Podiots - Podiots: Episode 123 - Mass Gullibility

Episode Date: June 3, 2023

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right now. Isn't that nice? If you're listening on another in another format, then you're going to find it really annoying that we're making constant references to how you can see our faces. No, that's the point actually. That's the point we should make. We're not going to make. We're not turning it into a video podcast. It's not a video podcast. No. So this is the only time we'll reference our own faces. Yeah. We're not going to be bringing a thing along and holding it up to the mic and stuff like that. And maybe once in a blue moon will be like, oh, like this thing, but you know, you don't need to be watching the video component. Hello. No. Hi, welcome. This is the cold open where we do cold things,

although they've been rather not cold. Spicy. I've got a cold thing actually to like really kick off a cold open. Yeah. I've got a VIMTO in my hand. And as a kid, I remember one afternoon where I realized if you put water in your juice, it gives you more juice. And there was a good five minutes where I was like, oh my God, I've cracked it. Like, this is going to solve so many problems in the world. This is like infinite juice for everyone. I was on the verge of like telling my parents about my great discovery.

And then I got to the third dilution of the juice. And I was like, oh, right. This is why this doesn't work because it doesn't taste the same. Oh, no. Did you ever think about maybe applying that logic to water to save, you know, to solve the water scarcity issue? Yeah, if you just pour water into the well, then the well refills. Then there's water in the well.

And also you can dilute that well water, Peter, with more water so that the existing water goes, is bigger. Whoa. All right. World Health Organization, get on to us. We've cracked it. This is no longer going to be water shortages. All you need is more water. This is basically homeopathy, isn't it?

Isn't the idea, there's something, people treat themselves. It's like a pseudoscience. They do like homeopathic treatment and it's basically a tiny, tiny, tiny concentration of like a bad thing, like a disease, or maybe it's a good thing, but then they dilute it to like a trillion parts water and then they just drink that all the time and apparently it like cures them of like cancer and stuff

and it is not true at all. I don't know. It's something about water has memory and that, I don't know, that's it. Water has memory is basically the, Sounds like a bunch of bollocks to me. Sure does. Quite frankly.

Anyway, all of this is to say that we are now, if you're watching a video version on YouTube, you're no longer going to be staring as a static image. We are actually here in webcam form. Are you implying that when people watch it on YouTube, they sit and watch this to image the entire time? I think that at least at least 1,000 people sit down in front of their TV and go, here we go, a new episode of poddiots, and then they stare at a static image. image for two hours. That's what I think people do.

But no, now there is actually a video component. So we're no longer just, because there was, it was in a podcast like maybe a few months ago when we were making a joke about how we were losing YouTube subscribers every single week. I put it straight and then I realized, oh God, actually that's pretty bad, that we're uploading a static image to YouTube every, twice a month. And that's it. That's the only thing that's going on the channel.

so no wonder people are unsubscribing. But now there's actually something there's moving. The pictures move now. Oh my God. We're real. We're back to life. It's just like the good old is, eh? Just sort of maybe a little bit like that.

Yeah, perhaps. Speaking of exciting things, do you remember the blobby print we did? Yes, very exciting. Well, oh boy, we're going to be putting it on some t-shirts soon. Due to popular demand That wasn't necessarily the plan from the start It was just going to be a special piece of spooky art But multiple people said

I would buy this on a shirt So yeah, it's going to happen soon Not available yet Hopefully in time for the next episode Want to get some samples in, make sure it's all good But yeah, keep your peepers peeled We don't have any plans to release any more prints Obviously because those were

God I'm making an absolute racket I just took out my blobby print to show people you know those you're showing something on your webcam then you said no naughty no no that's a little secret for the YouTube audience but also yeah that was they were intentionally designed to only be a few

so we don't want anyone who bought a print to feel like they're being hard done by or anything because obviously you own a one of a kind actual physical art item whereas this is now you know just a piece of clothing which is you know still very exciting but it's different it's different Do you want to downtalk the new product, Ben? It's exciting, it's exciting, but also it's not as exciting as an amazing art print.

But you can't wear an art print. So, you know, different strokes for different blobs. Precisely. Precisely. It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything, but that's okay. Shall we, do you want to, shall we? Yeah, all right, yeah.

I think we shall. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Podiots, the official. Official, Vidiates, podcast. It's a conversation of podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three urs, where everybody brings a thing, a long talk about. I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm Michael.

Hello, guys. Hello, boys. How are we all doing? Welcome to Podiat's. Doing very well. I'm worried now. Because I, in the edit, when I edit the audio form of the podcast, I sometimes tweak the erthing along to make sure we're more in a sync.

But it's not going to be possible now. So I'll see how well we managed to do that going forward. Oh, boy. Yes. Welcome to the transition phase where we figure stuff out live in front of a studio audience. It's a very exciting time. It's also been an exciting time because I got to see you, Mikey. Yeah.

Yeah. You made your little way down to Bristol. We had nice pasta and ice cream. Well, you didn't partake in the ice cream. But you got to watch me eat the ice cream. I did. It was vegan ice cream and it looked good. It looked like food. It's hard to get vegan ice cream. I really like vegan ice cream. It doesn't taste any different, I don't think. But it's not easy to get. Yeah, this one's banging. If anyone's putting out the recommendation now, if anyone's ever in Bristol, usually on a sunny day on the harbour side, you'll see a, A vegan ice cream van. Check it out. It's bloody expensive. But it's well tasty. Peter, all good with you? All good with me, I think. Yeah, sorry, I'm aware. Can't think of any bad, I can't think of the multitude of bad things happening to me right now. So it must be good. Things are, before we move on and ask Ben how good things are with him, which is very important. But while we're on the subject of Mikey, things are good with you as well, aren't they, Mikey?

Move on the past as new. I forgot about that. Yeah. We've had so many people ask if you're joining Triple Jump. No. Have we? I've not seen anyone ask that, but I'm not surprised. Oh, really? I've had a couple. Right.

I've been lit up with it, too. Yeah, so yeah, this week of recording, I left my current job. Wowie. I'm moving on to Pastures New. I'm no longer going to be in the Yog's office and amongst the Yogs and all that lot. But I'm moving on to something new and exciting, which I think you'll all be very pleased about. But I can't say it just yet. Let's wait until I actually start the job

just in case anything goes catastrophically wrong in the interim, but we're all set and we're ready to go. So, yeah, keep an eye out on the socials for what I'm up to now. Amy said to me that she saw someone had replied to like your Instagram post or something and they said, oh man, sorry to hear that,

tough times. Hopefully something will come along for you soon. Yes, that you can sack by fourth floor. No, thank. Not again, Michael. I can't take another heartbreak. Yeah, so yeah, don't worry. I would never dare leave a job without something lined up.

Also, yeah, I'm too good to be fired, damn it. Yeah, damn right. Hero of fourth floor. Well, we wish you all the best, Mikey. We do. Obviously, neither Peter or I know, because we're not allowed to know. But we're very excited for you. Yes.

Thank you very much. And Pollyts will go on unaffected, new and improved, in fact. Yeah. No worries there. If anything, Mikey's job at fourth floor was holding him back, it wasn't. Yeah, fuck home. Anyway, how are you doing, Ben?

Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. I had a lovely holiday. I went on holiday for my birthday. Yes. And I went to French France and I wasn't hungry the entire week. It's one of those real first world moments where you eat way too much dinner and then you get up and you eat way too much breakfast and then you snack every time you walk through

the kitchen and then it's lunchtime and you don't want to. Basically, it was. Christmas for an entire week and I feel like shit. I came back and I feel absolutely dreadful. So I'm trying to course correct now. But my body after a week of gorging itself is not happy about there not being a lot of food in it. So, hey, we roll. I had a great time. And then I got to nip across to Bristol and see Michael Johnson. And that was lovely too. So yeah, all good. excited for this new, um, the new era of poddiots. Some of the assets might be slightly different now, but we're working on some new ones that may fully roll out next episode. So slightly different

thumbnail, slightly different YouTube album art. It's in the works. It may not be in effect now, but just be aware that the next episode may, it will look, it'll still be yellow. It'll still be yellow. Don't worry. But, but you may have to look at it twice to make sure that it's actually potiards. So, I tried to tell you. turn my lights on behind me into yellow, which they do come in yellow, but it just, it just looks white when I do that, even though in the room, they look lovely and yellow. The camera doesn't like it, unfortunately. That auto-white balance, man, it's rubbish. I don't know why it does that. But there we are. I suppose maybe we should point people in the directions of pot, directions

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murder spree. Thank you very much. Cricky. I've got some here. Lots of generous people, so bear with me while I talk about all their lovely messages. We've got Anonymous, Prince Beefcakes, Hetty Bow Betty, who was very generous and said, Hello, boys. It's taken way too long to be able to give to Podiat's again. Seriously, it was fucking ages ago. I listened to Podiat's a lot, and it's seen me through some hard times. Ever since the first episode, I've been hooked. Keep it up. Thank you, Hetty, Bobetty. Thank you.

We've also got Pottietz says Guck-Fimps. Caroline gave me knob spiders. The very generous choke me, Mr. Blobby, who said, I found Pottiex completely by chance only three months ago and have just caught up on the entire backlog of episodes. Crikey. Crikey. Pollyts is possibly my favourite podcast ever,

and I simply had to thank you, boys, for getting me through some seriously boring days at work. Wow. Amazing. Thank you. Thank you very much. I hope Mr. Blobby chokes you. Yeah.

That's your reward. If that's what you want, I hope that happens. David got stuck in Stokey Tea, who was very generous, and said all was calm on the country lanes of Stoke-on-Trent until a fiend fleeing the exotic town drove me off the road onto a grass verge. Luckily, potters arrived and freed my car with tales of local wonders slash shoving. They even refused my offer of sorry. loaf as thanks I can never say no to a soreen good story

wow well glad you're okay well done we are yeah and thank you David thank you thank you very much David we've also got another generous person wick wickickon is that wickickon

I suppose it is yeah it's either wicksickick oh yeah it's either wickickson or wick sexicicin wick sexicin who is very generous and said happy birthday to me well one day

if the news about Polly it's dying are to be believed and this episode releases on Saturday. Big love to you guys, been following since The Simpsons skateboarding. Saludos des de Mexico de una companero videota. I'm sure I said that perfectly. Hoorpe and beautifully, yes. Thank you very much.

Thank you. And happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Thank you very much. Peter's penile pest problems. The very generous, Mikey's the man, who says, Thanks, Mikey, for the quick response and help with my shop order.

You guys are the best, never change, unless it's for the better. What we just have. Thank you. And last few from me. Reunion stream when, please. Podiat's presents PhD. Fuck you, Lorenz. And Bono has glaucoma, silly.

Oh, does he actually? Does he really have that? Is that why you wear shades all the time and we were mocking him? No. Does sound like something weird do, isn't it? Cancel be idiots, everyone. Oh, he does actually have glaucoma. Sorry, Bono.

Sorry, Bono. If we've known, it's fine to wear shades if you've got, if that's what you want to do, if you got glaucoma. Well, I for one love his silly little sunglasses now. But if you're wearing them, if someone just wears them because they think they look cool and that's it. Yeah. That's not good enough. We don't like that. No, we hope you have glaucoma if you're wearing shades.

That's it. That is what we're saying. Sorry, Bono, if you're listening. Yeah, sorry, Bono. Also, in terms of reunion stream, I don't, I don't know. There's not one in the calendar. Not specifically now. No, I'm about to move house, so maybe at some point over the summer, but not soon.

There will be one, but we just don't have a date. No, we do not have a date. When you donate next time and suggest a date. And we'll maybe pick that. The remaining few of Pod Squad are Big Titty Jesus 42. cocktails, woo-hoo, Mr. Macca, do you have blob spiders? Anonymous, fuck Mikey's dream, Bartek, two girls, one Kubitsa, where your sunblock. The very generous Anonymous who said, Hello, boys, had a scare with the big sea lately after having a mole removed and just wanted

to say you three have no clue the true joy you bring to us fans. Perspective changes things, and I couldn't be more thankful for the many hours of joy throughout poddiots. All the best. Very kind of you to say, and we're glad. you're all right, I hope. I think that's the... Yeah, presumably, you mean that it wasn't in the end. But yeah.

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I admit I only bought it for the name and didn't know anything about the story, kiss kiss, and buy. Oh, I'm aware of its existence, but I haven't watched the stream yet, so I'm not sure of the horrors that lie inside, but I must check that out at some point. You will.

I have to go watch the bod. Thank you, Jens, very much. Thank you, and lastly. And finally, Alexa, actually it says Alexia. Alexa, add dildos to shopping. You can't say that out loud. We're going to get in trouble. Alexia.

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three pounds or more to get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the show. Now, we've also changed up the questions because we're not doing questions anymore. We're asking listeners to submit things. So alongside our three things, the listeners submit three things as well. We're all going to take it in turns to read them.

I've picked them out this week. I know what they are, but Mikey and Peter don't know what each others are. So we're going to start. I think, with Michael Johnson. Well, we're going to start, I think, with the big question. What was your favourite pod squad? Oh, bollocks!

You always forget! I was on a roll there, I thought I segued in nicely. It was very smooth, and I was just choking over here. Shit. Because I was spoilt for choice this week, I must say. I liked Caroline gave me knob spiders. I liked cocktails, woo, woo. Do you have blob spiders?

What was the Bartek one? Bartek two girls won cupids they're all good yeah i'm my vote's going to cocktails woo-hoo that's that's very good um I'm going for garlic puddington bear that's good as well loads I like that one you were saying Ben Michael would you like to do your listener submitted thing first please I would be absolutely delighted now let me pull up who sent this in we've got this was sent in Liam J. Rich at Liam J. Rich on Twitter. So, boys, what's your favorite thing about summer?

Ice lollies? Driving in my convertible with the top down. Are you sure it's not endless, endless balls of chips on the seaside? I mean, I do like that any time of year. Yeah. So, Ergo, what would be your least favorite thing about summer? Could it possibly be having those chips stolen by dastardly seagulls.

Yeah, probably. Well, boy, do I have the story for you. This is an article from the Metro and the headline reads, Chippy. Oh, you already said. You already said.

I said, I got it. It was Liam J. Rich. Liam J. Rich. Liam J. Rich. Liam J. Rich. Thank you, Liam. Headline reads, Chippy hires teenager

to wear eagle costume and scare off seagulls. Wow. Excellent. Absolutely. bloody, great. I'm going to send over some pictures now so you can all get a look at this boy, but I will describe it also. Once I find the bloody idiot servant, there we go. These two pictures kind of speak for themselves. Oh my God. There he is. That's not going to convince any

Seagull, but sure. Okay. I mean, I think it doesn't have to look authentic. It just has to be terrifying and it ticks that box. It's one of those outfits for listeners. It's one of those outfits like the T-Rex ones that are sort of slightly inflated. Yeah, like thin, plastic-y, inflated airbag costume. Yeah, it looks wonderful. So yeah, a chip shop worker has started putting on a giant eagle outfit to scare off seagulls. Corey, age 18 pockets, and wait for it, 200 pound a day, prowling the harbour for Mr. Chips in Whitby.

Good lad, Mr. Chips has got deep pockets. I mean, in terms of... A grand a week. Surely he's not in there every day, right? Well, why not? Might be there one day, take 200 quid, and then the seagulls just come four days a week. Oh, man, right.

Are we petitioning to get Corey a full-time nine to five job as a seagull... Well, petitioning to get me this job. I want to be the seagull boy. Yeah. Oh, be absolutely delightful. I mean, I'm glad, I'm glad. You know, imagine being... in this kid, you get offered a job to prance about Scaref's eagles.

He probably gets free chips as well as part of the deal. So he's done very well for himself. But yeah, this is a chip shop in Whitby. But it's not always plain sailing for Corey as the crafty goals take revenge by pooing on his car every day. I'm not sure that's a targeted attack. I think they just poo on everything. Well, yeah, that's what Dave said.

He said it was targeted, that it took revenge and did a sick on his car. Do they do this? Psycho seagull. Do they have that kind of agency? I don't know. Maybe. I mean, there's just two news stories now.

People being victimized by gulls. But I hope he uses the anger of being pooed, not being pooed up. Well, maybe he's been pooed on. But having his car pooed on fuels his tyrannical reign of the seaside and scaring off gulls. Yeah. So, yeah, he says, yeah, the punters are happy. They're all able to come eat their chips. He says, I feel like a bit of a celebrity.

I just charge at the seagulls when I see them. Amazing. I've got to go to Whitby as soon as possible. This sounds so good. Do you reckon we could, do we have any listeners in Whitby that could verify this or go down and get a photo with him? I was supposed to be going with some friends. I don't know if it's happening now,

but like in the next like month or so, we were going to do a trip to the Yorkshire coast. If anyone lives near Whitby or in Whitby, please go to Mr. Chips and get him, get a video of the dude saying Poddiet's tell your friends. Yeah, please. Yeah. He's the next celebrity we want.

He is a celebrity. The thing is, though, if he wants paying to do it, he's going to charge you a lot because he's on a base rate of £200 a day for standing there and running around a bit. He earns more than us. Yeah, what the hell? Continues, I've had goals hit me on the side of the face

with their wing before. Then you'll get down, take your food. They'll do it so quickly that you just don't expect it at all. It's quite frightening, especially for the older generation, if they're walking along and having some chips. And I can speak from experience here. Seagulls do definitely coordinate and attack

and I get your food from the time I got my sandwich swiped off me. It was horrifying. I wish Eagle Man was around for then. Yeah. Corey, okay, right, this might put you off of the salary. Corey, who starts work at 6 a.m. Right.

Who's buying chips at 6 a.m.? He can't let those seagulls get any rate. They need to know he's coming. I guess he's, yeah, he's chasing off the lingering seagulls and clearing the esplanade for the future people. He said, grateful holiday makers are more than happy

to reward him for his unique service. Oh my God, it's not just the salary. He gets tips as well. He gets tips. Is he getting tips or is he getting chips? Tips and chips. Tips for chips. I once made a 72 pound in tips in one day.

Unbelievable. What do you recommend? The likelihood is that this boy is paying any taxes whatsoever. Oh, none, none at all. It's all cash in hand. HMRC does not need to know about his chip money. He's bloody said it on a fucking article, hasn't he? Idiot.

Rookie mistake. A fool. Yeah, continues on to say, yeah, the Siegel problem is actually getting quite bad and worse and worse, and so this is a necessary but drastic measure to rein in those blighters. the reporter said Would you fancy working in the shop through the winter and in the summer

being a full-time seagal scler Corey has quite a bit of banter Oh no it doesn't There's not an answer there No it's just rhetorical Thanks all right He had to run off at that point There was a flock massing

And we end with Corey has quite a bit of banter with customers When they come and speak to him He will make bird noises back He says I don't speak English I speak eagleish Brilliant

Laddie how They found the perfect boy For the job didn't they Absolutely banging Thank you very much for that submission That was great Yes thank you Thank you very much

Now how do you guys want to do this Because we could roll right into Mikey's thing But I feel like maybe we should roll into perhaps someone else's thing And stagger it You know? Yeah we could do that Yeah let's do it

So Who's feeling frisky Would you like to do your thing? I'm happy to go, yeah. Oh, I've just opened a Wikipedia page and it's all white in my face. Right, we're going to learn today about something spooky from Wikipedia. It's a weird Wikipedia entry. This is all about the well to hell.

Oh. Okay. The well to hell is a borehole in Russia, which was drilled so deep that it purportedly broke through into hell. It is first detested in English as a 1989 broadcast by US domestic religion-based TV broadcaster, the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Legend and Basis The legend holds that a team of Soviet engineers purportedly led by an individual named Mr. Azakov in an unnamed place in Siberia had drilled a hole that was 14.4 kilometers deep, that's nine miles, breaking through into a cavity. intrigued by this unexpected discovery they lowered an extremely heat-tolerant microphone

along with other sensory equipment into the well the temperature deep within was 1,000 degrees Celsius that's 1800 degrees Fahrenheit heat from a chamber of fire from which the tormented screams of the damned could be heard oh my god the Soviet Union had in fact had in fact drilled a hole more than 12 kilometers deep

the Kola Superdeep borehole located not in Siberia, but on the Kola Peninsula, which shares a border with Norway and Finland. I thought for a second there it meant like Coca-Cola. It was like sponsored by Coca-Cola. Yeah, the Kola Super Deep borehole

breaks through into hell. They're like, oh, we should not have sponsored this. Upon reaching the depth of 12,000 meters, that's 40,000 feet in 1989, some interesting geological anomalies were found. Now, I'm going to share with you an audio recording that is allegedly from the microphone that was lowered into this cavity. Citation needed.

Citation needed. You can click on this. Let's pause it. It's a timestamp to YouTube URL because the beginning was just some deep noises. But if you pause it, when you open it and we'll play it together. Ah, sorry, it didn't pause. It didn't pause. I got scared.

Oh, pause it. Refresh, Mikey, and pause. Right, I'm back. I'm back. So is this a microphone that was lowered down into the? the hole. Yeah, a heat, what is it, an extremely heat tolerant microphone was lowered into the hole and this is allegedly what was recorded. Okay. Three, two, one, play. No. For God's sake. The picture! That's clearly just a sound effect.

My fucking bollets. Can we stop it now? Yeah, we stop it. Thank you. We can stop it now. All the screaming. Hi, this is Jen Hatmaker, and I can't wait for you to listen to the audiobook edition of my memoir, Awake, read by yours truly. It's a brutally honest and revealing look at the end of my 26-year-long marriage and the beginning of a different kind of love story.

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memories around either watching these commercials on TV or sitting with our moms while they were doing their makeup and it became really personal for us. Maybe it's Maple Lane Right, so I've Just for the fun of it I slightly read around Some of the words in this article The opening sentence actually begins

The Well to Hell is an urban legend Regarding a putative ballhole in Russia But you know It's an interesting thing It's the kind of thing that you stumble across Well certainly I stumbled across On the internet when I was about 12 And you know

When you're young and impressionable You're like oh my God, what's this about? I didn't necessarily think it was a recording of hell, but I trusted that perhaps the recording was made, and maybe it's some kind of geological thing that sounds like screaming. But the article continues, the genuine like Kola Peninsula borehole that was dug in 1989, some interesting geological anomalies were found, although they reported no supernatural encounters. The recording of tormented screams was later found to be looped together from various sound effects, sometimes identified as the soundtrack of

the 1972 movie Barron Blood. Oh, okay. Whether it is actually from that movie, I don't think it's completely confirmed, but yeah, it seems to be just a bunch of sound effects and things. The story was reported to have first been published by the Finnish newspaper Amonus, oh goodness me, that's a long word. Ammanusatia or Sastia, a journal published by a group of Pentecostal Christians from Lavasyoki, a village in the municipality of C. Kynan in West Finland.

Well done, well done. Rich Booler, who interviewed the editors of that journal, found that the story had been based on recollections of a letter printed in the feature section of a newspaper like sometime earlier. When contacting the letters author, he found that that person had drawn the story from a Finnish Christian newsletter which had printed the story in July 1989. The newsletter, that newsletter, their editor claimed that its origin

had been a newsletter called Jules of Jericho published by a group of messianic Jews in California. And at this point, Bueller stopped trying to trace the origins any further because clearly this was just something that he said she said has been passed on as a story. Cod's Wallop. Quads wallop. We are whacking those cods, walloping them. American tabloids soon ran the story and the sound files began appearing on various sites across the internet. Sensationalistic retellings

of the legend can be found on YouTube, usually featuring the aforementioned Barron Blood sound effects. Now, there's an interesting little extra detail to this. The story eventually made its way to the American Christian Trinity Broadcasting Network, TBN, which broadcasts. the story on its network, claiming it to be proof of the literal existence of hell. Ardge Rundalan, a Norwegian teacher, heard the story on TBN while visiting the United States. Disgusted with what he perceived to be masculinity, he decided to augment the tale at TBN's expense. He wrote to the network. Sorry, masculinity, that's what the eagle boy has.

He does. I know I screwed that. That wasn't, no. I like it. I think we've got an episode title right there. Mass gullibility. Rendallin then wrote to the network, originally claiming that he disbelieved the tale,

but upon his return to Norway, let me say this with the right inflection. He wrote to the network, originally claiming that he had disbelieved the tale when he heard about it, but then upon his return to Norway, he supposedly read a factual account of the story. So this is him having fun with the news.

network where he's read this story. According to Rundarland, the story claimed not only that the cursed well was real, but that a bat-like apparition had risen out of it before blazing a trail across the Russian sky. To perpetuate this hoax, Rendarland deliberately mistranslated a trivial Norwegian article about a local building inspector into the story and submitted both the original Norwegian article and the English translation, in air quotes, to TBN.

Randallin also included his real name, phone number and address, as well as those of a pastor friend who knew about the hoax and had agreed to expose it to anyone who called Seeking Verification. So basically, he got this network to print a Norwegian article about a building inspector saying, look, here's the original article that proves a bat flew out of the hole. Sorry, was his pastor friend called Carl Benara or something? Oh, my God. Sorry, Michael, what's happening?

are you all right he's had too much vimto everyone he has diluted but still oh it's strong stuff my friend and yeah enclose the contact details of himself and the pastor so that anyone seeking more information thinking it was real would then ring them up and be told no it's BS we've had you there um TBN did nothing to verify Rendarland's claims and aired the story as proof of the validity of the original um so there we go uh the The story continues to be published, you know, around the internet and so on. And in 1992, US tabloid Weekly World News published an alternate version of the story, which was set in Alaska, where 13 miners were killed after Satan came roaring out of hell.

No, not Stan. Yeah, Stan. Hit me back, your biggest fan. This is me, Satan. Nice. Very good. Satan is an ingredient, isn't it, Mikey, in various vegan dishes? Yes, it's a wheat gluten.

in a meat alternative, if you will. Say 10. Yeah, I thought so. Say tan. So there you go. That's the story of the definitely real well to hell with a definitely real recording

of tormented screams, not from the movie, 1972's Barren Blood. Not from that. Not from that. No. I'd never heard of that before. That was an interesting one.

Good. I like that. He leaned into the story and perpetuated it and spread. I guess back then, people couldn't plug translations into Google Translate.

Yeah, this is translated. Trust me. I enjoyed the, Within about three seconds of us listening to the audio, Ben just went, no. Yeah, it's because in the industry that we work in, right? Yeah. When we're sourcing sound effects for hell, which sometimes, which has happened at least double digits time for me over the course of my career, that's the sound.

That's what you find on YouTube when you search hell sound effect. It's not real. Yeah. Heartbeat. Absolute bollocks. Well, thank you for that thing, Peter. You're welcome. I'm now going to take my turn to read out another listener thing. Good. So here it comes. It's from Alexa Simpson on Twitter at A.A. Simpson. And this is one that has been doing the rounds recently that you guys will probably be aware of. But here we go. This is from the Independent. Gladys the killer whale and her gang of orcas out for revenge in Gibraltar.

I only heard about this yesterday, actually, but yes, I have heard. Okay, here we are. A British sailor's boat was the latest victim in a spate of orca attacks on vessels near Gibraltar. As an expert suggested, a traumatised killer whale may be inadvertently teaching others to target them. Nice. There have been too. Yeah, it is nice. It's pretty great.

Yeah, the wheels get some. Let's do it. Yeah, I heard the story because Amy sent it to me. And then just underneath the links, you just put Slay Queen. Great. Yeah, you get those. yachts. Yeah. There have been 20 incidents this month alone between the highly social apex predators, this being may, I assume, and small vessels sailing in the strait of Gibraltar, according to the

Atlantic Orca Working Group, Gatoa, with dozens of orca attacks on ships recorded on Spanish and Portuguese coasts this year. In the early hours of Thursday, a group of orcas broke the rudder and pierced the hull of a boat after ramming into the mystique on its way to Gibraltar, prompting its crew of to contact Spanish authorities for help, as spokesperson for the Maritime Rescue Service said. Wow. There's a photo here of a very ominous looking orca who's sort of approaching.

Let me send it to you guys. You can go on the link dump there. You just see a film. Oh, I mean, just wait. There will be a horror movie about this now, definitely. Oh, yeah, because big boat is going to say that orcas are the baddies, obviously. Yeah, yeah. So there'll be money for that.

The service deployed a rapid response vessel and a helicopter carrying a bilge pump to assist the 20 metre vessel which was sailing under a British flag, a spokesperson for the Maritime Rescue Service said, again, the mystique was towed to the port of Barbate in the province of Cadiz for repairs. Posting footage of the ordeal on Instagram, British sailor April boys, aged 31, said what started off as a seemingly unique encounter ended with orkers breaking off our rudder from the boat, then proceeding to tear bits off the boat for an hour. Hang on. What was her title? British sailor, April Boys. How's this how he's spelling boys? It's not spelled, it's not, it's not spelt, it's not bowie, it's not, B-O-Y-E-S. All right, okay.

Unfortunately, it's too close, though. A huge hole in the hole meant we had water ingress to other parts of the boat and the engine room, and I can honestly say it was a scary experience. We were all safe. I'm feeling grateful for the Coast Guard. Earlier in May, the sailing yacht Alboran Champagne, oh, oh dear, suffered a similar impact from three orca's half a nautical mile off barbate. The boat could not be towed as it was completely flooded

and was left adrift to sink. It goes on like that. There are various photos of orca damage to all sorts of boats. There's comments underneath, which is fun. Oh, right. I mean, part of the reason why this is a bit of a, in my opinion, the Slay Queen is because what I heard was that the orca that's been apparently teaching the others to do this may have been struck by a boat at some point and it's learned to like either fear or be angry at boats and that's why it's doing it. It's not just an orca that's decided one day to start attacking boats. It's like, you know, I got hit by a flipping yacht, you piece of shit.

and I hate you, get out of the sea. Death to all the gods. Yeah, in that sense, I don't mind so much that it's angry. Yeah, it says here, experts believe White Gladys is apparently her full name, may have suffered a critical moment of agony, such as colliding with a boat or becoming entrapped during illegal fishing, which altered her behaviour in a defensive fashion. That traumatised orca is the one that started this behaviour of physical contact with boats,

Dr. Lopez Fernandez told live science. We do not interpret that the orcas are teaching the young, although the behaviour has spread to the young vertically simply by imitation, and later horizontally among them, because they consider it something important in their lives. I assume that's been translated, but that's an interesting way of talking about it. Sorry, I jumped in there with that, with that little detail. That's all right.

I wasn't going to read the end, and now I have, so you prompted me to do that. But this is great news. I first learned about this from memes, because someone posted a screenshot of an article on, Imja and then there was a that meme that's you know that goes the I wish I wish orcas a a very pleasant have I introduced you to Jeff Bezos's yacht which would be great yeah that would be nice yeah like I think that's that's on the up and up I think one day the orkers are going to join forces and just fuck shit I'm I'm here for the

animal uprising it's about time let that let the monkeys roam the streets and beat the humans to death I'm on the good ones We don't want that one That's like That's what Moby Dick was based on isn't it Like and allegedly Well yeah

A supposedly real event They made a movie about the more real side of it Not an adaptation of Moby Dick What was it called In the Heart of the Ocean Or in the heart of the sea or something Where a whale Was like attacking

It was like a sperm whale Oral or like a really big one Not like an orca And it was attacking whaling boats In the whatever it was The 1700s or something and like sinking boats and stuff and these whalers got washed up on a desert island

and had to like cannibalize each other because this whale came and destroyed their boat because it had been killing whales. So, sorry. You report, you saw. Yeah, absolutely. So there we are. That's another listener submitted thing. And now Michael Johnson, I believe it's time for your thing.

I don't know why I'm making noise. I've got the document right in front of me. Hello. Oh, yes. So recently in the news, there was a story of a senior prank gone too far. For those not in the loop, senior pranks are just kind of silly little things you do at the end of year. Just it's a mixture of light debauchery and heavy debauchery. And today's tale is a tale of the heaviest of debauchery. Well, it gets heavier.

We begin. North Carolina high school students pour cement in toilets in costly scenery. That's not a prank. That's not a prank. Exactly. That's just... Vandalism. Vandalism and destruction of property, my friends.

Where's the joke? I've got to go poop and you put cement in it. You're buggers. A group of North Carolina students landed themselves in hot water after they poured cement into toilets at their high school as part of a senior prank. Sometime on Thursday night, the students broke into the school and poured the mix into a number of toilets and urinals according to the districts. So yeah. You could, yeah, yeah, we once had, um, this is reminding me now, we once had a day in school where a child just decided to urinate into a water fountain.

Oh, God. Okay. Yeah, that was gross. You had to shut down everything that day. But, yeah, imagine now the whole school has to resort to paying in water fountains because of some, some little buggers. Oh, dear. Photos of the evidence obtained by the district shows toilets now unattached from plumbing filled with a thick, grey layer of cement in the bowl.

One toilet bowl also had tennis balls in it, just to really mess things up. The cement wasn't enough, lads. Come on. Just being assholes. So in total, the damages cost more than $4,000. And then the writer of the article this point starts getting quite punny with it.

While the case may be tough to crack, the district warned that those responsible will be potentially charged and suspended. If those court are seniors, they can flush their hopes of participating in their graduation ceremonies down the drain. So that's one example of a senior prank. I thought, well, surely there's got to be worse ones than that. I mean, that's pretty bad, but come on, kids can be rotters when they want to be.

So what else is out there? Oh boy, did I find a few fun ones? Okay. In McClure High School, seniors took a prank too far when they unleashed an unleashed an unpredictable hell on their schoolmates. Mast seniors proceed to bombard students with firecrackers, cherry bombs, smoke bombs and water guns filled with bleach and urine. Oh my God.

What the hell? Bleeds. That's just domestic terrorism, my friends. Yeah, that's, yeah, I would be, yeah, that is actually terrible. But, oh boy, it doesn't get worse. It gets weirder and more wonderful. Splendora High School seniors broke into their school for their annual prank the kids threw streamers and balloons throughout the hallways

but after they tripped a fire alarm they scattered however a handful of teens remained and decided to take the prank to the next level it's like streamers and balloons a nuisance but fine in good fun I guess I mean not for the janitors you have to clean it up but I guess yeah it doesn't matter but these kids that stuck around poured vegetable oil down all the staircases, urinated onto the walls. I sent a theme here, broke into the principal's office and pulled out the fire extinguishes to set off more alarms. Good.

But saving grace here is that the act was all caught on camera. And so, yeah, pretty quickly the kids were rumbled and, yeah, they got properly done for that one as they should be. Yeah. Hunter Osborne, an Arizona high school student, was charged with 70 counts of indecent exposure and one count of distributing harmful items to minors. What could possibly rack up so many charges? Well, for his senior prank,

he decided he would expose himself in the high school football team's yearbook photo. Okay. Right. What a fool. So yeah, you got his bully out. And then that picture, I guess, slipped past the people looking over the book and made its way to 3,400 students.

How an earth could they... It's just silly. Oh, boy. And now one of my favourites, the final one. Students at the Brooklyn School for Global Studies. That sounds made up. The Brooklyn School for Global Studies. Well, maybe this one's slightly more dubious, but I like it, so it gets read anyway.

they decided to whip up a succulent chocolate and laxative cake for their teachers, yeah, in the hopes that they would poop a veritable fountain of comedy, it says. Yeah, it's funnier. Yeah, wonderful language, God. Instead, they learned that when you drug someone with a random dose of laxatives without their knowledge, you don't produce comedy so much as a medical emergency. Sadly, yes, two teachers ended up in the hospital, And three more got sick because, yeah, you shouldn't really be taking laxatives recreationally,

let alone just dumped into a chocolate cake. It's a terrible idea. As for the students, not only did they get suspended and barred from graduation, they also got arrested and charged with assault. Result. Well done. And that. Glad to hear at least some people getting done for these.

That's like, you know, karma. I like it. Yeah. I mean, yeah, all of these should be jailed forever. But, I mean, oh, no. know, you don't get to go to your graduation while you sprayed bleaching urine on people. Come on. God, unbelievable.

Did you guys ever have anything like that in your schools? Apparently, it is done in the UK, and it's called muckup day. Muck up day. Muck up day. No. No. The closest thing I can think of is that my primary school, actually, each year, the year six is, that's the final year for those who don't know in UK primary schools, would do.

a play. It wasn't a pantomite. It was like we did Sweeney Todd and like a different year did all of a twist and stuff. We put a play on. It'd be done for three nights in a row. All the parents would come and watch it. On the last night of the play at the end of the year, we would always get the headmaster up and then he would just like be sprayed with silly string and like shaving cream and stuff and he would just sort of be pied. And it was like a bit of a tradition. It happened every single year and he came to expect it but then uh apparently my sister's year she's two years below me she wasn't they weren't allowed to do it anymore because the year before it got really chaotic and like he got it like in his eyes and he was like being like roughed up and stuff by these

children and uh his glasses got broken like apparently his glasses came on like came off and like someone trod on them so uh then it was from that point on it was banned and you could no longer spray Mr. Ashton with Cistering. Oh, Jesus. When headteachers shout, it's like otherworldly, like nothing else rocks to you to your core like that.

Imagine the roar that erupted from him in the midst of all that. Yeah. My word. Yeah. Thank you, boys. That was my thing. Thank you, Mikey.

Thank you very much, Michael Johnson. That means Peter Austin, it's your turn to read your listener-submitted thing. It is my turn. This was submitted to us from Groovy Pasti at Groovy Pasti on Twitter. It's according to the Manchester Evening News. And the headline is, men, and then this is in quotes, men from Manchester are holding dogging parties in the bushes behind a roadside cafe called Big Baps.

Wow. A little subheading says, if you came and had breakfast at our cafe, you'd see two or three doggers guaranteed. It's like a promise. Yeah. Oh my God. We guarantee you will see two or three doggers. Oh, your money back.

Yeah. A batting dog. This appears to have been written by two people. Damon Wilkinson and Phoebe Fuller. So I hope they had a good time going and doing the research. Well, Davey touched his Wilkinson and then Phoebe was Fuller after at the cafe, wasn't she? Goodness. Right? That's it. That's what it was.

Yeah. The owner of a roadside cafe, or it's just a load of ads, the owner of a roadside cafe in Yorkshire says her business is being blighted by men from Manchester holding dogging parties in the bushes. Sharon Warritt, co-owner of Big Baps at Junction 25 in Brickhouse, says that she sees two or three doggers every morning as she's serving lorry drivers their breakfast.

Oh, my God. England is a hell-hole, isn't it? Isn't it just? She claims that the men come from Manchester and sometimes so many people... Sorry. Indeed. She claims that the men come from Manchester

and in the bushes. And sometimes so many people turn up there's no room for lorry drivers to park in the lay by. Because they're all fucking in the woods. What is happening? Yeah. She told Yorkshire Live,

if you came and had breakfast at our cafe, you'd see two or three dogers guaranteed. Most people think it's funny. but actually it's really seedy. Sharon claims that the wood behind her cafe is littered with condoms and old mattresses that are used for people to have sex on. Oh my God, I didn't realize, yeah, it went to that level.

Go on that's... Yeah, they've got the actual infrastructure in place. Oh, wowie. She says she's repeatedly reported the issue to her local MP and the police, and now she feels she needs to warn walkers in the area. She said, if it were a female and male dogging site, I'd feel exactly the same. That just doesn't come into it.

It's the fact that it's a dogging site. I guess she's saying it is actually all men in this case, but that's irrelevant. That doesn't come into it, Peter. It doesn't come into it. There's a hotel, 20 yards up the road. I'm sure they'd appreciate the business. Put a special dogger's discount on. Rooms by the hour.

She continues, it's dogging massive. Oh, what? Full stop. It's dogging massive, full stop. The truckers, who do manage. to park there on a night get propositioned. They knock on the cab and say, do you fancy a bit? Goodness me. Another issue Sharon is facing is people are car sharing and using the layby to park their car while they get a lift into city with their friends. She says this means lorry drivers

are often left without a space to park for their rest breaks. She says the main thing I'd love is for truckers to be able to park. They come in depressed. They're away from their families and want a warm meal. Obviously, I don't come to work for the fun of it. Oh, Jesus, this gets really dark. way people are dogging basically by her cafe and that's just the tip of the iceberg yeah um yeah it is and she's had like a family tragedy that she just sort of threw in there for you know for sympathy we won't we won't go there it'll bring the mood down I will all I'll also mention I won't read the second article but groovy pasty did include a follow-up article um but I do just like this one quote that groovy pasty mentioned in the tweet which is

There is even a follow-up article for some reason where a journalist visits the site to find, quote, sex litter. Oh, God. What's sex litter? I don't know what that is. Surely that's condoms, right? Probably condoms, yeah. Oh, God. Good.

I mean, that must be a fun day in the office. Who wants to go find the sex litter by Big Baps? Big Bap. It's that it's called Big Baps as well. like yeah it just sounds it just sounds like a pretend news story yeah it does doesn't it yeah this is like the best thing this is why this is why we asked for local news manchester even news is talking about the dogging at big baps yeah the whitby herald or whatever it is is talking about the seagull man maybe that was a bigger story but uh yeah that

could be local news as well yeah this is what we want yeah you've all done an incredible job on your on your first your first week and we want it from the past two weeks as well so So it's always current. Don't send us older stuff. We had tons of really, really good submissions and whittling, whitt being it down to those three was a challenge. So, well done, well done. Very good stuff all around.

I'm sorry, I googled Big Baps to kind of like see if it was real. It was real. And there's a new, a new story. Oh, no. Yeah, about sex Twitter. Well, Big Baps Cafe suddenly disappears. What, how? She's up and left.

Well, because it'll be a trailer, won't it? It's not going to be a building, I don't think. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, she just up sticks and move the cafe elsewhere. Oh, my God. Sent her way by the doggers. Looking at the photo, though, it's like there are benches there and there are little sort of planters out the front.

And there's a sign that does say under new management. I don't know how old that photo is, but. Yeah, that's true. although it does look like it could still be a temporary structure. You're right that they have got like, you know, sort of garden furniture and stuff, but you probably could lift that thing onto a flat bed and move it. Well, wherever Big Babs moves to,

make sure you give it your patronage if you're in the Manchester area. Yeah. Yes, yes. Incredible. Well, I've got a thing. We're going to go from that to some culture now. Are you ready to feel cultured? Raise the brow a bit, I think.

is something I discovered through like some meme, I think, like most of my things that I find interesting. It's like a screenshot of some Tumblr conversation and I've actually looked into it myself. So this is a write-up that I've taken bits and pieces from a website called The Imaginative Conservative. And it's a really well-written article with lots of personal experience about the topic, but I've cut those bits out. So I'd recommend going and reading the whole thing if you're interested. So here we go. It's time we talk about the first ever music pirate, Mozart. Ooh. Okay. Here we go. The 14-year-old Mozart

didn't see himself as a music pirate, mind you. He was just doing the thing he so excelled at with his musical genius and photographic memory back in the spring of 1770. He and his father Leopold were in Rome, working their way through Italy for the month as the young Wolfgang performed and studied and learned. Their timing was perfect. Rome, during Holy week. This was the only time and place you could hear Allegries famous, I'm going to try and pronounce it now, miserera me deus, I think, being sung in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, to be more exact, on Wednesday and Friday of Holy Week. It was a big tradition. Since 1514, a total of 12 misereras had been chanted slash sung at this service. This 12th one, a setting of Psalm 51 composed by

Gregorio Allegory in the late 1630s for Pope Urban the 8th, yes, had become the mainstay, far and away the most popular miserera. To attend this service and hear this music was a big deal. Visitors, musicians and travellers would arrange their schedules well in advance to be sure to catch a performance. So this song was performed very rarely. Why the big deal? Mystery and inaccessibility have a way of adding cachet to any piece of music, particularly one so strikingly gorgeous at once austere and lushly inviting. The Vatican knew it had a winner on its hands with Allegory's Misera

and wanting to preserve its aura of mystery and exclusivity forbade replication, threatening anyone who attempted to copy or publish it with excommunication. But the teen Mozart was hungry for a challenge and, well, you know Mozart, he was spirited, free-thinking, not prone to doing exactly as he'd been instructed

if he didn't see the rationale behind it. So... Oh, Wolfgang. You all card. So, we all know Wolfgang. So as he and his father attended the Wednesday service, he listened to the incredible choral music, and after the performance, his brain set to work.

Late into the night, he wrote it out from memory, note for note. And we're talking 12 minutes of choral contrap-contrapuntal music. There are two chorus parts, divided at times by two to create four groups of singers. On top of that, there are four solo voices that create their own quartet voice. All this stuff going on, Acapella and Mozart got it all.

He went back on Friday night to give it a double check. All it needed was a few minor tweaks. Think of the wonder. The teen prodigy must have felt. The challenge rising up in him. The exact notes of the composition had been kept a secret for over 100 years after all, like something out of a Grim Brothers fairy tale. Time for the spell to be broken.

After Easter, he and his father continued on with their Italian travels. Later in the year, they encountered Dr. Charles Burney, a noted music historian who, upon his return to England, published the unpublishable Miserera in 1771. To thicken the intrigue, it should be mentioned that Bernie also met up with Padre Martini, which is a great name, who owned another, albeit plainer and simpler unauthorized copy. And to thicken the thickening, the Mozart's also met with Martini during the course of that Italy year when the young Wolfgang studied with him. But I don't see Padre Martini bringing out his copy of the Misera as a study guide.

Why risk excommunication and thus hell and eternal damnation for a music lesson with a precocious teen? Well, we know what that sounds like. We did, we did hear that. We have heard it today. So whose copy did Bernie use when he published? Who can know for sure? Mozart's handwritten copy did not survive to confirm or detract the story. As for the Pope threatening excommunication,

well, it would have looked bad to accuse a priest or a king or excommunicate a 14-year-old musical prodigy. I'm not sure how Bernie got out of it so easily, but I think by that time, the Pope sort of shrugged and said, whatever, our version is still the best. Come check us out next Holy Week and see for yourselves. And so there we are. That's one of the first and major documented cases of musical piracy is Mozart listening to a secret private piece of music and then just copying it with his brain. What a baddie.

I know. Oh, what a legend. I didn't realize Mozart was like such a photo of Mozart in a pirate cap. He did that. Yeah, it's quite a good one. It's good. I like it. Yeah, I mean, I've always known Mozart was decent, but man, he's a.

Bad boys, so I'm, I'm gonna, I might look into more and start and see if there's any of the fun little nuggets of history from him. Because if he's done that at 14, all point what else did you get into? Started young. It's pretty impressive. And I was, I was very interested. I didn't realize, it's one of those kind of like, Dan Brown da Vinci code, like, hang on, the Vatican's got a secret song that only they know the recipe for that they've had for over 100 years. And it's only like the 12th version of it or something. But what else are they hiding in their vaults though? is there like 20 herbs and spices is there 20 herbs and spices and also a bit of the Virgin Mary down there maybe

probably yeah is Jesus down there well there are the apocryphal texts aren't there there are a bunch of books of the Bible that used to be kind of considered part of the Bible and then they were kind of removed and there'll be I mean the Vatican Library like whether or not you're religious there must be it would be really interesting if you could read a single flipping word of what's in there which I couldn't because it's probably mostly in Latin

and Hebrew and stuff. Just imagine the smell. Oh, it's got so good in there. Yeah. There'd be some really interesting stuff in there, I'm sure. It would be absolutely interesting. I'm jealous of people with memories like that. I struggle to remember the words that are in front of me

as I'm reading sometimes. So to remember a 12-minute whole symphony. All right, well done, boy. You've truly earned your status as genius. It's pretty incredible, isn't it? Yeah. You wouldn't steal a handbag? No.

You wouldn't copy a Miserata or whatever it was called. A Maserati. You wouldn't copy a Maserati. Oh, you wouldn't. You couldn't. You absolutely wouldn't. Well, there we are. Ladies and gentlemen and others, boys and girls and others.

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Just wanted to tell you. The chips are quite... No. No. Good. The chips are good there. The chips are quite sad and salty and sad, I think. Oh, I like them.

I think they're pretty good. So they're square? To be fair. Square? No, they're not sadly. No. Are they square? What?

Square chips. Square chips? Square pizza. Snoppies. Oh. You get square pizza. Yeah. Okay.

Come on. Fake fun. Fuck. No, they're not square. But I enjoy them. I took me right back. But I need to go back there and get a proper pizza at some point. Anyway, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, all.com forward slash vidiats.

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there's a things submission place where some people also threw them in but we had some corkers already so yeah i didn't even know about that sorry sorry people i just that's my bad i just didn't tell anyone else that i did that and just just make sure they're contemporary if you're going to put them on discord make sure they're contemporary because obviously you're not responding to our request for them so they might be sitting in there for a while which we understand but uh yeah make sure they're from the last week week and a half something like that yeah that'd be great Twitch.TV forward slash video. It's official no plan for streams currently, but obviously we'd love to do a reunion stream at some point this summer. We will let you know when. We promise we will. What else we got here? Of course, pottyts.com. Three pounds or more to get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the show and join Pod Squad here once again is the Pod Squad for this week. We begin with, let me pull up the image. I forgot this bit was coming.

Down on. Ye oldy anachronistic thorn. Connor Ross. loves daddy business James Bon Bon Bon Bon's Hoyssin crispy owl owl cool jay garlic puddington bear Raindrop Joy Lord Brotovich

Stephen Scores The Gimp of Crinkley Bottom Alexa is actually my name The Best Donator I'm in trouble for it Christopher Lee Murder Spree And that's your lot

Also and on the miss Prince Beefcakes Hetty Bobetti, who is very generous, thank you very much. Poddyot says Guck-Fimps. Caroline gave me knob spoilers. The very generous, choke me, Mr. Blobby. They're very generous. David got stuck in Stokey Tea.

The very generous, Wixican Vidiot. Peter's penile pest problems. The very generous, Mikey's the man. Reunion stream, when please? Poddiet's presents PhD. Fuck you, Lorenz. And Bono has glauco. Oh my silly. Sorry, Bono.

Sorry, Bono. Sorry. We've also got Big City Jesus, 42, cocktails. Woohoo. Mr. Macca. Do you have blob spiders? Anonymous. Fuck Mikey's dream. Bartek, two girls, one Kubitsa. Wear your sunblock. The very generous. Anonymous. Salmonella Miller. Not okay. Hugh Jass. Donak-O-7.

The very generous, Jens Herman. And Alexia add-dildos to shopping. Thank you very much. Pod Squad. poddiats.com once again three pounds on more to get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the show. Peter Austin, what's out on videos this week five years ago, please?

I'll tell you, I've just noticed, by the way, my microphone seems just slightly too loud. So sorry if I've been peeking a little bit, guys. Sorry about that, all the way through. We'll be okay. But never mind. Hopefully you didn't notice. I should not point it out, really, but it's too late now. Anyway, this time last several years ago,

we had Worst Games Ever Game Selection for the 17th of May. Prove It Spiro 2, Ripto's Rage, Part 1 Worst Games ever, Shell Shock 2, Blood Trails Skyrim Zoo, Chapter 12, a mammoth edition. Sunday, Little Big Planet. Memory cards for the 21st of May, which featured Super Smash Bros. Mele, Atari, Star Wars, and Unreal.

Prove It, Spiro 2, Ripto's Rage, Part 2. Post from Tat Number 14, Happy Birthday, Ben. Oh, yes. Han Solo Connect Dance Challenge, Piece of cake. Brilliant. And then the raw green screen

footage is unlisted but you can probably still find a link to that somewhere. Prove it, Svirateu Ritzraged Live Action Challenge. Skyim Zoo Chapter 13 An icy excursion. Sunday, Funday,

You're in the Movies. That was a good one. Oh, yes. Memory cards for May 28th, John Madden Football, House of the Dead 3, Super Mario Bros. Potty is episode 7

Craving McNuggies. Post some tat number 15, name redundant. Worst games ever, game selection for the 31st of May. Becoming Apes. Crisis on the Planet of the Apes, VR, where we found an interesting movement technique.

Worst games ever, Sonic the Hedgehog, which is Sonic 06, and what we're going up to, the third. So, Thorpe Parks, The Walking Dead, Living Nightmare Extreme versus three vidiots. That's when we went on a lovely adventure. And finally, Sunday, Fun day,

UFC Sudden Impact, Featuring MMA on Point That's when Handsome Tom Ransom and handsome Jason came to see us in the office Bumper period that was

It was a bit longer than normal because of the shift in the schedule so it was two in a bit weeks I think that one We were really good I'm gonna say

We still are We still are We're really good Doing content for YouTube I mean on videos We were really good For a little window there We were

Really good. Mikey, where are you on the internet? At Parrot Boy on Twitter is the best place to keep up with Mike Cummings and Doings. Yeah, go there. I'll announce my new job there. So a bit of an incentive to check it out. Amazing. And Peter, where are we?

We are at Team Triple Jump together, working together there, doing videos and live streams, video game stuff. Worst games ever is still alive over there and various other fun. things. But you can also catch us individually on social media at That Peter Austin and at Confused underscore Dude, both on Twitter. I want Instagram as well, but not very often. Wonderful. Why not leave us a five-star review slash rating on your platform of choice. It helps something to do with Al Gore's rhythms. It's free. It doesn't cost you a thing. And it'll take like a minute. Just say this podcast is fucking great. I love it. You should listen to it. Five stars. Easy. It's as easy as that. You can just copy what I said and put it in there.

do we have a final question for people before we disappear um oh now see we used to just sometimes ask one of the questions we were asked but it's not questions anyone no how much would you want to be paid oh no go on i was going to say have you ever been involved in a prank like leaving school or during like in the middle of school or that's a good one like that yeah let's go for that all right thank you so much for listening slash watching everybody we'll see you next time bye I'm waving. You guys waiting. I'm waving. Bye. Bye.