Podiots - Podiots: Episode 122 - Podiots Isn't Changing
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Who's going to do it?
Who's going to do it?
Who's going to do it?
Peter, I feel like it might be you.
All right, all right.
I've got an anecdote for you.
Oh.
Yeah, I'm just going to start with an anecdote.
It's a good cold open, isn't it?
It's a warm, a lukewarm open.
Lovely.
Okay, dip your toes in.
I was just having a piss before we started recording.
Was it a good one?
Good stream?
Yeah, it was actually, yeah.
Confid.
and as I
put the toilet seat down
I noticed there was just a little
bit of dust on the top of the toilet seat
and it reminded me of a time
when we lived in Bristol all of us
I went to the doctor at one point
because I had like abdominal pain
and they said oh it could maybe be some kind of
like urinary tract infection or something
or I don't know actually, they didn't actually say that
but they wanted a pee sample when I was there
I was like okay
so they took that
and the doctor
I took it into the doctor
and he looked at it
and he had this really strong accent
and
as I'd finished peeing
just as I was about to close the lid
I'd accidentally got a bit of fluff in there
from like my boxers waistband
or something
and the doctor looked at it
and he was like right well
that's a pretty healthy colour
and then he went
although there's a appears to be a
spider in there. Have you got knob spiders?
Oh my God.
And I was like, what, knob spiders?
I don't come to my NHS doctor to be accused of having knob spiders.
So anyway, I played it cool and I went, no, no, no, the knob spiders, they cleared up a couple of weeks ago.
And he was like, oh, yeah, all right, then, that's good.
Did he take it really seriously?
No, he could see that it was just a bit of fluff and he was trying to sort of, I think he was
trying to, you know, break the ice a bit.
Yeah, break the ice by saying, have you got knob spiders?
spies in your tarantula hang on hang on i can do it in your tarantula undergarde numbeds
yes christ um so yeah i've i it's official everyone i at least at one point had knob spiders
um whether i've still got them i don't know i'm glad you overcame this affliction that must
have been right make sure you go and get checked for knob spiders everybody yeah um thank you for
showing that, Peter. You're welcome.
Mikey, I think you're going to have to say it.
Really? I have to follow up Knob Spiders with this.
Yeah.
Everybody, Pottietz
is changing.
Oh, right, yeah. I forgot about that.
Sorry.
Straight into Nob Spiders.
Well, I thought it was who's going to say,
who's just going to start?
Because there's always a bit of a Mexican standoff, isn't there?
At the start of a podcast, who's going to go?
but but yeah
Polyis is changing everyone
it is
but not in a scary way
no we're just going to stop doing it
we're not we're not going to stop doing it we're not
promise promise we're going to we're going to stick around
there's there's a couple of
changes uh the first of which is that
we've been doing this podcast for how many years now
it's got to be close to five now right
maybe yeah god yeah actually five years
oh yeah 2018 yeah five years
and in that
time you have submitted some fucking wonderful questions. However, we've hit a bit of an
impasse where we're getting a lot of the same questions. It's not your fault. But I feel like
we've divulged almost every part of our personal life now. Well, I just threw these questions.
Peter has now completed it with Nob Spiders. That was the final thing you needed for the
podcast. Peter submitted his last anecdote. And so we're thinking of maybe changing up the
format a little bit. It will remain the same. Everybody brings a thing along to talk about it, etc.
However, instead of asking for questions, we would like three things from you.
We want you to submit weird news stories from your local area or sort of just strange things
you found on the internet from the past two weeks to sort of keep it current.
And then we will cover them and discuss them and dissect them.
And those will take the place of the questions in the podcast because we think it will keep
things fresh.
And while we love talking to you about our lives and we always will do,
we just we think it's time for a change a little bit of a change everybody brings a thingette to talk about from
yeah and the things about our lives will still just come up naturally anyway it's not that we're going to
stop talking about our lives and our medical afflictions they'll they'll still be in there but
from you who would like those sort of current news stories or it doesn't have to be news as such
it can just be you know the thing that was trending this week on the internet you know
Did you guys see this?
The latest memes, etc.
And so on, yeah.
We just think it would be a nice way to change things up.
A little bit of maybe local news,
because whenever I go hunting for local news,
I'm sure you guys do too,
you kind of restrict yourself to the local area.
But we've got poddius listeners across the globe.
Think of all that untapped, weird little bits of local news.
Yeah.
What nonsense has been happening in your specific zone?
Let us know.
we'll we'll we'll flip in talk about it um so yes from next episode uh we'll make it clear in the
question post that goes out on twitter a few days before we record that we want you to submit
some stuff to us some stuff that we can talk about you'll still be credited as if you submitted
a question uh but we're going to do that in addition to our things try not to submit things
that you think are the kind of thing that we would bring as things so we're talking no
Wikipedia articles uh and you know we'll use our discretion if one of
versus already bringing that thing along as a thing that week.
Obviously, that won't make the cut.
But open our eyes to the weird and wonderful shit that happened on the internet in the past two weeks.
And we'll try it out.
Keep it short, sweet and punchy.
A little hit of laughter.
And then bam, you're done.
It'd be beautiful.
Yeah.
And you can still send the sorts of things that you think would make a good a thing for us to bring along in the usual way.
So you can, you know, welcome to, for example, tweet me a Wikipedia article or tweet.
you know, Mikey, a fight suggestion or something like that.
So they're still fine.
But for the user submitted things,
we would like these sort of current internet bits of news or local news or other things.
We'll put a post out, though, to give more detail.
Yeah.
But that's not the only change, is it?
Oh, my God, you're God darn tooting soon.
You'll be able to see our little faces on the YouTube thing.
Don't worry.
It's not going to change the format of the podcast.
suddenly becoming a video show it's just an extra little bit of niceness for those who watch because
speaking from experience i hate it when podcast pivot to video and then make everything about the video
that's not how that's not what you want to do here it's just a little bit of extra luxury for you
you see our smiling faces and me my face creasing with laughter as peter describes his
his trouser spiders his knob spiders that's it's his knob spiders yes uh so we're looking into
that as well hopefully we'll be able to bring you that soon but that's still not the only
there's one final thing
and that is for the longest time
we've recorded on a Tuesday
and oh sorry we've released on a Tuesday
and that was that was definitely
a convenience that was
almost a hangover from working
full time on videos like that was the day
that we chose and it was absolutely fine
because we were in the office and so on
but we found that Tuesday is increasingly
becoming a hard day to hit
because of various commitments that we all have
through work or outside of work
and so from next episode
we will be releasing podcasts on Saturdays instead.
So that means...
Saturday is true.
Saturday is audience day.
So the episode after this
would be a fortnight on Tuesday normally.
That would be the 30th of May.
However, that one will now be releasing
on Saturday the 3rd of June
and then Saturday going forward.
That's partly because I'm on holiday
and we haven't got a chance to record.
But we're also aware that we've missed a few episodes this week,
like this year, sorry.
We've had to push because of busyness
and so on.
And we think by pivoting to a Saturday release
that will alleviate some of those issues.
Still before nightly.
Still before 90.
We're not going away.
So we'll have Saturday releases,
video coming soon, hopefully,
and we want weird internet happenings
from you instead of questions.
So it is changing,
but hopefully in a way that you guys
can appreciate is a positive way.
We're trying to adapt and evolve
and we want to commit to you guys
and keep bringing you poddits
and we're hoping that this will help ensure
that we can go for as long as we can doing this.
Has potty changed at all in five years?
Now I think about it.
Has it just been the same since we started?
We've dropped a couple of questions.
Yeah, we stealth reduced the question numbers
when we started to realize there aren't enough questions
and we never announced it, but people may have noticed.
But apart from that, no, not really.
Well, get ready, it's potty, it's 2.0, and it's better than ever.
Yeah.
Yeah, we hope so.
And we thank you in advance for your support and your understanding.
Triple Jump podcast listeners
will know that we did a similar thing
with the question front over there
because it's hard
it's hard to answer questions
for several years
and not cover the same ground
so thank you
thank you
and we do have one final thing
to talk about
that's nothing to do
with potty exchanging
we promise
Michael Johnson
do want to talk to them about that
oh yeah the blobbyets poster
nobs spiders
of course
I got knob spiders too
yeah so as you
have seen, as you may have heard, we released a special art print not long ago. And this is
probably going to be your final warning, if not already too late, because it is fast selling out.
People love it. Um, so we highly recommend if you're interested in it, when you hear this,
head over to bit.ly slash blobbiots. That's B-L-O-B-I-O-T-S. And go see if it's still in stock,
because I think we're about two-thirds of the way sold out now. And so we're,
We are, like, very quickly getting into single digits.
So go on, have a look.
If you treat yourself, that way, love.
There's every likelihood that we may add that design
to our print-to-order T-shirts on the store,
but that's, you know, remains to be seen,
but it's certainly a possibility.
But if you want the print for your wall,
they may already be gone.
So head over there as soon as you can.
100%.
We love you all.
Did you tweet the announcement thumbnail in the thread, you monster?
No!
Yeah, I did.
I'm going to scare the shit out of everyone.
Yeah, we love you all.
Thank you for all your support, and we'll catch you in the next one.
But first, we need to go record this one, I suppose.
All right.
Hello, everybody, and welcome to Poddiots, the official videos.
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.
I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. Hello gentlemen. Hello. How's it going? How's going pretty good slash well?
How's it going with you? Yeah. Doing all right. The sun's out for the first time in forever. And we're
inside recording a podcast. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's good, isn't it? How are you, Mikey?
I'm doing good. My living room is currently like a little production line for shipping and handling.
It's great at fun. I haven't the wheel of a time. I've always thought I kind of misread my destiny.
It wasn't to do video. It was just to work in a factory and do the same task over and over again because it's so
therapeutic. It's great. Well, if this goes well. Yeah. Oh.
Might have to do some more limited prints in a future, but they could say this goes well. You might
end up working at a factory.
Pollyots will be over and we'll all have to go and get normal people jobs.
Yeah, nothing wrong with normal people jobs.
No, not at all.
Backowner society.
Yeah, you might have to do it, Michael.
I actually genuinely have no qualms about that.
It would be a lot less stress in my life.
Anyway, if you want to support Michael Johnson and his dream to become a factory worker,
don't go to poddiots.com
and don't donate three pounds or more
to get a shout out at the beginning
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and don't join Pod Squad.
However, if you want to,
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and you want to prevent
Michael Johnson from his destiny,
you should go and do all of that
because we're going to shout
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The first people to keep me in my cage of despair
are Alexa.
RIP Longboy.
Mmm, duck pancakes.
Oh, no.
Oh, don't.
Anonymous, Lord Brotovich, get your pods out for the lads.
Freddie Weber paints his balls.
Thank you.
Mr. Blobby got minus 36 with no hostages this time.
Excuse me?
What's minus 36?
Can we decipher that with no hostages this time?
Is that a reference to some sort of heinous crime that we understand?
No, right.
I'm going to have to Google that.
It could be a reference to like, you know,
just some line from a movie
like, oh, I played
gun game yesterday
and I got minus 36
with no hostages this time
or it could be, you know,
a massacre that took place somewhere.
It could, it's one of the two.
I can't see anything while Googling
minus 36. No, we'll let this one pass
but if it's a nasty one
it's, it's no, we don't know everything,
okay? Yeah.
We continue with Prince
Beefcakes, Stephen Scaldes,
Ragnar, the mid, and the generous pro-trainer, and they say, I'm back.
It's been a long time coming, but I now have a job that pays me enough to have a little
leftover at the end of the month.
Thank you.
It's very generous.
Congratulations.
Congratulations, and thank you, pro-trainer for that.
Many thanks.
We've also got knees, weak, palms are sweaty, got shit in my pants already.
Major regretti.
anonymous
Cheggs
existential crisis
Mr Macca
the exceedingly generous
one vowel from Shira
who says
long overdue donation
I think
I just think you're neat
XOXO
XO well we think you're neat
too
yeah thank you
thank you so much
we've also got
Katie Kin Solo
Finn Tristam
Mike Roch
and Mr Blobby's
big knobby
great
uh finally we have spammy champion of the world cream creamy mukake oh confucius dude zen potter
we love tp he is so sweet rumor is he's got big feet
the two back-to-back donations anonymous another anonymous sorry about bean sty
i think that was a follow-up from last we really stumbled over
salmon Miller and that's okay it says all one word
R2D's nuts
R2D poo
and you know your ludo well
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which was your favourite guys out of those
just got better and better
I liked creamy mukaki
I thought they had us in the first half
but then you know your ludo well.
It's very good.
Very good.
That one's lost on me.
Could someone please explain it?
I see you know your judo well.
Oh, very good.
Okay, there we go.
Thank you.
I'm being the penis, people.
Get your hands off my penis.
Suckling Chinese meal.
I watched that the other night.
It is an eternal source of joy, isn't it?
Very good.
I have a little beer cozy that's from his official store.
Oh, yeah.
that's it's like uh judo like whatever his name is australian judo academy and it says i see you know
your judo well get your hands off my penis on it's great it's my least useful possession i never use
it but i've got it i think my friend bought it for me actually possibly uh mikey what's your
favorite uh i'm gonna go for the first half of one the two part of donations we love t p he is so sweet
yeah it's one of my favorites too uh let's see uh let's see
Mike Roch, classic
Yeah, classic
Mr. Blobby, Big Nobby, great.
RIP Longboyton,
duck pancakes, very relevant.
Yeah, for a long boy,
for those you don't know,
he was, was he a duck at York University?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think he's an Indian runner duck, right?
He was just really long.
You walk around,
a completely upright, his head held high,
he will be missed.
What a lovely boy.
Missing for a long time,
and they think it's not good.
news if he's not around.
He's been uncle fatied.
Oh, no.
He's been gizmoed.
Carried away by a longer duck.
I'm going to go for R2 D's Nuts because
D's Nuts humor is like that.
I like that.
That works for me.
That's my shit.
So, so they say.
There we are.
Thank you again, Pod Squad.
We love you.
Appreciate you.
Thank you.
Mikey Johnson, you are a podcast man.
I am podcast man.
Would you like a podcast
question.
Please.
This one comes from Lexi at Simply Lexi 1 on Twitter.
They ask, what's the craziest thing you would put on your registry?
I think this is in terms of the wedding registry, the gifts that people can buy you.
Peter, you've got experience in this matter.
Did you put anything particularly bonkers on yours or did you keep it quite civil?
Was there something you really wanted to put on, but you decided you couldn't get away with?
Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, ours were all very sensible.
We were moving into our first house.
not so long after the wedding
so we just asked for all the things that we didn't have
or things that need to replacing
because like we had just this random selection of plates
that the two of us had you know had since we were students
that were kind of odds from our odds and ends from our parents
and then mixed together these two random piles of plates
so we replaced those and yeah it's all it was all very practical stuff
Booth got us an iron
which we use all the time
to do our ironing
and obviously I think of Sophie every time
and yeah
so nothing that exciting
probably the wildest
most out there thing we got are
four very delicate
you're scared to touch them because they might break
cocktail glasses they're sort of like
I don't know
like the really, really posh kind of 19, I don't know, 1920s champagne glasses style,
like the ones that instead of being a really long flute, they're a really flat bowl,
if you see what I mean.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So those, something that you would probably have like a, I don't know, a martini out of
or a, yeah, I don't know.
Nothing wild.
Is what would be your wild thing?
could do it again and do it right
yeah do it properly
what would you get boring cows and
it was just my wedding and not
amy's uh
if i was marrying myself i would
i don't know
get maybe
some sort of
oh man i don't know have you guys thought of one
while i was rambling about glasses
and i've got two things
that i know i want but
would never buy for myself
um one's a ps five
I've never bought a current gen console
pretty much the last 10 years
and I've got no interest in doing it
but if someone wants to buy it for me
that'd be great
I mean the wedding is kind of the one time
you get to
it's all about me so buy me the PS5
so yeah
give me it if I had no shame
also I would very much like
tickets to like a skydiving experience day
really skydiving
yeah or something
jumping from a big height would be quite
fun. Again, I think the fear would stop me from buying it for myself.
If it's presented upon me and given a date, I'm like, well, sure.
Then you have to do it.
Got to do it, yeah.
I like the idea of the PS5.
Like, I keep saying to myself, and I've been saying for about two years, or probably
longer, really, in the back of my mind, that I would like an N64 and a bunch of games for
it.
And I'm always, I'm totally up for doing it.
And they're not that expensive.
I mean, the games can be expensive, but the consoles are like, I think.
60 quid from CX generally or they were until cost of living crisis and but I just can't
sort of justify it I'm like 60 quid I could spend on something else that's not an N64 and so I just
don't do it ever and it would be just you know something that I can ask someone else to buy for me
that's a good shout I bought an 64 couple of years back and I used it to put a sausage in it
for yeah you did yeah I remember that it's amazing sausage
technology is incredible, isn't it? Incredible.
I think I am, I love things, but I feel like I'm sort of, I'd prefer experiences over
things, you know, so I think you're sort of on the money, Mikey, with not the PS5
necessarily, but the skydiving experience or whatever. My cousin and his wife asked for
donations for their honeymoon
and then just went on like an amazing honeymoon
and that sounds nice
I could
I could go for that
you know
maybe something like that
pretty common now for people to do that
because quite often as well
now when people are getting married
they already live together
and actually have all the stuff
that they want I mean we
me and Amy did live together
but we wanted to replace some things
but yeah
you know traditionally a wedding registry
is like
the couple are finally moving into a
house together and they need to buy all the crap but nowadays it's not really the case so a lot of
people are doing money for honeymoon please yes money more enough I respect it nice yeah
thank you boys you're welcome who would like to do their thing first I'd love to do my thing
first please go on so there is a weird Wikipedia article called a list of animals awarded human
credentials. Good. I like it. It's good. And I have brought a couple of examples from
because actually is all a bit samey because there is a reason why animals have been awarded
credentials. So I've just got a couple of them from that page. But then there were some
related articles that are also kind of very similar. So this is a whole list of animals who are
doing people things. We're going to learn all about them now. So the opening to the
list article says this list of animals awarded human credentials includes non-human animals
who have been submitted as applicants to suspected diploma mills and have been awarded a diploma
and that is you know those places where you pay money and you get given basically a fake
diploma and people then just try and like apply for jobs with it and stuff oh okay so it's
you know like a fraudulent thing a false made-up university or college
getting people to just send them money and then they'll give you like some fake documentation.
Oh, God, that's something we should do.
Like we really should do that.
We should actually.
You want another limited item.
How about a diploma of your choice?
And we'll ship it out and you can graduate from Vidy at's university.
Well, oh, yes.
I mean, I like that, but as you'll see, there may be some legal ramifications to do with that.
But anyway, on occasion...
A good small print on it, sorry.
Yeah, we could just do.
Let's do it.
We should do it.
Let's fucking do it.
There must be like a legal way to just do it as a kind of like a joke shop item sort of thing.
There must be a way that...
I'm not paying for legal advice though, so...
No, no, no, no.
Just take a pun.
On occasion, they have been admitted and granted a degree, as reported in reliable sources.
Animals are often used as a device to clearly demonstrate the lax standards or fraudulent activities
of the awarding institutions in at least four.
one case, a cat's degree helped lead to a successful fraud prosecution against the institution
that had issued it.
Do we know the cat's name?
Yes, I think it's the first one we're going to deal with today.
Also on occasion, accredited institutions award mock degrees to animals for humorous purposes.
So that's like legit unis just doing it for a joke.
For example, UNSW awarded a doctorate.
And then it says, it says in parentheses, not doctorate.
Just to make it clear.
Two, a dog.
Such cases are not included below.
This is serious.
It's not humorous, this list.
Okay, sorry, very serious.
Yeah, except the ones that I've tacked onto the end
are kind of more jokey.
But anyway, here we go.
Colby Nolan was a house cat
who was awarded an MBA in 2004
by Trinity Southern University,
a Dallas-based diploma mill,
sparking a fraud lawsuit by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office.
Colby Nolan lived with a deputy attorney general at the time
in looking to expose Trinity Southern University for fraud.
Undercover agents had the then six-year-old feline
obtain a bachelor's degree in business administration for $299.
On the animal's application, the agents claimed that the cat had previously...
They didn't say cat, I don't think.
The whole point is that they just put a name and...
Yeah.
These places aren't doing their due diligence.
But they claim that the cat had previously taken courses at a community college,
worked at a fast food restaurant, babysat, and maintained a newspaper route.
Wow, amazing.
One industry's boy.
In response, the institution informed Colby that, due to the job experience listed on his application,
he was eligible for an executive MBA which he could obtain for an additional $100.
The transcript submitted by the agents claimed that Colby,
Halby had a GPA of 3.5.
I don't know what that means.
I think a perfect one is four,
but that's all I can glean from popular culture.
Right. Okay.
Upon learning that a cat received the degree,
Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert
filed a lawsuit against Trinity Southern University.
In the lawsuit,
Pappert directed the Diploma Mill,
which had used email spam to sell degrees,
to provide restitution to anyone
who had ordered a degree from them.
In December 2004, the Texas Attorney General
obtained a temporary restraining order.
Is anything else about cats in this one?
No, that's it.
There's no more cat stuff.
There's only one cat degree.
Basically, they got massively fined and...
Feline.
Sorry.
They did, yes.
And the website has been offline since 2005.
So that's the first one.
Colby Nolan, the cat, with an NBA.
Nice.
We've also got George.
In 2009, George, a cat owned by Chris Jackson, presenter of the BBC show Inside Out, Northeast and Cumbria,
was registered as a hypnotherapist after his owner created a fake certificate from a non-existing institution
and used it to register with three professional organizations,
the British Board of Neurilingualistic Programming,
the United Fellowship of Hypnotherapists, and the Professional Hypnotherapy Practitioner Association.
So there you go.
Again, these things are done to prove
that people aren't doing what they should be doing
and doing the right checks.
I'm waiting for a Tiddles to come up or something.
You've got Colby without George, where it's the cat.
Professor Tiddles.
Yeah.
Well, here we go.
No, it's not Tiddles.
It's, I mean, I would say better.
It might depend on whether you're a cat or dog person.
But in 2009, Dr. Ben Mays, a veterinarian in Clinton,
in Arkansas
obtained a
degree in
therio genealogy
and animal
reproduction from
Belford University
on behalf of
an English
bulldog named
Max Sniffing Well
Yes, okay
I'm sold
The application
included his work
as a reproductive
specialist noting
his natural ability
in therio genealogy
and experimental
work with felines
and his understanding
of the merits
of specialisation
despite a desire
to
do them all.
Wow.
Okay.
He obtained a diploma, a transcript and a letter of recommendation upon receipt of a payment
of $549 to the university, but declined an offer to be made an honours graduate for an
additional $75.
Fair.
In 2021, environmentalist George Monbiot, or Monbeo, registered his childhood goldfish
as a waste disposer in the United Kingdom.
and then so that's those were just a few from the the list on Wikipedia of false credentials for animals
because they were all very similar stories just different names but they were all cats and dogs
and one goldfish but I've got a couple more here of animals doing interesting things
fdc willard was the pen name of a siamese cat named chester who internationally published
under this name on physics in scientific journals
His most famous work is on low-temperature physics as a co-author in 1975.
At one later occasion, he published as the sole author.
Here's some context.
In 1975, the American physicist and mathematician Jack H. Hetherington of Michigan State University
wanted to publish some of his research results in the field of low-temperature physics
in the scientific journal Physics Review Letters.
A colleague, to whom he had given his paper for review, pointed out that Hetherington,
had used the first person plural in his text
and that the journal would reject this form on submission
given that he was a sole author.
So for some reason, he'd accidentally put,
we did this, we did that in his article.
I guess because he had like assistance.
Right, yeah.
I guess because he probably had like lab assistants and stuff.
But technically he was the only author of the article.
And they said, you're going to get rejected if you do that on a technicality
and you're going to have to rewrite it.
But rather than, I'm back on the article now,
rather than take the time to re-type the article
to use singular form or to bring in a co-author,
Hetherington decided to just invent one.
He had a Siamese cat named Chester
who had been sired by a Siamese cat named Willard,
fearing that colleagues might recognize his pet's name,
he thought it better to use the pet's initials,
and therefore FDC Willard was named as a co-author
on his low-temperature physics paper.
That's great.
Yeah. Just a couple more short ones here. In 1938, Kenneth Simmons entered Boston Curtis, a brown mule as a candidate for a Republican precinct seat in Milton, Washington. In 1938, it won 51 to zero.
Simmons stated he had done this to demonstrate that many people vote without considering who they are actually voting for.
so again kind of trying to prove a point there
and lastly in a similar vein
we've got
Lahitas Texas
held an election that included
candidates Tommy Steele
who was the incumbent human mayor
as well as a trading post
wooden Indian
a dog named Buster
and a goat named Clay Henry
the goat won by a landslide
and goats have been mayors
ever since
Wow imagine being the last human
and losing to a goat
and then they make goats
the mares going on from that point
yeah mares
sorry no no
I'm sorry that felt bad coming out
so there you go
they can do it too
with can do
wow to see all the little graduation photos
of the animals from the house off
some shaking hands with a human
poor
come on poor
dreamies
come on poor
Oh, that's fantastic. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Peter.
Welcome.
Yeah, talented.
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Would you boys like another question?
Yes, please.
Which one am I going to go for?
I'm going to go for the one from Jared at Laika Glove 90 on Twitter.
They ask, someone has wronged you.
Yes, you.
How rude.
You have the ability to change one minor thing in their life.
every day as revenge they'll never know it's you but do you hide their keys daily make their
daily coffee room room temperature constantly what's your petty revenge hugs and keys
i think for my for mine for this what i think what i'm a man who enjoys my my hot water to be
hot and my cold water to be very cold and if like those both got nudged together by like a couple
degrees so like my my cold water was just kind of like barely barely tepid it was just like
cold water has the best taste obviously it's the best water yeah and yeah hot water just enough
like it's it's warm but it's very quickly going to lose its residual heat like say you're doing
the washing up it's all cold again trying to run a bath oh nope there's it's not held its heat on
that would drive me mad that would absolutely do me in yeah i like it i like maybe just
like cut out internet for five minutes a day every day at like a random interval and yeah
that would be bad oh oh that yeah oh i get irrationally angry when my internet goes down it's
just i just i just i can't do anything else but try and fix the internet so yeah that would
kill me anyone who's planned to screw up my day i've just given you a few very good
so that's how you don't i uh in light of what we sometimes had to deal with when emulating video
games are vidiates. I would have electronic devices always start up in a foreign language.
And, you know, they can easily navigate to the settings and switch it over. But, you know,
their TV has, I mean, I guess with TV doesn't matter so much, because it's not often you're
navigating through menus. But, you know, video games, every time they boot up a game, it's like,
it's in German by default. It would just be, God of War. Yeah, it would just be a bit annoying.
because generally as well you're going to be able to change it on if not on the first screen
then you know in the options menu as soon as it gives you control so it would only be a minor
thing but yeah maybe their phone as well it's not often you turn your phone off but on the odd
occasion where it completely powers down or you have to restart it's in German when you
boot it up oh no what are you going to do learn German that would be easier that's the only solution
that's the only solution
I think if someone wronged me
the best revenge would be a life well lived
I just get my revenge on them by having a lovely time
and they can't do anything
nah nah nah nah no no however
my actual answer would be to sneak into their house at night
and turn off random fuses in the fuse box
so like why is the fridge gone off
Everything else is fine.
I don't understand
why don't these plugs work?
Why doesn't this light work
but all the other lights do?
And then they'll think,
oh, it's the fuse box, maybe.
And they'll go in there
and see some of the fuses are off
and then they'll start doubting their wiring.
They might have to pay for an electrician.
And then when they get they all clear,
you know what I'll do?
I'll fucking do it again.
I'll go in again.
Flip off different ones.
Like, yeah, you're going fucking mad,
aren't you?
Oh my God.
Yeah, that's good.
That's very good.
I mean, making the fridge turn off a load.
Yeah, turning off their fridge over and over again.
It's bad.
It's bad.
Absolutely dastively
Yeah
That would be a bad
There's so many times I've had to defrost our fridge
And it is just rage-inducing
So yeah
Oh you bastard is all
Funky smell that
Funny smell then
Yeah
That's what I'd do
Nice
Thank you very much boys
Well there you go
There's some plans for anyone
Who's looking to get revenge
Would you boys like to hear my thing
I would love to
Sure
So I want to term a little tale today, but a tale that goes back many years of a cryptid that exists in the south-west of England.
Oh.
Oh.
But this isn't your usual spooky oddity for this is the Somerset Gimp.
No.
No.
No.
So he's been a bit of a local legend for, I think, called four years or so now.
When I say local legend, I mean a total bloody nuisance.
I'm going to preface this by saying
I'm very sex positive
I've got nothing against the gimps
but this one's a right
git all right
so it's a cryptid that's real
yes it's an actual real life man
it's um yes there's been sightings
has been interactions
and oh yeah you'll find out all about him
but yes
nothing against the gims
but this one is a bit of a bastard man
Mikey it sounds like you have something against the gips
you know
why do you hate the gimps
I just want to talk about
this one really bad gimp
gimp all right
that's an example for the rest of
than hashtag not all gimps that's one thing we should have mentioned in the intro the one other thing
we're changing is the podcast is now going to be called fuck gimp's
fuck gims yeah sing it with me fuck gips fuck gips no okay so um yeah one of the earliest
stories i could find um from about this this this this being uh dates back to the 15th of
july 2019 i think you just say the 15th century yeah 1500s
no he's a relatively recent oddity
this is so I think
some events had happened in the lead up to this
but this is kind of like when the news kind of broke beyond
I guess neighborhood chatter
the headline reads
second man arrested after quote
and quote grunting gimp
disturbs residence in clavoham
so I think they've been a little bit
like this man had been around the area
and so the police started making arrests
trying to catch the dastardly devil
Right.
The article reads,
Villagers in Claverham, near Bristol Airport,
have been left distressed by a person in a gimp suit
who has reportedly been jumping out in front of strangers
while touching his groin.
Nauty, naughty.
Don't do that.
Somebody in black latex was allegedly seen, quote,
grunting and breathing heavily.
A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion
of indecency offenses after reported incident on Thursday, July 11th.
A police spokesman said, since November last year, we've received 14 reports of a man approaching people while wearing a disguise, one of which was a black body suit.
In some of the incidents, the offender is said to have performed indecent acts.
Inquiries to the incidents are ongoing.
So yes, this is a slightly terrifying prospect.
I'm going to send you an image that one of the people who came across the gimp was greeted with.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, see, I saw that image this week on, like, no context, Britain or something.
So I thought this might be that guy.
Yeah, it's a toe rubber body suit.
Absolutely, absolutely horrifying.
But so, yeah, this happened, and that was kind of like the world's first proper exposure to the Somerset Gimp.
But the story continues.
He kind of went quiet for a while after that.
I think he went into hiding.
But on the 10th of February, 2020.
he resurfaced.
So unfortunately, both the men
that the police arrested previously
were not the gimp in question.
Per them, that interrogation
must have been a whirlwind.
This next article, the headline is
Gimp Man, still on the loose
despite police helicopter searches
and two arrests.
This is from a not-so-good newspaper,
so the language is, it's humorous,
but wow, holy shit.
A rubber-clad pervert is still on the loose.
Almost a year after he was first sighted in a sleepy Somerset village.
Dubbed Gimp Man by faithful villagers, the latex loon, they say, has leapt out on locals several times.
Oh, the alliteration on that, beautiful.
Beautiful, in it, yeah.
On almost every occasion he has escaped before anyone could stop him or even ask why he's terrorizing the village.
Oh, God.
Excuse me, pervert.
Why are you doing this?
Why are you like this?
The worst version of spring-heeled jack, isn't it?
He doesn't, like, leap out and breathe fire.
He's spring-heeled jacks it, am I right?
Touches, yeah, exactly.
Oh, dear.
Abby Conroy, 23, says she was confronted by the man wearing fetish gear,
who she said was grunting and breathing heavily.
When she reported the incident's incident to the police,
the officer referred to the suspect as gimp man, clearly a known entity.
The policeman said, it's been an ongoing issue for the last four.
years he'd let he's okay this is the terrifying bit he'd let himself into people's gardens and had been
seen humping their grass or breathing on their windowsills strange things like that oh no is it is an
absolute wrong in i'm going to send another image of him um these can these go on the thread i'm
not sure they're not overt but it's oh my god that is like that really is encrypted isn't it
that's like from a horror movie the first one i think is okay the second one is a bit scary
actually. So for those
who don't have access
to the images in front of them, I'll describe it.
It's a man laying on some grass
surrounded by leaves in what looks like
quite a wet gimp suit with a few
leaves attached to him.
And the flash is on, he's looking
straight at the camera. It's just all blurry and...
Sort of arching his back in the dark.
I think either one of those
separate, like if you just posted that one
without the context of this is
a creepy, pervy man
in a gimp suit who's like
terrorizing people you know it just looks like a what is that strange image but yeah
it could be like an sCP article yeah but with the previous image of just the man in the
gimp suit standing by the car it makes the second one way worse somehow oh god yeah it's horrified
i'll post the first one and then people can try and find the second one if they really want to
go down that rabbit hole yeah it's he's probably halfway down a rabbit hole right now i suspect
So he's looking for.
So things went quiet again, but on the 19th of November, 2022, he made himself known once more.
But this time, the larger gimp community had something to say on the matter.
So this is a headline of another article.
Gimp Man of Essex says Somerset Gimp gives the gimp whole gimp community a bad reputation.
So now the good gimps are coming out to fight the evil ones.
It's infinity war.
I don't know what, does gimp stand?
for something if they're good imps and he's a bad imp he's a bimp a bimp yeah a bimp i'll look up the etymology
of gimp for you ben well like you peter thank you yeah yeah i should have googled that myself i got no
idea what it means um a colchester man who goes by the name of the gimp man of essex has criticized
his somerset doppelganger for giving the whole gimp community a bad reputation the social media
personality is well known in the local area where he's seen doing his weekly shop in
Tesco, clad head to toe in black latex.
See, that's the kind of gimp you want.
That's a good gimp.
Yeah.
The Gimp Man of Essex, who regularly hosts charity events with the goal of using fetish for
good, is currently posting on his TikTok a just-giving website where people may donate
to the mental health organization mind.
However, he is not the only Gimp man to have recently surfaced in the UK.
And it goes on a little bit about Somerset one.
And then Essex Gimp says, this guy has undone everything the Gimp community is trying to do.
it gives us all a bad rep what um what is the gimp community trying to do that's a
just gimp just be gimpin right yeah just be gimpin yeah just like gims be gimp's always be gimpin
gimpin um wictionary says uh that the word is attested in u s slang since the 1920s they don't
really know exactly where it's from but it might be influenced by the word limp and it is kind
something to do with people who you know have a limping gate or a sort of a disability
that know how it I guess maybe the because sometimes it's like linked with bondage
maybe it's like the idea that you might have shackles on and stuff and it would
affect the way that you walk or something okay yeah maybe just you just look at them
you think that's that's a gimp it just it just flourish from there the word just
manifest yeah it might not be anything to do with it at all but yeah it says sorry to
anyone who's listening with young ones um you've got a fun conversation hang on why are you listening to
we swear on this thing yeah and anything could happen in pod squad so exactly yeah
fear the room as soon as you start and um the latest update from the story is unmasked man
accused of being somerset gimp appears in court oh my goodness he's been caught you'd be glad to know that
he i think he's been uh well he's getting sent to the naughty cells soon
so you'll be glad to know if you happen to be near Bristol Airport you can sleep safe
and sound knowing there's not a gimp humping your grass you think when he was um taken to court
he insisted that they put handcuffs on him just just because he wanted oh no oh dear in the
article it said that he lives in a 1.1 million pound house so um whoa dude's doing well for himself
wow maybe he just needs some like assistance like some actual help
possibly yeah
it could be that something's just not right there
bless her
yeah
but yeah that's the gimp
that's the Somerset Gimp
he's been a local
local nuisance for a little while
and he's finally been locked up
and putting the slammer
wow he's scary looking
very scary looking
I want to scroll away from those images now
yeah can we just put some puppies in there
or something I don't want to look at this anymore
yeah let me let me just
I'm going to give you some good puppies
I'm going to give you the same puppy five times
How's that sound?
Yeah.
Boop, boop, boop, boop, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo.
There you go.
Oh, my goodness, hang on, I'm waiting for the dogs to come in.
There he is.
Oh, there they are.
Wow, look at that.
That didn't really work because they're all in the rule, but it's better.
It's worth enough for me.
Yeah, I don't have to look at it anymore.
Thank you, Michael.
That was enlightening and also scary.
Yeah, yes.
Very much indeed.
Would you boys like a question?
Yes, please.
This one comes from Alexa Simpson at A.A. Simpson on Twitter.
They want to know,
If you could now only ever use one form of non-standard transport, what would that be?
A hovercraft suspended from some sort of drone swarm roller skates with tiny engines in them?
Thanks, boys.
Keys, keys.
I've always been in awe of the people who constantly go around on not just electric scooters,
but those electric skateboards.
Like they look so convenient, but also so unsafe.
Yeah.
One pebble and you're gone.
Yeah.
I really fell off an electric scooter, enough to not want one.
Oh, dear.
I've always been obsessed with, I think it was very much a jackass thing,
but sitting inside of a big tire and being rolled down a hill in it.
Okay.
It's slightly inconvenient for, you know, going uphill,
but on the way down, my God, I'm going to get their enlightening speed.
Always wanted to try it, so why not make it my permanent method of commute and transportation?
Yeah.
I would like a very very tiny almost cart racer-esque hovercraft
just a little just the smallest one where like my elbows are in by my ribs
and my hands are up almost sort of under my chin holding on two little levers
and you know I've just got this big fan thing behind me to propel me and I'm sitting
like the Diddy Kong Racing hovercraft is what I want
okay a little tiny like and that's
so I make my way through the world.
Nice.
I like it.
Sounds good.
Rapid fire.
Good.
I think we all,
maybe we all knew
what we wanted deep down inside.
Yeah.
I'd like to fix a seat,
though,
and a steering wheel to an electric skateboard.
That's what I,
I think that's what I want.
A seat and a steering wheel.
Yeah.
How do you,
oh, right,
so yeah,
you just sit on it,
you know?
Just sit on it,
yeah, fair enough,
why not.
And then steer.
I think that would be,
I prefer,
I feel safer that way.
Your motorised plank.
Yeah, exactly.
Big fan, big fan
Ben
Would you like to do your thing?
I'd love to
I've taken a stroll
into weird capetia this week
I've kicked down the door
I wasn't even polite
I didn't even ask
I just went in
I turned off his freezer
and now
I'm here to talk to you
about extreme ironing
Oh yeah
Extreme ironing
Also called EI
Is an extreme sport
In which people take
ironing boards
To remote locations
and iron items of clothing
According to the Extreme Ironing Bureau,
Extreme Ironing is the latest danger sport
that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity
with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt.
Part of the attraction and interest the media has shown towards extreme ironing
seems to centre on the issue of whether it is really a sport or not.
It is widely considered to be tongue-in-cheek.
Some locations where such performances have taken place
include a mountainside or a difficult climb,
a forest, in a canoe, while skiing,
or snowboarding, on top of large bronze statues, in the middle of a street, underwater, in the
middle of the M1 motorway, in a carrion cycle race, while parachuting, and under the ice
sheet of a frozen lake, the performances have been conducted solo or by groups. Would you like to
see an example of extreme ironing? There we are.
Wow. I'm intrigued as to how they do ironing underwater without dying because surely it's an electrical appliance for one thing.
Got a photo for you. I feel like quite frankly, in this instance, they're just running an unplugged iron over at the top of an ironing board they've taken down.
It's not in there. There's no shirt.
They're not really ironing anything at all, are they?
Really?
For the people at home, the first image is
A Man Upon a Big Rock
at the tipy top he's doing a little bit of ironing.
How cute.
Yes.
That is Rivellin Needle and Rivellin Rocks
in the United Kingdom, that one.
I was going to say it looks like the UK.
Extreme ironing was invented in 1997
in Leicester, England,
by resident Phil Shaw in his back garden.
I don't think it's that extreme, is it?
You're just ironing in your garden.
Shaw came home from what he recalls
as a hard day in a Leicester knit
Ware Factory. Shaw had a number of chores to do, including ironing. Preferring the idea of an
evening out rock climbing, he decided to combine the two activities into a new extreme sport.
In June 1999, Shaw, who uses the nickname Steam, embarked on an international tour to promote
the activity. The stops included the United States, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and South
Africa. In an encounter with German tourists in New Zealand led to the formation of a group
called Extreme Ironing International
and the German Extreme Ironing section
or GEIS.
This has yet to popularise in North America,
it says, in a single sentence.
As extreme ironing has branched off,
the conditions can gain in extreme activity.
For example, a branch of ironing
has been developed that includes
both bungee jumping and well-pressed clothing.
Bungy ironing is what some would call
the ultimate in the thrill of extreme ironing.
The sport gained
international attention in 2003 after a documentary entitled Extreme Ironing, Pressing for Victory,
was produced by Britain's Channel 4 by Wag TV. The programme followed the British team's
efforts and eventual bronze and gold placings in the first Extreme Ironing World Championships in
Germany. A side story looked at the rivalry between the EIB Extreme Ironing Bureau and a
breakaway group called Urban Housework, who were trying to establish their own extreme sport based around
vacuum cleaning.
The film later aired
on the National Geographic Channel.
Does that mean it's on Disney Plus, do you think?
I hope so.
We need to try and find that.
It's a fairly long article,
but this is a real rollercoaster.
I'm really...
Do you mind if I keep going?
Go for it.
Yes, please.
In 2003, John Roberts and Ben Gibbons
from Cheltenham Gloucestershire
and Christopher Alan Jowsey
and then brackets, it says boots,
which I assume maybe his name.
From Newcastle, Newcastle,
Wittley Bay, ironed a Union Jack just above Everest base camp.
This is believed to be the world altitude record for the sport.
The reported height was 5,440 metres above sea level.
In 2003, the Rwinter Trophy was run...
What is the Rwinter? Hang on, what is that?
I don't know what the Rwenta Trophy is.
It was won by a group from South Africa
by ironing across a gorge at the Wolfburg Cracks.
The EIB travelled to the US on the Rwenta tour to recruit additional ironists, it says,
and ironed at Mount Rushmore, New York City, Boston and Devil's Tower.
These are just various feats, I think, here.
This is the experience day that you could have put on your registry, Mikey.
Yeah.
Skydiving while ironing.
Yeah, let's go.
All right.
I'm going to get married now just to have this gift.
If you did, Mikey, you could.
be like Jason Blair, who in April of 2011, was filmed ironing on the M1 motorway in London, UK,
a section of which had been closed following a fire. It's not so extreme then, is it?
Oh, okay. That sounded extreme, but yeah.
In 2012, though, he caused the fire.
Yeah, maybe, yeah.
I left it on me socks.
In 2012, though, extreme ironing pioneer steam came out of retirement to take on a new challenge
and run the Hastings Half Marathon in March,
wearing an ironing board, pressing garments on the way.
Incredible.
Right.
So we have a bit of clarification about ironing underwater here.
Okay.
On the 16th of June 2018, a free diver,
Roland Piccoli, ironed a t-shirt at a depth of 42 metres
in the world's deepest pool in Montegro-Termay, Italy.
and then it concludes with extreme ironing
has inspired other forms of unusual extreme activity
such as extreme cello playing
and there's a Wikipedia article about that as well
which we will look at another day I'm sure
the activity apparently there's a section here called
in popular culture
the activity rose high enough in the zeitgeist
to land an appearance on the long-running soap opera EastEnders
the second of August 2004 episode
featured a reference to the then current
altitude record holders
the hot plate brothers
as the party loving cat
and Zoe Slater are preparing to go out
they are invited to the launch party at Angie's den
where celebrities including the brothers
are supposed to appear
so there you go they were in EastEnders
and it's also mentioned in the Netflix show
Dino Girl Gauco
Season 1 episode 6
so you can
look that up if you
want. See also First Extreme Ironing World Championships, underwater basket weaving and
wok racing. What is that entail? I can't tell you, Mikey. We're going to have to look at
wok racing another time, I think. Oh. So there we are, the exciting world of extreme ironing,
something that I feel like there's a governing body, so we might have to submit paperwork,
but surely we could get in on that, right? We could do an extreme iron somewhere, yeah. Considering
some of these are pretty tame. I think we could do it. I think we could do it. Could we do it in the
middle of the motorway when it's not been closed for a fire? Yes, we'd be arrested, but yes,
we could. Yeah. We could for sure. And that's my thing. Absolutely devoidful. Baudacious,
radical, dude. Yeah, I think so. I think it's pretty bodacious. Well, there we are. Those are all the
questions and all the things this week. A reminder that the next episode will be slightly delayed. It'll be on a
Saturday of that of the week that it should be going out on the Tuesday and will be Saturday
thereafter. We're looking into doing a video version of the podcast for YouTube, so it's not
just a static image for an hour and a half every fortnight. And also, we now ask that you
send us strange and interesting things you've seen online in the past two weeks when we put
out the post requesting for you to be involved instead of questions. We're going to try something
slightly new. But we'll explain that in the post. When we get there, Mikey, I believe there's
some kind of shop and some sort of special item that's available, maybe.
Oh, God damn right.
If you go to Vidyat's official.com on the homepage,
you'll see a big, big old image advertising our limited edition print.
If you click that, you'll be taken to the special little store for that,
where you can pick it up.
It's delightful.
It's very pretty.
The colours are vibrant and bold.
It would make any house a home.
But if you're not in the mood for prints,
you can go back to Vidyat's official.com
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I wonder if it was the intention of
Alexa, the first one,
so that people who are listening outside,
their Alexis at home,
then just get a stream of nonsense names.
Oh, no, yeah.
Oh, I didn't even clock that.
I'm sorry, everybody.
I hope that's what it is.
I genuinely do.
Peter, what's out on Vidiots this week, five years ago?
Well, five years ago this week,
we start with worst games ever game selection
for the 3rd of May,
worst games ever Beverly Hills Cop,
Skyrim Zoo Chapter 10
The Irresponsible Zoo Owner
Sunday for Def Jam icon
Memory cards
May the 7th
It's GTIA Vice City
Grand Tourismo and Headhunter
Post some tap number 12
Pikachu We Choose You
We're coming back to Newcastle
Hifen Glitch 2018
What is it?
No, what is it?
What is it?
The Skyrim Grinch Challenge for piece of cake
We've also got
Worst cooking ever
the official worst games ever meal.
Fantastic.
Sky Room Zee, Chapter 11,
The Rabbit Apocalypse Cometh.
Sunday, Fun Day,
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
We've got memory cards for May the 14th,
which includes Crazy Taxi,
Metro Last Light,
and Final Fantasy 11.
Pottie is episode 6,
A Took.
And we're going up to the 17th,
16th.
So, lastly,
post some tat number 13,
the Music Man coming.
amazing what a load of content go watch it now on the video it's youtube channel relive the glory
year well the glory eight months really wasn't it but go relive it go on go go have some fun
mikey where are you on the internet at paraboie on twitter uh let me do that in a not high
pitch voice geez at parabooy on twitter i nearly did it again i had to restrain myself
at power boy on twitter at parable on twitter i've said it five times now go
go check it out where you can find
I don't know what's on there anymore
just go look at it
there's probably some good things
in my likes
have a scroll through
enjoy yes
and where are we on the internet
Peter Austin
and at Confused underscore dude
on Twitter
and you can also
catch both of us
at Team Triple Jump
on Twitter and Facebook
but more importantly
on YouTube and Twitch
where we're doing
videos and live streams
all the bloody time
and yeah
all sorts of gaming related
stuff. There you go. Yeah. Nice. Do it. Why not leave us a five-star review on your platform of
choice. That costs nothing and it's free. Those are two different things. Yeah, that's right. I'll
say it again. It costs nothing and it's free and it won't cost you a penny. And it will help
something to do. And no charge. And but fees do apply. And it helps something to do with Al Gore's
rhythms. Yeah? Go leave a five-star review. Go on. Go and do it. I know you've been kicking
your heels i don't leave any bloody reviews for the podcast i listen to who can be
fucked with that i'm asking you kindly to go and do it please please please really and also
tell a friend please tell a fucking friend will you tell your friends tell a friend
bringing that back um right anyone got a favorite question not a favorite question a question
before we bug it off uh what do you think about the fact that vidyitz is changing
Yeah, actually that's quite a good one.
It's all positive. I want to just make this clear.
It's all positive changes made for positive reasons.
It's not because we're worried and we think it's not going well.
It's because it's going great and we want to continue keeping it fresh and alive.
And the best way to do that is to keep it interesting.
So we're avoiding the negativity by doing good stuff.
We're not coming back.
We're committed to poddietz and we want it to last and thrive and we think these changes will help.
So let's know what you think.
Wonderful. All right, fellas, I'll catch you in the next one. You guys look after yourselves. Goodbye. Bye. Bye.