Podiots - Podiots: Episode 141 – Super Anne

Episode Date: March 16, 2024

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Pickax. Guys, I watched Beekeeper, finally, the Jason Statham movie. Yeah? Did he keep them? Did he manage to keep them? You know what? Do you want to spoil it? I don't want to spoil Beekeeper because my, it's a resounding must watch.

Right. It is phenomenally dreadful, like so awful, like in the best possible way. there isn't a moment where he's not making some like weird twisted bee metaphor like he's forcing it in all the every sentence he's like but I'm a beekeeper it's like we we fucking know Jason seems like this one's quite a sting in the tail right the thing is there weren't that many puns it was just him not letting anyone forget that he was a beekeeper um you know extrapolates out obviously to the fact that that's an international special special super agent man. There's like only ever one beekeeper at a time or something. I can't remember

the law too much. But he did actually keep bees. It has some of the most hokey practical effects I've ever seen because this man, Statham goes ham on a lot of people who come after people in his personal life. And like you can see he he cuts off body parts, right? There's no blood. And you can see when it's like the fake body part and this is a movie that was in cinemas and it's it's so good please watch beekeeper um there's a there's a metro stop not far from where i live that has a full size beekeeper poster still out i really want it i really want it take it when did it come out uh like a month and a half go oh wow i thought it was older than that no it's surprisingly recent uh but watch beekeeper have have an alcohol or whatever you're

vice of choices get some friends around and watch beekeeper because it's brilliant it's so good do you think Jason Statham is made by

the Feld Hoyer's meat facery Mmm delicious statistical ham Yeah Statham in the shape of a beekeeper

Contains 100% Statisticles Honestly though I can't I can't recommend it enough There were so many points where I was like

Absolutely he's not going to do that is he? Yes, he is. It's proper like power wish fulfillment watching as well, because this man is invincible and he takes on the most inept human beings who are supposedly special forces trying to take him down ever. And several bits of it are presented where he is basically Batman, where these, you know, the SWAT team are working their way through a building and he's just taking them out one by one, but it's from the perspective of the SWAT team. He's like, this is a mental film, and it's so bad.

It's got Michael, what's he called? No, the guy who played fucking Alfred in the new Batman movies. He's been another stuff too. Oh, Michael Payne? No. Michael Kane? Not Michael Kane. No, the more recent ones.

You'll know who he is. Yeah. Is it one of the oldmans or newmans? What's his name? I know who you mean. I can see his face. Oh, no. Sorry, I'm thinking of Commissioner Gordon, who's also not played.

Beekeeper film, let's see. The cast includes Jason Statham. It's got Josh Hutcherson in, who is in the Hunger Games. Jeremy Irons is who I'm thinking of. Oh, right. He's in it. Does he play the new Alfred, Jeremy Irons? He was the new Alfred when, what's his name, was doing his whole Snyder verse.

Oh, right. But, yeah. Like Jeremy Irons. There we go. Good butler energy. I wish I could tell you more. There's so many bits that I'd love to nerd out with you guys about and spoil, but I can't. You're just going to have to go and watch Beekeeper starring Jason Statham available on Amazon Prime.

I just want to know, does he release the bees? Does he use the bees as a weapon? This is definitely spoiler territory, so don't say anything. Don't give any smiles away. I can't say anything. It's just, it's phenomenal. It's up there with the KFC mini movie. That's all I said.

Well, now, careful. That's quite the comparison. It's right. I went there. I went there. Our coverage of that film got us got our charity Vod taken down from YouTube. Thanks, KFC. Yeah, apparently they're quite litigious about

their really shit film that no one remembers. Thanks. We remember it. Yeah. I was very confident that they would not come after us, but they did. So, yeah, we had to cut that out of the Vod. So late, after the fact, I can only assume some poor

KFC intern was scrolling through YouTube trying to find copyright infringements and came across our stream. Yeah. Well, horrible. That's the, that's the danger, isn't it, of trying to share such phenomenal filmmaking with the world? Only we had an intern to do odd jobs like that for us. The closest we've got, of course, is old Kevin. Old Kevin.

Oh, Kevin. All right, old show. It does that music stuff, doesn't he? Yeah. Hello everybody and welcome to Poddy. It's the official videos podcast. It's a conversational podcast where we take some things from you at home and obey the law of the three urs, where everybody brings a thing. A lot to talk about. I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. Peter Johnson. Peter Johnson. Peter Johnson.

Who? How are you? We'd like to. announce our marriage. We were trying to keep it secret, but... Yeah, cats out of the bag. I'd really let the cat out of the bag there, didn't I, guys. Sorry. Peter Johnson. Peter Johnson said with such conviction, Peter Austin, the man I've worked alongside for years now, how are you? How are you doing? What's going on? Very well, thanks. I've got an orchard pig here with me.

Ooh, point-l-link. I got slightly... I mean, I'm not going to pretend it was completely by accident. It was definitely sort of knowing in the back of my mind that I was doing it wrong. I was thinking more about the sleepover streams we do at Triple Jump. I knew I had an evening sort of extracurricular, out-of-office thing to do tonight. And normally when we do our sleepover streams, we have Saturday juice, as we call it, and have a nice drink. And tonight, on the way home, I thought, oh, it's potty tonight.

I'm going to have to have a drink, can I? That's the way. That's what we do. Oh, shame. So stop for some cider. Is it good? It is. It's nice.

Yeah. I mean, I drink it. often so it's nothing new but yes very nice drinks at every potty it's and how fail it says warm up routine three bottles of her oh my god I forgot what's name the orchid pig

orchid pig I always get the two mixed up I never know which is which why how can two words be so similar that's not right a delicious apple orchid filled with a passadice of sweet tooth sweet teeth I uh I bought some cider for the sleepover stream actually a couple of months ago and it was just, it was from Aldi, and it was just called Orchard, which is, you know, they don't want to commit any further than that.

We can confirm this is from an orchard. Yeah, some apples we used to make this. And it wasn't, it wasn't good. Oh, Michael Austin. Yes. I believe you have like some sort of exciting event coming up that you would like to publicize, right? Yeah, boy, in pretty much exactly a month's time, I will be doing a charity bike ride

Manston some be pedal bike I'll be doing it on behalf of St. Peter's Hopsis That's the new beer they're doing I'm doing it to front of the new beer Yes yes English here we go Yes for St Peter's Hospice I'm doing a 65 kilometre bike ride So if you would like to help support

St Peter's Hospice And sadly the money won't go to my recovering back But it'll go to a great cause you can go to bit.ly forward slash Mikey bikey I wanted mad stunts How far are you Bikey?

Man stunts I want to do mad stunts but someone else already claimed that bitly Oh no Mad stunts was gone What was that Ben sorry How far are you going

What you've got to do for your bike ride 65 kilometres or about 40 miles So it should be all right I don't know Famous last words I'm feeling quite blasé about the whole thing that might come come back to bite me in the ass but hey he doesn't like a challenge so yeah you'll smash it you've been you practice every day every day yeah i got a new wallace and cromit jersey as well

cycling news of mikey well something up to but yeah yeah uh bit at ly slash mickey bikey go check it out have a look and whatever little bits you can you can spare would be greatly appreciated thank you very much brilliant oh uh good luck at that mike yeah best of luck i'm sure you'll you'll you'll is posted on how you're getting on. When is it? The 13th of April, 2024. Oh, that's close to your birthday, isn't it, Peter? Just after my birthday, yeah. Just after. Oh, how nice. Speaking of people being very generous and donating, I did a charity stream last week on the Vidyat's channel. We raised some good money for Cancer Research UK. Thank you to everybody who came along and gave so generously. I am thrilled, my boys, to announce that across our various

charitable endeavors on videos, our wonderful audience have raised over $20,000 now. Wow. How crazy is that? My goodness me, that's insane. A generous bunch. Well done, everyone. And well done, particularly to Ben and Ben, because a lot of that has come across. It's a privilege and a pleasure to do that, but we've certainly raised a lot of money together

on the reunion streams. Yeah, and the auctions and stuff. Yeah, I just want to thank everyone over the past few years for pitching in. You've really given to a lot of fantastic causes, so thank you very much. This is a very nice little mark to leave on the earth. A string of weird items sold and weird things done on stream to raise money for a good cause. Toilet seats or whatever else, we've done it all. Certainly have.

Two slightly less charitable donations now. Podiotz.com. That's the website, isn't it? Yes, it is. I'm just checking my notes. If you go there and donate three pounds or more, it won't go to charity, but it will go to us

that helps us with hosting and keeping on doing this wonderful podcast for you every fortnight. Three pounds or more. You join Pod Squad. You get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the next available episode. Mikey, I believe,

do you have the first selection there? I do indeed. We begin with bring back questions. No. Resounding notes. We like the artist. articles, the articles have been quite good. Thank you.

Thank you for the money. To answer your question, no. We ended up asked, the reason, as we explained when we introduced the new, the news thing, is we were, we found we were answering a lot of the same questions or just variations upon. You know, it was a lot of them were, which VCU character would, no, no, no, no, whatever, which, you know, it's all fun in games until you've answered it, sort of six podcasts in a row, and it's just a slightly different thing. So we appreciated your questions.

We enjoyed them. We think those are great episodes. But now we're making new great episodes doing a slightly different thing. We are. We can thank the articles for introducing us to was a Bertha's Big Baps? Yeah.

And the ongoing saga of birds in supermarkets. Yes. Everyone's favourite. There you go. The articles are here to stay. We continue with Caroline. Wait, I got to do this in the accent. Caroline, did you fuck?

I fucking did. Very much. Ben and Peter, Venom News, when? Oh, that's a throwback. We'll never know. Teabagging, the neighbour's cat. Tug my Fred and pull my webber. Frogly.

Steven Scordes. Caroline, TV licensed man's here. Lord Brottovich. We've also got Caroline, I've found the only fans. Brian from January Knife. Ian Jasper. River Fox is going through SOT. Stoke on Trent.

Historic Town on the River Trent. DBP doxed himself on Twitter. Oh, did he? I think he just keeps posting his own mobile number on Twitter. Oh, yeah. Dave. Like, he does it so much. Like, surely he's felt the repercussions of that.

I guess not. Shall I call him? Call him and pretend to be the TV license man. We'll offer him apart. Offer him apart in a big movie. Oh no, that would be so cruel. Oh, that would be really cruel. No, I'm not going to do that.

Leave him out of it. We've also got Cat Karen or Cater Karen, a bobbing unco-plop, a pass-a-dice of sweet teats, nice to meat balls, and Ben's oily fried bread. Delicious. Finally, we have torso Evans.

Bartak's, bartec, sorry, savesa crystal. Peter's Unco-Grunt piss. Willy, Wonky Willie and the un-co-un-cone. God. What's this unco thing? There's a few of these uncos. Poop. Yeah.

Have we forgotten already what that is? Japanese poop, in it? The Japanese poop museum. That's the one. Oh, yeah. That's it. Museum, the Poozeum. Ben is Kevin Magnussi.

Neil Bukaki's Blart attack. Mr. Macca, the very generous Bill the builder. For Bill, this seemingly simple task wasn't just about assembling a cart. It was a moment of purpose, a chance to offer his expertise, and a reminder of his capability to make a difference.

Love you, Dad. I must be sentimental now that I'm 40. Wow. I assume that was a quote from his father. I don't know. Bill the Bill. Maybe? Yeah. Not sure. Not sure what the context is there. But if you're 40 and it was recently your birthday,

happy birthday to you. Kevin Koto? I think. Yeah? Yes. Kevin Koto. Very generous. Thank you so much. Thank you. Just missed my birthday with this donation. But happy birthday to all podiates who are near this day.

Happy birthday to you, Kevin, retrospectively. Yes, indeed. And finally, we also have the very generous Brian Butterfield, who says, It is once again potty at stay, so we can eat whatever we want. Potato grints, 20 cheese omelet, garlic pudding, pints of shit, pissy pillows, crusty panties, Mr Blomby's smegma, come, come, come, come. I think I need a new belt after shitting this lot out. Oh my God.

Wow. It starts, the first two are actual ones, and then it suddenly descends. into pints a shit. That's not right. It's a lot, doesn't it? Thank you very much, Brian. Give an extra shout out to

Wonky Willie and the Uncone in case, because I think I sort of spoke over that one. So in case that was missed, hello to you, thank you. Very good one. And that is your Pod Squad for this week. Three pounds or more gets you a shout out

at the beginning and the end of the next episode. Podgets.com is where you go to do that. Thank you so much Pod Squad. Do you guys have a favorite? I think we all quite liked. line TV license man's here. Yeah. Yeah.

There was some very good ones, though. You all outdid yourselves this week. Really did. It's a really stupid one, but I quite like nice to meet balls. I'm going to stick with TV license man's here. I've always dreamed of what I'd do if the TV license man came to my door. Fight, fight him, fight him. Get off.

I'm not paying no tax. Actually, I do pay my TV license fee. Don't come after me. I actually do. I genuinely do. I fucking did. Did you fuck? You lion bastard. That's what Michael Jugson's career is now because you've got the lines for it.

God, so many places Michael Jugson could have that exact conversation, like court. Yeah. Traffic warden. I really want to make a Phoenix Wright edit now where it's just did you a fuck? I'm fucking did. Did you fuck, you lying bastard? Go and ask if you fucking don't believe us. Yeah.

Oh, brilliant. Anyway, that's your pod squad. Mikey, I believe that I've said, I've said Mikey, I believe, several times this episode already, and it's not going to stop. It's just a very natural lead-in for me now. Mikey, I believe that you are still question slash thing man for this episode. So who would you like to go first?

Can I nominate myself for the viewer submitted thing first? Sure. Go for it. Two weeks on the trot. You've done that. Is it? Is it? It's fucking disgusting, is it?

Oh, God. So I'm hogging the limelight here. I'm sorry, everybody. I thought I hadn't done it last week, so I was putting myself at the front. But I'm doing it again. You can't stop me. Choochoo! I'm going to charge this train.

Choochoochoo. Chee-choo. Oh, we have something that was submitted by a donator. This one is from Frogley at the Frogley on Twitter. and this is an article, and the headline reads, what do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing, the wild and wacky skijoring? Skijoring?

Ski-joring. I'm going to send the word through and see if you can make heads or tails of it. Ski-joring, because I imagine it's going to say this a lot in the article. Ski-juring. Yeah, I don't know what that is. Ski-a-oring, I don't know. Perhaps the article will. will tell us the origin of the word.

Jorring. What is? What is yoring? I don't know. Well, let's find out. Leadville, Colorado. Nick Burry clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees,

and scans the snowy race course. Moments later, he's zipping past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling off jumps. But it's not gravity pulling him toward the finish line. It's the brute force. of a quarter horse named Sirius.

What's a quarter horse? I guess as one of a certain size. A little tiny horse. So I googled quarter horse. It just looks like a regular horse. That's a full-sized horse by the looks of it. Hot damn. Welcome to Skjjoring.

An extreme and quirky winter sport that celebrates the unlikely melding of rodeo and ski culture in the US mountain. West. It's a heart-pumping white-knuckle competition in which horses, and sometimes dogs, snowmobiles, and even

cars, tow skiers by rope at speeds that can top 40 miles an hour for jumps as high as 8 feet. Geez Louise and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton, typically a ski pool that's cut

in half. There are any pictures of ski joring in here? I want to see this in action now. I'm just having a look now. Uh, wow. Yeah, that's, it's like getting, uh, towed behind a, a boat, uh, with, with, with, it's like water skiing. Like water skiing. Yeah. Behind a boat that poops. Oh, yeah. Yes, yeah, a poo boat. Yeah. It looks very scary. Uh, every winter, thousands of people converge on the old mining town of Leadville, Colorado, high in the Rocky Mountains, elevation 10,000 feet, lining downtown's main street and packing the saloons to witness one of the, most popular skejoring races in the country.

I didn't know there was more than one. So, hey, there's a whole bill of them. I can tell you, if you want to know the origin of the name, I've got it here. Oh, yes. The name is derived from the Norwegian word, skeekjuring, which I'm sure is not pronounced that way, but it's just ski joring with an extra k in, which just means ski driving. So I guess because sometimes, well, either a car or a horse, you don't. drive a horse, don't you, I think. So yeah, it's just ski driving in Norwegian.

Oh, I like it. Cute. The spectacle is billed as the granddaddy of them all and has been a tradition since 1949. Now I get a quote from one of the participants. It's just the pure adrenaline that gets me to do it. And then getting these two different groups of people together with the riders and the skiers, usually they don't hang out and getting them together. We mesh pretty well, said Bury, who wears fringed leather. the pants with his ski ear and a nod to the sports western vibe. Very nice. Oh, yeah, here you go, Skjoin, draws his name from, as you just explained.

Today's sport is inherently dangerous and injuries are not uncommon among riders, riders and skiers alike. Indeed, one of the first riders in the Leadville race earlier this month, toppled off his horse and had to be helped off the track as he shook his head in confusion. Oh, geez. Oh, no, no, no. I thought you're going to say topped himself by accident I was really wondering how it was going to go my god

Burry did well in the competition despite skiing with a separated shoulder from a hard spill during a race two weeks earlier how many of these offences if there's one just two weeks before the granddaddy them all they just love it they just love skidgering skidgering I like that wrong turn taking a jump wrong go down wrong

you could end your season then hospital bills rack up and it's just for the But it's just for the thrill of it, said Burry, a 26-year-old from Mika, Colorado. Is there any money in it? I don't know. It's just for the thrill of it, Ben. It's just for the thrill of it, Ben. It's just for the...

Sorry to ask. I mean, in that photo you put there, it does look like they've closed down the street. So I assume there's some money involved. So mercantile, Ben. It's just the thrill. Sorry. Enjoy the thrill. I'm a realist.

You know, I should just enjoy the thrill. Yeah. My favorite thing about that picture is that the... advertisement that's on the ramp kind of looks like it just says the word cock advertised by cock yeah it's it's not in common that my hands are shaking a little bit even after all this time because that horse's nostrils are flaring and I'm about ready to grab a rope that's attached to the saddle and if I'm not ready to go then things can go bad real quickly boy Jesus Christ I don't hear a thing when I'm running said another

participant when it's happening you really don't have time to think about anything but when you get done you're like holy cow that was insane holy cow i open my favorite words uh one of her more memorable moments was when her horse slipped pulled back and headbutted her breaking her nose oh gosh i getting hit with a big head butted by a horse what was your favorite bit get my nose broken by my horse. Edbutter, even though she's behind the horse. I wonder how it turned around fast enough to headbutter. I think that's why they were in motion or like when they were setting up before they'd

even set off. I assume it bucked in some way and she just got clobbered in the nose. Headbutter. Or it slipped and it just rotated. Like his legs went out from under it and she just went straight into it. Oh, it's head. Yeah. Gotcha.

riders say these moments the crashes, the speed, the rocious crowd and the camaraderie made Skidgering what it is and the sport is growing five years ago about 350 riders and the same amount of skiers were competing in the US she said now there are more than

1,000 competitors in each of these categories and the amount of races each year has doubled from 15 to 30 so wow I mean if you're getting into Skajoring you're at a good time And this is the up. Getting this good joring now. It's good.

Get in while it's hot. And there is no official governing body, no uniform, no set of rules, no regulations, no points. It's just, as I say, Ben, for fun. For the thrill of me. Or the thrill of it. It's like poddiots. No money in it. Just the thrill of it, baby.

Woo! Let me end on a quote from, I think, another participant. with quite a romantic view the whole thing. I think it's one of the most romantic and visually pleasing sports that you could see. It's just magnificent. So, yeah, that's Skajoring.

Look out for a skedjoring event near you. They're popping up all over the globe where there is snow. Well, global warming. There'll be snow everywhere, potentially. According to the day after tomorrow. Yes, true. It gets colder.

for some reason because the gulf stream shuts down, I think. Right. And then skidjuring every day. Yeah, scedgering to work, scrogering home again. Yeah, this is it. The dawn of a new era for planet Earth.

I, for one, welcome it. Oh, beautiful. I can't wait. That is the article. Thank you, Frogley. Thank you very much. Hmm. Ben.

Yes. I'm calling on you. Would you like to read your thing? I would love to read my thing. thing. This is the story of Atlantraper. Have you heard of Atlantraper? Atlantrapa. Atlantraper. Sounds like the word isn't finished. Like you've chopped a bit off the end. Well, Atlantraper wasn't finished. So, you know, there's a little bit of truth in there. This actually was brought to my attention by a Tom Scott video.

Oh, yeah. I love Tom Scott. I did a little bit of research of my own and then I've got a few points that he made that aren't in the article that I'm going to read. So let's learn about an Atlantraper, shall we? This is an article on Environment and Society.org written by Felix Mouche, Mouche, possibly. He's German. Is that right, Peter?

Hang on. Has it written? M-A-U-C-H. M-A-U-M-O-C-H. It would be Felix or Felix? Oh, I don't know. Felix, probably. I'm not sure how they would say Felix.

Does it matter, really? His name's not going to come up again, but I just want to give Felix's juice. Anyway, this was written a while ago, but this is a story from a long time ago. The headline reads, Atlantraper, endless energy from the Mediterranean Sea. Population growth, natural resource consumption,

and an increasing demand for energy were issues that continually and substantially shaped the course of the 20th century. New innovations in transportation and the expansion of electricity networks throughout the industrialized world required new approaches to solving the energy problem. In the spring of 1928, the Munich architect Hermann Zurgle, I believe it's pronounced, 1885 to 195 to 195, presented an idea which promised to solve all these difficulties. At Lantraper, it offered an inexhaustible source of energy,

vast quantities of raw materials and new... Liebenshram. Yeah, maybe? For innumerable people. Anybody want to translate Liebenstram for me? Here is how it is written. Leibonsram. There we are.

Oh, life something. Hang on, let me, I don't know what realm is. German concept of expansionism and vulkish nationalism. Brilliant. Goodness me. Uh-oh. I think sort of German colonialism potentially is what that is, I think. Well, when you find out more, that makes a lot more sense.

Right. So I just googled Volkish. Do you want the definition? Go on. Populist or nationalist and typically racist. Right. Okay. Sounds like early 20th century German ideals.

Word for word, Labens realm means living space, living room. So, yeah, sort of territory. expansion, I think, is the idea there. Also, I should clarify that pretty much everywhere in Europe was just a bit racist in the 20th century. Oh, for sure. They were all doing their own little expansions. They were all doing, just here and there, just a little expansion.

We were all a bit volkish back then, I think. All that just love a bit of the volkish. Atlantrapa united a technological utopia with political visions of reform. Zurgle proposed building a giant dam across the Strait of Gibraltar to create the largest hydroelectric facility in the world.

It would provide for half of Europe's electricity needs. At the time, it would cut off the main water supply to the Mediterranean. Evaporation would lead to a drop in the sea level of up to 200 metres and would create new stretches of land across the coast, as well as connecting Europe to Africa by land. The two continents would merge into a single entity. This newly one massive land would be used for agriculture, extending infrastructure, and as a site for entire cities.

So I'll send you a proposed... at Lantraper sort of schematic slash map, you can see that basically they're just dry up the Mediterranean, drain it, harness the water power, and then build stuff on the new land. You know what? Sounds great apart from the racism and the absolutely catastrophic ecological ramifications of drying up the Mediterranean. I'm sure he's thought about it all, Peter. It's all well thought through. He's a slightly scary looking 1930s German poster for it.

The 19, you know, the early 20th century Germans thought a lot of things through, I think, didn't they? Yeah, it was all great. It definitely all went fine for them and worked out. Yeah, yes. The consequence of this, admittedly, would have been the destruction of the Mediterranean through salinization. However, it's not all bad. The vision of creating Atlantraper did not fail due to concerns about ecological damage.

This factor hardly came up in discussions of the project. Rather, it was political reasons that were decisive in the end. The project was not feasible either during the Nazi regime or in the post-war period. In addition, it was replaced by the promise of a new solution to the energy problem. Atomic energy became the new symbol of the belief in progress and the need for an unlimited supply of energy, sorry.

In 1986, however, the reactor accident at Chernobyl would greatly unsettle this trust in nuclear power. Herman Zurgle did not experience all of this for himself. He died on the 25th of December, oh, Christmas death, 1952, as the result of an auto accident, and his project did not long survive him. The Atlantraper Institute and Association of the sponsors and supporters of the project disbanded in 1960. Atlantraper was a thing of the past. In retrospect, Atlantraper was by no means an isolated phenomenon,

but rather was one of a whole series of a large-scale technological proposals to solve the energy problem. Today, too. New gigantic energy projects are underway around the world. This was from 2012, remember, so these may be completed now. Projects such as the Three Gorges Dam in China or the Aitipu Dam in South America, potentially. And their consequences for humans and nature cannot be foreseen. So that's the end of the article. this man suggested draining the Mediterranean, harnessing the power, using the new land for all sorts of stuff,

and connecting Europe to Africa. Tom Scott made a great video about this, and he raises these points. So, it was popular in Germany, but not so much in places like Venice, and those who suddenly found themselves living dozens to hundreds of miles from the sea where they were on it previously. Sort of stuck up on stilts on like a muddy sea bed that's no longer there.

Exactly, yeah. And apparently African opinions didn't much matter at the time. To quote Tom Scott, it wasn't so much unification of Europe and Africa as much as it was an assimilation of Africa to Europe because of the time. Farming, as much as that was touted, would not have really been suitable because it would be all salt flats. so they wouldn't be able to farm much there. Temperatures.

The project might have diverted the Gulf Stream, according to modern meteorologists, dropping temperatures in Europe and Hello, Pippa, and changing farming, she's on my keyboard, and changing farming and agriculture as we know it's day. And finally, of course, there were some security concerns,

when initially suggested a dam as big as the one proposed, would have been fairly immune to attack or sabotage, but having one source of energy and protection for millions, to the nuclear advances of World War II was another issue, of course, because all it would take would be one bomb and it would wipe out energy potentially for half of Europe and risk flooding to all sorts of new settlements that were created in its wake. I mean, damming up a sea, effectively, imagine, even if it wasn't a nuclear thing,

like occasionally reservoirs have just, obviously on a far smaller scale, like lake reservoirs. have just broken and, you know, dams have broken and stuff and valleys have been flooded that have been moved into for 100 years because they thought the dam would just be there forever. People have died. Imagine if one this big broke

for whatever reason due to structural failure or something. It would just be, by the sounds of it, one of the greatest human disasters in history. It would be really bad. It's the last thing we wanted to happen. And the racial implications, of course,

can't be ignored. God, I'm sure that the colonial Europe would be thrilled at having such easy access to Africa. Yeah. So, yeah. There we are. That is my thing. And Michael Johnson, you have posted those images to the thread from your personal account. Fantastic.

Let me delete those and get that on the right account. There is a thread of images, as always, just sort of to tease what we're talking about on the podcast ahead of time. If you want to see those, you can go to Twitter. If you don't want to go to Twitter, you can go to vidyats official.com, and our Twitter is embedded on the side. So you can see it that way as well. Shame the plan didn't go ahead because, like, the new apartments that build on the land kind of names itself. The salt flats.

Oh, very good. Yes. Just miles and miles of salt flats. Delicious, salty floor. Thank you very much, Ben. You're welcome. Thank you, Tom Scott. Thank you, Tom Scott.

I do. I really wish, well, no, I don't wish, like there's some really stupid plans that I kind of wish they could have executed just to see how stupid they were. Or maybe it would have made everything great and fantastic. We'll never know. But yeah, well, maybe that's one for the future when we want to reunify the countries. Thank you. Hanjiya, it's time. It's time. It's time. Or when it's too hot in Britain, by the sounds of it, we can just wreck the Gulf Stream and it'll cool us down a bit. Screw everyone else who's not adjacent to the Gulfstream, but that's a solution for us. They'll be all right.

Maybe. Yeah. It doesn't matter. We're not then. We'll be all right. No, it's all right. Yeah. Peter?

Yes. Would you care to do your viewer submitted thing? I'd love to. This is sent to us by Jareth Button at Emo underscore Hawk on Twitter. It's according to sky.com or sky news. Grandmother left dangling seven feet upside. down after getting stuck in shops shutters

I did see this it's so good yeah I don't need to I guess I don't need to send you guys the image because you've seen it I'll remind you there she is it's just

oh grandma no and that's only halfway up hell of a wedgey it's a poor choice still there actually because it's some better ones and Hughes 71 has been dubbed Super Anne by people in her

home village after CCTV footage of the incident was released. Oh, Anne. A grandmother was left dangling upside down after her coat got caught in a shop's security shutters. Anne Hughes 71 was seen on CCTV being

lifted seven feet into the air outside a convenience store in Ronda Sinon Taff, Kynon Taff. Is this? I guess Welsh. apologies Wales She has been dubbed Super Anne in her home village in Wales and said the incident

could only happen to me Although it sounds like She's taking it in stride Speaking at her home Near the Best One shop In Tontag Near Ponte Prid Or Ponte Prith

Miss Hughes said Her thought at the time Was flipping heck It's just lucky I've got a good sense of humour She said Storr shared the clip On its social media

and it has been watched nearly two million times. Miss Hughes was standing outside the store where she works as a cleaner, waiting for it to open, when the electric shutters were raised, and her coat got stuck. But it showed her dangling upside down before a shopkeeper rescued her

by holding her in his arms as the shutter was slowly lowered. She said, I've been suffering falls for the past six months or so, and the doctors at the hospital think it's from low blood pressure. It was going up then. I'm learning to live with the fame I'll never hear the end of it

Miss Hughes added Shutter was completely open Then I screamed his name The shopkeeper and thank goodness He came out and lowered the shutter a little bit And managed to get me in his arms And I can just remember saying to him Just grab me head

I was worried I was going to fall And I was pointing to the floor But while Miss Hughes said she was shaken up by the incident She was not injured good to hear it oh man what are you like

man classic it only happened to you man grokey super n super anne that was written

by Wales reporter Thomas Thomas very Welsh name yes Thomas

Thomas Thomas Thomas thank you very much for sending that in yeah I did see this it's a good video and you should all

those of you who haven't seen it should seek it out it's a It's a good watch, especially knowing that she was absolutely fine. That makes it far more enjoyable to watch. Yeah, I figured I was like, I watched it and went, oh, that's funny, but oh, God bless her. So this article did kind of quell my upsetness about it. She's, she's having fun with it.

Yeah. Thank you, Jarrett or Yareth, perhaps, for sending that in, very much. Thank you, thank you. I am going to do my thing. Oh. And I have just a little, a little guessing game. if your boys would like to play a game with me? Oh, I love a guessing game.

Um, I didn't really think of a catchy title for this quiz, so it's just, which of these things were named after people? Woo! Okay. So I have like countries, brands, items, locations, and I want you boys to guess whether or not it's just a name created out of thin air, or if it was named after a person that came before it, or maybe that helped start it. Okay, okay.

So I'm going to start off with, or maybe an easy one, maybe not. Let's say buzz in when you think you know it. I'll take turns. I still, I do this every time of quizzes. I never think about the mechanics of the quiz. Let's go for a buzz in. Okay.

Okay. Tackle Bell. Is it named after a person? Or is it just a made-of-name? Do we... Buzz? Yeah, when we buzz in, Does the other person have to choose the opposite?

Or is it just first person to answer right wins? First person to answer right wins. Okay, go ahead, Peter. I think no, because I'm aware of the logo, it has a bell and he sell tacos. But maybe that was done after the fact. I'm going to say no, it's not named after a person. You are incorrect. It is in fact named after a person.

A bell. Glenn Taco, no, sorry, it's Glenn Bell. Glenn Bell, yeah, named after a person. So that's a taste, sir. Not the name of the person I would expect to have created Taco Bell. No, Glenn Bell. When you've seen the food in Taco Bell, it does make sense that Mr. Glenn Bell needed. But it's not authentic.

How about Pepsi, Buzz? that's not a that's not a person surely not you are right Ben it's not a person right Pepsi was first invented in 1893 as Brad's drink Brad's drink that's way better

I should have called it that I'm drinking a Brad's drink right now a cherry one I'm going to in this house we're just going to call it Brad's drink now it was invented by Caleb Adam, who sold the drink at his drugstore

New Bern, North Carolina. It was renamed Pepsi Cola in 1898. Pepsi, because it was advertised to relieve dyspepsia. Nope, dyspepsia. Dispepsia. Dispxy. Which is indigestion and cooler, referring to

the cooler flavor. Oh, lovely. Interesting one here. Main Street, San Francisco. Muz. Peter? I'm going to take a risk that it's a double bluff or whatever bluff and say not named after a person.

It's like all other main streets. Oh, Peter. Oh, what a fool. It's named after. Peter Maine. Charles Maine. Glenn Main. Glenn Maine.

All Glens. This is the running theme. Gravy Bayne. Gravy Bay. Okay. Another interesting one. Shrapnel, as in the stuff. that's in bombs.

What was it? Oh, shrapnel. Shrapnel. Are you saying shrapnel? Shrapnel. Is Discord what censoring the... I'm not sure if Discord is just noise removing the S-H at the start of the word. Oh, okay, yeah.

Shrapnel. Rap-n-N-N-E-L. R-H-R-A-P-N-E-L. S-H-R-A-P-N-L. Every time you said it, it was just Rap-N-N-L. Beads. Bees. Buzz. That, of course, is Derek Shrapnel.

You are correct, Ben. Sadly, Derek Shrapnel was just using the testing of it. It was invented by a Henry Shrapnel. Oh, a Henry Shrapnel. Okay. We'll be known well. How about poker the card game? Buzz. Hmm?

Not named after a person Hey, you're right This is not named after a person Comes from a game called Polk, a French game It was played around the region where Poker was said to be originated And then Polk itself descended from the German

Pocken or to brag as a bluff Deep, deep, deep etymology now How about Brogues was in the shoes Oh Buzz That is not named after a person

All right again Ben Oh Very good Very good Was a total guess The name derives from the Gaelic word Brog Brog

Brog Translating to Rough or Stout Oh West Lake Los Angeles Buzz Hello.

Named after Kanye West. So yes. That's a yes. Correct. Amundo. This is named after a person. Henrique Wallace, Wallace, Wattlake. Wallace?

Whoa. Oh, West Lake. Oh, the whole thing. Oh, I thought it was just the West Lake that you were asking about. West Wallace Street. Yeah, West Lake. Yeah, named after man. No, I think there is a little lake there, but I think, yeah, the lake and the name of the place are totally unrelated.

Oh. How about Lake Mountain? Lake Mountain? Lake Mountain. Is it a mountain or is it a lake? Yeah, what is it? Well, I don't want to give it away. Buzz, actually.

Yeah. Buzz. Hello. That's a person. You are correct. Okay. Because there is in fact no lake at Lake Mountain. So it's a mountain.

Oh, it's lakes mountain. The area was not. named after George Lake. Okay, okay. How about? Mars, the chocolate company. Oh, Buzz. Hello, Peter.

Depending on whether you count gods, I'm going to say it wasn't named after a human being but was just named after the planet slash ancient god, Mars, depending on what that means. So, not a human

but a deity. Yes. Sadly, it was named after a human and not a deity. Wow. Franklin Mars. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, that's what I expected from the Mars company.

Oh, I should say also, I forgot to mention this was, I stole this from Tom Scott as well. Oh, really? Okay. His newsletter is very good. Yeah, I'm on his newsletter, but I'm not seen it. In one of his newsletters, there's a link to a list of companies that you wouldn't expect to be named after people. and I've thrown some red herons in there as well. Nice.

German chocolate cake. Oh, I know this one. Oh, Ben said Buzz first. I also know this one. Yeah, it's, are you talking about like Black, Black Forest Gatto or just German chocolate cake? Because I think that neither of them are German, are they? So it's a person. Yes, you are right.

It is named after the English-American chocolate maker Samuel German. Yeah, this is on Twitter. recently. Yeah, I saw it there as well. Sneaky. How about another confectionery related, related one? Baker's chocolate. The chocolate you used to bake with.

Yeah, all right. Buzz, that's named after a person. Well done. Well done. It is indeed. Dr. William Baker. That's funny. How about Bailey's?

Everyone's favorite Irish cream. Oh, surely. Buzz Go on Ben It's not named after a person Oh you're on fire It is not named after a person I haven't got one wrong yet

I don't think you have I don't think you have Complete guesswork Apart from the German chocolate cake Yeah All skill All skill No skill

It says here The name is that of a restaurant Owned by John Chesterman The restaurant was named Bailey's And so he named it after the restaurant And then the, um, the fictional R.A. Bailey signature on the bottle was inspired by the hotel's logo, I think. Ah, that's funny.

Yeah. How about Halford's, the UK bike shop amongst other things? Halford's. Buzz. Go on. Uh, yes. Named after a Halford. Oh, Peter.

Oh, Peter. Oh, Peter. Oh, no. Halford's was founded by Frederick Rushbrook in Birmingham, 1892, as a wholesale ironmongery. The company takes its name from Halford Street. Oh, okay. But the street is named after a Henry Halford in Leicester, but I'm not going to take that. It's loosely connected, but I'm not going to take that.

How about Max Factor, the cosmetics and makeup line? Yeah, it's named after Max Factor, sure. Buzz Ben bust in first My streaks on the line I think it's too obvious I'm going to say that that's not named after Maxwell Factor

I agree I was in the joke Will you believe it It is actually named after Max Factor What even the Factor It's not just like John Max No Yeah like first name last name

It's just his own name Amazing Yeah Yeah absolutely amazing And to send us out about brown noise, the name for a certain type of audio or visual noise. Peter Austin. I'll say this is named after a brown. Charlie Brown noise.

You're right, Peter. It is Robert Brown that it's named after. Is that the brown noise as in the one that is just good for blocking out sound or the one that makes you shake yourself? Because that's a brown noise, isn't it? Or is that a brown tone? The brown note, isn't it? Yeah, the brown note. Brown note.

And sound. And not farting. No. Yeah, I think it's just the, yeah, I've googled brown noise and I'm getting lots of 10 hour-long videos of noise. So definitely, hopefully, helps you at the sleep. Brown note, also sometimes called brown frequency or brown noise, is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency capable of causing fecal incontinence by creating acoustic resonance in the human bowel. Oh, nice.

Beautiful. If I break your bottom, there's a wrestler whose entrance theme basically just sounds like that. I'll see if I can find it. That's family theme. Here we go. Right, here we go. It's called Rise of the Drones and it's just bo.

It's the worst noise. Here you go. Give that a listen. Oh, well, they tried to do it on Mythbusters apparently, the brown note. Oh, I'm getting a deep sense of dread. Try not to shit yourself when you listen to that. It's just that for two minutes. Just, oh, that's awful.

Yeah. Oh, try not to poo, everyone. Try not to poo. You're not to poo. You've already done it. Fucking did. There you go, boys. That's a little quiz.

I mean, like, after Max Factor, I was like, God, I've got to do this. That's just too good not to bring in. So, yeah. Well, well done. you are crowned champion of the names. Thank you. Do I get some Brad's drink as a reward? You get an Alfred's voucher.

Thank you. Thank you very much. You're welcome. You're welcome. Let us have Ben your view of a submitted thing. My viewer submitted thing comes courtesy of Liam Carpenter Robson at Liam C underscore Robson on Twitter. This is an article from wholedailymail.com.com. written by Neil Shaw,

the network content editor, Live and Trends, says in parentheses. Lacey Marie wins, in quote marks, I don't know why, school fancy dress day with Greggs on her head. Oh, yeah, I saw this one.

Her hairdresser mum used real icing and sprinkles, hyphen, and even Greggs was impressed. Yeah, and wait until you see what they did after this story. I won't spoil it. it. Oh, no. Oh, God, I didn't know about the next bit. I'll put the photo in. Clearly, we've all seen it, but hang on. I've got to put it in the right chance so that can go on the

thread. And there we are. Look at Lacey Marie. A Greg's superfan school girl won school crazy hair day when her mum used real icing and sprinkles to create the bakery's iconic donuts and coffee on her head. Lacey Marie Maxfield, Maxfield Factor, delighted teachers and pupils alike after turning up to school with a Greg's inspired donut and coffee cup stuck onto her head as part of her school's crazy hair day. The six-year-old transformed her hair into a plate of some of Greg's well-loved staples, including a sprinkled donut, coffee cup complete with sugar and stirer, and pastry bag. Mum Samantha Rudd was intent on creating the unique design after the school announced their crazy hair day competition, commenting that the hairdo pays homage to her six-year-old's

love of Greg's doughnuts. Oh no. The 30-year-old hairdresser and Greg's... Sorry, the 30-year-old hairdresser said Greg's staff was so impressed by her little one's eye-catching hairstyle. They awarded her free cookie. That's all they gave that. I was furious.

She likes donuts. Not even a box of cookies or a bag of cookie, like multiple. Oh, my God. She got loads of publicity off this for free, and they gave her one cookie. Oh, my God. Gregs is usually like shit hot. with all its advertising and stuff. That's a proper letdown.

I can just leave it. What would you do that she likes again? Is it? What was on the hair? Cookies, yeah? Yeah? Give her a cookie. Yeah, that's it.

Adorable photos show Lacey Marie's hair remodeled into a Greg's sprinkled donut with butter icing and with butter icing and icing carefully placed on the top. Oh, two kinds. Samantha, who lives in Dudley, West Midlands, said, I just had some Greg's bits lying around the house and just came up with this ice.

idea. I had a Greg's coffee cup one morning and thought, what could I do with it? Put it in the bin, probably, and came up with this idea. She was really up for it when I suggested the idea. Lacey Maria is a big fan of Greg's. She's a donut fan. Donut. She likes donuts, guys, not cookies. Most days. She's a donut fan. She hates the cookies, but she's a huge fan of donut. Most days, she asks to go to Greg's. She does love it. We treat her to one maybe on a Friday once a week. She's a big foodie. We thought of colors. and plimpsoles in the hair, but then had this coffee cup and thought, what could I do to make it a bit different? And she loves donuts, and she keeps saying this, and is a big fan of Griggs.

So it connects to her as well. Maybe some sort of hair design involving plim souls. I don't really know. Right. Samantha, who is also mum to 11-year-old Lily Cherie Maxfield, said Little Lacey Marie ended up winning Best Girl in her school's competition thanks to her bakery-inspired hair do the mum of two said i knew we had the fake donuts you could hang on i knew we had the fake donuts you could put in your hair huh and thought we could make that into a real donut we right fake that we put oh so yeah this is like this is a hair thing to create that start it's kind of like a bun like a um and yeah you put like a fake you put the hair around it and you wrap wrap wrap the hair around it right okay that makes that makes sense uh do do we could

We put butter, icing, cocoa powder and sprinkles on her hair to make it into an ice donut. She loved it. She loves donuts. Donuts. She loves donuts. Donuts? The Greg's paper, napkin and coffee cup were all stuck on with double-sided tape. It was completely off by the end of the day.

I knew it would stay on long. It got more of a reaction than I thought it would. She actually went into Greggs with her hair like that, and they all loved it and gave her a free cookie. Okay, so it was the local Greggs. Like, corporate Greggs might end up doing something. Okay. So, yeah, I guess the local Gregs aren't necessarily a little. allow to just hand out loads of stuff.

Someone's going to losing their job over that now. It's been reported. But corporate do need to give her something. They do. A fucking donut. It's easy. For the love of God. And the teachers loved it.

She actually ended up winning Best Girl and won an Easter egg. So there you go. I do like doing creative things like this. I thought no one is going to think about doing something to do with Gregg's. And that is the end of the article. I'm now just getting served all those things you usually get on local. news like if players knew this they would stop playing from Buzz Daily winners incredible the TV box everyone is talking about access all channels question mark picture of a cross section of a big aloe vera leaf with the dew coming out joint doctor begs brits to repair joints with this tip every morning please people click on this don't they put me out of a job i need you to do this don't replace your windows until you read this

I think I need to read it guys I don't think I can stop Anyway that is my listener slash viewer submitted thing Thank you very much I believe that was was that Liam I'll double check Yes thank you Liam

Thank you Peter Would you like to finish us off That's not right there Would you do I love you go on Give us a hand Since we're married

Sure I've got a write up here from Dr. Simon Young, who is a folklorist, a professional academic folklore studier. And I've, for a while now, I've been trying to find a good writer of this story, because I'm aware of this story, but I've only ever heard it in, like, podcast form, and I've wanted something to read to you, and I probably should have, you know, done the legwork myself and written something up. But anyway, I've gone with this one by,

Dr. Simon Young. And I am going to have to jump around a little bit because he does do a pretty extensive breakdown of this story. But I kind of want to just give you the details. So forgive me if I seem to be jumping around a little bit, but I'll do my best. Okay.

So this is the story of an encounter that took place in Wollerton. And it's called the Wollerton Nomes. Oh. So what happened at Wollerton, Simon says? The Wollerton Gnomes was a classic anomalous encounter In the autumn of 1979 A half dozen primary school children Went for an evening walk in Wollerton Park in Nottingham

These kids were then approached by 30 gnomes That were driving in small cars Would you believe? I wouldn't Things got stranger from there And the children eventually ran from the park To escape their gnome pursuers So that's the little intro

If I scroll down now Did you fuck, you lying bastards You lying bastard You're stunson there What happened in the encounter Asked Simon later in this document The children were out together For about two hours that night

From 8pm to 10pm They went to the park soon after they met up The jumble of different accounts In Source 1 He's earlier in this document He's gone through a couple of the different sources Of this story Because it was actually written up

The kids all went to the same school and they went to school the next day or the next week, and the headmaster sat down and interviewed all of these kids and recorded it on tape, which nowadays you'd probably get, like, sacked for doing that. But, you know, he was in terms of preservation of this strange story, it was a really good thing that he did. But yes, the jumble of different accounts in Source 1

make it difficult to follow exactly what transpired and when. However, my impression is that there were two encounters. In the first, four of the children, penetrated the swamps area which is in air quotes I think that's just what the kids called this part of the park yes the bog

by crawling through a fence the gnomes then came out to drive Patrick and Andrew fell into the mud as the cars came after them perhaps even because some of the gnomes dropped from trees onto them according to source too

in the second encounter the children had left the swamps the whole group was running towards the gate and the gnomes came out in their cars As the children left the park, the gnomes did not follow. They were, the children suggested, scared of the lights. Interestingly, the children did not go straight home. The encounter seems to have been strange rather than traumatic for them.

Though one child, Glenn, cried, and in source two, we learned that the gnomes were believed to steal children. So we also have a section here called, what did the gnomes look like? Okay, here we go. or why gnomes, we'll start with. Well, this is apparently because the children employed... Apparently, the children employed this word in their accounts. The word dwarf was also used once in the interviews, perhaps also because the entities were, as described,

reminiscent of the typical English garden gnome or big ears in Noddy, who, interesting, they used to drive around in a little car. So... What did the gnomes look like? The gnomes were about as high as a 10-year-old's waist, as in many fairy encounters they were dressed in a uniform fashion but not in uniforms they had yellow tights and blue or green tops the tights or trousers had some patches on they had blue caps with a bobble on the end and they had white red tipped or black beards we are lucky that picture we're lucky that pictures by the children survive so i don't know if you guys will be able to find them on google right now but if not i just posted one right is that yeah That's what it looks Yeah, that's one

That is one of the official images That is incredible Look at the little car That's a gnom in a car Can't dispute that It is The cars were red Or green and blue

All three of the children interviewed in source one Agreed that there were There was more than one colour On the cars The cars seemed to have been Two seaters And to have had

Triangle-shaped lights And in fact It says earlier in the article That there were Two gnomes per car One driving And one in the last and just see.

Did they have flames or spoilers or anything? Probably, yeah. The cars seem to have, yeah, sorry, been two-seaters. Is this a child describing, as Chris Woodyard suggests to me, that's one of his colleagues, the old-fashioned tapered headlamps in the interwar period? The gnomes steered by leaning to the side, which recalls to this writer,

bumper cars at the fair. The gnome cars did not obey the normal laws of physics. They were able to jump, over logs and left no marks in the mud. There was no noise from the engines, but the children did hear bell sounds. Now, there was one more bit I wanted to read. Oh, yeah, here we go.

What was this one-off encounter? In Source 1, we discovered the children, or at least some of them, had seen the gnomes in the undergrowth in the summer holidays earlier that year. That encounter had... Sorry, this is entitled, Was this a one-off encounter?

not was this. So they'd apparently seen the gnomes earlier that year. That encounter had also been after dark. Patrick's older sister, Mandy, claimed she saw the gnomes on the day after the sighting. There were about six of us, sorry, there were about six of them coming round the back of Wollerton Castle.

They were just like those that Patrick saw. In source three and four, and in Frank Earp's essay, there are details of other sightings of small humanoids in Woolerton and Nottingham in the years before and after. The reader must decide whether this is proof of a local presence or proof of local folklore. And finally, what were these gnomes?

There have been suggestions over the years as to the true identity of the gnomes. Were they children glimpsed in the night? Were they elementals? Were they men in golf carts? Because I think there's a golf course nearby, apparently. Were they a noddy tulper? I've googled the word tulper. and apparently it's a concept

originally in Tibetan Buddhism which is a thought form. It's like a projection of something in your mind apparently. Similarly, were they some kind of egregore, which is the same thing. And was it all, or was it all

an elaborate joke, or were they earth energies coalescing into human form? The mind boggles. Now I should say, I think it would be correct to say that Simon Young here, I've listened to a lot of his stuff, he's very much a skeptic, he just is interested in the notion of these stories. So I think he's very much playing devil's advocate to various other people who are suggesting these solutions. He's not necessarily saying

I think earth energies were coalescing into a physical form. But as much as we've all had a laugh about this, it was taken semi-seriously at the time. And I think people did believe that these kids had seen something and they weren't necessarily just entirely making it up. Of course, they could have been mistaken and there weren't gnomes driving around in cars in the park.

But yeah, this is just a strange encounter that has kind of gone down in folklore study history. So here go. I finally found an okay write-up that I didn't have to jump around a little bit, but I thought you might like to learn about the Wollett and Knows.

Yeah, that's really interesting. I've just watched I'm on a role at the moment watching movies that deserve all the awards it's a comedy that's just come out starring Zach Ephron and John Sina called Ricky Stenickey What is this?

I've heard of this They Zach Ephron and his friends from childhood invent an additional friend called Ricky Stenickey on whom they blame every misdeeds

they have ever done until they it continues into adulthood and eventually their partner's wives et cetera want to meet Ricky Stenickey so they hire John Sina who plays a washed up actor to play Ricky Stenickey. I'm not saying

that these kids did something destructive in that park and then invented a fleet of car driving gnomes but I am suggesting that it could be very similar to the plot of the as yet non-award winning Richard Stenichard.

It could be that. I feel like there's truth to the story because one of the boys admitted to crying at the scene and the school boy would admit to cry. Yeah, that's true. There's, I think

one of the things that Simon Young leans towards when he talks about it is he thinks it's all two similar to the idea of Noddy, which is, you know, even back then was a very familiar character. He's by Enid Blyton, and I think he was also on TV at the time in a very early kids TV program. And I mean, Noddy literally drives around a little car that sounds a lot like the one described, and his friend Big Ears is basically just a gnome.

So, you know, he thinks whether they either completely made it up and just said, oh, let's say we saw some Noddy style characters driving around or if, you know, it was some kind of misidentification or kind of a story that got away from them and, you know, they were like telling a ghost story and then started to believe it or something like that. But yeah, he says, he just thinks it's all too similar to Noddy to be necessarily anything supernatural. I think it's fair enough. How peculiar. Yeah, just a little army of gnomes in cars while whimsical night. I wonder if those audio tapes have survived in some way. I want to hear the kids like,

I think they have done. Because I think that all of that text is taken from a small write-up he did, but he's done like this huge, like, deep dive onto all the sources and stuff. He's looked at like what the light levels would have been at the time. He also says it's like way too dark for them to have actually been able to see anything. There was no street lights and it was like at that time of night, at that time of year, it would have been too dark. So he's like done a real deep dive.

And I think he was able to get hold of the audio tapes and like, unscribe what was said. So I think they are out there still. Wow. The gnomes are out there too. Yeah, look out. Mikey. That was excellent. Thank you, Peter. You're welcome. And thank you everyone for submitting your things. We will, of course, be back in a couple of weeks' time. Don't go anywhere just yet, though. We've got some things to tell you about

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much. That is your pod squad for this week. Once again, pottyats.com, three pounds or more to get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the next episode. Peter, I believe you're going to tell us what's out on videos this week six, five, six years ago. This fortnight marks the beginning of

Skyrim Zoo. Hey! Yeah! Chapter 1, a new beginning. We also had in the spotlight for Kingdom Come Deliverance. Five video game characters who are total assholes off camera which has limited ads, possibly because Adolf Hitler is in the thumbnail. Yes, he is.

Vidiates, Patreon and podcast announcement. Memory cards for March the 5th. Podiates, episode 1. Hi. Hi, Evelyn. So this is our sixth birthday. Yeah. No.

Is that why someone... Did someone say in one of their... He said it's Pottiet's Day again. It is once again potty its day so we can eat whatever we want, said Brian Butterfield. I don't know if he just meant every fortnight or... it's actually our birthday. Yeah, I mean, it either works.

So it's our fifth birthday and our sixth anniversary. Have I got that right? Yes. No. It's just the same thing. Didn't we have this before? We've had this discussion. I was so confusing because it would have been one years old the second year of Podiers.

No, it would have been like when I, for instance, on my first wedding anniversary, my marriage turned one year old. So anniversaries and birthdays are the same thing So it's the fifth anniversary It's the sixth anniversary of the first episode Yes Yeah This is really hard

Why is this so hard? I'm not sure anymore And it's Pottie its fifth birthday Because it would have turned one in 2019 Yeah it turned one in 2019 Two in 2020 3 in 2020-21, 4 in 2020-2 5 in 2020-2020s 8 in 2020-203

6 in 2020 So it would have turned six? Six. So is it the seventh anniversary? That was easier to do than 2024 minus 2018. Please. In your pod squads for the next episode, please tell us which birthday and which anniversary we're on.

I'm sure they're the same thing. I think it's just six. It's so hard. Why is it so hard? I don't know. Don't know. Anyway, prove it. Pokemon Yellow version Part 1

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Memory cards for March the 12th I'm not going to say all the game names Prove it Pokemon Yellow Part 2 Becoming the Tomb Raider Another classic video That was early on on it Wow

Yeah Left for Dead steering wheel challenge for piece of cake. And finally, Prove it, Pokemon Yellow version live action challenge with the stinky egg.

Oh God, yeah. Palmoose egg. Palmeuse egg. Lovely. Mikey, where are you on the internet? At Parrot Boy on Twitter and Instagram is the best place to keep up with what I'm doing and also bit.l.li

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Well, there's just enough time to ask a final question before we go away forever. Not forever. Until next time. What do you guys want to do? What question? Hmm. Yeah. Do you think they should have drained the Mediterranean?

Yeah. Yes, or no. Should we still do it now? There's no nuance. Should we still do it? We should. Yes. Drain it.

Drain it. Drain it. Drain it. Everybody. Drain it. Drain it. Drain it. They can't silence us all.

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