go-on Dungeons and Dragons thing. Something like that.

And it was so much fun, but we're going to do it again sometime soon. But let's... At dungeon master. Freaking hell. Master. Dungeon Master. Adam Carnival. We're going to,

I think that, yeah, anyway, I've got big, I've got dreams to do lots of it. I've just, I've got to commit to Dave and Jess. I had a good time. It's fun once you're doing it, but it's funny to be like, hey, let's spend a week. Also, I mean, going out of it down there in the dungeon. The pandemic did mean we couldn't be in the same room for many months, and it's better if we're all together at one big table having to go. Can we make a ruling on that fact, though?

Because it wasn't that fun. No. It wasn't grim. It wasn't grim. So it was, I guess, one of the, of Dave's. Yeah. Lame.

I mean, yeah, that's a bit cute. It's a sad. I'd say not a grim fact, but a sad fact. People just choose to be. You can be anything. I'll be me. Maybe that's beautiful. Yeah, I think it's still like a form of escapism,

but it's easier to connect to that character and be like, yeah, I could be doing this because they look like me. Yeah, okay. I don't know. Who knows? Well, how about this? Many celebrities are big fans of this game. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

Oh, Mr. Worldwide. No, is he Mr. Worldwide? No. To give a different ball from me. Pitbull. Pitbull. I imagine Pitbull played this, but Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Mia Lucunis, Henry Cavill.

But they weren't the only celebrity fans of the game. Here's a possibly grim fact here, Matt. Robin Williams loved video games, even naming his daughter Zelda. He also loved World of Warcraft and has an in-game memorial as a tribute to him. No, that's another beautiful fact. That's nice.

Is that a bit grim? I don't think that's grim at all. No. That's a nice fact. People die, Dave, you know, like... It's hard to find. Well, I shouldn't say that. Is it fun?

No, it's not fun. That's not fun? Nah. How's that fun? Is that the first thing I'm going to tell people if Wow comes up in conversation? What's the first thing you're going to tell them? I don't know. I haven't listened to most of this.

Monkey in a bag. Or whatever. Yeah, monkey in the bag. Pets in the bag. Okay, I've got two more. Not a good here right here. Okay, you're getting a bit defensive here, mate. It's our call to mate.

Dave, we're not getting defensive. I'm just saying you got two more shots. I'm saying we're being joke nasty here. I thought that was a little bit grim. I'm being joe corny. Have I got to move it for you? The mummy, triple X porn parody. And it's cool.

That's all it's called, isn't it Dave? Dave, you had like three or four. Oh, the kami, come on. The cummy. You'd think you'd go the daddy, but whatever. Daddy's good. Okay, two more. All right, this one's fine.

In 2016, Warcraft film was released. Do you remember this? No. It went on to be the highest-grossing video game film of all time. What? Wow. Even more than Super Mario Brothers. Starring Bob Hoskins.

Sorry Super Mario Brothers staring John Leguizamo. It was directed by David Bowie's son, Duncan Jones. What? Hello, I'm Duncan Jones. Hello, it's me, Duncan Jones. Is that anything? My dad was David Bowie. I think, well, I can't speak on this, but it's more fun.

than grim, I'll tell you that. That's fun. Fun fact. Fuck, yeah, great. Because it's been a lot. I mean, there was Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie. Yeah. There's been, uh, the battleship.

The one it beat was... No, that was a board game. Oh, the one it beat was Prince of Persia. Oh. What out there's got to have been? Oh, Mortal Kombat. Yeah. Doom.

Yeah. Street Fighter. Yep. Oh, yeah. The Sims. In a lot of ways, any film is, is the Sims. My goodness. My God.

No. Well, I don't know. It's matter. I mean, they did an emoji film. Surely it can be a Sims film. Has there been a Sims film? Yes. Probably.

They've done an angry birds. Oh yeah, that was another one. That was quite big. There was a sequel, I believe. Angry Birds? Two. Still angry. That was a fun game.

I'm going to play Angry Birds again. Right. I never played it. What about floppy bird? No, flappy bird. Oh, yeah. No one wants a floppy bird. Gable too many beers.

I've got a floppy bird. All right, final one. Porn parody of Flappy Bird. Floppy bird. It would be a super successful porn parody. It's very disappointing watch, actually. I should really start feeling sorry? It's a bit grim, really.

If World of Warcraft doesn't seem real world enough to you, then you could check out World Joyland, a theme park located. in Chang Zao in China. The park's theme is inspired by the video game series World of Warcraft and Starcraft. It reportedly cost 48 million US dollars

to build but is not officially licensed or endorsed by Blizzard. The rip off. World of Joycraft for 48 million. What was it called? World of Joyland. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't sound like there's any connection to it at all. Well, they rip off

everything. I read a review from the theme Parkguide.com. Okay. And he claims he visited about 10 years ago that the park also has Rips off stuff from Universal, Disneyland and even has a fake at Disneyland store. And I guess... 48 million bucks.

We'll just have to add it to our list of things to go for our inevitable world tour. Jess, I don't want to speak for you, but that to me is fun. See, why do you have to ruin it? Okay. By jumping in there first. How about? How about?

Because it's my decision to make. Well, okay. look, let me put it this way. It's not a grim fact. So how about, instead you say, hey, Jess, is that a fun fact? Okay. You know?

Dave, start from the top. Edit that bit out. Let's go again. All right. Daniel from Provost suggested this question. Sorry, Jess. Is this a fun fact? It is a fun fact.

Yes, we did it, everyone. That is corrupted blood. The World of Warcraft pandemic. Thank you so, so much. We did it. Thank you. We did it, everyone. That's a wild story.

What a great story. Nothing about. Yeah, it's just one of those ones that in the hat, you know, it jumps out to you and you go, all right, I'll put this up for the vote. And of course, it also jumps out to the Patreon supporters to their vote for it. Well, that brings us to everyone's favorite section of the show, the fact quote or question section.

And in this section, you can get involved by going to patreon.com or do go on pod or do go on pod.com. And sign up on the Sydney-Shaunberg Deluxe Memorial, rest and peace level. And the way it works is, you're on there, you get all sorts of different rewards, bonus episodes, including the phrasing the bar, bonus reports, are the fun things we do three of those every month. We've got over 100 now, about 110 bonus episodes to check out.

And you sign up, you get access to all those. You also get to vote on topics like Dave's topic today was voted on by supporters of the show and, yeah, a bunch of other things. A weekly newsletter, you also get to be in the online community and all these sort of things. but for the Sydney-Shonberg deluxe memorial level the main one is the fact quote or question which is what this section is all about so you sign up to that and

periodically you get to give us a fact a quote or a question you also get to give yourself a title and this section of the show actually has a jingle I think it goes something like this Fact quote or question Jingle! He always remembers the jingle and this week Dave's going to read them out

because I didn't bring my computer Dave, who we got here in the fact? Very happy to read out a few of these. Can you read? Can you read? No. Okay. I actually have someone here whispering into my ear.

Oh. They can hear what you're saying. Okay. And what do you want me to say? And they can hear what I'm saying. God, that's tedious. God, that's tedious. Fuck you all.

That seems inappropriate. Janine. Stop it. Janine. Cut it out, Janine. Oh, no, Janine's 10-year-old. Max got on the line again. Piss off, Max.

Piss off. First up, Janine's telling me I've got to thank Roy Phillips. Roy Phillips. Roy. What was Roy's character on The Simpsons? Roy. Hey, Mr. S. It was he added the cool cousin or something, yeah.

Roy Phillips giving themselves the nickname, the guy that's running out of good tongue twisters to screw with Matt. Oh, well. You couldn't catch me out with that, Roy. Couldn't catch Janine out with that. Janine's all over it. Janine's whispering syllable by syllable through all the hardest tongue twisters. Roy's given us a question, and that question is,

Hey, guys, hope you're all doing well. My mate, Ben, is currently listening through all your episodes starting from the beginning. Last I heard he was on episode 120 something. Anyway, for when he gets to this episode in like July 2022 or whatever, can you all collectively call him a knobhead? Okay, what was his name? Ben? Ben, you're a knob.

head. Ben, I don't want to do what your friend, what Roy has asked us to do, because I don't know you. I didn't think of that. Just kidding, you're a knobhead. Got him. Roy, you're a dickhead. Genean, it's a knobhead. Roy, you're a knobhead.

Did it. Got it. Roy, no, not Roy, Ben, you're a knobhead. Sorry, Roy rules. Roy rules. Ben's a knobhead. Roy has written that it'd make both his and my day. Cheers, guys.

Keep up the good word. Well, you're both a couple are knob heads. Oh, on your Roy and Ben, that's nice. That's lovely. It's lovely you get to call your mate a knobhead. And it's so good that, yeah, it'll happen at any time. And Roy doesn't know exactly when it's going to happen. So just someday in the future, he's just ensuring he's going to get a text from Ben at some point.

That's nice. That's great. Hey, and their celebrity couple name is Royben. I'm Roybin here. I don't know if that's anything, but just sort of throw it in. It's definitely something. That's everything. Yeah, damn it!

That's what I know to say. Next, triptitch club member is no. Fact quote a question. What's wrong with you? I give him the keys one week. Guys, I've got to tell you this is a lot harder than it looks. Don't say that in front of Matt.

Credit where credits to you end. He doesn't need the boost to his ego. Fucking Janine. I really need a boost right now. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, this is hard. Flat as attack. Big shout out to Nathan Damon.

Nathan. Title is Executive In Charge getting do go on back to Perth in brackets. I mean, our borders are open. Very cane. Well, he wrote that a little while ago, I think. Yeah. There was a little brief period there where it was...

That's right. It was actually, you guys are all masked up until this weekend. But Nathan has given us a question that is, when are you coming back to Perth? Oh, a fantastic question. We'd love to get back there. There's nothing set in stone. No. Let me say that.

And there's nothing sent even in a, like a... less stony substance. There's nothing set in. Play-Doh. But we're keen. We are very keen. We've only been to Perth once together. We had a great time.

Remember Dave when we went out for ice cream after? And we were yelling out that everyone should shut their mouth, their toilet. Shut you, toilet. You're extremely drunk on a Sunday night. I heard you guys. I stole multiple glasses from the pub. And then left them in the Airbnb out of Guild. Nathan Dave.

Well, I wasn't out of Guild. I said no way of getting them home. Oh, should have taken them with us. Yeah. Oh, beautiful glasses. It's beautiful. I owe that pub multiple glasses. And my life.

But when we get people to ask a question, we ask them often, it's nice if they can answer it themselves. And Nathan has answered this question. When are we coming back to Perth? He's written to give my answer very soon, hopefully. Oh, great. Good. Very soon, hopefully. I really need to get back because I will be paying them for those glasses.

Okay. I mean, I could probably do that from here, but I want to do it in person. That's right. You're a cash-only kind of guy. Are you going to call them a toilet, while you've ever? No, no, no. You should.

I reckon? Yes. Be rude while I'm doing. Sorry for stealing some stuff from your beautiful establishment. You toilet. You toilet. Take my fibre. That's good.

Next up is Thomas Doppler writer. Oh, the Quizmeister. Well, the nickname is Quizmaster of the Dugo Patrions. Yes. So as I don't know, Thomas Dopper writer, one of our favorite Austrian listeners, who writes a quiz often every week in the Facebook group for our Patreon supporters. He puts 10 questions in there.

And it's great because people work it out together because there's nine questions. And the 10th one is, what's the connection between the first nine questions? And people sort of chime in with, oh, I reckon number three might be this, number five is this, and by the end of it, they usually get it, which is very cool. We've also done a couple of bonus episodes with Thomas's quizzes. One of those made people angry. Because they got the link and we did not. And it made them furious.

So we sort of decided maybe we shouldn't do it for the list. Listeners, peace of mind. You don't want them to be mad. We want them to listen and have fun. Yeah. Not be angry at us. Or their iPods. Yeah, don't tell you all their iPods.

He loves to ask questions and he's asked us for them. Great. If you had to choose the most delightful musical interpretation of the group whose name is one part low temperature and the other part a thing, Shakespeare would write, what would you answer? What? Guys, we've got to work together. That's a riddle here.

the connection. He's written, for me, it would be an educated person who does research. All right, let's go through this again, Thomas. If you had to choose the most delightful musical interpretation of the group, whose name is one part low temperature and the other part of a thing, Shakespeare would write, what would you answer? Cold play. Okay. Yeah, that must be what, is that what he's wanting us to say?

And mine's a scientist. Is that what he's trying to get us to say? But what's the Shakespeare part? Play. Cold. Something Shakespeare would write. Low temperature. Oh, right.

I'm reading the commas incorrectly there. Sorry if I phrased that badly. So what's the... What was the first bit again? Great work, Jess, by the way. You've totally worked it out. That's a fantastic work. You've cracked the case.

Hopefully no one's yelling at their iPod right now. And for me, it would be an educated person who does research. A scientist. Right. That is what he wanted us to say. That is very good. If music be the fruit of love. Play on.

Because I was going to say... I love Thomas's question. I was going to say two degrees piano, but I didn't really understand what he meant. Yeah, I did. Vanilla-ice bagpipe. Thomas Doverrider, that was very well done. You've done it again. I was perplexed.

I'm so glad Bob was here, because otherwise, I thought it was a question that didn't have a set answer. You know what I mean? Yeah. Mine's a scientist. Mine's a scientist. That's very good. I cannot find that clip. I watched the whole interview,

and it's been trimmed out on Shane Warren's own YouTube channel. No. Or I've made it up. If you have, that's the funniest thing you've ever said. And that's not even rude. It's not. That's not even rude. What's your favorite copay song?

My scientist. Do we need to explain this? Shane Warren is a cricketer for Australia legend. He had an interview show briefly. About that episodes. On the first episode, he had Chris Martin, the Coldplay singer on. And I'm sure it was during this that he asked the question, what's your favourite Coldplay song?

And before he gave him a chance of answer, he answered himself. Montesantus. So funny. And I'm sure that Tony Martin on one of his radio shows, clipped that little bit out and played it a lot. Yeah. And that's how I'm really... You can't take Tony and ask.

Yeah, should I? Yeah, ask Tony. He'd love that kind of question, I would. Yeah. And of course, the final question that he would ask is boxes, briefs or commander? Is that what he asked? Yes.

He asked every guess. What? It's so rude. What a funny little quirky question. Yeah, what are you wearing right now? Let's all answer at the same time. Ready? One.

Okay. Matt's commander. No, I'm commander boxer briefs. To me fair. I wear like a camo boxer briefs. You're going to say no one wears boxes? was not even an option. And I'm offended.

Our final one for the fact quota question is Paul McNally. Ah, Rans. I knew that that was coming. Plagiarizer in chief of the podcast. Is the nickname? Plagiarizer. That's fun. Have you got your own little podcast on the side?

Is that what you're doing? Do you go, ooh, no. Paul's given us a fact of you. I must have talked about this before. But on the Australian Simpsons episode, where Bart's going around the map and he goes, Rand McNally, I had no idea what that meant.

Right, that's a famous brand of that. Yeah, I knew it was funny. I didn't know why. I thought it might have been like a satellite or something, but yeah, Rand McNally, it made me laugh every time even though I didn't get it. Rand McNally, it's just a fun name.

Just a bit of fun there. Yeah, that's all it is. A bit of fun. And that's all we're trying to do here. I know a lot of people have been listening furious through the whole episode But what you're going to understand is we're just trying to have it a bit of fun. Come on.

Don't you want to have a bit of fun? I'm having fun. Yeah, smoke a joint. That's what we're sounding like. We're sounding like those kids at a party who peer pressure are the kids. And that's not cool. That's not on. That was an example of what not to do.

And you passed a test. Please stop us. Would you like to hear a fact from Paul McNelly? Yes. Hi guys. Hi, man Rand. Now, given that my last one, fact was actually about a topic you'd already covered.

Whoops. I've decided to go back to medical facts. And here it is. Thank you, Rand. Love medical facts. I'd bring up Rand McNally every time he gets a fact in here. Every time. A fracture of both kelkenai,

heel bones, sustained at the same time is called a lover's fracture. It got its name from being associated with folks jumping from a window to escape an angry spouse who discover their other half in bed with another man or woman. Nowadays, it's more common in bird. burglars and drunken egypt's falling off stuff. Keep up the great content and stay safe.

Can I say that was a grim fact. Yeah, it's pretty grim. I enjoyed it. So the person who finds their partner cheating on them, they jump out the window. No. No, you're busted in someone else's bed. Right.

You jump out of the window. Okay, so you're with someone whose partner comes home. Yeah, interesting. And then you jump out the window and break both your heels the same time. Ow. Jumping heel first. Yes. Silly, you jump butt first.

Yeah. I can say head first. We got most cush. Everyone knows but first. Let your face take most of the blow. Yeah. That's what I do on a weekend. Again, ass first for me.

Blow it up there. A little hop in the cubicle. A little hop, please. Oh my God. Someone, please, bring a straw. B.W. straw. Gassel

Women's sorts are all cubicles We wouldn't have urinals They won't let us Discrimination Little out please I get some blow up my ass So that Was that the fourth

Yeah that's our four fantastic people I love you guys Well that means it's time to thank a few Of our other great supporters Who are on the arse prod level I believe or above And normally Jess comes up a little game to play.

Something sort of related to the episode. We give them a title or we give them something. We're giving them a pet who inevitably gets infected and dies. Love that. All right. Well, first up. Do you?

Yeah, great. I mean, yeah, I don't. Because, yeah, there was a few bits in my comedy festival show where I'd talk about pets that sort of had bad ends. But they weren't, like, they weren't. real in my head, but you could feel some nights the crowd really felt it fully like they were thinking about a real pet? Yeah. This is not, we're not talking about real pets.

No. These are made up things. Okay, so first up from address unknown. Oh. Return to sender. It is Jasmine Hill. Jasmine Hill has a Jaguar. Jaguar.

Named Jerry. Jerry the Jaguar. Jerry Jacks. And he's got a little, got the sniffles. And he dies. Oh no, they'll do. In a backpack. Don't want, they respawn.

Come on. Yeah, they respawn. But you will see that's corpse on the ground, and that will be disturbing. Oh, no. All right, Jasmine, hopefully you'll be with that. I'd also love to thank from Robin Hill in New South Wales, Australia. It is Will Schoenmaker. A little clownfish.

Oh, I like a clownfish. Is that Nemo? What's his name? Yes. Philip. Philip. The clown fish. Yeah.

Love that. I love that. Love that. And obviously you bring it out when you're battling a really bad... Bad demon. Yeah. Bring out the clown fish in a bowl of water.

And the demons sort of like... A clown. Yeah. And why they're distracted, acts to the face. Exactly. They're dead. Hacks. Act straight to the face.

Ow. You've got to do it. You've got to do it. And the clownfish is... I've seen some horrible stuff. That's a clownfish. I have blood on my fins. This is really awful.

What I've done. Thank you, Will. And finally, I'd love to thank from Mattingly in Victoria, Australia. It is Nathan Garnsworthy. Nathan Garnsworthy. Think of an animal, Matt. A zebra. Zebra.

Oh, nice. And the zebra's name is Harold. Harold, the zebra. I say that because I have a canvas in my house with a zebra on it, and we've named him Harold. A canvas with a... The zebra on it? Yeah.

Like a, what is that mean? Like a painting. Okay. I was picturing, I was picturing a tarpaulin. No, I don't have a tarpaulin with a zebra on it. Really? I have a tarpaulin with a dead zebra in it. Sure.

Waiting for the cleaners to her. Yes. Well, you know, I can't put in the bloody, you're a bloody freezer. Can I? No. They've got a small freezer. Certainly not. Got ice cream in there for treats.

Can I thank some people? Oh, I'd love it. I'd love to thank. From Moore's VIII. NC, North Carolina. Is that correct? Yeah. Gosh, a quick fun fact for that.

Their fire trucks are actually blue. Ah, well, I tell you who would know that. Dustin Stewart, spelled the right way, Matt. Dusty Stewart. Great name. Love that. Yeah, very good. But a platypus.

Named Patricia. Patricia the platypus. And she's dead. But coming back to life. She's gone, like, it's quite a journey. Gone but not forgotten. She said, yes, gone but not forgotten. Journey to the afterlife.

Yeah. It's a long journey. Yeah. Hey. I hope you got to pay the ferryman, but always fix a price, whatever that song is. I don't know. No, don't pay the ferryman.

Don't pay the... Until you get to the other side. Oh, that makes sense. Oh, that does make sense. The guy who sang Lady in Red. His other hit was... Don't pay... Christopher?

Van Christaberg. I didn't know yet. What was his other hit? Don't pay the ferryman, yeah. Wow. There you go. Some great fun facts tonight. That's fun.

Until you get it. The Christaburg had another hit. Actually, I'm in charge of beautiful facts in that. It's beautiful. Okay, beautiful. That's a good angle for you, yes. I would also like to thank from Location Unknown. Ooh, the moles.

The fortress of the mules. Can I only assume. Charlie Walk. Oh, Charlie Walk. I'm thinking... Do you know the chicken back? Monkey. Were you giving us what's happening inside your mind out loud?

I thought I was doing there. I was just remembering a song that mentions a lot of animals. It's called Chicken Payback. I should have just said chicken, but I was waiting to get to the next animal. And what's... I'm not sure why that would be. Because I'm thinking, I'm probably confusing it for another song that had walk in it, maybe. Is there a song called Chicken Walk?

Not that I'm aware of, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Okay, well, you know, we all work in mysterious ways. But you went for monkey? Monkey. Monkey. What type of monkey? You know, a lot of you. Oh, I guess I'd go with one of the classics squirrel.

Oh, squirrel monkey. Skirrel monkey. Named. Squirrel. Sire. Squirrel. Squirrel sigh. Squirrel sigh.

Squirrel sigh. I love that. Sorry, no, I didn't mean, My thought was coming through on delay And Jess had already said something. It's called squirrel. What were you going to? I was going to say Simon,

but I think squirrel, squirrel, squirrel the squirrel monkey. Okay. Love that. Great, good teamwork there. Charlie Walk, I love that name. And finally for me, from Arlington, VA, Virginia. Christine Walk.

Oh, I think Christine might have given away Charlie's address. Well, I mean, maybe, but wouldn't it be crazy if they sign up at the same time, have the same surname, but aren't related? One of them lives in the fortress of the moles. Should I get to the next bit of this song? To the chicken payback monkey to the monkey back.

Back to the monkey back. Pay back the monkey. Pay back the monkey. I'm just trying to help you. I don't know what you're doing. Walrus. Walrus, do the walrus back. That's not in it, but I love it.

Waris. Oh, I love the Walrus. She's got a walrus named. Walter. Walter. Walter, Wollie for short. Walt, yes. Great.

Love that. Thank you. Walt, Wally, you call him what you like, Christine. He doesn't mind. He doesn't mind. He's dead. Imagine lugging around Walter. Walter the walrus.

He's heavy. Love their teeth. He ain't heavy. He's my walrus. He's my Walter Gosh, that's beautiful. He ain't heavy. I would love to thank some people now.

He's my Walter. Okay, go on. I'd like to thank from Edmonton in... What are we looking at here? In Canada. Canada. I would like to thank Sandy Paha. I think the Edmonton Oilers, would I be correct in that day?

Yes, that's right. I've got the prodigy parody shirt. That's right. Sandy Pahar. From Edmonton. Crab. Oh, crab. I love a crab.

Sandy crab. Her pet's named after her. Love that. Yeah, her pet crab is also named Sandy. It does get a little confusing. I want to clarify that the crab is dead. But it's named Sandy. Yes.

Oh. Which one of us is the crab? The dead one. Oh, that was close. On your Sandy. Almost killed Sandy. Good luck with your crab. I would like to thank now from Byram in MS now.

Is that Mississippi? Mississaota, Minnesota. Oh, my goodness. Philo Missouri's M-Z. That's come. We're looking at Mississippi. M-I-S-D-I-S-D-I-S-P-I-B-I. You threw me.

Mine's better. M-I-D-S-R-D-S-A-D-D-P-E-I. I learned that from Alvin and the Chickmunks. I learnt mine from Explorapedia. It was an educational computer game. I loved it. Back in my day, The only educational computer game was Alvin and the chipmunks.

Well, from Mississippi, it's Keiana Jackson. Keanu. A fantastic name. Keanu Jackson. I mean, all of them have been fantastic once again. A toucan. Oh, that's great. I love two cans.

They're very cool. Two can't bird. Named. Terry. Terry as well. Fantastic. Terry the toucan. That's great.

Thank you, Keanu. And finally, for me, I would like to thank from County, Dublin. Ola McGraw. I think Ola McGraw might be my favourite listener name. I've got so many favourites, but Ola McGra, what a fantastic name. Ola is fantastic. I love all. I don't know her.

I think Ola McGrath is the first Ola I knew. Now there's an Ola who just won the AFLW Grand Final. Oh, cool. And I'm like, now I know two Ollers. And I just think it's a fucking sick name. It's great. Ola. Yeah.

Amazing name. Really good. And, and, an animal for all of? Octopus. Owl. Oh. An octopus owl named Marsha.

Oh, that's nice. Is it an octopus that can fly? Yes. Or an underwater, a winged. A bird that can swim. Underwater bird. Penguin style. Yeah.

That's a penguin. Is it a penguin? Early days I went, I didn't know. They're like, what is this? Underwater bird. Some sort of an octopus owl. A little flying octopus. But it is a penguin.

It's an octopus. It's lost four of its legs. Alamagra. Marsha, the penguin. I love penguins. My favourite bird, I think. Myrican. Myth's penguin.

What's your favourite bird? Myr penguin. I haven't thought about it. Hmm. I like cockatoos. They're beautiful. Oh, yeah, they're okay. I like owls.

They're fun. I like birds. I like those little owls. They're cool. I like Rosellas. Yeah, they're pretty good. They're lovely. Nice colors.

I like parric. A macaw? I really love a willie wagg tail. Oh, I love Willie Wagg tails. A lot of personality for how small they are. Their tail is so ridiculous. They just go, beep, beep, beep, beep. Yeah, they go flying in and out.

I like, what about a fairy wren? Oh, yeah. Okay. Beautiful little bird. A blue bird. Oh, you've made it creepy. We're just talking about nice little birds. Oh, I think you made it creepy.

I was talking about a beautiful little bird. You went very deep and said a beautiful little bird. You looked deep in my eye and you said that. I'll stop saying it. I love that fairy ren, a beautiful bird. Get out of our eyes. Get out of my eyes. Now we're all horny.

I'm going to have to watch the mummy. Not the Brendan Fraser movie, even though that also turns me on. But I do, no, I love penguins. I reckon penguins are fantastic. Favorite bird. There I said it. Well, that leaves us with nothing else to do, but to induct a few members into the Triptage Club.

But before I do that, I should quickly just rethink the names, I think is what I normally do. Rethank them. Rethank them. We had Ola, Kiana, Sandy, Christine, Charlie, Dustin, Nathan, Will and Jasmine. What a beautiful crop of names. Good luck. Good luck with your dad. Look, where I forgot.

I killed. They're all so beautiful. Dave, I mean, can we not, can you recode them so all those animals live up? They all get resurrected. Okay. They're all fine. They all respawn. They'll have a nice time, but they are definitely dead for a bit there.

Hey, hey, if we're on to the Trich Club. We are. I've got the laptop here. I'm willing to step up if you will trust me. I would really appreciate it. I've already fucked up the fact quota question by calling it the Tritnitch Club, but I reckon I can bring it home if you trust me. Yeah.

So Dave, you room out. I'm going to hype you. Jess, you hype Dave and then I'll hype Jess. Is that how we do it? No, Jess will hype the people being brought in. Oh, I don't want to do that. Oh, so I'm hyping them then. You hype the people and I'll hype you.

Okay, fantastic. That sounds good. But before we get to that, I can only assume Christaberg has been contacted. Could you book him? We've booked a Christaberg. If not, if he's unavailable, we've got Australia's number on Christopher tribute. So you play all two hits? Oh, he knows them both.

He knows them both. And he knows the words, most of the words of the second one. So maybe let me quickly explain this part for anyone listening who doesn't know it. If you're a supporter of this show on the shout-out level or above for three straight years, then you get inducted into the Triptitch Club, which is a beautiful. room. It's sort of much like the Qantas Club at the airport where you get to go in and just

put your feet up. Amri-Lex. There's a spa in there. There's a masseuse area. Much like the Qantas Club. Yeah, there's a, you know, you've got a buffet. Yeah. There's a beautiful bar. Jess is behind the bar. She comes up with a brand new cocktail or not necessarily brand new

but keeps updating the menu every week. Have you brought in a new cocktail this week? Yeah, we've got the wow cocktail, it's a special this one. is whiskey, oxygen, whiskey. Wow. Oh, wow. You will get fucked.

Fuck, yeah. Yeah. And any sort of hors d'oeuvres? Yeah, Krista burgers. Made by Australia's number one, Kristaberg Tribune Act. He's also a chef. Yeah. They're pretty average.

Oh, that's exciting. Both in song and in burger. And the way it works is Dave is standing on the door. He's got the velvet rope. He's ready to lift it up. He's got his clipboard with a few. names on the guest list. If you're on the list, he will let you in as,

and you don't even have to be wearing the right shoes. He'll let you iners. As long as your name's on the list, you can come on in. And then once you come in this week, normally Dave does this job, hyping up. So you come in feeling on top of the world. Not only have you been led into the club, I'm going to give you a little compliment

based on either your name or your place of residence. And then to make me feel good, because often these don't go that well. Jess will come in. And then lift me back up. That's right. Because I'm very strong. How many have we got coming in today?

We've got six hot names. Six, a half D. Love a half D. Sometimes a D is too much. Damn right. Sometimes you don't want a full D. Yeah. Per of that before.

So it just gives a half. Minimum D. Minimum D. That makes Dahl. Sometimes it's maximum, but not to know. A couple of potato cakes and minimum D. A couple of dimmies for the drive home. What is wrong with her?

What is just thinking that? What is wrong with her? We've got six names. Matt's going to hype him. Just going to hype Matt. I'm blanking them on. Here we go. Beautiful, beautiful world.

I would like to thank, first of all, and welcome into the club. From Arundel in Queensland. It's Bonnie Dixon. Bonnie Dixon from Queensland. You're my queen. Welcome in. Yes, you're my queen, Boundoo! Boom!

From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Please welcome Ashley Van Morrick. Hey, you're Ashley Van Moorish to me. Can't get enough of you. Welcome in. Yum, yum, yum. Woo! From Q in New South Wales, it's Michael Kenden.

Michael Ken Dundon. You're a work of art to me, baby. You're a national special. I would like to thank from Hammondville in New South Wales, Will Thurston. Oh, Will Thirsten. You're making me thirsty. You're so beauty, not your value. Welcome in.

Drink him up. I'd like to thank from Woodland Hills in California, I.A. It's Jeremy Swade. Jeremy Swade, you feel beautiful to touch. You're giving me a wood. Oh, welcome in. Too much. All right, not your value, not your value.

Beautiful to touch, but keep in your pants, mate. I would like to think, finally. From Cremorne in New South Wales, it's Craig Scrobeck. Craig Scroobeck. I will not mourn your entry. I will celebrate it. Welcome in. Let's party till door.

Yes, come on till dawn. Great work. It is. I've got to say, you make it look easy, Dave. It feels more difficult. Oh, I like this. We all have a go. It feels for collaborative and...

I'm not having a go. Are you having a go? You haven't got me? That was great. That was fun. I think finally, after five years, we've figured out how to do it. Well done, everyone. I mean, I can't help but feel a little offended by you saying,

But that was fun. That was fun. That was fun. Dave, you read them out beautifully. Hats off to whoever's. Janine. Janine. Janice. Janice, doing a great job.

She's kept Max off. I think Max has gone to bed. Her 10-year-old son who kept getting on the long. Fuck off, Max. It's a bit late for Max. Yeah. It's a bit late for us, so we better go. Yeah.

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