Podiots - Podiots Episode 147 – Plastic Cup Deposit

Episode Date: June 10, 2024

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Pickax Guys, did you see that there's been another Willy Wanker? Did you see there's been two Willy Wankers? I got really confused. I didn't know about the other Willy Wanker. How many Willy Wankers could there possibly be? I saw one, and then I saw a story the next day, which I assume was the same thing. And I was like, hang on, that's not the same franchise as the one I saw yesterday.

Which one do you know about? I know about the Pokemon-flavored wanker. Right. Yeah. Well, there was also a Lego wanker, which I saw first. Really? Yeah. Just a big empty conference hall with like a couple of, I think there were some little rides in there, like supermarket rides and, you know, that kind of thing. Like you put in a coin. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Oh, no. It might not have been wrong. I have to Google it now. That might not be true. But yeah. And then the next day I saw Pokemon. I was really thrown off. Oh, well, I can tell you about the Pokemon one. Okay. Because I did read through the thread.

There's a big old thread that went viral on Twitter. One was that yesterday at the time of recording, so the 4th of June this week, if you're listening at the time of release. And it was a Pokemon event in the Philippines. I don't have the thread in front of me, so I'm not sure who tweeted it, who the author is. But apparently they won a competition to go to this Philippines Pokemon event. All sorts of red flags ahead of time, including the fact that it was listed as a Pokemon convention. It's a three-day, three-day convention. For fans, buy fans, and their description in their bio, apparently, was pretty much copied wholesale from another Philippines-based Pokemon fan organization that had also run a very successful convention.

Oh, right. Okay. So that was a little bit of a warning of things to come. They advertised all sorts of stuff like art classes, a bakery, like a Pokemon-themed bakery session. stuff like that, people showed up, they handed out loads of wristbands and no one knew what was going on. So by the time the second day rolled around, they just stamped people's hands with stars. The advertised bakery session wasn't a bakery session at all, but actually a promotional event where there was a business selling stuff. Right.

The art class wasn't an art class. It was actually two artists who were taking commissions and that was it. There was also a big empty space that was very confusingly laid out. It was backed by a, I think, a Saudi-based NFT. Oh, great. That's a great combination of words. And also a company that manufactured sort of Chinese zodiac star sign themed knick-knacks. And those two had big presences at the show, as I'm sure you can imagine.

apparently though the main stage was actually pretty good they advertised and followed through on the fact that Jason Page the singer of the Pokemon theme song and the whatever the production company is called Four Kids I think it is like the Western voice of Ash maybe the previous voice of Ash would be there for a Q&A and apparently those were really well done so maybe not quite on the same level as the original Willie Wanker but certainly a bit of a fiasco

Well, let me show you a picture from the Lego Willy Wonka. Oh, wow, that's a lot of barriers. Hang on, that's not the one I wanted. You might have it like it. Oh, yeah. That's a lot of warehouse. It's still not the one. This article's really messing me about.

I keep trying to, like, copy images, and it's, like, not really doing it. Hang on. There's one of just a really sad, like, Lego ballpool sitting. Ball pool, excuse me? and talk ballpark with a brick pool is what it is there is I jump in it and break you break your back this was something that was a parallel was drawn with the with the Pokemon the sad Pokemon convention as well

in that it harkens back to what was it was it called DashCon I feel like you've covered this before Mikey the furry convention or the Tumblr convention wasn't it? Yeah I think it was a Tumblr convention that got overrun by the lesser types of people and bronies and everyone just started peeing and pooing everywhere pretty much and they just had like a single ball pit in the middle of this massive room on day two i think of the pokemon convention they brought out like three small inflatable climbing frame things and that was that was the entertainment for the day

the uh the rides that i thought there were at the lego one aren't rides it's just there was a series of obviously lego statues of things so just stuff that you have to go on look at and not touch. It was at the NEC. It was just... Really? I thought I recognized... I mean, I know they all looked the same,

but I thought I recognized... That floor. An event advertised as the UK's biggest Lego festival has been called a complete rip-off by attendees who described it as a half-empty room with piles of bricks. Oh, man. It's, I think, like, anyone organizing an event should know at this point if you're resorting to having to put a ball pit in your event,

you're not doing good, to rethink, because that ball pit is always a harbing of doom. Yeah, it is. Well, Peter and I managed to build a similarly spectacular convention space in Minecraft in just two hours. So if we could do it. That's about the time that I think Willie Wonka put into his event in Glasgow, about two hours. I totally agree.

What it does, though, is beg the question of, A, what's next? what fucked up convention is going to disappoint people next and B, what do we, realistically, what do we think we could get away with if we threw a bad convention? VidCon. VidCon. Sounds like a COVID.

It sounds like a COVID. Well, Vidcon's a real thing. Well, yeah, it is. But yeah, vidiots gone. Podcon. Podcon. Connyets. Connyets.

Yeah, that's a good name. Yeah, it's really important. builds trust coniates it's said right there in the sign yeah you can't

come into coniates and then complain that it's a con we did we did make it

very clear uh maybe you could meet and greet a real life walrus that just looks

really sad it's like chained to the floor looks really malnourished yeah in a ball fit

yeah with no balls just it's just it's just an empty pit with a walrus we can

give away, like when people come in, we could give them a little pink ball called a ballie rail walrus. That's their fun little take-home event item for the trip. Yeah. Maybe VIP pass holders, it's advertised that they get a free hot meal. And what we do is just hand out a single hash brown. Yeah. Warm, fish.

Warm-ish. It had been cooked at some point. Yeah. And then there can be much like the Pokemon experience where you advertise one thing and it's not what it turns out to be. we can say that there is like a Saturday treat day experience where you you arrive and all of the food is laid out from Brian's Creek Day. But then it's just the three of us eating it and no one else gets to have any. We could also have just in a room or an area entirely on its own.

We advertise it ahead of time as the Billy Ray Walrus room. like come come to the Billy experience come see the the being himself and it's just a single glass cabinet in the middle of a cavernous room

with Billy in it and that's it Bulletproof glass that's what you come for yeah the whole NEC we put place right in the centre of the main convention hall just a cabinet with Billy in

I think it'd be quite if actually wanted to do something nice for the convention, I think it'd be nice to set up like a fake video's room with a couch and for five pounds, you get the chance of going on the couch and opening a random piece of tat. Everybody has to bring tat with them.

Yeah, added to the tat pile. We can send everyone home, though, with a copy of Hannah Montana, the movie of the game. God, we realistically, we could. It's probably, I don't know if they just threw them away or if it went to the basement. at Yogskast headquarters because some of our stuff

is definitely in the basement, I think. Oh, Ben. I think a lot of the games got took to CEX one day. Yeah, I think they did. Really? Yeah, we did it not long after you guys moved back. I think I think, I think.

I'm trying to be saying that. Yeah, so there's a CX somewhere with 50 copies of Montana. Because I think often, I think, and I'm sure you do as well, Peter, that we've got, we've received a lot of amazing, amazingly generous video games from even more amazingly generous people

while we've been at triple jump and some of them are duplicates that are just taking up space and we do need to get rid of them and CEX is the obvious choice because then we get a little bit more money back that we can reinvest into other bad games that we don't have

but the prospect of walking into CEX with like 30 PS2 games that are worth 6p each like I really just don't want to put that on someone while the person scans each one checks the case checks the disc And it just, when I did it for that video stuff, it did, I don't know, it was embarrassing to say the least. I didn't realize you actually had to do it yourself.

I think we all, we split out a lot of the stuff and we all took like stuff that like was interested us or whatnot. And so there was, yeah, a lot of stuff left over. And I think I was down the basement. It was like, should we just get rid of this? Yeah, I took it the CX. I think it was like seven, eight pound we got for like 50 PS2 games. Yeah, because Sips found the box of Hannah Montana games before they were. gotten rid of, didn't he?

And he posted a photo saying, like, you know, what unhinged box is this? And it was just full of Hannah Montana. And it like, you know, it did Sips numbers on social media. And we were like, yeah, we've been here all along. Yeah, this is what we were doing for an entire year. Thank you for. Yeah.

Not Sips specifically, obviously. No, no. Because we never had unfortunately. Clearly, there's a market for this kind of nonsense. And we were not introduced to that market. Oh man we're going to have to What we're going to have to do is assign every single member of Triple Jump Like 20 games and send them to a different CECS

Yeah Across town Toon sorry And that way we can limit our Our embarrassment Yeah by spreading it with everyone else Sorry but and also please all the money Please send it back to us after you've sent in all the games on our behalf

Yeah Yeah So we're thinking Coniates we're thinking the NEC as well if what was this called Brick Fest live I think yeah yeah

I can see so we're thinking NEC how much do you reckon we could charge for regular tickets and how much do you think we could charge

for VIP tickets and also third question how many days is this event there's got to be a con so we have to charge so it doesn't matter how long it doesn't

it might not even take place when people arrive So, but we have to charge a lot of money, I think, because that's how you hit the headlines as well, much like the Glasgow Willie Man. Sorry? The Glasgow Willie Man. Is he related to the Hatman?

Yeah, he might be. I don't know, 80 quid a ticket, maybe. Yeah, yeah. 80 quid, what, for the whole weekend? Yeah, well, that's what we're advertising anyway. You might not get the whole weekend out of it, but. Yeah. And we'll leave all the leftovers out from.

the Brian Butterfield Buffet out the entire weekend. Still no one's like to touch it. The buffet field. And then Sunday it's all sad and soppy. And it fills the NEC with a lovely smell. And that's where it's time to leave. Got it all planned out. Yeah, that sounds good to me.

The higher we charge, I think respectfully afterwards, we can go to any parents who are upset. Like, what were you expecting? Yeah. How are you still making this mistake? Yeah. Fell right into our web, you fools. And it's also your fault that you didn't.

tell your friends. Because if you had done, we'd have been able to put on a bigger show. It would be very different. Yeah. As the monumental thread that documents the Philippines Pokemon event correctly stated, if an event says by the fans for the fans, you shouldn't go to it.

Yeah. Because anyone who's running a convention needs to have experience. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Makes for a good Twitter thread, though, so keep up yourself out, I suppose. It's kind of like, Maybe it's like, do you think there's anyone out there who's like had an event and they've been planning it? It's not been going well and they think, well, it might not be a good event, but we could hit Wonka level of fame if you just kind of really lean into it and use it as a marketing strategy of like, yeah, it's got to be a little bit of a tickle there.

Yeah. It's when you look at, look at the NEC filled like Brickfest. You just got to know that you're now one of the Wonkers. Yes. Yeah. So they sort of realized, they thought it's not going well. but then they just intentionally nose dive it into the ground once they realize it. Yeah.

You don't want to adopt the wanker approach in the sense that a single person can be pointed out as the perpetrator. You want to be clever about it. You want it to be a sort of company. You respond to complaints with like vague apologies and sign it with pseudonyms, you know, that kind of thing. You don't want to get in too much trouble. Sounds like we've got it in the bag and we'll be in their headlines before long. It might even cover it. We might have to cover it on Pottie.

It's, you know, if it's the biggest story of the fortnight, it'll be submitted. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, then. Shall we go and, wow, words are coming thick and fast and here they are coming. Shall we go and? Shall we, shall we, can, do you want to? Shall we continue?

Thank you with the show. Very good. Got there. Thank you. Kevin. Kevin. Kevin needs to do the music. Kevin, please.

Hello, everybody and welcome to poddy. It's the official Vidiot's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three us where everybody brings us. I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. Hello, friends. Hello. Hello.

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That's my summary. Yeah, it's mostly miserable with tickles of joy. Yeah. Tickles of joy. Just tickles of joy. It's nice. Sounds like a Phil Collins album. I was taking Pippa for a walk, by which I mean,

Pippa was walking me around the garden, right, in her lead. And it started to rain. And she ran for cover under a pile of pallets, and I couldn't get her back out because she was like, absolutely not. It's raining. What is this for a start? Yeah. I'm an indoor cat. And so I put the lead down on the floor, trusting that she wouldn't sprint away, which she doesn't.

She usually behaves herself. And I opened the back door, and then I called her over, and she just ran into the house the fastest I've ever seen her move, which is pretty fucking quick. and then it was sunny again and then she learned to never leave the house again well you see whenever any window is open she's going to get out

she craves the freedom but not the rain not the rain if you want your freedom you've got to take what comes with it paper I'm sorry we have to suffer the rain so do you precisely we do have some exciting plans though

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Dr. Chegwin needs you. And Caroline needs you. Is this a follow-up from the slightly disturbing one we got last time? Yeah, there was a really strange one last time, wasn't there? Don't worry, I think immediately after that, everything was all right because the next name is, Caroline, I booked Pontins. Oh, hell yes. I hope he asked Caroline if she wants to go to Pontons, or is you just assumed.

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Guys, which one is your favorite? Don't make me choose. I do like Ben Pottery Shopping Center, but we can't. sure we've had that before so that tickled this I haven't I don't think I've heard that one before maybe not it's good the Ben Pottery shopping center yeah maybe that one then if it's not new if it is new I like the simplicity of Chegma mm yeah there's some phenomenal Chegg ones this week yeah but I'm gonna go with my heart and almost certainly we've had this one before but DBPs nuts is uh yeah it's my

choice. Also, happy pride, everyone. Happy pride. Happy pride, nuts. Michael Johnson, I believe you are in charge of things and listener submitted things this week. You're done too soon. And I'm going to throw it right back towards you, Ben. Could we have your viewer submitted article, please? Kick us off. Absolutely. This comes courtesy of Connor Bennett at C. Bennett underscore 12 on Twitter slash keys and this is from the Irish news written by Paul Ainsworth

there we are that was hard to find rescue operation sees kid goat brought down from 100 foot tower ruin oh my god 100 foot

do you want to see the kid yes this is a far away photo from of the kid this is it on top of the tower There it is. Up the tower.

It's really high up. That's very high. Oh, this is an even better photo. Hang on. This is a front-facing view of the goat. Now, we know goats are very good at climbing. I don't know how it got up there. Oh, that God's face says it all.

Oh, no. Even the goat doesn't know how it got up there, I think, looking at that face. A wandering goat has been brought back down to Earth after. scaling a 100-foot tower at a ruined castle in County Donegal. Am I pronouncing that correctly? Donagall? That feels right. Yeah, Donigal, yeah. Visitors to Northborough Castle in the Ballybos area of Inisho... They're really just punishing me now, aren't they? Oh, no. In the Ballybos area of Inishowan Peninsula, spotted the errant kid goat

atop the tower on Monday and soon realized that despite having clambered up the ruin by itself, it was unable to make the descent back down. Pictures taken at the scene show the goat looking down from what remains of a wall of the 14th century hold, which is known locally as Greencastle. It was determined that the kid had been on top of the ruin for up to three days. Lots of vegetation up there, though,

so, you know, it's been alright. Not too bad. Concerned visitors alerted the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, ISPCA, after trying and failing to coax it back down. What were you doing to coax it back down? Stunning at the bottom. All it could do is jump. A rescue operation swung into action to retrieve the adventurer's kid from the castle,

which was once the stronghold of 14th century noble and Earl of Ulster. Richard, that's all I'll say, from where he controlled the expanse of another noun. How do you feel about that one? Lough. Lough Foyle. Is that the Irish spelling of lock? like in Scotland. You've seen how Ifa is spelled.

Well, I know. Yeah. So he used to say. An ISPCA spokesperson said its superintendent inspector Kevin McGinley strapped on climbing equipment and scaled the ruin himself in order to reach the goat

and carry it back down to the loch shore on which the castle stands. On getting Ivy down to ground level and to safety, it became clear that the goat had a leg injury. Is Ivy the name of the goat? I guess so. I guess so. It's a good name for something that climbs Ivy.

Yes. She was transported to a nearby veterinary practice for an assessment of her injuries and was subsequently treated for a fractured leg. Oh. They added that Ivy was later taken to the ISPCA's Animal Rehabilitation Center near the village of Rammleton. She will be on restricted mobility rest for the next six weeks until her leg is healed and the cast has been removed, the spokesperson said. And then she'll be right back up the tower. Yeah, right back up there. Although she was a little stunned and underweight following her.

her dramatic rescue she was eating well and expected to make a full recovery. The ISPCA is currently investigating how the goat managed to reach the tower top and is also appealing for anyone willing to give Ivy a permanent home upon her recovery to contact them. I like how we're kind of broadening our horizons here.

We've done birds in supermarkets and airports at least three times. Now there's a goat stuck up a tower. You know, it's kind of adjacent to it. I'm a fan of that. Animals, at Animals where they shouldn't be. Yeah.

That's what we want to do here. Northborough Castle, which was once captured by the brother of Scottish King Robert the Bruce, a real cliff to find there, was eventually abandoned to ruin in the early 18th century. It is linked to the famous skeleton

on the dairy coat of arms, which represents a cousin of Richard last name's grandson, who was reportedly starved to death in the castle's dungeon. Cute. There we are. So that's the story.

Ivy the goat is okay. Good. Glad to hear it. She's fine. I want to see that. And if you want to adopt Ivy, this news story is from the 4th of June. So they may still be appealing for somewhere for her to stay. Yeah.

If you're in Ireland. Just make sure you don't have any big towers in your back garden for it to get stuck up and you should be all right. Yeah. Can't believe the dude like abselled down the side of a building with a goat in house. The goat, yeah. What a hero. The ISPCA doesn't muck about. No.

I need to get them in Bedminster. They capture these birds. Are you on it? They do. They kick him with swat gear. Yeah. He's climbing up into the rafters. Wonderful.

Thank you very much, Ben. And now I'm looking over to you, Peter. Could we have your own thing? Well, yes, you can. I would like to remind you, all that Saturday is Treat Day and I'm going to tell you now

all about Bourn-Born Land This is a weird Wikipedia partially but I have gone elsewhere for some additional information but here we go. According to Wikipedia Bourn-Bond Land is a Danish amusement park located in

Home Ulstrup in the south of Zealand approximately 100 kilometres away from Copenhagen. This 34-acre park attract about 450,000 people each season. Please do not yet start searching the internet for images of Bon Bon Land. Okay. I can send you the logo to Bon Bon Land if you'd like to see it. It's very small.

But until then, you will get nothing. Oh, the duck has gone all weird-looking because it's because of the transparency. Oh, no, it's got black, soulless eyes. Some of the white stuff has gone grey. They're like stoned or something. It's weird. Interesting. Anyway, I'll tell you more about Bonbon Land.

Bon Bon Land theme park dates back to Danish sweets boiler. Michael Spangzberg. That's his job, apparently. He's a Danish sweets boiler. He's not Michael Bonbon Land. No, apparently not. He began producing candies with names that children would find humorous. Like, and then there's some Danish here that I'm not going to try and read.

But basically, some of his famous sweets translated to seagull droppings, dog farts, and pee diapers. Although, I think according to my other source, there was also one called Large Boobes. Yeah, there was. Large boobs, earwax. So there you go. Those are some of the things he made. Does it say the name of them in his native tongue? It does.

So Siegel Droppings is something like Maga Clatter. Good. Dog farts is... I love the Dutch language. Yeah. Dog farts is hunder prutter. And pea diapers is Tissieblea. Ooh.

What's the boob one? I don't know because that's from a different web page. What was it called again? I'll have a look for you. Large boobs Okay You're just going to Google search large boobs Ben

Yeah just search Google for large boobs Hang on let me just ruin my algorithm Large boobs Danish Danish Okay here we go That of course is Store Breister Oh doorbriester

Sure Oh store bruster Or something like that You click on the pronunciation thing I did yeah I did The candies became popular early on and children, it says early on but it doesn't

say when that was. We have no year here, this is a good article, but early on they became popular and children wanted to visit the factory in Holm Ulstrup, a small Danish town in the countryside. However, the factory could not offer visiting tours due to

strict hygiene regulations and this is when Michael Spangsberg opened the Bonbon Land theme park. In 1992, we finally have some time context here. The theme park opened with a mini candy factory, a cinema,

a shop, and four small boats shaped like ducks located on a small pond. That was the theme park. The park was successful and many rides and attractions have been added over the years. Bon Bon Land is one of Denmark's most visited children's parks, despite

its adult-oriented content and toilet humour. Now I thought, that's so idiots. That's so potty. It's very much not for children And yet, it pretty much stands up on toilet humour So I had to bring it along Apparently in 2008

This was the eighth most popular tourist attraction In all of Denmark And in 2007, the Spanish-based entertainment company Parks Rionondido Purchased the park Oh wait, sorry, so it was in Denmark not Netherlands? No, Denmark.

why did I think he was Dutch Oh I don't know Yeah but it's in Denmark Did I just completely confuse that Okay well I'm gonna need to check on large boobs again Okay I got to get right I've got to Google large boobs again

Bear with me Okay Large boobs Right So it's Danish Yeah Large boobs Oh wait

Oh no you know what You're somehow For some reason I thought he was Dutch But I changed it to Danish anyway So it is store It is what I said before Okay I'm very good I've confused myself

massively, please ignore me. All right, that's fine. Since it's founding, Bon Bon Land has aimed to offer activities for people of all ages. Today, Bonbon Land has ever 60 different attractions. Among the rides in the park, there are four roller coasters and two

water rides, but besides the rides, there are also various playgrounds and a pirate track. Whatever that means. Pirate track. In 1998, it covered an area of 85,000 meters squared.

Wait, what? Yeah, that's true. 21 acres. It's confusing because they've put decimal points in, because it's clearly written by a European. They put a dot instead of a comma, I think, when they're doing their, like thousands and stuff. But anyway, it eventually became,

it went to 27 acres in 1998, and then 32 acres when the new Vildsvinet ride was added in, 2003. So that is some background. But really, the reason I've discovered this in the first place was not because it's called Bon Bon Land. That was a happy accident.

It was about what, well, one specific ride, really. But we move now over to Atlas Obscura.com, which gives us a more detailed write-up of some of the things you can find here. The park originally, as we know,

offered simple duck boat rides in a pond, as well as a movie theatre and a small candy factory. Swanwrights. Swanwright. Indeed. But Bon Bon Land quickly exploded into a massive 32-acre carnival of farting, defecating and urinating character sculptures, many of whom are exposing large breasts with erect nipples. Wow. How can this be a family-friendly theme park? The article asks. How have we never heard of this before? Wow. I don't know. So failing on all of our Danish contingent. supporters. It is.

To not let us know about Bonbon land. The answer to the question, how can this be a family-friendly theme park, is because the Danish totally get it. Immature people of all ages want to goof off in a land filled with dirty cartoon animals and amplified fart sounds, and rightly so. Displayed across the grounds, you'll find a sewer rat who seems to be projectile vomiting urine, seagulls defecating into an alligator's mouth, and voluptuous bovine breasts are plenty. Besides all of the animals that are excreating fluids and bearing their

ample bosoms, you'll discover that most of the characters are either drunk or sick. Many of the animals resemble Disney characters with a twisted dose of perversion. The park offers age-appropriate attractions as long as the whole family is keen on potty humour, gentle rides for the young ones, and 18-plus coasters featuring even more vulgar displays of animal exhibitionism and muck flinging. Oh dear. It's something weird about the fact that it's the arranged statues of animals having sex. That's weird.

Yeah. I'm now going to tell you about the main attraction that brought this park to my attention. And once I've told you about that, you are free to go looking for the multitude of images available online. I'm going to type it just so I'm ready. Located dead center in the park is the, Hunder Prutter Ushkter

The Dog Fart Switchback Although not the most high-powered roller coaster It's by far the most popular Riders soar and glide Over mounds of dog excrement While amplified fart sounds Boom from a giant Humiliated Dog lifting his leg

Humiliated, the dog Isn't just, it's not a willing participant in this carnival He actually looks terrified about his lack of control. Henry the Farting Dog is also the mascot of the park, as you will find countless souvenirs of his likeness in the park's gift shop. Paradise is apparently the name of the gift shop.

I'll switch back to Wikipedia for a moment here because I just love the way that they've written it up in a really dry format. So that previous bit about the ride was from Atlas Obscura. But this just quite in quite a straight manner, says the coaster trains are designed in the shape of a dachshund named Henry riders go past a statue of Henry defecating and there's a citation through a kennel and there's another citation and past bones and piles of feces citation

there are also speakers throughout the ride which make farting sounds as well as barks so you are welcome to look up the I mean the cows with their boobs out Like, I think the most shocking thing. Oh, my God. I can show you the dog. The cow boobs are really something. God, we've got a lot to get through here.

Yeah. This is interesting. I am looking for cow boobs. I don't see cow boobs. I'm using edge. Forgive me. I'm dropping in some cow boobs. Yeah, those are the cow boobs.

Holy shit. Those are milkers. My God. I know. Fucking hell. God, he does look terrified. Yeah. There's just a weird.

sort of sticker pasted onto one of the toilets, like the gents toilets. It looks like an ant who is hissing out of his ass. He's doing a bum piss. What is that? I don't think we can post many of these things to the feed. Well, yeah, probably not. It was

certainly not the cowboobs, actually. We'll have to at least censor it. Of course, if you are not, if you're listening on audio form right now, this podcast is available in video form where We will show some of the images we're talking about, but we also post them to Twitter,

which you can find embedded on our website. But Google is your friend. If you want to see some of the wonderful sites of Bon Bon Land, just head to the internet, maybe incognito, and search for, you know, cow boobs, bonbon land. I know. So when you said that there was merch with Henry the Farting Dog, I searched for it on eBay and I couldn't find anything.

There's a couple of books, one called Walter the Farting Dog. We may want to put a pin in that and come back to that in a future episode. Mikey's from the Furries. Okay, Walter the Farting Dog. However, when I search Bon Bon Land, the only thing I found is Amusement Park hyphen Candy Land hyphen folding brochure hyphen 2002. And it is a Bon Bon Land 2002 brochure that someone wants £7.66 for. Oh, wow.

They're in Germany. There is an English part of it. Looking at the photos, there's nothing graphic in any of the images. Lots of kids having a great time. However, this is the sort of welcoming page written by Michael Spansberg. Is that the guy that you mentioned earlier? I don't think, oh yeah, it may have been. Yes.

Yeah, Spangzberg, you're right. Yeah. Okay. So he's written that the headline is, here you can reach the stars. Underneath it says, always keep your promises. Every year I buzz around the globe looking for crazy new amusements for a bonbon land. So this year, I promised my three kids that this year's big surprise would be an amusement that would give the whole family one really great fun experience. So above the dock pond

In our 110,000 square meter amusement park You will also find And then it says in all caps The Wet Fish Oh no What is the wet fish? I don't know Well I can tell you about some of the other ride names

I don't know what the rides are like But back to the Atlas Obscura now It says other attractions at the park Have irresistible names as well Such as the stud Dunce Cap Seagull blobs Oh

Fold Cod Whatever that means That's pretty Pretty scary Horses bulbs The Horse dropping And the Crazy Turtle Also Skidmark

Is one Skidmark's there Yeah So Also located within the park Is Fantasy World A walk-through Indoor Playground

which according to Bon Bon Land's website houses Denmark's largest collection of mechanical pixies only Denmark's largest collection of mechanical pixies though naturally yeah

so that's it that's all I've got for you but yeah there is a separate there are two separate Wikipedia articles one for Bonbon Land and one for Hunda Pruta Ruhta which is the dog fart roller coaster

it's like I'd say mostly it's inoffensive but it is just the cow with boobs that really does it like a little bit of pee a little bit of farts pornographic isn't it the fact that the nipples are just like all the way out and she's wearing a dress as well which is it's not even that she's just being a cow and not wearing any clothes she's wearing a dress

and she's sort of fondling herself yeah she is she's like enjoying it too much there is actually a bit I've just realized in the article for the ride the Wikipedia article reviews and press attention it says that the ride is included in the mental floss article

eight theme park rides I wouldn't wait in line for the coaster has also been described by a number of other sources including USA Today cracked and the chive and it says Rob Alvi with the travel channel

described Hunter Prutter Rutabana as having the most pure wackiness of any roller coaster and Willie Volk with Gaddling saying that right said that the coaster gives new meaning

to the phrase the wind in my face very good it's amazing what's it this is a I was going to say oh

sorry I'm so sorry you go first oh okay thank you I was just going to say this this is a failing on our

on our Danish listeners you guys are absolutely right Why have we not been told about this before? You go ahead. That's going to say. Is it still open? I think so, actually. Everything seems to indicate it.

Yeah. The website's still live. Stop buy tickets. Do you guys want to, do you? Should we? How? Wait, how much is it less than the cost of a coniates tickets? How much is, hang on, let me,

apparently there's a, there's a whole week in June where they've just said, nah, not, no one's coming. Oh. Well, it says on Wikipedia that they're operating. that their operating season is from the 1st of April to the 24th of October. Oh. So what date are you coming to visit again, Mikey, in August? August 8th, let's see.

Have you got anything free around then? They got any tickets. Which day? Thursday. August 8th. They do on August 8th. Yeah, so we could all fly out on August the 8th, buy tickets, let's see. Right, I'm going to need someone to convert this,

because it's in, I assume, Crohner? K.R? Yeah, I guess so. I'm ready to convert. Okay, how much is 299 Krona, please? 299? Yes.

That's 34 pounds. That's all right. You know what? For the cow with boobs, I would do it. Yeah, it's worth it. A.R did you say? Or D. K-K-R. Oh, K-R, right. I'm going to say, because AR is the South African RAND,

and that's only £12.30. There's definitely a scam going on if they're only taking the South African RAND. If they're operating in RAND, that might be suspicious. Okay. Water slides by the looks of it. Just looking through this. Hey, whoever's closest that's listening to this, you're going to need to take a day trip and tell us all about it, please.

Yeah. I mean, if you add the full story to our Instagram or something, and it'll filter back to us. Yeah. It's the homeland of John Willeyman is now also the home of the dog fart park. So please. Yeah.

Some trebid explorer, go take us. Why couldn't we have been, that time that Merlin Entertainment like took us down to wherever it was, not Milton Keynes, uh, somewhere else.

But why, why couldn't we be flowing out to bonbon land instead? Um, talk about that. Well, we are talking about it on Pollyas. Maybe soon, the person who runs the PR,

we'll have a dream about going to Bon Bon Land with me and then we'll be invited. We have to manifest it. Yeah, we do. Well, that's it. Dogfart roller coaster. How have we not talked about this many times? I don't know.

Incredible. Thank you very much, Peter, for bringing that to our attention. We'll get a Europe tour on the cards. We'll go between that and the Felt Hughes Meatfacerie. We'll live all of our European dreams. Thank you. We're going to continue on to my viewer submitted article. Yes.

This one comes from Jules at Kepunk Cheek on Twitter. And it's the return of an old favorite. Well, not that old, a fairly recent favorite. Siegel Boy is back in the headlines. Not again. Not again. This is nice. This is nice.

This is Segal Boy enjoying the reward. of fame. You know, he's a celebrity now, so he gets taken about to do nice things and honk like a seagull the entire time. I'm pretty sure we bullied him last time we spoke about him. Yeah, probably. Look at him now. It's because he wasn't that good. He was kind of crap at it, yeah. Yeah. I think he's just jealous. He's being jet set around, for example, in this BBC news article, which headline reads, Siegel Boy migrates to London for exhibition. Okay.

When I first read this article, I assumed he was going to be part of an exhibition, maybe. Did he get stuck in a Morrison's or something? He decided to really become, you know, honing in his bird training and become really like a bird. And the final stage of that is getting stuck inside of a local supermarket for at least a week. And then he becomes a big bird. But no, this is, this is just a tour around a museum that he was treated to. I'm going to send in the article and there's a little video at the top

if just in case you want to refamiliar well we can play it together we can re-familiarize ourselves with how he sounds smug there he is yeah it's a two minute it's a two minute video so we'll watch your first bit until we get some good seagull sounds

and we'll crack on with the article also bear with me those who are watching on the video if you can see me distracted I'm just trying to post a picture of the cow with boobs on Twitter but I'm going to censor it we're going to get away with that No, I'm going to censor it, so that's what I'm doing.

If I look distracted, you have my full attention, but I'm just not looking at my camera. Oh, dear. Shall we, shall we play the video and get some seagull sounds or should we? Yeah, I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm going to click, play in three, two, one, go. He's doing it on the train. On a public train. What?

This is the world-famous seagull-ball, and today he's off on an adventure. world famous well stop it he kind of is he's been thrust into world fame all right then it's back to the European championship so yeah a seagull boy's still at it and he's on trains now being a nuisance the article reads

this is from Caroline Lowbridge a nine-year-old boy who found fame due to his uncanny impression of a seagull received a special invitation to London because of his talent Cooper from Chesterfield Derbyshire won the EC goal screeching competition in Belgium in April, news outlets flocked to report on the story.

And Cooper did more than 40 interviews with radio stations, TV channels and newspapers around the world. So my God, the screech that was heard over a thousand airways. Did he just screech into a microphone? It's not very good interviewing, so he just does the seagull noises. The Natural History Museum in London then invited Cooper to a private tour of a new exhibition all about birds before the museum opened to the pub. this is nice this is nice this is a young boy

doing something he loves and being very good at you too and he's making people happy as a result in getting treats stop being mean to the child he's like peaking now though isn't it yeah where else do you go

where do you go from here yeah other birds yeah he could master other bird calls but if he goes on to become you know like the next Hollywood sensation

they're like so welcome to the talk show Thank you very much for joining us. We just a bit of digging into your past. Were you the world famous Seagull boy? And he goes, oh, you promised you wouldn't bring this along. Your researchers have a good chortle about it. That's the only situation I can see this going well.

Otherwise, he's a guy, a fully grown man who as a child was paraded around Europe, squeaking. He's not even doing a very good Seagull impression. It's crap. Well, according to the museum, he's Well, they didn't say that they thought it was good But I think by virtue of inviting him Is it just me? Ben, the bird expert experts all agree

He's good at the impression It's just you who has a problem with him Is it just me? No, it's me too. Am I the only one who's heard of Seagull? I'm on his side I like the second half of what he does But the first bit is rubbish

Oh dear, I'll let you two fight it out But it's Cooper Well, is in a big quote box here There's a quote from Cooper that just says So Fluffy Just out of context on its own It continues Cooper, whose seagull mimicry began

After he was nipped by one on a beach in Devon Told the BBC He enjoyed his avian adventure And this is a quote from Cooper I think it's a really, really, really, really, really good 10 out of 10 exhibition Because there's so many different birds And their different habitats

and what they eat for prey and giant eggs and snakes with eggs inside them and massive birds like the albatross he said you know good for him i'm glad he had a good time yeah um i think so fluffy is in reference to um a stuffed bird that he saw oh right okay that is an albatross that is quite fluffy to be fair he's got that right uh his favorite exhibit was the albatross which he liked because they're basically like seagull ancestors and the babies are so fluffy and they look a bit like a teddy bear. Oh. He deserves this.

He's good. No, he doesn't deserve it. Well, if this has tickled you, the exhibition called Birds Brilliant and Bazaar, is on until 5th of January 2025. It's an association with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and says, yeah, it's going to be a fun exhibition.

Come check it out. And, well, sadly, I don't think Seagull Boy will be there, but maybe you'll get lucky. Maybe he'll be swinging by. Is he in it? Are they going to put him in a cage? Oh, I wish The world famous Seagull boy, roll up

Let's see Make the noise Seagull boy With the body of a boy And the voice of sometimes A bit Sort of like a seagull He looks like

If a really big Bipedal Seagull ate a boy Feet first And changed its call The sea is poking out The seagull's possessed

By a boy Freak of Nature Oh God A seagull cursed with the voice of a boy doing a seagull impression. Doing a bad seagull impression. Awful. Wow. Well, I hope he realizes he's just being used here for PR.

He's just being used. How do we promote our new bird exhibition? I know. Let's get that kid who people were talking about three weeks ago and invite him around. Oh, man. You know, enjoy the perks while at last. That's all I can say. Yeah, it's a lot for a nine-year-old to grapple with being a star.

of Hollywood and then very quickly being set aside to never, never be used again. It's going to be rough, but I think he's got legs. I think, I think, I think a seagull skills will come in one day and he'll become a national treasure. Like, you have to like 10 years quiet and down. He saves the day with the seagull sound. And yeah, that's it. I'm saying it becomes a national hero.

I hope. I hope. That'd be nice. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you very much for listening. Thank you very much, Jules, for submitting your thing. Yeah.

You, Mikey. for reading it. Very welcome. And thank you, Cooper, for being yourself. Ben, would you like to read us your own thing? I would love to. As spoken about on the last episode of Podietz, I was about to go on holiday

to what was potentially a Swinger's Hotel. Oh, of course, I forgot about this. Yes. I have been. I have assembled a, a program. and cons list of my time in beautiful windy Fuertaventura, or Fortaventura, depending on who you ask. So before I go any further, I do want to state for the record that my girlfriend and I deliberately went to the cheapest adults only, all-inclusive we could find within the Canary Islands.

We knew that we were probably not going to have a phenomenal experience. However, having said that, I would like to acknowledge ahead of time that for some people, this is a fantastic time and they love it. And I don't want to take anything away from them. However, again, however, I have made some notes about my experience of my interesting few days in Forteventura at this all-inclusive resort. I've never been to an all-inclusive resort before.

And here is my journey. I thought you're about to say, and never will again. No, actually, coming away from it, the idea of all-inclusive is still very attractive. Yeah, I'm keen to try it. How it was executed in this particular instance that didn't leave a great lasting impression. So here we go. It started off with a four-and-a-half-hour flight from Newcastle, and on board that flight, there was a medical emergency. Oh, my goodness, me.

On the flight. The flight attendants got on the tannoy and said, Is there anyone with medical training on board? We are having a medical emergency. People were milling around in the walkway just because I don't know why. And when we landed on the other side and we were queuing for passport control and it's really embarrassing because we can't go through the EU bit anymore. We've got to queue up through the slow bit.

There was an awful woman behind us who was saying under her breath, but loud enough for everyone else to hear, like, did you see how the, Flight attendant was flapping when there was that medical emergency. It's like you could tell that she's, you know, not had to do that before. She told me to sit down. She told me I couldn't go to the toilet. I was like, what's wrong with you? Someone was having a medical emergency and you were more concerned about going to the toilet.

Who do you think you are? Yeah, gosh. Can you imagine being upset that there's a medical emergency and you've been told to sit down? Yeah. Awful. Anyway, so she was at the same resort that we were. After we landed, there was a one and a half hour bus. ride to the hotel. Again, pretty standard. But the bus looked pretty swish. It had sort of leather

seats and stuff, but it had the, it had even less leg room than the Ryanair flight that I took out there. And I couldn't actually fit my knees into the seat. So I was sort of just straddling the seat in front. And that was good. Fortunately, though, we then arrived and we checked in and we were given our key cards and got into the room. The room smelled of stale cigarettes. smoke. Oh, lovely. And the blankets had actual cigarette burns in them. Right. There were burned holes in the cigarette, in the cigarette blanket. That's what it was. A lovely beginning of your getaway in the canaries. Exactly. At this point, we were knackered because it was, you know, we set off at like 4 a.m. It was a really early flight. We had to get there really early. And then it was a really long

journey and we got there. And we knew that we were going to come away with some stories. But I think at that point I personally was feeling a little overwhelmed like oh no this is actually not funny bad this is genuinely this is a waste of money and I'm sad and I'm tired we were we were hungry though so we went and got food shortly after but we did check out the room saw the cigarette burns the double bed was in fact two separate very uncomfortable beds pushed together of course the room fridge was hot and it didn't really work so some bits were kind of cold and the rest was just warm. You know when you're, you know schools, right?

You remember school? Yeah. And those foam tiles that you got in your bedroom. And in your bedroom, that's what we had. Spoiler. On the ceiling. The foam tiles that you had on the ceilings and they sort of like the strip lighting where it wasn't, it wasn't sticking out from the ceiling. It was embedded within the ceiling.

And it was just sort of like an opaque square with a light above it. Yeah. Yeah. That's what the room had. But every time you opened the door to the room, the atmospheric pressure change would force the plastic flap housing the light to go up and then slam down. Oh, God. So that would just sort of clatter around, which was good. The outdoor furniture, because we had a little bit outside of our hotel room, out the back of it, all had stains on, which was also really nice.

But then we went to go and get some food. We're like, well, you know, it's technically lunchtime. They're doing a lunchtime buffet, so we'll go and check that out. It had the grimest, driest meat imaginable. I gave myself a little bit of rice, and I saw what appeared to be tuna. And I served myself some tuna, and it was rubbery and just thoroughly unpleasant. And we were sat there in this room that genuinely the dining hall was, well, I called it a village hall. hall chic. So it really felt like it was a room out of time. The rest of the hotel had been

relatively updated, but the bedrooms and definitely the dining room felt like they were, you know, like the 90, early 90s when it was probably built in the first place. I said that it seemed to be tuna because there was, there were very few labels on any of the food. They were either missing entirely or they were in completely the wrong place. You had sort of like five dishes and maybe two labels, if you were lucky, which made it a nightmare. If you had dietary requirements. Yeah, like my girlfriend who's vegan, who just sort of stuck to rice and chips for the whole holiday.

There were also not enough tongs to serve yourself with, so a lot of it was cross-contaminated. People were just using tongs for all the same stuff. If you wanted to drink, which obviously you did, because that was part of the all-inclusive, that was part of the appeal, was like the alcohol would carry us through. If you wanted to drink by the pool,

you had to have a plastic cup. Yeah. And if you wanted a plastic cup, you had to give them a deposit. Just in case you stole the plastic cup. Wow, okay. They would give you a glass quite happily, but you weren't allowed near the pool.

So you had to give a deposit for the plastic cup, which we eventually did because we didn't have any physical cash with us, which is our fault because we thought, all-inclusive, probably not going to need physical cash. You're not going to pay for the cup. No, the drinks are included, the cups aren't, right? Drinks are included? No, you got paid for the cup.

cup the drink's fine note um so and they wouldn't take card either to put a deposit them so you had to give them physical money to get a plastic cup which was uh which was fun uh the uh let's see oh yes one evening when we were dining in the dining in the village hall dining room and i shit you not back to back they played felice navidad and wham's last christmas oh okay two christmas in May don't know still don't know why almost as far away

from Christmas as you can possibly be yes what's the what's the name of that Twitter account like unathetic things or something

like that you know when it's sort of a room feels quite threatening yeah sitting in there eating rubbery tuna while last Christmas

place oh dear in May was a real experience I can tell you that we used the pool table that was there you had to pay for that as well

unfortunately because I'm crap at pool as Peter can attest I potted the white ball almost immediately and the table kept it that's like the one ball that it splits back out it kept the white ball

so we had to use the black ball as a white ball instead and and then inevitably the black ball was potted as well. So that was the end of that. But in spite of keeping the white ball, it did continue to spit out at least two

of the red and yellow balls over and over again. Interesting. Don't understand. Again, I think it's just because it's a hotel that was built whenever it was built and they've not done anything to it since. My final negative point is that there is a spa that's available there,

but it was closed the entire time that we were visiting and you could see through the sort of transparent glass from the outside that there is a pool, but it was completely drained, and every time you walk past, it smelled really strongly of sewage. Right. Oh, so was there not an outdoor pool? There was an outdoor pool, but there was also an indoor pool as part of the spa. I think at some point we wanted to go and check that out, because as lovely in sunny as it was for most of the days, you know, it is May, and the Canary Islands are famous for being very windy,

so it was a little chilly when the sun wasn't out. so we were going to go for that. That's clause for it. So those are my negatives. Veruca cleaning. Make sure no one gets it. Yes. For the best.

Absolutely. A little pool for your feet. There is actually one final negative that I forgot to write down. It's that not a single person solicited me for Swinger's Action. Oh, what? What's the point in going? Well, that's what I thought. That was pretty devastating.

Also a little bit of a confidence blow. Yeah. I think that there could be swinging activities on. You have to walk around humming last Christmas or something. Yeah, that's the code word. That was the swinger night and it didn't happen. I do have a small amount of positives. And I will say on the whole that I came away from the experience really enjoying it. However, I did sleep terribly every night because the bed was terrible and I drank way too much alcohol and they came back more tired than when I went out and with two mouth ulcers.

Oh, no. It's just so run down and tired and exhausted. Full of chips. Anyway, the positives. The positives from this amazing hotel, when you go to the bar, they would mix the drinks 50-50 alcohol-to-mixer. Just in front of you. Holy, moly. Really strong. Great. Love that.

The snack bar that was attached to the bar, which I mentioned last time as having hot dogs, was amazing by virtue of its rubbishness. So they would have like hot dogs, burgers, chips, bread and butter, a little bit of ice cream. Bread and butter. And some stale pastries from breakfast. And they would have those out under like the little dodgy heat lamps. And I've got to say, after you've had a few 50-50 mixer drinks, just smothering chips in ketchup. which was, to be clear, the only way to consume them because the chips were not cooked properly.

They were just kind of crap and, yeah, just not cooked. Anemic. Exactly. Covering it in ketchup with a bit of salt. Those went down pretty well. And by the, by like, literally after our first day of being there, we did not go to the buffet lunch at all. We just filled our boots with crap chips.

And that's what we did there. And there was a hotel cat. Oh, good. I can send you a photo of the hotel cat. Yeah. This cat was seemingly known to staff, was clearly astray, had big chunks out of its ear, but was really friendly, and we just sort of wonder about and came and hung out next to our hotel room a couple of times.

I'm going to send you a photo of the hotel cat now as just as soon. You know what? I'll put it in the WhatsApp group. That's probably easiest for me. Here it comes. I don't know what this cat was called, but yeah, it was known to staff because. one member of staff addressed it seemingly by name.

Oh, handsome. Fierce. Oh, nice. Lovely cat. Did you feed him chips and bread? Didn't feed the cat, no, but petted the cat a lot. Friendly cat. Nice cat.

Disney Channel is what I've written next. Spanish Disney Channel. D's Nuts Channel. Yeah, no art attack this time. Oh, yeah. Unfortunately. But watched a lot of Disney Channel in Spanish. She didn't know what was going on, but that was fun.

The Wi-Fi coverage is decent. This sounds like a Google Maps review. So anyway, we went to the hotel we could get Wi-Fi. That was nice. I played Roonscape in most areas of the hotel. Brilliant. Fantastic. And finally, apart from one particular lady who was serving drinks,

the rest of the staff were really friendly. But that one lady was really, really not. She didn't want to be there. Right. I can't blame her. I didn't really want to be there either. Did you have any interesting interactions with other guests? It's not in a swinger fashion, but just, you know, the horrible woman from the queue behind you at immigration or?

Honestly, not too much. We observed some stuff by the pool. There was a group of, I say lads. They were clearly in their 40s because they had graying hair, but they were behaving like they were in their early 20s. Just very loutish, you know, throwing each other in the pool, chatting up all the girls. I glanced over at one point and one of them was trying to climb out of the, pool via the ladder and the other one pulled their shorts down so their bum was exposed and just pushed it into the guy's face and then they both fell in the pool and that was obviously

very funny to them at which point we thought you know what let's let's not be here anymore around for a moment screaming gibbons she'd immediately come off saying chatting up all the girls i thought you meant one of the girls was getting out and they pulled her shorts down which Oh my God, no. That's just actual assault. But no, you mean, yeah, that was a separate point of them. That was a separate point. That was a separate point.

Branking each other. So funny. Yeah. So funny. So that was my amazing holiday to Fertaventura. We did take a little walk to the beach that wasn't too far. And there was a couple of, it seemingly the island is sort of split up between English tourists and German tourists. It's very popular with English people and German people.

And the beach was right next to a couple of German resorts. And they were all really nice and really friendly and respectful and behaving themselves. And then we went back to our asylum. And then the bums were out and the drinks were 50, 50 mixed. That's Brits. The dad was on. Yeah. Good.

Honestly, it was crazy. It was an experience that I will not be in a rush to repeat. But it is one that I am glad that I can come away from with some. some memories that I will not shake for a while. Yes. This will help shape every future holiday. How many stars was this hotel? Well, four.

Four! I don't know how this is possible. My dad briefly worked in the hotel industry and he reminds me frequently that Stars simply refers to the number of facilities that an hotel has. It does not actually... Obviously, there tends to be

a correlation between you know a five-star hotel a hotel with lots and lots of facilities being quite a good quality hotel but they are not one and the same so you can have you can have a pool and a spa and everything you like

and you can be a four or five-star hotel because of that and then you can shit on all the beds and you will still be a four-star hotel. Bums out in the pool well that is genuinely helpful information to know because we we surmised as such

because it seemed like every hotel in the area was four stars and they all were so cheap and ours was so bad certainly what he told me anyway that it refers to facilities rather than quality

or each of them are asterisks referring to the fault of the hotel exactly yeah as Brian would put it but there we are that was my amazing holiday with no swinging action at all

fantastic well it's everything I hope it would be. I've got to ask for my own curiosity, what were the beers they had on draft? Was it Foster's or Carling or what was it? All of these, basically they had a menu with stuff that was part of all-inclusive and stuff that you would have to pay for. They had a lot of branded and named stuff there, but that was all premium.

Usually with all-inclusive and as far as I'm aware, with limited experience and especially in the case of the one that I've just done, it's local spirits and local alcohol that is free. So you will get lager, but it will be whatever cheap stuff they can get locally, and that will be free. It will have a name, but you're getting served it in a plastic cup that you've had to pay a deposit for, so fuck knows what it

is. In fact, they had dispensers where people could dispense their own beer. You only had to go up to the bar if the beer machine wasn't working, or if you wanted a spirit with a mixer, or there were a handful of crap cocktails that were part of it, or wine as well.

And you came back all in good health? Largely, I did get sunburned one of the days and I had my mouth ulcers But yeah, and I was just really tired The flight back was brutal, it was delayed We got back home at like 1am And it had The worst people in the entire world on the plane

Just obnoxious, standing in the aisle Not really talking to it, just coughing Just big smokers cough Just over everybody awful, really bad. I'm glad you had a lovely holiday, Ben. I had a lovely holiday, yeah, I loved it. Yeah, brilliant.

Thank you very much for the holiday tales, Ben. Peter, would you like to do your viewer-submitted article? I'd love to. According to you, Mikey, this was sent by B on the Discord, simply the letter B. B, yeah. And it's according to metro.com.com. It's a cracking headline. I might not even read the story

because all you need to know is that blind bisexual goose stuck in love triangle with two swans dies aged 40. What a nice. I think I might have heard of this goose. I'm not sure. The fact that it's 40 years old implies

this has been a long-running tabloid story that probably crops up every few years. This was written by Tanvia Man. Oh, although I've just noticed It was published February the 8th, 2018 And updated December the 12th, 2019 Oh no! I didn't do my basic research.

Oh well, always. Well, I forget to check that I assume in good faith That people are providing recent stuff. But hey, we've not covered it. That's the main reason that that rule is in place So that we don't retread old ground. And I don't think we've done the bisexual goose. I don't think so.

so. I'll read it anyway. A blind bisexual goose who spent years in a love triangle with two swans raising 68 signets has died age 40. Busy boy. Thomas from Wicane in New Zealand, if I'm saying that right, fell in love with a black swan named Henry and went on to spend the next 24 years with him. But things got messy when a young female swan called Henrietta swooped in and stole Henry. his heart. Thomas quickly became the third. It's very creative naming, is it?

Henry and Henrietta. Yeah. Thomas quickly became the third wheel, but instead of moving on, he decided to help the new couple raise their 68 signets over the next six years. That's a lot of birds.

It is, isn't it? His complicated relationship made him a local celebrity with many bird watchers, spending hours, with many birdwatchers, spending hours watching his love life unfold. But his happiness came to an end,

when Henry died in 2009 and Henrietta flew off with another swan leaving Thomas all alone. Oh, man, he helped raise those kids. You're going to leave him? Yeah, well, Thomas maybe shouldn't have been a two-timer. He wouldn't have been left by Henrietta. I don't know. That's what they say, isn't it? You lose them how you get them or something like that. He eventually went on to father his own babies, but they were then stolen by us. another goose called George. George. Oh, my God, the tragedy of Thomas's life.

Here's one of several images of the goose, sorry, the swan, no, the goose and the black swan and their signets. Oh. He's helping to raise. That's nice. That's lovely. Good old family. Thomas was then taken to the Wellington Bird Rehab Trust in 2013 as his health deteriorated. that was for nostalgic reasons

and oh boy did he do a good job he lived for corn on the cob and if it wasn't there when we put him back into his house at night he was not happy I don't know what was for nostalgic reasons that's just how the quote begins and it doesn't yet say who that's from

oh it's just the organisation that's just a quote that they've put out so the organisations which look after look after up to 400 birds a year said Thomas proved there was life after sight for elderly fowl. You were a true inspiration for the work we do

and the things we are able to achieve for the animals in our care, it said. You were such a special boy and a wonderful character. Thomas, our good friend, we miss you wholeheartedly, but may you rest in peace. Thomas will be buried next to Henry at the place they called home following a public

Oh, I've just scrolled Following a public ceremony Later this month Which was back in 2000 and whatever I slightly, I got confused about the names there and I thought that I thought the goose had died

And then afterwards we were going on with the story of the male black swan But no, that was He, the goose was the one who was left behind And then went blind after trying to father some chicks who were stolen by another goose stolen by another goose.

God. It's like a soap opera. It is. The bird botches will hop along each weekend to see what he's been up to this week and how many new kids he's got. That'll be right, Hugh. Yeah.

Oh, cricky. Well, there's some, are there any comments down here? No, no one's left any comments. No one has anything to say. Leave one now. Yeah, could. leave one. I'll have to log in.

Oh, God. Oh, no, it says commenting on this article has ended. He's not allowed to comment on it anymore. I might have to find the original published version, perhaps, to see what people thought. But there you go. That's a story from a few years ago now of the blind bisexual goose. Oh, beautiful. Carries on in our hearts. Thank you very much, Peter. Thank you, B, for sending that in.

Thank you, B. And lastly, we will move on to my thing, if you don't mind. Of course. I want to talk a little bit about a Japanese TV show from 20 odd years ago, maybe even more now, which I've always been loosely aware of, but never really dug any details into. I've seen pictures of it, little clips, but I thought, why not actually find out what the heck was going on in this weird TV show?

So today, I'm going to be reading it. article from Tofugu.com called Nasubi, the naked eggplant man who lived off sweepstakes. Does that ring? Oh, any bells were out of you? Not at all. Nasubi. Well, this is a man who featured

in a Japanese TV game show for quite a long time, and the aim of the TV show is basically, you're stuck in this room until you can win enough prize money from like magazines, like competition entries. If you can win enough stuff to win train there playing tickets out of here then you can leave and so what followed was like a year and a half of him every day filling in thousands of forms and trying to win anything he could uh here is a still from the tv show just to give you some visuals oh my god

eggplant man he looks he looks unwell he's so skinny i know yeah yeah well we'll get into it all We'll get into it all. Okay, okay, okay. He survived. Don't worry, this isn't a sad one. This is a good one. Okay, okay. This is from Nathaniel Edwards.

Japan can call itself an innovator in the reality TV game show world. The success of these shows and others has, however, given Japan a reputation for televised cruelty. From 1998 to 2000 show, a show called Susunu Denpai Shonen took up that role and tried to take it just a few steps further. On the show, you could see two men try to escape from a secluded island with one of those swan paddle votes, stolen from Bon Bon Land. And you could see a Chinese comedian hitchhike from South Africa to Norway. And in its most famous feature, you could see Prize Contest Life, starring a man named Nisubi.

So this segment gathered a large roster of amateur comedians looking for a way to break into national television. and give them their big break, potentially. And so in place of a normal audition where people come in, crack a few jokes, and they choose their favour out a lot of them. Instead, they just did a lottery where all the people who wanted to join,

put their name into a hat, and they chose a person at random from that list. And out the hat came a lanky Fukushima. Forkoshita, sorry, a lanky fucking, fucking Shima. A lanky Fukushima born comedian named Nassubi or Eggplant after his long, oddly shaped

head was the lucky winner. It's not that odd. Yeah. I'll send some more pictures through. He definitely can make himself look more eggplanty when he wants to put it to that one. Okay. A real obejean, fella.

And so he won the lottery and immediately was taken to a car and blindfolded by the TV show's producers. Immediately. He opens the letter, the brakes for the door, get him in the van. And away he goes. And when the blindfold came off,

he was in a small apartment room behind the camera. The show producer told him to take off his clothes, all of them, and hand them over. Only then, he is naked, naked and stranded. Nesubia's told what the show's premise is. And the premise is, can a man live on sweeping, can a man live on winning sweepstakes alone?

He laughed and the door was shut. And so it began. And so, yeah, this TV show basically revolved around this one man in like an apartment kind of entertaining himself as much as he can. Why did they have to strip him naked? He could win new clothes. Exactly. Part of the fun. Let's see what clothes he gets.

Well, obviously they haven't locked him in a room with just his naked self and nothing else. So they furnished his room with some lovely delights. such as a shower, a radio, a telephone, a gas burner, a sink, a large rack of magazines for finding competitions, a giant stack of postcards for entering the competitions, a small table and a single cushion. And that was it, that was all that was in the room. It sounds like a lot, but that's basically what you need to survive. Single cushion.

A single cushion. Besides those things, he had to win everything he needed in a prize contest, and he would be released after he'd won a million. in yen or about $10,000 worth of prizes. So like the prizes, if you didn't want the prize, you could take an alternative cash prize instead. And so the value was deemed off of the cash prize. And that's how we get to $10,000.

But it's proved tricky because a lot of the things he won were so low value that they didn't have a cash alternative. So it helped him progress so long, not even in the slightest. And this room was layered with microphones and cameras. and so every week an edited summary of this man's experience would appear on Dempashon

for like 8 to 10 minutes a week over the next 15 months a dark comedy segment about a life spent writing letters roughly 1,400 a week and answering the door to the potential prizes oh boy

and so yeah every episode kind of starts the same wakes up tells the camera what day it is and then he just just starts writing these letters and throughout the show he receives a series of delivered prizes which range from life-saving to totally worthless in the very first episode of the show he answers the door to a ramen delivery and he gets very excited before the postman realizes it was sent to the wrong address and takes it back with him poor guy um a taunting moment for

someone who ostensibly has no food for the first two weeks however It's safe to assume that the producers were giving him little tidbits and scraps off to the side so he wasn't starving. Eventually, he finally wins a big bag of rice, but he has no pot to cook it in, of course. Oh, God. And so he kind of experiments eating the rice raw, kind of gets sick of that. And eventually, he kind of fashions a gas, like uses his gas burner and makes functions a pot out of just some kind of packaging he had lying around, and eventually was able to cook the rice. and Valden. Oh, God.

Good, there's purban. Jesus. And so, yeah, the comedy of the show, it says, mostly comes from the prizes. Nisubi wins that do absolutely nothing to improve his desperate situation. Famously, in one of the first episodes, he wins a bicycle, which sounds nice, lovely. And then, yeah, the prize very just suddenly sends him into a depression, because what uses a bicycle in a tiny apartment? Is there no cash prize for a bicycle? I think maybe he got the cash

I think he gets the prizes but he also gets the cash prize alternative maybe but I'm not entirely sure how it works but he ended up with a bicycle in his apartment which I think he sat on

once or twice and peddled and then he just sat at the back of the room for the entire rest of the show untouched oh man I mean you know if you're stuck in an apartment and you run out of competitions to enter that day

then it might be good to just get a little bit of exercise yeah why not Lie on your back with the bike in the air and pedal it. There you go. I should lock you in a wheel off or something. You could entertain yourself for years. Just be happy is what we're saying.

Yeah, just be just win. Just win loads of money. Yeah, it's easy. Easy. There was some good prizes in there, which actually proved useful to him. He's in one episode. He's extremely excited to win a television. Ooh.

And he plugs it in and realizes there's no antenna or cable. in the apartment and so every channel is just static. Months and months later he wins a VCR machine and two VHS tapes. Months later. So yeah, he got some tapes and then he won a PlayStation 1.

What? What year was this set again? I think it was like 98, 99 maybe. If he's using VCRs, yeah, God, that's a huge prize. Yeah. He got train simulator denture de go. to have nothing at all

I think if you've been locked in a room the ability to pretend to drive a train looks pretty fucking good and so when he gets his console he plays it for three days straight before realizing that it's taking up too much time from his letter writing and so he shelves it

it's like my real passion yeah this is fun but also the more I play the console the slower I am to escape from this hellhole so when you say that his prize is you know when he wins enough money he is then released yeah his prize isn't just his freedom is it because surely at any point he could say i give up or is it so that he can get his break on tv i think it's so he can get his break on tv i think

you want to stick with it because i think at the end it kind of ends in the tv studio and he's like everyone's like cheering him on so i think it's like it's for glory at that point that's what's in it for him yes you know other than being let out which would be illegal if they wouldn't let him out. He's almost certainly being compensated as well. Yeah. Like, you know,

he's got to have a house somewhere or a flat. He's being looked after. And so, yeah, one of his first goals when he entered the room, remember naked, he said, I'm going to win some clothes.

So that when he did eventually go on TV, he wouldn't make his debut fully nude. So he applied to win an apron in the first episode. But he did not win that apron. Nor did he ever really win any serious article of clothing throughout the entire run. He wins a pair of lingerie panties early on and some formal shoes, but that's about it from the clothing department. Blessing.

He's going to look like someone's MMO character. Yeah, having to go out in just a pair of panties and some shoes. Oh, dear. And they say he goes a year without wearing clothes. And so every segment, every clip of the show is bits of, pixelated and covered with a cartoon eggplant which was extra fun

during a 24 hour live stream broadcast where a team of people had to manually drag and track his bits with an eggplant live on it. Wow. Has the has Wilkins always been associated with

eggplant slash obegin because I know it's obviously a huge thing now with the emoji. So could this have been one of the first examples of it being censored with that? I was thinking that. Yeah, in the 90s.

Yeah, because it's only around modern days because of iPhone. So yeah, I think this dude, this dude, he did it first. Trailblazer. Boy. And there's a picture of him in his room with his magazine stack.

Wow. That's a cut. It looks feral. He does. He looks, yeah, he's not having fun. So Nassoubi was finally given his clothes back on day 335.

And so he tried the decided they felt weird and so took them all back off and kept them off for the rest of the shows he was committing to the bit now he's not worn any in a year almost yeah but it was this day almost a year from starting that nesubi won a small bag of rice which pushed him pushed him over the threshold and he could leave yay hooray until the producers gave him one last surprise he was flown to korea and then the competition and continued weirdly where he was told to from Korea win his airfare back home to Japan. So he had to win like another couple of hundred pounds.

And then he's flown to Korea. And yeah, so the trick here though is he was flown here expecting to resume the task. But no, this room is actually built into the middle of a large studio. And as he entered the room, blindfold off, he's told to take all his clothes off. and the second all his clothes were off, the four walls collapsed and revealed him to a studio audience. That's such a Japanese game show thing to do.

How on earth is he not left the room? I refuse to believe that he's not left the room in a year. I think it's heavily implied there was some help here. I don't think he spent 15 months, but for the sake of it, let's pretend he did. Let me see if I can find I can't find the exact video But there is a picture of his face

After all four the walls fall down Revealing him naked in front of a studio audience A little bit upset to see him Oh dear And so yeah That's the end of the show And so you'd think maybe putting himself Through this would propel him to fame

Like he hoped so, right? Yeah Well I looked him up on Wikipedia and I think one of the the show on Wikipedia sorry and Nasubi was described as being a comedian

that gained a modicum of fame via the show I hope it was worth it I think he became a little little bit of a local legend like where he lived but then after that he's not done a lot some charity stuff

he's climbing mountains and stuff but maybe not the comedy route he wanted was it worth it was it worth it and that I hope he was remunerated fairly for his time. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe you've got to keep all the prizes, all his many bags of rice and bikes. Yes, his bicycle, it's TV. It's really funny because, like, in Japan, you know, there's sort of the stereotype is that it's a very, like, polite society and you have to be respectful of other people, and, you know, they can be quite a sort of a modest culture, or at least they censor things a lot.

You know, there's quite heavily, like, video games. that come out in the rest of the world sometimes have to be heavily censored to get out in Japan and yet this is the same country that like on their reality shows and game shows brutally humiliate people we've all seen various clips

of people you know I've seen multiple clips of people ending up naked in front of crowds or you know being like tarred and feathered you know all kinds of crazy things and oh wow that's a good photo that you've sent there.

Sorry, I have to send a picture of him naked in front of the studio crowd. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's, yeah, it's, strange mix. Yeah. Of the great and the good. There's a weird, obviously, I guess, internet clips you see are skewed,

but I feel like I've seen a lot of men's bottoms on Japanese TV shows. Yeah. It's because it's funny. Bottoms are funny. Bottoms are funny. Yeah. Anyway, that's the story in Asubi. I hope he's doing okay now.

Yeah, me too. Yes, me too. Absolutely. Well, I believe thus concludes all of our things for this week. Hmm. Yeah. It does indeed. Thank you very much, Mikey.

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Is that not intentional though? I feel like that might have been reference to something. That's the meme, right? Is that how it's spelled in the meme? Oh, it might be, yeah. Hang on, let me look at the thumbnail. Is it the same typo? Oh, it is.

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