Podiots - Podiots: Episode 115 - Leaving Him Out Of It

Episode Date: January 17, 2023

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We've all seen the video of the walrus, wanking himself off. We appreciate being tagged in that multiple times. I can now say I've seen a walrus's penis, which despite working with one all these years, I never thought I would have to be subjected to. He's very reserved, oh, Billy. Yeah.

Yeah. This is clearly one of his estranged cousins who's took it a bit too far. Yeah. I mean, it's a wonderful story. The headlines that came out of it. My favourite one is UK town cancels New Year fireworks for Warris

only for it to masturbate and leave. They've sort of tackled all three parts of the story there. Waris, well, all four parts. Walrus arrives, as it were. Walrus cancels fireworks. It was in Scarborough, wasn't it? I think. Walrus masturbates,

warrous leaves. Is there some sort of Caesar joke in there that we could do? Yeah, possibly. Who's going to say it? Who's going to do it? He's going to do it. I don't think I'm educating enough for this. Eats, wanks and leaves.

He came, he saw he conquered. Oh. Okay. I was going to say, I didn't realize that was Caesar. He came. He came. Yeah. He saw.

and he went to a different town and did it. Hasn't he come to sort of the Tyne and Weir area now? Yeah, that's part of the reason we were tagged in it. I mean, we get tagged in all of the... Whenever a walrus turns up in the UK, even if it's down in the south, we get tagged, but he actually came to the northeast.

Oh, wow. After he'd been in Scarborough. Doing the tour. I didn't go and see him, though, which I feel kind of bad about. For context, for those who don't know, a walrus turned up on the coast of Britain and at one point it was videoed.

Was it intentionally masturbating? It seemed to be sort of genuinely enjoying itself. So I think maybe it was. I didn't know that many animals did it, to be honest. Having a nice time. Yeah. A little fiddle. Why not?

Yeah. Thor is his name. Truly a beautiful specimen. Thor. Thor. Okay. It just sounds like he's got a lisp and he's been doing it too much. Oh, no.

It's all. Oh, my God. God, that's beautiful. See, I've not actually seen the wanking walrus. All I've heard about it, but then there was a line that had to be crossed when I had to decide whether or not I wanted to see it. And I didn't cross that line. Am I missing out?

Yes. No. I'd say yes, but I mean, it depends what you want from life. Is this something you feel like you would enhance and enrich your life? I don't know. Peter seems to think the answer is no, though. I mean, it's certainly an interest, well, it's not even interesting, a unique spectacle. It's a unique video.

But like I say, I wasn't, I didn't want to see a walrus penis. And now I've seen one. And I'm not happy about it. Okay. Then maybe I'll think about it. And I'll let you guys know if I'd change my mind. Yeah, please dear. Okay.

Speaking of which, we're not speaking of which, while we were thinking of talking of that, I realize that we've not done a Dave. So that needs to be done before we continue. Shit, sorry. Oh, God, let me have a look. Just in case you're curious about that, and you don't know, and you don't use Twitter, or you do use Twitter, and you don't follow us at Vidy, it's official.

Every single episode we tweeted Dave Benson-Phillips, which marks the official start of this episode's thread. We then reply to that with images vaguely sort of teasing the kind of things that we're talking about so people can see what we're discussing, kind of, before the episode going. out and then they have to piece it together and it makes no sense. And it's useful for any visual things are things that we bring along.

We can actually just include the image. Guys, I'm sweating bullets here. I'm looking at every, there's not a single image of Dave that we've not used yet. We have gone to the well often. We've used every Dave Benson Phillips image on the internet. Well, it's getting to the point where we'd have to, like intentionally misspell his name and now not even that's throwing up anything interesting I think. Oh man. Oh my God. Is this it? What do we do then? We can't not have a Dave.

Well, we can't, we need something, but why don't we, we could replace, well, we will never replace Dave, but we could do something else. We could do like, is there another, who's our favorite, who's our second favorite kids TV presenters? Neil Bookekes. Neil Boo cakes, the neighbor's cat. There's only like two pictures of the neighbor's cat, so we can't do the neighbor's cat.

Yeah, you need someone who's prolific. That's true. Been here for years. There's a repertoire of images to pull from. Something like a meme. Shrek, I feel, is too mainstream. Blobby. Blobby! We could do blobby. There's got to be lots of blobby out there. I'm checking as we speak.

Blobby. Oh, my God, there's loads. Fantastic. So are we leaving him out of it now? Is that what we'd... I feel like we'll still talk about Dave Benson Phillips whenever he's relevant. Whenever he comes up in the news

because he's told people to put their cocks back and so on. We're not leaving him out of it. We'll never do that. But we might have to leave him out of the thread beginnings. I mean, yeah, I mean, I'm committed. I'm just... Oh, there's so many blobsies. Real blobs, fake blobs, big blobs, little blobs.

Blobby's of every kind Fantastic So this is This is a blobcast now Oh yeah This is Blobbyets Blobbyets There we go

We would ask you to Support us In this trying transitional period Please yeah Give you love to Bloby You might be nervous Yeah

I'm sure you're all Give him a big warm Vidiot's welcome Blobby has never been nervous about anything in his life Oh shit Wow that's it

Well not sorry Not rest in peace Rest in peace, yeah. See it. That's it. He's gone. You're tired. Yeah, well, that's God. Okay, well, my God, every fortnight is going to be a real treat. I can tell already. Exactly is. Yeah. Well, should we, should we, should we blobbyets? Yeah, let's blob. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Poddietz. The official.

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Podiatts. Podiatts.com. Podiatts.com. Mikey, I think you've got some questions. I've got a question. What was your favourite pod squad? Oh, yeah, a good one. Oh, geez.

God, it was a good selection. I think the Carolinousy, or whatever it was. Yeah, Carolussie was pretty good. Carolec, that's it, yeah, that's a good one. I quite like, have you seen the price a grimace? Yeah, it took me by surprise. And the multiple, this is Mikey, please ignores, which all of which were not like. I forgot that we asked for that.

And then this happens every time. Oh, God, I think so. I think so. I think there was a throwaway comment, and it was like, yeah, what if everyone did that? And then people did, and we all forgot. People paid money to do it, and we got nothing out of it. Apart from this bit of chat that we're having right now. This is worth its weight in gold.

It's an MP3, so it doesn't weigh anything. No. My favourite is 1,000-yard potato smile. That's a good one as well. Well, would you like another hard-hating question? Mm-hmm. I really should have opened the most. before I ask that question, but that's fine, I can, I can freestyle it.

We got one from Connor Mulkahee, I'm going to say, at Conroy underscore Milk on Twitter. And I feel like this is just the way we have to start every year now is, what are your predictions for 2023? Oh, God. I believe when he did this last year, Mikey destroyed the Tesco Meal deal. What other horrors? The Queen died as well.

And Ben killed the Queen as well. Yeah. I predicted... Did I predict nuclear war? No. Oh, God. I predicted something that when we realized that two of them were... Oh, no, I predicted that Dave would legally...

Legally pursuers. And we have now, for not those reasons, switched to Mr. Blobby. So, in a way, I was right, but it was also wrong, because it's nothing to do with that. Making it sound a lock like it is to do to that. Yeah, the Lady Doff protest too much, I think. think. No, it's fine. That was the one thing. So maybe one of these things won't come true. The other two will. So we'll have to decide at the end. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, well, knowing the power we now wield, there's a lot of, a lot of power behind these words. It's,

it's quite scary. I think I'm, there's a bit of me that wants this to become true and thinks it could be possible. Although, realistically not. Maybe it's the return of the three-pound Tesco meal deal. Oh, my gosh. You know, this year's wreaked havoc on supply chains, prices, everything's gone up. Maybe this is me being extremely hopeful for a better 20-23, but maybe, just maybe. Everything will level out.

Things become a bit cheaper. And I say, hey, us, the multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, let's help out the little guy. let's reduce our prices again I think I'd want that to happen I hope it happens I'm trying to think of a prediction based on

it's not really a global a global thing but I want to make a prediction based on the fact that we will be attending the Dick and Dom in the bungalow thing whether I can predict

I sort of want to predict Oh yeah okay We could predict that because they do pick on the VIPs apparently and if they asked me I would certainly go up I think you both said that you wouldn't be so keen, didn't you?

Oh, no, I'd be keen. I'd be keen. I'm not interested. Keep me out of audience participation. I just want to watch. Leave me alone. Oh, I'd be trembling. Like, if it's like, oh, I'd be absolutely shit in my pants,

but I could not live in myself ever said no to that. Yeah, me too. I wasn't going to say go on stage. I was going to say I could predict that we'll end up with a little sort of liner to use on the podcast by either. we've already got one from The Neighbors' Cat, but maybe from Dick and or Dom saying, you're listening to Podiat's or something.

But that would involve one of us asking them to say that into our phones. And that's something I wouldn't want to do. See, I wouldn't mind asking them to do that. Yeah, you're good at that kind of thing. If we were talking to them for a short period of time, I wouldn't mind sneakily asking, especially if we've been drinking as well. But I don't want to get up on stage in front of a load of people.

That's where I wouldn't want to do that. I mean, we could start with, like, saying, oh, us and Dave Chapman go way back, you know, we're good friends. He talked about before he was famous. We go back an entire year, man. Okay, well, my prediction will be, there will be, to some extent or other, a Dick and Dom crossover event with us,

which involves more than us just sitting in their audience. And by that, I mean, we will either be on stage with them or we might get their voices in some way, shape, or form on this podcast. They will not be guests. Don't get excited. Hey, we'll try. We'll try. I like that. I like the sound of that a lot. Oh, man. Oh, God. I think I had one for a second. I'm trying to remember it. It's something kind of grim. Oh, no.

I think in the year 2023, Why is this so hard? It is hard, isn't it? It is pretty difficult, yeah. It's really difficult. Doesn't that be big? Doesn't have to be exciting? It could be something.

No, no, I suppose not. Maybe, um, uh, I don't, guys, I don't know. I don't know. You don't have to come up with anything right now. You don't have to answer. There's no legal obligation here to answer.

You can think throughout the podcast, perhaps. Okay. I'll have a think. I'll have a think. all right well thank you boys um who would like to begin with their thing i don't mind going first oh i'd love ring us into the new year peter okay well it's funny you say that um because mine partially uh involves new year um which is that on new year's eve ben already knows this and don't worry it's not the it's not the main part of the thing so it's not it's not wasted it's not

been wasted already on half of the of my captive audience here but um i spent fortunately post midnight post countdown i spent some of new year's eve uh in a and e whoa oh no so uh it wasn't for me i was there with somebody else and as i say it was at least you know the party was over by that point um but i had to go to to a and e with somebody who uh it's all fine now they were and they'd been a medical episode at the house that we were at and then we basically went into A&E to basically just do some post checkups

even though it was all sort of over the worst of it was behind us and we actually had a really good A&E experience considering the NHS is on its flipping knees because it was just severe enough that they had to go in in an ambulance on a stretcher and therefore they wheeled us in straight into

like the back rooms and there were a couple of booths empty where they I guess put people in who've been triaged in off an ambulance so we didn't have to sit around in the waiting room so we're only there like three or four hours which for A&E on New Year's Eve is pretty good we're on our way in thinking this is going to be fucking grim there will be so many drunk people who have just you know fallen over or had a fight or whatever or being sick and we didn't have any of that, fortunately, for us. So we were very lucky, and the NHS is a great thing, and that's all wonderful. But it reminded me of something that I forgot to tell everyone about.

Like, over a year ago, I went to A&E for other reasons. I'm also fine. But that did involve me sitting in the waiting room for, you know, like six hours in the middle of the night. And one of the many people that you sort of get to know in some way, shape or form, and we weren't all chatting to each other, but a couple of people were talking on the other side of the room about what they were in for and everyone else could just hear. And one of the people that I got to know was this lady, she was probably about our age, actually.

This girl really was in because, well, she spoke to this other guy who she was sitting next to, this young lad who was all cut up on his face because he'd been, on a night out and he'd come out of the club that he was in really drunk it was like kicking out time and he'd walked into the glass door of a shop that was shut up and like locked up and smashed it and it apparently was the shop that he worked in which is pretty impressive so he'd cut all his head up and stuff and he was because he was drunk he was sort of speaking to anyone who would speak back to him And he was asking this girl, so, oh, so what are you in for? And she said, oh, I swallowed a battery.

He was like, you swallowed a battery? And she said, yeah, yeah, double A. And he was like, oh, my God, how did you manage that? And her response took everyone by surprise who could hear this conversation happening because the answer was, well, with water like a tablet. Which is not, I thought she'd done it by accident. Oh, no. For whatever reason, and I mean, I suppose it was for a reason that perhaps she was, you know,

might have been a bit of cry for help or she was, you know, in some way, not in the best mind or whatever, but she swallowed a battery with water. She seemed okay there and then, and she said they were dealing with her and stuff. So I wish you the best, but. To be fair, you are in the presence of someone who also ate something that you shouldn't eat for just shits and giggles. So I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that she just wanted to eat a battery. I mean, maybe so, maybe so. But that brings me, Mikey, to exactly what my thing is really about tonight, today.

Because I thought that story that I once met a girl who'd swallowed a battery in A&E doesn't really have enough meat on the bones. So I've got an article here from News Talk. It's the strangest objects found inside the human body. Excellent. Oh, yeah. Nice. It's a simple, pretty short listicle from May 2013. Goodness me. Ten years ago.

Oh, God. Oh, God, that is? Oh, no. Yes, it is. So, I don't think we've got an author's name here, a writer's name, but I would just, it seems to just go immediately. It says, a man in Germany had a Homer Simpson moment after a pencil was discovered in his head. amazingly, the four-inch pencil had been lodged in his head for 15 years after a childhood accident.

Fortunately, doctors of the Western City of Arkin were able to remove it from his head, and he's now recovering from the unusual procedure. He had been suffering headaches for years, and the eyesight in his right eye was also deteriorating. But he's not the first person to have had a strange object lodged in his body. Number one, trees and trees. plants. Two years ago, a 75-year-old Massachusetts man who was already battling emphysema was hospitalized after his left lung collapsed. But doctors who thought they were dealing with a tumor were amazed when they found out the cause. A pea plant was growing in his lung.

Oh, my God. Oh, no. That's horrible. They speculated that Ron Svaden had accidentally swallowed. It says swallowed. I presume it's inhaled. A pea plant that went down, yeah, went down the wrong way towards his lung where it began sprouting leaves. A similar case occurred in 2009 when a Russian man was found to have a small fur tree growing inside his lung, both recovered from their ordeals. Would the trees okay? Yeah, I don't know. And now they're acclimated to flesh rather than mud and dirt, so maybe they can't

survive in the outside world. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. I was going to bring along, I know that story about the fir tree man. I saw a much more substantial article about that once. And that was going to be a thing for me once on Podiat's, but I realized that I think it's on Snopes, and they said that's not true.

And a tree couldn't survive in your lung because there's no light. So, which is, you know, pretty, it makes sense, I guess, that it wouldn't live down there. To intrude on your thing from a recent IAM article from last year, Did we talk about the guy who had magic mushrooms growing inside of him? I don't think so. No. There's a dude who injected himself with magic mushroom tea,

and he just ended up actually growing mold and fungus and mushrooms inside of him as a result. Was he just high all the time? At that point, he's just a walking psychedelic factory, isn't he? Yes, that would be terrified. It's like the last of us, isn't it? Yes, how the Corder sets begins. So, I mean, that makes a bit more sense because I guess mushrooms don't photosynthesize, do they?

So that would... True. But I don't know. Anyway, continues. Dentures. Last November, in 2013, a 75-year-old lady from Essex, who suffered from Parkinson's,

lost the top half of her dentures. Around the same time, she was struck down with another illness, which, I mean, she literally lost it. Like, she was like, I don't know where my dentures have gone. Around the same time, she was struck down with another illness,

which doctors diagnosed as a lung infection. However, they missed one crucial thing. Her dentures were not just missing. They were inside her body. No. Even though Nerman Keating's daughter had sought a second opinion, the first two doctors failed to realize

that she'd swallowed the dentures, and it was only the third physician who spotted the offending false teeth at the bottom of her throat. It's almost like getting old. You just saw unaware of everything that You can swallow your own teeth. I have to say, the more I read of this article,

the less I'm believing literally anything that it's saying. But I'm going to continue at this point, and we'll just see just how crazy it gets. Cobblestones. After a fight with her boyfriend in 2006, a Chinese girl decided to vent her anger by swallowing 20 cobblestones. She had assumed that they would pass through her body now.

Unfortunately, cobblestones are quite big. Well, yeah, if it's like actual cobbles, I don't know what's the definition, what's the smallest possible thing that counts as a cobblestone? When does a cobblestone become a cobblet? Yes, indeed. It's also such a strange way to describe it as her venting her frustrations.

Yeah. I'm so mad. I'm going to eat 20 cobbles. This kind of ends. quite abruptly, it just says she'd assume they would pass through her body naturally. Unfortunately, they were not only lodged in her stomach, but also

knocking against each other. Full stop, and that's the end. We don't learn how they were removed or what happened. Just a walking, talking Newton's cradle, isn't she? Yes, yeah. Cutlery. Back in the 70s,

doctors had to surgically remove 78 pieces of cutlery from a woman's stomach. She later admitted that she liked eating cutlery. However, she confirmed that knives were not part of her diet. Each piece of cutlery had to be extracted individually and with extreme care. Wow. Do you think she just like one day sat down at a restaurant and it was a really package?

Just couldn't stop. Yeah, this is cuttry's looking mighty tasty right now. I mean, I must admit that although some of these do sound crazy, there are people who do eat strange things. Yes. me and Ben were talking today about that topic

which I mean that'll come up later on a triple jump video but yeah people do people can eat some like you know they eat actual metal

and stuff maybe she thought it was chocolate coins yeah maybe and she just couldn't get the foil off well I'll skip then

to the next one Ben or the one after the next one because it's needles coins and necklaces needles needles yeah

11 years ago, French doctors treated a man who had a fondness for eating coins. 350 coins were found in his stomach, but it wasn't the only delicacy he was fond of. Doctors also found a needle and necklaces. The massive objects which weighed over five kilograms had actually forced his stomach down between his hips. Oh, no! It's the weight of it. Five kilograms. That's not right.

We've got three left here. engagement ring Romance with a twist it says A man in the UK spotted an expensive engagement ring at her jeweller's that he could not afford to buy

for his girlfriend but he had an ingenious plan he swallowed the ring when the jeweller had his back turned the jeweller however suspected that something had been taken and called police who ran metal detectors

over the shopper's body He was placed in a cell until nature took its course and the ring emerged. Oh, no. Door key. Go home, you're drunk. One inebriated college student in Bournemouth

disagreed with that label when it was applied to him. So instead of going home, he swallowed the key to his lodgings. Fortunately for him, the key unlocked the code to his digestive system, it says, and made it all the way out of his

body a day later, which meant he also avoided a fine from his landlord in order to source a replacement key. Wow. And lastly... I think I'd call your landlord. Get a replacement key sorted, please. Oh, yeah, what happened to the old ones? A ate it.

Ait it. Swallowed it with water. And finally, magnets. An eight-year-old girl in the US suffered punctures to her stomach that resembled gunshot. wounds after swallowing 20 marbles and 10 magnets. She later said that she swallowed them because they looked like candy. Yeah, fair. I can see that.

I respect that. I mean, fair swallowing one, but would you not then realize, hmm, that didn't taste particularly enjoyable. That was just, that's not candy. Kind of disgusting, actually. Yeah. Oh, every time you swallow it, just the click-clack of another. Yeah, the clicking.

That's all I can think of. of, yeah, like those toys people had at school, you know, you throw the magnets in the air and they go, like knock together, yeah. It reminds me there was a study done where some doctors, they were curious like how long it takes certain objects, like foreign objects to pass through the digestive system, because they couldn't get children to eat, like, toys and stuff, like ethically, they couldn't do a study, they swallowed mini-figure heads, I think, and then had to see how long it took the Lego to come through the other end.

Oh, my God. I don't know how long it took, actually, but I just remember that that was like a thing that was reported on, doctors swallow Lego, the science. Per technicians, you have to like sort through the poo and wash it and try and find that little Lego head. God put it up with some stuff. Yeah. Well, there you go.

Those are some things that have been found or found in the body. I think they were all swallowed, weren't they, all of those? Sounds like it, yeah. Yeah. So, here you go. Thank you very much, Peter. Absolutely delightful. You're welcome.

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Adam Salter at Leather underscore Duck on Twitter they ask. Oh, that's not. They misspelled circuit. Oh my God. Now I can't even say it. Why do I bother doing any words that aren't four letters long?

Circu du Soleil have sent you an email. Serk. Is it Cirque? Yeah. Oh, thanks. Cirque du Soleil. Wow. Oh, my God.

I really need to. Can I go back to school to learn to read? Is it too late? No, you'd hate that. You know you'd hate that. Don't do it. You escaped. That's true.

I escaped for. what cost. I have he left developmentally not, not finished. Circus de Soleil. The circus of whatever Solé means have sent you an email. It's business time. All of their performers have been struck down with the plague and they want you. What are your individual specialist talents that you choose to showcase? So yes, Cirque de Soleil is, even though I can't pronounce it. I'm aware it's quite a prestigious institution. It's like

kind of, I think, regardless of one of the most fantastic shows out there, well, are you two going to get a fun stage and do? I have one, I think, which I think would just be a lot of fun. I want to, in front of a live audience,

practice and perform and land my first backflip. Yes. To go from never landing one to landing one in like over the course of like a one and a half hour thrilling evening. They'll be absolutely spectacular. Injuries galore, flops near misses. And when I finally get it, I'm just, oh, lights come on.

Crowd screaming. It's, well, it could only be a one night only show that's the problem. There's not much value in it, I guess. It doesn't have legs because once I've done it once, I can't do another landing at backflip for the first time show. But I like to think that first one that has such an impact. the stories of it would be told for generations to come.

I agree. I agree. I'm going to take that and improve it, Michael. So I apologize. But I'm going to do a forwards role. Oh, forwards. Yeah.

And I only offer that up because I know how challenging that manoeuvre is. Have either of you done a forward's role since you were a child? No, and I wouldn't really want to. You were a brave and man than me.

They're scary. Are you going to get a cushion from the sofa and put it on the floor? Yeah. That's how we used to do it. No, no, I'm not. That's part of the danger. Without the safety of Annette, as they say. Without the safety of Annette who isn't present that night.

No, Annette is. She's not there. She's meant to be here at half past eight. The curtains go up at nine. She's late again. Oh, she came down with a plague as well, so she couldn't make it work. Oh, no. Yeah.

Fortunately, Kurtzyn, so we'll be able to help. But I'm going to do, yeah, forwards roll. And I only am going for this because I had to do what I had to do one. I did one in a video that we put on Triple Jump where I was wearing a Sonic hat a little while ago. And I had to do it in my living room because I was going fast like Sonic does. You know, he does really slow forward roles gracelessly through his living room. And it was the scare it, because you just give up all control of your body. You don't know where your legs are going to go.

I was rolling past my TV and stuff and just thinking, this is actually really frightening to do. And once you hit that apex where you're pretty much at a right angle to the floor, so the top of your head is touching the floor and you're just about to roll over, the following adrenaline rush you get from completing that roll. there's nothing like it on this planet better than drugs better than drugs forwards rolls

once that head tilts 180 degrees and you're upside down the legs essentially become like a trebice yeah it's just whatever happens happens those babies are gonna come round you don't know how it's gonna work exactly well Mikey you might be aware that we went and did some wrestling

for triple jump we did some pro wrestling went to a wrestling school and I remember saying to the guys because we were suplexed And I remember after taking a suplex, I said halfway through the suplex, when my legs were up in the air and my head was pointing to the floor, I was like, I'm upside down so rarely these days. It's so weird to be upside down. It's such a strange sensation. You're upside down all the time as a kid.

You're dangling off the monkey bars and you're rolling around and you're upside down on the sofa for. for some reason. But yeah, you're upside down a lot less as a grown-up, and it took me right back to my childhood. Before you were slammed. Yeah. Sounds like the beginnings of a new health trend where, like, hanging upside down is actually good for you.

You know, extra blood to the head, to the brain. That can only mean good things. I've heard that. They're all saying, is it? Yeah. Subscription of a prescription of one minute of dangling per day. You'll be in the year's time, God, you'll be a new man.

A new man or woman. I, what I'm going to do, while you guys are doing your flips and your roles, what I'm going to do is we're going to get a trampoline, right? And I'm going to be the sort of the acrobat for the trampoline. But that is actually just going to consist of me not having being on a trampoline for several years and just sort of enjoying being on a trampoline, just sort of bouncing up and down. remaining perfectly vertical and just seeing sort of how big of a bounce I can do. Maybe occasionally took him my knees in, bounced on my knees.

I'm not going to do any flips. And the audience are going to have to just sit and watch me have a go on the trampoline for 10 minutes. Mum says it's my turn on the trampoline. And I'm having a good time. Oh, I am hankering for like an afternoon of activities in the park now. I'm doing handstands, roly-polys, a bit trampoline fun. That this, oh, that sounds like so much fun. I, yeah, I think I cartwheel like once a year.

Really? Yeah, I think I average about one cartwheel a year since turning 20, so. I've never cartwheeled. I can't do that average. Yeah, no, don't worry. I might be seeking to improve it this year. Yeah. Oh, cartwheels are great fun.

Yeah, flinging your body about. Nice. I think from the sound. It sounds of it. We're going to put on a real spectacular here. Ready to show on earth. Get us booked. Come on. Would you boys like to him? The BBC will be privatised this year. There it is. That's my one.

That's so funny. That was going to be my one before I did a personal one to us. I was going to say the BBC will be privatised. Isn't that an indictment of the world we live in? Yeah, that we both think it's going to happen. Oh, no. Oh, no. That makes me feel sick to think about that. See if I can kill the BBC as well as the Queen, bank to bank you. Oh, yeah. Nothing left.

Would you boys like to hear my thing? Sure. Yeah. So these days, it seems CGI is taking over the movie industry and every faucet of everything you see on screen, especially when it comes to animal actors. But today, I have a tale about why maybe it's not such a bad thing that everything's being replaced with polygons and pixels these days.

WC Fields wants. said, never work with children or animals. Though he perished decades before it began filming, Fields could have easily been talking about the indie film, Raw. Are they familiar with the film Raw? No. Well, get ready to learn about what is probably the most bonkers film production you're ever going to hear about.

Okay. A motion picture that's become a thing of legend for B-movie connoisseurs, the creative team behind Roar set out with the intent of making a movie that could help spur more movement towards protecting big cats. What ended up happening was an independent motion picture that employed countless wild animals and ended up causing serious injuries to multiple people involved in its production. Not even Fields could have imagined just how dangerous working with animals could be. So this is, you know, I'm working with a dog on set, that's all right. what if you chuck like a hundred lines into the mix

God sounds like a good idea yeah what could possibly happen so raw initially it was released in 1981 to a relatively small theatrical release it didn't do very well and here's a quick plot summary for you so you know what you're getting into a naturalist living with big cats

and East Africa expects a visit by his family of four from Chicago a mix-up leaves him searching for his family who have been left in the clutches of wild lions. So long before any of the maiming and fractures took place on set, though, there was hope. Noel Marshall, who would end up being Roar's star and director, and Tipy Hedron, a Golden Globe winning actor who served as a producer on Raw and another one of its leading performers.

We're a married couple by the end of the 60s. We're a married couple. By the end of the 60s, the duo had not just become invested in protecting animals from poachers, they also got an unexpected source of inspiration for a movie. Stumbling upon a house at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, South Africa, that had been taken over by a bunch of lions. The two were struck by the unusual image. Lions pot around in a house. That was a bit weird, isn't it? It was a bit silly. And in their heads, a concept began to swirl. Maybe a movie focused on these cats in a big house could help put, could be a way to

stir up interest in protecting these beasts. So, the couple returned to America, and they began to plot out the movie that would eventually become Raw, having gotten the participation of other members of their family, including their daughter, Melanie Griffith, to serve as either actors or crew members. The project began to move forward. Amazingly, oh, yeah, oh yeah, it moved and it really moved. Just a side note. so Raw was the final

title of film but a working title was lions lions and more lions pretty spectacular so they started on this long trek and a number of lion tamers warned that it was impossible

to bring a large number of cats together for a film set but of course this didn't hamper them enthusiasm is an expert on this shut up get out as part of the preparation for the movie, the family began to keep lion cubs as pets in their home in Sherman

Oaks, California, thinking that raising the cubs alongside their own children, just basking that sentence for a bit, thinking that raising the cubs alongside their own children, so that's good, yeah, wild big cats with children, good, thinking that it would make the animals less likely to injure anyone. So this per family endured living with lions for six months before production had even begun. Once the cop showed up to tell them that keeping such beasts as pets was illegal, they simply moved shop to an expansive

ranch in Acton, California, where the production would eventually be filmed. Right, so now we're getting into the details here. This is I think one of my favorite strings of words I'm ever going to read. The scope of the movie began to grow beyond just lions.

The family would eventually accumulate by 1979. Deep breath. Seventy-one line. lions, 26 tigers, a Tygon, which is a tiger and a lion cross, very cute. Nine black panthers, ten cougars, two jaguars, four leopards, two elephants, six black swans, four Canada geese, four cranes, two peacocks, seven flamingos and a maribou stork. So a veritable bounty of, I guess, killers is the only way to sterilize them. You've got weaponized life right there in front of you.

I like how it was just a list of really dangerous carnivores and then suddenly six swans. I should have front-loaded it, but I quite like bending on the little cuties. The only animal they turned down was a hippopotamus, so that's a bit much for them. Yeah, I can't be doing with that. Let's not get crazy. Yeah, that would be dangerous. That's silly. Come on.

Stop talking sense. Now go feed the 71 lines. Thousands of dollars were spent just to keep the animals fed and safe before filming eventually finally began in 1976 with Jan de Bont, future director of movies like Speed and Twister, so a pretty veritable name in the industry. He was on set as the cinematographer. It had taken so long to get to that point, but there was still hope in the heart of Marshall and Hedron, not to mention an unspeakable amount of financial obligations, pushing them forward on this risky independent veggie. venture. But surprise, surprise, would you know it? The problems only got worse once the cameras started rolling. Hedron explained to Indywire in 2016 that plans for a nine-month long shoot would eventually morph into an arduous five-year-long experience. God. Yeesh. Ah, that makes me sick

to think about. And in all in, the production spanned 11 years in total from pre-production to having it finished and ready to go. So by God, what a nightmare. The lengthy shoot came down to just one variable and one variable only. This was a movie that starred a handful of humans and well over a hundred wild animals. Robert Eggers has talked openly about how difficult it was to get one black goat to behave on the set of the witch. So now try to imagine getting a pack of real wild lions to behave properly, let alone react their human co-stars per the instructions of the script. Oh no.

One scene where Marshall and Mativo, two characters in the film, drive a 1937 Chevrolet containing two tigers took seven weeks to complete for one scene. Wow. Doing pretty much the same thing over and over and over again, just trying to get these animals to stay in the car. Seven weeks, that's no, no, silly.

You just be going mad. Yeah. Because it says they had to train the animal to ride in a car, which just sounds like repeatedly... Is that what they did for the seven weeks? I don't understand. I think it was just seven weeks of them not doing,

not doing what they'd wrote in the script and just doing it over and over again until they broke them to the point where they just didn't move from the car. Oh, dear. But, yeah, Marshall often refused to stop filming because he did not want to lose a take. Sometimes only one take was usable from a day's filming.

So every second's valuable, my friends. And yeah, so he might have got... the impression there that these big cats are not professionally trained and they weren't professionally trained at all literally just wild lines that they raised themselves and thought yeah these could be movie stars why not um so norl understood that lions could you know occasionally be trained to do simple tricks i guess like little things like you kind of thing you teach your cat but um it's a different kettle of fish to you know performing a feature length film um so yeah they started filming and try and all these struck struck

way of doing it, but it wasn't working out. So not long into filming. The director chose to change tact and he made a very bold choice. And even though it was a narrative film, much of raw was shot documentary style, which when you see the footage, yeah, it sings through.

It's absolutely horrifying. There's a script, a general storyline, but every scene involving lines was improvised and photographed with at least four cameras, just in the hope something usable comes out, that got it, Oh, they say, um, like, documentary style.

It's just, it's just people in a room of lions trying desperately to keep their shit together while reading lines. And then, like, the two actors will be, I highly recommend finding some clips from this. It's, it's absolutely bonkers. But it's just, there'd be clips in the film. Two actors are having a dialogue and it's like a lion flinches, and they both stop and look at it and then cautiously proceed with the lines. Oh, God.

Oh, you can feel it through the screen. I think all movies should have two lions on. set. Oh, yeah. Any time, yeah. As a threat or just have them looming at all times? I don't know. I just kind of want to see, like, Chris Ever.

I want to see Captain America shit himself, like, just in a normal scene. If you ever want to evoke actual fear from an actor, bring the line out. Do it. Imagine if, you know, they'd rigged up some massive, like, pyro shot that had taken them, like, three days to construct and, like, $20,000 to. to pay for. And, you know, like the Joker blowing up the hospital or whatever, or the asylum, whatever it was. He's walking away.

They do the shot. And then just as the camera is panning away, a fucking lion just paces through the, through the shot. No reason, no explanation. They're like, God, again, Leo. This is another cracker of a sentence. Scenes where animals chased after the characters required that the actors pretend to be scared and scream. Pretend. Just pretend. It's fine.

So, yeah, this lion's chasing after you, so you get in the character. Pretend to be scared. Pretend there's a fearsome creature in front of you. The script developed with frequent changes, but always allowing for inclusion of spontaneous actions by the animals, such as playing with the family's boat or riding a skateboard. Nice. This led to some of the lions being credited as writers for the film. Oh, fuck's sake. Oh, dear.

So, yeah, since the Lions weren't trained to do anything, like it's not like you can go into a scene with any expectations and what's going to happen. They just kept running the cameras while the Lions, quote-unquote, performed some behavior and hoped some of it might fit the scene. But it wasn't just like Roar had a handful of mild incidents involving humans and wild animals colliding. The deluge of injuries of casting crew members at the hands of the vans,

various wild animals in the making of Roe has now become inface. It has been estimated that of Roe's 140 person crew, not 140 people all at the same time. As you can imagine, a lot of people said, no, fuck this, I'm getting out here. A rotating cast of 140 crew members, at least 70 of them were injured during production. So that's a 50% hit rate of someone getting injured on set. Marshall, for his part, experienced everything from blood poisoning to gangrene to various scratches and bites from curious lines while working on raw. Hedron had a near-deadly separate encounters with a lion and an elephant, while Griffith's

face was so damaged by a lioness that she underwent facial reconstruction surgery as a result. Jesus. Of course. Of course, when you're filming, every moment's valuable. So, of course, many of these actual attacks featured in the final cut of the film, even including footage of the director's own children being seriously injured. Oh my God.

Fuck. Disgusting. Often, so yeah, he'd often just sit there, refusing to cut even when the actors were clearly in great distress. So, looking good already for a film about, you know, trying to, you know,

embigging lions and show how fun they are and why we should preserve them. Yeah? Yeah. No. So a quick, quick run through some injuries. No marshal was bitten through the hand, like through the hand, suffered eight puncture wounds when the lion bit him. Tippy suffered gangrene after an elephant crushed her leg between his trunk and tusk and was later thrown off by the element, the element, the elephant.

So she had a double whammy with that. The elephant named Tembo was gifted her some lovely broken bones. And just a couple of days earlier before that shoot took place, Tembo had booked his trainer into a tree and broken her. shoulder so good didn't take the warning there no marshal's son john acted in raw and performed many other production tasks tasks he also did not escape the shoot unscathed saying i got a i got bit really hard really hard early on a male lion bit marshall's head and refused to let go it took six men 25 minutes to remove him from the lion's grasp oh god at what point do you say no this is a bit

much and just tap out and your son's head's in a lion, but imagine the panic that your head is in a lion's mouth and there are six blokes there and they've been trying for 20 minutes to get it off and they still haven't.

God, how do you stay calm in that city? Well, you probably don't, do you? You're absolutely breaking it. But that didn't deter him from returning to the production. He says it was a very traumatic bike, but I went back to work two days later.

Shut up, stop it. John was the only family member who was willing to promote Raw during its re-release in 2015, the director of the film. He said that he still gets nightmares from the shoot. Oh, sorry, not the director, this is the son, this is the son. The one who is in The Lion? Yes, yes. Yes, you can see why I had nightmares.

He said, don't get me wrong, I had a wonderful time, but it was stupid. Yeah, definitely. Marshall also had some harsh words for his father saying Dad was a fucking asshole to do that to his family Yes Anyway, despite in DVD Raw was Dutch cinematographer Jan de Bonz's very first US shoot

So yeah, there's up-and-coming director photography things Oh, this is an exciting production, comes over to America, gets to work and he ended up getting scalped by a line and needing 120 stitches in order to retouch his seat. skin. Jesus Christ. But once again, like a true professional, DeBont completed shooting the movie. So he came back after that, which is absolutely bonkers.

The Chaos of Raw even included a moment where wildfires and a flood near the film's set ended up causing a bunch of lions and tigers to escape. And remember, we're in California here, so it's not ideal to have big cats running around. And considering these big cats were housed just north of Los Angeles, it's easy to imagine a situation involving these rampaging beasts and a big city going south fast. Luckily, the situation was, well, for a kind word, it was under control pretty quick. I think a couple of lines did sadly lose their lives in the process because some dickhead director wanted to make a film.

So good, good job, buddy, good job. But yeah, it's absolutely bonkers. it's kind of different, like you think, I'm reading this out, it sounds a bit, it doesn't sound a bit crazy, it sounds totally completely bonkers, but it's so different seeing it in motion in front of you. It's terrifying. It's just the most uncomfortable thing I've ever seen. So if you dare, I mean, it's not particularly, well, it is a bit gruesome, but it's not like, it's not, you don't say anything visceral on screen. Yeah, it's not a snuff film, but. No, it's more of just, it's like, I'm watching uncut gems. That film I love because it made me anxious. I imagine this would have the same. effect to my god the ultimate degree and there's a 13 minute youtube video out there called all animal attacks in raw that i highly remember oh wow okay brilliant 13 minutes you're tuning in so that is a story of what sounds like just the worst film ever made oh boy wow thank you michael thank you michael very welcome would you boys like another question yes yes

at Because I'm Brian on Twitter asks What trend or bandwagon Have you previously jumped on Only for it to fail miserably I remember enjoying The Digimon anime More than Pokemon as a child

And also tried to convince my friends That Jewel Masters Would overtake Yu-Giol in popularity Oh I remember when Digimon came out Even as a child I knew This is bad I don't like

Exactly what are you trying to do I thought Jewel Masters was Yu-Gi-O, so that's, I mean, it goes to show how well both of those did, in my eyes at least. Oh, God, they do look the same, don't they? I've got a real proclivity for picking winners. Like, I'm really good at just back in the right horse, you know? Yeah. So I've never done a thing wrong in my life.

And so I actually, I can't take part in this question, unfortunately. So. Well, unlike you, Ben, I've made many. mistakes in my life. That's weird. I just can't relate. I think my biggest, no, not regret, but it's kind of like, oh, why did I do that? Was getting my ears expanded. Whereas I think, yeah, that was it. I just started my job at McDonald's, I had a little bit of income flush. And so I thought, I'm going to get my ears paste and start stretching my ear lobes. Why not? That'll be good. I think I got like six months into it and it hurt too much. And I wasn't really able to make

them make my holes bigger by that much. So I tapped out and thankfully the holes have closed up over the years. I don't have big dingle dang. Yeah, you don't see that so much anymore, do you? No, it was definitely a thing for a little while and wow, did that fad pass. So I'm glad. I'm glad I didn't commit to it. God bless.

I know a few people with those, but it's very much alternative culture now. It was far more mainstream, I think, for a while. Yeah, yeah. I'm not a fan of it anymore. so good job younger me how about you peeps I'm trying to think I'm very much not of the belief

that I always pick winners but I am just trying to think of an example I do have some examples as well but yeah I'm sure you do if you thought of one go for it I've not got one yet but if you've got one I do Chris Pratt

oh yeah I really enjoy the work of Chris Pratt and I really don't enjoy the man, Chris Pratt, and it's a challenge. Everything he seems to do, even his work now with Mario and stuff, everyone's just dragging him all the time. And it's, he's a hard man to be a fan of. I mean, I wouldn't even consider myself a fan of him anymore, but I thought he was so good in community, not community, in Parks and Rec and Guardians of the Galaxy. And then every single action he's taken in his private life

makes him a difficult man to enjoy and that's a bit of a miss for me yeah agreed agreed you got a thing that Peter you don't if you can't think of any don't worry don't yeah I might have to do what Ben did and come back to this which is something we've never really done that before just say the BBC then we can combine

in one episode yeah the BBC will be privatised yeah you have to come back to me um yeah i'm trying to think of an actual example of something spiro let you down for a while yeah but then um i think it was more i was a fan of spiro in his heyday and then i never played uh once he moved on to ps2 i never played any of those and then um it turned out that i was right to or you know that i wasn't missing anything and then i think i've always been with the majority on whatever, you know, at that time. So I liked it when he was popular and then I didn't when he wasn't. And that's not because of other people's opinions.

It's just I think I happened to go with what everyone else was, happened to be thinking. But yeah, Spiro did. He let me down. He did. Star Wars? Oh, yeah, maybe. I'm just going to name all of your things that I like and that are all rubber. Yeah, I mean, yeah, like at the moment, so I still really like Star Wars, even though not only do lots of people not like it, you know, people that used to like the movies now don't like the newer ones, but even I don't like the newer movies or I certainly don't like the episodic ones.

And yet, I still just kind of hold on to it. Oh, I tell you something, I, again, it's more something that I decide that I'm still a family. of even though I don't like it. It's not even necessarily that everyone else doesn't. But Doctor Who, I just hated everything that's... That was next on my list. Yes, yeah. Well, again, like, I don't know if that counts in that, like,

it does still have a certain kind of following to it. It's got like a very dedicated audience. So it's not that, you know, it's something that is kind of hated by everyone or by almost everyone. But, yeah, certainly in terms of I jumped onto it. Well, I'd always liked it, actually, but especially when they rebooted it. And everyone was enjoying it with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant. And then, yeah, I still watch every single thing that they put out.

I always will do, even if, you know, despite the fact that it's been, in my opinion, rubbish for at least two seasons, if not more. So, yeah, maybe that, sort of. Okay. Yeah, I like that. Thank you very much. Thank you, boys. That's all right.

Ben, do you like to sing us out? I certainly would. And I think this will actually be the final bit of the episode, right? I think we've got three questions this week. Yes, we did indeed. Yeah. So I'm going to send you guys a photo. You may have seen this man before.

This is the Leather Man. It sounds like a horrific villain or a horror movie. It wears your skin. Exactly. But it's not that. This is an article from unbelievable. hyphen facts.com. Who was

The Leather Man, the Mysterious Nomad of the 1800s? So, we're going to learn about the Leather Man today. In the 19th century, a nomadic figure known only as the Leather Man became a celebrity in the northeast of America. His clockwork-like comings and goings across New York and Connecticut

were greatly anticipated by many, but though many people knew him, the identity and history of this leather-clad vagrant is a mystery that continues centuries later. So let's learn about him. Mm-hmm. Between the years 1857 to 1889, a vagabond known as the Leather Man traveled through the Connecticut and New York countryside.

At first, his travels were seemingly random, but he eventually settled into walking a continuous clockwise 365-mile loop between the Hudson River and Connecticut Rivers, a route that the Leather Man continued upon all 365 days a year. Do you reckon he did a mile a day? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Perhaps. Reports indicate that the leather man walked over 10 miles each day. Okay, wow. No, never mind.

That's the answer. And his route generally took around 32 to 34 days to complete. Indeed, his travelling was so consistent that locals could predict when they would see, when they would next see him in the area. It's like the passing of the seasons, isn't it? Yeah. The leather man's coming today. In anticipation, they regularly cooked meals for him, which he, a man with an understandably

hearty appetite, would politely accept. The locals would also give him. give him tobacco and leather scraps, but he seldom accepted money or shelter. The leather man gained his moniker due to his suit made of old boot tops sewn together with leather lace. Most presume that he stitched the suit himself, which weighed around 60 to 70 pounds, and he wore it all year round. Such clothing likely came in handy during cold nights since the leather man almost always

slept in caves and rock outcrops. Would you like to see one of the leather man's caves? Yes. I know all people from this time period look furious in photos, but he really does look so pissed off. Oh wow, look at him there. Wow. Sat in his coat.

Despite, or perhaps thanks to, his peculiar nature, the leather man became a celebrity. Some schools even let students go outside to give him food when he passed on Leather Man Day. And although Connecticut passed a tramp law in 1879, which permitted the arresting and jailing of vagrants, there exists no record of anyone arresting him, that is, bar one time in 1888, which was in concern for his health. But although many knew of and met the leatherman, no one knew who he was,

where he came from, why the leatherman lived the way he did. He did not talk much, and when he did, he did so in either broken English or French, presumably his native language. With little to go on, people soon began creating origin stories for him. One account suggested that he was Jules Bourglet of Lyon-France, As the tale goes, he had abandoned his homeland after a failed excursion into the leather trade. His failure, in turn, ended his romance with his employers, it says, a local leather merchant, daughter, a woman named Margaret Laron. Broken-hearted and downtrodden, Borglay began walking in solitude across America, clothed in the substance of his ruin. This story was later proved false, but remained a popular tale nonetheless. And now, I mean, I assume you all just thought that the Leather Man was still alive today,

but I'm sorry to report that he did pass. What, the man who slept in caves in the 1800s? Yeah, he didn't make it. He's not made it. He didn't make it. I'm really sorry. The Leather Man was found dead in one of his New York shelters in March 1889. Some accounts place his death as the result of a head injury, others that he had cancer for

which he refused treatment. In any case, locals laid him to rest in. Ossing's Sparta Cemetery. Wow. Many years later, in 2011, officials decided to relocate his grave due to its proximity to Route 9 and the danger this presented to visitors. At the same time, the Ossining Historical Society won the right to inspect his remains and arranged DNA testing.

The hope was that the testing would shed more light on his origins and test whether he had autism, as some claimed. The project wasn't without controversy, and a local history teacher Don Johnson, who set up a site called Leave the Leather Man alone, campaigned against it. Johnson argued that Leather Man was intensely private in life,

and that this should be respected in death. However, it wouldn't matter much in the end anyway, as when historians dug up Leather Man's grave, all they found were coffin nails. The Leather Man had seemingly vanished. Oh. He rises. He rises. He still walks his route today.

Experts put the disappearance down to the impact of traffic and a nearby road grading project. In any case, it seems that for now, the leather man will remain as mysterious in death as he was in life. So I'm inferring from this that the poor quality coffin has kind of disintegrated

and his remains have just sort of filtered through the earth, maybe? Right. Because of nearby road works, perhaps. Yeah. I assume someone probably just dug him up. Yeah, I mean, that would be my first assumption is that maybe, for whatever reason, someone wanted to rob his grave or, I mean, I don't know what the situation was in America,

but there was a period of time in the UK when people were selling bodies of the recently deceased for, like, for medical science. It's a good £70 pounds of lever down there as well. Yeah, that's an extra 50s worth of. With nothing to rebury, the nails and some soil from the original grave were placed in a new coffin and laid to rest on the cemetery hillside away from the road. The original grave marker, which wrongly read, Jules Borglay, went to a museum. Perhaps fittingly, the current grave marker is a boulder bearing a plaque that reads only The Leather Man.

And he has been a sort of fixation of popular culture. Perhaps the most notable pop cultural artefact inspired by The Leather Man is the song of the same name by grunge rock band Pearl Jam. So they did a song about him. And also, there's a race in Pound Ridge, New York, the Leather Man Loop, which is named after him. and inspired by his travels. And that's the story of the Leather Man. That's magical. I quite like that.

It's just a dude walking around and everyone's like, yeah, cool. It's like no one in their right mind would possibly do this, so let's create lots of backstory for him, even though he's probably a very uncomplicated or potentially unwell man. Yeah.

We'll never know. We'll never know. Thank you very much, Ben. Big fan. Big fan of the Leather Man. You're welcome. We all love The Leather Man here. We're going to find out next episode

that he did lots of real. really heinous shit. And actually, it's really offensive that you talked about the leather man on your podcast. Don't glorify a serial killer, thank you. Although we do that relatively. Well, Michael does it. For my hands up, sorry. I'm not saying the leather man was a serial killer, just to be clear.

No. Just saying he might have. We don't know that he wasn't. And his name sounds like he was. That's all we're saying. That's all I'm saying is that I think I can see a nose in his trousers. That's all I'm saying, though. It's all we're saying.

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