Podiots - Podiots: Episode 125 - That’s ASDA Spice

Episode Date: July 1, 2023

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Pickax! Guys, we need to shout out a legend of the Pod Army, not the Pod Squad. Some delicious news has happened. Some very tasty, fun, friend-shaped news. Smiley news. Delicious news. Yeah. I've made a note of the legending question here

and that is Jamshed at Mighty Jamshed on Twitter who said that they were they tweeted about a day in advance I don't know if you guys saw this saying I'm going to go do something monumental tomorrow I did scare me a bit I never know what does that mean

yeah what does that mean going to sit outside Noel Edmund's house or something and we'll get in trouble for it yeah fortunately though it wasn't scary It was actually very, very good. Michael, do you want to share the amazing news?

Yes. So what was the, um, the poddiest name of it? But the Feldhue's meat facery where they make meat-faced meat. Jamshed actually was fun food. Yeah, that's it. Uh, jamshed actually went to the bloody front gate of the factory and got a picture of it. And also got a lovely little, uh, tell your friends video in front of it. a cardboard sign that he drew.

I hope the security guards enjoyed that. I hope you enjoyed it, Jamshed. I hope it wasn't too much of a journey. Did you travel from another country for that? I think I missed the Tell Your Friends video, actually. I saw the photo, but I must have... Oh, yeah, I think you just sent that to me on Instagram. So, yeah, there's a tell your friends as well.

He has posted it, yeah. I think it's on Twitter now. But, yeah, unbelievable commitment to the bit there. That was one of our first big podcast. audience presents. And it's a factory in Germany that makes Billy Bearham, just in case you're not familiar. The big sign reads Feld Hoyer's Fun Foods. And there is Jamshed in front of it holding a tell your friend's cardboard sign. And it's about to go on the thread right now. Oh, you can have a look at it. It's just stunning. Shed. I think it's time to rename it back to

its original name. Well, the original name being our name, the Pottiates meat facery. in honor of this event. I'm not going to be the one to do it because again, I'm scared of having my Google account banned but has it been reverted? Is it no longer Podiatz presents?

Probably. We need to check this right now. I think it probably isn't. I bet it's still the same. I need to check if the McDonald's has gone through for Beelafield. What was it? Oh,

I can't remember that. Yeah. How do you pronounce it? It's not real anyway, so it doesn't matter. Wow, if you Google Podiat's Meet then, yeah, the Feldhughes group is like the number one search result. Yes.

Good. Good. Let's see. Edits. Oh, it's still pending. Daudits presents McDonald's. Yet more proof that this country doesn't exist because no one's in the back end of Google approving things for the country.

Yeah, no one's there. Bielefeld. I'm not trying to pronounce it. It's not immediately come up. There's some new ones. Pottietz presents Stadt-Fleichten Garten, which is a nice town garden in Bonn, Germany. Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon.

Have you seen Podiatz presents Wheatabix Limited? What's that then? Yeah, that's what we've seen before. That's lingering on, I'm glad, because that's a good one. Hang on, let me try Feld Hoyers, Fun Foods. Yeah, there it is. Industrial Strasser. Oh, no.

There's Poddietz presents Wix. That's on there. Nice, nice. I do like the Coltholic, even though the name has been reverted back now, still comes up when you search Podietz. Yeah, it does. When you type in Podiat's Presents,

it suggests loads of stuff, but then when you click on it, it doesn't have that name. So I don't know what that's about. I think, I think you're right, Mikey. I think it's no longer Podit. Oh, well, if you type in just the words Podiat's meat facery, it does come up on Google Maps with Feld Hoyer's Fun Foods GMBH.

So somewhere in the metadata, it still knows that it used to be called that. But it's not the official map's name anymore. I found another one in Indianapolis, for some reason. It's a mobile caterer with one five-star review from two years ago. And it's called Podiat's Meat Face 317 Meatface. meat facery LLC. I don't know what it's about. They don't have a website or any information at all.

There's a couple of photos of some pork. That's about it. We've also expanded out to the African continent in Algeria, right in the middle of it. There's Hotel Podiates by Judah. Hotel Podiat. I would love a Podiat's presents on every continent in the world. Well, in China, oh no, hang on. We're over the border in what country is this?

High Fong, is that what they call? Oh, that's Vietnam. In Vietnam, there is a place called the Hand Jobs Inc. Meatfaceery. It's very strange. It's not Podiat's presents, but the word meat facery is in there with the exact spelling. And that is definitely a made-up word. So I feel like that could be Podiat's related. There's one in, um, there's one in, um, there's one in,

south germany called the poddiots plan egg skate park which is which opens at eight a m tomorrow if you want to go yeah why not get your skates on oh indeed yeah because it's just there's so many good ones we've glotted we've trotted the globe without even stepping foot on many of these countries yeah to help us go on holiday do you make a difference do face google thank you. And a reminder, if you go to vidyatsofficial.com and go over to our shop, you can buy a sticker that says Pottyits Presents, is that right? That's all right. There is a sticker there, isn't there? Yeah, Pottyets Presents sticker that you can stick on anything you want, but not

historic landmarks and don't make it a hate crime or anything dicey like that. Just put it somewhere fun, you know? But do buy them though. Yes, do buy them. Do buy them. Dubai. There's the next one. Go to do that. Put one in Dubai. Yeah. That's fine. Look at that. It roars out. Anything else you guys want to talk about or should we crack on? Oh, Blobby's sold out. Blobys of prints are officially now all gone.

So if you didn't get them, woo. Sorry, but now you can get a t-shirt instead. Woo! You can. We're out of blobby prints. Thank you so much to everybody who bought one. Very limited, beautiful item. But you can now get one on a slightly less exciting but still very exciting t-shirt in a variety of colours.

So go get yourself one now or, you know, when it's payday. That would work too. In fact, when this releases, it will be payday week, I think. Oh, Saturday is treat day. Truly. Indeed. Oh, and that's the other thing. We very much know by now about, did we say this last time?

We know that Brian Butterfield is doing a tour. Thanks for letting us know. We do. In fact, we are, I don't know about, you know, we'll talk about it in the intro, because I feel like we spoke about it in the intro last time. We need to work out where we will stand in regards to attending Butterfield. Yeah, we do. Okay. Yeah.

All right, let's do that. Hello everybody and welcome to Pottie. It's the official video. Podcast. It's a conversational podcast where everybody brings a thing along to talk about. You didn't say obey the law of the three us. No, I didn't. I was not ready for that at all.

That completely threw me off as well. and I was in charge. I tell you what the problem is normally is because now we're doing a video version of the podcast as well and I have to address a camera. I'm not reading it off my phone anymore and I keep having like a very last second crisis

where I feel like I'm losing all of the words as it comes out of my mouth. We'll try that again but I'll read it very obviously off my phone. Here we go. Hello everybody and welcome to Podi. It's the official videoids podcast. It's a conversational podcast

where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three urs where everybody brings a thing along to talk about. I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. Fantastic.

I changed it back to questions this time because it felt weird saying things last time even though we are taking things from people now and not questions anymore. I don't want to fuck with the classic formula, you know? Yeah, fair enough. I sort of want to keep it the same. How are we all doing?

You guys are right? Yeah, good, thanks. How are you? Very well. Yes, how are you? I'm fine, thank you. I'm all good. Let's talk about Brian Butterfield

because I don't know about you guys, but I have now closed the tab on my work computer and have sort of resigned myself to the fact I'm not going to go. It just seems like a big gamble. I'm thinking like I love, I love a Butterfield sketch

and I love him. He's done the odd panel show like the time on shooting stars when his chair broke and he fell over. but would I want to sit and watch him for an hour? Probably yes. I'm not saying that the answer is likely to be no,

but it's just such an unknown, you know? And at 28 pounds as well. Yeah. It's far away. It's expensive. Are you going to go, Mikey, because he is coming to Bath. Yeah, he's literally playing outside my office. Really?

Yeah. Probably be able to hear his booming voice. You've got to go and report on it for us, man. Oh, fuck, okay. We'll pay for you. Peter and I'll split a ticket. No, I can't do that. I can't do that.

Oh, okay. Yeah, if there is a few, a few dates have sold out, which is now giving me a little kick up the ass. I feel like I should. Hmm. Ooh, yep, 27th of September. I can, yep, I am free that date. Okay, you know what?

If the tickets are still available by the time we finish recording, I'm just going to bloody do it, and I'll record the whole thing on my phones, and so you can watch it as well for free. That's how good you. The whole thing, yeah. I appreciate that because I really want to see it, but I don't want to pay and I also don't want to go anywhere.

So, you know, I don't want to get shouted out. As a DVD or something or a video, I would happily watch it, but. I do have total faith that it would be well worth the money. And, like, I think it would be a really good show. I've been to stuff like this before, and I've always kind of thought, oh, like, I'm no this person's character.

I don't know how they're going to stretch us out. They do. Peter Serafanovic is very good. He's been in the media for many years. That's the thing. You have to remember it. It's Peter Serafinovich. It's not actual Brian.

Wait, what? Oh, no. The curtain's been pulled back. He can, I'm sure he is very, yeah, he knows how to put on a show, I'm sure. He'll treat you right, Mikey. He better. He better. Or else I want a damn refund.

Well, excellent. If you want to support Mikey and his adventures to go and see Brian Butterfield, Why not head to poddiots.com. If you donate three pounds or more, you get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the show and you join Pod Squad just alike. Michael Johnson. Bon, bon, bon, bon bumps. Very, very adequate. This person donated like a month ago and the name didn't get rid out.

I'm sorry, thank you. Oh, weird. Sorry about that. Whoopsies. We continue with Barney Harwood. Tell your friends, Feldhues. Freddie Weber didn't, though. blobby's baby daddy

Lord Bielerfield to Vic with some tongue twisters in there thank you nice isn't Barney Harwood Barney off of CBBC Yeah I think so

Oh maybe yeah I mean just yep it is Yes We've also got Get your hands off my Peter Steven Skodes Amanda Huggen Kiss Dom and Dick

in House with Stairs And Torso Evans And finally we got The very generous Prince Beefcakes, who said, for the record, the kind of pasties, the kind of pasties that go on nipples are pronounced pasties. Yeah. Presumably because you paste them to your nip-nops. Yes, I did pay approximately 27 American dollars to tell you all this,

Keys, Keys. Oh, no. Thank you, Prince Beefcakes. I did see that in the comments, yeah. I'm still going to call them pasties, though. Pasties. Pasty. They're delicious pasties. Yum, yum.

Thank you. And we've also got Donac 07. I'm more than Freeman. The very generous. generous Danny Lucas who said episode 57 my fiancée Kim asked you to write our vows Ben said 60p

I hope this covers it Also I'm the one who made the Feld Hoyer's Poddiots meat facery edit Oh wow Oh my god Only proof I figured meat facery Hang on only proof I figured meat facery sounds German

As Baccarai Kim has picks Love you guys so much Backerai What? That's bakery I believe Oh okay I think

Yeah, you're right German man Nice Well thank you You did that Thank you so much Danny Thank you We'll get to work on those vows for you

Hope you're married And finally We've got Stephen from Basil Brush Thank you very much To the pod squad of this week Poddiots dot com Three pounds or more For a shout out at the beginning

And the end of the show Thank you so much for supporting us We appreciate it Do you guys have a favourite of those Stephen from Basil brush Really took me by surprise at the end there you know there was only one name left

we'd sort of got away from the list because we were talking about Danny's Feld Hoyers and then just in comes Master Stephen from Basil Brush so that Oh yeah Master Stephen That's my favourite I'm going to say

Get your hands off by Peter Mainly for the way you delivered it That was good I'm going to go with Blobby's baby daddy Because I want to know who it is Yeah I want to know who it is Let me know

Mikey I believe you have lit the beacon, litaned the beacon for things. User, listener, user, listener submitted things for this week. Do you have them there? I do indeed. Who? Wait, how do you do this Ben? I'm not in the swing of things yet. Do you just tell us what to do it or do I go first? See who wants to go first and then a different person does their thing next and then whoever hasn't gone does their listener submitted thing and then we all, we can all take it in turns basically. It's nice. Well, is anybody in the class particularly excited to present their thing today? No.

I'm quite excited about mine because I'd heard about this and I nearly brought it as my thing. And then Mikey sent my user submitted thing to me or listener submitted. And I was like, oh, good, we're covered then. That's fine. Well, Mr. Austin, would you like to take it away? I'd love to. Let me just find the name of the person. I've got it right here.

This was submitted initially by wait hang on you can do it the person's name oh it's in a separate message yeah sorry wait was it

yeah it's at the bottom it's the most recent message on Discord oh right sorry I thought that was just for the second what because it's in two parts oh yeah yeah yeah you're right no yeah so it was submitted by Ryan Kennedy at Ryan Ken 4060 64 and but there's also a second story

to follow up on this which I guess did you just find it yourself Mikey Yeah, that came up in my feed. That's what confused me, but that's fine. So, it's according to bristolposts.com.com. It's very viduets, this story. Seagull, already, run to Vidyat's territory, got stuck in Asda Bedminster. That's Our Asda.

Our Asda, the Cake Asda. The one that has like a blue light in the toilet so that you can't shoot up in there. I fucking hate that. That's all I want at the end of a long day. Yeah. Seagull got stuck. stuck in Asda Bedminster two weeks ago and still hasn't left.

Two weeks. Yeah, and here is an amazing picture of it, not just perched on the top of a shelf. I have so many questions. Specifically in the fish section, looking at the fish. It looks fake as hell, doesn't it? It doesn't look real. What's it eating? Fish, I don't know, maybe fruit.

Is it eating the fish? Yeah, all the open stuff. the fruit, maybe. Quote, rescuers are anxious to trap her and release her before she dies. Oh, no. She's going to get into the blue bathroom

and take some smack. Oh, no, it might do. Oh, no, spice. The spice is back again. Spice seagull. We could be on for an apocalypse here if it gets hold of the spice inside Asda, Bedminster.

So this is written by Tristan Cork, senior reporter. Yes. And the article goes, shoppers at Azda's store in Bedminster have been looking up to the rafters more than at the aisles because a seagull has been stuck in the store for the past two weeks. Asda staff and a specialist team the store has called in to help have spent every hour of every night the store has been closed since early June

trying to persuade the seagull to find its way to the exit but without success. And now the local bird welfare group is asking if they can have a go themselves as all attempts to either catch the bird or get it out through the doors have so far failed. The bird welfare group says it fears the seagull may be struggling. The bird wandered in through the doors of the store on Bedminster Parade in the first week of June, and since then has become quite the feature, remaining high above the aisles in the rafters of the store, which is one of Azda's biggest in the country. On June the 8th, the bird's presence caused a minor stir on social media,

with pictures of it tweeted by customers. One image showed it swooping low through the freezer aisle, while others showed it high above the shoppers perched in the rafters. As soon as it arrived, Asda called in its deep cleaning and pest control team, and ever since then, a fortnight long mission has been in progress. Every night, the store closes at 10pm, but didn't it used to be a 24-hour, Astor? It did. Yeah, in COVID they stopped that, and it's so annoying.

I miss having that on tap. It closes at 10pm, but the doors are left open and guarded overnight while a team of people tried to coax the bird down or catch it. Bristol Live understands everything from Trump. Rails of crisps and bread have been laid. Cherry pickers have been deployed and staff with nets have been seen, but the bird has proved far too cunning to be caught. Ceilings are high and the store is large

and any time anyone gets near it on the platform of a cherry picker or up a ladder, it simply flies off to a different part of the store. Oh my God. It's not the first time Bedminster's Asda has been the scene of an unusual bird, apparently. back in early 2020, Bristol Live reported on the exploits of Toby the Crow, who set up home in the backyard of the nearby rope walk pub and commuted every day to work in the car park of Bedminster Asda, specialising in extracting coins from people's trolleys,

as entertaining shoppers outside the store by wrestling resin elephants and untying shoppers shoelaces while they waited at the bus stop outside. side. Oh my God. Is this some sort of trained crow and a man? What is a resin elephant? So do we just glossed over that? I don't know.

It's just like an ornament maybe. I'm assuming that that's not actually a crow. It's a man in a crow. No, there are photos here of a crow. Yeah. No, how do you know, it's a man in a car? I'm sorry, Peter. That's a man in a crow suit quite clearly a man.

Would you like see a picture of a child looking at the crow? Yeah, you mean the man in the crows suit? Yeah, the man in the crow suit. is a good picture she looks really nervous she does she's going to untie his laces oh my god

so sorry the story continues but while Toby did show signs of trying to get into the store he was always successfully shown the door by staff inside a mission so far unsuccessfully undertaken by the staff with this seagull

oh and here's a slightly spooky image of it up in the rafters there you go Oh my goodness That's some Feathers McGraw stuff right there Yeah it certainly is The situation is The Situation is concerning

A rescue organisation Called the Foundation for Feathered Friends It's founder It's founder Denise Theophilus Said she has asked to Astor If it would be okay for her team To have a go getting it out She's worried it will die in there

Goals are actually protected by law And are on the red list And are on the red listed species For conversation it says. I think that must mean conservation. Good work Tristan Corker. The gull has found her way in by accident and

rescuers are anxious to trap her and release her before she dies. There is a limited time they can survive without food and water and she is scared by the alien noises she added. I mean, as the bedminster is a scary enough place for a human, let alone a bird. I know. I always felt slightly uncomfortable

in there, so the seagull's not going to be happy. There are some more images here. Feel free to add as many or as few of these to the, oh, that's a really long link, but there it is flying along the shafts. Oh, wow, yeah, look at that. What's the bet that they get it out

and it just wants to come straight back in again? Yeah, well, maybe, maybe. Also, when they describe like a task force or team or something, I'm picturing like an elite unit of people wearing military fatigues, and there's this guy who's been there since the first of June who has to call his wife

every night and say, nah, we didn't get it. We didn't get it today. Tell Jimmy, I love. him. I can't make it back for his birthday. I'm going to catch this fucking seagull. Oh, man. I really need to go visit the seagull before it leaves or perishes. Yeah. So I think this weekend, I'm going to make a visit and I'll try and get a picture of it if I can. Please do. There is then a follow-up article written by Tristan Cork, hopefully without typos in it. Bristol Live.com.com. U.K. Rescuers almost managed to net C.com.

goal stuck in Bristol as the store. So basically, this is probably just mostly filler, reciting everything from the first article. But let me see if I can find the bit where it says that they almost caught it. The story has gone nationwide

with BBC Radio 1's Greg James chatting about it to millions of listeners on the breakfast show on Wednesday morning. The attempt to capture the goal happened on Tuesday evening with local volunteers from the Foundation for Feathered Friends charity. We know that one. Spending around an hour and a half at the store before it closed at 10 p.m. One of them was a mandoline cook from

Bedminster who said they managed to lure it towards food left out for it. She did come down and was cautiously approaching us. We had food and we had a big net and the plan was to get her to go to the food and we could catch her in the net. Thank you, Mandeline for that. It's a comical scene. But she's so scared and she got spooked by the fact that there's so many people in the store that she flew away again, which was very frustrating. It's a tough job and we've spoken to some experts who say goals are often too clever to go into a cage trap. Sedating her will be impossible because no one knows her weight, but one way to get her could be by setting up a location where she feels safe to get food regularly and getting her confident enough to go there

every time and having a trap or a net there. We're worried about her because although it's a supermarket, she has no easy access to water or food and is obviously distressed. I mean, if they're that worried about her having food and water. They could probably leave some out for her, couldn't think? I'd have thought so, yeah. Seagull's in a bloody shop, but should be able to figure this out. When Bristol Live visited the store on Wednesday morning, the seagull was nowhere to be seen,

and one number of staff said the bird will hide itself away in the rafters and is almost perfectly camouflaged under a vast roof of the store, but it is still in there, seemingly. I'm going to go along and be the here where everyone needs and just put some sleeping pills in the sausage rule. and let nature take its course. You've solved it, Michael. Great, now to sleep in the rafters.

Nice. What we need is Eagle Boy to get in there and just run around in the store, round and round. That would be amazing. That is such a good promotional opportunity for that chip shop. Get like an expert shipped in.

Have you noticed that the three episodes we've done of Podiot since we started doing FaceCam, all three of them have had a Seagull-related story so far. I've heard of it. I like it. Seagulls are, well, the bastard's going. Yeah. Well, that's it.

That's the story. Thank you very much to Ryan, was it, who sent that in, I believe. Yeah, it's Ryan Kennedy. Thank you very much, Ryan. Thank you very much. Who would like to do their things? Real thing? Not your things are real things, too, at home, but Ben sounds like he wants to do his very real thing.

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So you're going to learn about him now. Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatian, Scooby-Doo, the Jetsons, the Flintstones, Charlotte's Webb. Besides making up the childhoods of people across four generations, the one thing those animated classics have in common is Japanese American producer, director and animator, Iwau Takamoto, who worked on all of them. After his death on January 8, 2007,

Takamoto was briefly honoured by various news sites for his iconic work for Disney, Hannah Barbera, and Warner Brothers. Yet, sadly, he remains relatively unknown today. Let's try to change that, says the article, and also, says me and says you too, too. so that everyone can listen at home. You too. You too, too.

When it came to animated movies and cartoons, it seemed like there was nothing Takamoto couldn't do. In 1945, he started working for Walt Disney Animation Studios where he finished the rough animation for Cinderella, did quality control for Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, and oversaw the first full-scale use of zirography, where animator's drawings were copied to a transparent cell sheet in 101 Dalmatians.

The technique was extremely cost-effective, and according to the Smithsonian magazine, actually ended up saving Disney from insolvency. Wow. Takamoto was not done yet, though. In 1961, he joined Hannah Barbera or Hanna-Barbera productions where he designed classic cartoon characters like Penelope Pit Stop, Atom Ant, Secret Squirrel, Grape ape, the animated Harlem Globetrotters, and Josie and the Pussy Cats. He also supervised shows like The Adams Family, Hong Kong Fui and Jabberjee.

and even found success as a director with Charlotte's Webb, 1973, based on E.B. White's 1952 book. He later wrote that he initially struggled with making the character of Charlotte the Spider appealing, but in the end, he concentrated on finding a way to take advantage of her large eyes to make her sweet and feminine looking. But spiders weren't Takamoto's specialty. Dogs were. So I hope you're excited to hear about Takamoto's dogs, contribution to animated dogs. However, it may well be that we have Iwaro Takamoto to thank for how we can tell if an animal is a female animal, because they've always got eye makeup on.

Eyelashes, sexy eyes. That's how you know, the sexy eyes. The many dogs of Owao Takamoto, I hope I'm pronouncing his first name, right, I did look it up earlier. I'm probably still messing it up, though. Everyone has something they are really good at. For Takamoto, it was designing iconic cartoon dogs.

He started out with improving the design of Lady in Lekyllis. Lady in the Tramp, 1955, making her look cuter and more endearing than in initial sketches. He also designed the Jetson's dog, Astro, and Mutley, from the wacky races and dastardly and Mudley in their flying machine. But his greatest accomplishment was probably coming up with the look of Scooby-Doo. Oh my God, what a niche job. I designed cartoon dogs. I just drew cartoon dogs, man. Takamoto designed the entire main cast of Scooby-Doo, including the meddling killer.

dog companion, who the studio originally envisioned quite differently. According to Michael Mallory, author of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Ewaou gave a Scooby-Doo. Without him, it would have been a little Airdale, and the show would have lasted one season. The reason why Takamoto landed on a Great Dane was apparently because of a Hannah-Barbera employee who worked in the Ink and Paint Department and dealt professionally with the breed. When asked to describe her prize winners, she told Takamoto that a truly great-great-dain was was characterised by a straight back, straight legs, small chin and such. I decided to go the opposite way, Takamoto later explained,

and gave Scooby a humpback, bowed legs, big chin and such. Even his colour is wrong. Of course, wrong is a very relative term here, seeing as Scooby-Doo has been on the air for nearly 55 years now. We can all hope to make those kinds of wrong choices. So dogs, he's fucking great at dogs. Oh yeah. He did amazing.

He's great at fucking dogs. It's great at fucking dogs. There's a comma there somewhere. Anyway, the final section is a little bittersweet, gifting the world's joy that his own childhood lacked. Takamoto was born in 1925 in Los Angeles as the son of a Hiroshima migrant. However, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he and 110,000 to 120,000 other Japanese Americans

were forced into the Manzanar internment camp. It wasn't the happiest placed on earth, to say the least, but Takamoto occupied his time with drawings and such. After the war, he continued his newfound passion by buying two inexpensive drawing pads and a pencil, filling every single page in them with whatever caught his eye. Those sketchbooks are ultimately what got him a job at Disney. I went in to the interview clutching these two pads and was ushered into the office, Takamoto once explained. His name was Mike Nelson who was doing the interviewing that day.

He said, let me see what you got. So I handed these two things over, and he spent quite a bit of time flipping through them. Then the question came up. Are you in a hurry to get somewhere else? And I said, no. He said, if you can hang around 15 to 20 minutes, I'll be back. He picks up these two pads and disappears. Then he came back in, looked at me, and said,

Can you start on Monday? Needless to say, I was totally stunned. And so, the career of a multi-talented artist who went on to become vice president of creative design at Hannah Barberia, vice president of special projects for Warner Brothers Animation, and the recipient of the 2005 Golden Award from the Animation Guild. Not everyone may name, Not everyone may know the name Iwau Takamoto, but nearly the entire world knows of at least one of his creations.

Few artists can lay claim to that kind of legacy. Oh, amazing. What amazing man. I'd never heard of him before. Good man drawing good boys. He's just drawn loads of good boys and also worked on some of the most influential animated movies of all time. Kind of incredible. That is amazing.

There we are. That's my thing. you're very welcome we've learned something today instead of instead of this man getting credit it's it's um chris pratt it becomes the face of animated films it's me mario that's not the voice yes the fuck it is oh god that's amazing yeah you always like hearing about the little there's not this is a weird term for it but the grunts behind the scenes the people who actually make stuff happen yeah yeah absolutely he drew all of the scooby gang which i think is quite quite incredible really damn good design barely changed in the 55 years so yeah

absolutely wouldn't have that cravat without him no probably not did he draw scrappy do though is the question oh yeah i mean i'm looking at sketches and it is just it's the it's the main crew the main gang well that's fine then yeah otherwise we we unsay all of the praise that we've given him so far. There we are. Very nice. Thank you very much, Ben. Absolutely magical.

I'm going to... Mike is your turn now. Yes, I'm going to do my viewer submitted thing. Go on. Yes. This one comes in from Greg Miller at Greg Mill 2-290 on Twitter. And I just went for this one because the headline may be laugh. and that headline is

in between us James Buckley forced to ring 1-1-1 after quote-un-quote bowling ball poo left him in agony oh my god why would you share this

it's breaking poos I mean truly breaking poos by the sounds of it oh my god so yeah welcome this is an article from The Daily Star of course I don't think many other publications would dare Put an article together like this, but Aaron Tinney, he continues.

The In-Betweener star, James Buckley, who I've met, I'm just going to name drop. Was he nice? Yeah, yeah, he's nice. I guess, thankfully, he didn't need to do a poo that day and destroy himself in the toilet, so I got him on a good day. Right. Who played Jay on the Hit Channel 4 series, The Inbetweeners, has opened up about his traumatic hard poo ordeal,

which forced him to ring for medical help. It actually does sound quite grim. The last thing anybody wants is having a bad poo and then also calling for medical. I can't poo. James Buckley phoned the NHS 111 line. For those you don't know, 111 is the minor emergencies line. It's just like, oh, I need a bit of help with something.

You don't need an ambulance. You just need some soothing words. Deep breaths and squeeze. He phoned one. in a panic over his constipation. The in-between his actor, 35, plunged into a panic while struggling to squeeze out a hard poo, he reckons was the size of a bowling ball.

Sorry, no, it wasn't. Yeah, yeah, I'm very curious whether pulling these quotes from. He must have just talked about this on a video or something. Before he desperately turned to calling the pre-emergency advice line. A size of bowling ball. Oh, God. Dad of two, James, Famous for playing potty mouth in between his character, Jay said,

I was in so much pain, my arse was really, really, really, really sore. God, it was like a bowling ball. It was like a really hard, massive poo that I could not squeeze out of my tight little bum hole. Oh, for God's sake. He's having fun with this one, I think. After his one-one-one call, James took laxatives and got back on the bog for another marathon squeezing session. Oh, goody. I was on that toilet for six hours.

I was on that toilet for so long that the laxatives started to kick in and my God, was it a relief? I felt like crying. I was so relieved. I was at my lowest ebb. That was me at my lowest. What is this story?

It's just a man. Why did he sit there for six hours? If nothing was happening, could he not have gone about his day and waited until he felt like, Oh, the Lexington was starting to work. Maybe it was in so much agony that he just couldn't do anything else but sit on the bog. I mean, if it was the size of a bowling ball, then yeah, you wouldn't really be able to go anywhere else.

But, I mean, the notion that it was as big as a bowling ball is just comical. That's like something Jay would say. It is. Like a fucking bowling ball. Does he say what he ate? Let me find out. James's wife, Claire Meek, said she was so embarrassed for him that she was left thinking of ending their. 11-year marriage. They are totally taking the piss with this, aren't they?

Surely. The former model said, I've never been so embarrassed for him in my life, how he was acting. Honestly, divorce was flickering through my brain. I've never seen anything like it. Oh, okay, there's a medical reason for this at least. Since last year, James has been open about his battle with piles, maybe a little bit too open, but... Oh, okay. And admitted he got Claire to check out the big lumps on his posterior.

Oh, dear. And he added about how he fears. his crippling constipation about may trigger a flare upon the condition. The last time I pushed out a poo that was maybe too big for me, you know what happened? That's what kicked off all this piles nonsense. So in my

head I was like, well, that's piles again. Oh, dear. And there's a lovely comment here from two hats, who says, poke around with chopsticks, job done. Oh, God. That's that classic joke, it's like an uncall joke

or something that he tells you when you're about 10 how does a what does a what does an arithmetic teacher do when they've got constipation work it out with a pencil

okay oh god very nice that's a grim image yeah thanks for listening to a very long and detailed story about bowling ball size poos oh yeah oh yeah

oh yeah god I really want I need to find the source for this information but what did he eat though because there's a It's got to be something that's caused that, that issue. A bowling ball?

Yeah, I mean, that's the only explanation, right? Yeah. Just going to search James Buckley Pooh on Google. Good luck. That's a roll of the dice. No, I think it's all just the same stuff. Oh, he's Instagram fans. It's on his Instagram.

James Buckley, Instagram. All right, show us the goods, James. I just, maybe, oh, God, is it a video? for. Oh, okay. There's a video here that's titled Marriage is All About Teamwork. And I don't want to watch it, but I don't think there's anything exciting in this. I think, yeah, it was just him in a video. These quotes are all just from a comedian telling jokes on Instagram. Show poo. Show poo. Show poo. How big was it? Show poo. Oh, no, I don't think we're going to see it, sadly. Bowling ball size poo. Maybe I could Google that.

Ball size poop. Oh, Michael. Why? That really is a dangerous Google. There's nothing explicit, sadly. That sucks. Anyway, thank you for listening. Yeah, thanks. We're on a tangent there.

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Fall Experience Event. Conditions supply, visit your local Volvo retailer or go to explorevolvo.com. A thing? Yes, I would like to do my thing. So this started with a Wikipedia article I was going to read, but it's not a very long one. So I'm trying to work out which I found an article, like a written article that is a bit more substantial I'm trying to work out let's do the article first so this is according to

countrylife.co.uk apparently written by Martin Phone in January 2020 curious questions how did in fact I won't read the headline because that'll spoil it

but it starts with it's an article what we're going to talk about is about birds and bird migration but the first few paragraphs are like, as someone who can barely get from A to B without visiting other letters of the alphabet, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

For me, as a boy, the arrival of the swallow was a sight for sore eyes, and it just goes on and on for like three paragraphs before we get to the actual business. Okay, here we go. So we skip through. The philosopher Aristotle described around 140 species of birds in his 10-volume Historia Animalium, recording how some species of birds seemed fatter when they were about to migrate and considerably thinner when they returned. He was able to point out that the Eurasian crane migrated from the steps of Scythia to the marshes of the Nile, observations that he could presumably validate from travellers who went around the terra cognitur of the ancient world. But as

for birds that strayed beyond the purlius, the purlius of the known world, their habits were a mystery. If nothing else, in the absence of hard data, Aristotle was inventive. He surmised that migrating birds such as swallows, aping small reptiles and mammals, simply hibernated in the winter, either in nooks and crannies or underwater. Others suggested they metamorphosed into other types of birds that were better able to cope with the adverse weather. This is genuinely what people used to think with... They were aware of migration because the ones that didn't migrate particularly long distance,

you would see them in like England, for example, and then people who were big travellers would maybe see them in the winter like on the Nile. So they're like, oh, that's what they're doing. But there were some that just seemed to vanish completely and we didn't know what they were doing. So the suggestion was that they were going

underwater and going to sleep or turning into other birds. So influential was Aristotle that his theory of hibernating swallows was accepted hookline and sinker for two millennia. The Archbishop the Archbishop of Uppsala declaring it is a fact in the mid-16th century.

Even the renowned, excuse me, even the renowned Selborne naturalist Gilbert White reported that Swallows, arriving early in England and encountering frost and snow, would immediately withdraw for a time, a circumstance much more in favour of hiding than migrating. That's a quote. And he was doubting that they would trouble themselves with travelling again to warmer latitudes for a few weeks

until England's weather warmed up. Still, Aristotle's theory was not as bizarre as some that did the rounds. In 1703, a professor from Harvard wrote in a pamphlet that migrating birds flew to the moon. That's nice. That's quite sweet. I like that, yeah.

Thomas Buick went some way towards solving the mystery of the disappearing swallow there, reporting in the first volume of his A History of British Birds, published in 1797, that a ship's captain, whose opinion he esteemed, between the islands of Manorca and Mayorka saw great numbers of swallows flying northward. He put the idea of birds hibernating at the bottom of pools to rest

by observing that swallows frequently roost at night after they begin to congregate by the sides of rivers and pools from which the circumstances it has been erroneously supposed that they retire into the water. Buick even experimented with swallows, keeping them warm, dry and fed during the winter months and leading to conclude, they leave us when this. country can no longer furnish them with a supply of their proper and natural food. The tide was turning in the right direction. You know, he's right there with all of that information.

But the critic might argue that Buick's theories, correct as we now know them to be, were just that what was neat, were just that and what was needed were hard facts to substantiate the concept of avian migration. So they're saying at the time there were just a theory and no one actually knew what birds were doing. That's just a theory. Now, here's where we get to the interesting bit, because that's still a lot of padding there for this article.

But the proof came literally out of the skies in 1822. A white stork, cichonia caconia, to give the Latin name. Shakira, Shakira, indeed. Was found outside the village of Clutz on the Baltic coast of what is now Germany. And no ordinary stork it was. Let me now send you a picture of, I don't know if this is the stork. but this has happened multiple times in history. So whether this is the one or a later one.

Oh my God, I'm quite excited. This is the image. Oh my God. Wow. So running through it was a third. Describe the image? Well, yes. Running through it was a 30 inch spear,

which had entered by the left hand side of the body and exited halfway up its neck on the right hand side, impaling it in a grotesque fashion. The hunter, morning. the loss of his dinner and his prized spear could at least console himself with the knowledge that it was a shot in a million. So I've sent an image to Ben and Mikey

of a stuffed and mounted stork. It is the one actually, yeah. It's the one that was found in 1822 and it has still got the spear going through its neck. Yeah, that's nuts. That's crazy. Upon inspection, the spear was found to be made of African wood

prompting the inescapable conclusion that notwithstanding its injuries, the stork had managed to fly the 2,000 or so miles from the continent of Africa from which it had migrated. The doubly unfortunate bird was killed and stuffed and mounted on its display complete with its spear to this day in the University of Rostock's zoological collection. Imagine surviving the spear

and then he could land and say, all right, you're going to sit in the display cabinet now, son. The Germans christened the stork, file stork or arrow stalk. Astonishingly, a further 24 such birds have been found over time bearing incontrivable proof that birds do migrate rather than hibernate or morph into something else. Scientists were now able to unlock some of the mysteries of migration, all thanks to a spear.

Wow. Which is so good. Crazy that like all this time they were thinking they transform or they fly to the moon or they go to sleep underwater or something. something. Then like a ship captain was starting to say, I don't know, I think maybe they're like, it gets too cold for them and they just fly somewhere else, but I don't really know if they do that or not. Can't prove it. And then a stalk falls out of the sky in Germany with an African spear in its neck. Yeah. Oh, God. And yeah, according to the Wikipedia article I was

going to read, which is very short. A fire stork is a stalk that gets injured by an arrow while wintering in Africa and returns to Europe with the arrow stuck in its body. As of 2003, about 25 file Sturker have been documented in Germany. Wow. Lord. It's crazy. I can't believe that's a regular occurrence. It's just like birds in ASDA.

That's how we solve the Seagull issue. Someone just gets an African spear. But yeah, you'd think that maybe this is like a one and a billion chance. Stork has to fly to Africa, get an arrow through its neck, make it back to Europe and die all in the period of history where no one even knew that migration existed in order for that to be the evidence. But no, this has apparently happened

25 times at least, which is insane. Yeah. Yeah. It's bonkers. God, well, very spare as well later. You're welcome, and if you guys want to see the image listening at home, it will be in the thread, and you can just search

File-Stalk on Wikipedia. P-F-E-I-L-S-T-O-R-C-H. It's that. Incredible. Thank you very much, Peter. Welcome. We're a birdie episode today, aren't we? Very birdie, yeah.

Ben, would you like to do your viewer-submitted thing? I will do my viewer-submitted thing. This comes to us courtesy of, find the message from Michael Johnson, Sean Harris at Sean Harris Film on Twitter. Thank you so much. Thank you. What we've got is an article, and I'm going to read it. Are you ready?

Yes. Here we go. It's from sky.com written by mystery person. It just says, why you can trust Sky News, but it won't tell us who wrote it. No, we don't have an author for this one, it's okay. The headline reads, TikToker fakes his own death to find out who cares and then shows up at the funeral. Brilliant. So without even reading this, this is a real dickhead thing to do.

And also, I feel like this is such a cliche of so many movies in TV. TV shows that why on earth would you do it in real life? How callous can you be to your loved ones? A Belgian TikToker faked his own death to find out who cared and then turned up to his own funeral. David Berton, 45, sorry, and his wife and children decided to prank. Yeah, decided to prank. It's just a prank, bro. Just a prank, bro.

Friends and family members to find out what they really thought of him. Spread the news of Mr. Berton's death, one of his children took to social media and wrote a tribute to her father. She wrote, rest in peace, Daddy, I will never stop thinking about you. Why is life so unfair? Why you? You were going to be a grandfather and you still had your whole life ahead of you. I love you, we love you. We will never forget you. Fucking hell.

Oh my God. The funeral, which was staged last weekend, let me just check at the time of released. 14th of June was when this article was posted, which was staged last weekend. So a couple of weekends ago, near the city of Leish, Leij, perhaps, was attended. by many friends and family members dressed in black. Everyone was waiting for the ceremony to begin, but instead, they were met by a landing helicopter. Oh, boy.

In the video posted on TikTok by a funeral attendee, Mr. Bairton stepped out of the helicopter alongside a camera crew and was then greeted by mourners. Some of Mr. Berton's family and friends are seen running up to him in the footage amid emotional exchanges, while others remain confused and perplexed in the car park. According to the times,

the TikTok has said that he faked to, his death to see how his wider family would react and said he felt underappreciated by them. He added, I wonder why, because you're prank. Yeah. What I see in my family often hurts me. I never get invited to anything. Nobody sees me. We all grew apart.

I felt unappreciated. That's why I wanted to give them a life lesson and show them that you shouldn't wait until someone is dead to meet up with them. Mr. Bairton, also known as Ragnar LaFou on TikTok, claimed some loved ones have been reaching out to him since the prank, adding, it proves who really cares about me those who didn't come did contact me to meet up so in a way I did win what an insufferable cock in hell this guy god not least for all the uh you know putting aside or the emotional trauma of that it's also like you know people have gone out of their

way to like travel and get time off work some of them might have bought a suit or hired a suit because they don't have one like just the all the other inconveniences once you get beyond the fact that he's being an emotional blackmailing piece of shit like just the

the level of inconvenience he's gone to there for his own like you know selfish gratification for views on TikTok that's all it is the helicopter

I mean like this guy already sounds like a dick even just by arriving in a helicopter to do his own funeral. Yep. Oh, God. Yeah, I think I would have put him in the grave if I saw him emerge in a helicopter

with cameras following him. It was like, oh my God, what are you doing? Yeah. I bet at least some of his family members think, what a fucking prick. Screw this guy, I'm done. You know, that's just beyond the basic dick level, he's also just like, it's so manipulative.

And I wouldn't want to be, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with him if he tried to, if anyone I was, you know, a family member of pulled that bullshit because it's just mass emotional manipulation. Like, fuck that. I'm not wasting my breath and my thoughts on you. I wonder why I'm not getting invited out of places. Let me, let me pretend to be dead. How curious. Well, he talks about how like, you know, some people, a lot of people ignore me now and it shows who your real friends are and stuff. Like, there will have been some people who were still tolerated.

him and inviting him to stuff who will have turned up to that funeral and then when they realise that's the kind of dick he is he'll have lost them as friends like having had them as friends in the first place so probably backfired in a lot of ways I suspect yeah what no did you not hear the last line he he he did win in a way yeah certainly did he made it on to potty it's I mean he did make it on to potty it clearly it was for TikTok content and that I mean not that that platform could do anything to endear itself to me, but that just really sort of affirms my viewpoint of that entire situation over there. Forty-five as well. You should know better. Yeah. Awful. Awful. Thank you very

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Yeah. There's a part of me that's deeply scared I've already done this I think there might be one or two entries on this that have featured in other ones but I think this is

hot, fresh and tasty Okay Today we are making Delicacies of the British Isles fight Oh Can't wait to be dismayed at what we consider delicacies

Yeah I've kind of stayed it Mostly towards the saddest foods So it's kind of like Well no I mean the sad foods, but the bloody good foods. So, um, yeah, like, it definitely does reflect poorly on our nation that it's all just brown. Okay. I mean, brown's delicious. So, yeah. Okay, so we have 16 fighters. They will be whittled down to just one. Ladies and gentlemen,

are you ready to food fight? Yes, I am. Ding. Right. Our first battle is Toad in the hole, bloody delicious for those not from the UK. Taudenahool is sausages in Yorkshire pudding. And if If you don't know what Yorkshire pudding is, it's kind of like pancakey batter. Yeah, yeah, it's delicious. Thick, fluffy batter mix. Thick and crunchy. Savoury pillow. It's Todner Hall versus, and we're going for a full meal here.

Potato Smarly's, chicken dippers and spaghetti hoops. Oh. See, I'm not keen on spaghetti hoops. I opted for spaghetti hoops over beans because it's more of a comical food to me. It is, it's very funny. Alphabetis spaghetti spaghetti. spaghetti is the funniest food at all. Toad in the hole, I think, like, can either be done, if it's done properly, if it's a good

toad in the hole, it can be really good. But if you do it wrong, it can be oily. And, like, sometimes if I eat sausages, I get a headache for some reason. Oh, my God. What? Yeah, I know. Probably some sort of tumor or something. I don't know.

Oh, God. Shubbing them at my nose. That's how I eat them. But, yeah. So, I don't know. I do like a toad in the hall. and I don't, I'm not keen on spaghetti hoops personally. What are you thinking, Ben?

I mean, our love for dippers and smileys is well established. Yeah. But I feel like I can't go against toad in the hole. It's just so, it's so lovely, you know? It's not easy to make, but no one near as easy as dippers and smileys, but it, oh, it's fucking lovely. Yeah, and it's like an actual proper meal. I mean, potato smileys, chicken dippers and it's a real meal.

It does cover all the main food. groups circles circles and circles and circles and places yeah whereas turning the hole also covers all the food groups sausage and better yes and gravy don't forget the gravy yeah yeah yeah I mean much I would much rather have gravy than bean juice any day of the week so I am happy you went Toden the Hall because that was my choice as well and oh oh oh no my my bloody tournament website is not working no! Take a screen job on paper

alright let me just I'm gonna freestyle this in Photoshop okay give me a second I swear you've had to do this before I feel like we've had this conversation before yes we almost definitely have I did wonder why there was a big orange button above it that said create an account next week can we do

16 of the best tournament software programs I keep going for the same one all right here we go All right, so Toadena Hall, congratulations. You've graduated to the next one. And next one is kind of similar to Toad in the Hall.

Bangers and Mash. Versusy peas on their own. Just on its own. Why is it just a bowl of mushy peas? Mushy peas, yeah. I feel like there's strong opinions about mushy peas. A lot of people seem to bloody hate them, but I'm, oh, I could, I could hunker down. on a big ball of mushy peas and be quite happy with it.

I only discovered mushypush peas like a year or so ago. What? I discovered that I liked them. I don't mean I never had them before. I never had them before either. Yeah. I didn't think they seemed that appealing. But then I had, they came with the fish and chips that I ordered at a pub or something.

And they were like properly like they were mushy and they were minted, slightly minted. And as in they, you know, earn a shedload of money every year. and drive a Ferrari. Yes. You know, you get a little fork full of mushy peas and then a fork full of battered fish. Oh, it's fantastic. Yeah.

For those at home, bangers and mashers. Sausages and potato mash and mushy peas are exactly what they're saying in the tin. It's just mushed up peas. It's great. Never had mushy peas before. I feel like maybe I had them in the past, maybe this year for the first time. I didn't really think much of them. They always just seemed quite unappealing to me.

And so I never ordered them. them and I just, they're mushy peas, you know, that I don't know. Maybe I didn't have good mushy peas. But equally, you could have put pretty much anything in this bracket against bangers and mash because I think I don't get the mashed potato love. I've got to say, I don't. Some people lose their shit over mashed potato and I don't, I'll eat it happily, but I don't think it's as, I don't go crazy for it. However, putting up against mushy peas, it's bangers and mash for me. Let's go back. How are you making your mashed potato? What are you putting in it. I'm not, I'm not making my mashed potato at all because I don't care. I don't care

about it. There are better things to do with mashed potato. I mean, potato regularly. I do think it's one of the worst ways to eat a potato. Like, just, you're heathens. Get it all chewed up on the plate for you before you put it in your mouth. That's basically what you do. I did make a little reservoir for gravy in the mashed potato. That's great. Fine. I just don't get the hype. Like, I'll gladly eat it. But if you offered me any other kind of potato it's it's not going to smile it's going to be smiley yeah for example absolutely of course uh okay i agree and i like mushy peas so i'm inclined to say mushy peas for this i'm going back if i had them with fish i'm going i'm going mushy peas personally

my god mushy piece is fucking one i i know that they're going to get knocked out in the next one but i just want them to i love i love them daily and like whenever i buy a tin of mushy peas it is a real treat I get very excited about it I eat them as soon as I physically can so weird I wouldn't have them on their own but sure what's next? I'm going to buy some tonight

yeah um to ask the Bedminster yes I will I shall um this is a weird one black pudding

which for those who've not had it before I'm going to Google this to confirm it is just pig's blood isn't it and something but yeah And like, Sueet? No, is that right? What's Sueet? It's made from pork blood, fat, oats or barley. Mmm. Yeah, great. It's very tasty, though, despite that horrible, horror show of what it actually is.

Versus a deep fried mars bar. Oh, I've never had a deep fried mars bar. Oh, really? Also, much like mushy peas, I had black pudding for the first time this year, and it was vegan. and black pudding. And I thought it was fine. So based on the description alone, a battered Mars bar for me.

I mean, I don't like chocolate. And even if I, if it was something else sweet and battered, I don't really like the sound of, I mean, I don't know. Like, I get that battered stuff can exist in a sweet scenario and work pretty well because it is just the same as pancake mix. but I mean bad Marsbaugh for me is not it's not that great

black pudding a lot of people hate it and hate the idea of it I don't like mind it I would never like think oh I could really go for some black pudding but if I go somewhere and there's like a full English

and I'm already being a bit fussy and saying like can I have my without tomato please then I'm not going to ask them to take off the black pudding I'll happily just receive black pudding and eat it pity black pudding

yeah so I always wouldn't like specifically put it onto my plate necessarily but i think it's fine so i would go for that but i appreciate that a lot of people do not like the idea of it or actually the taste of it um i'm i've had i've had one deep fried mars bar my life and it was me very me it just just oily kind of sad and yeah just i'd rather have the regular mars bar to be honest doesn't need to be deep fried deep fried pickles door now i can get down with that that's good Oh, those sound nice.

Oh, very good. Ben, did you cast a vote there? I'm going Mars bar. Okay. Well, I think black pudding comes out on top in kind of a shock result. I didn't expect that. I have fond memories of black pudding. It must be confusing for people listening that Yorkshire pudding is fundamentally different from black pudding.

It's so different. Very different. All right, this could be a tough one. A chip butty. which is just chips in bread usually a bun or a map if you mean fries

big fries big chunky fries versus sausage rolls oh well I tell you even before sausage rolls came up here's another thing I don't get the hype about chip butty

I'd happily just have the chips on their own and then like a burger or something in the bread I don't get why you would want chips in bread It's just calmsing hot. Because, yeah, the butter, the butter, the butter makes the difference in the chip butter. Actually, I can imagine it probably does.

I hadn't even thought about that. It's like having a turkey sandwich after Christmas, Peter. You've got to add that mayonnaise. Otherwise, it's just like, why am I doing, why am I doing this? Right. Yeah, no, I get that. The butter does sound, I've never considered the butter. I've just thought, even though it's called a butty, I'd always just considered like, what?

So you want chips in bread? Why does everyone want this? You chip one? It's a platform upon which. you interpret the dish you can dip it in gravy or you know salt and pepper on it make it a little bit spicy it's a dispensing uh mechanic right a meat a sort of a solvent if you like yeah yes it's a new delivery system for chips okay i see i see that and yet sausage rolls i love them i got food poisoning from sausage rolls before um so they really do run the gamut of quality

depending on where you get them from because there are some really shit sausage rolls out there And there are also some massively, like, overcomplicated sausage rolls out there as well. I feel like... This may not be a controversial statement, but the perfect sausage roll, the one that pleases everybody, is a Greg's sausage roll. Yeah. I think they've just got it down to a science, right? I don't want to go to a pub and, like, they have fancy sausage rolls and off a way. It's like four pound for, like, a tiny little thing.

No, I just want a big fat Greg's for, like, one pound, and that's it. That's upset. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you get, like, really fancy ones, don't you? that are like hog roast sausage roll or like pulled pork and buffalo or something. It's got loads of weird herbs in there

and maybe a bit of Stilton or something. And it normally, I don't think they, like quite often those taste good, but you're paying twice or triple the price and you'd be just as happy with the Greg sausage roll. Or I like the sort of medium range supermarket sausage rolls as well. I think that they tend to be okay. Like not too grisily and stuff.

It's sausage roll for me, though, personally. Yeah, I'll go sausage roll. Oh, you bastards. I want to be on the winning side for once. Yeah, fair, okay. I mean, it would have been a phone the other way as well. Yeah. I think I'm firmly in the chip, but he can.

I do like sausage rolls. I appreciate them, but I'd much rather have chips in bread. It's just a delight. All right, sticking with the sandwich theme here, we have a fish finger sandwich. versus now this is an interesting one the pie balm well you've lost me there immediately do you know what pie balm is

that is a pie in a bun by would you mean a savory meat pie inside a bread roll yes also known as a wig and kebab if you will why we're putting everything in bread look at the state of that I mean how are you going to even eat that it's just going to actually the second one looks pretty good to be fair the first one all the Google results are of dry they look dry as hell man oh man I'm putting it on the link the thread now if you want to see well on the other hand I've always been concerned when I've seen photos like that of pie sandwiches that like

some of them I imagine are probably like have have some gravy inside the pie yeah go everywhere yeah if you bit into that and it was like an actual pie with with any kind of sauce or gravy or you know liquid in it it'll be a nightmare yeah um i've never had a pie bomb sadly i can imagine it i mean just as it's probably make it quite easily yourself you know i don't know oh it's a bit complicated one put pie and bread that's it done pie cut bread oh man i'm kind of like i could i could do oh my god sorry the second photo is just the driest meal i've ever seen there's just chips with nothing on them as well. Good God, we are awful.

It's like Peter's chippy, isn't he? He doesn't drizzle butter on his chips like the rest of it. No, I don't. However, a fish finger sandwich on the other hand is like the perfect comfort food. It's really easy. You can have it for breakfast lunch or dinner. It's like, it's a great little sandwich. I love a fish finger sandwich.

Yeah. Yeah, they're good. Yeah. I'm firmly in the camp of fish finger sandwich as well. Fish sticks, I think, in America. Fish sticks. Yeah. Are you a gay fish, et cetera?

Yeah. So we're all firmly in the fish finger sandwich. Yeah, for me. I think so. Good. Respect. Did you know that the fish finger, the dimensions of a fish finger were specifically designed to, so that you can put three, three and one. Or like, you do them like that and they fit into sliced bread.

Really? It's like designed for the sandwich. Or like maybe not the original fish finger, but I think bird's eye designed their, so that, they fit very nicely into a sandwich specifically. It does feel like fate. Yeah. Oh God. Yes. Oh, God. I'm so hungry now. We continue. We've got haggis and bubble and squeak. Oh, it was hoping bubble and squeak are being here. That's a proper. That's a proper one. Cold fashion. It's wartime. War time. What am I trying to think of wind in the willows? There's a proper wind in the willows food. Yes. It is. Yeah. I think he has that in jail, doesn't he? He has bubble and squeak.

Yeah, probably. Do you want me to explain what bubble and squeak is, Mikey? Oh, yes, please, go on. So bubble and squeak is a British dish made from cooked potatoes and cabbage mixed together and fried. The food writer Howard Hillman classes it as one of the great peasant dishes of the world. Yes, indeed. It's just a fried patty of Yev, like, really hearty goodness. And you can add all sorts of stuff to it. You can add meat to it and things like that if you want. I've never actually had it, but I don't think it sounds that bad. I mean, it's fried, so that's a good thing.

Yeah, it's just a Sunday roast kind of, but fried, so it was not to love, in all one mashy, messy thing. Yeah, it just looks a bit like a hurricane tortilla, if you know what I mean. Oh, right, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to Google a picture. I've sent you, I've just sent one there. There you are. That's what it looks like. And for those who don't know, haggis is sheep's pluck, which is hard.

liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal's stomach. Yum! Yeah, that's where Sue it comes. I knew Sue it was in one of our classic delicacies. I thought it was part of black pudding, but no. Hagus, despite its grim description, is actually quite nice as well. It's got lots of spices in it, isn't it, which is more tasty.

Masks there. Yes, it gives it flavour. I've never had haggis I think again had it for the first time this year and it was vegan haggis and it just tasted a bit like a sausage

kind of thing yeah spicy sausage wasn't that arced haven't had bubble and squeak for a very long time but I just think it's it's very quaint and so I'm voting for that one

yeah I've only had haggis once a long time ago I think like when I was a kid I think my dad had it in a restaurant and I just had like a bite of it. I don't really remember what it was like.

But yeah, I agree. Bubble and squeak is very quaint. It's very traditional. It's Wind in the Willows slash World War II. Two of the best times in British history. Yes. Yes, I'm in full agreement here. Well done, Bubbling squeak.

All right, we're on to the last two, well, the last four, last two, the last two fights of the first round. There we go. Oh, this is going to hurt some people. people. Beans on toast, which is, as it's as it is, it's baked beans on toast or a crisp sandwich. Oh, okay. Is the crisp sandwich, has it got any other filling? It's just butter and crisps. Butter and crisps. All right. Chips as well. Yeah, not to be confused with a chip sandwich, which is very different. Um, for what was the first one again? Beans on toast. So I recently

discovered that American beans are very different from our beans and, yes. A lot of Americans don't really understand our obsession with putting beans on everything and having beans with everything because their beans are very different. I don't really, I can't really describe the different. I don't know what you guys, do you guys know what the difference is really between the two beans? No, I don't. I didn't know there was a big difference. Yeah, I think American beans have a different kind of seasoning to it.

I think it's generally like heartier kind of seasoning in it. Maybe it's more erring towards chili. Okay, almost. I've got a description. American baked beans also called Boston bait beans are made with molasses and pork salt or bacon and they're slow cooked in the oven. English style baked beans, Heinz baked beans,

being the most famous, are more savory and made with a tomato sauce based. So it's just completely different approaches to cooking your bean, basically. And that's why baked beans go with a lot more stuff. We put it with a lot more stuff at least in the UK. Oh, yeah. Since 180, since 1908, Bush's best Boston baked booths.

Bush's best. Amazing. Oh, dear. Beans on toast. Yeah? Wow, just like that, easy. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't choose either of these personally.

I don't mind either of them, but like I wouldn't go straight for them. Never been a big beans fan. But I appreciate how important baked beans. Beans on Toast is for so many other people in the UK. So as a vote for them, not for me, I would probably vote for that. On behalf of the British people, Beans on Toaster Sense, I would have said a crisp sandwich. I've never not enjoyed a crisp sandwich. Doritos are a pretty good one to put in there, if you like a little bit extra crunching them.

Oh, you can get quite artisanal with your crisp sandwiches, though, if you really want to. I rarely make a sandwich at home without putting crisps in it. I don't mind adding crisps to a sandwich, but I wouldn't have a sandwich, like, Two pieces of buttered bread or one piece of buttered bread and then just some crisps in it. I wouldn't... Ready salted walkers and bread, man, nothing better. I'm sure it's great, but, you know, beans on toast. Not for you.

And lastly, we have the humble scotch egg. Yes. Scotch egg, I'm Googling now, is... Well, it's an egg encased in sausage meat and then coated in breadcums. Cums? Bread crumbs. Not bread, bread, crumbs. Coated in bed.

Bedcums. Bed comes. Typical kind of pub snack and in other places. Yeah, you'll get it in the deli-isle with sausage rolls and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Versus this is a historical one and to be honest, this is a no-brainer. It's scotch egg versus a toast sandwich. Oh, fuck off with your toast sandwich.

I was wondering if that was going to be in here. Of course it did. What is, no. Explain what it is, Michael. It's so good. It's two slices of bread with a third slice of bread, put in the middle, and you put a bit of salt and pepper in there and you eat it, and it's great, it's soft, it's crunchy, it's tasty, it's everything you eat back.

The middle bread is toast. Yes, yes. And you season it. Yeah, a little bit, little bit. But I'm a man who likes just straight bread, you know. It's like, of course, the toast sandwich appeals to my degenerity. What in the poverty is this meal? I've never, I've never understood.

It was sort of popularized in articles about how students eat it a lot because they couldn't afford just anything else to go in their sandwich. I think it's an ordinary thing as well because I heard about it for the first time from a uni coursemate of mine who's from Washington. So, and I've heard about a lot more since I moved up here, but I've never heard of it before then. Well, it originated in 1861 in a recipe book. Oh, for God's sake, a recipe book?

So, I hear you're enjoying that new toast. I'm just reading the first line of the Wikipedia here, because it's quite funny. Toast sandwich is a sandwich in which the filling between the two slices of bread is itself a thin slice of toasted bread, which may be buttered. Or it's just dry. Oh, yeah, I had it dry when I had it. Lovely, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's, sorry, the line here. and in any of these forms

will be found very tempting to the appetite of an invalid Oh Oh, okay, cool Well, I love scotch eggs I've always loved scotch eggs I've never ever ever had a fancy Scotch egg

I've never even had a hot scotch egg They've always been refrigerated They've always been from supermarkets And I will never get old of them I fucking you bite into them like an apple Because they're the size of an apple And there's a hard-boiled egg in it It's fucking great

I would never not like Scotch eggs yeah Scotch eggs are good yeah slightly less enthusiastic in the world

fit but yeah I agree that they're pretty good and I think toast sandwich is it is just

more of a sign of well I was going to say more of a sign of poverty than anything or if you're just if you're just

like bread Johnson who just like bread just enjoy bread big bread lover yeah big bread Also, with Scotch eggs, I'm a huge fan and even huge a fan of the much smaller, the much less huge,

savory egg bites, which you can get from supermarkets in multi-packs. You know, like picnic food. They're just tiny ones. They're great. I never got on with those. So there's more scrambled egg inside than the whole egg. And the joy of the Scotch egg is the egg surprise. Yeah, you don't get a full kinder egg inside a savory egg bite, but they hit the spot.

They're good. They're good snacking food. Good snack and food. All right. Well, we're on to the whatever comes before semifinals. Quarterfinals? Yeah, let's do that. It's toad in the hole versus mushy peas.

Toad in the hole, I think. Towed in the hole. Yeah, I respect that. I think in that instance, I'm happy to let mushy peas sit and stay. Black pudding versus sausage rules. Sausage rolls. Sausage rolls. Two for two on beige food now.

Um, bubble and squeak versus fish finger sandwich. Oh. Oh, fish finger sandwich for me. I mean, it's more familiar to me, a fish finger sandwich. As I say, I don't think I've ever had bubble and squeak or it's been a while if I, if I have. So, yeah, fish finger sandwich. Fair enough. And lastly, Scotcheg versus beans on toast.

Scottcheg. Scott cheg for me as well, yeah. Four for four and beige. Let's go. all right um semi-finals now sausage rules versus toad in the hall

both sausage meat related meals it's basically just sausage is something else it's just the pork finals also have we got scotch egg as well

it's got sausage and what was the other one fish finger sandwich oh okay it's the pork of the sea yeah um sausage roll for me

personally What was it? Toden the Hull versus sausage roll? Yeah, yeah. Oh man, this is a tough one. I mean, I love what we've extolled our love for all of these. So I'm sausage roll. Oh, I would have gone Toden the Hall myself, but respect it. Good Lord.

What a shit show. Scotch egg versus the fish finger sandwich. I'd say fish finger sandwich. I'd go scotch egg. I eat scotch eggs more regularly than fish finger sandwiches. Yeah, fair enough. And I don't eat either regularly. I'm going to say a fish finger sandwich

Yeah As much as I love I loved scotch eggs I don't know It's just something magical about a fish finger sandwich It's never disappointing It's always good It's always a little treat

So yeah I'm happy to move that into the finals Nice So it is Fish finger sandwich Versus sausage rolls In the final This is the best we got huh This is we sent our best men

Fuck sake I mean, I feel like the winner of a tournament of British delicacies should be sausage roll. Yeah, I agree. Sausage roll. All right. Congratulations. The humble sausage roll, favourite of many, single-handedly keeps Greg's a whole business going. A multinational, not multinational, single national company up and down the length and breadth of England keeps it going.

and also it's now officially crowned king of the quite frankly weird list of British foods English foods United Kingdom foods there we go wow I can't believe it I can't say I'm not surprised I did expect beans on toast to do better that is quite upsetting

but I think fair play sausage rules just wasn't beans time just blah yeah yeah I am actually remiss that chip but he was left right at the starting post but I haven't had a chip bloody in ages I rarely have bread in and I even

more rarely have chips but at some point I will do it and I'll have a great time you could have rigged it Mikey and just put it up against the obvious worst mushy peas other contender you'd rather have a toast sandwich than mushy peas I'd have voted for mushy peas on that one

you should have put it up against haggis or something yeah oh well or throwing jelly deals in there oh yeah I was expecting that as well actually Fucked out. Yeah, but I think like that's two esoteric. I've ever had jelly deals. I did kind of go for the beige foods.

We all know beige. We all love beige. That's fine. Yeah. Boge is safe. Love it. All right. Thank you so much, Michael.

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