Podiots - Podiots: Episode 122 - Podiots Isn't Changing

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

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Starting point is 00:01:14 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?
Starting point is 00:01:27 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
Starting point is 00:01:41 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
Starting point is 00:01:59 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
Starting point is 00:02:14 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
Starting point is 00:02:29 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
Starting point is 00:02:53 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.
Starting point is 00:03:32 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,
Starting point is 00:03:49 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
Starting point is 00:04:05 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
Starting point is 00:04:24 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.
Starting point is 00:05:03 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
Starting point is 00:05:37 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,
Starting point is 00:06:05 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.
Starting point is 00:06:24 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.
Starting point is 00:06:58 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.
Starting point is 00:07:19 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?
Starting point is 00:07:43 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
Starting point is 00:08:13 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
Starting point is 00:08:35 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
Starting point is 00:08:51 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.
Starting point is 00:09:08 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
Starting point is 00:09:23 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,
Starting point is 00:09:37 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
Starting point is 00:09:51 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
Starting point is 00:10:08 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
Starting point is 00:10:25 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
Starting point is 00:10:38 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
Starting point is 00:10:47 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,
Starting point is 00:11:22 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,
Starting point is 00:11:45 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.
Starting point is 00:11:58 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?
Starting point is 00:12:46 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.
Starting point is 00:13:25 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,
Starting point is 00:13:50 don't go to poddiots.com and don't donate three pounds or more to get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the podcast and don't join Pod Squad. However, if you want to, if you're some sort of sicko and you want to prevent
Starting point is 00:14:03 Michael Johnson from his destiny, you should go and do all of that because we're going to shout those people out right now. The first people to keep me in my cage of despair are Alexa. RIP Longboy. Mmm, duck pancakes.
Starting point is 00:14:18 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?
Starting point is 00:14:38 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
Starting point is 00:14:55 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
Starting point is 00:15:11 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.
Starting point is 00:15:33 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
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Starting point is 00:16:03 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
Starting point is 00:16:12 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
Starting point is 00:16:47 salmon Miller and that's okay it says all one word R2D's nuts R2D poo and you know your ludo well thank you Pod Squad thank you so much three pounds or more Poddiots dot com to join Pod Squad and get a shout out the beginning
Starting point is 00:17:07 and the end of the show 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.
Starting point is 00:17:21 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.
Starting point is 00:17:34 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
Starting point is 00:17:58 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.
Starting point is 00:18:24 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,
Starting point is 00:18:37 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.
Starting point is 00:18:52 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.
Starting point is 00:19:06 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.
Starting point is 00:19:16 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.
Starting point is 00:19:41 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
Starting point is 00:20:07 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
Starting point is 00:20:28 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.
Starting point is 00:20:54 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
Starting point is 00:21:13 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
Starting point is 00:21:30 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
Starting point is 00:21:50 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
Starting point is 00:22:02 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.
Starting point is 00:22:21 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
Starting point is 00:22:46 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
Starting point is 00:23:37 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
Starting point is 00:23:51 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
Starting point is 00:24:02 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
Starting point is 00:24:42 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
Starting point is 00:25:30 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.
Starting point is 00:25:55 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.
Starting point is 00:26:10 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.
Starting point is 00:26:34 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.
Starting point is 00:27:04 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.
Starting point is 00:27:21 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.
Starting point is 00:27:45 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,
Starting point is 00:28:10 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.
Starting point is 00:28:37 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,
Starting point is 00:28:57 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.
Starting point is 00:29:13 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.
Starting point is 00:29:29 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.
Starting point is 00:30:01 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.
Starting point is 00:30:17 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
Starting point is 00:30:32 and animal reproduction from Belford University on behalf of an English bulldog named Max Sniffing Well Yes, okay
Starting point is 00:30:41 I'm sold The application included his work as a reproductive specialist noting his natural ability in therio genealogy and experimental
Starting point is 00:30:51 work with felines and his understanding of the merits of specialisation despite a desire to do them all. Wow.
Starting point is 00:31:01 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
Starting point is 00:31:37 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
Starting point is 00:32:15 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.
Starting point is 00:32:41 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
Starting point is 00:33:02 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.
Starting point is 00:33:26 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
Starting point is 00:34:05 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
Starting point is 00:34:21 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
Starting point is 00:34:37 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
Starting point is 00:34:51 dreamies come on poor Oh, that's fantastic. Thank you very much. Thank you, Peter. Welcome. Yeah, talented. Okay, flights on air Canada. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:35:05 Mayorka, that's new. Oh, nice. But Vienna is a classic Mozart, palaces and schnitzel. Now you're cooking. If you're hungry, deli brings the heat. Heat. Cartagena's got sun and the sea to cool off. So does Martinique.
Starting point is 00:35:20 Mmm. And that French cuisine? Book it. Yes. Wait, what about Lyon? Choose from our world of destinations, if you can. Air Canada. Nice travels.
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Starting point is 00:35:54 99% during the Volvo Fall Experience event. Conditions supply, visit your local Volvo retailer or go to explorevolvo.com. 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.
Starting point is 00:36:18 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
Starting point is 00:37:03 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
Starting point is 00:37:49 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
Starting point is 00:38:35 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
Starting point is 00:39:04 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?
Starting point is 00:39:20 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?
Starting point is 00:39:30 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.
Starting point is 00:39:39 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
Starting point is 00:39:50 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
Starting point is 00:40:03 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.
Starting point is 00:40:23 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.
Starting point is 00:40:43 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
Starting point is 00:40:57 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
Starting point is 00:41:08 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
Starting point is 00:41:36 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
Starting point is 00:41:58 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,
Starting point is 00:42:13 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.
Starting point is 00:42:33 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.
Starting point is 00:43:07 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.
Starting point is 00:43:35 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
Starting point is 00:43:51 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.
Starting point is 00:44:13 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?
Starting point is 00:44:36 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,
Starting point is 00:44:57 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
Starting point is 00:45:38 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...
Starting point is 00:45:53 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
Starting point is 00:46:16 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.
Starting point is 00:46:56 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
Starting point is 00:47:30 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.
Starting point is 00:47:51 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
Starting point is 00:48:41 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
Starting point is 00:49:25 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
Starting point is 00:50:02 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
Starting point is 00:50:14 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
Starting point is 00:50:27 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.
Starting point is 00:50:38 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?
Starting point is 00:50:49 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,
Starting point is 00:51:17 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,
Starting point is 00:51:37 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
Starting point is 00:52:05 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.
Starting point is 00:52:28 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,
Starting point is 00:52:35 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,
Starting point is 00:52:43 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,
Starting point is 00:52:49 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
Starting point is 00:53:00 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
Starting point is 00:53:10 about extreme ironing Oh yeah Extreme ironing Also called EI Is an extreme sport In which people take ironing boards To remote locations
Starting point is 00:53:21 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.
Starting point is 00:53:45 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.
Starting point is 00:54:29 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.
Starting point is 00:54:52 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?
Starting point is 00:55:09 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
Starting point is 00:55:42 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
Starting point is 00:56:00 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
Starting point is 00:56:29 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.
Starting point is 00:56:53 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
Starting point is 00:57:04 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...
Starting point is 00:57:30 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.
Starting point is 00:58:01 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?
Starting point is 00:58:23 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.
Starting point is 00:58:50 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
Starting point is 00:59:15 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
Starting point is 00:59:38 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
Starting point is 00:59:55 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
Starting point is 01:00:21 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
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Starting point is 01:05:27 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,
Starting point is 01:05:41 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,
Starting point is 01:05:55 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
Starting point is 01:06:30 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
Starting point is 01:06:40 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
Starting point is 01:06:51 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
Starting point is 01:07:17 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.
Starting point is 01:07:57 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.
Starting point is 01:08:24 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.

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