Podiots - Podiots: Episode 104 - Tiny Peter’s Big Day

Episode Date: August 2, 2022

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event. Conditions supply, visit your local Volvo retailer or go to explorevolvo.com. Maybe it's Mabelaine is such an iconic piece of music. Hit the track. Everyone in the studio that I worked on this jingle with all had like childhood stories or memories around either watching these commercials on TV or sitting with our moms while they were doing their makeup and it became really personal for us. Do you hear that in the background? That's the sound of wedding bells.

I thought you could hear the seagull that was on my end. It's a wedding seagull as well, yeah? Wedding seagull. Congratulations, Peter Austin, or as we should now call you, Mr. Peter Austin. Oh, very good. Yes. I literally just got back

from where my family live just been there for four or five nights getting married and then spending time with the family and I have driven home I have unlocked the front door I have carried my wife over the threshold literally

which is I'm sure highly misogynistic and patriarchal and I have now come upstairs and hit record on my podcast recording so yeah amazing what a trooper what a trooper well thank you both for coming and for the top notch content from it as well oh you're family it was an event ripe for the content in fact played a part in some of the speeches as well which was unexpected it was very unexpected um well i knew something was going to happen but i didn't think it would be from that angle. So Amy's dad did a speech, of course, and part of that speech involved sort of ragging on me appropriately so. And in the lead up to the wedding, he'd been sort of saying, oh, you better

be nervous about my speech. You should, oh, it's all ready. And, you know, it's going to be bad. And I was saying to him, like, I'm trying to think, like, you know, we know each other reasonably well, but I've not been to their place that many times that there's enough ammunition. I was like, what's happened between me and you at say your house that you've got like all these stories and he just rather ominously said well it's all online isn't it and I was like oh and I suddenly realized okay well now there's like six years of stories and content but I thought he would just be referring to videos and stuff but he actually just talked about kind of the history of the channel and like you know videos and things it's strange yeah

read aloud a couple of your most famous quotes yeah uh Super famous quotes I mean one of them was pretty famous With zero context He announced to a room of 80 people That I'm quoted as saying Your vagina is beautiful

I could hear an aunt of mine Hooting from the corner She loved that She did She did She's big hit with aunts Yeah

Yeah they're big fans But the other one that's on So he got all this stuff For context for the listeners He got all of his material From what he called The Yogcast Wiki Yeah

And I On the Yogcast wiki, for me, I think the only other quote is me saying, I've got to tingle in the balls, which I do not remember saying at all. I'm sure I did. But, yeah, weird. Someone out there can probably identify which video that was from. Probably post some tat or something, I would guess. Maybe.

Yeah. Used to say. Maybe. Yeah. Well, it was a spectacular evening. A great deal of fun was had by everyone I know I had a lot of fun We arrived at the venue

And I mean It's up to you We won't say what it's called But do you mind if I say What it's usually used for Yeah I mean If you say what it's usually used for People will probably find it anyway

But I'm yeah Yeah by all means You're okay with that Okay so Peter Austin You would have thought Maybe he gets married at a national trust site Maybe at a castle Peter Austin managed to get married

to get married at a canal museum, which I didn't realize until we arrived. And it's even got a little museum downstairs with like wax figures and stuff working on the canal. So while you were on having your chorizo and prawn, what are they called? Snack rolls.

Solivantz. Yeah. You're hanging out with wax models. Yeah. And it was slightly drizzly, so you had to hang out with the wax models. He didn't escape the wax models or not learn about the canal. It's not to say National Trust was a, wasn't making appearance on the day.

The day began in a National Trust car park, of course. Yes, that's true. It did. I had that you nearly got married there, actually, Peter. Is there any truth to that? What, in the car park? Yes. Sadly not.

No, who told you that? Or are you just, you think. I'm just being a dick. Be in an actual twat. Yeah, no. It was tempted by the National Trust car park, for sure. Yeah. It's good

I did a wee in the corner of it Oh, brilliant Yeah There were no toilets there And we arrived very early So Were you counted onto the bus By a man who looked

Very like me Yes, certainly was Certainly was Tall Peter As we christened him Oh, that's cute Yeah Yeah

We're not even like Super closely related He's my cousin No I like When we first met him And got talking In my head I was like

This must be Peter's brother Does Peter have a brother I don't know And then no It was Yeah, a lot of people thought he was my brother. The genes are strong in your family. What can you say?

They certainly are. The best thing about the venue, though, was that there was a children's assault course out the back, which as soon as I spotted it, I said, someone's going to die on this later once the alcohol gets flowing. And I think only one person injured themselves. Yeah, yeah. Michael could you tell us what people? He couldn't possibly take a guess, which would. Who got hurt?

Maybe I understand you saw it. You were there, right, when it happened? Someone... Yeah, I think I might have sort of happen. Yeah, it was in just truly predictable fashion. I decided to make a proper tit of myself. And me and Claudia wanted to do a time attack on the children's play set. She kind of did it quite cautiously.

At this point, it was dark and raining as well, added to the danger. And I thought, I'm going to, I'm going to go for it. It was going really well until the last hurdle, which was like essentially a wobble. plank of wood. I got one foot on it, slipped, felt like rotated 90 degrees and just slammed down on it. And now my ribs really hurt. There was an almighty crunch when I landed. It was great. And worst bit was, well, two things. It wasn't on video. And no one there even saw it other than Claudia. Nobody saw you die. Just people stand around talking. I walk over and collapse onto the grass. And I was like, what's just happened? But speaking of video, for the

those who are curious, if they want to see some of the action at Peter's wedding at the Canal Museum, then I didn't get married there, by the way. That was just the reception. Then there are some clips available on various accounts on social media. Mikeys and Ashton's, I think, and some other people from the Oskast Network. And I will post some as well. I've still not got around to post in my videos of people dancing. So I'll just do those at some point. Worryed about that. I only discovered the existence of your video, Mikey, this morning. It's very good, isn't it? Yeah, Jack from Cultaholic said, oh, I saw the video.

It's not what video. I didn't realize there was footage of me dancing on the internet, but it's fine. There wasn't much, so it was okay. It was good moves. It was very sweet. Yeah, I think I did this. Peter and I were going for it. I reflected the tone of the day quite beautifully.

Yeah. It was magnificent. Congratulations, Peter. Congratulations, just one. Just one. Mikey, can I have one more to make it a plural? Congratulations. There you go.

That's beautiful. What a beautiful sentiment. Yeah, pretty much as soon as we're done recording, you're heading off on your honeymoon as well. Well, yeah, almost. I am actually staying the night tonight, but yeah, I'm going tomorrow morning. So I've literally, this is true dedication, listener.

I came home from spending time with my family to record a poddyats to then go back on my wedding celebrations. So I hope you pleased. He's a hero. Yeah. He's an absolute hero. Well, on that note, Shall we roll into things?

Let's do it, yeah. Let's go. Let's go. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Podiots, the official Vidiates podcast. It's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three errs, where everybody brings a thing along to talk. I'm out. I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. We made it. We're back on the podcast. Here we are. I mean, I already know how both of you are, but I'm going to ask again anyway, how are you both? I am Fandluddytastic. I'm very good too. I've had a great time. I'm a bit horse. I'm a little horse now. Nay, clipclop. But I'm also pretty pleased by the the stellar performance of the Pollyett's listening audience over on Google Maps. Oh, my God. The Pottiates Enterprises grows and grows.

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New Castel Bridge? I have, yeah. That's really good. Oh, there are so many. I didn't realize there were this many. There's Podius presents Norwich Riverside Entertainment Center. Podius presents Neil Buchanan's Marseille, which is a sporting goods shop.

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There's Podiat's presents Silica, which I don't know what that's about. Someway you can get a delicious snack, I guess, Mikey. Yeah, maybe. Podiat's presents the Hand Jobs Inc. neat facery. Sorry? Oh, no.

And Pottieitz presents Troy Village Laundry mat. And then where is this? There's a place called Pottie. It presents beans time. Which is in is this in China? Oh, Tokyo.

It's in Japan. Tokyo. No. Oh, my God. We're on, let's see if we can get on every continent. Maybe. Oh, God.

Let's see what's on every continent. It's probably worth pointing out Mikey reckons. Well, I'll say Reckons. Mikey has discovered that you can get your Google account banned for repeated vandalism. But, you know, just do with that information what you will. Yeah, I don't know how to withdraw my suggestions. I don't know how to, once they're in, I think they're locked in.

Oh, no. So I don't know what to do about that. I genuinely, like, a couple of days after doing the last podcast, I was sat on the couch, like, filled with existential dread, like, oh, my God, what have we done? this is terrible, and I went around redacting some of the ones I did in an attempt to free myself from being incarcerated in Google Prison. I thought if I was going to be done, I would have been done ages ago when I tried to rename the Amazon Locker and the McDonald's, but I wasn't, and everything since has been accepted,

so I don't know where this puts me. Yeah. I really want to rename Pyongyang to Pyongyang Yitz. I think you need to do it right now. Yeah. Oh, don't. Hold on, let me change to one of my 20 other emails. That might cause an actual international incident.

What if this podcast is responsible for international war? Yeah, could be. Could happen, could happen. There's also some great reviews under Pottieitz Presents, Ouseburn Fire Duct, by the way. Oh, yeah. Oh, right, yeah. Five-star review from Justin, tell your friends. Five-star review from Ben Cooper.

It is Bridge Time, and there's a Photoshop photo of Peter and I holding hands in front of it, with Mr. Blobby wearing a rules boss hat. Keith Chegwin dancing with Billy Ray Cyrus and Dave Benson Phillips with his tummy out hanging upside down from the bridge So it's all good Just impeccable Wow, that is

That is art Can you see the original photo there? Yeah, yeah Can you tweet it out in the thread Just for people to see He's excellent, well done Ben I can't believe Keith Cheggen was on It looks like, what, dancing with the stars or something

Was he on dancing with on ice or something? Oh yeah, you might have been. That rings a bell. Oh, that'd be so good. Cheeth Kegwin. Where's this Twitter threat? Oh, my God. Keith?

Sorry, Keith Cheggwin dancing on ice. Was he actually on dance? No! Yeah. Joe Pusqualee and Keith Chegwin retake the ice. What a combo. Wow.

Retake the ice. Television funny man, Keith Tregwin has become the latest celebrity to bow out of dancing on ice. Oh, sad. sad. Do you think he did it naked? I hope so.

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Yeah. Mr. Blobby becomes a soap actor. Peter's gaming uncle. Was he at the wedding? Sorry, was he at the wedding? He was. You wouldn't have recognised him. He didn't look like he didn't have a controller in his hand or something.

Al-GB headset. No, because although he is, well, he's not blood-related, but although he should be because he's my mum's brother, is actually mixed race because he was adopted by the family when he was one. or something. So if you were expecting a Caucasian uncle, you would have been looking at the wrong people. Oh, I, son.

He was very, very drunk. He drank an entire bottle of red wine to himself, I think. I think I know who it is, because at one point on the dance floor, a sort of, I'm trying to, what... Not very tall. Yes, not very tall. He sort of clicked his fingers. He finger-gunned in my direction.

Yeah, Alice standing next to you. and didn't say anything and then sort of danced at me and then wandered off. Was that him? That was him. I was standing there when that happened. Yeah.

Good. Well, I'm glad you can verify that because I know exactly who you're talking about. He was dancing with everyone. He was having a fantastic time and tried to catch the bouquet. He was standing at the front of the crowd of girls trying to get in there

because he just got engaged to his partner. And I guess he thought it was their moral duty to catch it, but she was saying, no, because I'm already engaged, I don't need to catch it. It's not about who he gets married next, he gets engaged next. So leave it, but he was too drunk to care. Nice of him to donate as well.

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where Loughborough Students' Union made a video You know the, nah, nah, nah, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, nah, nah, no, no, no, no, no. Yes. Right, but they do L-L-L-L-L, it's the worst thing I've ever seen in my entire. Oh, my God, so they just keep saying L and then S-U for the last two syllables. They do, yes, they do. Students' Union videos are my favorite genre. It's so amazing.

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It doesn't specify which overseas is intended here. Europe, maybe. I mean, we haven't even done a meet and greet in the UK. No, that's true. Let's start with Stoke-on-Trent and move up. Yeah, we need to do Stoke-on-Trent first. Or if you work out which Dick and Dom performance we're going to, we'll see you there. Yeah.

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Thank you, everyone, for your generosity. We're half an hour into the podcast now, practically, and it's time for question one. We begin with a question from Hollowise at Hollowise on Twitter, and they ask, someone's come up to you and tells you to, quote-unquote, do the thing. What would you do in response on the spot?

That's a good question. I like that. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to, you know, take the lowbrow route, but is it just fart for me? Am I more than that? Am I just farting, man? No, that's all you are. Is that, is that my legacy?

Is that what I'm leaving behind? It feels like at this point, and I feel like I should just come to terms with that. Yeah, possibly. You could diversify into belches if you felt like it. Yeah, there's something more grotes. I mean, farts are grotesque, but burps for some reason. There's no joy in a birch. You never laugh at a bell, a bell, my God.

Can't even say it. Like, farts are funny. Burps are just obnoxious. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I'll pull out. Maybe I need to start going out after with a stab-proof vest and a knife at all times. All right, here you go, have a stab.

If someone asked me to do the thing, I would maybe be hit by a car there and then. They're speeding at you in the street. Is that an option? Do the thing. either that or maybe I don't know say your vagina is beautiful yeah certainly if my father-in-law

asked me too I would do that for him if someone said it to me I would immediately get in my car and drive to wherever Peter is right and hit him you wouldn't say hashtag shit games for wankers no well see

finally I think that's that sort of been shed a little bit I haven't said it for years people do still want me to say nerds even though I haven't said that for just as long. You occasionally get shit games for wankers in the comments for worst games ever, but Oh, do we?

I don't. Yeah, I'm really only every once in a blue moon. But, yeah. Yeah, that one's, that's, it's, I'm trying to kill it. I've been trying to kill it for some time. Let it, let it die. I'm doing sports stuff now. I'm on a different catchphrase.

Yeah, that's true. That would be the, that's the current one. We were actually able to capitalize on this one and sell a lot of T-shirts. So, you know, that's, that's nice rather than what culture of. They were like, merch, you're not, you're not the wrestling channel. What are you talking? Get fucked. Would you like to buy a board game, which is spelling mistakes and stuff on it?

Which might not have a dice in it, maybe. I felt like when I started working at what culture until when I left, there was just an unmoving stack of board games at the back of the office. It was spectacular. Oh, I wish, I wish it was some sort of, oh, no, I probably can't say. I probably can't say I can't say I think it might be litigious okay

I'll type it in the chat hang on right okay well let's all review this I'll send this onto my lawyer oh god please let's not

okay right yeah yeah agree though yes oh yeah for sure okay cool I think I was told that explicitly

yeah well there it is that's why there was so many it feels like it's worse now we haven't said anything Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. It was a sex thing.

No, that is not what then. Every single box. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, there we are. Maybe that. Fantastic. There you go.

If you see us on the street and ask us to do the thing, you know what you're going to get now. You do. Who would like to start us off with a thing? I've got a thing. Yes.

You do? You do? A hastily prepared thing. Yeah. I can't believe this has never come up before. Can't believe no one has ever sent this to us before. But by chance, I don't even know where I saw this. This happened about two weeks ago and I added it to my little things document on my phone.

I came across a very special famous fish. This is fish was described. This is a weirdcopedia. This is directly from Wikipedia. A fish described as Britain's biggest and best loved comment. Carp. Okay. The name of this fish, Benson.

Excellent. Good name. How has no one told us about fish Benson fiships before? Why has this not happened? I don't know why this is news to me. But Benson, 1984 to the 4th of August 2009, was Britain's biggest and best-loved common carp. Benson's popularity was such that she was... Oh, she was caught six.

63 times in 13 years Although the accessibility That made her popular Was also the cause of controversy Among Angling's elite No She's also been referred to as The People's Fish

This is what they used to call Lady Die Isn't it? That's what Dwayne the Plops Johnson Was called as well Yeah, that's true And was voted by Reader by Readerless Was voted by readers of Angler's Mail as Britain's favourite carp in 2005.

Brilliant. Who else was in the running? Do we know? Oh, there is a citation link, so I might be able to, let me, hang on. This is really important. Oh, no, it just goes to an article about the death where I think the or so referred to.

She died? Well, I told you it died in 2009. Oh, yeah, I just... You did. Or did you think those were just the years that was the best fish. famous, yeah. As a few years after that.

She's retired. So, the fish who was, oh yeah, no, the fish who was a female was originally one of a pair. Her original companion,

Hedges, disappeared in a flood of the River Neen in 19th and Hedges. No. Named after a fucking cigarette. Yeah. Disappeared in a flood

of the River Neen in 1998. Both fish were named due to a hole in Benson's dorsal fin that resembled a cigarette burn in a reference to Benson and Hedges At her peak weight in 2006 she weighed 64 pounds and 2 ounces which is 21.1 kilograms Benson died on the 4th of August

aged 25 At the time of her death she weighed the same as a large dog and was worth 23 pounds. The owner of the lake where she lived alleged that she was accidentally poisoned by anglers using uncooked

tiger nuts as bait. Evidence points to the contrary. See section on death below. What are tiger nuts? Just a type of nut. Cyperus Esculentus is a species of plant in the sedge family widespread across much of

Europe. That's not helped at all. I didn't know any of those words. I think it's just a sort of nut. Earth almonds. Earth almonds. Okay. Yeah, which I've also never heard of, but they're just some kind of nut, I think. I think the nuts might be the root of the plant, but yeah.

So the death there was controversial. See section on death below. I'll get to that. Another possible cause of death was the complications during egg production. So there's now a section. and called fame. Benson lived in the Kingfisher Lake at the Bluebell Lakes Complex at Tansaw, just outside Undall in Northamptonshire. She was one of approximately 150 carp in Bluebell Lakes, which are managed to provide the best environment for growth potential of the fish.

Steve Broad, editor of UK carp magazine, ascribed Benson's fame to, quote, her accessibility. Among keen anglers, there are only, there are about only 20 carp that can be seriously called household names Benson was near the top of that league. Near the top of that league it says. Who's top carp? The thing that made Benson

famous was her accessibility. Unlike other big carp, she was a day ticket fish. Anyone could go along and try to catch her. Oh, poor Benson. I know. Just 63 times hook through the mouth, thrown back in. I don't know if you guys have

ventured to the the article while I've been talking but here is a very small image of Benson which would be good if you could pop that in the oh hang on that's that's on my clipboard that didn't copy properly I've sent that to Amy as

no absolutely not not yet but that will be become clear on social media both Mikey and I just tweeted a generic carp I think oh well here's the carp here's a photo that's her the thread that's her

damn she's she's thick she's thick she big thick she's been eating cooked tiger nuts um so Benson's record

of being caught so often masks her unpredictability is a quote from I think Steve Broad there was a period

when Benson was caught every Monday for six weeks and then it seemed she disappeared for the next 12 months oh my god um

however this very accessibility made the fish controversial among the sports elite. Every day anglers loved her because there was a chance they could have their photo taken

with one of the big fish. Some serious anglers did not like her because she was open to everyone. Then we've got a final section here called death. A daily telegraph reported in August 2009 that the fish had

been, quote, poisoned. A quantity of uncooked nuts which are toxic to fish who swell up because they cannot process them, were found nearby on the bank. Owner of Bluebell Lakes, Tony Bridgefoot, 53, said he feared the fish had been killed by irresponsible anglers. It seems her demise was caused by the introduction of foods that are harmful to fish.

Since been confirmed, the most likely cause of death was not nut poisoning, but rather reproductive complications due to gravidity, which in biology and human medicine, Gridity and parity are the number of times A woman is or has been pregnant And carried the pregnancies to a viable gestational age So I guess I think what they're saying is Benson flipped too much

Right Benson fucked to death Okay Her vagina was beautiful Her vagina was beautiful Well no I think by the end it probably wasn't Her vagina was ravaged And

But she had a good time Yes, by nuts Too many nuts Benson's successor as a popular and very large Common carp may not live too far away from the fish's former haunt

The same complex where Benson lived boasts a lot of promising 40-pound fish There's one The Zed fish It's called That is ounces under 50 pounds And still growing

So one day Perhaps we'll have A fish called Chegwin Or something I'd love that Buchanan I think all those fish are desperately dieting in an attempt to not be big enough to be warranted

to essentially a photo opportunity for anglers. Wow. Yeah. There's a ranking of the top 50 greatest carp of all time. Oh, we found it. I'm curious about these other car. I'm going to put the link in here. Do you want to just hear the top spot?

Yeah. So number one is Mary. Okay. There's a brief synopsis on their history. One of the most iconic shots of a generation is pictured here with Terry Hearn holding this baby whale. Sorry? I mean, it's not a carp.

It is a carp. This baby whale known as Mary from Raysbury. He caught it at a new British record of 55 pounds. The year was 996, and we assure that many of you will remember it very well. Do you remember where you were when Mary was caught? We love nothing more than looking at lovely old shots of truly breathtaking looking carp is what it says. Well, number four is called

Caravan Park Linear. You can't say that. You can't, no, you have to say Caravan Park queer now, I think. You do, yes. Yes, you do. Number seven's Mary's mate. Is that what it's called?

Mary's mate. Yeah, it is. I'm just looking at some of these names. They're really good. Yeah. It doesn't have all 50 on here, does it? No, it doesn't. The article just stops.

at what's that 10? No comments. Well, time to change that. Can we comment as vidiates? No, can't rubbish. Where the fuck are the other 40? How old is this post? It's like a fucking what culture article.

Everything's split up, isn't that? Carpology.net. There's part two. God, they're really making you work for this. Is there a part two? There's a part two there. Oh. Wait, now I've got a Google.

I'm going to have to find part five, because I don't know if Mary actually is number one. One's just called the client. there's one called the parrot It's a business relationship Parrot Herman The brute

What's called shoulders Toadless leather What This is silly Someone's spelled Basil with a Zed That's crazy What are they doing over there Pettles

Dink The Bishop The Pug Found lady wow the reel that caught clarissa oh wow clarissa clarissa they found it that's a beautiful new the real the real the real that found the court clarissa they found it finally i didn't even know there was one famous car let alone 50 Jesus this is incredible dustbin here

nutsy mirror bite mark he's a great the annie i think is very good Because the graphics of the is great, dink. I caught Annie yesterday. What, the Annie? Yes. Yeah, that's right. The Annie.

Wow. God, there's fishing's big business, isn't it? People love this stuff. I never expected to be a magazine dedicated to like one type of fish. This is so good. That is very good. You can buy Carpology magazine. It's £5.75, issued 226.

assuming there was one every month that's a lot of months let's hang on i think it was um once a guest a guest uh publication on have i got news for you i've definitely there was some carp magazine carp monthly or something was on there 18 years wow wow 18 happy happy years what changes i caught the fish it's i don't get it got bigger and then it died Oh, my God. I wonder if they have centerfold fish, you know. Oh, yeah. It's like a top shelf magazine.

Get a load of the Annie. Oh, hello. Well, I hope you enjoyed learning all about Benson. Yes, I did. Thank you, Peter. Big fan of Benson. Let's not forget. Like 12 tabs open for carp now.

It's all those. Dave Benson Fish Lips. Perfect. Beautiful. Thank you so much, Peter. You're very welcome. I can't remember. I'm pretty sure I found that myself, but if someone did send that to me, apologies for not crediting you. Would you boys like a second question? Yes, please.

This one comes from Soldier First Class at Rainmaker X-Z-I-V. And they've brought to my attention a very important anniversary for us here on Podiat's. Oh. it's officially past the third anniversary of the introduction of meatface oh wait no we did talk about this didn't we because i think we when we were doing the episode roundup we mentioned oh it's three years since meet face well now it's now it's at the beginning of the podcast but um okay they asked when we did uh this week on poddi it's did we mention i assume the podcast episode was called um meatface it couldn't have been called anything else yeah probably um don't worry that's

not all they have there's that's not what that's not all in your wildest imaginations what animal person or object would you like to be enshrined in sausage meat to be paired with the legendary meat phase in sausage meat specifically yes oh yeah yes to carry on the you know the the form of meat face i think whatever it is it's got to be rendered really crapply like it can't Maybe you're highly detailed Van Gogh painting made in sausage would be impressive, but it wouldn't be nearly as funny as like a wonky-looking cat. Oh, that would be great. Big, fat, bulbous cat, little legs and little ears and whiskers.

I'd love that. And it then has to be discovered by a woman and her two daughters after buying it in Iceland or whatever. It's not like made to go on a wall or for us to have. It's just we commission it. It then gets packaged up and just. stuck in a chest freezer. Yeah.

Like a golden ticket. Yeah. I wonder if there's ever been any other meat members that have been, like, created but just been cooked rather than photographed and remembered. Yeah. Good question. My children wanted to eat it. Oh, so I stuck it back in the freezer.

But you never know. It makes you think, doesn't it? You don't know what's been going on in the factory. I mean, what? I don't know. You don't ever know. Does it make me think? Not really.

Someone's just squashed a face together. it's probably still good to eat if you really want to. It's quite funny. If I was going to have a meat face, I would like it to be accompanied by potato grimaces, which works on a couple of levels because it could either be a potato smiley that's gone really wrong and it looks like Grimmis,

the McDonald's mascot, or it could just be a really sad-looking potato smiley, a potato upsetting. Oh, yeah. Oh, a potato. So thicky. I like it. I would quite like, especially if we are having children perhaps discover this in the packet,

I would like the sausage meat to be reformed back into the shape of a pig just to really drive home the nature of the industry and make them, you know, have to do a serious question. Do I want to support this industry or not? If I do, fine. If I don't, maybe not. here's a pig this is where your sausage came from I mean I say that

it's probably horse meat to be honest yeah realistically so perhaps you know the shape of a rat or a horse or wherever the the meat may have come from

but yeah that's what I do just try and traumatize those children as much as possible of course you got to I just I want to have a look at what Richmond sausages are like renowned as being the worst the worst of the sausages right

it's all just chemicals damn it rusk. There's rusk in Richmond sausages. Cute. Yum. Lovely. That delicious, delicious flame as well. Yeah, it is mostly water.

Cute. It's just wet rusks. What's it called reticulated or like the reconstituted? Reconstitied rusks. Lovely. Juicy rusks. Yes. There we go.

I would be over the moon if I found any of those inside a pack of sausages so me too factory workers get to be thrilled yeah who would like to present their thing next

I would I would I realize then I led that led that directly to you there Ben I'll take that not me

I'll take the ball oh sorry Ben thank you thank you so my thing is about the greatest wrestler of all time

and this sort of did the rounds at the beginning of May because This man's birthday was celebrated via a Google Doodle, and a lot of people were curious as to who he is. And fortunately, someone did a fantastic Twitter thread called, well, the username is at Names or Name Shiv, N-A-M-E-S-H-I-V. They have a Patreon as well, because this is a very good rundown, and I will shout out at the end.

But here we go. Are you ready to learn about the world's greatest wrestler? Yes, yes. I'll send you a photo first, just so you know who we are talking about. There he is. Oh, no. There he is. Look at him.

What a dude. So here we go. Okay, since Google has done a doodle for his birthday today and some people are wondering who he is, gather around children. It is story time. A story that starts with a secret. Superheroes do exist in real life. Well, one did.

Meet Gulam Mohammed Baksh but. His last name is Butt, aka the Great Gamma or Gamma. I'm not sure. But who was Gama? One way of answering is to say he was the greatest wrestler that has ever lived, maybe the most formidable unarmed combatant to ever live. But put it this way, an entire armed mob intent on mass murder once fled him in mortal terror. More on that in a bit. Wow. Did I say he was a wrestler? That's not quite right. He was the wrestler. He specialized in the subcontinental style called, ooh, Pahelwani, which is extremely demanding, and Gama was extremely good. How good? Well, he started in 1895 and wrestled all the way

till 195, or 1955, depending on the source. In this time, he fought basically every wrestler and many non-wrestlers of note across the world reportedly over 5,000 fights. In these 50 years about, Gama lost zero times. Whoa. Okay. I'm going to repeat that. In a fighting career of over 50 years in two separate centuries that included him going country to country challenging famous fighters to face him, Gama lost zero fights. What kind of behemoth of a man does this, you ask?

A five-foot-seven behemoth, actually? What? He's small. Kind of small. Probably quite tall for the time. The stories of Gama are so numerous and ridiculous it's like a comic book. Only the adventures appear as newspaper articles instead.

For instance, Gama got his start at age 10, when he entered a strong man tournament being held by a king. and placed in the top 15. Now being five at seven, Gama starts off as someone who isn't taken seriously. All superheroes have obstacles to overcome while still a teenager. I just want to go back to the fact that a king held a strongman.

Of course. That's the kind of leadership we need. Naturally, yes, that was important. We must know who the strongest is. Gama starts off as someone who isn't taken seriously. All superheroes have obstacles to overcome. While still a teenager, he faces the legendary giant Rahim Bach. Yes, for the subcontinental crown.

Gama has no chance. And then, Gama is crowned champ. By 1910, Gama has beaten everyone in the subcontinent, everyone. Everyone is literally fought. He's fought children. And can't even find opponents anymore. So he sails to London. Again, his height leads to mocking and not being taken seriously.

To the point he wasn't getting into tournaments, Garma decides to start issuing challenges. Gamas... Hang on. No, this is written a bit weird. Gamas swore to throw any three wrestlers of any weight class within 30 minutes, it says. Nobody came forward. Promoters thought he was bluffing. So Gama started issuing challenges to individual famous wrestlers saying he would beat them or

pay them the prize money and leave for home. This time he found a challenger. The famous American wrestler, Benjamin Doc Roller, agreed to take on this upstart. The bout lasted one minute. 40 seconds before Gama pinned Doc. Doc, shocked, demanded a rematch. In the rematch, Doc went all out and lasted nine whole minutes. The next to accept was the legendary Stanislaus Zabisco, and I've heard of, I think, Larry Zabisco, which is his son, who's very famous. This time the stakes were the John Bull Belt and 250 pounds. On the 10th of September 1910, Gama and

Zabisco faced off in what became a two-hour, 36-minute match. at the one minute mark Zabisco was taken down he remained there for the next two hour and 35 minutes he says Wait what

I'm sure that's the end of it I think he was just trying to escape for two hours must have been riveting to watch really exciting stuff Oh I see so he's just maybe on top of him Yeah and he wasn't backing down

Yeah but he couldn't A rematch was fixed for September the 17th On the appointed day of the rematch The legendary Stanislaus Sabisco Terror of the Ring Feared by so many, no-showed rather than face Gama. Gama was now a big deal. He fought Roller again and threw him 13 times in 15 minutes. Now for a wholly different reason, Gama was now starting

to run into his old problem again. Nobody wants to fight him. At one point, he offered to fight 20 men in a row. Nobody agreed. Gama had discovered, as Mike Tyson would almost a century later, that when you're a professional fighter that other professional fighters are physically terrified of, it can be both a blessing and a curse. Finally, Nothing left to prove, Garma left the West to return home. While he sails, it's worth taking a moment to ask, what made him so great? Well, for one, he was ridiculously strong, superhero strong.

On one occasion, he lifted a 1,200 kilogram stone in a feat so famous, the stone is in a museum. And then, there was his regimen. Garma used to do 5,000 squats and 3,000 push-ups every day. Now, I don't know how much of this is real. But I will continue reading. Part of his training regimen was later adopted by Bruce Lee. His daily diet, it included 10 litres of milk.

Six DESE chickens, it says, and a £1.5 of crushed almond paste made into a tonic drink. I have my rice cake. Then at 2 o'clock, I have a rice cake. At 3 o'clock, I have fish. Fish and a rice cake. Fishing a rice cake. At 4 o'clock, I have fish. It's very good. Ben, have you heard that?

Have you seen a video? No, I have. No, I thought it made it sounded like you haven't heard it. No, I haven't heard that one. It's worth the watch. It's a search fish and a rice cake. I think it's a sunland man as well. This sounds very northern.

All right, I will look it up. Back to Gama. Yeah. Anyway, Gama gets back, and after another famous series of bouts against his old adversary, the way until the 1950s or so, though it gets harder and harder to find people willing to fight him, except one special challenger, Zabisco.

Yes, Stanislaus is back. 42. The answer to life, the universe and everything, well, at least according to Douglas Adams. It is also how many seconds Zabisco lasted. After this, Gama found it increasingly hard to find opponents, so he turned his attention to one closer to home. The British Empire! Gama now began campaigning for things like Free Rail Travel

poor Indians. He challenged the British government of India that he would stop a moving train with his bare hands if they'd make rail travel free on an 11 kilometre stretch. The government refused. Fast forward to 1947, the British are leaving. Partition is happening. Religious riots and murder mobs all over the country, both countries. Now, Gama was a Muslim living in Lahore in what was now Pakistan. Seeing what was happening, he vowed to help the minority Hindus nearby. So Gama, now an old man, took a few wrestlers from his school and went to a Hindu neighbourhood, even as an armed mob descended on it. Gama placed himself before the mob. This is where things went from scary to legendary. The mob asks Gama to move. Gama points out he was

about to ask them the same thing. The mob asks if he thinks he can fight them all. Gama asked if they think they can all fight him. There is an impasse for a moment and then it happened. A leader comes at Gama, Gama slaps him. Depending on which account you believe, this either A, broke his jaw, B, knocked him unconscious, or C, killed him outright. All accounts agree he went flying.

Gama smiled at the mob and asked who was next. Next, the mob fled. Yes, I know, it says. So if you're wondering, what sort of man gets a Google doodle for his birthday, 144 years after the fact, just for being a wrestler? Well, now you know, this sort of man

Superman and his name is Garma And there we go Wow That's the story of God If you go to patreon.com forward slash Shiv Ramdas You can support the author of that Excellent thread

This is a very grainy photo But I think you can sort of see Kind of how Stacked your boy Gamma is For you know the very early 1900s He's just He looks like Golem

The Pokemon He's kind of built like a two-year-old he's like a really muscular toddler But there we are But there we are, that's Gama Who apparently slapped a man so hard He might have killed him at some point I really like that first picture

Because it reminds me of one second At the time that When Parliament was being proroged That someone grabbed the mace And everyone went mental about it His big mace I wonder where he got that from In fact, to be honest

The one in Parliament is probably his The British government took it with them That's ours Oh my God, what a dude, thank you That was a brilliant writer as well Yeah, I did a great job with that I found it very interesting So there you go

G-A, G-A-M-A If you want to read about him How did handlebar mustache Has become the hallmark of a strong man Like it works But who started that And why is it so prevalent I don't know. It's good. It worked for the iron chic in the 80s as well. Same mustache.

Same build, actually. It might be him. I'm going to start growing one out. You should. Strong and powerful. I think you should. It'll work, right. Would you boys like a question? Let's go for. This one comes from Chloe Elizabeth at All Fruitcake on Twitter. They say, we've had Domino's double-dead. The chicken, Big Mac and KFC's double-down burger.

Have any other gimmicky fast foods stuck in your mind? And if so, which do you hate? And are there some that you wish stuck around? Big love and congratulations to TP. I'm going to go straight. I'm not going fast food, because I'm not, admittedly, not that much of a fast food extraordinary. But colored ketchup. Oh, the green cat, and the purple ketchup, yeah?

Yeah, yeah. I want that back. I want that back more than anything. Surely legally, you can't sell that anymore. I don't. I think there's a reason, yeah. Maybe like, I don't care about the flavor of it. I just want brightly colored condiments.

So, like, maybe like asparagus sauce instead of tomato sauce. That sounds, actually, you know, it does sound nice. Yeah, I could go for that. No, what, actually. I'm on to something here. I just want to be able to, dollop's and bright colours onto my chips and act like I'm a three-year-old again.

Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. I am... I'm also not really a fast food extraordinary and I don't I never really, I would never I would never order the gimmicky thing. I always just get the same

thing or one of two orders. That's just how I how I live my life in fast food restaurants. However, I do still have an opinion about one thing that happened. Remember when McDonald's brought back the Sesh one source because of Rick and Morty? Yes. And people were absolutely just going insane and being obnoxious and annoying and just standing

in McDonald's abusing staff because the Sesh one source had run out. That's definitely one that I would never have had brought back if, you know, if I had had a crystal ball and if it was my choice to do so to make that decision yeah that was terrible really really annoying yeah and also i'm fairly confident in saying as someone who now has to quietly be a fan of rick and morty yeah that's the thing i'm fairly confident that that whole movement pretty much between that and pickle rick single-handedly destroyed rick and morty's public image. Yeah,

it had a really good. Because it's still really good. The last season was excellent and I really liked it but my God

it just became you have to be ashamed of it now. Yeah. It's a shame. I remember just thinking when I first saw this is,

the show will go far. You know, it's different. It's cutting edge. It's very self-aware. But no. The fandom ruined it as they often do.

In fact, in other Pokemon, in other McDonald's related news the Pokemon stuff where like there were people would be going in and like getting mad about

Happy Meal extras remember exactly what it was was it little toys or little... Adults would go in and buy all the Happy Meals I think it was Pokemon cards and they would film themselves

opening it and just throwing the food away and there were no Pokemon cards left for the children mm-hmm nobs tragic quick recommendation by the way if you enjoy Rick and Morty one show that's very similar that hasn't had its reputation tarnished quite so publicly yet

is solar opposites if you can get hold of that i highly recommend it it's from justin royland and he uses those two voices that you love yeah and it's about aliens it's good it's a good show i really like it oh cute hopefully it stays pure so is this question about things we wouldn't have back or things we would or just general have any stuck in your mind and do you hit them or do you wish they'd stuck around? I tried the double decadence. No, not double decadence, the double down, the KFC one, where instead of buns, it's two chicken patties and then it has like bacon and cheese and sauce in the middle. It was actually kind of disgusting. It made me very sad. It was the greasiest and saltiest thing I think I've ever eaten. And I really like KFC,

and I did not enjoy that at all, which was a shame. I was also very tempted by, I think it might have been Pizza Hut that did a partnership with KFC and it was basically just a margarita but instead of tomato sauce it had KFC gravy and then it just had sweet corn and popcorn chicken on top of it and I never

ordered it before it finished because for the same reason that you say the same thing that you said Peter in that I usually go for the same thing because I don't get takeaway all the time and when I do I don't want to gamble on something I might not like

so yeah exactly yeah for something I know I'll enjoy I think we're missing out here because I've just googled some other weird fast foods America's I mean America's obviously the king of it of course there's some demented things here looks like Pizza Hut did a Doritos

crunchy crust pizza at some point which is literally it's just it's just a handfuls of crushed Doritos lining a pizza it looks like barbed wire fencing there's a double down dog which is a hot dog with a chicken bun. Oh, there was the black bread at like Burger King or something and it turned everyone

shit green. Yes, yeah, the black, the charcoal bun. Yeah. Oh, that's brilliant. Cheetos cassidia. Wow. We are truly missing out on some cuisine here. I'm always tempted by those whenever I see them, I think. That's really fucked up. That, you know, that's got to be good. And then I never do it. Yeah, it's just self-punishment. Yeah, it is. What flavour of diarrhoea do I fancy today? I'll have green, please. Oh, God. Well, thank you, boys.

And we shall move on to my thing. Hell yeah. So I've got a tale of how one of Britain's... I wouldn't say most historic, I guess it depends on who you ask, but one of Britain's most iconic landmarks, a true institution, and like very famous and I believe Peter you're a big fan of it as well to talk about the story of how

it changed hands at auction Oh, okay Like most of the bargain hunters who packed the palace theatre in Salisbury on the afternoon of September 21st, 1915 So there's an estate sale going on for someone who passed away Cecil Chubb was looking for a deal Legend says the wealthy 39-year-old lawyer

had been dispatched by his wife to purchase a set of dining chairs but that all changed when auctioneer Howard Frank announced lot number 15 Stonehenge with about 30 acres, two rods, 37 purchase

of a joining downland so at the turn of the century you could have bought arguably like just a massive chunk of history of England it may have been hard to imagine the world's most famous Oh, it says here, the world's most famous prehistoric monuments.

There you go. That's it. I think it's fair. Yeah, I'm happy with that. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for sale to the highest bidder, but that's what happened when the extensive estate of Sir Edmund Antrobus went under the gavel just months after his death a century ago. What may be even harder to imagine is that Frank found no eager buyers when he opened the bidding

at 5,000 pounds, which I think translate, that sounds cheap, but that's 400,000 pound in today's money, still, arguably, very good going. Would you like to house, or would you like to buy Stonehenge? I'll take the stones, please. The auctioneer said, surely someone will offer me £5,000, pound, the auctioneer intoned after being greeted with silence. As he paid out of the crowd, Frank was relieved to finally see. a hand raised in the air, and eventually it was a little bit of back and forth until the bidding

reached the lofty highs of £6,000 before hitting another lull. Gentlemen, it is impossible to value Stonehenge, Frank said. Surely £6,000 is per bidding. But if no one bids me any more, I shall set it at this price. Will no one give me any more than £6,000 for Stonehenge? And then at that point, Chubb piped up. He thought, no, this is my. When the auctioneer finally lowered his gavel, Stonehenge had been sold for a mere 6,600 pounds, which is, that's roughly 500,000 pound in today's money, which I think it's a good deal still. Very good deal. Yeah, I'd buy that.

I would buy that. I don't have the money, so I don't know why I'm piping in. I can't do this. Chubb, he was born only three miles from Stonehenge, told a local newspaper that he had no intention of purchasing the Neolithic relic when he entered the theatre. but did so on a total whim. I wish I had stonehenge money. No, what the hell? While I was in the room,

I thought a Salisbury man ought to buy it, and that is how it was done, he said. Easy is that, nice and simple. It may be hard to imagine the world's most famous prehistoric monument. Wow, they've just repeated the line here, for sale to the highest bidder, but that's what happened when the extensive...

Wait, I've scrolled up, that's what happened. Why is it saying the same thing again? Oh my God, hold on, hold on. There we go. Jesus, well done me. Just a year after druids placed a curse on the monument's owner for banning their annual solstice celebrations. Antrobus lost his only son and their only...

Oh, my God, that's a word I've not encountered before. I read this before, but I must have glossed over that. Baronecti? That's just like being a baron. I guess so. That kind of looks right. Yeah. Antibus lost his only son on the Western Front in October 1914 during one of the opening battles of World War I.

Four months later, Antribus himself passed away at the age of 67 and his widow placed his 6,420 acre. Nice. Amesbury Abbey Estate, which included Stonehenge up for auction. So it's not just like he owned the land. He owned that land and like an estate on the land. It's actually, he's got a good deal here. he's got he's got some stones and a house some preservationists believe stonehenge should be turned over to the

British government for safekeeping but it remained in private hands with Chubb's purchase reportedly the lawyer's wife Mary was not thrilled with his monumental buy perhaps because she still pined for the dining room set which made it an easier decision when Chubb gifted Stonehenge to the British people in 1918 I think very generous of him good boy good boy did the right thing there. Stonehenge is perhaps known as perhaps best known as the most interesting of our national monuments and has always appealed strongly to the British imagination. Chubb wrote in his letter announcing the donation to me who was born close to it and during my boyhood and youth

visited it at all hours of day and night. Oh my God. Hey, boys, it's 20m. Do you want to go Stonehenge? Get some frosty jacks and go hang out of Stonehenge. I wonder, I thought someone must have done that at some point, gone drinking at Stonehenge. I mean, it was probably. It was probably is pretty highly guarded, but they probably drank there shortly after it was built. True. And in their numerous ceremonies. It's part of the history. It wasn't so well guarded once upon a time.

I'm told people used to just wander up and do what they like. It was pretty quiet, you know, to just sort of drive over there. I think I read in another article about this that people would just go up and chip off bits of the stone and take it all of them. When I went

inside, I did the actual circle tour, which is, they only do it twice a day. And on one of the stones, there was some, like, graffiti carved. Well, a lot of them there's graffiti carved in from all periods of history. But one of the bits of graffiti was an X

and then W-R-E-N. And it was Christopher Wren, the... Wow. That had done it. Like, in his youth, he had gone over there because that's apparently what you did

if you had something... You know, if you had a bit of a... If you were a famous, rich person, who would head down to Stonehenge, carve your name in and yeah so that's now there it's kind of weird that there's like an actual famous name carved into the stones so it says chub visited um all hours day and night under every conceivable condition of weather in driving tempests of tempests of hail rain and snow fierce thunderstorms glorious moonlight and beautiful sunshine it always had an inexpressible charm

i became owner of it with a deep sense of pleasure and had contemplated that it might remain a cherished possession of my family for long years to come. It has, however, been pressed upon me that the nation would like to have it for their own and reprise it most highly. The British government launched an extensive renovation of Stonehenge in 1919

that included straightening stones which I don't know why that feels quite wrong. I feel like you should leave it be. Make sure it's like maybe a little bit of supports it's not going to fall over. A lot of them have been re-erected entirely. Oh, it says it and they were reset them in concrete as well.

So they really, really did up the place. Yeah. And nearly a century later, the restoration work has continued with the removal of nearby roads and outdated visitor facilities in order to return the nearby landscape to its ancient appearance. In return for his gift, Chubb received the title of first baronet of Stonehenge, but locals dubbed Sir Cecil, Fiscount Stonehenge. Viscount. Viscount. What, thanks. Discount.

Viscount. That's like the biscuit, isn't it? Bob it's Bob it's Bop I actually 50% off this count Chubb who died

at the age of 58 in 1934 stipulated in his donation that those who live near Stonehenge should receive free admission to the monument to the stay around 30,000 of the 1.3 million people who visit annually can do so

without paying the admission fee thanks to the impulse buy of Stonehenge's last private owner but hang on what what stipulates you get for free. If you live in the area, if you live in a,

oh, what's the place called it? Do you have to bring a utility bill? That's, yeah, I do wonder how they check that. I guess so. Yeah,

it's like when you sell something at CEX, you've got to bring a gas bill with you instead of, to get into some rocks. I've got to pay to get in because I don't live locally. Fuck you chub. I've come all the way to see your fucking stones.

Should have kept it. Yeah. Government's going to crack it soon. I can make all the way to see you. concrete you've re-aligned and you're going to charge me to see it yeah disgraceful i do want to end on a few quick google searches of other weird things that was sold of all sold at auction i want to play a very quick game of um here's the thing guess how much how much it's sold for okay okay um so elvis presley's lock of hair was sold in 2002 after his hairdresser had been collecting his

trimins for all those years no way any guess in dollars what that went for Is this is going to be tall ballpark guesses? $400,000. I would not pay that for it. Oh, I would not pay any money for it. No. But I'm going to say, yeah, around about half a million dollars, $400,000. I'm going to go much higher and say $2,000.

Oh, you're both way over there. $115,000. You know, it's good for that hairdresser. Yeah. If you say they've been collecting it for years or over a long period of time, that's surely devalues. If you were like this is the only remaining lock of Elvis's hair, that would probably go a lot higher, but...

Well, staying on the Elvis theme, we have Elvis's dirty underwear, which went to auction in 2012. Is it the one he was wearing when he shit himself to death? That would be great. I'd be worth a lot of money. I'm going to send you a picture, just so you know what you would be bidding on.

It's exactly as you'd expect. Oh, yeah, it's brown, huh? Oh, oh, okay. $2 million. No way. That's going to be less than the... You could clone Elvis, Peter. You could clone one of Elvis's shits, potentially.

No, that's got to be like... Yeah, like 100K. It's going to be a bit less than the hair. Sorry to disappoint, boys. That was a trick question. That one actually didn't sell at auction. No, no one was willing to meet the reserve. is it a reserve of seven thousand pounds no one oh okay

i feel like that's that's a conversation starter like yeah have that on your mantel piece oh my shitty boxes something you ask we've got a dorito shaped like the pope's hat two million dollars this is in 2005 it's 25k are you way of eh i think you should get you guys in the auction rooms

they'd be fucking making bank sold for one thousand two hundred nine dollars do you have a picture of this dorito that looks like the pope's hat you better have an entire fucking pope wearing it otherwise just found it the poor pat did in fact have a website for itself as well but sadly offline now this is in 2005

dorito popehat dot com wow yeah what the hell and what was that a thousand over $1,000. All it needs to do is go viral, doesn't it? There was that Among Us Chicken Nugget that sold for like a million or something. Yeah. Oh, so good.

Lastly, I want to end on the world's largest cat painting, which went to auction 2050 into context. This is a piece featuring 42 cats on a six feet by 8.5 foot canvas. It was so large and heavy that carpters had to make a special wall reinforced with plywood because when it was put up on a normal wall, it pulled the nails right out. Would you like to see a picture of this before? Yeah. Well, it's largest cap.

It is like, honestly, it bangs. It really, like, I would quite happily, if I had the money, buy this on, just for a bit of fun. Get ready. It's coming. I think it's beautiful. Oh, like how big it is. That is spectacular.

That is very good. that's got to be again we might be way of reg in it but I'm going to say 30k $2 million somewhere in the middle 826,000 was the artist famous

no apparently it's just a billionaire who really liked cats did they get a non-fungible token for that as well oh dear there you go that's that's my far away into oh my why do I try to say anything that

isn't just basic English. That was my peruse into the world of auctions. Brilliant. Love it. Thank you, Mikey. Very welcome. Would you like a final question? Let's go for this one.

Heron at Book Salamander on Twitter. They ask, what's your favorite story of, quote unquote, fuck around and find out? Mine's when a friend of mine was annoying a horse and ended up getting kicked in the ribs. He did fuck around, and he did indeed find out. Hugs to you, lads, and congrats, Peter.

Thank you. Thank you. Admittedly, I've done the foolish thing here of bringing the question without having my own answer to it, desperately trying to think of one throughout the entire thing, because most of my fuck around and find out stories apply to me. Well, yeah, I mean, maybe that's what they're asking. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah, it could be you or it doesn't have to be you, I guess. What is the most stupid thing I've done? I mean, I've already, I guess I shared mine at the beginning of the episode, didn't I try to do an assault course. Yeah. What else is that? Mine, I've told this story before. This probably isn't the worst one either, but one that springs to mind is when, I mean, I wasn't even fucking knowingly fucking around or like not as bad as I thought. but my brother

to my grandma's house in Scotland and she had a pond in her garden and it was being filled like the hose pipe was in the pond switched on just slowly filling the pond up because it got a bit low and my brother were only like I was probably about seven

he might have been nine and he said oh Peter I dare you to stick the hose pipe over the fence into next door's garden now I don't know if he just if that was the extent of the dare or if he knew that in the exact place I stuck it over the fence, the neighbor was sitting

on the other side of the fence and got sprayed with water. And I got literally sent to bed with no tea. I think my dad was kind of embarrassed by me because we didn't see my grandma on that side so often because as I say, she was up in Scotland. So, you know, on this rare occasion we'd gone to see her, her neighbor gets sprayed with water and she's, she's clearly embarrassed by that. And my dad was embarrassed, you know, because his mom was upset. So everyone was very cross with me. Yeah. But I did not know she was there. I don't know if my brother knew she was there, but I certainly didn't. Oh, dear. I think another one of my most guilty days of life was the time I cheated on a spelling test in school.

I can't have been very subtle about it for the teacher to notice. I was like had the answers in my desk, in my drawer. I must have just been like, leaning back, oh, yeah, that's it. And then getting back to writing a teacher at the end, like told me off, scolded me, and told me to tell my parents what I did. Because you're a good little boy back then. You do that.

You go home and tell your parents that you've been a naughty boy, even though you do. That's a secret could just die with me. Now you've told the world. Oh, no. Oh, world knows. You're never going to get a job now, Michael. No, Mike, he can't spell.

Similarly, the village park, there was a chain with a lock on the end of it that was hanging off the gate to the car park, and I picked it up and I threw it over a fence. And I don't know why I did, but I did. And then I'm not even sure how my mum found out. Oh, I think maybe someone watched me do it An adult watched me do it and then told my mum And my mum was furious, like really cross And she made me go around the corner

To the man who looks after the car park and apologize And I had to go back up to the park And pick up the chain from over the fence And put it back where I found it That's you told Yeah, I learned my lesson, yeah There's nothing worse than doing something cool that's rebellious and then being caught in the act right there and now.

He told off by your mum. I have to go around and apologise. The man was not cross at all. He was a bit bemused, to be honest. I don't think he really gave a shit. But it was humiliating and very, very sad time for me. Have you ever thrown a lock in chain since? No.

Lesson learned. Lesson learned, yeah. All done. How are you, Ben. Thank you. Come a long way. A little growth since then. there we go

that's it amazing they all seem relatively tame compared to get kicked in the ribs by a horse yes yeah

I mean I can't think of any off the top of my head I certainly haven't been kicked by a horse no no I've not either terrified of horses horrible creatures

disgusting animals well there we are thank you so much for listening everybody we hope you've enjoyed this episode

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