Podiots - Podiots: Episode 132 – Fright or Sprite?

Episode Date: October 28, 2023

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Ghost, you can see my face. I'm floating in the Dick and Dom house. How terrifying. The Dick and Dom Horned House. Oh, blimey. Is everybody in the festive spirit? Yeah. I suppose so.

Yeah. It's a bit cold, in it? Yeah. It's cold and wet. Yeah. Muddy. Scotland is underwater and, yeah. Autumn is here.

But it's the spooky time. It is. It's the spooky time, which means that we have to obviously do our duty as Spookietz to do an episode of Spooky It's So we're here Do you guys have any Halloween plans at all?

Other than what you know about, Ben. Yes. Have you got plans, Mikey? Kill the Pope. What? You're going to kill the Pope. Sorry, sorry. I just thought Mikey might be able to help.

Have you got plans, Mikey? Yeah, we were doing a work party on Friday and I'm dressing up as Garfield. are my costume? He's hilarious. I fucking love that guy. He hates Mondays. He hates Mondays and he loves lasagna, which would poison most cats.

It's fucking, it's hysterical. I love it. Oh, yeah, I'm doing that. Ben and I are also going to, I mean, it's not an official work party, but someone from work is hosting. It's Ashton Matthews is hosting. Yeah, we're going to, we're going to Mikey 2's house. Yes. Yes.

I won't say what I'm dressing as. because well because I'm just being secretive like that I have heard what you're dressing has been the secret is out I've not kept it much of a secret to be fair so I can I'm happy to disclose let's go for it yeah what's with all this is why are we not disclosing

our Halloween costumes that I drop the ball by saying I'm Garfielders I think I was just gonna go after photo on the day yeah Ashton's party is just kind of it's not implied that you have to be secretive but it's kind of fun to not tell people and show up in your outfit of choice. But, yes, I am going to be dressed as Chris Barat

from Jurassic World. That was horrifying thing of all. I've got myself, I've got the relevant shirt, I've got the leather belt buckle, belt buckle, belt with buckle. And I've got the little waistcoat as well. It's mainly because I'm doing a couple's costume and my girlfriend has a dinosaur outfit. That's the, just felt like the most logical choice.

That's a good show. So you can just hold your hand out in her face at regular intervals throughout the heart. I can. That's what he does. And I won't be told off now, which is great. Anytime anyone's annoying me, I can just go, talk to the hand. Yeah. Parle am a man, as they would say in France.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. So I'm Chris Brat. That's me. But, you know, not like a weird religious crazy man. No, no, yeah. Other than that, we've got a pumpkin which we've not carved yet and we tend to do one every year but we are doing one this year

especially because we now live in a neighbourhood that has lots of families with children and not only do we suspect they will be trick-or-treating we basically know that they will be because they've decorated their own fronts of houses so they're clearly in the spirit so we know that we will... Are the spirits in them?

The ghost inside. my child. We will be getting children knocking on our door this year. We are sure of it. Past two or three years, we've bought a big packet of sweets and put it in a bowl and not a single child has arrived and we've gone, oh well, I'm going to have to eat all these sweets. All this Harrybo for Peter. Yeah. But I'm sure it will happen this year. So we've done a pumpkin. We can stick in the window. It's amazing. This is a dangerous time of year for me to go into Tesco because it's only a Halloween thing, but they have like, obviously the bags of sweets, but there's like a multi-bag of just like chewy, chewy, kind of refreshery kind of sweets.

And, oh, it's like, it's like crack to me. Like, if I buy a bag that, like, I've eaten 20 of them. I've eaten the entire bag in one night. And I've gone through two bags so far. And I'm hoping not to add any more to that because Jesus Christ, I feel like sugar afterwards. You're looking great, Mikey. Yeah, we're just going to continue to make you uncomfortable, Mikey, just every single time we talk to you. You're looking great, Michael.

My insides are full of sweets. Amy said to me as well, she said, oh, have you seen Mikey's new headshot? I was like, yeah. And she's like, he looks great. So everyone thinks you look great. So you can eat as many chewy things as you like. To look like Mr. Blobby, I will continue to feast on the flesh of little chewy things.

You might as well. If you're cycling every day, that's like the whole point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, fuck it. I'm going to eat all the sweets I want.

I censored myself from a swear there. and then I just said the big F, so... Ah, you don't have to censor yourself here, pal. It's just, you have to centre ourselves from the YouTube algorithm, the greatest gool of them all. That's true, yeah. I still don't know how that works. I'm still scared to swear, but screw it. Well, I guess we'll miss out on the seven pounds of ad revenue from each podcast.

Huge amount, huge amount of ad revenue that we can expect. Hello, cat. Welcome back. Hello, Cat. Ghost Cat. Ghost Cat. You can't see Ghost Cat, unfortunately, but she's... she is here. This is also my first year with potential children knocking at the door, which is obviously horrifying because I've been living in a flat, basically my entire independent adult life.

So it's never been a problem. And now it may well be a problem. I haven't seen many decorations out and about. And there are no children that live in the immediate houses around me, I don't think. But there's a very real risk. However, Halloween night is when I'm streaming. So it's not my problem. I'm not even going to be there to deal with it. But the doorbell might be going all the time, which would be bloody annoying. I went to a Halloween party last year, and they had a little balcony, and we had a bucket on a string. Whenever people were past, we'd drop the bucket to them and go, go on, have some sweets. I think only a couple of people actually obliged, which is kind of sad. Why don't people trust anyone anymore? Yeah, what if you would take sweets out of

the balcony bucket? I've just thought, actually, we had a ring doorbell installed about a month ago and obviously you can speak through them and actually Amy had to go next door yesterday just to pick up a parcel from the neighbours when we got back that had been delivered while we were out and when she walked out through the front door I thought I'd just just for a laugh I thought I'd just go hello through the doorbell and she I said it and through the closed living room door through the hallway and through the closed front door I could hear it and she looked down the camera and she went she's really loud and apparently I just shouted the word hello into a really quiet street.

All the car alarms go off. Yeah, so I could definitely scare a few children who knock on our door, I think. You should. With that, yeah. Well, you might get egged, who knows? Yeah, that's true. That's the risk, isn't it? You never know what's going to happen.

Well, I'd know what's going to happen now, though, and that's that we're going to roll the music and do the episode of Spooky It's that we promised. Yeah, it is. Shall we? Let's gole. Hello everybody and welcome to Spookiots, the official Spooky It's a podcast. It's a conversational spook cast where we take some spookshunds from Spook at Spook and Spook the Law of the Three Spooks, where everybody spooks a spooks, a spook, to

I'm Peter Spook along. I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. I think I went very well. I forgot how our intro went there. So I think mine's out of whack while still being spooky. So that's, yeah, fine.

Changes to routine. Ah, the biggest spook of the roll. You guys went with a spook, and I went with a spook thing at first. And then I, of course, corrected halfway through. Curious, very spooky all round. Welcome everybody back to Spooky. This is our annual spooky episode. of poddiots that we do, where this is the first year where we'll have things submitted by listeners

that are spooky related, as well as bringing our own things along, that are spooky in and of themselves. I would very quickly, before I ask you guys, how you doing? I'd like to thank everybody that came along to the charity stream we did the other week on Twitch. We raised some good money for Mermaids, which is a trans youth charity, and I want to thank you all for being there and giving so generously and also apologize for getting so drunk because it was unbecoming. But I don't think I embarrassed myself too much, but I was sick afterwards. Nice. So thank you for coming along.

I appreciate it. You get a free pass. You're doing charity, so you get to get it. It was for charity. I threw up for charity. It's good. I'll eat a pizza before the stream next time, no, instead of sort of nibbling on a piece afterwards when I couldn't face to eat anything.

But there we are. Peter, how are you doing? I'm very well. Thank you. How are you doing Michael Johnson? I'm doing very well. How are you doing Benjamin Potter? I'm doing all right. Thanks, Mikey. I appreciate you asking. Moment of silence. And now a hard transition into talking about Pod Squad because there was no connective tissue there for me to work with. Oh, connective tissue. How spooky.

That is spooky. It's inside the box. If you go to pottyats.com, donate three pounds or more. You'll get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the podcast. You'll join Pod Squad. You'll support us here in what we do and we'll really appreciate it. It's honestly, it's a win-win, win-win. Mikey is going to kick us off. We begin with Stephen Scores, Halloween nuts.

Donak 07. Cheese beats petrol 2020. Shredi Oh my God, that's a lot of letters Give me a minute Shredi Rand Kiztazba, yeah What? Yeah

Shredi Rand Kiztazbar yeah Yeah Anyone else go? Yeah Shreder and Kistabsaia Yeah Is that something? It feels like something

Is that something? Is that something? answers on a postcard please is that something thank you thank you for that we continue with i've sharted so i'll finish um the very generous uh and then lord gravy beetovitch thank you thank you gravy baitovitch uh we've also got or mine starts lord gravy baitovitch which i think is a duplicate oh sorry that's a double that's fine um well we've also got then One vowel from Shira, who was very, very generous and said, overdue donation, I'm sure, love to you and the Walrus clan.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Which vowel from Shira are you? That's what I want to know. The E or the A? Yeah. Or is it one vowel off spelling Shira? Well, it could be, yeah, maybe they.

Hmm, yeah. There's Prince Beefcakes, Paul Hollywood's sticky hand. Very generous Shrek's hot knob spiders, who says, Hey fellas, thanks for keeping your bussies so buss in all the time. Binge the pod from the beginning over the summer and have been loving it. Do you know where duck farts come from? Where? Their butt quacks.

Brilliant. I like that. That's better than any fringe joke I've ever heard. Yeah, that's true. And I've also got at the end of my list, Toby Curtis McKenzie. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Before we continue, Shrex, what was it?

Shrex Hot Knob spiders. Shrex Hot Knob spiders. Yeah, that reminds me that, Mikey, we did actually put in an application to stay at Shrek Swamp, didn't we? Yes, we did. And we haven't heard back yet. Damn it. And it's Halloween weekend, so I don't think we're going to hear back. Still chance.

Are we the problem, do you think? Yeah, maybe Dave Benson Phillips told them. not to I think they all mix in the same circles Dave Benson Phillips and Airbnb DBP and Airbnb I've heard of these guys

Don't give them the price That's Dave's next business venture When you need some cash DPP to have people stay in his house and in the DVD room in the green wall

Oh no DBP's Airbnb DVD Yeah Awful I do wonder if they're going to open it back up again because it turned out that it was a very limited time thing, wasn't it? It was just like over Halloween for charity. So I'm hoping they built the structure and they will open it up again because... I think it might be that you can then, after they've

done this free weekend, I think you can just book in for a price. I think you can just pay to go. Oh, okay, so we'll have to check back in. Yeah. I'll have to check back in at some point and see what's going on. Anyway, my pod squad, the fast crew, we've got urine for a treat. Cyclepath, Psychopath, Killie Ray Moulrous, Brian Butterwank, Mr Macca, maybe she's born with it, maybe it's D's nuts, Kristen Smells, Nya, Nya, and Brian Trunterfield. And that is your Poddsquod for this week.

Podiotts.com, £3 or more, to get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the show and join Pod Squad and support us in the process. We really appreciate you all. Do you guys have a favourite? I think we might have had it before, but I was taken by surprise by I've sharted, so I'll finish. Yes, I like that one, too. It's not the name, but I like butt quacks. I'm still kind of giggling to myself about that.

Good job, you. That's a good joke. This is my favourite joke I've ever heard. It's the best thing ever. Peter Austin, you're in charge of spooky things this week. Yeah, it went well in that I put out the normal tweet, for normal things and then about 10 minutes before we went not live so before we started recording I got my thing out from the documents that I keep and I was like oh here's the spooky thing

I was like shit spooky things oh no I should have asked for spooky things so at the last minute I've managed to get one definitely spooky thing one spooky-ish thing I don't know if it's a good enough story and one spooky adjacent thing that I've given to Michael Johnson so great thanks to those who desperately came through at the end with some loosely Halloween themed things. I'm sorry about that. Thank you. Thank you all. Heroes. When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners, I started wondering. Is every fabulous item I see from winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. Are those from winners? Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That

dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less but uh who would like to go first with their own thing perhaps i could mikey could mike yeah i've got something not explicitly like it's it's not Halloween-related, but every element of it is Halloween-related. So I guess that means it's Halloween-related. So let's dive into my deeply Halloween-related thing. Let me just adjust my screen a bit. Okay, here we go. Sorry, this isn't the voice for Halloween. Okay, let's go, kids. Are you ready to be scared? Um, uh-huh. On October 30th. Too scary, darn it back. Yeah. On October 30th, that better? More like it?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like that one. On October 30th, 1858. That's too spooky. Can we have a few more recently? 2005.

On October 20th. Yeah, nothing went wrong in 2005. Yeah, I think I met a duck in 2005. Did you? Did you? How did it fart? No, it's butt quack. You should do the fridge.

Just my one joke. On October 30th, 1858, William Hardacre set up his sweet stall at Green Market in Bradford, England. That afternoon, factory workers lined up to spend their payday wages on his zebra-striped humbugs. Harda-mm, um, tasty. I do think that is quite sweet, the picture of Victorian factory workers queuing up for sweets after work. A humbts, yeah. It's cute. Hardacre enticed customers with knock-down prices.

a discount to make up for the slight discoloration in the day's batch. Right. By the time the market shut, Hardacre had sold five pounds. That's weight, not money, of sweets. And by the next morning,

children began to mysteriously die. Oh, God. Oh, no. So this is a warning tale. If you get any discolored humbugs in your chook-a-treating bucket this week, just bid them. It's not worth it.

no no so let's find out what the heck happened here this was a time when child mortality was high cholera ran rampant leading the police to initially put their deaths down to natural causes few dead kids eh it's just the way it goes it's just spooky you know it's getting in the spirit of things yeah it's Halloween kids die don't worry about it yeah it's right get used to it Snowflake However, by the evening of October 31st, the sudden deaths were rapidly multiplying, which put all of the police into panic stations because something was amiss.

Police arrived at one harrowing scene, a distraught father. Well, I'm not going to describe the scene, but you can imagine a distraught father and what's in front of him. And the police spoke to the father. suggested that the sweets he bought early in the day could be behind their deaths. His suspicion was confirmed when a young man in the house insisted on testing the candies himself and ate two and then promptly fell ill. Oh, God. What?

I know things were different back then, but you don't look at your dead sibling and go, ah, let me try one. I'm sure it's nothing. Maybe it was this knife. I best check it. Yeah. Sharp. Yep, that's definitely it.

The father told the police that the candy stall was in the green market and that the seller went by Humbug Billy. Oh, God. No, the humbugger. That's good. No, you should have gone by that name. If the police believed Humbug Billy to be a murderous mastermind, they were soon disabused.

Disabused. What was that word even mean? Suspuged. Usually I change the complicated words from these. but disabused. It means it's the past tense of disabused. Good. Thank you, Google.

I don't know. They were soon, they soon realized he was not actually a mergers master and. There we go. English. English is good. Instead, they discovered him at home, writhing in agony, having helped himself to one of the humbugs the night before.

The true culprit behind the brink. Bradford humbug poisoning was in some ways worse than a lone wolf villain. People across Bradford were dying because of systematic carelessness and a pursuit of profit. No. It was capitalism was the real boogeyman all along. Who'd have thought that capitalism would be the baddie in the story? I can't believe you've done this. The ill stallholder first pointed the finger at Joseph Neal,

the confectionery wholesaler who had sought. called him the lethal lozenges. Neal's candy recipe included a mix of sugar, gum, water, peppermint oil, and daft. Daft. Daft. Daft was a sort of bulking agent put into products to replace some of the sugar and reduce the cost of production. Mmm, delicious daft. Mm.

Around two weeks before the tragedy, Neil had sent an employee to buy 12,000, to buy 12. pounds of daft from a druggist in nearby Shipley A druggist A druggist It's just a man on the street No no

Drugist They're the ones who do call it a good price Yeah I was going to say Someone's got to be Upon arriving Neil's assistant discovered that the drugist Was ill in bed

And instead The shop was staffed by An inexperienced apprentice Oh Uh oh Neil's um he was unwilling to leave empty-handed and instructed the assistant to find the daft and they'd dutifully scooped out large quantities of white powder from an unlabeled container to give to the man yeah but turns out he'd chosen the wrong one and instead of daft

got our uh the assistant handed neal 12 pounds of arsenic Oh, no. Oh, no. That's not, you don't put that in sweets. That's not supposed to go in there. I do like the fact that they could just buy arsenic over the counter, though, back in those days. 12 pounds of arsenic, please. What do you need it for?

Yeah, it's sweet. Why not? In turn, the assistant took the hefty package to the sweetmaker. They added all 12 pounds to the 40 pounds of lozange mix. So that ratio is quite high. That's a lot of arsenic. Later, after he finished the candies, they began vomiting, weirdly, likely due to exposure from the enormous amounts of poison in the room. At the time, he just assumed he had a dicky tummy, he had a stomach bug. And it turns out no, it was the candies. And a court later heard

how each candy contained enough poison to kill a grown man. Ouch, my God. These weren't even grown men, Mikey. These were like not grown men. That's value, man. Three for the price of one. Let's go. And who has just one humbug?

I mean, you have three at least. Come on. All at once. Officers and bell ringers then spent what was left of all Hallows Eve rushing around the district trying to warn as many people as possible about the danger. Hmm? Sorry?

Just said God. God, God, God. There's no God here. No God on the streets of Bradford. As the Bradford observer reported, the quiet slumbers of innumerable persons were broken at mid-bite by the warning. The walls of the town were thickly covered

with an official precaution from the chief constable. The alert likely saved countless lives. However, it came too late for a good number of people. After tracing how the army arsenic ended up in the humbugs, the police decided it should be the per pharmacy assistant with just three weeks of experience he should be arrested for all the deaths. Oh, man. I mean, it kind of his fault, kind of, but not really.

Yeah, it's mostly their fault, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But in the end, uh, the assistant and his employer and the candy hall sailor were all charged with manslaughter. But, shockingly, the three men were completely accomplished. acquitted that December, with the prosecution unable to prove any, to prove that any existing law had been broken. There's no laws against putting poison in your sweets.

I guess the key thing there is unintentionally, so you can't really send you down for making a mistake like that. You would definitely, I'm sure nowadays you'd get like criminal negligence on the part of the assistant and on the part of the, uh, of the chemist who just put an assistant in charge. but maybe that just didn't exist as a crime back then. So unless you did it on purpose, boy, do I have the tidbit for you at the end of this article, Peter? Whoa.

The Hardacre returned to selling confectionery in the green market and after recovering from his own consumption of one of the sweets. Brave, I guess, I think at that point I'd hang in my hat, but I guess people were hungry for sweets and quickly forgot. It was always on sweets. Hungry factory workers wanting little niblets for the chill. when they get home. Limblitz.

Limblitz. The case, though, lingered in the public's imagination. Sellers say the high-profile poisonings contributed to the passing of the Landmark Pharmacy Act of 1868. Oh, this is the juicy bear. That's good. Good year for legislation. The act ensured that named poisons

could only be sold in special bottles made from colored textured glass to provide a strong visual cue to the contents specific poisons also had to be labeled the shops also had to keep registered noting down the names of the buyers so hey thanks to the sacrifices guys it's now thanks to this this fumble that we no longer have to really worry about finding arsenic in our sweeties so be careful out there but also you can probably relax a bit i don't think there's been arsenic in sweets for a good little while or just go buy your own sweets from tesco

just to be safe, you know? Yeah, yeah. And you can eat. Peter's still alive. Mikey's still alive. You guys have been eating the Harry Bowen, the refreshes. Yeah, it's all good. It's all good.

I'm sure I read somewhere that, you know how they used to use lead paint in just everything back in the day? I don't know what year we're talking here, but it was a common thing, lead paint. It would be used on like children's toys and cots and walls and everything. And apparently, lead paint tastes quite sweet. So children, little babies, would have, like, you know, wooden toys with lead paint on, and they'd be like, hmm, yummy and lick their sweeties and dye of lead poisoning. Oh, my God. Good stuff.

Ugh. Ugh. Yeah, that's my, that's my Halloween, but not Halloween, but Halloween, but Halloween tale. Oh, yeah. Spooky humbugs. Fantastic. Thank you, Michael. You're welcome.

Ben, would you like to give us a. listener slash viewer submitted thing. I would love to. This comes courtesy of Jeff the Mungoos on our Discord. That's right. We have a Discord. I believe, what is it? Is it Vidyatsofficial.com forward slash Discord?

I want to say that's right. Yes, it is. Viditsofficial.com forward slash discord. Tommy and Flackers modding us over there. Go check it out. Go sign up. I am using my mouse with my left hand because there's a baby lying on my arm

and I am not left-handed, so I'm slowly browsing to my window here. Here we go. It's baby cat, it's not a real baby. He's not suddenly got a child. It is a real baby, but it's not a human baby. No, yeah. Not a human baby. This baby could probably have far fewer humbugs than a human baby. Good. Right. This story comes from BBC News.

And Rob Cameron, this is from the 20th of October. BBC News Prague is where it's from specifically. The headline reads, Czech village priest, sorry, Czech village priest, sorry for smashing pumpkins. Oh, I love that about. Not the band. Not the band. I'll send you guys a photo of the pumpkins so you can really appreciate the story.

Here he goes with his left hand. There we are. He's going to get the shit out of those pumpkins. I love that someone at the foresight to take, well, I suppose that he would take a before photo because it looks that good. It looks nice, yeah. Eat all those pumpkins, just lots of faces and stuff. A Czech parish priest has apologized to local children after. to stomping on Halloween pumpkins near his church.

Father Yaramir Smakel destroyed the carved pumpkins on two successive days in a park, sorry, in Kherdyov, a village in the winemaking region of South, my God, South Moravia, potentially. He has apologized for the vandalism in an open letter to the mayor and published on the village Facebook page. He said he would have acted differently,

known they were carved by children. These quotes are wild. Get ready. Leaving the rectory on Sunday evening, I saw numerous symbols of the satanic feast of Halloween placed in front of our sacred grounds, he wrote. I acted according to my faith and duty to be a father and protector of the children

entrusted to me and removed these symbols, said Father Smakel, parish priest of the Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. He added that in his view, the modern tradition of Halloween had been conceived in a heathen, contemporary world. as a counterbalance to the Catholic feast of All Souls Day. Briclavsky-denik newspaper, which first reported the story,

said the local children had carved the pumpkins as part of Halloween festivities organized by the village. Some children are said to have been in tears when they were told their creations had been destroyed. New pumpkins were left in the park, but were found scattered and stomped on the next day, reported the paper. Father Smakel said it had not been his intention to harm anyone, especially not children. But try to remember that my duty is a feeling. Ligger of authority and a priest is to protect children and families from hidden evil, he went on.

The Czech Republic is considered to be one of the least religious countries in the world. Oh, no. Thank you, BBC. However, some traditional religious feasts, including All Souls Day, remain popular and are marked by both believers and atheists alike. That's just because you get to eat food. That's why there's still a thing. Some checks complain their traditions are being eroded by highly commercialized imports from the West, with Halloween being a prime example.

is the story there. God, I wish there was CCTV footage of this priest angrily just going from pumpkin to pumpkin. What a spiteful little man? He didn't remove them. He said, oh yeah, I saw these satanic things and I removed them. No, you didn't. You just stomped on them.

He just smashed the shit out of them. Yeah, that's not very Jesusly. Like, if you're going to make a mess, clean it up after yourself, at least. And then, yeah, there wouldn't have been any evidence that someone had smashed the pumpkins. Also, how did this cover? How did the news come out? Did he own up to smashing the pumpkin? Was he just like...

Seems like it. I mean, at least he has a conscience, I suppose. As soon as he heard that there was an uproar, maybe he was... Maybe someone saw him. It doesn't say in the story, but he at least owned up to it. So that's something.

But then he doubled down in his apology. Yeah. You know, children, that's fine if you want to celebrate satanic stuff. But it, you know, it is satanic and you are going to hell. But adults, I'll just, this is a warning. I will beat the shit out of your pumpkins. And he seemingly inspired copycats because if I understood what, what you said correctly the next day

the replacement pumpkins had also been stomped and smashed up. That's seemingly implied by the story it doesn't really go into much more detail than that. I assumed he did two separate days of stomping. I thought it was in both days. Maybe. It wasn't hugely clear in the story but hey next year kids what you need to do is put dog poo in the pumpkins and leave them outside the church. Yes. Or knives. Yeah you can suppose you

you could. Yeah. Yeah. And there we are. Any priests wandering. Give him a good old stabbing. With pumpkins. Thank you for that. Yeah. So it's now... Reading, playing, learning. Stellist lenses do more than just correct your child's vision.

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Fishwrap, the official blog of newspapers. They got newspapers.com? That's amazing. It's blog.com. So I don't know if that's, but still, yeah. Amazing. So here we go.

One of the US history's strangest crimes was a streak of sneaky haircuts that took place in 1942 Mississippi. The Pascagoula criminal That's a place I think Pascagoula I assume

Was nicknamed The Phantom Barber For his creepy habit Of cutting locks of hair Off young girls While they slept Would you like a very creepy artist's impression From the time of the Phantom Barber

Yes, please Yeah, go on then Oh That's worse than I possibly could have emerged He's really massive Yeah, he is How did he gets scissors that big? The caption for that image is

Unsettling illustration of the Phantom Barber from a 1940s Newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner. The Phantom Barber strikes, it says. The first victims of the nighttime Barber were Mary Evelyn Briggs and Edna Marie Heidel, the two share the room in Our Ladies of Victory's convent and woke in time to see a man

crawling out the window. Mary was the sole victim to give a description of the perpetrator. And this is a little excerpt from the actual newspaper report at the time. The only victim of a hair shearing who awoke in time to see The Barber was Mary Evelyn Bridges at Our Lady of Victory's convent. I saw the figure of a kind of short fat man, she said, bending over me with something shiny in his hand. and he was fooling with my hair

when he saw me open my eyes he said shh I yelled he jumps out of the window end quote there's now a picture of I think

the two girls who had their haircut by the barber oh my god they seem thrilled they do they seem quite happy so that's Mary Evelyn Briggs and her sister Laura a few days later

six-year-old Carol Petey awoke to find much of her hair missing. The screen on her window was cut. An adult woman, Mrs. Taylor, also fell victim to the unusual crime, and her account led to suspicions that the criminal used chloroform to keep the girls from waking. We've got another excerpt here from the newspaper. Woman's hair snipped by Phantom Barber. Pasca Gula, June 23rd.

Pasca Goulas Phantom Barber has ridden again Mrs. R. E. Taylor reported two inches of her new permanent had been shorn by the strange Shearer while she slept in a bedroom with her husband and two daughters. Her name is Resident Evil Taylor. Yes, it is, yeah. And two inches of her permanent with Sean.

Not a permanent. I had a vague feeling of something passing over my face, Mrs. Taylor. Taylor said, then woke up feeling ill. The tonsorial artist had broken through a window, cut her hair, and fled. Previous victims of the Phantom Barber, all within the last 10 days, were three little girls. Police believe he used chloroform to keep his subjects asleep while he snipped their locks. The intruder didn't... This is back to the blog now. The intruder didn't injure these girls. His break-ins consisted of slicing open window screens, cutting off the hair and slipping away unseen. He did occasionally leave behind.

footprints, but they weren't enough to secure his identity. We then have the Heidelberg incident. Oh, no. Quite suddenly, the Phantom's escapades went from bizarre to brutal. He broke into the home of Terrell Heidelberg and attacked him and his wife with an iron pipe. In the face of such violence, the search for the Phantom Barber increased. At last, a suspect was found. A man named William Dolan was arrested and charged with attempted murder. human hair was found near his home and he had some disagreement with the Heidelbergs that gave him a motive for the assault.

Dolan was called a Nazi saboteur for some reason but I don't understand why because it says Dolan called a Nazi saboteur was known for having German sympathies during a time when war hung heavily on the public mind. So I think they mean he was a saboteur of the Nazi persuasion

rather than a sabbatist of Nazis. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Most were happy to see him arrested and slept soundly knowing the Phantom Barber was behind bars. Most were happy to see him arrested. Who wasn't happy to see him arrested? Local Nazis, maybe.

But Dolan always maintained his innocence and was released early after passing a lie detector test. Early doubts about his true guilt have only grown in the years since. It's hard to say whether the real phantom. Barber was ever caught. He could be out there right now. No. No. He would be very old if he was. My permanence.

Yes. So that's it. That's the creepy story and creepy drawing of the Phantom Barber of Pascagoula. So don't have nightmares everybody. That's like... I try. That is horrifying because I imagine the majority of people

had no idea what had happened. They might have not even noticed the hair had been snipped. and if he's chloroforming them, he's just getting in and out, Scott Free. How long had he been doing this for before someone realized? Yeah, yeah, no.

I think of all the thefts to happen. I think having your hair stolen is up there is one of the worst. It feels quite, what's the word? Invasive? Yeah, yeah, like, I don't know, that's not the exact word I meant, but yeah, it's like invasive. Nice.

Well, next, it's, Michael Johnson with your listener submitted thing, isn't it? Damn, Tooten. We've got an article submitted by Bartek Kibitza at Bartol Bibi on Twitter. And the headline is, Manikin, in quotes, arrested after Warsaw shop burglary. Ooh, spooky mannequins. Ooh.

This is the scariest episode of Doctor Who, the mannequins. Ooh, the mannequin one. Yes, the melty boys. And I'm just going to put the picture in the thread. Actually, I'm going to put it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me send the picture of a man standing in a shop window looking very unconvincingly like a mannequin.

Next. Is he holding a shopping bag? Oh, he is holding a shopping bag. Yeah, he's got into character. but also looks like he's stood outside of the shop. Yeah, it does. It doesn't help that the other mannequins are black plastic and he is basically a white human man.

Oh, God. I do like him being stood next to the Wrangler and Barbie Collaboration logo there. Woo, hoo-hoo. So we begin. A man has been accused of posing as a mannequin in a Warsaw shop window to steal jewelry after closing time. Tell me, what is the crime? He's posing as a mannequin in a Warsaw shop.

The 22-year-old was pictured standing still and holding a bag in a window of the store, which police have not named. Police said the accused went hunting in various departments after closing before settling on a jewellery stand. The man is also accused of stealing items from a second mall. He has been charged with burglary and theft and faces up to 10 years. years in prison. Holy moly. Oh my God. Also, police said that staff and shoppers failed to notice anything unusual as the man stood in

the window and blended in with several mannequins. No. No. You simply must look at the thread or Google this story. If you're listening at home and have not seen the photo yet, he's just a man. Which country is this in again? Poland. Poland.

Are we certain that Polish people don't look like that? But he doesn't look like a mannequin, no. But he doesn't look like the other mannequins. I know what you're talking about. That's clearly, I can see four mannequins in that photo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you Polish? Deep down, you've got Polish roots?

Oh, my God, that's amazing. I wonder how long he stood there for. Maybe we'll find out as I continue reading. Um, police said that he stood still until he felt it was safe, then walked through various departments. Yeah. And then he walked through various departments after closing time before taking jewelry. He was eventually spotted by security staff. Uh, the man is accused in two of the incidents. In the first, police say he dined late at a restaurant in a second shopping center. What is the charge?

Oh, and then he waited for it to close. That's a succulent Chinese meal after closing time. Okay, so the charge is not enjoying meal closed to closing time. It's then lingering around afterwards. Police said he then entered a clothing store and exchanged, wait, exchanged his clothes for new ones before returning to the restaurant for another meal. Good lad. Wow.

That's amazing. So he went in, did a dining dash, got a free new pair of clothes or a disguise, and went back in and they were non the wiser. Who's this dude? Oh, we haven't seen him before. Wow, holy hell. He was caught on CCTV slipping under the clothing stores partially open shutters. Oh, so he was actually behind the window.

Huh. Oh. Okay. Maybe he gets some bonus points there then. Robert Sumiata, a police spokesman, said that in the third incident at another location, the man waited until after closing time. and then took money from several cash registers and trial to try to steal other items. Police have released pictures of the suspect's eventual arrest.

The man has been remanded in custody for three months, prosecutors in Warsaw said. Well, doesn't he feel like a silly sausage now? I mean, I was going to say, let's be a warning to people. If you're going to be a man, I can be more convincing. But he literally convinced everyone. It was only when he started getting up to his devious deeds. got caught. He needs to do it in jail, obviously. He needs to pose like a mannequin, and then they come in, they look in the cell and like, where's he gone? Yeah. And then they open,

he's like, they open the cell and he's gone. Someone's left the mannequin in here. Someone's left the mannequin in here. And then he can, yeah, and then he can, oh yeah, they carry the mannequin out because there's a mannequin in the cell. Yeah. And yeah, they leave him by the bins and he's got free. Oh, God. That's amazing. I must try that sometime next time I plan to do some stealing. Also, I like the picture I've just sent of him being like taken into custody like being manhandled by police The comparison between the two images

Of one him stood like a mannequin And then being marched to his dude Are those his new clothes? They're different clothes And those are his new ones I would love it Can someone photoshop that image So it looks like

They are carrying like a rigid object Yeah, just an actual mannequin He's just like perfectly straight He's sprinting away in the background that they've got a mannequin that they're seeking to prison. We got him, guys. We got him. Oh, that's good.

Well, thank you very much, Bartek, for that. What a joy. Yeah. Thank you very much. I'm lost. Is it your go, Ben, to do your actual thing, yeah. It's time for my actual thing. And also, we forgot to talk about it at the top.

So if you're listening at this point in the podcast, congratulations. You're the first to hear about it. But we have provisionally penciled in Friday the 8th of December for a Vidyat's reunion stream. So if you wanted to come along and tune in to some nonsense, probably some live things, some video games, a watch-along of something, maybe we'll auction off some Primo Vidiates tat from back in 2018.

Then keep the 8th of December Friday evening free. That is the working date currently, subject to change. but the 8th of December, very exciting, will be hopefully live on Twitch. So come along if you can. GMT sort of time, evening. No specific time yet, but British evening on that day. Yes, until late-ish. Or just late.

Don't know. It's time for my thing. Hit pause on whatever you're listening to and hit play on your next adventure. This fall get double points on every qualified stay. Life's the trip. Make the most of it at Best Western. Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions. Now in previous years, I have done a little game called Spook or Spock.

Yes. That has been an annual tradition where I've charged you guys with telling the difference between spooky horror quotes and quotes from the Star Trek character, Spock. Now, Spock's old news, right? Yeah. Because I've done it two years now and also I'm running out of quotes. So I've come up with a new game that I've also sort of had to scramble to put together after I reverse engineered a pun

All good games start like this Introducing Fright or Sprite Where I give you 10 quotes And you have to tell me whether it's a fright A horror quote or if it's a Sprite A soft drinks slogan Okay Okay this is good

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you got 10 of them. Wow. And you guys, are they a fright or are they a sprite? You're going to have to let me know. Okay. This is incredible. Some of them might be more obvious than others. Yeah.

You know, I was dealing with limited, uh, limited slogans. But that's okay. Uh, we'll have a good time while we go. Are you guys all right to score yourselves? Yes. Yes. I still have a cat on my arm. Oh, this all time. Wow.

Yeah. Up first. Uh, in fact, do you want to, can you give me your spoooo. buzzer, Peter Austin? Uh, okay. Eh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Did that come through? No, no, no. Well, I best not do that, then.

That one didn't work. Um, what about, boo? That's good. That's a good one. Michael Johnson, what's your spooky buzzer, please? Spook! Okay. As fast as you can, here we go.

First one, we've got a taste for you. Oh, that's tricky. It could be. Boo! Peter. I'll say that's horror. That's fright. And Michael?

I'm going to say that's a sprite. It's a sprite. That's a Coca-Cola slogan from 1985. Oh, we've got a taste for you. We've got a taste for you. Next up, image is nothing. Thirst is everything. Everything.

Abbey your thirst. Spoo. Yeah. Yeah. Mikey was in first, but Peter, what are you saying? I was just going to say,

this is harder than I thought because everything, you'd think a thirst reference would be, oh, well, that's a drink, but it could easily be a vampire. So it could be a vampire.

It's actually quite tricky. Well, Mikey, what's this, please? A fright or a sprite? Well, I buzzed in before I thought about the vampire connection,

but I'm going to stick to my guns and say, it's a sprite. Peter? I also think, That one is a spright. That one is a sprite. It's literally Sprite. It's their 1999 slogan.

What? Say it again one more time, just so we can bask in it for a minute. Image is nothing. Thirst is everything. Obey your thirst. Image is nothing. It's aggressive, isn't it? Yeah.

Holy hell. Next up. It's all for you. Who? Peter. I'm going to say Sprite again. I'm going to go spook this time. That is a fright.

That's a quote from the Omen. Sorry, fright, not spook. I'm just using my own buzzer. Yes, a fright, I mean. That's from the Omen, 1976. It's all for you, that line. Doing well, Mikey. Next up.

Something twisted is coming. Spook. That's almost definitely a sprite. Yeah, that is a sprit. Yeah, that is a sprit. Right. That is Fanta. Unknown year.

I assume it's their fruit twist. Yeah. Fanta. Next. Tell everyone. Boo. I keep saying Sprite, but I think that is a Sprite. Mikey.

Say it again one more time. Tell everyone. Did I not remember a two-word thing? Tell your friends. I'm going to say fright. It's a fright. That's from Candyman in 2021. My word.

Next up. Unleash the beast. Oh, I know that one's spook. That's spright. That's monster. Sorry, I'm sorry. Oh, Michael. Sorry, I ruined it.

That's, isn't it? Peter? Sorry. Well, he has now just made it. very obvious if you're allowing me what did you think before i said that be honest we'll know oh i didn't i didn't know one way or the other i was going to just sort of weigh it up and go uh i don't know i don't i don't honestly never had a monster in his life i did i certainly didn't know it was monster i'll i'm happy to give you that information but i would have just picked one um but i'm

now going to say sprite it is a sprite it's monster energy yeah i got excited there because i knew the exact drink I couldn't contain myself Order, order Next one We're friends to the end Peter That sounds like it could be a fright

Mikey I'm going to say sprite It's a fright That is from 1988's Chuckie Oh yeah Of course, yeah Next one It's always been in her

Is it in you? Spook? Michael. That must be a fright. Peter. I go spright, just to be different. Shockingly, that is a 2004 gatorade slogan. Oh.

Sorry? I don't know the context. It may have been like a partnership with an athlete, perhaps. Yeah, something like that. But yeah, that is, that's a sprite. That's a sprite. gross next one is

what's the worst thing that could happen who Peter that's sprite Michael I concur that's a sprite and well done

for doing a better job than me Peter and containing your excitement I still was pretty excited but that's Dr Pepper isn't it that is a a slew of very famous adverts

from 2001-ish for Dr Pepper this actually while I was researching this this is the UK specific slogan because they added in the word that unnecessarily. What's the worst thing that could happen? And then a year later they revised it to be in line with the American one. What's the worst? Hang on. What's the worst? What was it? What's the worst thing? What's the

worst that could happen? Sorry, yeah, they added in thing is my, yeah, my mistake. So yeah, it should be what's the worst that could happen? But the UK one was, what's the worst thing that could happen? Which is a bit wordy. Yeah. Finally, can I get the scores please? So, I think I'm on six I think I'm on seven you must be ahead of me Mikey yeah it comes down to this

and neither of you are going to guess it are you ready okay right lip smacking thirst quenching ace tasting motivating

good buzzin cool talking high walking fast jiving ever given cool fizzing Pepsi oh oh god I don't know Peter

Is it a trick? I'm going to say Sprite. Oh. Mikey. I guess I'm going to go spook. It's a Sprite. It's the Pepsi slogan from 1974. Oh, man.

It could have been from like scary movie too or something, couldn't it? It could, yeah. How shit is that slogan? Really shit. Half of it's in parentheses. It just goes into bracketing. it's halfway through. So, yeah, there we are.

I think that's a draw then. Yeah, seven apiece, I think. Congratulations to both of you. That's Fright or Sprite. I don't know what I'm going to do next year. Surely there's more sort of sayings you can find deep in the depths. Possibly.

I'll have a look in one calendar year when I can be fucked. Yay. Thank you, Ben. Thank you, Ben. That was a lot of fun. You're welcome. We stick with.

Let's face it, junk food, if we go from fizzy drinks, over to McDonald's. Ooh. This was submitted by Jamie Taylor on Twitter at Jamie H-U-F-C. It's according to the Daily Mail.com.com. That's pretty spooky. Written by Shannon McGuigan or something like that. I don't know. Bizarre McDonald's tweet.

by Youngblood makes people think an unhappy meal has been released for Halloween. Great. British music artist Young Blood

has duped fans into believing that he is releasing his very own meal with McDonald's. Are you guys familiar with Young Blood? No.

No, me neither. I've just googled him. Let's see if this sparks your memories but nope, not for me either. Oh. Are we too? chuggy for this man.

Possibly. It's pretty creepy looking. Yeah, a little bit. Anyway, what's Youngblood been up to? The spooky looking boy. The fast food chain has collaborated with various musicians on various custom meal combos over the years from Cardi B and Offset to BTS and even the rapper Saw Wheatie. I know some of those names.

Sorry, Sawweety. S-A-W-E-E-E-T. T-I-E. What's that, like sweetie, but with sore at the start. I prefer

hammer shredies. Fans of the British rocker were quick to assume his social media announcement of his very own

unhappy meal with McDonald's for Halloween at weekend was real. Youngblood's followers quickly scrambled to the

comments asking if the fictional meal would be available worldwide. Here's a picture of Youngblood at McDonald's.

decorated in Halloween stuff. In a tweet that now has more than 255,000 views, Youngblood, also known as Dominic Harrison, posted two images. One was an eerie black and red graphic of the imaginary, deliciously spooky McDonald's collaboration meal. The other image snapped the songwriter donning a black puffer coat and hoodie

alongside a monochromatic happy meal box. The artist wrote on X, known as Twitter, introducing the unhappy meal. Available at your local McDonald's restaurant this weekend to celebrate Halloween and the release of my new song, Happier. Go get yours this Halloween. On his Instagram, the strawberry lipstick singer also shared a convincing picture of the fictitious toys available with the meal

called Credence and Friends. Let me send you these images because they are odd. Hello? what's going on with this article? Why can't I click anymore? It's haunted. You can have to screenshot it. Yeah, I might have to.

Hang on, here we are. I've got it. Copy image. It's quite good, actually. It's pretty well done. So there's a picture of the unhappy meal. And then there's the toy, which I think is kind of cool. Okay, toys are good.

Toys are good. Yeah, kind of like just spooky, creatures. They're like, I think they're like those little thumb, like jelly-like things you used to be able to put on your thumb. In fact, it's probably exactly what they are. They've just been in the termed grayscale. Some were, some followers across the globe flocked to the comments of his tweet,

hoping to find out if the unhappy meal would be in their country. One person eagerly queried, is it in Canada? Well, one fan chimed in. Gutted, this isn't in the US, Mackeys. Another added, please tell me this isn't just in the UK. This would be the greatest birthday present ever. Oh, no. Greatest birthday present ever.

Others were ecstatic at the... Sad fucking bird. I know, yeah. And a shit toy. Others were ecstatic at the prospect of young blood... This is what is written here. Others were ecstatic at the prospect of young blood meal. Quipping, this is everything I never knew I needed, OMG.

Certain music fans were keen to know if the fictional meal came with a young blood-related toy. However, not everyone was so quick to fall for the prank, with one user questioning, is this real or not? I'm about to go to McDonald's this weekend and make myself look like an absolute fool if it's not. Tell me. Another continued, right, if I go Mackie's on the weekend and ask for an unhappy meal, and they laugh in my face, I am unstanding. Wow.

Stunning. Which we understand thanks to Mikey's quiz last time. It's good to know that you unstand and you don't de-stand. Yeah, that's important. Or stand down. Yeah. One fan responded to the trick saying this is why they had trust issues with the singer. And another re-shared the post with the comment.

A lot of people about to be actually unhappy when they ask for one of these. The article continues, but with nothing more useful than, Mail online has approached McDonald's for comment. Oh, I bet they'll have loads to say. And it also says that the viral prank comes after the restaurant decided to kick off the half term by slashing prices. Wow. Which sounds like a... Is it half term?

Yeah, it is. Oh, wow. Which sounds like a sponsored link that they've put in there, quite frankly. It absolutely does. Fuck the Daily Mail. I'm amazed they haven't done an unhappy. email, because that's genuinely quite a good idea. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't do it next year.

Yeah. But they'd do it without Youngblood. Yeah. Just do the wrong. Yeah, great idea, man. Cheers. Oh, nice one. So there we go. Thanks for sending that in.

Wow. How spooky. And that concludes our things, I believe. I'm sorry, I had like a picture in front of, a picture of young blood in front of me that entire time. And I was kind of, I don't know, I was getting angry and angry at just looking at him. You've got to listen to his music. Why? What is it that? What about it? What about him

annoys you? He just looks annoying, doesn't he? Yeah, I think he looks quite annoying. He's not going to lie. He's trolled us all. He's got you, though. He's got the sort of the Calcestis vibe about him, Ben, I would say. Oh, yeah, just a bit of a punchable face. A bit of a punchable face, yeah. Fair enough.

I'll stop that down. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, boys, for your spooky things. And thank you to our wonderful listeners and viewers for coming through and helping us out with some spooky listeners submitted things at the last minute. Usual service should resume in a fortnight's time where we'll be accepting all the wonderful, weird, normal things that exist on the internet in your local area from the past couple of weeks or so. So make sure you keep an eye out for the post on Twitter where we request those. It won't be too long. Thank you to everyone who sent us the story of an easy jet flight this time that was cancelled because someone did a poo on the floor of the toilet.

It can't keep happening. It's happened again. I wanted to learn about that. I feel really bad for the pilot because the pilot is quoted as being very entertained by it, right? Which is not what... And there's all these pissed off people. I mean, if you weren't for easy jet,

the money can't be that great, can it? Well, no, but it's been completely taken out of context. So there's all these really angry customers who had to like spend the night in whatever city the flight was canceled in and fly the next day. And they're all like rightfully pissed off. And they're saying, oh, the pilot seemed very entertaining.

but the video that they're quoting is the pilot comes to address the whole plane and is clearly really pissed off and he sarcastically it's halfway through a sentence that the video begins and he sarcastically says found it very entertaining to defecate

on the toilet floor so he's clearly saying we're canceling the flight because someone found it very entertaining to defecate on the floor but he's being quoted as being very entertained by the incident. Oh God's sake. Yeah.

Context is everything. I just can't imagine a worst place to do, like, a bad poo than on a plane where you're trapped with people who are going on holiday and excited to go on holiday. And then they find out you did a poo on the floor and now they can't go on holiday. Good God. That person would be torn to shreds. My immediate thought is just mental illness because there's no logical. I can't. There's no through line there.

What's the goal? I think the flight had been delayed by three and a half hours before they got. on. So I don't know if it was some sort of dirty protest or yeah, maybe just... To who? You fucked yourself over here, Ellen. I know. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Wow. Well, I look forward to getting cross about more things that have happened on planes in a fortnight's time. We have a shop, don't we, Michael? You're darn. If you head over to vidiots official.com and click on the lovely enticing

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Go on, do it. I dare you. Peter, is there anything that came out on Vidyat's five years ago this week? Flipping Lords. Well, not loads. We were starting to wind down at this point. Yes, we are.

We were given our marching orders. Yeah. Vidiates live Twitch stream, Dark Souls remastered number three. Poddiet's episode 17, great stuff. Post some tat number 35. golden bat buddha oh the golden bat buddha yes i remember that medieval ruling age of empires two part one worst games ever all-star water sports life on the edge gang beasts medieval ruling age of empires two part two we're approaching the uh the good video post some tat number 36 workplace safety

and then there it is age of empires in real life the live action finale um that that in fact happened today at time of recording. Did it? Yeah. I don't remember the weather being that miserable, to be honest. No, it was all right. We were in streams and stuff, weren't we, paddling about? I mean, maybe we filmed it quite far ahead.

I don't know. That's true. Yeah, maybe we went in September or early October. We've also got the worst games ever spooky special, Casper and the ghosty trio. Vidiot's live Twitch stream Dark Souls remastered number four, and Cortex's is clever. girls the left for dead mods that was when we did like cash bandicoo and velociraptors and

stuff weird stuff um and that's it that takes us up to uh the release day of this podcast there's a couple more spooky things um but they'll have to be next time strictly and then the spookiest thing of all is the slow winding down of pod uh vidyots after that well in one two three four five videos time video It may or may not be changing the anniversary of it, yeah. It's nearly time. Have we finished memory cards at this point? I think we have.

Yeah, I've not mentioned memory cards for a while, I don't think. We've ripped memory cards by now, tragically. Michael Johnson, where can you be found on the internet? At Paraboy on Twitter and Instagram. Those are the two best places to keep up with what I'm doing this current moment. Yes, good good checking that. Thank you. And Peter, where are we?

We are at Matt Peter Austin and at Confused underscore dude over on Twitter. That's the main place to go. And you can also find us together at Team Triple Jump on Twitter, but more importantly, on YouTube and Twitch, where we are playing video games, worst games ever, in fact, and weirdest games.

And we're hanging out with Rules Boss occasionally on Patreon, and we're doing cooking on Patreon. It's all very silly. And some of it is like, the vidiates days, not all of it. And it's missing Michael Johnson, but we're all happy in our own lives. Yeah, we're all missing Michael Johnson.

Even Michael Johnson is missing Michael Johnson. I'm missing Michael Johnson. It's been too long since I last. You want to know what that means? He's missing Michael Johnson because he looks so great. He's lost some Michael Johnson. Stop it. Stop it. I don't know what to say. Thank you.

And I've got. Leave me alone. Let me be handsome in peace. Excellent. Well, there's just enough time for me to ask you guys to leave us a review on your audio podcast platform. Why not make it five stars? If you're not in a position to support us through Pod Squad, or maybe even if you are. Why not a five-star review? That would really help. Something to do with Al Gore's rhythms. We'd really appreciate it. And now I'm going to ask you guys, what final question should we ask the audience to put in the comments of the YouTube video, which, by the way, we should play? more, we are actually on camera now. Yeah. So if you want to watch the YouTube version,

you'll see us using face cam. So you can go do that. Yeah. A question. What are you dressing up as for this Halloween? Good question, Michael Johnson. Lovely. Fantastic. Well, thank you so much for listening slash watching everybody. We'll see you in the next one. Goodbye.

Goodbye. Goodbye. We're going to be. We're going to be. I don't know. Oh! Oh! You're going to get me. No!