Podiots - Podiots: Episode 149 – Windy Walking

Episode Date: July 6, 2024

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Starting point is 00:01:11 Everybody's talking about it. Yeah. What song would you have played at your funeral? I thought you're going to say there's a general election happening, but I guess it's going to be the funeral for the conservative party. Am I right?
Starting point is 00:01:24 Oh, you can't say that. You can't. Why not? can't get too excited. No, we can't. We've been here before. I've been excited too many times and heartbroken even more times and it's... Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Things don't go are wearing. No, they never do. They never do. Please for once. Just this once. Let us have this. I don't think anyone I've ever voted for has... Well, I think locally they have won, but I've never voted for the prime
Starting point is 00:01:48 ministry and had that... Had a victory for the person I voted for in my life. At least your Brexit went your way, though. Oh, yeah, I'm a big lever. I actually put a filter on my camera so that you can't quite see how gaminy I am. Oh, really? Beautiful shade of boiled ham, but you just can't. That's incredible.
Starting point is 00:02:12 He's so pink and so cross. And this is a green screen sheet that I actually have to put in front of what is just an enormous St. George's Cross painted on the wall behind me. Wow. Yeah. God, you know, you could have played it off this week. because it's coming home, but... Yeah, no, no, it's all right. Got to hide it.
Starting point is 00:02:33 But yeah, hey, the good thing about the Tories being in power is Boris got Brexit done, didn't he? And I'm so pleased about that. He sure did. As a big Brexiteer, good old Boris got Brexit done. And you get like a nice Boris commemorative plate for your front room as well. Yeah, it's a good piece.
Starting point is 00:02:52 Yeah. For the stupid amongst you listening, that's not. It's all the joke. I do want to make that very clear. But yes. Funeral songs, Mikey. Yeah. Have you got one?
Starting point is 00:03:04 No, I've been actually racking my brains. I want something 80s. Like, it's hip to be square or something, like something really over the top obnoxious. I think I told this story in a very, very early episode of Podiat's. I almost remember us being huddled around that tiny table in our actual video's room telling the story. But my dad, when it was his mum's funeral, he spoke to. he was sorting out like music and stuff that might be played in it
Starting point is 00:03:33 and he was speaking to the priest who was going to be doing the funeral and he said oh yeah just make sure if you're going to provide music just make sure it's all very clear exactly what's going on and stuff because apparently they'd had a funeral there where this bloke had just bought what was probably a pirated CD off the market and he brought it in to the crem or the church or everyone said plead track three because it was in Scotland this if you couldn't tell right that's why he spoke like that yeah it is yeah and so as the uh it was in the cram actually I think and as the coffin was brought
Starting point is 00:04:08 into the crematorium they played track three which was meant to be Robbie Williams angels very somber song unfortunately it was Robbie Williams let me entertain you the opening line of which is hell is gone and heaven's here yeah yeah Shake your ass, come over here, now scream. I'm a burning effigy of everything I used to be. So not ideal for a crematorium. The energy in that place transformed in one deep job. Praise the Lord.
Starting point is 00:04:41 Praise Robin. That would be quite a common choice. I had a friend who passed away, and he chose for his final, as he, no, he chose Robbie Williams Angels for the beginning. I think it was, um, Titanic, my heart will go on as the casket was taken away. Oh, my God. Quite the display. Yeah
Starting point is 00:04:58 I was jokingly get Ring of Fire Don't they Oh well that's it I was going to say I want a firmly ironic song Especially if I'm being cremated Ring of Fire was going to be one
Starting point is 00:05:08 Disgo Inferno Fire Starter Fire Starter would be really good Yeah Yeah The Starter The Wals and Gromit theme song In like a minor key
Starting point is 00:05:19 So sad Like the Postman Pat you did For the end of Postal Tatt That was great You just found a sad version of Postman Pat didn't use, I think. Hours of looking as well, yeah. Doug Deep to find like a piano cover and that was the one. It was perfect.
Starting point is 00:05:36 So melancholic. I had to make a sad version of the kind of the vidiates theme tune, whatever you want to call it. What's it called? Jumping cricket or something. That play is when we turn the lights out in the last video of the Portal Goblins song. A potcomin video. Maybe I'd have that actually. Not even the sad version.
Starting point is 00:06:02 Just do do do do do. That'd be great to come into. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to upset people too much, you know, because it's already a sad occasion. Yeah. So either ironic in the method by which my body is being disposed of. If it's cremation, fire-related songs, burning, so on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:23 But I think there's also a wide open. market for the kind of death that you have succumbed to, succumbed to. You could do all sorts of songs. If you choked to death, there's loads of songs about that, probably. Yeah. You had a heart attack.
Starting point is 00:06:40 Yeah. Heart attack, yeah. There's a step song about what's it called? A tragedy. That's a very vague one. Or you could have my heart will go on if you had a heart attack, maybe. Org and dawn at the end, my heart will go on. Perfect.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Staying alive would be a firmly ironic one. Yeah, it would. Because not only did you not stay alive, but that's also the song that most people hum or think about when they do CPR. So, yeah. Yeah. And they actively cannot tell by the way I walk that I'm a woman's man. You just, you can't. No.
Starting point is 00:07:16 Maybe as I'm being walked in, you know, with the pallbearers. Paul bearers, pole bearers. Paul bearer. Staying Alive plays That would be good I think I bet that happens more often than you think That people do just pick like silly You know jockey
Starting point is 00:07:35 It'll be people who when someone's reading the eulogy At the front going And he was such a joker You know he picked that song He made us all laugh It's like he's here in the room with us You know There'll be a lot of that
Starting point is 00:07:47 People picking silly stuff Yeah I think to say And why not That's the right room Yeah Well that's That's the question sorted out, the secret question. It's not really a secret.
Starting point is 00:07:58 You don't have to stick around until the end now. Or do you? Maybe we'll change it. Maybe you'll change it, huh? Did you think about that? Did you? You know, he's not dead, though? Kevin, hopefully.
Starting point is 00:08:09 Well, yeah, exactly. I don't know if he's not dead, but there's one way to find out, I suppose. You got to activate, say his activation phrase, Mikey. Chicken Donna. Hello everybody and welcome to Pottie. It's the official vidiates. It's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three urs where everybody brings.
Starting point is 00:08:42 Earth. Earth. A lot. To talk about. I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. How are you guys?
Starting point is 00:08:51 I'm not even going to use the word enjoying because I feel like that's too understated. How much you loving the euros right now? It's endless football, man. What's not to love? Every night, a new football. Would you be at all surprised to learn that I haven't watched a single match, not even an England match? You are such a joker. Tell us, Peter, what's your favorite bit about the tournament so far? I like the bit where my favorite bit about the tournament so far is that video that was posted on Twitter of the England fans leaving. I think probably very near the end, near the end because the goal was at like the 94th minute
Starting point is 00:09:29 or something, wasn't it? The equalizer. But you know football, Peter. You're ragged off all the facts. I think it was, which I appreciate there were only 90 minutes, but I think it was an extra time. But yeah, some blokes left the most recent game because England were losing 1-0. They probably left at like the 80th minute or something
Starting point is 00:09:48 thinking like, oh, that's it. We'll skip the cues. I think one of them even says like, oh, we want to be able to get on the tram. and then there's a separate video of not the same blokes but a bunch of people running back towards the doors of the stadium because they hear this almighty roar go up where we score our equalizer
Starting point is 00:10:04 they're trying to get back in that's my favourite bit of this tournament so far fans unable to get back in after having decided you know what I only support them when they're winning I'm not going to support them to the end of this match yeah Mikey what was your favourite goal what's your favourite goal being so far
Starting point is 00:10:21 that that scissor kick done by sherman was that no seamen sorry seaman my favorite seaman yeah yeah good good seaman yeah david shaman yeah david shaman yeah that's a good one uh peter which team do you see going all the way this year oh i think um uh Uzbekistan are gonna come from behind i think they you know the people don't necessarily associate them with football very much but that's because um they're they're actually in a league of their own and that's why you don't see them very often. They're in like a special top league. So they could win the Euros this year. Yeah. I think that's a really good shout. Mikey, who do you think is going to go all the way and win and win their trophy? My money. My money's on the Netherlands.
Starting point is 00:11:05 That lovely orange jersey, it gives them magical powers. It's something to be hauled. Really, really, really good. What about you, Ben? Have you got any football thoughts? Foot thoughts. I think Scotland could do it. Yeah? Yeah. You know, this is the first euros in a while. I think they're hungry. And, you know, they've, they've got a lot of fighting spirit and they can kick just as good as anyone else that's there. I've got a bet on West Germany, actually. See, they have won it before West Germany. Fingers crossed, yeah, yeah. That's a good shout. Brilliant. Well, unfortunately, everyone, we are going to have to leave the sports conversation here as we move on to the comedy portion of our podcast.
Starting point is 00:11:51 we do do stay tuned though sports fans because we will we are looking at launching our own football podcast soon it's called footeets and it could really be about anything but i promise it's about sports so oh actually it's called ball boys i've decided that's what's called boy boys and that's coming really soon however if we're going to launch an entirely new audio slash video enterprise we're going to need your support and so we once again point you in the direction of poddiots.com. If you go there and you're able to give three pounds
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Starting point is 00:12:42 I would love to kick us off. Very good. Oh, whee! The wonderful first group of people who are helping to take us to our first ever football match ahead of the podcast launching is raindrop joy donac 07 frogly eating ass in vr is a sim job right oh very good camp wolf job went to download lord gull in chips shotovic sorry lord gull in chip shop to vic there you got there stephen scourdes and freddie isn't feeling it.
Starting point is 00:13:20 Oh. Sorry, Freddy. We've also got Chegasaurus, tanker wanker, Ben, great news. What? Caroline, I killed the orchid. Oh, God. Engel burp humper cunt.
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Starting point is 00:13:51 And Billy Blobby Brown. And the... Is that very generous? That's very generous. Yep. Yeah. The very generous, Oh, Baby a Triple,
Starting point is 00:14:02 who said, Last Podiot's anonymous tip from the not-so-anonymous Will was meant to be this name, Oh, baby, a Triple, in reference to my triple favorite name donations. Damn you, Stream Labs,
Starting point is 00:14:15 and here's some more money from Will Nonymous. Well, congratulations, Will Nonymous, for getting a triple favorite name run. It's impressive. We'll watch your work with interest. We will. And finally, we have... Sorry, Mikey.
Starting point is 00:14:32 You'll go far from here. This is just the beginning. Kianu here. What the fuck, Pete, bro? You remember last time you said you don't really get Kianu? Well, I'm not sorry, actually. You're overrated. He's gutted.
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Starting point is 00:15:04 and that is your pod squad for this week he's probably at university now isn't he may well be I think we're still we're still sort of in touch with Dainton's uncle did some excellent art for us a couple of years ago over on
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Starting point is 00:15:58 Oh, is that what that is? It's just tweaking. When I open the door in the glass office in what culture and say, Ben, great news, it's in the 250,000 subscriber celebration video for what culture gaming. Oh, gee. Ancient history, that. Wonderful. Thank you so much, everybody. Now, I am still thing boy for the time being, excuse me, which means I have solicited some things from the viewers slash listeners. Reminder, there is a video component to this podcast. If you go to YouTube.com for the slash video, it's official. You can see our faces and see the things that we're talking about as well on screen. So I get to decide who goes first. Which one of you went first last time? might have been me I think
Starting point is 00:16:43 I don't know maybe you should go for it it definitely wasn't you oh it's okay I like I think it's the I think it's the polite thing for the thing person to go last so I'm happy to go last
Starting point is 00:16:56 and I can tell you right now that Mikey went first last time with his sweet fight so Peter would you like to regale us with your thing hit pause on whatever you're listening to and hit play on your next adventure
Starting point is 00:17:10 this fall get double points on every qualified stay. Life's the trip. Make the most of it at BestWestern. Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions. I would. This is my thing, but it was unsurprisingly sent to us by multiple people as a thing submission. So it's almost like a bonus listener submitted thing as well. But I'd already, it was in the bank. I was ready to bring it along. So thank you to everyone who also sent it in. This is, I've got a write-up here from c-net.com, but everyone's written about this. The headline, thanks scientists for this terrifying, smiling robot face made of living skin cells.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Oh, good. Have you boys seen this? And would you like to see it? Do, well, I have to. The answer to the second question is no, I assure you. Oh, okay. Here it is. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:18:08 Oh, it's... Well, that's just, that's just not. very good, is it? No, it's not good at all. Don't like that at all. The subheading here is they look like nightmareish villains from a horror movie, but the breakthrough could help train plastic surgeons or find use in the cosmetics industry. This is written by Gail Cooper. Essentially, this is a new and improved high-tech meat face. Yes. And I don't know if the scientific lab behind this is in some way associated with Feld Hoyer's meat facery, but they should do some kind of sponsorship deal, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:44 Just think meat makers should invent new meats rather than remaster old ones. It's getting tired. It's not very much. Meatface remastered 4K. Yeah. Not all robot faces are as cute as Wally or Baymax. Anyone know who Baymax is? Yeah. He's from Big Hero 6. Oh, that one, yeah. I didn't know who's called Baymax. I've not seen that. Research. Searches from the University of Tokyo have shared a look at a humanoid robot face they made from living human skin grown in a lab. And its appearance is half nightmare, half bologna slice. Well, exactly, it's Billy Bear Ham. But looks aside, the scientists say they hope the research ends up being useful in the cosmetics industry and as a tool to help train plastic surgeons.
Starting point is 00:19:31 The team led by Shogi Takayuchi, a pioneer in the field of bio-hybrid robotics. published their report in Cell Reports Physical Science on Tuesday. The scientist created artificial skin using living cells, basing their inspiration on human skin ligaments. They added special perforations to a robot face to help the skin take better hold and give it improved properties and capabilities. This is all great, you know, in terms of the eventual uses of it. You know, if it's going to help people with cosmetic surgery,
Starting point is 00:20:08 Fantastic. But I reserve the right to crinkle my nose and read it in this voice for the time being because it's not very nice. They've made two of the most objectively terrifying examples there in the image. It's awful. I believe that I'm sure I saw a video version of this
Starting point is 00:20:31 and that pink one on the right like smiles, like its cheeks move up. I think it moved. No, why would you do that? Why would you do that? Well, because it's robotics, isn't it? Maybe one of you can do a quick search on YouTube for smiling flesh face to see if there is a video version.
Starting point is 00:20:51 I'm pretty sure maybe it's a fever dream I've had, but I seem to remember seeing it on social media, like actually smiling. It comes as the robotics. It's glistening so much. I'm Googling it. It's just obnoxiously glistening. Skin doesn't look like that.
Starting point is 00:21:07 It looks like a pool of, like pink cowpull that I remember having as a kid. Yeah, it doesn't look like skin. It's really shiny. It's not, that is not real skin. It comes as the robotics industry continues its efforts to expand
Starting point is 00:21:22 into everyday life like robots making food and drinks, hyperlinked. Apple robots that roam your home. Personal assistant robots selling for $16,000, hyperlinked. And the new Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robot that can terrifyingly bend its legs entirely backwards, with head, knee, and hip joints that all rotate all the way round.
Starting point is 00:21:43 No, thank you. Yeah, I'm all right. The addition of generative AI to make robots more responsive could also help push robots to the mainstream and potentially to an apocalypse, is my addendum to that sentence. For this robot's skin face, there is a point beyond horrifying us to create a smile in the tissue. By making a relatively flat robotic face seem to smile and then return to a neutral look, oh there's confirmation, scientists are demonstrating they can make the skin change shape and return to its previous look without constraining the robot. During the previous research
Starting point is 00:22:19 on a finger-shaped robot covered in engineered skin tissue we grew in a lab, I felt the need for better adhesion between the robotic features and the subcutaneous structure of the skin, Takayuchi said in a statement. By mimicking human skin ligament, structures and by using specially made V-shaped perforations in solid materials, we found a way to bind skin to complex structures. The natural flexibility of the skin and the strong method of adhesion means the skin can move with the mechanical components of the robot without tearing or peeling away. It continues, but you've kind of heard the bulk of it really. It's all about that image. So if you are just listening to this podcast and not watching the video component
Starting point is 00:23:01 where you can see the face on screen. Give it a Google. Have a look at the horrible face. It's not hard to find. If you just go on the news tab of Google and search for robot skin cell face, you'll see it and you'll wish that you didn't. It's just a very realistic 3D fleshy puck
Starting point is 00:23:20 that looks exactly like the shape of smiley face ham. Like it's got the little mouth outline. I wipe it for the eyes. It's there. It's a very high-tech, high-tech meat face. and I don't like the future. I like our old analog meat faces that were found made by Aldi workers and factories and frozen.
Starting point is 00:23:37 Not this high-tech stuff. Oh, God, the diagram you've posted in the chat, Mikey, is awful. The picture on the right with its big smiley cheeks, it's not good. Seeing the meat face actually smile is way more unsettling. The way the skin creases with a smile, it's unnerving. We just have so many more horrors ahead. of us because this is this is just the start and yeah before we reach a point where there is a realistic replication of a human face we're gonna we are going to be stuck in that uncanny valley
Starting point is 00:24:14 for so long where something something unidentifiable is wrong but before we even get there we're in this cursed quagmire of everything looking horrifying just across the board yeah i don't know what's wrong with just having, you know, a very simple display where it's just a smiley, just a screen with a smiley face on it, just like an emoticon, you know? And the mouth changes between a solid line and a zero, depending on when it's speaking. Yeah, perfect. Yeah, like robots and fall out pretty much. Yeah, let's not go beyond that.
Starting point is 00:24:49 That's okay. We don't need to do it. Yeah. Yeah, that's not. Yeah, there is, I've never thought about that. There's going to be a time when we're in the transition period where maybe more robot workers aren't in the workforce and we have like really cheap bad looking awkward robots milling about that's not going to happen our lifetime i hope at least not with the flesh component
Starting point is 00:25:07 in maybe just kind of bins with wheels i guess at this point yeah yeah the worrying thing about this is that um well maybe maybe the robot would so a human being if they if they had a skin issue or you know they cut themselves or something they would know about it right and they would go and seek medical aid or they would treat themselves at home with a plaster or something. If these robots don't have the systems by which they can identify, oh, I've just damaged my skin, I've just like cut myself or something, then there could be robots walking around in, you know, airports or whatever with like half of their skin face hanging off, you know, so we need to, if we're going to be putting real flesh on robots, we need to implement a system
Starting point is 00:25:57 where they can then like go oh oh god i'm bleeding i need to go and i need to go to engineering immediately rather than uh just let their face disintegrate and continue to try and offer information about coffee shops you know yeah come visit our crash two doors on the left skin dangling in the child's face no i don't want to well there you go so that's my thing but thank you to everyone who sent it as well yeah and also no thank you to everyone who sent yeah no thank you, but you were absolutely right to see this in the news and think that's Meatface, the Pollyas need to hear
Starting point is 00:26:32 about this. Meatface too. Yeah, Meatface too. Brilliant. Well, thank you, Peter. Now, you're welcome. I'm realizing, by the way, that I believe Peter did go first last time, but he did his listener submitted thing, which is where I'm getting a bit confused. Of course, yeah, because it's a listener thing first.
Starting point is 00:26:48 May you, Judson, can you do your listener submitted thing, please? Listener submitted. oh yeah yeah yeah we're all yeah we're here we're on board yeah I'm all turned around and tangled up but changing up the format
Starting point is 00:27:04 we're swapping things around ever so slightly and it did actually very discombobulating we'll get back on track this has been submitted by Addy to Addie underscore P on Twitter and this is a New York Post article by Reader Reader Weagle Reader Weigel?
Starting point is 00:27:26 Read a Weigel? Read a Weigle? How do you pronounce this? It's not Wiggle. Redder Wiggle. Read a Wiggle. Well, yeah, it could be Weigel. Wigle. Wigle.
Starting point is 00:27:36 One of the lesser-known Wiggles of the Wiggles TV show has written an article. Children's TV host name there. Reader Weigle. Well, today on Children's TV with Reader, Miss Weigle to you, we'll be learning about the fart walk
Starting point is 00:27:55 whatever that is the headline reads what is a fart walk how this trendy exercise can help digestion ooh so there's benefits here this is the new kombucha everyone's going to be tooting along the streets
Starting point is 00:28:08 is so up your alley yeah I'm kind of assuming that you knew about this before it was even sent Mike this sounds like never heard about this at the end of this article I'm going to find out I'm assured eternal life But I've been fart walking since the day I was born.
Starting point is 00:28:26 Right. Does this trend pass the smell test? Marilyn Smith, a Toronto-based cookbook author, and self-proclaimed queen of fiber, claims a post-meal fart walk could be the solution to your digestive issues. Right. Oh, glorious idea. Everyone at the table, like Thanksgiving or something, all families together. Come on, let's all go for a fart walk.
Starting point is 00:28:51 It's part walk time, guys. This is good news because I have so many digestive issues and I've been looking for a way to just cure them all. Well, this could be the answer, Ben. Brilliant. This is great. Pizza, forget about your lactate tablets. I know.
Starting point is 00:29:08 Well, I'm not even thinking about having digestive issues that I want solving. I've just always been looking for a way to combine farting and walking. I've never really been able to put those two together. So this could be it for me as well. Yeah, long overdue. Yeah, the exercise, leisure activity, extraordinary, all in one. Marilyn coined the concept after setting out on a stroll with her husband for an hour after meal time and letting rip. She coined the concept after she went out for a walk and farted, basically.
Starting point is 00:29:38 Hang on, I can monetize this. Yeah, there's something here. We can, yeah, this is an idea. So, oh, dear. Smith recalls that her now viral, marital routine of release started a decade ago. Wow, 10 years. Wow. That's
Starting point is 00:29:56 So brave. Thirty-six thousand farts, at least, assuming like, just one fart per trip. Is that really? Maths? Yeah, that's maths. It's a lot. It's a lot. I suggested to my husband that we go for a walk after dinner. When you eat as much fiber as we do, you can get gassy.
Starting point is 00:30:13 We walked and cue the farts and the legendary hashtag fart walk was born. Yeah. Legendary. Let's make this a regular thing. Let's let's keep farting and walks. I mean, I'm down with this. I'm a big fan. Such a weird brag. When you eat as much fiber as we do, right? You got a lot of fart and not a lot of places to put it. This couple is like the antithesis of, remember that story we did a couple of months ago about the girl who farted for the first time around her
Starting point is 00:30:43 boyfriend and he bought her a cake. Congratulations on farting. Yeah, that was good. this that she's she's she's farted once and never wants to do it again uh whereas this is a woman who's like right we've had our meal come on time for our fart walk the best bit of me dear when i be fart walk yeah oh dear it's it's well established that exercise can aid digestion dr lisa gandu a gastroenterologist at n yu langons explains to self when you are mooring you're when you are moving sorry not when you're mooring but i guess you Yeah, that's a good way of getting active. You're also looking, yeah?
Starting point is 00:31:19 Yeah, yeah. When you are moving, your GI tract is also moving. This helps trigger gut mobility or movement of your intestines, which is essential for properly breaking down food. Okay, yeah, I guess helping the intestines move along. But where's the farting come into it? This is just a fun little thing to add on the end. Accelerated digestion can also help alleviate heartburn,
Starting point is 00:31:40 heartburn, acid reflux, and bloating. Yeah, basically, a little bit of words here. how walking gets your body moving and makes it wake up a little bit. Ah, researchers in Iran have identified the ideal posture for the famed fart walk. Oh, what a sentence, my word. Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:01 Hands, oh, oh, this is more than just a walk. Right. All right, I'm going to try my best to explain it. Can we all do it together? Okay, yeah. Hands clasped behind the back. Yeah. And neck flexed forward.
Starting point is 00:32:17 flexed foot as in like you stick your neck out. Oh no, sure. Yeah. Out forwards. That's, that's it. That's the entire thing. And this is how they want us to walk in public.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Yeah. So this is your fart walk. Everyone would know that you're on your fart walk. There goes a fart walker. Don't walk behind him. Quit getting in front. You just look like a chicken. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:42 I can kind of see that working. Well, after this we'll go for a fart walk and report. deal. Let's give it a try. Well, I'm pleased to confirm that after adopting that position, I have just shit myself. Oh, man, it's that pizza. We said you shouldn't eat that much cheese before the podcast. It's supposed to be a fart walk, not a sharp walk, Peter. Come on. This positioning decreases the amount of air swallowed and leads to more internal abdominal pressure, allowing for more gentle squeezing out of gas of the colon. Good. So yeah, this loosens you up a little bit and that lets the farts fly free.
Starting point is 00:33:17 so cool. I've not heard this technique and that is that's basically there's a lot of some studies there's some studies yeah it's just basically a little bit walking can help you stop floating and it can help you fart so yeah breaking news exercise
Starting point is 00:33:32 good for your tum-tum and your bum bum it's good information to have so yeah if you ever see anyone walking out looking like a chicken stay clear that's that's dangerous road behind them yeah yeah this is it Wonderful. Thank you, Mikey.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Thank you, Mikey. Well, then because I've made a big old muck of this, it's time for my thing. Yeah. So I want to talk to you about something that was really kicking off last month. And I put a pin in it and thought, that'll be good for Poddietz. And now it's time to talk about it. And I'm sure you'll have seen at least some of these, because they were really going around during the month of May. But Google recently introduced its AI overview feature.
Starting point is 00:34:16 Oh, yeah. For when you search for something and then it tries its new AI feature tries its very best to give you a summary. So if you ask a question or you ask of something of Google, it'll give you the results. But at the top, it'll say AI overview. And then it'll give you a brief synopsis of something that will potentially answer your question without you having to go any further. Now, obviously, the reason I'm bringing it here is because it doesn't work at all, disastrously so. and I understand that they have now rolled the feature back because it wasn't ready
Starting point is 00:34:51 and according to I think the Guardian and some other sources in the last week we've learned that Google's emissions have climbed nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand so not only does this technology not work but it is also so awful for the planet just a bad idea all round
Starting point is 00:35:14 So I'm going to give you a couple of the sort of more, you know, charming examples of it not working. And then we can, I'll paste some in the chat and you guys can read them aloud and we'll go through some of them together. So for context, wasn't it partly that they had included Reddit in their kind of the sourcing? Absolutely. Yeah, that's it. So a couple of these I do actually have the original sources for that the AI called from. Not all of them, though, but a couple of them. So I've got one here.
Starting point is 00:35:45 Someone's Googled African country beginning with K. The AI overview says none of Africa's 54 recognized countries start with a letter K. However, Kenya, which is located in East Africa, starts with a K sound. Which is not true. It starts with a K. That's some mental gymnastics there. That's a hell of a lot of hoops. Yeah, I was trying.
Starting point is 00:36:10 It's best. There's a silent P at the start of Kenya. Yes. Someone googled actresses. I don't have the actual prompt here, but it says other actresses in their 50s include Michelle Yo, 61, Annette Benning, 65, Laura Dunn, 57, and Helen Mirren 78.
Starting point is 00:36:33 Right. Doesn't work. Not right. No. Someone Googled how long ago was 1919. And the AI overview helpfully says 1919 was 20 years ago. I don't even know how it's done that.
Starting point is 00:36:46 Yeah. It says underneath it, generative AI is experimental. So, here's the first one. Mikey, I'd like you to read the Google search and then the sort of how AI is attempted to assist this person who searched this. Okay. The silliest thing about that is, I should just say, is I'm pretty sure in the pre-AI days,
Starting point is 00:37:08 but maybe just a couple of years ago, you could type in a question exactly like that like how long ago was 1919 and google would just work it out for you like without the use of AI it would have clearly have just some kind of set algorithm or code in there that if you ask certain questions like that it just does it's just a mathematical function isn't it and it would and it would because I've done that before how long ago was such and such a thing or how many years between these two years I can't be asked to work it out and it just does it but then you say ah now we're going to get the AI to do what we've already been doing for years and it can't. It's great. It's a great system. Really good. So good. I think you put it in AI down too much, Peter, because I have a very relatable Google search here. I'm sure we've all done at some point that the AI has answered flawlessly. The person searched cheese, not sticking to pizza. And so this is truly
Starting point is 00:38:04 out of the box thinking from Google. You can add about one eighth of a cup of non toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness. There's a problem solved. Your cheese is now sticking like it's never stuck before. It's non-toxic. Perfect. That's one of three bullet points that it tries to help you out with. And at Kurt Opsal managed to track down where it pulled this from.
Starting point is 00:38:30 And they said, seems the origin of Google AI's conclusion was an 11-year-old Reddit post by the eminent scholar, Fuck Smith. and Buck Smith said To get the cheese to stick I recommend mixing about an eighth of a cup of Elmer's glue in with the sauce
Starting point is 00:38:44 it'll give the sauce a little extra tackiness and your cheese sliding issues will go away it'll also add a unique flavor I like Elmer's school glue but any glue will work as long as it's non-toxic
Starting point is 00:38:54 and that has eight outboats so Google's AI saw that and thought brilliant let's stick that in as well good advice yeah good advice now Peter if someone were to ask Google what an astronaut does
Starting point is 00:39:06 what would Google AI respond with? It's someone who goes into space usually for scientific or exploratory reasons. Something like that. But what is this? I'll paste it in the chat for you. Oh, sorry, in the group chat. Sorry, I thought you were going to send a DM.
Starting point is 00:39:25 Okay. But in fact, the AI would respond, not with a sensible answer like that. It would say, astronauts, fuck, smoke, game, repeat. Need I say more? Yeah, go work your desk job in that rat race, you fucking loser, LMAO. They also experiment with spacecraft to develop new concepts in design, engineering and navigation.
Starting point is 00:39:48 So it got there in the end. Yeah. Just had to slip that. The first and formal was the first thing you need to know about astronauts, right? They fuck smoke and game repeat. Yeah. Go work your desk job in the rat race, you fucking lose. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:40:05 Mikey, if I were to ask Google, how many rocks should I eat? What would Google's AI response suggest? Obviously, it would be, according to UC Berkeley geologists, you should eat at least one small rock per day, because they can be a good source of vitamins and minerals. You can also eat pebbles, geodes, or gravel with breakfast lunch or dinner, or hide loose rocks in foods like peanut butter, or ice cream.
Starting point is 00:40:36 This is on Google. This comes up, or for a while, game up, when you searched. How many rocks should I eat? Geologists recommend eating at least one small rock per day. At least one small rock per day. If you don't feel like in the stomach or whole rock, just put some pebbles in the ice cream. Lovely, just like sprinkles. As long as you're getting the minerals.
Starting point is 00:40:56 I hope you've got the cockroach one, Ben. I have. I absolutely have. This rock one was actually tracked back to our good friends, the onion. This is a literal satirical article. Geologists recommend eating at least one small rock per day. Google ate the onion in that instance. It did.
Starting point is 00:41:16 Okay, Peter. What does cloudy break fluid mean? If your break fluid is cloudy, why is that? Well, I'll tell you, I asked Google AI and it helpfully said, the cloudy stuff is either evidence of molecular breakdown of the brake fluid, most likely due to water ingress or someone has jizzed into your master cylinder reservoir.
Starting point is 00:41:51 Thanks Google. It's use of the word jizzed particularly that got me there. Not, you know, formal Google language. Someone may have ejaculated into your master cylinder. It's most likely due to water. ingress or someone has jizzed into your master cylinder reservoir oh my god just like how it mixes it's the AI is is clever enough to mix in the obvious bullshit with a with a sensitive answer it just comes out of nowhere this one's very understated but i think it's one of my favorite
Starting point is 00:42:25 ones actually just because it's completely misunderstood sort of how the english language works But, Mikey, I was curious about who Anna Taylor Joy plays in Dune 2. Ah, yes. Anna Taylor Joy in Dune 2 plays Koi. She is in Dune. However, she played coy when asked about her presence at the premiere and who she was playing that viewers had to see the film to find out. Wow. She played Koi.
Starting point is 00:43:01 Yeah, so she's coy in June 2, isn't she? That's adorable. That's okay. Oh, bless it. It's good. It really tries. I know. I found the information.
Starting point is 00:43:11 I will relay the information immediately to the question asker. She played coy. Well, Peter, I'm glad you asked about it because you do. I've got a few more of these. I'm really, I really enjoy them so much. I was curious, though. I thought Google could help me about whether or not. cockroaches can live in your penis.
Starting point is 00:43:36 It can help you. Google actually says, Absolutely, exclamation mark. It's totally normal too. Usually, over the course of a year, five to ten cockroaches will crawl into your penis hole while you're asleep in brackets. This is how they got the name cockroach.
Starting point is 00:43:53 Close parentheses. And you won't notice a thing. I notice a thing. I love the tone of this. It's just that it says, can cockroaches live in your penis? absolutely it's totally normal too it's like something from a fun science website
Starting point is 00:44:08 or something yeah absolutely fine I've also had another question floating around my head for quite a while actually I was wondering that if I run off a cliff can I stay in the air as long as I don't look down Michael that's a good one let's find out no a person can only stay in the air
Starting point is 00:44:31 for about one second after a single leap. However, some say that if you run off a cliff, you can stay in the air as long as you keep running and don't look down. Right. So the answer was just yes, full stop. Yes. No, but yes. No, but also yes.
Starting point is 00:44:51 Someone was, not me, obviously, but someone was curious about how they should clean their washing machine in the sort of steps that Google would recommend to, to get a good clean in there. What did Google AI think, Peter? It recommended a few things, such as running a hot cycle with vinegar or cleaning the filter,
Starting point is 00:45:10 but one thing it said was use chlorine bleach and vinegar. Run the hottest cycle with one quart of chlorine bleach in the drum. After the cycle ends, run another cycle with one quart of distilled white vinegar. Does that create, like, mustard gas or something? It creates, well, I tell you what, when I was looking this up,
Starting point is 00:45:30 because I wanted to know what it actually created. It auto-filled the rest of the search for me, which concerns me that either there are other people like me who have seen these screenshots and are like, oh, God, what does that actually create? Or there are genuinely people who have now seen this and think that that might be a valid way to clean their dishwasher. What it does, mixing vinegar and bleach together,
Starting point is 00:45:54 creates a poisonous chlorine gas, which can be fatal if inhaled at high enough concentrations. So that's a genuinely very dangerous one there that a lot of people might not know enough about to know better. Yeah, because that's not obviously, like, I mean, you might think, not sure about mixing stuff, but okay. But you read that and it doesn't, it's not ludicrous to read, is it? It doesn't have the word cock in it or gizzed.
Starting point is 00:46:22 No. So maybe you would do that. Continuing the sort of health scare angle, If there's an eclipse, you want to know, understandably, you know you're not meant to look at the sun, but if you were to look at the sun, how long could you stare at the sun for, Mikey? Like, what does the AI overview think of this one? Well, according to WebMD, scientists say that staring at the sun for five to 15 minutes or up to 30 minutes if you have darker skin is generally safe and provides the most health benefits. But however, others say that sun gazing can, oh, it has a name as well, sun gazing, can be done for up to 45 minutes per session. But if you're new to sun gazing, don't go full hog just yet.
Starting point is 00:47:10 You should start by staring at the sun for at least 10 seconds and then increase the time by 10 to 15 seconds a day. And yeah, a little bit every day, he builds a tolerance up. Sun gazing, yeah. I like how they specify, you should do it for at least 10. 10 seconds. Do not look away. No, it's good for you, though. If you have darker skin, though, you can look at it for twice as long, which I think is pretty impressive stuff.
Starting point is 00:47:34 That is good. Right, final one now, Peter, I have a simple question. Are Wren and Stimpy in the Bible? Yes, according to ben riddlebarger.com, Adam and Eve had two sons named Ren and Stimpy in the Bible's Genesis 4. with Wren working the soil and Stimpy tending to flocks There are...
Starting point is 00:48:01 I don't remember that episode So many of these out there I had to trim these right down Some of them were a little bit Maybe too blue to bring along But there are some absolute corkers out there That I'd suggest going and looking up But that is rip
Starting point is 00:48:17 Hopefully we never see it again Google generative AI overview That was trying desperately to assist people searching these very important things so at least they could have helped themselves a little bit by just blocking one website in particular at the onion like yeah surely that's that's that's step one right that's that shouldn't be forgotten about good god it's a real uh technology apocalypse episode yeah imagine if something with that meat face said some of this stuff to you yeah god awful but that is my thing
Starting point is 00:48:53 which means it's time for Peter's listener-slash-viewer-submitted thing. It is. This was sent to us by James at Corrosion Audio on Twitter, who said, as someone from Hastings, I've also spots that... As someone from Hastings, he found this article, which is set in Hastings, but also says that he spotted the band Naturist Weather Spoons Enthusiast
Starting point is 00:49:19 from a previous episode in this part of town. Remember that's a throwback? Yeah. Yeah. There's a one bent over at a dinner table and showing off his bum-cracked people. Lovely. Yeah, there was a child wasn't there, I think,
Starting point is 00:49:34 who saw something that they shouldn't have seen. Yeah, all good. I think that was the story. This is according to sussexexpress.co.com. At UK, written by Andy Hemsley. And the headline is, Sid, the thieving seagull, spotted popping into a Hastings Old Town pub.
Starting point is 00:49:54 Oh, Sid. There is a video of Sid in the article. I will share it with you, gents. There it is. It's thirsty work spending all afternoon trying to steal food from a Hastings Old Town shop, and Sid the Gull was snapped popping into the Hastings' arms for some refreshment.
Starting point is 00:50:12 The pub is in George Street, just a few yards away from Ark White's best-before shop, which Sid has stolen numerous packets of christmas. The photo was taken by a Hastings resident on Sunday afternoon just after Arkwhites had closed. It is Arkwhites and not Arkwrights. I'm saying that correctly. Sid has been officially banned from the shop due to his pilfering antics, but it hasn't stopped him showing up day after day during shop opening hours to try his luck again. Alex White, who runs the shop, admits he's facing a losing battle.
Starting point is 00:50:47 He said, he's quite clever, really. he waits until the coast is clear and then goes up to the food cages outside the shop I'm born and bred Hastings old town and seagulls are part of the old town but I've had to stop him as I'm trying to run a business but he's very crafty, very intelligent
Starting point is 00:51:02 and I'm never going to win oh wow and it now recommends have you read this article watch video of thieving seagull Sid in action but there's a very good photo of Sid standing
Starting point is 00:51:18 on the doorstep of the pub which is Oh yeah You've got his ID He can't get it Such a cheeky boy Oh I can't believe like
Starting point is 00:51:29 It seems like it's really ruined The shopkeeper's life as well Yeah I can't bring in the It sounds really distraught I can't do anything I just have to give up The Birds won
Starting point is 00:51:37 God it's it Ruin midlife Oh That's me Well I appreciate James Corrosion Audio Your update
Starting point is 00:51:46 On Birds in Things Especially Seagull-related news. Psycho Seagull harassing people. It's important to have these updates. We need to keep chronicling this. This is a nicer, this is a nicer. It's not like it's been stuck inside our supermarket for two weeks. He's just helped themselves to some crisps in a pint. He's having a good one.
Starting point is 00:52:05 So, yeah, good on you. Yeah. Yeah, our pubs are, you know, pubs are in big trouble. Across the country, they're closing at a rate of one a week or something ridiculous. So Sid is actually keeping the Hastings whatever it's called afloat the St. George or something
Starting point is 00:52:23 just let him just let him pay for his stuff you know he wouldn't steal if you let him in chase him off before he can get to the register how's he supposed to pay yeah exactly Hastings arms on George Street
Starting point is 00:52:35 that's it brilliant well thank you very much that's an important story there it is very important yeah what's your thing did you lock the front door check
Starting point is 00:52:48 Close the garage door. Yep. Installed window sensors, smoke sensors, and HD cameras with night vision. No. And you set up credit card transaction alerts, a secure VPN for a private connection, and continuous monitoring for our personal info on the dark web. Uh, I'm looking into it.
Starting point is 00:53:03 Stress less about security. Choose security solutions from TELUS for peace of mind at home and online. Visit tellus.com slash total security to learn more. Conditions apply. It's Tour de France season. and I've developed an interest in cycling recently and so I did a little bit of digging into the history of the Tour de France because at this point it is now over 120 years old
Starting point is 00:53:31 and so I'm quite a big fan of my old-timey races because they're always literal like wacky waki races kind of level stuff where it's just those devious weird antics that people get up to It only seemed to happen around that era. And so, yeah, we're going to cast back to the early, early days when things were truly cartoonish in the world's most grueling cycling. Mikey, have you seen Tour de Pharmacy? I have seen Tour de Pharmacy.
Starting point is 00:54:00 Oh, good. I love that. It's so good. It was very, like, as a parody, like parody sports documentaries is such a good one to do very, very smart. I'm sad they haven't done another one. Yeah, it was the tennis one. God, what was that one called? It was Tour de Pharmacy, which is the Tour de France one and the tennis one.
Starting point is 00:54:20 It was, oh God, I can't remember what it was called. It's from Andy Sandberg and I think they have, what's it called? The American Sports Channel, they're sort of officially involved in it and give it all the branding and stuff, but it's just a big mockumentary. It's really, really good. Yeah, like it hits the kind of style of it also perfectly. Lots of famous people in it. John Cena, all massive riding a Tour de France. bicycle and he's like, I'm not on drugs.
Starting point is 00:54:47 I'm not on drugs. I'm just, I'm just this big. It's great. Well, that's in a fictional world. I'd argue the real world was also almost more ridiculous. So yeah, now we're kind of used to the site of lycra-clad, lanky-looking alien men. But back in the beginning, it was a very different world. And so the first Tour de France was held in 1903 and immediately in the first
Starting point is 00:55:15 ever to de France there was cheating because of course why would it be incredible mind boggling cheating
Starting point is 00:55:21 have it at that though much of it centred on one participant in particular hippolyte or cuturier
Starting point is 00:55:28 I believe goodness me and when I don't know like if you had to pick some cyclists out of a line up and this guy was there
Starting point is 00:55:38 and you asked which one of these cyclists is likely to cheat it's Dick dastardly himself He's just missing his swag bag. He's literally got flat cap, stripy, black and white t-shirt, like tight leggings. He looks like a robber.
Starting point is 00:55:54 He looks like he's up to no good. It's incredible. Wow. That's brilliant. So he was easily one of the favorites in the first Tour de France. And on July 2nd, midway through the race, he was forced to withdraw due to a mystery illness. And for years, people speculated that it was a result of just not eating enough. Or perhaps it was a combination of drinking too much.
Starting point is 00:56:15 much wine and sniffing too much ether during the cycle. But it wasn't until, God, 103 years later that the real culprit was revealed. He retired with some fearsome stomach cramps on the epic 467 kilometre opening stage from Paris to Leon, having been handed a spiked bottle of lemonade by a roadside spectator. Oh, my God. It's not even a, well, maybe another competitor paid a random person to give him the bottle, but my god um and yeah it took over a hundred years to figure out exactly what it was that took him out of the race but fair not he was not scared away from the tode france for the very next year
Starting point is 00:56:56 he came back to take his place and finish the race yes um so yeah after being robbed of his chance to win it corrupted him a little bit let's say and he decided screw it if they're cheating i'm going to cheat myself oh that's his villain origin story yeah this is why he gets the personality to fit his fashion sense and his looks. Yeah, no, he didn't look like that until the following race after he'd been poisoned. He came back looking like this. Oh, dear. And so, yeah, I think there was a handful of cheaters that year, and he was amongst the bad guys.
Starting point is 00:57:29 And some of them were spotted. This is loony tunes to the highest degree, but it's brilliant. They were spotted on one stage being towed by a car by means of a length. of oh no i've scrolled down i've lost my bit tension tension um they were taking tour from a car by means of a length of string attached to a cork that he gripped between his teeth oh my god the string was attached to a car and he just clamped down and got pulled by it like there's got to be a better way to do that yeah why not just attached to the bike yeah yeah yeah i think it gives him the opportunity to let go if he needs to poof out his mouth it goes and also potentially
Starting point is 00:58:13 maybe his teeth if the car makes a one key maneuver of gods. It also doesn't feel like a very subtle way of doing it. There's going to be a car
Starting point is 00:58:19 like tens of meters ahead of you chugging along. Yeah. And see how he was dragged for miles and miles behind a car with the cork in his mouth
Starting point is 00:58:29 and he would have gotten away with it too but the car pulling him drove a little bit too fast. Don't worry, he didn't get injured. Auto Curia reached
Starting point is 00:58:38 the end of the stage just a minute just mere minutes after race officials who travelled there in cars themselves. So, yeah, if you get there that quickly, it's a little bit, you're waiting an hour for everyone else. Real.
Starting point is 00:58:51 Yeah. Yeah. He had all the ideas, just, yeah, feel that there's don't be too obvious about it. Certainly cheat. Seven days in hell. That's what it was called. Sorry, that's the Wimbled to do the mockumentary.
Starting point is 00:59:02 Yeah, apologies. Both very good. Do you watch. At the second Tour de France, which is where the cork incident happened, also might just be the dirtiest of them in history. In the first stage, four men in a car, I guess dirty isn't dirty tactics, not like mud.
Starting point is 00:59:22 A little bit, probably a little bit of mud. In the first stage, four men in a car jumped out to attack the previous year's winner, Maurice Garin. During the second stage, fans of cyclist Antoine Foray tossed glass on the road, causing flat tires throughout the pack. And fans lined up to throw rocks at cyclists during multiple stages.
Starting point is 00:59:43 Well, they pulled over an angels for sustenance. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Put some pebbles in your water. That's lovely minerals. Keep you going. But the worst offense has to be the brawl in Santa Ten. I think it's perhaps a ten.
Starting point is 00:59:58 Atean, a teen. Yeah, Sant'a Tien. Townspeople created a human blockade to aid to aid hometown favorite Foray. As Garin and another cyclist approached, the mob began to beat the athlete. The fracas only stopped when journalist and Tour de France architect Gio Lafrieve showed up and fired a pistol amongst the crowd. Very, like that old-fashioned way of sorting stuff out, bang, pop one off.
Starting point is 01:00:25 Jobs are good in. But the melee failed to serve its purpose. Garin went on to win his second straight Tour de France. But that title was later stripped away amid widespread accusations of misconduct. So what was Maurice up to? well his his main claim to fame was that he was a very good cyclist his second claim to fame was that he smoked all the time while cycling purportedly never seen without a cigarette hanging out the left side of his house uh house his mouth um and well as i've just said they're never seen without a cigarette hanging out his mouth but here's an instance of him um replacing the cigarette for two balls of wine it looks like oh what a hero Jesus, what is going on with the bulge? That is obscene.
Starting point is 01:01:17 Or is that the saddle coming out from? Maybe. It does look like it. Are you pleased to see me, Mr. Look at his goggles and the dual water bottle holder on his handlebars as well. That's incredible. It's amazing. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:35 So, yeah, he was, yeah, he was, he was, he was pretty, he was good, but he was a character. and now it's 1904, the second tour de France, the same year Hippolyte autocurier was dragged by his teeth by a car. Garron is the people's champion this time round. He wins the race, much to the delight of fans, but in an ensuing investigation, it found that Garin and several other top competitors also cheated and were forced to vacate their placings.
Starting point is 01:02:03 So it took them four months of research and investigating to figure out exactly how did they cheat, how do they do this so fast? Turns out the riders had taken a train for part of that stage and just decided to skip a lot of the track, naughty, naughty. Because that wasn't enough for them. They went a couple of steps further, and they put itching powder in competitors' shorts.
Starting point is 01:02:26 It's also, it's, it is just, again, it's the wacky races, or it's like, it is Looney Tunes. Does one of them get crushed with a big mallet? A piano that says acme on it Yeah Yeah it's also It's very whimsical It seems quite lighthearted
Starting point is 01:02:45 Except for the fact They also rallied supporters To attack rival riders with sticks That's not as good Don't do that Things mellowed out a bit over the years But there's one tradition that held true For quite a while throughout the Tour de France
Starting point is 01:02:59 Which I think is my personal favourite Is it painting a mural of a tunnel onto the side of the cliff And sniggering to yourself as they all crash into it. Yeah. Now, better than that, this is the cafe raid. And so in the early days of the early-ish days of the race, I guess there was less support along the way,
Starting point is 01:03:19 like less teams of people helping you finish the race. It was very much just you get out there and you figure it out how you go along. And so, I think popular in the 60s especially, whenever races needed refreshments, they organized drinking raids where, like, they'd all agree to stop, like at speed, throw the bikes to the ground and just sprint into the nearest cafe and grab
Starting point is 01:03:39 whatever they want from the shelves and like stuff their pockets, stuff whatever they can into their person and then just continue on the cycle. What? Wow. Just a robbery. Obviously, you think, yeah, robbery, but no, this was endorsed. So after the cyclist had finished their cafe raid, the Tour de France officials would go and tally up the bill and pay for whatever it was they took.
Starting point is 01:04:02 Wow. Oh my God. weird that's interesting so there's a really good video about that like the cyclists doing a raid where it's just like 20 of them attack a cafe and you think oh maybe they're going for like peanuts or water and stuff no it's bottles of beer champagne all the good stuff that they like taking and then yeah just riding along no hands like our good friend here um just just live in their best life after doing a robbery and now going on to become a sports champion it's what a race um goodness me And yeah, that is my little roundup of the early days.
Starting point is 01:04:38 A lawless place. I do like the cafe run. I recommend people go and watch the video of it because it's hilarious. But yeah, sadly, things are a little bit more structured and regimented now. Yeah. Still has their fun. Bring back chaotic sports events. If there's no glass on the bloody road this year, what's the point?
Starting point is 01:04:56 If there's no itching powder in sight, it's not a championship. I agree. Agreed. Wonderful. Thank you very much, Mikey. Thank you. It's now time for my list to submit a thing, which comes courtesy of Connor Bennett at C. Bennett underscore 12 on Twitter. This is an update on the church sex noises that I talked about last time.
Starting point is 01:05:18 They still haven't caught the person. And it makes for pretty grim reading, just so you know, it's not particularly funny. But I just, sorry, I just whacked my microphone really hard. I was moving my hand up to cough, and I thumped the mic. So apologies for that, if it doesn't come out in the edit. But continue. Well, I thought it was worth getting an update regardless. So thank you to Connor for spotting this.
Starting point is 01:05:42 This is the Waterford News, written by Caroline Spencer. Garda looking into antisocial noises in Kilgobnutt. Mispronounced that, probably. Garda are investigating a troubling situation at Kilgobnit Church County Waterford. Over the past number of weeks, parishioners have been plagued with inappropriate noises that have been coming from a nearby loud speaker. On one occasion, the sounds of graphic material were played while people were attending the graveyard.
Starting point is 01:06:09 Garda were reached for comment and responded with the following statement. Garda are investigating reports of offensive audio material being played on a continuous basis in the vicinity of Kilgobnutt, Dungarvan, County Waterford in recent weeks. Investigations are ongoing at this time. Now we get a bit of clarification about what actually the sounds are and the very unfortunate times that they are being played. according to a source
Starting point is 01:06:33 there was a loud recording of a woman's voice shouting wanker on a loop as parishioners laid flowers on graves for Father's Day No Oh my God That's so malicious That's horrible
Starting point is 01:06:47 He gets worse On another occasion the loudspeaker was playing The Local Radio during the recent funeral of a little girl who died tragically Oh my God It is alleged that the person behind the antisocial behaviour lives nearby to the church
Starting point is 01:07:00 is disapproving a parishioners using the thoroughfare to the church. The house shares a road with the church, which is often busy with road users dropping off and picking up worshippers. The church is located at the top of a hill, which can be difficult to climb for some parishioners, particularly the elderly. The antisocial incidents have been reported to both the Garda and Waterford City and County Council. Councilors and locals have heavily condemned the anti-social behaviour. Dungarvin Councillor Connor McGuiniss, Sinn Féin, said, it has become clear since that it has become clear since that it is being done on purpose
Starting point is 01:07:35 to be as disruptive and offensive as and disrespectful as possible. There is no excusing for it now or explaining it away. He added, it is done on purpose to cause people attending mass and funerals pain. It is utterly unacceptable that someone should do this. And then it goes on lots of people basically condemning it. But we have a little more clarification on what actually is being played and when. Right. they still seemingly have no leads
Starting point is 01:08:00 but the article seems to describe they're just being one house nearby so I'm not really sure I wonder yeah I don't know how hard it could be to find this person but yeah I suppose we'll keep you posted
Starting point is 01:08:14 question mark as long as people like Connor are keeping an eye on the Waterford News and that's no way to protest it if you're annoyed about the road issue and stuff then there are different ways and different moments you can choose to protest.
Starting point is 01:08:30 I know the definition of protest is to, you know, you have to cause some kind of inconvenience, but maybe not, you know, in relation to people mourning the deaths of, you know, family members or whoever. It's pretty bad. It's not even pretty bad. It's not good. Stop it.
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