Podiots - Podiots: Episode 113 - VidiotsOfficial Dot Com

Episode Date: December 6, 2022

Ben's chopping onions, Mikey narrowly avoids disaster and Peter crunches the numbers. Donate £3 or more to get a shoutout and join the Pod Squad! - https://podiots.com/ Visit our shop! - https://vi...diotsofficial.com/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:30 event. Conditions supply, visit your local Volvo retailer, or go to explorevolvo.com. You know how, like, you have an Amazon.com and a Twitter.com? Yeah. Can you believe they've only gone and given us a bloody vidiatesofficial.com? No way. Did you say vidiots official.com? The internet people have given it to us. The wizards.
Starting point is 00:00:53 It's not like anyone can have a web, just about anyone can have a website. You've got to be, like, you know, you've got to be a size. but professional to get that stuff. Peter, did you, did you hear what the website was called? Vidiatsofficial.com. Yeah. V-I-D-I-O-T-S-O-F-F-F-I-C-I-A-L dot C-O-O-M. Vidi-O-O-F-I-O-M. VidI-E-E-O-E-E-O-B-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-W-E-E-E. Wow. It's got shop and YouTube and even a contacter's page but that shop hold the phone did you say shop it's back and I think you said shop did I say there's a shop with with new items on there
Starting point is 00:01:44 I am pogging right now as the children say that's disgusting I don't care what you do not while we're recording a podcast my sorry I'll keep my pogging to myself horrible what's available on the new shop, Michael Johnson. Oh my God, a whole host of things. We've got shirts, many shirts, all your favourites are there. And for the first time, actually, the Vs11 shirt, t-shirt is in white. It looks quite snappy, actually. I like white shirts.
Starting point is 00:02:14 I might get one of those. I'm going to go over to vidyatsofficial.com forward slash shop and have a look. I'm scrolling. Whoa, look at that. I think it looks rare. There are stickers. Stickers. Including my favorite, I think, which is the Pollyets Presents sticker.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Yeah, so you can vandalise things in your own home that you own, not other people's property, yeah? We cannot encourage people to do that. No, please don't go and slap it on signage out in the streets, definitely not. On your visitor, Buckingham Palace, don't do it that. That'd be a terrible idea. Don't be arrested for doing that. We've got mug, a hoodie, and for the first time ever, we're offering a cap.
Starting point is 00:02:54 Wow. It's a nice little thread job as well. on the cap. Oh yeah. It's a proper job. It looks well nice. It's, it's properly stitched. It's got a buckle and a brim. It's beautiful, a thing of beauty. So it's video.com. Vidiatsofficial.com. Oh my god. Is it video. What? Hello?com.com. It's everything is on all of the links. You want to find us on YouTube, Twitch, on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts, on Twitter, on Discord, on Facebook. It's all there. All of it. You want to donate to Pod Squad? It's there.
Starting point is 00:03:34 Actually, even better. If you want to donate to Pod Squad, you can just type, make things way easier. Poddiots.com. Wow. Bam, as if by magic, the internet elves will redirect you to the lovely, lovely page you know and love where you type in those silly names. Yes, you can join the Pod Squad. We've got a couple of people that we need to thank for making this happen. Firstly, we need to thank Desi at Desi Love for very kindly relinquishing the domains,
Starting point is 00:04:05 vidiatsofficial.com and poddiots.com. And Andy at Weird Design, who helped us build the website. I say help us. Who built the website for us while we nitpicked and asked for things to be changed and fonts to be fiddled with. So thanks to those to vidyots official.com. It is a real website. We manifested it at the start of the year when people asked what we wanted from video.
Starting point is 00:04:31 Was that this year? I can't remember. I don't know. Might be this year. But anyway, before the end of 2022, it's taken us four years. We have our own website. And guys, let's not forget
Starting point is 00:04:42 that we just did a flipping reunion live stream as well. Wasn't it great? It's not happened yet. It's not happened yet. But thank you to everyone who very kindly donated in aid of Macmillan cancer support, the VOD will be on the YouTube channel now. It should be
Starting point is 00:04:59 anyway. And one fun thing for people who were there on the night and this is why you've got to try and tune into these things if you can. There was a very limited edition poster available for that weekend only. What on viddiotsofficial.com? Vidiatesofficial.com Wait, we've got a website now? Yeah. Vidiates official.com
Starting point is 00:05:19 forward slash shop. Not only had a really cool limited time only for the weekend. Thanks for coming to the reunion stream poster, but there was also a 10% discount code. So you've got to make sure you're following us on the things and you're coming along to live stuff if you can because there will be little treats like that. If you can. At the end of the podcast, when we're going over the links again, we'll go into a bit more detail about how the shop works and how we are not as in control of it as you might think. So don't bother us if your parcel doesn't show up. You should. You should, but also it's kind of not our fault. So there are there a thing. Anyway, should we do podcast now? Yeah, let's do
Starting point is 00:05:55 podcast. Your parcel will show up. What? We're pretty sure. What? I think. There's a video it's promise. It'll probably sure. We can't. We can't use that as a tag. No, let's just start the podcast before we take a song. Your parcel is changing. It's lost. Hello everybody and welcome to Poddy. It's the official videos, a podcast. It's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three us, where everybody brings a thing along to talk about. I'm Ben.
Starting point is 00:06:39 I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. Uh-uh. Come on, come on, get down with the sniffles. Oh, yeah. And feeling it also works as well. Yeah, we're all feeling it. a bit rough this day
Starting point is 00:06:52 this recording for various reasons Mikey and I have like a coffee thing going on I've got more of a tea thing going on Peter's got a tea thing going on because he has to be different he can't have the same caffeine as us but
Starting point is 00:07:08 also at the time of recording Peter and I have just come off a rather mammoth event haven't we? We certainly have over a triple jump post some tat effectively still lives on in another name and we do an annual tat appeal and it being annual it means we don't get to spread the tat across several well was it was it weekly back in the day i think it might have been
Starting point is 00:07:31 it got it did it it became pretty regular didn't it like i think we'll do a couple of episodes a year and then it became oh no our whole room is filled with boxes it may have just been whenever the pile got big enough but that was almost weekly but uh yeah because we only do it annually we end up with massive amount and we have to record for about 10 hours to open it all which is great of course. Thank you so much if there are any cross listeners I mean cross as it's not angry
Starting point is 00:07:56 multiple channel listeners of Triple Jump listening to this podcast thank you for sending your things but yeah wow it was a real marathon it was and there were so many lovely letters and so many of them mentioned Mikey Johnson and videos and how important
Starting point is 00:08:14 vidiots was to them which was really lovely to read. And a lot of Poddiots mentions too, which was really nice. So hello, thanks for the tat. But as a result, Peter and I, feeling a little fatigued. Mikey, I imagine your work is hectic as always. Oh, you bet, you bet, but we soldier on because it's Christmas boys. No, it's not Christmas.
Starting point is 00:08:36 Well, next week, next week, next episode will be our Christmas episode. So we'll let you know at the time, but if you want to prepare some Christmas questions for us, Make sure you send them in when we asked for them before that recording. And then as per usual, we'll probably take a few weeks off over the Christmas and New Year's and then we'll be back fresh in 2023, ready for what happened on video it's five years ago. Oh, God, half a decade. Oh, don't say it like that. What the fuck?
Starting point is 00:09:07 What the fuck, man? Before we get stuck in, though, to the questions and the things, did you know that if you go to Podiot's dot com and donate three pounds or more you get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the show and you join pod squad did you know that yeah pottyats dot com will take you right there that's incredible it's flipping amazing mike yeah i believe you have the first group but also can i very quickly checked that there was there was a donation on there that said this is mikey please ignore was that you that was me that was me okay good all right that's fine i wanted to make sure okay Mikey, take it away.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Billy Ray is five forgotten kids. Stephen Scores. Fuck, I did them all backwards. And bad joke. Okay, this is now an expensive. Loll, JK, I wasn't really generous, like a glove. They're very generous. Should I do that in the proper order for this poor person who spent a lot of money and fucked it up?
Starting point is 00:10:05 I think it goes all the way down to the next one. Are you, oh my God. Oh, my God. You see? Wait. The Very Generous, I think, is the first one. Yeah. Yeah, that's as far as we got.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Oh, okay, sorry. So in the correct order this time. The Very Generous, like a glove. Loll, JK, I wasn't really generous. Okay, this is now an expensive and bad joke. Fuck, I did them all backwards. Don't worry we got you back. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Thank you very much. Ironically, in total, you were two pounds shy of being very generous by doing that way. Oh, I know. And they weren't the only person to do. do that this week. Oh, okay. Too fair, I still don't really understand how the ordering works, so it's okay. We'll get that together.
Starting point is 00:10:50 We continue with Mary Lord Broho Hortovich, Freddie Weber doing. Caroline keeps me in her loft. You know it's all about Dacombe and Donak 07. We've also got Mikey's sad, soiled body bits. Big Joe Rivers, who was very generous and said, Hey, boys, long-time listener, but first-time generous Donator. Just wanted to tell you guys that I've slowly been changing every computer wallpaper at my job
Starting point is 00:11:24 to pictures of Dave Benson Phillips for the last two months. Seemingly, no one in America knows Dave. Oh. Well, some people do, but they're all listeners to poddietz. Yeah. We've also got Veronica mingle gurgle. Sorry, minge gurgle. It's worse than I thought.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Veronica Minge gurgle. Lick my sneaky finch 42 titties. Mr. Blobby's hot knobby. Shit is beans time. The plop story was a bit much. Mikey's landlord here. Why? Oh no.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Unleashed the beans who was also very generous and said Ahoy lads Soon I'll be moving back home to Australia After four So after eight years in the UK So that's as good a reason as any To throw some cash your way
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Starting point is 00:12:31 Elon bankrupts Poddiots and Elon reinstate's memory cards. Nice. So that's two of three. I could have really separated them off, but for some reason I didn't. It was supposed to be, this is the start of my run now,
Starting point is 00:12:47 Elon buys Pottietz, and then Elon reinstates memory cards, Elon bankrupts Potties. Oh, yeah. Thank you for those. We've also got Ben out of 10, bit of an abrasive one, 2nd December Coles Orgy,
Starting point is 00:13:02 Amy the Wicks. Lonely and Trans at Christmas I'm sorry to hear that I hope you find someone Ben Potter is Cooper Cup Don't know what that is Mr Macca Anxious Millennial Cowboy
Starting point is 00:13:15 Mr Street View at Meat Facery Lewis Poois is Jewish Lewis Poois is Jewis and Osama bin Laddars Thank you very much I've got I've got Cooper Cup here And my God what a what a chill man
Starting point is 00:13:30 Yes Are you surprised It's another blonde man A man with a beard. Yeah, there he is. That's him. So thank you very much. That's your Pod Squad for this week.
Starting point is 00:13:40 Poddiots.com. Three pounds or more to get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the show. Peter, I think you have questions. Yeah, question number one is which name was your favourite? Oh, God. Oh, you go first, Ben. You end up going last because you asked the question, so what was your favourite? How about?
Starting point is 00:13:58 Do, do, do, do, do. Oh, where it was one of Peters, I think. Let me see. Mikey Sadsoil body bits. Yeah, I mean, I was going to say that as well. I just like all of it. I like to have my bowel movements immortalised in donations. So they're all good donations, I think.
Starting point is 00:14:19 They are. Oh, beautiful. So I do have some questions here submitted by you guys on Twitter, at Video's Official on Twitter. So the first one comes from Paul at Paul Zaremba 16, who asks, and this might be one we've had before, I couldn't really remember, but if we have, it must have been long ago enough that I'm not sure. So Paul asks,
Starting point is 00:14:44 Do you have a chore that you don't mind doing, or one that you despise? I never minded doing the dishes, either by hand or using the dishwasher, but doing the laundry is impossible. Never understood it. Someone wash and dry my clothes, and I'll just fold them myself. Okay, love you by. thank you Paul I don't like ironing
Starting point is 00:15:03 I tell you why it sounds flippin familiar Ben because we have this today when we recorded the triple jump We did answer a very similar question today Sort of yeah As soon they realised this is the second time I've complained about ironing today
Starting point is 00:15:19 We were asked if we could gamify a chore and make it easier So I said I'd do Fruit Ninja ironing Where you just sort of do a single swoosh through your t-shirt or whatever and if you line up some targets then it is suddenly crease free but yeah I don't like ironing
Starting point is 00:15:38 why do you I haven't ironed in like five years yeah you don't have to do it I bought a mini ironing board for Peter's wedding because I needed to iron my shirt to be fair yeah that was actually that was before Peter's wedding I looked at my crinkled shirt and I was like oh I can't do I can't do anything about this so I had to hang it up in the shower for like
Starting point is 00:15:59 for now and let that steam air it out. Maybe I'd have taken you guys as creasy as you came. Don't worry. Oh, it's very sweet. God, a job that I hate. I lived alone for the longest time, so I had to do everything myself, which is fine. I'm trying to think if there was a part of it that I disliked more than others.
Starting point is 00:16:24 I don't mind washing up. Washing up is my favourite. I think that's That's my gauty. Yeah, I'm all right with washing up. It feels good. I don't know. It's just like, progress. It's like, oh, there's one done.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Oh, another one. Look at this one. It's doing such good washing. Your own crockery. I don't like washing other people stuff up so much. Oh, no. Well, how about then? Favorite chore, maybe washing up and then least fit.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Because I'll actually do the washing up before I eat. Like, I'll cook things and then I'll just put it to one side and then I'll wash up quickly and then I'll eat. Because I love washing up. so much. It brings me more joy than the thing. That's the best bit of cooking is the washing up. You just make as much of a mess as possible. A little treat for me. I think the thing I dislike the most, just because it's so physically intensive and I often don't see the results I want is cleaning the bath slash shower. That's such a pain in the ass. That's like a two or three times a year job, if that. And there's visible grime. It's like, I guess it's time.
Starting point is 00:17:27 I just spray it with chemicals usually. So the no, and crannies get clean because they all get melted away but everything else like all the tiles are just can't be arsed no i have to scrub every angle of the tub it's white it's difficult to see where it's grimy without caressing it i just feel like a proper caveman when i'm doing the shower because you god it's tmi i usually do it naked so that yeah yeah you clean the shower and then you run the shower naked just scrubbing and your dangly bits just going fucking terrible well that was TMI
Starting point is 00:18:03 nah we've all been there it's happened yeah that's true it's only human it's just terrible I yeah I've discovered a new dislike
Starting point is 00:18:12 for hoovering which I mean I was never a huge fan of but I never it wasn't a particular dislike it was just a chore but we've now got a hoover that is really well
Starting point is 00:18:21 so I until recently I thought it was really heavy but I used it the other day and I realized no it's just got it's there good a hoover that it's sucking itself to the floor and feels heavy it's like difficult to
Starting point is 00:18:35 push around because it's like no it's like a fucking limp it won't move um so i mean it's a good hoover it definitely sucks everything up which is great but it's just difficult to move around the house with it i think my least favorite is dusting myself oh yeah what's the point you can do you can do a quick dust but to like properly dust you got a pick everything up and I've got so many like I've got Lego men sat around so that's like they've all got be picked up it's terrible yeah as you say Peter it'd be fine if it didn't just didn't all come back in like two days well yeah I mean there's that but also I wouldn't mind so much if there was a way to do it without like when I do it I just use a duster and
Starting point is 00:19:21 maybe some polish if I'm really feeling fancy but you know like a duster cloth and then if you do too much dusting, it just gets completely mucky. And then it's like, well, what do I do now? And you have to go and, like, sort of beat it off outside and then clean the rack. Beating off your duster and sucking too hard with your hoover, that sounds like a wonderful afternoon. Because you can't just stick it in the sink and, like, wash it clean because then you've got a wet duster. I mean, I guess that would still pick up some stuff. But, you know, the nice dry, whatever they're called, you know, the fibory ones, the very staticy ones.
Starting point is 00:19:56 They can be good if you keep them dry, but yeah, it's a tricky one. It's a full-time job, dusting. And there's probably an important reason for, A, dust existing, and B, it contributing to something. But if we could just get rid of all dust. What is dust? No more dust. No more dust. Well, people say, don't they, that it's like, oh, did you know, it's like 90% human skin? But I don't think that's actually true.
Starting point is 00:20:24 I think maybe 90% of human skin becomes dust Maybe that's where the stat comes from That it's like been inverted by accident But it's not all skin Because You know More than just dirt House dust is a mix of
Starting point is 00:20:41 Slowed off skin cells Hair clothing fibres Bacteria dust mites Bits of dead bugs and soil Yeah soil Exactly Delicious soil I'm not going to think about inhaling bedbugs and whatnot
Starting point is 00:20:58 No, it's best not too Do you have a favourite, Mikey? Did you say your favourite? Yeah, dishwashing. Yeah, yeah. It's podcast time, boys. Stick in some airphones. Have a merry old cleaner listen to a podcast.
Starting point is 00:21:10 Time flies by us. I mean, that's the key to doing anything as an adult is you just distract yourself as much as humanly possible with audiovisual stimulation, and the time just washes away. Yeah, I now get the metro, not that's a chore. but it's a similar thing. I now get the Metro
Starting point is 00:21:25 early enough in the morning that there's always enough copies of the Metro newspaper and I read it on the train and as I'm walking to work crossing busy roads just face down in the newspaper. You're like a 1940s businessman.
Starting point is 00:21:39 I am and I just suddenly seem to be at work. It like really makes a difference and I used to listen to podcasts which is also a similar thing but yeah just having that distraction when you've got something tedious to do like slowly make you way into the office it does help a lot so yeah podcast when you're washing up is great i don't think i could read and walk i mean it's an art i've had to learn how to do it i'd love
Starting point is 00:22:04 to see it in action i can barely sit and read at the best of times well there we go that was a question thank you very much um who has got a thing oh me i have a thing ben go it's time for the return of not the onion or is it the onion or is it the onion onions? Would you like an onion? Is the name of the show I've decided. Onion? That's good. Question mark? So this is the show where I have
Starting point is 00:22:32 brought some I've got five news stories and there are a mix or are they of real news stories that sound like they could be from fictional satirical news website The Onion and perhaps actual fictional satirical news website the Onion articles
Starting point is 00:22:52 So I'm going to read you each of these headlines and then we'll go back through them and you have to decide whether they are real or whether they are the onion. Lovely. Are you ready? Yes. Headline one.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Bats use the same techniques as death metal singers to vocalise. Oh, okay. Brighton, the most godless city in England. That's good, I like that. Taco Bell introduces new cheesy beef dunk tank. Oh, what? What does that mean? Dog shoots owner dead after stepping on his shotgun.
Starting point is 00:23:36 Okay. And people return to offices' productivity plunges. What is real and what is not? First up, bats use the same techniques as death metal singers to vocalize. Sounds plausible. Yeah. I mean, oh, God, what technique do death metal singers use? It's more guttural.
Starting point is 00:23:56 It's throaty, isn't it? It's, yeah, comes from the diaphragm, not anywhere else. Which you associate with deep sounds rather than the high-pitched squeaking of a bat, but then a bat is the size of your finger, so maybe even a bat. If you scaled a bat up to human size, then it would sound like a death metal singer. Yes, maybe. That would be amazing. Why aren't there more big bat singers?
Starting point is 00:24:20 Yeah. Or tiny, tiny death metal Flying around catching moths. I would love that. Is it real or is it the onion? Real. Real. Death metal fans might have just found a new animal mascot.
Starting point is 00:24:36 Some bats use the same vocal structures as death metal singers to make their unique vocalizations. A new study has found. That is real. Per CNN. Next one. Brighton is the most godless city in England. well um brighton and i i sometimes get brighton and blackpool mixed up culturally i know
Starting point is 00:24:58 geographically where they're different but is brighton the one that's got like quite a big gay scene what are you implying here peter i'm not saying therefore godless city therefore they are sinners but what i'm saying is it might i suspect there may be some correlation not a hundred but between being gay and perhaps feeling like maybe Christianity's not for me because you know certain denominations of it say that I'm bad and I'm not I'm just the way that quote unquote God made me so I wonder whether there's a correlation between being more atheist or agnostic if you are gay yeah yeah but that is Brighton isn't it I think Brighton is a very left-leaning city yeah I would maybe say this sounds true yeah I would
Starting point is 00:25:44 Totally describe Brighton as godless. More than half of the people in Brighton, 55.2% reported having no religion the highest proportion in England. Oh my God. There you go, that's true. That's a real story. Next up, Taco Bell introduces new cheesy beef dunk tank. I don't even know what that means. Do you get dunked in it?
Starting point is 00:26:11 Yeah, a dunk tank, right? Okay. Like at a fair. And it's got cheesy beef in there. Yeah, yeah. Cheesy beef. Or is it beefy cheese? That's the question.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Yeah, well, you have to get dunked to find out. If this is like KFC introducing a gravy dunk tank, I'd be like, yeah, that sounds really plausible. They do that kind of thing all the time. But Taco Bell, that's, Taco Bell's too serious for this kind of thing. Yeah, I'm inclined to say this is an onion one. Yeah, I'm going to say it's. it's an onion as well.
Starting point is 00:26:45 Oh, good sense of smell on you two. It is a real onion. Calling its latest offering the ultimate innovation in Mexican-inspired fast food, restaurant chain Taco Bell announced Thursday that it had added a cheesy beef dunk tank to its menu. At select locations throughout the country, customers can now get their Taco Bell fixed through total immersion in a 600-gallon dunk tank
Starting point is 00:27:07 filled with mouth-watering molten cheese and spicy meat. Bolton cheese. You would never emerge. You would be dead. You would die in it. So the final news story note, we've got two more. Dog shoots owner dead after stepping on his shotgun. Mikey?
Starting point is 00:27:27 I know of this one. Yeah, see, this has happened before. I don't know if it's happened again recently, but this has definitely happened in the past. I will say this article is from the 28th of November. Okay. Well, I think it may have happened again. God, how does...
Starting point is 00:27:44 Wait, I mean, we haven't revealed the answer yet. We don't know. We're getting ahead of ourselves. How? My God. Yeah, I'm going to err on the side of real. Yeah, me too. It is real.
Starting point is 00:27:56 A 32-year-old man in Turkey was reportedly shot and killed by his own dog after the canine stepped on the trigger of a shotgun and it fired at him. Osgar Gevrecoglu was killed while out hunting with his friend in the Kisland Plateau, in the Samson province of Turkey. While putting his dog into his car, the animal's pawed touched the loaded weapon and the rifle fired at Gavekoglu from a short distance. He was taken to the hospital after the incident and later pronounced dead. Yeesh, yeah. Oh, okay, there is a picture of a dog, but it does say underneath, this stock image shows a dog sitting outside.
Starting point is 00:28:32 So it's not the murderer. It's not a mug shot, is it? It's not a mug shot. No, it's not. Oh, wow, the image on the thread is very good. I like that. A mud shot. Hey, nice.
Starting point is 00:28:42 That is great. Okay, I have got one final one here. People return to offices, productivity plunges. I mean, all signs seem to point to that being true with every study I've ever seen, but I never know if that's just people trying to argue for staying at home. I can see how this could be, although, yeah, like I agree statistically it sounds true.
Starting point is 00:29:08 I could also see how this might be just, you could spin this into a, a funny headline in some way. Ooh. So, I suppose we're four for four, aren't we, Mikey, with each other? So maybe we should go different. Yeah, let's split up. Okay, I'm happy to say onion on this occasion.
Starting point is 00:29:28 I'm going to go real. Okay, it is real. Oh. One of the most interesting things about the pandemic, at least from an employment perspective, is that productivity didn't suffer as a result of remote work. In many cases, employees became even more productive while working from home, either because they were happier or because they were making an extra effort
Starting point is 00:29:46 to impress faraway bosses. Now, word comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics or Labore Statistics, if you want to pronounce it American. They don't pronounce it that way, but they do spell it that way. That productivity plunged during the first half of 2022 down by the sharpest rate since the 1940s. Wow. There's a pretty good reason for that.
Starting point is 00:30:05 So there we are. Jeez. Wow, amazing. That's a real thing. And that is onion or not onion. What a wonderful collection of onions. Thank you, Ben. Indeed, thank you very much, Ben. We've now got a question from Jamshed,
Starting point is 00:30:21 at Mighty Jamshed, who says, In an alternate reality, you three are brothers, biological brothers, kin, etc, etc. What was the best family trip you had, and what's the one memory you don't talk about for obvious reasons? Oh, this is interesting, okay. Oh, I don't think I've seen you guys as like young children.
Starting point is 00:30:47 I always just picture it like the same as adults, but small body, big head and that's it. Hey guys, remember that time? We went to Mr. Blobby land, Bobby World. Yeah. We had a great time together. Loves it. Mikey then did poo into a newspaper. Yeah, remember that?
Starting point is 00:31:04 He was desperate and the cute and meet Mr. Blobby and he didn't want to lose his place. No. Dropped to Mr. Jobby. The poo's paper, as we call. all it family and joke rapid fire
Starting point is 00:31:16 on fire tonight wow it's got me a third one come on Mikey well I mean
Starting point is 00:31:23 the worst bit was when Peter just started crying and crying and crying because Mr. Blobby
Starting point is 00:31:29 didn't know his name even though he was his biggest fan and terrible he had a whole car
Starting point is 00:31:35 ride home he just salt and salt it's amazing that I could tell he didn't know my name because all he
Starting point is 00:31:40 ever says is blobby He didn't know my name I'm not Flobby I'm Peter Imagine if Blobby If Mr. Blobby just went I love Peter
Starting point is 00:31:53 Blobby Blobby Blobby Blobby Blomby Blomby Burn Michael Blobby Blobby It'd be like that clip from the Pokemon movie Where Pikachu talks Yeah
Starting point is 00:32:04 For the first and only time Oh Horrible Well I mean, that, I think we nailed it. Sorry, I'm currently in the middle of dying here. Sorry. There we go.
Starting point is 00:32:20 I started breathing and it got old bitty in my throat. Do we have a good memory from the day or another day for us each? We all got a photo with Mr. Blobby, a blobby land. Yeah. That's cute. Still sitting on the fireplace. With a bloggrapher or something, I don't know. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:32:41 photographer. I really wish Mr. Blobbyland was still open because it had to have been themed with puns from like top to toe. Yeah. Yeah. God, what magical experience it would have been. Oh, Ben, my favorite bit of that trip was when you put your last 20p
Starting point is 00:32:58 into that little coin operated slot machine and you gave me that, that, that lovely pink, plastic ring that you won. And I planned to one day hand that down to my grandchildren. Oh. True. what is our family name
Starting point is 00:33:12 actually? Oh yeah our surname. What's God, I'm just going to write them all down Austin and see if there's any way of smushing them. Jotston? Jotston. Yeah, it could be Jotston. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:29 Yeah, yeah. J-O-T-S-T-I-N. That feels right. Yeah, Michael Jotston, Peter Jotston and Ben Jotston. Jottson. And the day we all had out of Blobbyland without any parental supervision Yeah
Starting point is 00:33:43 Cute Lovely time Thank you everyone There's hang on I'm looking at I'm looking at an image from Blobbyland And you said it would be covered in puns everywhere There's some sort of exhibit called
Starting point is 00:33:57 Dunn Blobben I don't know what that means Dunbobbin D-U-N Blobin How do you spell your name please Yes it's Mr Blobby Let's see
Starting point is 00:34:10 Okay, I've got a map. I've got a map of Blobbyland. Oh, no way. It's not very high quality. I'm going to have to zoom it. There's the Blobby shop. The Blop. Mr. Blobby House.
Starting point is 00:34:23 Mr. Blobby's house. Crinkly Bottom Station. Quinkly Bottom High Street. Adventure Trail. Woodland walks. Crinkly Bottom Art Gallery. Extremely nice thingy shop. Oh, good.
Starting point is 00:34:38 It's all shops. The Lake Side. food court the holy something is very blurry I assume that's a mini golf course crinkly bottom airport they've got an airport crinkly house
Starting point is 00:34:52 of course the deer park the flamingos the Narnia tunnel there's a general store do you think they had a license from C.S. Lewis's estate to have the Narnia tunnel I don't think so many
Starting point is 00:35:08 post office shop shopping arcade literally the only thing to do here is shopping court to Mr. Bobby's house and that's it. There are there's the crinkly bottom fun village the crinkly bottom
Starting point is 00:35:22 a safari ride the Chinese water garden crinkly bottom sea lion show adventure something called adventure fort those poor sea lions there's a match of being whisked off Crinkly, very quickly bottom.
Starting point is 00:35:40 What do you mean the sea lines? There's an entire safari park with elephants. Oh my God. There's a picture of a zebra here. Do you think the sea lion show is like two sea lines on stage and then just missed a blobby going like, I'm trying to do tricks. Every day is a torch.
Starting point is 00:36:01 Yeah, Amur Leopards. TV's family favorites. Oh God, there's a picture of a Dalek. There's a Daleks. there and there's also noddy in Toy Town which is one. You've missed my favourite so far. Yeah?
Starting point is 00:36:16 The gunge mines. Oh no. Is that where Dave was born? Children working down there. Oh, they've got an animals of farthing wood woodland as well. Wow. Trout feeding, truly a magical deer. What was
Starting point is 00:36:34 your favourite bit? Trout feeding. Fed the trout. The post the post office shop. Man, okay, this actually does look like a good day out. Wait, what the... Throttled cock farm. Excuse me. At the top, throttled cock farm.
Starting point is 00:36:52 Where? At the top. Oh, my God, very top in like the circus. Yeah, that's not even... Yeah. Throttled cock farm. Jesus. Do you remember when we went on the adventure trail
Starting point is 00:37:06 through woodland walks, and we didn't want to do trout feeding so we crossed over Crinkly Bridge and we went to Cricket House and then Mikey pooed in the living room. I do. You remember that? Yeah, it was good.
Starting point is 00:37:19 We went to throttled cock farm and got our cocks throttled. Do you get your cox throttled cock farm or do you throttle cocks? That's a good question. I think it's just a big free-for-all. There are cocks and there's throttling to be done and, you know, every cock for himself.
Starting point is 00:37:37 I just, I would give so much to visit the blobby shop. Yeah, it's so pink and yellow. And the shop radio is just playing the Mr. Blobby theme over and over. The person behind the counter has this very far away look in their eyes. Glazed over pink and yellow eyeballs. Sorry, I've just found the most cursed image. That is found footage. What the fuck is that?
Starting point is 00:38:14 This is an audio podcast. Let's describe this. You know the last shot in the Blair Witch Project? Yeah. It's that, but Mr. Blobby. It's like a really dirty photograph taken on a proper film camera, probably like a disposable camera. Mr. Blubby is standing actually facing the camera,
Starting point is 00:38:37 but it's taken from so low down that his head is cropped off. He's a-posing. He's a-posing. And there's presumably Noel Edmonds or someone in the background with a very loud shirt reading a newspaper. What does it say? It says may cause drowsiness, I think, on the...
Starting point is 00:38:53 Yeah, I think it does. On the headline. Is it the crinkly bottom something? Is that the name of the newspaper? Probably, yeah. And then there's a table in the middle that has a sort of strange ornament on it. Like a golden angel holding a sword or something.
Starting point is 00:39:07 I don't think it's, I think that's, um, that's just the Mr. Blobby suit propped up because you can see a vertical pink pole behind the right. So I don't think, I think it just stank, I think it just lurks in there. Yeah, it's an ornament. And you just peer in as like, there's Mr. Blobby's house and there's just this unmoving, a posing pink demon. Absolutely. Well, that was my favorite bit of office. It was, yeah, me too. I loved that bit. Yeah, when we went in that scary house. Fantastic. Jesus.
Starting point is 00:39:40 There's got to be more, why aren't there more contemporary photos? Well, because it's been closed down, hasn't it, I think. I found a photo of the blobby shop. Oh. Is it pink? It's not that exciting. It's got pink, pink aspect. Oh, it's the outside.
Starting point is 00:39:56 Oh, that's cute. It's cute, little thatched style building, but definitely built in 1998. Oh my goodness. Crinkly Bottom Hote Cuisine. Oh. If this place is nearby at all, can we go and do a bit of urbex inside? Yeah. It's in Somerset, so theoretically possible.
Starting point is 00:40:21 Does it still stand this day a little bit? It might do. Honestly, if it does still stand, I bet there is already an urbex video of it. Oh, there are. There's tons. I've got YouTube thumbnails galore right here. Oh, wow. Wow, yeah, well at least in 2010 it was all still there Oh my god
Starting point is 00:40:39 Oh yeah Oh it's all sort of haunting Can we go find the gunge mines There is actually a Mr Blobby creepypasta video Called the Blobbyland incident Oh no I hope that cursed image we put on the thread is the thumbnail Oh dear
Starting point is 00:41:00 Oh look at this I've found another cursed image This is from someone's thumbnail from their urbex Oh, no, blubby. It's just a swamp with a decapitated blobby head. Which has been bleached by the sun. It's just a pure white blobby head, like, floating on its back in a bog. Oh, God. I really wanted to go.
Starting point is 00:41:21 I think you were right when we said the sea lion show just involves a blobby screaming. Oh, no, it doesn't. It does, it does, because I just saw an image and it's just a blobby in an enclosure. What do you think of that one? Someone's spray painted the inside of one of the Blobby houses. And it says, Noel Edmonds, stop pretending deal or no deal is more than it is.
Starting point is 00:41:46 It's quite profound for graffiti. This is an absolute treasure troem. Oh, that's a weirdly shaped room that that's been spray painted. And it's like being inside Mr. Blobby's head. Yeah, sort of domed. Oh, God, I really want to go. I want to go. Should we all
Starting point is 00:42:05 Next video's reunion We'll go I've got an easy jet voucher that I need to spend And one of the only places I can get to in the UK Is Bristol from Newcastle So I could come down in a heartbeat I found my new favourite photo of Plobby Land It's that one
Starting point is 00:42:21 Oh no So it's a child in one of those ride-on things Where it's like a There are a lot of postman pat ones and things used to be outside supermarkets, you put a coin in and it just rocks back and forth. And it's a boat, a pea green boat with a very small, child-sized blobby
Starting point is 00:42:42 staring. It's so rotund. Yeah. And it's sort of got quite low eyelids. It's like he's a bit baked, isn't it? Yeah. It's a baked film. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:42:53 Yeah. Wow. Well. There's another, I've just noticed in that photo, in the foreground, very blurred. There's the top of a different blobpy head. because everywhere you go in Blobbyland there's just another Blobby.
Starting point is 00:43:07 You can't move for blobs there's a bobbies toilet. Oh no. A pink toilet with yellow spots. There's so many photos of this one toilet. And we're on a podcast and it's a shame but we recommend that you all get searching on YouTube and Google Images for
Starting point is 00:43:28 Lobbyland. Oh God. That's a well-used. Lobby toilet Thoroughly used Oh dear Right Should we Should we stop
Starting point is 00:43:39 Looking at pictures Of an old abandoned theme park And move on One final thing Yeah The last image That I've spotted
Starting point is 00:43:46 Here It's an article called mummified Remains of Mr Blobby Found in cupboard And I think It's a really old Mr Blobby
Starting point is 00:43:53 costume that's like Gone Off Oh no It's so scary Yeah It looks like a It looks like a Russian
Starting point is 00:44:02 Oh, God. It's like a Russian flipping hazmat suit. It's like a gas, yeah, gas mask thing. Yeah, that's what they used to get to the front at the center of, oh, God. Oh, I forgot on the name of the nuclear disaster now. 20,000 people used to live here, Chernobyl. Yeah, that's what they used to go to the elephant's foot in Chernobyl. Okay, right, I'm done, I'm done now.
Starting point is 00:44:24 God, exhausting. Well, thanks for the question there. Jamshed, Jam's head. excellent Mikey would you like to do your thing now or last I'd like to do my thing now if you don't mind yeah please do you all believe in miracles
Starting point is 00:44:41 you sexy thing I mean blobby land exists that's proof miracles exist but if you don't believe in miracles you will believe in them by the end of this story I have a wonderful tale of the power of God let's say during the civil war
Starting point is 00:44:59 this is in America Oh, it says in the next sentence, this is America. I mean, you know it's America. Why am I over-complicating this? During the English Civil War, you know, hundreds of years ago. During the Civil War, the government of the United States enacted the Homestead Act of 1862. Basically, it said that if you're, if you'd never taken up arms against the nation, you could go farm on 160 acres of undevelopment government land.
Starting point is 00:45:24 And if you worked the land for five years, it was yours to keep and do with whatever you pleased. So there's a pretty good deal. So obviously, in this land of hope and glory, many people flocked to it. And to begin a new life, one of these homesteaders was a man named Frederick Paul, who settled in Beatrice, Nebraska, with his wife, and they had three children. One of those children had a little girl who, just two generations from the historic homesteading of Nebraska, is involved in our story. Frederick's granddaughter, Marilyn Ruth Paul, was 18 years old.
Starting point is 00:45:59 and was the pianist at a local church, the West End Baptist Church. It was March 1st of 1950, and she decided to take a quick nap after dinner, and before choir practice that night. She slept a little bit longer than she anticipated, and her mother had to wake her up, only ten minutes before choir practice was about to start. She was definitely going to be late. That wouldn't have been such a big deal, except this was a pet peeve of the choir director, which just happened to be her mother. Martha. It's a good, strong name. There's no weak Martha's out there. They're all big burly women. Martha. Yeah, powerful. It's like all, all names are end in thur. Bertha. Yeah. That's it. That's the two. That's it. Those are the
Starting point is 00:46:45 ones. That's the end in thar. Powerful people. Yeah. Martha was a stickler about punctuality. She stressed that choir practice began promptly at 7.25 p.m. In fact, she demanded it from her small 15-member choir. Choir practice didn't begin at 7.30. It began at 7.25 and you better be there. So most of the singers got into habit of arriving there at 7.15. That Wednesday evening was a cool one. The pastor of the church left at 4.30 p.m. But before he left, Pastor William Kemple turned on the heat to the build.
Starting point is 00:47:24 but somewhere in the church's heating system there was a gas leak oh oh no and for the next three hours the church filled with gas and at 727 which is oh god what is what is that how many more minutes is that 12 minutes after choir practice was supposed to begin an explosion could be heard throughout the entire town of beatrice nebraska oh no it shattered the windows of nearby buildings the town radio station lost its signal. The church was flattened. The roof fell in and the walls collapsed into a pile of rubbish. An absolute tragedy. Martha Paul and her daughter, Marilyn, were spared. They hadn't yet made it to the church because Marilyn napped too long. But this is where the story gets interesting. Despite choir practice, having started two minutes before the explosion,
Starting point is 00:48:19 I completely screwed up my maths there. I would not be on time to choir practice. Despite the practice, oh my God, despite choir practice having started two minutes before the explosion, nobody died in the explosion because nobody was in the church. Reverend Walter Kemple, who turned on the furnace in the first place, had left church early that day. But at 7.10, when it was time to him to go back to the church with his wife and daughter Marilyn Ruth, it turned out that Marilyn Ruth's dress was soiled. They waited while Mrs. Clemple ironed out and I and another, and thus was still at home when it happened. Ladona Vandergrift, a high school sophomore, was having trouble with a geometry problem. She knew practice began promptly and always came earlier, but on this instance, she stayed home to finish the problem. Royina Estes was ready, but the car would not start.
Starting point is 00:49:16 So her and a sister called their friend Ladona Vandergrift and asked her to pick them up, But Lodona was the girl with the geometry problem, and the Esther's sisters had to wait. Sadie Esther's story was the same as Royinas. All day, they'd been having trouble with the car. It just refused to start. Miss Leonard Schuster, would originally have arrived at 7.20 with her small daughter, Susan. But on this particular evening, Mrs. Schuster, had to go to her mother's house to help her get ready for a missionary meeting. Herbert Kiff, layth operator, would have been ahead of time, but had put off an important letter.
Starting point is 00:49:49 I can't think why, he said. He lingered over it, and as a result, was also late. Sternographer, Joyce Black, feeling quote-unquote just plain lazy, stayed in her warm house until the last possible moment. She was almost ready to leave when it happened. Because his wife was away, machinist Harvey All was taking care of two boys. He was going to take them to practice with him, but somehow he got wound up talking.
Starting point is 00:50:13 And when he looked at his watch, he saw, and he was already late. Marilyn Paul, the pianist, had planned to, arrive half an hour early. However, she fell asleep after dinner. And when her mother awakened her at 7.15, she only had time to tidy up and start out. Mrs. F.E. Paul, quiet director. The mother of the pianist was simply late because her daughter was. She had tried unsuccessfully to awaken the girls earlier. This sounds like a fucking chaos group of people. It does. No wonder the person who organized it was so strict about the start time. Yeah, I'm starting to say both sides of story here. Maybe she's so strict
Starting point is 00:50:49 that she's put everyone off, but also maybe she has to be strict because I'll, I don't know, Bill... Twelve minutes had passed and no one had showed up. Sorry, I'm doing a geology problem. I couldn't be here on time. I just didn't want to leave. It was very warm in my house. And lastly,
Starting point is 00:51:05 high school girls, Lucille Jones and Dorothy Wood are neighbours. And customarily went to practice together. Lucille was listening to a 7 to 730 radio program and broke her habit of promptness because she wanted to hear the end and Dorothy waited for her. It was at 725 with a raw herd in almost every corner of the town. The west side Baptist church blew up. The walls fell outed. The heavy wooden roof crashed
Starting point is 00:51:29 straight down like a wait and a deadfall. But because of such matters as a soil dress, a catnap, an unfinished letter, a geometry problem and a stalled car. No geometry. I did wonder what a geology problem was. Did I say geology? Well, you may have done. I don't know, but you certainly said geometry then. I did think it was. Geometry. What rock is twice as big as little rock? Mary has two rocks. One is on a train from San Francisco to New York.
Starting point is 00:51:58 And yeah, as a result of all these little tiny things, which are usually prompt choir practice, was delayed and therefore saved the lives of 15 people. God. Bonkers. Coincidence after coincidence. So not a single person was hurt in this explosion, which, flattened the building and destroyed all nearby things. Isn't that magical?
Starting point is 00:52:22 It's magical, but how terrible would every single one of those people have felt knowing that they were late until they worked out that nobody else had died? Imagine, obviously, you know, it's great because of the life, but imagine being late and everyone else dying. You'd feel pretty bad about that, I would imagine. Yeah, sheesh. Although the way things did go with everyone being saved, the vicar was furious because he was trying to off the whole choir,
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Starting point is 00:53:38 Do yourself a favor and claim the welcome bonus. Shine bright like a diamond with SlotsGem.com. Terms and conditions apply, please gamble responsibly. Um, so I've got a question here from Stuart Christ at Stucalicious, who says, What ingredients would you add to your own super smoothie? You must include one of each of the main food types. Those are, apparently, veg, fruit, meat, sauce, pudding, crisps, and a hot and cold beverage. Okay.
Starting point is 00:54:14 Sheesh. Can you put those in there? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'll have to type them out. But, yeah. I think we should just do one big vidiates one together. Sure.
Starting point is 00:54:24 Sounds good. Fedge. The idiot smoothie. I'm going to have to tab. I've only got one monitor on my current set up. Here we go. Veg fruit meat. Sauce.
Starting point is 00:54:38 Get thinking. Pudding. Pudding. Crisps. One of the food groups. and hot drink and cold drink. I'm already putting in a vote for a hot drink. I want bovril.
Starting point is 00:54:52 Bovril. Okay, so we're not going to sweet then. Well, we can't go. I mean, we've got crisps in here. It's got veg and pudding in it. I just think there's a way we... Okay. I don't know what it is, but we're going to...
Starting point is 00:55:07 Well, I'm going to retract my bovril, Ben, and it's over to you to make this palatable. Okay, so we're going... We're going for a chocolate fruit. A chocolate orange, maybe. Chocolate orange. Oh, there you go. God, I don't know. What's a really...
Starting point is 00:55:23 I mean, are we making a vidiates smoothie here? Sure. It's going to be undigestable, right? Yeah. Frozen meat face. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, so it's not even cooked meat face. It's just like little shards of hard frozen meat face in there.
Starting point is 00:55:39 Yeah. Well, it'll go in a blender, but yeah. True, true. Yeah. Um, is there a video, it's veg? Beans? Beans are, what are beans? They're a musical fruit, actually.
Starting point is 00:55:51 They are a musical fruit. Yeah, they are, they are, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. I think that goes. Okay, well, it is beans time. So that's a veg. What fruit should we put in? Tomato. If you want to get.
Starting point is 00:56:07 Tomato. That'll go with the beans, right? It will go with the beans, yeah. I'm just trying I don't think there's a idiot's fruit No
Starting point is 00:56:16 What was it fruit of the I swear there's a idiot's thing that like a quote It's the
Starting point is 00:56:21 fruit of the something Oh God Oh that's I'm not sure about that It could be
Starting point is 00:56:30 I don't It doesn't ring any bells Oh god Someone will be screaming Someone will be screaming at us What about
Starting point is 00:56:39 the fruit of the sausage plant Yeah, or we could do We could do the grapes that we spat in the Spiro Challenge Scottish fruit Scottish fruit Remember that?
Starting point is 00:56:52 Oh yeah, that rings a bell Scott's eggs, Scottish fruit Or something Oh Scotch eggs, is that it? It's Scottish fruit I'm going to keep saying it Scottish fruit
Starting point is 00:57:05 Is it Scottish fruit? Nothing's triggering any sign- It's Scottish fruit Scottish fruit What does it mean I don't know Oh what about Grape Coon
Starting point is 00:57:15 I've said That's the second My second attempt To getting grapes in Sure Yeah let's do it We'll do it if it's grapecune So then for meat
Starting point is 00:57:24 We've got meat face Sauce Bovrom Bovrom Very thick Bovrol That becomes a sauce Pudding
Starting point is 00:57:34 Oh shit Pudding Pudding Frozen ice cubes And artificial sweetener. Good, actually, yeah. The sauce could be garlic.
Starting point is 00:57:45 Yeah. Garlic. Garlic pudding. We could have garlic pudding if you want, or garlic sauce. Yeah, either. Crisps? We had a crisp fight, right? A crisp battle?
Starting point is 00:57:58 We did have a crisp fight. God. Yeah, what won? Walkers. Wait, hold on. Let me have a... See if I did it in person. He's walking over to his filing cabinet.
Starting point is 00:58:08 He's got all the fights. This fighting cabinet. I don't suppose a tock counts as a crisp, does it? In a sense, I think. What is a tuck? What is a tuck? It's biscuit. Biscuit.
Starting point is 00:58:24 Must be biscuit. Oh, Cracker. Ooh, that's a difficult one. Sadly, I don't have my crisps at hand. Okay. Okay, well, I mean, yeah. maybe tucks yeah
Starting point is 00:58:40 I'd for the for the purposes of a smoothie I'd class them as a crisp they're a crisp okay they do say biscuits but that's I think that's fine
Starting point is 00:58:49 hot beverage um oh god god what have we got well I mean we've already put I know we've not put bovrel in
Starting point is 00:58:58 we've put garlic sauce in haven't we no oh well I'm going to go back to my first thing god damn it we're having bovrel in this thing bovrol the hot drink bovrol cold drink
Starting point is 00:59:10 Dave's choice depending on what he brings us yeah like a you know an umbongo or something aria yeah stop clenching your fists so if anyone wants to make that
Starting point is 00:59:24 you're insane but you're welcome to do it it won't kill you as long as you use good meat good frozen meat face I don't know if there is any kind of edible frozen meat but maybe just do a do a ready-to-eat sausage or something
Starting point is 00:59:40 and make yourself that mix it all up and send us a tweet as a video of you eating it or something if you like. Yeah, I'd feel like rocket fuel, wouldn't it? That would clean you out. It certainly would. It's an enema in a protein thing.
Starting point is 00:59:57 It's delicious and nutritious. I mean, it does, it must be relatively nutritious. I suppose, though. It's got so much in there. It might mean that you, you never have to eat again, which in a way, that's pretty good. Well, wait, no, I've realized what we've just done. We've just made Hewle.
Starting point is 01:00:12 Oh, God, we have. Everything you've listed is in Hewle. So, to recap, the vegetable was, what? Beans. Beans, yeah. Beans, grape, meat face, garlic. What was the pudding? Was it garlic pudding as well?
Starting point is 01:00:32 Or ice-keved an artificial sweet now. Yeah, that's good. was tuck War Tucker or Tucks Tuck Hot drink was
Starting point is 01:00:41 Bavril the cold drink was Dave's Delight Yeah Brilliant Sounds really good Definitely
Starting point is 01:00:46 Yeah The Vidiots All the flavors In one Sweet, sour salty And terrible Yeah
Starting point is 01:00:53 I've got a thing Here Are you guys Aware of Numerology No I think Maybe
Starting point is 01:01:04 But do Go on Numerology Is a sort of esoteric. In fact, let me get you a definition of numerology. Numerology. So numerology essentially is you turn the letters of your name into numbers with a numerology number chart. So it is, in fact, it says it here.
Starting point is 01:01:28 Numerology numbers are a sum value of the name numbers which vibrate various energies and expressions. Oh, I think I've heard vaguely about this. Oh, no. The digits from 1 to 8 are assigned for alphabets in the Chaldean system, whatever that means. The digit 9 is omitted during calculation of childian name, number numerology. Just add these alphabets number numerology, as mentioned below. This isn't a very, I think this might be a translated website, because it's slightly strangely worded at times. I think even in plain English, though, it doesn't make much sense, doesn't it?
Starting point is 01:02:06 No, but I mean, even just grammatically, but yeah. So, I mean, I'll send you guys a numerology number child, but you don't need to start working yours out because we can do that at the end. But I've got some numerology here, but that's what it looks like. You just, those are letters, become numbers, and then you add them all up. But I've got some numerology readings here for a few members of the VCU. And I think you will all agree that this proves that numerology
Starting point is 01:02:36 is bang on. Okay. Oh, let's go. Okay. So to begin with, I've got Michael Juggson. Okay. The total number adds up to 47. But then you get a whole, like, reading of different things on this website.
Starting point is 01:02:58 It's astrologyfuturei.com slash fortune-tellers slash name hyphen numerology hyphen calculator So the destiny Vidiensofficial.com Yes, videoes official.com Destiny number
Starting point is 01:03:14 The expression number which describes who you are and what you are or what you become. So according to Chaldean numerology your destiny slash expression number is 11.
Starting point is 01:03:27 The moon rules the number 11 slash 2 the 11 slash 2. The 11 slash 2 means that Michael Jugsson is highly sensitive, spiritual and secretive. Oh, okay. He hangs around in the dark with wide eyes, so that's what I think. I did fall off the radar for years, so yeah, he's a pretty secretive man.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Yes. The number 11 is a master number, and the two stands for a single number, whatever that means. Both are ruled by the planet moon. Oh, the planet moon. Indeed. Again, he comes out at night. I think that's it. Because this number is called the master number,
Starting point is 01:04:05 it means you have double and special powers with this number. An extra doubles worth of powers there. Oh my God, no. It represents high sensitivity, spiritual and high imagination powers. You may become an intuitive and psychic person. Because of the moon, you are very soft towards others and you blindly trust others, and in result, you often get trekked,
Starting point is 01:04:31 treachery and hidden dangers from others. Treachery, yeah, I don't believe you. Go on us, go on us. Yes. You have a very secret of nature, and hence people cannot understand you easily. Number 11 represents the card lion muzzled, apparently. Then I'll skip over the next few bits.
Starting point is 01:04:56 We've got the soul urge number, which adds up to number two for him. And his sole urge number being two means peacemaker and desire for love. Oh, that's our jokes, then. That certainly is. It gives him an inequality of peacemaking, a born friendly and cooperative nature. He wants everything to be easygoing in any situation, and he needs a deep inner desire for love, peace and harmony.
Starting point is 01:05:26 And garlic and chips. And garlic and chips. And his dream number is. is number nine. This means impressive as intellectual and humanitarian. The inner dream number nine is under the dominance of Mars.
Starting point is 01:05:41 You present your first impression as intellectual and real humanitarian. You are known for confidence, tolerance, courage with a magnetic personality and mad stunts on your pedal bike. Yes. Wow, this is bang on. So that's
Starting point is 01:05:57 Michael Jugson's reading. Some interesting parallels. Some that, you know, maybe you're a bit more vague. But I would now like to draw your attention towards the numerology reading for Art Attacks the Head. Ooh, okay. The letters Art Attacks the Head add up to 54, which means he is courageous, humanitarian, and aggressive. Very aggressive. You are always ready to help others when they need you.
Starting point is 01:06:27 He's always there for Neil, of course. Yeah, true, he is. You get everything, what you are determined to get, by taking any level of risk. You trust everyone and are often defeated by hidden enemies, although you cannot be defeated if you know your enemies. Anger and impatience is a bad part of your nature. Yeah, yeah. Now, his sole urge number, number five, means that he's a learner,
Starting point is 01:06:55 which he is. He picks up Neil's tips and tricks, but also that he has a design. desire for freedom. Oh, no. Oh, that's sad. Release the rest of the head's body. Yeah, please. He has a deep curiosity
Starting point is 01:07:11 to know, learn and execute any work. His number tends to be adventurous with new and unusual things, but he wants change, either at his home or his workplace. His dream number four, which means he is impressive
Starting point is 01:07:28 as disciplined and hardworking. He's influenced by Uranus, and he wants to be known as a great organizer who can plan and execute in a predictable manner. You make the first image as a very disciplined and hard worker. So that's art attacks the head. And I was like, okay, well, maybe we were getting slightly closer to an accurate reading. Yeah. The last one I've brought for you is Dave Benson Phillips.
Starting point is 01:07:57 Really? Oh, there we go. Dave Benson Phillips, his total number is 75, but his destiny number is three. He's ruled by Jupiter, apparently. And this means that Dave Benson Phillips is a creative and ideal entertainer. Wow, way. No. The person of number three is a social person who is creative, communicative, and dramatic.
Starting point is 01:08:21 Yes, yes, yes. It represents artistic talents, charismatic personality, and cheerful behavior. you may become a great ideal for others you love to travel and learn the new ways of joy and happiness I think that sounds about right you can become a good artist writer or publisher or lawyer it says and basically a jack of all trades
Starting point is 01:08:49 which Dave is Dave does shows for stuff he does we've seen them yeah his soul Dave does legal defence for stuff I will defend you in court for enough juggling balls to teach a class of 12. He teaches juggling, he does shows, he drives a van, and now he can do law as well. What a man. For Nando's.
Starting point is 01:09:12 Yes, his sole urge number is two, which means he's a peacemaker and has a desire for love. It gives him the inequality of peacemaking, and he's got a born-friendly and cooperative nature. You want everything to be easygoing in any situation, and you need to. need a deep, you need a deep inner desire for love, peace, and harmony. But most importantly, I would say about Dave. Number one, his dream number. The one means impressive as courageous, daring, and, oh, aggressive. Oh, no, Dave.
Starting point is 01:09:46 No, we can't be having that. You tend to be confident, strong, and independent. Your dream is to be a leader among the people. You present yourself as courageous, daring, and aggressive during the first impression. I think it all fell down there at the dream number, personally. Oh, yeah. But there you go. So I just wondered if you would like me to quickly do some numerology readings for you guys as well.
Starting point is 01:10:08 I mean, I'm sold. I totally believe in this. Yeah. It sounds so convoluted and amazing and correct that it can't possibly just be made up, right? They can't. Michael Johnson, your destiny number is one, which means that you are the leader, independent, creative. Well. I'm a big boy and I do like making nice things
Starting point is 01:10:29 So I'll take that You're an original thinker And originator of all actions Whatever that means Sometimes you become stubborn and angry When things do not happen According to your desires Yeah fair
Starting point is 01:10:41 You may play a good role As an inventor, leader, explorer And head of the family Oh Welcome to the family son Your soul urge number is number three Which means you've got cheerful and artistic desire
Starting point is 01:10:55 Oh, fair There you go, it's there You have a strong desire to express yourself An artistic manner You have an inner desire To be the leader In any group surrounding you I don't know about that
Starting point is 01:11:04 If you have a desire for that And your dream number is seven Which means impressive As secretive and knowledgeable First image is known as the stylish person Who is known as a secretive But knowledgeable person too You have the personality
Starting point is 01:11:20 Of an intelligent mystic And spiritual person Wow, that sounds just like I feel like I. That's Michael. That's Michael Johnson right there. Definitely. I have the personality of a mystic and spiritual person after learning about all this. I'm converted. Yeah. Ben, your number, your destiny number is six, which means you are healer, teacher, counsellor. Yeah, that's right. That sounds like you. That's me. You strongly trust in truth, justice and humanity. And the American way. You love luxury and harmony in life. Number six persons may become good singers, counselors, teachers, and they are good at art-related works. Still all correct. Yeah, that's it. Your sole number is eight, meaning you're dependable and have a desire for authority.
Starting point is 01:12:11 You want to be a leader in the workplace or business, and you want to be, you want to secure the future and success in a financial manner. Of course, he doesn't. Yeah. And you need to be rich and a big boss in commercial projects. You need to be rich. You know what? I was just saying that to you this morning, Peter. So you know that's true.
Starting point is 01:12:35 And your dream number, number seven, means you are impressive as secretive and knowledgeable. Everyone's fucking secretive, aren't they? I know. Yeah. You're influenced by Neptune, apparently. Great. Wet boy. Wet boy.
Starting point is 01:12:49 Way. So there you go. Dave Benson Phillips, according to numerology, is creative. Michael Jugsson is whatever it was you know ruled by the moon and Ben wants to be a rich big boss
Starting point is 01:13:05 the planet moon yes got to be what about you Peter oh me yeah I've not done me Peter Ost in Jotston What about every single person
Starting point is 01:13:20 listening to this now Yeah let's do everyone I could actually type that in, just the letters every single person listening to this now. I wanted to. My destiny number is eight, which means I'm a game changer, money maker, manager. Nice. Excellent. The person with the number eight may become a great business person or a leader and a game changer in the finance or politics world. I'm knowledgeable and have a desire of humanity
Starting point is 01:13:49 influenced by Mars. I have a deep desire to serve humanity in the world with my knowledge. without expecting anything. Okay, right? Weird. Shump. Yeah. Dream number is number eight, which means impressive
Starting point is 01:14:04 as honest, hardworking and positive. The number eight is emphasized by Saturn. You're able to draw your picture as a successful administrator or business person who is honest, hardworking and positive. You have a great personality to attract people. Oh, thanks. Oh.
Starting point is 01:14:20 You want to be a big, sexy money boss. Yes. you need to be rich well thanks for that thank you Peter I learned so much about myself I mean I didn't learn anything about myself it's all true it's all true and it matched up with what you already know to be true about yourself
Starting point is 01:14:40 so you learned nothing big time well fantastic I've got one more question here this comes from Jared at like a glove 90 who says if you had to grow up with one if you had to grow up with one celebrity who is sibling within one year of your age, so grow up together, who would it be? I think I'm basically asking, what celebrities do you think were dicks as children? Okay, X-O-X-O.
Starting point is 01:15:08 Okay. Not that we want to pick the ones who are dicks, but I guess the ones we would rule out are the ones who would be dicks. Or, well, maybe Jared is saying that by definition a sibling has to be a dick as a child. You know, almost that's how you fit that role. So maybe we do have to pick the ones who are... Oh, the worst people. Yeah, I think James Corden would be a terrible person to grow up with. He would.
Starting point is 01:15:33 Yeah, so loud and obnoxious. He's like, he's like, is it Dudley from Harry Potter? Yeah. Yeah, then he's a big... Mommy, mommy, look at me, look at me. I'm going to go to a mirror car. I'm going to be very honest. I miss half of that because I got distracted by the website you're on
Starting point is 01:15:55 Peter, and I found a thing that says, ask a question to psychic parrot. Did you? I didn't, because I was really, like, when I send this image, you'll see why I was confused. I couldn't listen. I'm not even, oh, wow, there he is. Psychic parrot. It's not even a parrot. It looks haunting.
Starting point is 01:16:15 What's up with this face? It's got lips. What is that thing? It's like, it's like someone fed that into a machine. Yeah, that's AI art. It is AI art. Yeah. I didn't even look around the website. I just Googled numerology because I was sort of, I kind of aware of it and thought, I'll do that for Pollyets. But wow, what an interesting site. God. Sorry, could you repeat the first bit of that question? I've got most of it.
Starting point is 01:16:39 If you had to grow up with one celebrity who is sibling within one year of your age, so grow up together, who would it be? I think I'm basically asking what celebrities do you think were dicks as children? so we have to pick a sort of annoying sibling celebrity I think around our age as well I don't know if he's saying they have to be around our age or if growing up with them in this scenario irrespective of what their age is now we would be one year apart so that would be the relationship is that you've got this celebrity as your sibling and there's one year between you okay yeah I get it I get it um hmm Who would I want to grow up with? Yeah, I don't know who I would actively want to
Starting point is 01:17:25 Because you think of like celebrities who you like, such as, I mean, you know, I guess a go-to one that everyone loves is David Attenborough. But David Attenborough as a child would not be Just talking in nature documentary commentary. He'd just be a boy. So it's more about deep-rooted personality traits, such as James Corden is a good one.
Starting point is 01:17:48 I wouldn't mind growing up with Schwarzenegger. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think he'd be a good influence. Like, imagine me as an absolute beef cake. And living with, I assume he's been doing it since he's a kid. Yeah. Yeah, I think I could imagine like, we could, like, whoa, that's it.
Starting point is 01:18:09 If I was his brother, he wouldn't, he would have, he would have been like a double act. And we would have grown up and starred in all these films together. It wouldn't have been terminate. there would have been Terminatorers. Yeah. Well, you know, he literally did a movie called Step Brothers, right? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:25 Oh, so you're saying I'd be Danny Davido. No, you could just be brothers. It could just be brothers. Two jacked brothers. Isn't that called twins? Yeah, no, you're right. I'm thinking of the other one. Yeah, twins, yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:35 You could be twins. Yeah. Okay, I can see that. You might be onto one, Mikey there, actually, like, you know, having someone like Arnie or Sylvester Stallone or someone, because then if they were one year, older than you, they could, like, look after you at school if you were getting picked on.
Starting point is 01:18:51 Yeah, one would mess with that. Just call Ed Rocky or, you know, Rambo. Again, that's not really in the spirit of the scenario. What about, but if, I mean, for another fun one, I think Pedro Pascal would be a good older brother, or just brother in general. He seems like a nice dude anyway. And I saw a screenshot of a tweet recently of his that really made me like him a lot more where someone tweeted a selfie with him and said, hi everyone, I look like poo and might get fired, but I've been waiting for the day this man comes into my work.
Starting point is 01:19:26 Hello, at Pedro Pascal. Thank you for being the literal best. And he replied, I was so high on edibles and walking into the Incredibles too. You set me on good course with your kindness. This guy's great. That's fantastic. That's a good shout.
Starting point is 01:19:42 It seems like a good brother. Big fan, big fan I think you might have won here Without even hearing Peters That's, that's king shit It's good shit, yeah I mean, I'll just pick someone strong I'll have like Sylvester Stallone or someone
Starting point is 01:19:58 But if we're also going with the annoying sibling trope And we have to pick someone for that I think the ultimate one would be Mr. Blobby, right? Oh, that's true Imagine how annoying it would be living with him No, like the family is just unable to pay the bills because once again, blobby's ran in the room and smashed everything. Smashed everything again.
Starting point is 01:20:17 The family can't keep up with us. Please help us control our son. Every time you go in the bathroom, he's just left a big pink in yellow. Oh, for God's saying. A big pink and yellow blob. All of his clothes have to be custom tailored. It's terror. It's a nightmare.
Starting point is 01:20:32 What do you think the gestation period is for a blobby? I think they're split by like mitosis. Okay. Because we have seen baby blobys before. Right. There is a baby bobby. I remember that. Okay.
Starting point is 01:20:46 I think the blobby is made outside of the womb. It's just like a pile of goo that grows into a blobby. Oh, no. I mean, how would you as a parent even begin to teach, like, sexual education to a blobby? How does it work? Oh, God. You tell him if, if, well, that's the thing, because like some, some SDDs can't. to look like Mr. Blobby's skin.
Starting point is 01:21:15 So it's hard to tell if you'd ever have one because he just always looks like he's riddled. If you ever notice yellow lumps on your penis, you must go to the doctor. Blobby. Bobberoo! No, not those ones. They're just your birthmarks.
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Starting point is 01:26:54 That's a great thumbnail actually. It's got grimmis on it with a big bottom. Oh, sexy. Folliates episode 23, the Terrograph. Merry Christmas Johnny, which is an unlisted personal message video. Merry Christmas, Johnny. Hope you doing well. Very Christmas. It's been viewed ten times.
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Starting point is 01:27:36 sure have I'm selling it yeah it's definitely got pictures oh the last thing I posted on there was just a minute of back-to-back farts so enjoy yeah she sure did go breathe that in that's great
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