Podiots - Podiots: Episode 1 - Hi Evelyn

Episode Date: March 6, 2018

We're here with our very first real episode! Buckle up. Michael brings the stories from his internet youth, Peter talks hedge-loving ghost beasties, and Ben plays an MP3. FINALLY, there are some ques...tions from you fine folks. We're proudly sponsored by Turtle Beach! Get the Turtle Beach Headsets we wear: http://bit.ly/vidiotsbeach YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vidiotsofficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/VidiotsOfficial Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vidiotsofficial Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vidiotsofficial Follow the gang on Twitter: Ben: @Confused_Dude Peter: @ThatPeterAustin Michael: @ParrotBoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:48 Hey, Dave, come in. Dave, come in. Come in, Dave. Dave, Dave. What do you want? What are you doing, Dave? Do you doing, Dave? Does anybody need some tea? Yes. Yes. Do you wear some tea? Yes, please, Dave. Yes, please, Dave.
Starting point is 00:01:00 I've just opened a Rio Tropical, but thank you very much. It goes really well with tea. Does it? Yeah. Dave, will you take this fresh bottle of water and I want you to pour it down the sink and then fill a new one and bring it back? Absolutely. Thank you, Dave. He doesn't have any hands.
Starting point is 00:01:14 He doesn't have any hands. Oh my God, Ben. I just expect... What are you doing? Stop telling us plans. I expect better of Dave. Oh my God. Right back.
Starting point is 00:01:23 Thanks, Dave. That was Dave. Oh, Dave. Thanks, Dave. What a guy. At Dave on Twitter. He got that, he got that one. He got that one.
Starting point is 00:01:33 He was there early. How early would you have to be on Twitter to get that handle? Because you have to work for Twitter. The family is Jack. Yeah. That was something that I always found fascinating. It goes back to playing RuneScape and things. It's like just wanting the username Batman.
Starting point is 00:01:50 How early would you have to be just to be Batman? Oh, on RuneScape, Batman, just add me, Batman. Or Spider-Man. Or something like that. I really want to know. I want to have a look, like, be able to search usernames and see when they were claimed. The thing is, you have to know when a game is going to be popular. Like, you have to get these names.
Starting point is 00:02:07 Like, Runecape, for example, you would have to be so early that it was pre-popular RuneScape. You know what I mean? So essentially what you have to do is head your bets, and every new game that comes out that could feasibly be popular. Right. To go and register Batman. Exactly. Not even the ones that feasibly popular. Just any game, any and all games.
Starting point is 00:02:24 By every game on Steam, bam. That's not your game. I've never played much runescape I feel like I really missed that train I tried I got on Trailing Island and I found it too hard to get off Training Island I feel like the first
Starting point is 00:02:37 hurdle I think it was like something about doing spells I was thinking about runescape earlier and I think I'm gonna instill well yeah it crosses my mind at least once an hour I was I think I'm going to install old school runescape on my work computer
Starting point is 00:02:50 and play it when you guys aren't sorry you can't ruin escape oh nice Just peek this microphone Yes Good Well that's where we're going to sync the audio And I suppose it's time to start
Starting point is 00:03:03 Oh is it Let's roll the intro sound music Dot MP3 That's not That's not it's not Well I don't have my thing I need to go and just copy and paste some text Okay do you want to go then
Starting point is 00:03:15 Michael and I will just get started By Paul Johnson Right bye Peter Bye Ben Bye Ben Bye good Ben Thank you Fuck Pete
Starting point is 00:03:25 Peter Austin, am I right? Fuck that guy. The door's not even shut. That's a really quiet sentence. I was hoping for just a little noise there. I can't talk bad about Peter. He's a lovely man. Should we start it without him? Yeah, fuck it.
Starting point is 00:03:38 Should we just do it? Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of Poddiots, the official podcast of the Vidiates YouTube channel. I'm Ben I'm Michael and where's Peter Who knows Maybe he won't come back
Starting point is 00:03:59 Oh I know what the problem is His chair is too low to the ground And he's too far away from the Michael He can barely reach it on Peter I can Peter Here he is Hello I'm Peter Austin Oh down you go
Starting point is 00:04:11 There he goes That's what he sounds like Oh he's just run out of the room To get some books So you can now sit on them To reach the microphone Yes I'm sure he'll be back soon Now many of you
Starting point is 00:04:21 I assume have come from the YouTube channel if you've just found this on iTunes I'm so sorry this is going to make even less sense but this is something that we've been wanting to do for a while and it's just going to have a nice relaxed improvisational feel and tone to it
Starting point is 00:04:36 a lovely little chat we're going to do it fortnightly so it should be out every other Tuesday so your ears can be filled with our noises oh here he is he's brought his books quick Peter put down your books so you can be closer to the microphone that's it stack the sound of my books there he is oh he's joined us
Starting point is 00:04:52 Hello, I'm Ben I'm Michael And I'm nearly late I'm Peter Hey You're exactly when you intended to be here Yeah A tiny wizard is always
Starting point is 00:05:04 Exactly on time You couldn't see your tiny watch You didn't know what to get here No It's too small even for you Didn't we have a pun We were doing puns and jokes earlier A timely wizard
Starting point is 00:05:13 A time Yeah that's it Timely Peter Timely Peter Timely Peter I like that Yeah that was the one But you're not
Starting point is 00:05:19 Obviously No I'm like the little white rabbit From Alice in Wonderland tiny and late and white and white very white and a bit of a racist
Starting point is 00:05:29 yeah he is he is in that film you know that deleted scene where he's just like black faces and dances around the room seagulling all over the place yeah terrible awful absolutely terrible oh my phone just between my legs
Starting point is 00:05:44 a nice tingly sensation I was deliberate clearly I put that on the floor over there so it's out of the way people wondering what they can expect from this part I don't really know what to say. We've got a couple of audience questions we'll go over at the end.
Starting point is 00:05:57 We've also all brought something in to talk about. Like show and tell. Just tell and tell them. Yeah. Tell and ask. Before we get started, though, I'd like to thank Turtle Beach
Starting point is 00:06:10 for providing us with the wonderful headphones that we're wearing right now. Wow. You can go to bit.ly forward slash vidiots Beach in order to sort of click up that algorithm and show that people are wanting to buy headphones after we told them to.
Starting point is 00:06:24 We're responsible for you spending money. What you should do. Don't you forget it? It's on Sundays. It's a nice, you've got nothing to do all day, so just go on to our video descriptions and click every single
Starting point is 00:06:34 Turtle Beach advert on there. So the people think we're doing really well. I'm sure this is not a breach of contract. I think they still want purchases as well. I mean, we could do that. I do it about 500 times a day. Every time I open a new tab, I first browse to
Starting point is 00:06:48 potentially not allowed to do that. Yeah, as I was saying, I'm thinking this is probably, not legal, but YouTube, are you? No, if you match or refresh on YouTube, YouTube knows that you're doing it and you can get in trouble for you. I remember I did that one, so uploaded it was like, I think when Black Ops was announced, I downloaded the trailer
Starting point is 00:07:04 and put it on YouTube, so I don't know why, so I just refreshed it for like 10 minutes, and it got stuck at 302 views and to this day, like five years on, it's still on 302 views. So I think they locked me down. You just put in the sin bin forever. Yeah, you're not allowed any more views. You've ruined it for everyone. To be allowed out. Well, Well, should we kick this thing off?
Starting point is 00:07:23 Who wants to go first with the weird thing that they've brought in? I want my E to go first. Oh, okay. Okay. So, well, see, you ask to bring in weird things. Right. Sort of metaphorically, not physically. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:07:34 Have you brought... I brought in a little tiny frog with a hat. Oh, my God, he's just got his dick out in the table. Jesus. What the hell? Peter, quit run. Run, Peter. It's coming for you.
Starting point is 00:07:44 Literally. You said bring things in. I've just brought a topic of discussion. Yeah, that's fine. that falls under the umbrella. No, that's what I've done too. I'll allow it. Let's talk about our early days on the internet.
Starting point is 00:07:56 What did we do? What was our favourite websites? How did we become the internet goblins we are today? Right. I'm trying to think the year I think I first got the internet was 2005. Wow. And I spent most of my time either on the Cartoon Network website playing flash games or on funnyjunk.com looking at memes and pictures.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Yeah. And I think from there, I think that was kind of like my early days of the internet and then I started to get my creative grounds, my footings in the creative industry. And then I started going on cheesy art, which was no one thought plentiful amounts of furry of furry porn. Wow, was that the reason? Nope, it just happened to be there. Actually, no, I lied.
Starting point is 00:08:32 It was Newgrounds first, which had a plentiful amount of hentai games. Not the reason I was on there, but it was a nice benefit. I promise, officer, it's purely circumstantial. It's all fine. Yeah, I started making flash animations for Newgrounds. There were some classic flash animations on New Grounds. Yeah, it was amazing. I think it was a, it's such a good website back in this day.
Starting point is 00:08:51 It's still good to this day. The end of Zy World, remember that one? End of the good one. And also the Lemon Demon, Neil Cicero. Yeah, yeah. That's where I first found. You know, that's a showdown of Ultimate Destiny. That was incredible.
Starting point is 00:09:03 That's got millions of views on that website. It's a real relic. I only discovered that, like, I think since we've been at Yog's cast, you mentioned it, like, in our, like, second or third week. You just said that, like, I'd never seen it. And Ben mentioned it in, like, our third week. Well, you remember you showed it to me, like, just after we'd come here. Sure, it wasn't a name redacted?
Starting point is 00:09:23 It may have been a name redacted, but it was pretty recently. It was like a few months back. Man. And, yeah, I thought it was great. I'd never seen it before. It blew my mind. It had everyone in it. I think I'd heard a bit that, like, you know, there was this thing where everyone's facing
Starting point is 00:09:37 off with everyone else. And I was like, yeah, it sounds familiar. Power Rangers and Holy Grail and the Holy Grail and the Holy Grails, Black Knight. Yeah. And Mussolini, I don't know the word, it's been too long. Blue Meenie. Yeah. I can't remember any of the words of it.
Starting point is 00:09:51 But I did once make a fan animation for Neil Cicenna one of the Neil Cicerega's songs. Oh, wow. I've got some falling to do as the name of the song, I think. Right. Do you want to explain, because we're all big fans. I was introduced by Pete Ostos. Neil Cisariga.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Who is he? Best known for creating the Potter Puppet Pals. Yes. Yeah, I think he's most famous thing. But beyond that, he's got a wealth of just incredible creation. He's always popping up through internet history, like me. It's consistently, like, yeah, from literally him being a kid, he's been at the top of the internet. He's the same guy all the time.
Starting point is 00:10:24 Consistently, it's magic. You sort of go, oh, he did that. Oh, he did that as well. Like, he also did the races of Star Wars. That was him. Yes. The cuddly woodies. The cuddly woodies.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah. He's consistently been hitting home runs, like viral home runs since he was literally 12. He's a wonderful man. I love him. Would you say that your favorite examples of his work are the musical remixes that he has known albums? Yes. He's done three now? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:49 There's three mouths. Mouth moods, mouth sounds and mouth silence. And they're free and they're remixes, but they're really stupid remixes and mashups that are just brilliant. If you haven't listened to any of the Mouth saga, I do highly recommend it. It's just so good. I think there was a streak of about three months where it was all I listened to was the albums. It's shuffling. It's endless fun.
Starting point is 00:11:11 It's magic. It's true magic. What about Will Smith's M.I.Bs? I think that's my favorite. some of his. Bees, where he just cuts out random words. Bees, bees. And then the sound effect of bees buzzing. Bees.
Starting point is 00:11:26 What that stand for? Bees. Men in bees. Bees. Is this going to be us reciting our favourite songs now? I think so. Well, you've put us on this rabbit hole. Yeah, shit. I don't really know what my next point was. But anyway, you're here now. You made it here and now you can put out your weirdness for other people to actually.
Starting point is 00:11:58 God, and it pays the rent. Isn't that? Isn't that stupid? What a world. That is ridiculous. This is me earning rent money right now talking about my childhood on the internet. That's when I was a kid. You know, when I was a little boy, I said, when I grew up, I won't be talking shit about all the hentai and fairy porn I looked out.
Starting point is 00:12:17 when I was a kid. This is the vision I had for this podcast as well. At least two mentions of hentai a week. Don't ask me to do anything. Like, ask me to bring a topic, oh, I'm going to talk about fairies and hentai. Let's talk hentai. Unintentionally.
Starting point is 00:12:31 This is my second time in like the space of a week mentioning fairies. Is it? Yeah, I mentioned them in the mouse video. Yeah, I suppose at least yourself aware. If it was something that other people had picked up and like, that Michael sure does talk a lot about people who dress up as animals
Starting point is 00:12:47 and then fuck each other then I think we might have a bit more of an issue could it could it though is there ever not a sexual element to that oh is it literally a sexual attraction
Starting point is 00:12:59 I think that's what furry is there's cosplaying and dressing up and then there's furries I mean furies let us know I'm not belittling I'm genuinely just interested I'm an ignorant little man I'm currently on my phone
Starting point is 00:13:12 on one of the earliest websites I used to visit Oh what was that Just a really not particularly popular, very specific game, flash game like website called Gprime.net. Gprime.com. Wow. Forward slash games.
Starting point is 00:13:27 And there's just a list of, oh, it's not been updated for a long time. Yeti Olympics are on there, Yeti Sports, gold miner, kit and cannon. God, oh, this brings back memories. Oh, do you ever play Falling Girl? No. It was just this weird rag doll girl who happened to be in a bikini. Right. Just falling forever.
Starting point is 00:13:46 and there are all these like round bubble shapes that she like bounced off and you could like grab her and like throw her around I think I remember something like that actually like the bubbles I think might be like a similar one called like bubble boy or something but it's literally like a man made of bubbles
Starting point is 00:14:00 falling through other bubbles oh yeah well she was she was just a normal human sort of weirdly photorealistic just falling and she would just like bash into these things and it was just like a bottomless pit there was no scoring system it was just like a physics ragdog game
Starting point is 00:14:15 and you lost years of your life to that that consumed your childhood yeah it was I got a weird game you ever play that call of duty that what that call of duty what's that do you fall in that are there any bubbles
Starting point is 00:14:28 no I don't think there's any bubbles in that one right that's a shit what's the point of playing it sounds dull yeah so that was that was where I got my flash games from just not new grounds or or any of the hit sites
Starting point is 00:14:41 Gprime dot net you don't see dot net websites anymore we should get one Do you want a dot net? Vidyats.com. I kind of want to buy Vidytsofficial. Dot xxx, because that's the fun one. You can have anything now, I think.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Yeah, you can... I wonder what the most obscure, like, domain is you can have. I'm not sure. Dot biz. I'm pretty sure you can... I'm sure I read somewhere now that, like, you're able to just totally customize the ends of a domain now. I'm not really sure how it works.
Starting point is 00:15:11 Yeah. That sounds dangerous. Vidits. dot official. Exactly. You could do that. I don't know why suddenly that's all right to do.
Starting point is 00:15:19 Yeah, I wonder was like ever rules against doing that? Like dot com, dot k, dot org. These are the ones you can have. Yeah, people just decided well, I better stick with convention. Yeah, I guess.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Yeah, I've heard somewhere that you can do that now, which is. Oh my God. Somewhere. I think you're full of shit. Yeah, I might be full of shit. A citation needed.
Starting point is 00:15:35 I don't know. Your citation is somewhere. I might have heard somewhere. Yeah. Possibly, who knows, I don't know? Yeah. Shut up.
Starting point is 00:15:41 What? Let us know. on Twitter or in the comments of the YouTube video Leave a five star review on iTunes and state all the possible subdomains and domains you could have
Starting point is 00:15:53 Every single one, list it Just copy and paste Is anything else you did? What got you here? What do you do? Well, what got me here, that's a different thing I mean that was some years into my Yes, a car, no a bike
Starting point is 00:16:05 It was a bicycle this morning We're in Bristol, everyone bikes here, yeah Yeah But no, some years into my internet experience I started doing videos on YouTube. In fact, it began doing remix style things that, you know the ones I've done already that are on YouTube,
Starting point is 00:16:21 but I started doing those with my friends, like videos that we'd taken at school, like at lunchtime. And I would, like, remix my friends just, like, yelling, screaming and just saying stuff. And then I think just one day I decided to do one for the Oggscast because no one was really doing fan music for the Yogscast back then. It was in like the, it was probably around like episode 40 of Shadow of Israfal. And that's sort of where it all began.
Starting point is 00:16:51 And I just started doing more and more of that kind of shit. And then the Oggscast put out an APB and said, We want that one. We want that guys. Bring that boy. So any of your like original old school remixes exist anyway on the internet? Well, they're completely gone. I don't think I ever put them on, I never put them online, but I do have them all.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Backed up on a hard You see that was my mistake As a kid I never backed up anything At most I put some videos on a CD To take my grandma's assure And that's it Everything else was put on putfile.com
Starting point is 00:17:20 Before the days of YouTube I couldn't put it on YouTube So now put file's redundant It's gone So all of my childhood's lost All of it It's not a single You never had one
Starting point is 00:17:29 I don't remember any of it No I need because I've got a bad memory I need these physical On put file I'm going to tattoo myself covered in all happy memories So I'm like
Starting point is 00:17:37 Oh yeah I remember that You should That should do that What about you, Ben? What's your early internet experience? Well, like many others, I'm sure you guys remember the... Oh, of course. Mom! Mom, get off the phone.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Yeah, that was pretty much it. So it was the dial-up for the longest time. I remember watching Beast Wars in cartoon form. Yeah. I think I told you guys this. I watched Beast Wars. The CGI version. I can't remember.
Starting point is 00:18:08 Yeah, it was like CG. It was so long ago, I don't know what it was. but it was an offshoot of Transformers where it was Beasts what turned into Roboots Yes You were watching videos on dial-up Fuck! No, no, no, no I was going to say
Starting point is 00:18:18 I'm not told yet Okay, sorry Ben So basically There was, I don't know why I said basically Like I'm about to explain How the fucking internet works But there was a website Have you heard of these things called packets
Starting point is 00:18:29 It's called WebSight And they listed the website for Beast Wars And I thought, I want to go there Yeah That sounds of We've got that internet that means I can get more out of my television television watching, exactly
Starting point is 00:18:44 so then I tried to memorize this ridiculous link that they had Was it really long? Yeah, it was stupid. Even in the early days. Just go to www.w.w.bastwores.com forward slash TV, forward slash watch, and they included like the dot php and all that sort of shit.
Starting point is 00:19:01 I was like, ah! Ah! So I went to my mum and I said, I really want to go to this website, but I can't remember what the website was. She was like, beastwors.com And it loaded fine. So I don't know what that was about. Did he need a lot of less than that day. Yeah, I really did. Albinoblacksheep.com.
Starting point is 00:19:18 Oh, yeah. Went there a lot for Flash stuff. That was another classic. Including a prank that my friend pulled on me. Oh my God. Where he, it was one of those spooky ones that I didn't realize. And I'm really bad and scary stuff. And you have to put the headphones on.
Starting point is 00:19:32 And it was sort of like this ominous, oh, sort of monk chanting background music. and like a creepy thing displayed on screen and it's the Lord's Prayer read backwards and it got like halfway through and I was like what is this and then it just goes and like shit comes up on the screen
Starting point is 00:19:50 and that fucked me up really bad yeah that's the kind of thing I need to scar I did not enjoy that but apart from that Rhincape do you remember that oh of course yeah
Starting point is 00:19:59 I mean I played a bit of Rhinxcape as well do you remember that dot maze when it gets really narrow you have to put your face really close to it and the car one as well And the car one, my dad showed me that one. The zombie just walks off the screen. It's the noise.
Starting point is 00:20:12 It's the noise about everything else that does it. See, after my dad showed me that, I never trusted them again. Really? Yeah, no, that was it. He was done to his dead years. That's the thing. These spooky videos, they don't really exist anymore. No.
Starting point is 00:20:25 They're making a comeback because of shit Facebook videos. I've seen a few of them come up recently where people tag their mates and go, and it's just shit. Like it's really bad crap content Speaking of Facebook Holy fuck do I hate Facebook Oh boy People are now posting
Starting point is 00:20:44 Like memes as videos But it's just It's just a static image That is purely to get ad revenue isn't it It is yeah Because it'll have like 12 million views Because people will be like oh what's this It's just a static photo
Starting point is 00:20:57 That fucking does my head in Facebook is kind of a black hole of anything It needs to die For those of you who do like our page on Facebook but thank you very much. Yes, thank you very. It is just a big, it's like a big collage that was done by the idiot kid at school, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:21:12 They've just cut out everything. Yeah, exactly. Mark Zuckerberg, more like Mark fuckerberg. Oh, yeah. You hear that Mark, I'm coming for you, bitch. Have you seen that Facebook showing off their new VR tech? I was like a room full of people, just with the masks on. No, it's not that one.
Starting point is 00:21:30 But they appear in, they've got this 3D camera on top of a car driving through where was it probably San Francisco Puerto Rico after all the devastation Oh shit yeah
Starting point is 00:21:41 and like there's it's fucking awful but it's just they clearly had no idea what they were doing it was live as well there's Mark Zuckerberg and the head of their
Starting point is 00:21:51 like VR stuff with it as well and they're both there in avatar form like think Xbox 360 Avatar and they stood there with this camera and they're rotating it around
Starting point is 00:22:00 and as you can see you're like I'm moving my hand and it's moving around in the thing as well oh i can smile too look and there's like anyway here's like a bridge that's collapsed just a devastate it's the worst thing i've ever seen but they're like laughing and joking and showing off their new tech and going
Starting point is 00:22:17 yeah it's really bad out here but they could have gone anywhere they could have gone anywhere i think it's just because they're facebook and they can show off that look we look in the midst of all right in syria exactly we've got our bullshit VR camera all the way to syria fucking hell go go to syria mark succor and do it in person, you coward. Just give them some of your money instead. Don't just turn up with a 3D camera and go,
Starting point is 00:22:38 oh, I'm in Puerto Rico. The most amazing thing is I'm at our global headquarters and she's over in our research thing and like in the midst of this horror and destruction. Like, we're all safe. We're not even here. It's a bit like class tourism, isn't it? Like common people.
Starting point is 00:22:58 Like, here I am. Look at them. This is what it's like to be here. No, it isn't. They're wearing maybe a small portion of local dress. I understand the problems. No, you don't. You're in a studio in California park.
Starting point is 00:23:12 In an air-conditioned room. You robot man. And after this, you get a drive back to your mansion and probably a Tesla. Yeah. Probably. He's got a Facebook car as well. Has he? Wow.
Starting point is 00:23:22 I think so. Run on the tears of children across the internet. Yeah, absolutely. I think that's what he does. Well, that was a great thing, Mikey. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that into play. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:23:33 Peter? Thank you. Do you want to go first or shall I? Yeah, I've got, I've brought a special... Oh, what's he whipping out? That's a phone. Peter's brought his phone. Oh, my phone.
Starting point is 00:23:42 What is it, Peter? What do you do with a phone? It's my phone, and on it, I have a story I wish to tell you. Okay. Do we be quiet and just listen? I want to hear your reactions as we go. Okay. I want to hear what you're feeling.
Starting point is 00:23:55 Did you write this from scratch? No, no, no. This is a true story. Is it a news story? No. Right. It's an old story. Is it an anecdote?
Starting point is 00:24:04 No. Is it... This is a story all about how. Okay. Is it... You're going to guess the exact story. Is it about how that fire alarm was fitted right there in this room? No.
Starting point is 00:24:16 No, it's not. Okay, I can't. I don't know. Okay. In September 1931... Okay, that was... I was close. That fire alarm was missing.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. In September 1931, the Irving family who lived near Dolby on the Isle of Man claimed they heard persistent scratching and vocalizations in the wall of their farmhouse. Okay. Allegedly, the culprit eventually introduced itself as Jeff and told them
Starting point is 00:24:42 it was a mongoose born in New Delhi, India in 1852. What? Right. How did he get there? What? Was there a ghastly? What did you mean? How did he get there? He's a talking mongoose, and your question is, how did he get there? It's really expensive.
Starting point is 00:24:58 Because he was born in New Delhi. Why shall I be questioning a talking mongoose? This is a true story. I believe that. Right. I mean, how much of this is true? So this is all reported by the Irving family to tabloids in 1931. Okay, tabloids, right. So Jeff introduced himself as a mongoose born in New Delhi, India.
Starting point is 00:25:14 Did he introduce him like, I'm Jeff? Yes. Okay. So before you continue, I don't know if you'll go on to clarify this. Is this, is Jeff a physical entity? Is he an actual physical real-life mongoose, or is it... The ghost of a mongoose. Exactly, a mongoast that's just in the walls.
Starting point is 00:25:32 that they can sort of try and communicate. Well, the Irvings say, Jeff described himself as, quote, an extra, extra clever mongoose. I'm very, very smart. An earthbound spirit, and a ghost in the form of a mongoose. Okay, so they've definitely not seen Jeff.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Well, they're just communicating. And he once said, I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet. And if you saw me, you'd faint. You'd be petrified, mummified, turned into stone, or a pillar of salt. What?
Starting point is 00:26:04 Okay, I was with you, a pillar of salt bread. This was all reported and claimed to be true. The Irvings are on some, like, wild, wild shit. Well, the family claimed that Jeff guarded their house and informed them of the approach of guests
Starting point is 00:26:17 or any unfamiliar dog. Not people. Yeah. No, a dog that they'd not been introduced to before. Right. They said if someone had forgotten to put out the fire at night, Jeff would go down and stop the stove.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Jeff would also allegedly wake people up when they overslept the mongoose alarm right so we wouldn't physically go shove them it just make a noise I don't know it doesn't say that's the thing that I'm most interested in is if there's like this human hand
Starting point is 00:26:46 and footed mongoose wondering around well the weird thing you know so he says that you would basically die if you saw me but as the story develops it turns out that at some point they did start to just see him it doesn't say exactly where or when okay but so the Irving say that they gave
Starting point is 00:27:02 Jeff's biscuits, chocolate and bananas, leaving the food for him in a saucer suspended from the ceiling. Why? I guess he's a ghost. He can reach it. Yeah. He can just float. I don't know if he can fly. But he can eat physical foods. Yeah, do ghosts have that ability to eat physical foods? I guess interact with reality. It's a very powerful.
Starting point is 00:27:18 Mongosts do. They even claim that the mongoose regularly accompanied them on trips to the market. Oh, cute. But it always stayed on the other side of the hedge. See, that's the level of detail that we needed. Yeah, now I can leave it.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Louis Hedges all the way to the market from their house. He's conveniently never seen. Yeah. Was it just some time traveller who's fucking with an MP3 player or something? Just a guy in like a super high-tech military camo suit. Right. He's walking along just a just a morph suit, a green morph suit.
Starting point is 00:27:50 Carrying on from the points where he ate bananas and chocolates and biscuits, do you think of a ghost eat real food? Does it do ghost poos or real poos? Oh my God, definitely ghost poos. Yeah. Definitely ghost poos. I don't know. Can food turn into ghost pooh food? I think so. Well, you just have to want it enough.
Starting point is 00:28:05 Yeah, I guess. It's like anything in life, yeah. But then what happens to, so say, say a ghost laid out a ghost poo on the floor. Yeah. But does it just stay there forever? You have to like some of the, you can't move it. You can't move it. You can't move it. You got to hire a ghost caretaker and, and you got to get a priest to, the ghost caretaker will need a ghost wife.
Starting point is 00:28:27 Yeah. Yeah. Or a ghost husband. Let's not be ghost sex. Ghostest. Ghosts. Ghostaphobic, gomaphobic, gomaphobic. Yeah. That was a really difficult pun, the tabloids love the story, of course. I mean, we love it. I'd print it in millions of newspapers.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Several other people, both locals and visitors, claimed to have heard Jeff's voice, and two, claimed to have seen him. Now, interestingly... They're not pillars of salt, though. No, they're not. I don't know how it happened, what went down there. But do you think Jeff sounded like...
Starting point is 00:28:59 I like to think he was really well-spoken. Oh, hello, I'm Jeff. Hello, I'm a mongoose born in new... Maybe he had an Indian accent, let's not do one. Yeah, let's not do that. I'd like to think there were bits of mongoose noises thrown in there itself. Is that what the mongoose sounds like?
Starting point is 00:29:13 Yeah, it was like, um, uh, Alexander Oloff. He had like a... Oh. Mirtav Movies. It's a free plug. Now, interestingly, the Irving's way was able to provide footprints, hair samples, and stains on the wall as evidence
Starting point is 00:29:31 of Jeff, but all were identified as belonging to the Irving sheepdog mona. So it might be that they were just really, really confused, and they thought that their sheep dog was a mongoose. You have to be really confused. I feel like there's something in the air
Starting point is 00:29:47 possibly. Did they have a gas system in those days? Like a carbon monoxide thing, maybe. Yeah, like a real incomplete combustion problem. That is actually what happened. That is an explanation for a lot of ghost sightings, carbon monoxide poisoning. There are symptoms that cause, like, hallucinations and, like, feelings of dread and fear.
Starting point is 00:30:09 So if you go down into, like, a creepy basement and there's an old boiler there leaking carbon monoxide, it can cause you to essentially have a ghostly experience. Oh, my God. That was a Simpsons episode as well, where Ned Flaners opens up a religious-themed theme park, and there's a statue with, like, a leak pipe underneath it, and everyone's, like, seeing visions in front of it and going, oh, my God. That's amazing. The Simpsons have truly done everything.
Starting point is 00:30:31 I was going to say it sounds like a recent episode. Yeah, it was definitely poor season 10. It's a... Oh, dear. Not great. Not great. Oh, dear. Now, there's a... Not such a nice ending to this story. Oh, no. Did it kill Mona? After Father of the House, James Irving died.
Starting point is 00:30:44 The farmhouse was bought by a Leslie Graham who claimed in the press that he had shot and killed Jeff. Oh, what? Leslie! Leslie Graham... How is that even possible? Claimed to the tabloids that he had shot and killed Jeff. The mongoose.
Starting point is 00:30:59 The ghost... The ghost... Most, the ghost with the most, the one ghost. Yeah. Now, in 1937, writer and broadcaster, Richard S. Lambert, who was a member of the British... Say his name properly. Richard Slambert. Richard Slambert, who was a member of the British Film Institute.
Starting point is 00:31:16 Yes. Very well-to-do man. Yes, B.F. I. He brought an action for slander against Sir Cecil Levita. Oh, no, that's a name. After Levita claimed that Lambert was unfit to be on the board of the British Film Institute. Peter, Logue. Yes.
Starting point is 00:31:31 Inside, outside. Because apparently Richard Slambert had written an article about Jeff, and Lovita said that Lambert was, quote, off his head because he believed in the talking mongoose. And Lembert won the case receiving an exceptional 7,600 pounds in damages in 1937. And how much is that now? A lot. Right, thanks, Peter.
Starting point is 00:31:52 And the case became known as the mongoose case. That's literally unbelievable. But it all happened. I can't believe talking mongoose is a real They just don't see them anymore With hands and arms Well he was a special one Feet
Starting point is 00:32:06 I'm a freak he said The fact that he was just called Jeff As well GZF is how it's spelled Maybe it's Geff Geff Yeah I feel sad that he introduced himself
Starting point is 00:32:16 Like hey I'm a mongoose From Delhi I was born in the 1800s I'm a freak Yeah I've got hands and feet And if you saw me you die I'm a lover I'm a child I'm a mongoose
Starting point is 00:32:27 Let people come to your own conclusions Never labour yourself a freak. Because, I mean, Jeff seemed quite handy. He walked you up on the morning. He ate bananas and biscuits from a plate up on the ceiling. He let you know when unfamiliar dogs were approaching. If it was a dog you knew. He accompanied you to market behind cover of bush.
Starting point is 00:32:45 Always stayed behind the hedges. Just out of you. Chatting incessantly. Chasing in Cecil. Incessantly, se Cecil. Well, there you go. How did you come across that? Is this like a personal favourite story of yours or?
Starting point is 00:32:59 I just, I intend, where possible, to bring a bizarre sort of... Super, well, not, maybe not supernatural, there's some, an oddity. An odd moment of history. Your section can be called Off Peter. Peter Offstyn. Good, very, yeah, that's great. Yeah, nailed it. Welcome to Peter Offs.
Starting point is 00:33:22 Join us next time for another episode of Peter Offthfint. Ben, yeah. What did you bring today? I brought something a little, I brought an audio treat and I'm not sure how well it's going to pick up on the microphone, but I'm going to give it a go. We can edit it in. So this was something that went around, I can't remember,
Starting point is 00:33:40 maybe it was six months to a year ago. It was an image that was posted on popular meme website. Facebook. Imger. No. And it's a screenshot of a text. And it's an unsolicited text that someone just got out of the blue. Right.
Starting point is 00:33:56 And it says, hi, Evelyn. It's Bobby Babaluni. Good. It was a pleasure talking with you today. My client did book her party. However, if you're still interested in working with me, I can offer you two hours, 12 to 2 p.m. for $2.80 instead of $300.
Starting point is 00:34:12 I'll call you tomorrow morning. Thank you again. Good night. Bobby Babelis. So, immediately, Bobby Babylonie was... The hanging gardens of Bobby Babylonini. Yeah. Was Googled.
Starting point is 00:34:27 Right. Turns out, of course, Bobby Babaluni is a... An events, but... I'll stop laughing at it eventually, as a child's entertainer, it seems. Bobby Bobby. Has a website, which is babaluni.com. Dot net.
Starting point is 00:34:45 No, not dot net. They've got the dot com. It's not a very well-designed website. There you go. That's what it looks like. That doesn't stream child's entertainer, does it? It doesn't. But it's very reasonable.
Starting point is 00:34:58 They actually ended up crashing the website last time because so many people went on to it but not just because of the funny text because, and this is sad because they're getting rid of Flash soon but there's a flash plug-in for that website that auto plays a song for Bobby Babylonie.
Starting point is 00:35:19 Right. I think it's in 2020 they're getting rid of Flash so we've still got a couple of years to enjoy it. It is, you can access it directly by going to Bobbiardine, I'll read you the full address. Does he do balloon related things? She, sorry. Look at you, assuming her agenda. Don't assume any.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Sorry, Bobbs. It's going to auto play a bit of the song, but I'll try and pause it immediately so I can tell you the address. I'll cover my ears when I keep this a surprise. Okay, I've managed to pause it. Nice. So the full address is babaluni.com
Starting point is 00:35:53 forward slash uploads forward slash Babylonie underscore jingle.m.p3 good good are you guys ready I don't think I will be ready for this but yeah
Starting point is 00:36:06 lay it on me that's the balloons pumping you know welcome to the world of Babylono oh my god this is amazing things you need. Yes?
Starting point is 00:36:32 I think I know. Oh yeah. Who you gonna call? Yo! The production value on this is incredible. Now there's literally a minute and a half of this guy just... Just doing on. Bologna!
Starting point is 00:36:51 Hey, it's someone's birthday A graduation Just listen to the way you pronounce this shit It's just still only halfway through the song So this auto plays when you go on the movie for our opening We should. Oh Switch 16
Starting point is 00:37:08 In trade show A party meets by any corporate event What? So this auto plays when you go on the site It also plays when you go to babaluni.com. Now, that's pretty much it. But, oh, she's in it a bit there. Oh.
Starting point is 00:37:27 I have brought the lyrics so we could sing along. Oh, okay. However, having listened, shut up. Having listened to the whole thing. Right. It's, um, there are only four lines of song and the rest is just scatting, basically. But I thought we could, Babaluni. We could, I thought we could maybe, Peter, if you could unfil the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
Starting point is 00:37:48 lyrics so that you and so that you and Michael could see them can you see that MJ it's not much you can probably put it in on the table you'll be okay yeah right you're ready yeah you guys ready yeah
Starting point is 00:38:01 yeah yeah yeah you know I don't know I don't know when we come in no yeah it's when you'll know okay
Starting point is 00:38:15 let's go If you're having a party, I'm going to tell you what to do to score a Babylonie she'll make the party special for you. Oh, you're having a sweet 16 or maybe you're 18. We can do events openings. Oh, do you want us to christen a boat?
Starting point is 00:38:43 Oh, welcome to Babylon. Have you ever woken up in the morning and put on two of the same song. Now that's Babylonie. That's a work of art. So you don't get advertising like that much, do you? You never get like, so I'm putting the heart and soul into a song because I want Babylonie now.
Starting point is 00:39:00 Yeah. For my 24th birthday, you know, Babylonian. The 24th birthday, you want Bobby, Bobby Babylonluny. Hi, Evelyn. It's Bobby Babylon. Not even. I think I forgot that was the origin of that. Hi, Evelyn.
Starting point is 00:39:16 It's Bobby. It's Bobby, in brackets, Babylonie. Just in case you're wondering which Bobby is sending you a message about party organisations. I can do three hours for 300 quid, if you like. What I really want is to sign up. Thank you again. Bobby, Babylon. Babylon.
Starting point is 00:39:41 So there we go. you want to hear that because it's astounding. That is God, that's a work of art. I have no idea who sung that or what the brief was or how much they did. In a sort of reggae style.
Starting point is 00:40:01 Sort of Mexican-ish at times. There's a bit of Italian in there as well. It's multicultural. Just somewhere over to the west, basically. You can just do a very western song for us. Goodness me. I'm just thinking, do you ever watch Chester, Montgomery, is
Starting point is 00:40:17 just like a mini mall flea market you ever watch that yeah that's one of my other favorite advert songs it's just like
Starting point is 00:40:26 back to school these tails haircuts denim it's a different one in time it's a different one but that was like
Starting point is 00:40:33 hi Evelyn it's Bobby Babylonie here well that's what I brought today I was just browsing my phone I saw it the first time it went around but I didn't listen to the song
Starting point is 00:40:46 I think it was doing the rounds again this morning and I was laying in bed and I remembered oh shit we're doing the podcast today. I need a topic so I thought I'd just bring that along I don't know if I can find ridiculous adverts every week like people no Ben this is your thing now
Starting point is 00:41:01 fun things, fun stories Jeff the Monghost Jeff the Monghost Michael's furry porn and Benny Babaluni Can you send us some fan art on Twitter of Ben dressed as a children's entertainer? There are photos on her web
Starting point is 00:41:17 To be fair, her balloon animals are quite impressive. She has a whole gallery. I just want to Google Bobby Babylonie to see what... That's Babylonie.com. Next to Ben, me with a mongoose just on my shoulder or hovering with a saucer of chocolate. Or maybe just a mongoose's body, but with your face, hands and feet. Yeah, with human hands and feet.
Starting point is 00:41:38 I'm a freak. And then, I guess, Michael's just a dog. In a furry costume. Michael's just dressed as a dog. Having sex with the mongoose. So I'm just looking at this. This is Bobby. Babylonie, she looks far more normal than I was
Starting point is 00:41:49 exactly. She does look really normal. I was expecting like Mr. Tumble. But there's a very good balloon elmo in that picture. It is like the eyes are bulbous. Oh, Jesus Christ. She says, Bobby Baba Bulbubis. Bulbis. Balbilluany. Bobbus. I don't want to talk about
Starting point is 00:42:06 Hi, Evelyn. I don't want to talk about Babylonian. I don't want to talk about Babylonia anymore. Hi, Evelyn. It's Bobby Babylon. I want to get off Mr. Babylonian's wild line. Imagine getting that. text. Hey, what's up?
Starting point is 00:42:21 It's Bobby. Peter, I'm just going to send you a text. Give me a second. Right. Michael, do you have your phone with you? I do. Okay. Oh, we can't get back. I've got a text. Sorry, it's my phone app. Read it to the class.
Starting point is 00:42:33 It's from Ben. Hi, Peter. It's Bobby Babaluni. Oh. Who did you get texted by Michael? Oh, I got a message from Bobby Babylonini too. What does it say? Hi, Michael. It's Bobby Babylonloony. Oh, Bobby Babylonloon.
Starting point is 00:42:47 Oh, is texting everybody. You know what I'm working now, Bobby, leave it. Jesus. What are you like, Bobby? Hi, Evelyn. It's Bobby Babylon. Let's move on to some questions. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:59 Those are the three things we brought this week. We hope you guys like them. Jesus Christ. I've asked for questions. We got about 50. Good grief. We only needed five. So if you didn't get your question picked out, don't be upset.
Starting point is 00:43:12 Ask next week. Ask next week. Or don't. And just do better. There may be a reason why Ben didn't include you. yours in the list. Yeah, think about that. Yeah. Maybe we don't like you. First up, it's satin at satin sold. Hi at Satin sold. It's Bobby Babylon. It's Bobbiolini. And they ask, do you think you'll be doing anything on the Yog's main channel? TTT or anything like that?
Starting point is 00:43:37 What is TTT? That's like transport? No, Trouble and Terrorist Town. What is that? Because I see it a lot. Oh, TTT or TTT? TTT. TTT. Oh, yes. Trouble in Territus. Trouble and Territory. Gary's Maud. TDD is Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Okay. I don't know if we'll be doing things on it.
Starting point is 00:43:55 I think we certainly would if we were invited. It's definitely, like, it's definitely a possibility. Yeah. We're still early days. We're just polite, polite smiles and how we use with a lot of the people in the office. Oh, they're all lovely. They're all very nice. But we're not like, I think I can make a joke about, like, fighting your mother while playing a game for YouTube.
Starting point is 00:44:14 Yeah, like. We don't know them. that well. Fuck you, chin. I'm going to suck your dick. Oh, classic.
Starting point is 00:44:22 I'm showing one. Yeah. Yeah. Certainly, I wouldn't say it's our lack of appearance on the main channel as an indication
Starting point is 00:44:30 that we're not jelling with our friends here at the office. It's all very nice. Everyone's lovely. Yeah, everyone is lovely. And yeah, if we're ever asked,
Starting point is 00:44:38 I think we would. For now, we're just still finding our feet in a way. Yeah, we want to establish who we are first before we've come trunching onto the main channel.
Starting point is 00:44:46 But it's a lovely idea. Also, I'd let you guys down big time on PC gaming. Yeah, you need to learn to use mouse and keyboard. I just know FPS controls on PC. Not really, no. Like, I've played a few games on PC, but not many. I did, when I was doing game testing, it was for a game on PC.
Starting point is 00:45:05 So I, like, but even then, it was just vehicle controls. I don't even know if it's been announced yet. I don't know if I'm allowed to even talk about it. Whoa. There's a game coming out with vehicles. No, my God. Ben Potter has been fired. Yes, Satin, we will, hopefully at some point. And also all the people who are asking us if we're going to be streaming and stuff like that,
Starting point is 00:45:28 I think we just need to know what we're going to be streaming. There are slots available. Next up is Duncan Wallace. Hello, Duncan. It's Bobby Babylonie. Did you all meet at the place that shall not be named, or did you know each other beforehand? We all did meet. Yeah, we all met at that place.
Starting point is 00:45:46 I certainly did. Name redacted. I was the first one there. You were. You were one of the longest serving members of the office. Yeah, when I left, I was one of the last, one of the, one of the, one of the, one of the, one of the, one of the oldest. How long were you there for? Nearly two years?
Starting point is 00:46:01 Nearly two years, yeah. It's a shame if you're, just a couple of months, you'd have had some employee rights. I know. That would have been nice, wouldn't it. God. Yeah. Yeah. Wouldn't have been let go before Christmas.
Starting point is 00:46:10 That would have been, Jesus. Not allowed to talk about it. No, we're not. No, that's fine. I was there in February. 2016, then Ben turned up. No, 2017, was it? No, no, no, it was 2016, it was.
Starting point is 00:46:24 I did, I started freelancing when I was still doing game development, maybe like April time. Yeah. And then I was offered a job in, like maybe late May, early June, and then I started properly in the office in August. MJ, no, so you were before Ben,
Starting point is 00:46:44 weren't you? I don't know why I said that you were. No, not. He was after. Yeah, I was like October 2016. Ah, yes. At Gradient Biscuit asks, For getting your new jobs,
Starting point is 00:46:53 what is the best thing about your move to Bristol? And a number of people actually asked similar questions about it. Well, you know what the worst thing about the move to Bristol is? Is it the weather? The fucking rain. Yeah, it never ends. It's persistent. It's horrible.
Starting point is 00:47:03 Another worst thing is the cost of living is significantly higher. Horrible. When it's sunny, it's a marvellous place. It's very, very cultural. There's lots of wonderful restaurants, which I'm excited to keep trying. Every Saturday I make the effort. to go somewhere noon.
Starting point is 00:47:17 Yeah, I went to go see Black Panther this weekend, and then Michael text me and says, oh yeah, I'm in town. Like, all right, so we meet up. And he just goes to this... Tuck-Tuck. It's an Asian fusion place. Asian Fusion sits down and orders himself
Starting point is 00:47:29 a Katsu curry that I just watch him eat. And then I asked, how much was that, Michael? Oh, like $7.50. And he's just wandered into town on a Saturday on his own to have an expensive lunch. Because he's not paying as much of a crippling rent as we are. Yeah, because I'm flat sharing. Come on.
Starting point is 00:47:45 I don't like people. I want my own space My flat mate's moving out in two days So we're getting a new one There's a new one Could be anyone Could be a murder
Starting point is 00:47:53 Oh my god I was It could be Bobby Babylon Oh I'm gonna be Bobby Babylonia I'd be alright with that It's me Bobby Babylonie
Starting point is 00:48:02 Oh I see like I'd get All the tester balloons from her Or maybe Maybe you'll hear a knock on the door And you'll open it And there'll be no one there But it'd be like Hello my name's Jeff
Starting point is 00:48:11 I was born in New Delhi In India In 1856 You wouldn't hear a knock You'll hear a scratch You're a freak. I'm a freak. Mungoose noises.
Starting point is 00:48:18 If any dogs come that you've not yet met, I'll see him away for you. I'll also come with you to St. Nick's Market, provided that you go near. Yeah, if there's a hedge on the way. Peter, what do you like about Bristol? It's hard to say because I feel like most, if not all of the good things that I like are kind of related to the new job. I certainly like hanging out with you guys, hanging out with the other office people after work. it's nice being close to the office and just like being able to cycle in
Starting point is 00:48:51 I think I just like my new flat actually I think it's a nice flat just a little man pad thing you got your tap fixed yeah your tap as well yeah my taps fixed this morning do you want to tell the story of the angry tap man oh my god here's one of it was horrible
Starting point is 00:49:07 it was horrible so my tap was dripping my bath tap and also my kitchen tap so I told the people and they were like okay, we'll send a plumber, that's fine. Plummer turns up, he goes and does the kitchen tap, takes him like 10 minutes, it's great, make him a cup of tea, then he goes into the bathroom,
Starting point is 00:49:25 takes the tap off, and then just has an absolute mare for about three hours, just... Ben, no, stop it. I heard a little bit of Bobby over there. That's the balloons popping. Right. You hear that, that's the balloons of popping.
Starting point is 00:49:40 And he took this tap off, and then just was unable to get any other tap back on it. Right. And at one point he had me like squatting barefoot in my own bath because it had all this dirty water in it and holding onto this
Starting point is 00:49:56 tap while he reached underneath the bath like on the inside and was trying to tighten it all up and he was going, oh fuck fuck, fuck, cunt! Get in, cunt! And at one point he just turned to me, look me right in the eyes and I went, this was not fucking worth the hassle
Starting point is 00:50:12 for a drip mate. This was not worth the hassle. This is your fault, Peter. You did this to him. And then later on, he's going like, oh, I'm not coming here again. They can fire me if they want. They can fire me. Incidentally, he has been fired. No, really?
Starting point is 00:50:24 Yeah, I found it. He was a subcontractors. He's not been, like, fired from the company that he works for. Wow. But he's been, they've, like, severed that deal where they're subcontractors. He sounds awful. He's a terrible attitude all day, though. Oh, he was a dreadful, dreadful man.
Starting point is 00:50:37 I was meant to come into work. I told the guys are like, oh, I'll be in at, like, maybe half 10, 11. It got to, like, two o'clock, and they were like, just don't come in, just work from home. I had a great day. We went out for lunch, I got gelato. It was great, you did. I had a dreadful time. And he was just, he was like borderline abusive in my own house.
Starting point is 00:50:52 And then eventually just abandoned the job and said, I'm not getting this on. I can't get in there. My hands can't get in there. See ya. Left you with, just left you with no bathtub. So I did have an overhead shower, fortunately. So I didn't get all stinkums for like two weeks. Right.
Starting point is 00:51:09 Today, I had a bathtub put in by a competent plumber and it took in 10 minutes. Oh, wow. Yeah. God damn. I don't know anything about plumbing, but it's quite a different set between a 10-minute job and a four-hour hell-hellish entrapment case.
Starting point is 00:51:23 Absolutely. Yeah, it's pretty bad. I like Bristol. Yeah, me too. I think it's very pretty. I also really liked Newcastle as well. Yeah, I really like Newcastle. I love Newcastle, and Bristol's also very lovely.
Starting point is 00:51:35 It's just a lot more expensive. Yeah. Next question. A.I asks, what is... Are you allergic? to AI. Shit, God, not him. What are some of your favourite games
Starting point is 00:51:49 and why? Binding of Isaac. Really? That's 600 hours so far? That's enough hours. Well, no, my thing. I was talking to Barry, Barry, Harry. And he was saying, 600 hours, that's nothing.
Starting point is 00:52:01 I've got like 4,000 hours in Doaida. And like, what? Christ. Several thousand hours in Dark Souls. I'm like, what the fuck? How is that possible? That's insane. Where do you find the time?
Starting point is 00:52:10 I know, absolutely. You go home, bam, that's what you do. But I can never do that. I've always got stuff to do. Yeah, me too. But, yeah, Binding Varsig is, I think, probably is my favorite game ever, which, linking back to the beginning, started off as a flash game on New Grounds. Did he really?
Starting point is 00:52:26 It does look like a flash game. It's changed a bit since then, but it's changed. It's a bit. It's waved his hand to cut. It's changed. But I think, I don't know. I've been playing it for years now, and I never really get bored of it. No, I saw you've played it the other day.
Starting point is 00:52:40 Yeah, I thought, it's always on my mind. It's like, it's nice when I go home, like, have a nice hour where I, put on a podcast and there's play some binding advice like it's fucking good I do highly recommend it it's very cheap it's always on sale you get for like a pound sometimes so yeah that's my game recommendation
Starting point is 00:52:55 it's difficult to narrow it down to one I've got so much like RuneScape obviously is a big one I don't play it much anymore obviously I haven't played it for a while I got back into it when you say a while you mean like some months ago right yeah I got back into it last summer and before then it was years
Starting point is 00:53:12 because I didn't realize that they'd re-release I'm tempted. I'm tempted. I'll get it installed for you. We'll jump in. Apart from that, Final Fantasy 7, Pokemon Blue, Mass Effect 2 was a big one for me. Bloodborn you like. Love Bloodborn. Souls Games, a huge fan of those. I need to try, like, properly try a Sol's game at some point.
Starting point is 00:53:33 Remastered. Yeah, the new ones can be out on it, and we'll get that. We'll introduce you to it. And what was the other? Time Splitters. Oh, yeah. Just to represent PS2. Which one? Time Spitters. Oh, see, Future Perfect has a brilliant campaign
Starting point is 00:53:46 Because it's really funny But two, I think, is better for local co-op Yeah But yeah, the arcade modes and those are insane I had a Time Splitters game for my original Xbox And I never got past the first level Because I think the level starts in Notre Dame And it was really...
Starting point is 00:54:00 Oh, that's one of the levels Yeah, it really spooked me Yeah, the zombie levels always freaked me out So I literally never got past that level I never played it. Madness in Times Spitters 3 Yeah, there was like two missions, wasn't it this time? Yeah, horrible And even just the music
Starting point is 00:54:13 there's like a sort of you've got to go from room to room there's zombies bursting out on fire there's the deer haunter the big boss that comes out of the well oh yeah the princess princess yeah and uh dead weena the little girl ghost
Starting point is 00:54:29 dead we're oh god and then you've got Joe Joe Beth Casey Joe Ba'ath creepy is the spooker pose but that's the only source of humor in there is that she's wearing this goddamn top that says slut on it Giant boobs. And how old she meant to be?
Starting point is 00:54:46 Maybe like 15 or something? It's awful. But there's this ladder in between levels. Oh God, yeah. And the cut scene where they look down at both of them, Sergeant Cortez and Joe. And there's just loads of horrible noises coming. And she looks at him and goes, you go first. And then it's a first person perspective of him looking down at her tiny, tiny mini skirt.
Starting point is 00:55:06 And he just goes, okay. Okay. And it's not okay. No. But it was funny. Yeah. I thought it was funny at the time. But times have changed.
Starting point is 00:55:14 It's not like a teddy bear dangling off her back on her rucksack. It's all meant to be sort of like weirdly sexual. Yeah. That kind of stuff. What about you, Peter? My, I can get it down to about two, I think. Spire the Dragon. Yes.
Starting point is 00:55:29 Spire one. Oh, I love to Spire. Oh my God. Just the world building and Stuart Copeland's soundtrack. I could just play it forever and ever and ever. And it just takes me back to my childhood. So I asked how excited you were about the remaster as well. I mean, we don't know it's happening, but it's almost certainly going to happen.
Starting point is 00:55:46 I'm very excited if they can just pull it off, I think, visually more than anything. I don't mind so much how it feels. I don't even mind how much it sounds, but I don't want Spiro to look like a fucking goblin. Please. Stunt-nosed little weird thing. I mean, I'm sure if it's vicarious, particularly, they'll probably try and match it to classic Spiro, like the bit of Crash. Vicarious Visions being the developer of the Crash. Of course, yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:13 So we'll just have to see how it goes. I think I'll reserve all judgment until the initial teaser comes out and they show Spiro, presumably, and then I'll be able to get excited. That could make or break you. What if it's a disgusting looking little dragon? If it's going to be really bad,
Starting point is 00:56:28 I won't mind that much. I guess you've always got the original. Yeah, I just not play it. I'll be like, well... You don't have to look at the front. Usually you're behind Spirore really. That's a good point. If he's got a fine ass, that's all the matter.
Starting point is 00:56:38 Hell yeah, I'm excited. All about that ass. Alternatively, beyond good news, Evil is well up there. Again, really excited for the sequel. It's a prequel, actually. Yeah, well, it's at least now official. Oh, is it?
Starting point is 00:56:52 Yeah, they announced it at E3. Oh. And, like, there's a website to follow the development. It's happening. Michel Ansel keeps posting, like, concept art and stuff on Instagram. So it's definitely happening. But, yeah, the original game still stands up really well. I played through it not so long ago, like, end of last year.
Starting point is 00:57:11 And it's just genuinely really fun. It's a merry all time. Cinematic. It's got a good, fun world, photography mechanic, take pictures of all the animals and stuff. Yeah, it's just got everything. Have you seen that new game that was announced last week, which has got, it's just a CG trailer.
Starting point is 00:57:28 Right. And I can't remember exactly what it's called. I think it's got mutant in the title. It's not biomutant, which is that other one that's coming out. But it sort of shows a post-apocalyptic world, as all these things are. Sure. There's a pig man, a duck man,
Starting point is 00:57:42 and a ladywoman, but she, when they start coming under attack, she sort of turns into this sort of crystallized rock person type thing. It looks quite interesting, and they've all got guns and they're being attacked by sort of... I've not seen this. Old security systems or something. It looks interesting. Sounds good.
Starting point is 00:58:00 Sort of in that similar vein might tie you over until Beyond Good and Evil 2 comes up. A duck man. A duck man. That sounds good. He's literally just a duck in people clothes. Right. And a pig man which is sort of
Starting point is 00:58:12 it's just walking on its on its hind legs Yeah, trotts us It's a bit creepy Trots us Yeah exactly Final question
Starting point is 00:58:18 Oh my God It's from Edmund Smith Hi Edmund Hi Edmund What do your mums Think about what you're doing That's a good question Mine watches
Starting point is 00:58:27 And is very supportive Yeah In that other video The other day Yeah With Postum Tatt Where you said Something about
Starting point is 00:58:35 Something being older than my mum And I said ha you wish she's ancient my mom oh did you ma'am oh she texted me about that what she said you cheeky bugger
Starting point is 00:58:48 no more comments like that um I don't think my man watches the videos I don't think she understands YouTube either like I've spent months battling like trying to explain the job to her like my old job she kind of got that video editor okay I just together videos
Starting point is 00:59:03 I understand that but now I'm like I'm making but who watch how is all this funded what is this and I don't know how explain it to it. Why is there an industry? Why is this? I mean, that boggles my mind as well. She's probably just happy. But what do you make, like, do you, what do you produce?
Starting point is 00:59:18 What do you manifest? Like, but how do you get money for the videos? Like, do people buy, are they on VHS? What is this? How do you get them? Should you do a weekly, like, video newsletter? All the subscribers get DVD. Yeah, VHS would be good. Yeah, I'd say my, my mum fall somewhere in between the two where she watches some stuff.
Starting point is 00:59:36 I don't think she really watches stuff where it's like heavy gameplay focus. Yeah. She loved cooking mama Why you professed your love for Mama, yeah Which is a bit weird Right She's met Amy, right?
Starting point is 00:59:47 She has me, yes She also really likes But yeah, she really likes The stuff where we're like On the sofa Having a chat She thinks you're very funny Ben She likes it when we both
Starting point is 00:59:58 Sort of get a bit like No, no! Oh, what's happening? Help! Help! Help! I wish my mum thought it was funny Right, yeah Well, you can have mine if you like Do you swap? No, I...
Starting point is 01:00:09 Mine's very old. Yeah, she's really, really old. But on the other hand, I don't think my mom still truly understand. I think she now thinks she understands. Like, it used to be that she would say that she didn't understand. Now she thinks she understands, but she doesn't. Like, she'll still get things wrong. Right.
Starting point is 01:00:24 That's all right. For example, when I, this is not actually video, it's related, but when I did the remix for the jingle jam in December, I then told her in January, like, oh, they made, like, how many millions did they make? Was it like five million? It was about five million. Yeah, it was like five.
Starting point is 01:00:43 I said something like, I said, oh, it's amazing. They'd like, after all the live streams they've done 30 days, 31 days, and all the things they've sold, they've made five million. And then like two days later, we had some people ever for dinner. And she turned to them and said, hey, tell them how much your song made for Yogscast. And I went, no. What, I've not told you how much, I don't know how much it made. And I was like, you don't mean five million, do you?
Starting point is 01:01:09 No, Peter, that was all you. Every penny was thanks to you. To be fair, it was like a 99% Austin effort. Yeah, it sure was. I mean, you know, sure, like 24-hour live streams is great or whatever it's. They didn't make a room a day. That's just the fuel for the real creative is it, really. So, yeah, that was funny.
Starting point is 01:01:25 My grandparents just don't understand. Yeah, mine don't really get it. They were shown the Paris flog, and they enjoyed that because it was us, you know, at somewhere. Yeah. Oh, there's Ben. He's doing all right. when I showed them the where it was really, my mum was
Starting point is 01:01:40 proud and she was showing them stuff and they were clearly just like not interested at all because they just didn't understand but no I think our mums are relatively sort of understanding. I'd love to get our mums in one day yeah my parents are very supportive and proud and they just
Starting point is 01:01:56 sometimes get things a little bit incorrect. Confuddled. Well gentlemen it's time to begin wrapping up I first want to express a big thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past sort of month or so. It's been magical. We're way ahead of where we thought we would be
Starting point is 01:02:12 and it means the world. Next thing is the Patreon which we announced at the same time as this podcast which again blew our minds. We were expecting a couple of people to throw us a pound or something but nope. Yeah, like just a few dollars just so we can buy like silly props and stuff
Starting point is 01:02:29 but you guys have gone above and beyond and I think we're on over $100 now. Yeah, we are. Which we fed directly into Daniel Woolford suggestion to get this podcast on Podbean. I name drop him specifically because he actually sent us a Facebook message saying, hey, Podbean's really good, blah, blah, blah, blah. Thank you, Daniel.
Starting point is 01:02:45 So we've been able to feed that money immediately into getting this podcast onto iTunes, which hopefully it's just awaiting approval from iTunes, and then it should be there. So we should be ready to go. In fact, by the time you listen to this, it may be on iTunes. Sure. So again, thank you so much to our patrons for that. If you want to go and check it out, it's patreon.com forward slash viduets official. It is.
Starting point is 01:03:04 And that's where that is. Now, a little bit of admin, this week sees the return of worst games ever on Friday, which is very exciting. We can't say what we're doing just yet, but we have received something else that we've purchased with Patreon money, which is our new game selection method. It will not feature in this episode, unfortunately, because it arrived today, but it will feature in the next episode. So exciting. It's very exciting. It's very stupid as well. We will also, it's a good week this week.
Starting point is 01:03:34 Yeah. We also have the second episode of Skyrim Zoo. Oh my God. That's coming out on Saturday. It's a good one. It gets sillier. Oh, you do not know how much sillier it gets. Michael's been editing them.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Yes. And on Thursday, we kick off the new set of, or the new series of Proof. Last time it was for Cooking Mama, where we had to play Cooking Mama for two Let's Plays and then prove what we'd learned in a live action finale. Even better than Mama. Hi, Mama. Even better than Papa Lily. Bobby Mabaloon.
Starting point is 01:04:06 This time, I can't say what we're going to be playing. You'll just have to wait until the thumbnail appears and you'll know immediately. But I think you guys will enjoy it because the live action portion is particularly... It was stinky. It smelled. So we hope you enjoy that. We're playing poo simulator 2018. Oh, no, you ruined it.
Starting point is 01:04:25 Sewage, sewage sim. But that's the first episode of Poddietz. I think it's been suitably meandering and silly. Yeah. I hope you guys liked it as well please leave an iTunes review if you're on iTunes and if you're not on iTunes and you're watching this on YouTube then you can find us on iTunes if that would be more convenient
Starting point is 01:04:42 even then there's a direct download link in the description and all that sort of stuff if you want to listen to it in whatever fashion you desire. Yeah, put it on cassette and play it in your car. Can we put a link to the Bobby Babylonian song? Absolutely. I think we're going to link to everything. Do a link done below if you want to see Bobby Babylonian. So I get a link to loads of fairy porn and hentai.
Starting point is 01:05:03 exactly that's your god-given right michael god i hope my mom doesn't watch this episode thank you very much for for joining us in this and i was i was looking at educational websites ma'am not porn it's fine check us out on twitter and facebook and youtube all forward slash vidiates official we're there on everything pretty much yeah i think we're even on i think it's like vidiots or podiots dot podbean or something which is a direct link to a but there's nothing there so don't bother just just go through iTunes or the YouTube channel is the easiest way. You're full. Peter.
Starting point is 01:05:35 Yeah. Mikey. Hi. Thank you. Thank you for joining the world. Thank you for being like the podcast master. That's okay. Podcaster.
Starting point is 01:05:44 I like it. I like doing this. I did radio at university. Exactly. You're an expert. It's my... MJ sets it up. Ben does the hosting.
Starting point is 01:05:52 I sit here and... As long as you keep bringing those mongoose stories. That's all... Oh, you bet it. You just... Oh, boy. Thanks, everybody. Before we go...
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