Podiots - Podiots: Episode 153 - Top Of The Plops

Episode Date: November 24, 2024

Ben & Peter have only been on prime time Saturday morning kids TV, and Mikey has died of dysentery. The new date for our reunion stream is the 14th of December! Join next episode's Pod Squad: http://podiots.com And check our website and store: http://vidiotsofficial.com -------------------   Subscribe for more and TELL YOUR FRIENDS!   YouTube:https://youtube.com/vidiotsofficial Podiots: https://vidiotsofficial.com Pod Squad: https://podiots.com Shop: https://vidiotsofficial.com/shop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vidiots.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vidiots.official Twitch: https://twitch.tv/vidiotsofficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/VidiotsOfficial Facebook: https://facebook.com/vidiotsofficial Discord: https://vidiotsofficial.com/discord/ Site: https://vidiotsofficial.com/   Follow the gang on Twitter: Ben: @Confused_Dude Peter: @ThatPeterAustin Michael: @ParrotBoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickax. Hello everybody, it's Mikey. Just a quick note before the podcast begins. During this podcast recording, my microphone was not having a good time. We've had to do some heavy recovery on my audio. So thankfully, we have been able to fix it, but in the process of making it sound palatable to your ears, we've lost my lovely laughter from the audio.

We'll get more into detail about exactly what happened there because it's quite hilarious. But anyway, let's start the podcast. It's a special one. Enjoy. Big Dave Benson Phillips update. Oh, God, not another one. Dave has been paid. Yes. Excellent.

That's not the update I expected you to give us, actually. But yes, Dave has been paid. Yeah. Thank you all so much for choosing the most expensive option. Cheers. Yes. Yeah, I'm sure he'll be very grateful. Big Dave Benson Phillips update update.

Okay. He has posted on Twitter. a video of him in a supermarket, again, a different video of him in a supermarket. We've seen one before where he picked up a carrot and said, what do you think Mrs. Benson Phillips or Mrs. Phillips? And what do you think that looks like?

And it was slightly phallic looking. Or no, it looked like a sex toy. It was like a bunny, a rabbit. He has now posted a video of him just picking up an obergene and wiggling his eyebrows as he looks down lens. There's a further update to this update update, which is that a couple of days later, he replied

to that tweet and put, Dear Twitter, X, people, I've recently found out two facts about the vegetable that recently appeared in one of my films, by which he means the video I posted on Twitter. Yeah. Number one, in the USA and other America-esque countries, obejines are called eggplants, and Number two, in emoji language, they mean something phallic. Oops, exclamation mark, as though waving it to the camera and going, wasn't suggestive to begin with.

I've lost some respect for him there. Does he take us for fools? I think he does. I think we should, can you put in a claim with PayPal and say return that money? Yeah, not happy with the service I really. received. Yeah, he used our bloody money to buy that obergene and then back down on the door. He probably did. He wasn't even brave enough to follow through on his, on his weird threat. I felt threatened watching the video. Yeah, it was very threatening.

It's a very long 20 seconds. Awful. So, yeah, that's good. That's, that's Dave Benson Phillips watch. That's, that's the update that we, that we have for you all there. Other exciting news is that we gave out the wrong date for the Vidyat's reunion stream because as soon as we announced it, it was no longer doable, so we've changed it. But not by much. And it's not going to be on the 13th anymore. No. It's going to be the day after.

It's going to be on the 14th. Of course, now we've announced that on Podiards. That's going to be no longer doable and it won't be on that day. But no, it is. It's on the 14th. So join us for all the fun and frolics of Christmas for a reunion stream. Well, the frolics and bollocks. Indeed.

Yeah. Yeah. Frolicing and bollicking will be doing all the usual stuff. We've not actually quite nailed down the exact content plan or running order just yet, but it'll be everything you expect from the usual reunion streams. So, you know, we'll watch some old videos and we'll probably bring some live things along. and other things too. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe find some sort of cursed DVD game that we somehow haven't played yet. Yeah, we could do that. I moved house recently and actually no, well,

the Little Britain box, the DVD box came with me that once held the horrible cursed DVD game. And so that did get put in the bin the other day. I finally said goodbye to it. I didn't need to hold on to it.

And yeah, in the process of moving out everything from my old room. But it's so funny, Mikey. It's so funny and so fresh and relatable. It's hilarious. There's fragments of the disc I found still lying about in the room. So yes, I'm glad to finally be rid of that horror.

So we'll find a new horror to then plague me forever. Don't you worry. Okay. Well, we will see you all on the 14th. But for now, do you guys want to crack on with the podcast? Yeah, maybe we should. dust Kevin off again after a month as he doing

I don't see him over here do you see him no but if we if we listen carefully we might oh hark hello everybody and welcome to potty it's the official

viduets podcast it's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three urs where everybody brings a thing along to talk about i'm ben i'm peter and i'd really need to bert oh my god and i'm michael no i can't i can't people hear it why oh it's a bit much for me i'm sorry i'm sorry just doing it in such a way that made you sound like you're dying. I would say that good one.

Because it started bubbling up as we're doing a thing along. Talk about. Earthing, Earth, long. Oh, dear. Anyway, hello, we're back in the room. What's up? Good. Hey, how are you guys doing?

All right. I don't know if everyone at home would like a video, it's weather update, but it's cold now. It's so cold. I'm wearing an Udi. Oh, are you? Lovely. Yeah.

Lucky point. Toasty warm, it's nice. How is it down in Bristol, Mikey? Gloly freezing. Yeah, we had like a first actual bit of frost and snow. We had snow. We never get snow. Yeah, I like dusting.

Well, yeah, we had the sad snow where it falls and then turns to slush and then that's it. But it was nice to see it at least while it was falling from the ground. Falling from the ground, yes. That's where snow comes from. You're doing different in Bristol, don't they? It's very, very strange down there. When I was at work today, my computer told me that, I think it was exaggerating a bit, but it said it was minus two. I think it was more like minus one, but it said feels like minus six, which I think is actually correct.

Fraser from Coultholic posted on Blue Sky, if you will, if you please, saying, I've been to Iceland, the country, not the shop, and it was minus 15 there. Why does it feel colder than that in Newcastle right now? I think he's right. He's not wrong. Yeah. They're lying to us. Big temperature. Little temperature, really. Sub temperature. Very true. Very true. Speaking of Blue Sky, we are actually on there now. Vidiates official. You can find us there. I'm sure we'll be cross-posting a lot of the stuff we usually be able to do.

Ben, it's vidiats official.byskai. Dot social, right? Catchy. Yeah, it's so catchy. Really. I love that that's how all the handles work. So if you search Vidyat's official, you'll not find us. You will, you will find us. But technically what you can do is use your website to set it up, which would be good if that matched all of our other social media handles. But no one wants to say, oh, we're Vidyat's official some places.

We're Vidyots dot official elsewhere. And on Blue Sky, we are podiots.com or, you know, vidyots. Yeah. We'd be vidyots official. Wouldn't we? Yeah, I don't know how it's strange. but um you can find us on there we're on there now which is good news other big developments uh peter and i did something very exciting this month we will tell you all about it momentarily

for the time being though mikey i'd like to know is there anything that you've been up to this month what you've what's been going on i moved house yeah i mean people behind me will see what's on my camera ooh new room there's a plant over there there's pictures on the wall There's boxes and stuff stacked behind me as well But let's pretend we don't see that This is the storage room And yeah, it's lovely And the house came with two hall cats

So now I'm a cat Yeah So are a cat Do they pay rent or Absolutely bloody not all They come in this place What grow out the owner Use me for my warmth

Sit on me Actually I use them for their warmth as well So it's all right There they're playing by screaming at me Every two hours of food Great Love it Yeah they're cute

They're cute. I only complain because I've worked at home all day, and all I've been subjective is cats running in and out the room. But that's not going to happen now because I close the door on them. Oh, they'll be scratching. And screaming. It's a glass window, a glass door, actually, so you fight see them sat at the door if you keep your eyes peeled. Free care cam. Amazing. So did the move go okay? Yeah.

Yeah, nice and smooth. It took two van loads to get everything in. and oh boy do I have so much crap and I thought I was going to get rid of and donate and sell a lot of stuff but I've not it's all just gone in the attic that's fine once it's in the attic it doesn't exist right

you can't see it it's not a problem until I move again I remember all the crap I've kept yeah now we can amazing yeah it's definitely exciting time Peter Austin have you been up to much um

I don't think so I think by the time this episode has gone out, I'll have been down to... Actually, I've been... This is going to sound real or shady, actually. I'm going down to Bath, and I've not told Michael Johnson that I'm going down to bath. And that is, sadly... Are you going to sprys him? Yeah, I'm going to give him a big...

I'm going to knock on his door of his new house that I don't know the location of. I'm going down with two friends of my wife, and I just simply do not know if I will have any moment to get away and go and do stinky boy stuff. So, you know, it's a shame. I'll be so clear. I will, I'll be able to smell Michael Johnson from where I am and I can't wait. Well, I'll be extra stinky that day just for you, because you'll know I'll be there with you all day. For the record, when I say stinky boy stuff, that was including me too, not just you, Mikey.

That would be a bit rude. I acknowledge I'm a stink boy, but yes, we're all stinky boys. We are, yeah. All boys are stinky. So I will wave at you when I see you, Mikey, but I'm not allowed to talk to you or play with you, I don't think. Which is a shame. That is a shame. Mikey, you know what you have to do.

You have to find Peter and involve yourself in his day. Hey, I won't stop you. Hey, I'm funny saying you here, Peter. Oh, you're going to dad, bags. Yeah, all right, cool. What are we eating? Where are we going?

Yeah. You never know. I might get an opportunity. I would love to if I can, but I'll let you know. I'll keep you posted, Mikey. And I'll keep you, Podiot's listeners, posted,

as to whether I got to hang out with Michael Johnson or not. But you'll have to wait until next episode to discover that. You will. What about you, Ben? Anything exciting happening to you? Yes. I went to Whitby, which is a lovely seaside town, very picturesque.

And some of you literature nerds may know it from the novel Dracula, because that is where he visits England on the northeast coast. And he goes up to the cliffs and he pines. and stares out over them up near the abbey slash church. So I went up there, had a look around. I wanted to go to the ruins of the abbey. But I think it was closed that day, but it didn't really communicate that very well.

So we went all the way around, and then we found a brewery. And we ended up there instead. It was a total accident. But, you know, if you find a brewery instead of a stupid, stinky old abbey, then that's where you want to go. Sure, yeah. Did you see a hand in?

in a box in the museum. No. They have a hand in a box. I think we must have talked at some point on Polly. It's about the hand of glory, which is a thing that people used to make from, it has to be like the hand of a hanged man and then you like cook it and it's in the fat of the hanged man

and you do all this bollocks. And then if you carry it at night when you break into someone's house, everyone falls asleep. And it's a way to keep everyone asleep. And they've got one in Whitby's, museum. I've not seen it, but I'm aware that it's like one of the only known surviving hands of glory. That's just a Skyrim item. I think it probably is one in Skyrim. There's one in Harry Potter and there'll be one in, you know, it's probably one in the Witcher and that kind of

thing. So yeah, they've got one in a museum and you can just go and see a stinky hand in a box, but next time makes me sad. Yeah, it makes me sad that I've missed that. I'll find you a picture of it. Yeah, please do. I hate it when recipes make you use weird, esoteric ingredients that are hard to find. Like, where are we going to find a stinky old hand? Come on. Yeah. It's stupid.

When we were there? Wait, what weekend were you there? What date? Would have been one day. Did someone else miss Michael Johnson? Oh, no, you like you. Monday the 11th of November? Oh, if you were there just a week before, you would have been there for would be goth weekend.

Oh, yeah. I've seen the photos of goth weekend. Oh, that thing's hideous. Yeah. Oh, there is a stinky hand. I missed a hand. But I tell you what, though, I was I was pining for some like kind of tacky spookiness because I did, I did say numerous times after having one pint on an empty stomach that they should just put like a statue of Dracula somewhere, like a nice one. I get that

it's near religious sites up on that cliff. But, you know, just some sort of monument to the importance of the novel, to the literature that people could come and see and take photos with And it can bring a lot of people to the town just to see that. They could have a... They could have a Dracula with his mouth open and his fangs and he could stick your head in the statue, put your neck in the fangs and take a photo. Sure.

Yeah. You could. But they haven't done that. No. So what they have got, however, which I did pay to go into, because it was £6 a ticket, was the Dracula experience,

which is in Whitby. I'm going to send you a photo of this is sort of the quality of the Dracula experience. Is it Wonka-esque? It's not Wonka-esque, it is Q for a spooky ride at a theme park-esque.

Okay. And it was worth every penny. The photos looked horrendous. It's full of like, it's almost pitch black in there. It's got lots of light shows and audio piped in from like movies about Dracula and it's full of waxworks and weird dummies and some things

are animated so they're like judder forwards and I took the photo that I just sent you with my flash on but every single item in that experience was really really bad looking who've you sent it to and I think I've sent it in the group chat unless I've just did I send it on WhatsApp? Possibly on WhatsApp, yeah. Have you got it? Because otherwise I sent it to someone else. I don't know if you guys on WhatsApp. There you go.

So, yeah, it was set across several floors. And with each new room that I went into, I turned around and just said, this is brilliant. This is so good. This is everything I wanted it to be. Because for the most part, it being so picturesque and lovely, it really doesn't lean into the potentially tacky side that you might expect at a town.

so associated with Dracula and vampires with potentially being. And this is the only evidence of that. It ends in a room with very uncomfortable benches where they, on a loop, were playing a trailer for a vampire, a Dracula movie from the 1990s. Right. And then when you exit, it's a staircase that just goes out onto the street. It doesn't even like loop back round to the entrance.

No Taki Gifts Shop where you can buy. Vampire Tat? No tacky gift shop at all. And the door that opens onto the street, there's a sign on the outside that says, please don't come in here. This is a private place. You can hear a trailer for a 90s Dracula film playing inside. Honestly, if you go to Whitby, screw getting fish and chips, spend your fish and chip money and go to the Dracula experience because it's awful and I can't recommend it enough. That's a top tip you just give them people. Follow the sound of the 90s vampire trailer and then you get it going for free. Podius presents the Whitby vampire experience.

If you can get past all of the old people who are doddering around at two miles an hour and you're also brave enough to walk through the car park which when we arrived had three middle-aged men playing really loud drum and bass off a portable speaker pissed out of their skulls and you can make it to the vampire experience, you're going to have a great time. wow well i've um we forgot to find a kneel for our thread so i found one oh thank so far the two images added to the thread they're very spooky it's we really should have talked about all of this last episode if we could have done if it was we've got a severed hand and a vampire statue i don't know well this is spooky it's too getting a special one yes spook harder

um but before we go any further before we get onto the things and all of the exciting stuff that we've brought along, we need to talk about Pod Squad. Yeah. Did you know that if you go to pottyets.com, donate three pounds or more. You join Pod Squad, get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the next episode of Podietz.

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Three pounds or more. Go to Poddiots.com. Thank you so much, Pod Squad. We appreciate you. What was your favourite out of those guys? Antiperspirant took me by surprise. Yeah, that's a worldy. Yeah, I only just clopped onto the period references.

Yes, now we're monthly, yes, we are, much like the female menstrual cycle. Indeed. My favourite is that entire genre of name. Anti-perspirant, of course, doesn't have the menstrual cycle because she's post-menopausal, I think. Old anti-perspirant, yeah. She's well into her 50s now. Yeah. Amazing.

Well, there we are. That's Pod Squad. It's now time. I think we're going to kick things off with one of our things. I think Michael Johnson should go first with his thing. Oh, okay. Right. I come with a tale, a tale of adventure.

A tale of adventure. I'll leave it there because I want to spoil too much. I want to leave it open. This is quite a longie. I'm going to say it. There's a lot to cover here. So buckle in because I'm going to tell the tale of my eight-day Belgium cycling trip that took place at the end of August.

and yeah the first week of September it was yeah it was fun it was fun it was fun I'm going to keep saying that I had a great Are you sure? Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself

it was fun yeah well I mean you'll find out why in a minute but yeah so at the beginning this year I treated myself to a fancy new bike because I've got quite big into cycling and as a result of that I started cycling a lot more

and the oldest bit of cycling was having to come home at the end of it and stop there. I thought, why don't, why don't I just do nothing but cycle for a week? And thus began like months and months of preparation, training, all this stuff to basically become self-sufficient and learn to survive with nothing but me, a bike, and everything I need to live, strapped to said bike. That involves your tent, sleeping bag, clothes, food, everything. So yeah, it was a long process. It was a lot fun.

I did get a bit obsessed with it. I think my girlfriend got a bit upset, but I talked more about that trip than anything else for that period of time. But hey, hey, all the trading paid off, right? All the trading paid off. All the trading paid off. Right. Okay.

That's the brief kind of run up to this adventure. I think it was about five months between me getting this idea and then me executing on said idea. So there was a lot of build-up, a lot of anticipation, a lot of planning. I found, so I want to do Belgium because it was easy to get to by the Eurostar with a bike, win-win. And also, it's quite flat. It's all close to civilisation. And you know what?

Good beer everywhere, good food. It's just a nice little place to go. So, hey, let's do it. But my Eurostar, got over there, and the adventure began. Well, no, we start with day zero, actually. now I'm actually going to my script. So yeah. It's where French fries are from, Belgium.

They're not from France originally. Yeah. Oh, wow. Belgian waffles, though, from France. Are they? I wouldn't know. So glad we left the European Union. None of it makes sense.

Right. Day zero. So this was just a travel day. This just basically was me getting all the way from Bristol to London, cycling through central London, which was quite a fun experience I'd never cycled through central London traffic before

pain in the ass it was just stoplight stoplight, stop like dickhead taxi driver stop like dickhead taxi driver but I managed to get through that and I got to the Eurostar got on, got on the train and just like magic

I was whisked away to a far away wonderful land called Belgium my start and end point for this whole trip was the lovely historic town of Brussels home of the EU God rest of soul

and yeah first night it was quite lovely got there late afternoon I checked into a hotel that night dropped off my bike went out for a walk around town I had a nice beer I actually managed to find

a nice pub next to the pissing boy statue so I didn't even intend for it I found a nice looking bar on the map and just went oh that looks good I'll go towards that one so I sit down in the outside area like oh there's the pissing boy so I got to sit and look at him while I drank my living here.

I bet they serve Strongbow there, am I right? Next to the pissing boys, that's you. Peace, peace, peace, poise. So, yeah, by all means, a lovely first day of the trip. Obviously, the cycling hadn't began at this point, but I had a belly full of food and beer, and I headed back to the hotel to get a good night's sleep ahead of the real beginning.

Day one. I departed the hotel 8.14. I don't know why I've been so specific here. I departed the hotel at 8.14 a.m. I headed out out of the city. So this routes basically would take me from Brussels. It would wind be up through northern Belgium. And then I cross over the border into the Netherlands where there would be like three days of cycling through the woods in the wilderness, like all these lovely off-road trails, like totally out the way of civilization. just me, the wood of my tent, and wiping my bum with leaves. It was going to be great. Hell yeah, man. Hell, yeah.

And then after a couple of days going through the Netherlands, it would continue back into Belgium. And the end goal, I wanted to get to Bruges. As I just thought it would be quite a nice place to end. I could have like a day or two there just to relax before having to rush back to Brussels to get my Eurostar. The trip in total, I planned, it was 350 miles over seven days. So it's like an average of 60 miles a day Which fine

Like taking it casually That's totally doable in a day That's quite a nice leisurely pace With like a nice fancy lunch in between it all And you're getting to enjoy the evening So yeah What did you get for fancy lunch please We'll get to that

We'll get to that Oh okay Oh Dorie You're not allowed to ask about fancy lunch Leaves No food's a sore subject And Oh no

Oh man Chips and bread Yeah That was your diet I wish, I wish. I wish. I wish beer even would have been nice. Sorry, there's a lot I want to say, but I can't say.

Sorry, we'll just be quiet. No, God, sorry, no, you didn't interject. Just don't ask anything specific, okay? Okay, okay. Yeah, 814, I departed the hotel, started on my way, and cycling north outwards of the city. My first rest stop on the way was a little town of Lovin. uh lovely place absolutely delightful proper historic big big churches and all that good stuff but most importantly it was home to the finest of all the belgian beers

stella artois oh i thought you meant you'd read in some fancy guidebook that it was like you know the the michelin star beer or something but no stellar yeah it was like a week before the trip I was looking over the route and I realized literally the first town I passed through happened to be where the Stella Artois factory was. Right. Okay. Yeah. And so when I got there about midday, I stopped and I treated myself to a lovely pint of Belgium's

finest. Oh. Oh, lovely. Sat there with a free little cup of nuts that, as they know how to do beer over there. Every time you get a beer, they just give you a little cup of snacks to have with it, which is lovely. sat there glorious sun

the pigeons came and they all came sat by that actually like two or three pigeons sat with me on the table nibbling away

at my nuts with me delightful lovely lovely um they're friends and they're friends

and then yeah reading his notes so I'm sorry I guess I Pigeons yeah Pigeons yeah

got the big tick right yeah mention of pigeons moving on so yeah got back on the bike and now basically it was like

the second half the day I need to get to my campsite for the night. Plenty of time, easy, peasy. Took a quite leisurely cycle to the campsite. After paying a visit to the Stella Brewery, of course. There's a lovely picture of me outside of there. I wish I included the pictures in this document, but I'll send through some highlights at the end of the podcast

to maybe go in the edit for you all to look at. Okay. So yeah, I think after five hours of riding in total that day, 60 miles, I made it to camp for the night. It's just wonderful, beautiful nature reserve. I had no idea. I just booked it because it was like 10 euros a night to pitch a tent. Like, cool, that'll do.

Got there. It was just lovely, like a couple of miles in there. They had a restaurant, a bar, little activity center, like shower station, everything. It was amazing. So I set up camp. I went to the restaurant. Got myself a lovely beer. Got myself a lovely plate of food.

It was like chips and a truffle sauce. It was, oh. Oh, yeah, they like their truffles. They like their truffles there. Yeah, yeah. Yummy, chocolate truffles with chips. It doesn't do it right. So, yeah, by all means, like, the picture perfect first day,

it was maybe a little bit boring because the route I took was like mostly just quiet canal paths and whatnot, but that's fine because the exciting stuff was yet to come in the following days. So, about 10 p.m., when in the tent, zipped up my little sleeping bag, got nice and cozy, and I put myself to sleep for the night. Close my eyes. Oh. Oh.

Oh, it was a weird... What was a weird rumbling going on in my stomach? It's a bear. No, I wish it was a bear. But, you know, just a mild rumble. I'm sure it'll be fine. So, close my eyes. I went to sleep.

Day two. The clock struck midnight. Oh, no. The rumble in my stomach. did not go away. The rain began to pour outside the tent. Oh.

The horrible, deep, rumbling feeling deep inside of me grew bigger and bigger and bigger. Tossing, turning, sweating profusely. This is literally 20 past midnight, I'd say this all began. And it just kept getting worse and worse

and I realized, oh, oh no, oh no. I'm going to be sick. Oh, yeah. You know, you get that horrible, like the saliva just starts just seeping out your mouth. It's like, oh, and it's just like, this is going to happen, and it's going to happen now. So feverishly ripped open the tent, stuck my head out of the tent, and just proceeded to vomit profusely onto the ground in front of my tent. That's fine.

That's fine. That's fine. It's just a little sick. It's just a little sick. It's just a little sick. I can recover from that. You know, after I emptied myself, I was. feeling quite good, actually. So I stuck my head back in the tent, went back to sleep. About 40 minutes later, I wake up again. Vomit again.

And this process repeated basically hourly for the entire night until 6 a.m. Oh, man. So this big trip that I've been planning for months, been very excited about, the first day ended in a pretty, pretty brutal way. At the end of that night, I wasn't feeling very good at 6 a.m. I was supposed to be leaving that campsite that night. I'd only paid for one night. But at 6 a.m., there was just no chance of me getting up, packing everything up and continuing cycling.

So I just laid there and I went to sleep. Day three, I wake up. I slept for a whole 24 hours. Wow. What? Yeah. So, yeah, I just basically just passed out completely. like I was not getting capable of doing anything else

I just needed to rest that's fine whatever I've lost a day of the trip you know what things happen it's fine it's fine like you still time food or what sorry to ask questions sorry no no no no yeah no dad now did you have anything you just have woken up feeling horrible

dehydrated I had food I had like admittedly like what I had on me was mostly kind of like snacks and kind of like condensed calories you know like dates and like cereal bars and stuff like stuff that I could just nibble on throughout the day to kind of top me up and keep me going but the plan was like in between all that I would get like you know a big breakfast or a big lunch or something something like I properly sustain me I did I did take like a little camping stove and stuff with me um fortunately never used it because I was never particularly

well enough to go to a shop or cook myself that entire trip but so yes day three uh the the second days are right of that's fine I'm still feeling a little bit roosy but But, you know, I'm doing good enough, good enough to carry on, at least, I think. So, the day began with a McDonald's. Oh, okay. I wanted something neutrally, you know, something just bland and that I know when it's familiar and that I know won't upset my stomach. Bit of salt, yeah, some carbs.

Yeah, just like two large fries, veggie burger, a diet Coke. You know what? Sorted me right out. Classic Belgian cuisine. I've been doing good so far. I've had a stella and a McDonald's. Well, French fries, you know, that's Belgian. Ah, dear.

Where am I? So, yeah, compose myself. I've had my conditions. Yeah, the nap. Yeah. So, yeah, like, after the meal, it was like, all right, I'm feeling better now. I'm feeling a little bit more human. So I carried on, this part of the route was nice, you know, all through scenic woodland,

all this stuff, like little windy paths and little trails, all these, all these lovely things. It was like, all right, cool. That was a blip. We can carry on. I can carry on and enjoy the rest of the trip. I got to the end of the route that day to my next campsite. Lovely big campsite. I didn't, again, I was surprised by the campsite.

It was basically like a massive fuck-off center parks where it took like 15 minutes of walking to get from either side of it. But that meant there was a lovely restaurant there. And so I, like, 10 p.m. at night, I stumble over to the restaurant. I order like just the biggest ball of pasta I could possibly. We find on the menu and some bread, I just wolfed it all down. I was feeling quite content, full, replenished, and ready to tackle another day. And then, so I go to bed, feeling okay, stomach, feeling a little bit weird again. But that's probably just the mammoth amount of carbs I just shoved in my body.

I'm sure it'd be fine. Day four. Vomits again. No, not again. God damn it 6.30 am I woke up again the same feeling like this can't be happening again

absolutely not. No way, no way yes way again I didn't have much time so in a panic just unzip the tent head out the tent vomit onto the ground in front of my tent great, love it so at this point I'm a little bit

worried, not worried but like oh okay this sucks I'm like you know at this point I am in the depths of Belgium I'm far away from the trains, I'm far away from a lot of stuff. Like, my options are to basically keep going. So I stick my head back in the tent. I sleep for a couple more hours.

I've got some time before I need to check out the tents, the campsite. So, you know, take it easy, relax, ease into the rest of the day. I wake back up about an hour or two later. More vomit. Oh, God. The vomiting does stop eventually, don't worry. So you said, just to break the, well, not break the fourth wall, but behind the scenes, you said, oh, on the next episode, I'm going to tell you all about my trip to Belgium. And I was thinking, oh, this sounds like a wacky potty. It's, oh, I met this annoying guy. And oh, and there was a grandma who I had an altercation with. And, oh, you know, I went into the sex museum. No, no, no. So far, it's been four days of vomit, pretty much. I was, that was what I was hoping for.

I was hoping on this trip, I'd come back with some tales, you know, some experiences. Yeah, characters. Oh, God. So far, I'm four days in, and all I'm really familiar with is the contents of my own stomach. That's about it. So yes, I wake up again. This time, though, I do manage to make it to a bathroom. Well done me.

The first of like eight, six. That's a little victory there. Which I will admit, wasn't that much nicer. And it was one of those horrible kind of like Stain the Steel metal toilets. Oh, yeah. It's just quite grim looking down the barrel of that. Yeah, very comforting.

So yeah, I did a bit. That was, I wrote here, I did the big sick. Because that was that, I think that that was the record breaking one of the whole trip where it just kind of went a bit everywhere. So feeling very sorry for myself had to mop up chunks from the bathroom floor and the toilet room. So, yeah, after that.

that. I get back the tent. All right, cool. I feel like shit. But I'm just going to sleep for, I'm going to have a nap for an hour and I'm going to crack on because I had to check out of there at like 12. And I was like, right, I just, as long as I'm out here at 12, I'll be fine. I won't be charged for another day. I can, you know, soldier on, find somewhere else to sit or whatever for a little bit and relax. So yeah, I wake up 1130 feeling pretty diabolical. I very slowly just, you know, like, I think as you can imagine when you're feeling a little bit sick it's everything's a little hard and just everything happens a little bit more slowly so I'm rolling at my tent like and it's not easy I have to like really compact like tight everything

wrap everything up compactly and squeeze it into these tiny bags of my bike step over the sick puddle outside you don't understand in that just yeah with a stick there shoving dirt over the sick to try and hide it oh gosh I'm gonna be sick oh dear but yeah but yeah So, yeah, this was 11.30. I pack away. My original route, actually, no, sorry, I missed one important detail here. The night before I went to sleep and I vomited again. I did book a hotel in the Netherlands as a little treat as like a, all right, I've done two days of camping. I'll treat myself to a hotel. I'm going to have an indoor sick. Yes. Yes. Yes. So, you know, like I pre-planned that. That hotel was 60 miles away from the campsite. That's at least four, six in your current rate.

But yeah, that was fine until that morning where I did more six and then at that point the prospect of doing 60 miles was not only impossible but just was just, yeah, just not a nice thought. And this was also the hottest day of the trip

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Just a cool marathon. Easy, easy, easy for easy. Yeah. But I've got wheels. So it's a piece of pace. So yeah, in the blistering heat, stomach totally empty. I just crack on with it. I start on the way.

It's fine. This is the direct route. So it wasn't pretty. It wasn't fun. It was basically a 26 mile straight line. And I'm talking just straight. Like there was no deviants to it. It was just like you start here and you end here.

You don't see anything else, etc. A motorway the entire time. I was just cycling along this motorway which was yeah green because you know cycling a straight line I just kind of lost all sense of space and time like I didn't know how far I'd gone

I didn't know how long I had left like I was trying to avoid looking at much You've got a fever Yeah it was just I was just trying to get to a hotel To line a bed and fucking recuperate Eventually I crossed the border into the Netherlands Yay

I've hopped countries on a bike Isn't that fun it was supposed to be quite a nice little sweet moment of like, oh, this is cool. Like, I've hopped a border on a bike. Isn't that nice? But instead it was just like, oh, cool, keep going, keep going, keep going. Of course, as I crossed over the border into the Netherlands, I'm entering cow country. And it was just 10 miles of cow and farms and the smell of manure filling my nose. It's just unavoidable. But fine, carry on. Keep pushing. Eventually, I hit, like, a little Dutch town. So I'm like, all right, cool. I feel like I could eat now. I need, I want some, like, it gets like a nice cold isotonic beverage to get me hydrated and all ready for the day. So I opt in. I got some crackers. Mmm. And some fruits, which, yeah, fine. I, I, like, is like, you know, this seems doable. I can do this. I found a nice little place to sit down on the ground. I just sat there, and it's slowly nibbling at crackers. And in the distance, I hear just these horn.

blaring that's weird what's going on it's the sick alarm it's coming so the noises continued started growing

in volume and in just the number of them and of course where I'm sitting just happens to be where a convoy of I'm talking

hundreds upon hundreds of trucks were taking part in a protest I assume and every truck that went past just like all were just laying on their horns the entire time

I was just sat there desperately trying to get something in me with just this cacophony of noise in my ears and it was like oh my God what is going on is the universe playing a cruel joke on me I look up and I notice the shop I'm sitting under it's called honk oh god

Oh, God, what is going on? I can't escape it. So, yeah, I just felt like, as the other players play a cruel joke on me, I'm just going to carry on. I've had a drink, I've had a little bit of cracker and fruit. I can carry on.

As I'm stuffing my crackers into my bag, one of my little bags of goodies, my bags of snacks pops. The contents go all over the floor, and after the pop, a Dutch man turned to me, and in Dutch said, oh, don't shoot? So it's just, I think, which I was like, it's quite funny.

I gave him like the most, like, you know, humoring. I'm lying inside. Yes, that's like, yes, that's nice. I really wish I could talk to you properly, but I just want, I want to get dead. So, yeah, I carry on. And at 4.20 p.m. Nice. I finally make it to the front doors of the hotel.

Thank God. I check in. I wheel my bike up to the room. I just flop on the bed. All my clothes get ripped off. And I'm just like, fuck, just. I'm lying there, spreading, you all just like cooling down again

fucking hot, 30 degrees, I just fucking, yeah, let's cool off, fine. 15 minutes later, I get a knock at the door. Like, oh, that's weird. They kind of knocked me for two, so I very hurriedly put on all, put whatever clothes I could find on. I open the door, and this is,

this is the highlight of the trip by far. Oh, no. So when I got to the hotel, like the clerk was like, oh, how are you doing? I was like, oh, yeah, I'm not feeling very well. well, I've been doing a lot of cycling, and so yeah, I'm looking forward to a lie down.

Very kindly, I opened the door, and there he is stood there with a plate of fruit, lovingly arranged into a smiley face, which I thought was brilliant, a banana and like an apple and a peach, and like this huge jug of icy, cold water, and I'm just there like, oh my God, oh my God, I'm just like, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, it really was a highlight. I thought you might be being sarcastic. Oh, no, don't worry. in the dawn, there's just a truck there that blairs its horn in your face

or something. No, that was actually lovely. That did, that was a real, real shining light in the darkness. Like, all right, cool. This is nice. A little bit of humanity. Good. So yeah. So, yeah, I spent the evening like just wandering around the Dutch town. It's quite nice. I was a bit old, very

delicate still. My tummy was still, this whole time. I'm just not feeling right. But, you know, I'm not just going to lie down. I want to have at least a little walk, went to a park, sat, watch the sunset, and then went back to room stuck on BBC 2 and watched like Planet Earth or something and yeah good right resting recuperating feeling good day 5 wake up after the night no hotel at home thankfully day 5 no sick at all this is it this is it we're back in business so yeah the fruit face might

have cost you but no no so yeah apple a day does indeed keep the doctor away I was feeling so much better so um yeah like at this point I was so off schedule that There was no chance of me making it to Bruges like I had originally intended. But you know what? That's fine. I kind of like in the back of my head I always knew that if anything goes wrong, like I don't have to complete the whole thing. I can just do whatever is manageable and enjoy whatever it is.

So that day, another lovely day of cycling. I carry on like 40 miles to the campsite for that night. I set up there. Lovely, great. All right. We're back in business. You know, we're ready to get this trip back on the road. Day six.

once again, I wake up feeling a little bit peculiar, let's say. No. I'm just, what's going on? I'm quite exhausted at this point. But, you know, yeah, it would think 6 a.m., wake up, not feeling very well. I'm very happy to report I didn't vomit. Okay. I shit my pants.

Oh, my God. Oh, for God's sake. after you've just left the convenient facilities of a hotel where if you go to shit your pants that's what you want to do it just give up then the Eurostar's like

I literally have to like I can't do anything for like this whole life I'm gonna get at the Eurostar with shitty pants you're fucking you're cursed you can't be on that continent anymore it doesn't want you

oh for God's sake like you know like this whole time I've been texting my girlfriend like oh but you know what like six like six fine like you know know, it could be worse. At least I don't have diarrhea.

And lo and the whole, this is the day I wake up. She wakes up to a message that just says, shid pant. Shid pant. I should be, by the way, I should say, I shut my pants in the tent. I didn't, I didn't pull down your trousers out of the flap. He didn't pull down his trousers at all. That was the problem. Oh, sorry, that image is quite, that's a beautiful image.

But, yeah, like, you know, I didn't, honestly, the last thing I expected was to do a shit in my pants, but that's fine. At this point, I'm kind of seeing you in the situation, because this is just so comically, insanely bad, that, like, what else can I do? Like, I'm still alive. I don't really feel it, but I'm alive, so whatever. So I can't myself to the showers, clean everything off, and also, you know, land there in the showers with my fucking shitty underpants at the bottom of the shower, stomping them with my

feet to try and clean them because I didn't want to touch it with my hands. Oh, God. I should also mention at this point. I only brought two pairs of underpants for this entire trick. For six days while you're cycling. Oh, my God. Because everything has to fit on the bike. You have to have to pat for it light.

At the end of every day, you know how. Yeah. Mikey, you know how people say when you go on holiday, you've got to, you got to, you. you've got to pack like you're going to shit yourself every single day. I mean, with all you respect, Mikey, you're, you are more likely to do that than anyone else and it actually happened. It's the only time anyone's packed for a holiday is that they're not going to shit their pants. And then he's going to shit his pants. So, yeah, so in fact, by shitting one pair of pants, I had shot half of my total supply of underpants from the holiday.

Message your girlfriend. shacked half of my pants. Shit, five pounds. How is such a thing possible? God. So yeah, like, binning them wasn't an option, so I had to clean them. Fine. Okay, I'm clean, I'm healthy, I'm free. I go back to the tent. Oh, you know, I'm not shitting it anymore. Relatively. Yes. So, yeah, it's like, again, this is another day that begins with me having to go

back to the tent and sleep for a couple more hours and then try and compose myself. I sleep for two hours. I wake up again. I shit pant again. Not pant. Not pant. Thankfully this time, I don't shit pant. I shit toilet, but I get the roll. I get the rumble. And so I hurriedly run to the toilet block, which is like a three minute walk from my tent. I get to the toilet block, realize I forgot my access card to get into the toilet block. So I have to run back to the tent, hurriedly try and find my key card. Turns out. I'd lost it. I couldn't find it in the tent so that I run back to the toilet block and I wait there

outside feverishly kind of wiggling until I just so had like another person just so happens to go in the toilet block and I run in behind them so I can do it. Oh my God. So I have a brief question. Yes. In the over the course of the rest of this story, do you determine what potentially was the cause? Yeah, I'm curious about this. Do you think it was food poisoning or?

a... Or was it something in your water bottle? I genuinely... I'm still non-the-wise. I don't think it's anything to do with what I hate, honestly.

It's a long time, I think, to have food poisoning. I think someone said to me, like, it sounds like E. coli or something like some kind of, you know, stomach bug. So consistently at night as well.

Like, it could... The fact that it happened in the hotel sort... No, it didn't happen in the hotel at all, didn't it? No, thankfully, no. had something to do with your sleeping bag or your tent maybe had some bacteria in it oh god i even thought about that well this is the thing i i turned i used all this equipment oh i did use all this

equipment like a month before and like a test trick to uh around boulcher and salisbury and stuff and it worked like everything was fine then like everything went off without hitch and obviously from the event it all goes to shit literally um but uh so yeah like at this point i've i've shot my pant twice um this is like this is it this is a trip killer like vomit i can deal with Vom it is fine, because if I need to be sick, I just pull over, blah, whatever. Shitting, like, riding a bike for hours a day with the knowledge in the back of my head that any bump could cause me to just unleash hell is just not worth contending with. So at that point, I just, I just call it quits.

I'm like, okay, this is clearly... Call it squits. Yeah, call it squits, indeed. Call it shits. So, yeah, like, at this point, I'm just like, okay, it's six days now. I am two-thirds of the way into the trip. I've pooped and vomited on all of those days. Actually, except for one.

So it's time to just, all right, just get to civilization, get a hotel for a couple of days and just, you know, ride it out. So I cycle to the nearest town. I get the train to Ghent, which is like a three-hour fucking horror show journey with changes. It was just a nightmare to get there. But I finally get there. I get to Ghent.

And it's also over this entire trip. I am really struggling to eat. Like, I am eating enough to keep going, you know, like crackers and whatever, but, like, I just, physically, the thought of food was just, it was just not working, not going to happen. So, like, I'm eating the bare minimum, but as far I crack on, which maybe didn't help, but I couldn't do anything else. But anyway, yeah, Gent, again, I find myself an Ibis hotel, book it for the night.

I think, you know what, this is fine. I've got two more days here to enjoy the holiday. I'm sure after a night of sleep, I'll be fine. like I'll be able to at least walk around and enjoy things. I will say the poop vomit is now over. That was the last day of pooping and vomiting. Very pleased for you. Thank you.

I was pleased as well. But, you know, rather than getting to walk around lovely Ghent for a couple of days, you know, get to see the sides, eat some nice food. I was just basically taught, like just the worst stomach cramps imaginable, just uncomfortable, couldn't move. Like walking was impossible. I was just like slow, lethargic, just feeling fucking horrible. So it was basically two days in a hotel.

I did at one point treat myself to a McDonald's again in the center of Ghentas. It was actually quite nice. At sunset, I had a big cathedral next to me. I was sat there eating my beige food feeling okay. And then, yeah, I make it to the hotel. And then on the last day, I check out. And it's just, it was like, it's gray day. The temperature dropped.

It was just the most, I don't know, heartbreaking experience to like, well, that's the trip. you spent quite a lot of money on and quite a lot of your time planning over and whatever you got to show for it some shitty pants oh you'll have to try it again mike you're you've been really unlucky there that's so shitty as you say yeah how much weight did you lose oh i really wish well it's so i probably would have weighed myself when i got back home if not for the fact so i got back home to brista like 11 p.m Thursday night the next day I was off to a wedding for that weekend a camping wedding

so I went straight from tense to back to tense but thankfully like literally like by the day the wedding began I was totally fine like yeah but just by association you just threw up anyway just for all time's sake

so thankfully I did get to enjoy the wedding I had some lovely booze and did some dancing and whatnot but yeah so I'm really pleased I healed at least yeah it's a miracle I survived I think Because it really wasn't. I'm saying all this. I'm saying all this.

I do want to say it. It was actually a really fucking fun experience because it was like, fucking bear grills shit. I'm out in the woods surviving. Like, I'm at World's End here. Yeah. How did you get on with the language barrier? I'm fine. Thankfully, everyone, you know, is happy to entertain the stupid English tourist.

Everyone spoke English. Not that I really talked that many people because I wasn't in any mood to communicate. It is proper Bear Grills stuff, because that is the origin of our pronunciation of Dahl Ruh. That was Bear Grills, saying if I drink this water, it will give me... Dvomitig of Dahl Rha. So, yeah, that was my trip. It was fun. It was interesting.

Like, I did get to see some nice things. Like, I've given you the highlights. There wasn't, honestly, there wasn't that much outside of what I've said here. Like, I saw some nice places, but not nearly as much as I would have liked to. it was mostly, mostly being a big sick boy. But yes, I will be, I will be trying it again. I'm going to ride out the winter. I'm just not going to think about it again.

But come spring, I'm going to set my sights, maybe on wheels or something, give that try. And hopefully this time I can keep everything inside of me. Oh, bad luck, Mikey. That's bad. That was unfortunate. But a great story. Yeah, a really good story.

That was what was running through my head because it was like, I think it was after the second day vomiting i started making notes of my phone was like think of the content yes i was like well okay well this is interesting let's see where this goes i'm going to start writing stuff down now so i don't forget details and thank god i did that because

yes i got to write the word poop and vomit a lot of times into my phone yeah day six shit pants can you if you have a photo of you in belgium doing some cycling or just a good photo for the thread could you send it to us mikey in discord yes yes i will i will have a look i don't

not what I've done with my phone, in all honesty. But I will find... It's in Belgium. Yeah. Yes, I'll find something like to be and send it over in a minute. But yes, thank you. Amazing. That's Belgium, baby.

Wow. Thank you, Mikey. Thanks, Mikey. Okay. It's now time for Peter's listener-submitted thing. Well, briefly there, during Mikey's story, he entered cow country. And we're now going back to cow country, courtesy of Greg Miller at Greg Mill

2290 on Twitter has sent a story from BBC News shock as man told there's a cow in your pool so we've kind of graduated from birds in shops to

cattle livestock there's been a bovine incursion is what has happened to area a man who was told a pregnant cow was stuck in his swimming pool said he was over the moon after a successful rescue attempt. The cream of Leicestershire fire... Oh, very good.

The cream of Leicestershire Fire and Rescue was sent to a property in Ketton, Rutland, on Monday, after the cow checked herself in for a spa day, is a quote there. Ian Blackburn said he was on the phone to a friend at the time when a neighbour informed him of an unexpected visitor at his home. The heifer has now been returned home and is said to be fit and well.

Mr. Blackburn said, a normal Monday... Sorry, I've just seen the photo. That's a very good picture. It's really good. There are two good photos. Mr. Blackburn said, a normal Monday took a drastic turn

after the unplanned visit. The doorbell went. I was on the phone at the time to a friend. And Andy, the farmer, was at the door, he said. As I opened the door, he said, have you looked in your pool recently? And I said, no, why? And he said, well, there's a cow in it.

It's not every day that you spend three or four hours trying to recover a beast from the pool. After firefighters drain the pool and used the harness to lift her out, the cow was checked over by a vet to make sure her and her calf were healthy before she was returned home. Aw. So there's one photo of the cow in some kind of dirty water. And, oh yeah, you've got that. No, there's an even better photo. Hang on. Ben's posted that one.

This is the superior picture. cow on winch so for those I mean if you're hopefully you're able to watch on YouTube for some of the context here but we've got a picture of a cow being hoisted in a harness from the pool I'm also it doesn't look like the pool was in use that's a very very dirty pool it is pretty filthy yeah I mean the cow probably made it a bit dirtier

but maybe not I like the implication that the cow checked itself in for a spa day. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah. Earned, deserved. Indeed. They missed out a few opportunities there. They said the cow was, the man was over the moon, you know, just like the cow jumped over the moon

or something. There's something there. The cream of the thing. That's probably, I think that's intentional. The cream of the fire service, I think. Surely. But that's the story. A cow was in a swimming pool and now it's been released. Fancy having a

I'm glad. A swimming pool in Rutland. I can't imagine he... I hope it's very heated. I can't imagine he gets a lot of use out. Maybe that's why the cow went in. Yeah. Yeah, maybe.

To be fair, it looks really cold. I wouldn't want to be in there. Lovely. Thank you, Greg, for that. Please keep us, everyone, keep us updated on various animals and all of God's creatures in any of God's locations, trapped. All of God's locations. Uh, I've got my listeners submitted news now, directly after yours.

Oh, why could that be? Shaking things up a little bit. We'll find that in a minute. This is from Old Maid at Old Made Games, who sent this story. It's from APNews.com. And the headline reads, insurers say, bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume. Is it the one from the zoo on the Great Wall of China?

That was a man in a suit. The man inside the bear. Yeah. The article reads, California has seen its share of bears breaking into cars, but bears caught on camera entering luxury cars, tipped off insurers that something wasn't quite right. In what it has dubbed Operation Bearclaw, the California Insurance Department said four Los Angeles residents were arrested Wednesday, accused of defrauding three insurance companies out of nearly $142,000 by claiming a bear had caused damage to their vehicle. The group is accused of providing video footage from the San Bernardino Mountains in January

of a bear moving inside a Rolls-Royce and two Mercedes to the insurance companies as part of their damage claims. Photos provided by the insurance department show what appeared to be scratches on the seats and doors. The company viewing video of the Rolls-Royce suspected it was not a bear inside, but someone in a bear costume. Wow. detectives found two additional claims with two different insurance companies for the four with the same date of loss and at the same location similar video was provided of the

and then it says in inverted commas bear inside the Mercedes vehicles it was not immediately known if the four people arrested had attorneys which apparently is important right the department had a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife review the three videos who concluded it was

clearly a human in a bear suit The insurance department said, After executing a search warrant, detectives found the bear costume in the suspect's home. The department said, Would you like to see the bear costume? There is a photo of the bear costume. Oh, I'd love to see the bear costume.

There it is. That's the bear costume. Oh, it's not even a very good one. Oh, God. I mean, in the middle, there's some kind of connective part. I guess maybe that's not normally visible, but it looks a bit like the bear is wearing a t-shirt. but it's just to kind of

I mean the paws are rubbish they're properly like Halloween costume you know shop with wonky claws sticking out at different directions it's got a face but you can't really make it out it's rubbish

yeah I do like at least like the fact they've got like metal bare claws at the bottom there to actually do the damage but yeah God yeah this is brave to then keep the evidence you know an apartment Come on, guys. You're better at this. Well, they probably thought they'd try the same scam later.

Yeah, just go do it again in a different car. Yeah. I do like that it took a biologist to say, that is clearly a human in a bear costume. Outstanding. So that is my listener submitted thing. Your theory that all bears are just men in costumes has proven right. I think most animals are just humans inside.

Yeah. Coco certainly was. Exactly. Well, yeah, that's. Yeah, that's the major offender, I think. Yeah. It's now time for Peter and I to do a combined thing. Oh.

Done, done, done. What we were alluding to at the top of the show is that somehow Peter Austin and myself and Ashton Matthews as Triple Jump were live on CBBC Saturday morning, Saturday mashup, which is a sort of Dick and Dom successor. So there's like a live audience in there. There's cartoons, there's games, they have guests in. And we were the lucky guests, Peter. People put us on a live microphone.

We were told before, I mean, there's a lot to tell you. So I'm jumping in right halfway through the story here. But we were told before we went on, you will be live. There is no delay. Do not swear. There is no delay. I don't think we were that worried about swearing because there was a room full of children for a start. that partly gets you in the right kind of state of mind.

And also, we're fairly good at mostly quite good at self-censoring when we need to. But we were also told, again, I'm halfway through the story here and we'll go back to the beginning in a minute, but we were told also don't blaspheme. So you can't say, oh my God. And you can't say hell yes when it's like, are you excited or you know, you can't say damn? So that is a lot harder because it's surprising how ingrained the phrase, oh my God is in your well, certainly in my lexicon, and probably I think a lot of people are sort of generation.

I was actually one thing I was thinking when I was watching it was like, oh my God, like they can't, like, they understand there, you can't like, yeah, you can't say, oh my God, like that's it's a weird extra filter to put in front of you. It's just so natural. So yeah, well done. Pulled up, boys. Yeah. We did miraculously do that. So this was a process that was like a couple of months in the making when they, when they originally asked us. And to an extent, we had sort of just, we weren't getting our hopes up because they weren't very communicative because it was so far out and that, you know, logically, it's because they had a show to plan each and every week and they're dealing with the immediate guests each and every week.

So things didn't really start to come together until like two or three weeks out from actually doing it. At which point it was like, oh my God, okay, this is actually, this is going to happen. We're going to be live on CBBC. And, I mean, where do we start the story, Peter? Do we just start with like the hotel the night before? Well, there's a couple of things I want to talk about on the research call. So we, ahead of time, they said, can we get in touch with you? Because obviously there's various things we want to talk about because we have to write the episode.

And we need, you know, for a start, we need to ask you some questions about, you know, one of the games, it shows a little profile of you before you start. And it says, oh, name, favorite thing, da, da, da. So they needed to come up with all that information. And then also, they wanted answers to questions that we were going to be asked in interview ahead of time, which is fair enough, especially for kids' TV. So there's all sorts of research they have to do. And unfortunately, when we were on that call, they broke some very sad news to us.

A couple of bits of sad news, actually. So we knew ahead of time based on the format of the show that there would be a gunging, which of course in modern trends is actually a sliming now. no longer gunged. And we'd been told initially that, you know, we would likely be in line for a gunging based on an audience vote. We were told on that call

that we weren't going to be gunged, which was very sad news because it is a rite of passage. And secondly, we were aware that one of the hosts of the show is a puppet who is puppeteered by Dave Chapman who has done messages for us on, well, a message for us on Pottie,

it's before because he is, of course, the neighbor's cat from Dick and Dom as well as various other puppets from film and TV. He's done Star Wars and he's done other CBBC puppets. Dave was not going to be there on that one weekend that we were guests. And I think we were very excited to meet him and kind of bounce off him in a live studio environment. So that was a shame. I guess he was just on annual leave or whatever it is that he was doing. So he was in the episode, but it was all spoilers.

it was all pre-recorded stuff so he wasn't really there in the room that was very sad and the one other thing before we move on is there was a there's a race like an in-studio racing game that they do called the mash car rally it's just like in fun house when we were kids they had the fun house grand prix where you race little go-carts around the studio but they get their quote-unquote celebrity guests to race in their cars rather than that. other than the kids. And as part of that, they want a few answers to questions for your profile. So they want to know your name. They want to know your power up, which is a thing that, you know, gets you going. What grinds your gears? Which is anything that winds you up.

And she's going through these questions, she's going, okay, so what's your power up, what grinds your gears? And then she says, okay, and what's your favorite race? And, you know, yeah. And my immediate thought was, I don't know, Brazil. million maybe or Chinese you know I was I wanted to my I immediately thought like it was it was like a flash forward to I need to be careful what sense of humor I bring to this kind of because obviously I knew what she was asking she wanted you to say egg and spoon race or the race to the passenger seat of the car but you know my head's immediately like oh make some joke about Caucasian and I'm like

this is the kind of thing I need to watch out for when I'm live. After Nazis incident pizza. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, we told her race to your favorite controller or something. And then they gave me Ben's stats on the day. They said my power up was chocolate. Did they? Yeah.

I clocked that. I looked at that. I was like, wait, Peter, you don't like chocolate. You don't like chocolate. Why are you doing that? Yeah. That's so weird. Because they only included me in the race at the very end. So I think they hurriedly grabbed the stats. It was going to be Ashton and then one of the other guests, not either me or Ben.

And then they decided, oh, no, we'll do Peter instead. And so they grabbed some stats, which were Ben's. So, yeah. Yeah. We got a pretty disconcerting email, like the week before that just said, hey, if any of you have a moment, could you, could you like, give me a ring? Here's my number. Oh, oh, God.

Okay. So I gave them a ring and they said, right, okay, so, you know, for research purposes, we just have to like do a quick comb of people's social. and things and we've identified a few videos that we'd quite like you to remove if that's okay just like just temporarily and then you can put them back up like a couple of weeks later things that we don't deem appropriate for our audience now bearing in mind that literally nothing we make is appropriate for children it doesn't have swearing in it but it's not for kids which again is you know it's a miracle that this thing came about in the

first place we're very grateful for it and we would do it again in a heartbeat obviously but you know I was thinking oh god what do they want us to take down they identified three things one of them was a a clip from an episode of main menu the triple jump gaming cooking show where Peter has a knife embedded in a gourd or a squash pointing upwards blade up and then he's working he's going at it from the other side with another blade pushing down and they're like that's not safe you can't show that No, fair enough. One is where a video where Ashton just says the word come.

Yeah, which was a TikTok. She goes, come. And the other one, weirdly, was also Ashton, where she was referring to orgasms. Yeah. But the thing that got us was that both of those, all three of those were in like really weird places. So one of them was from an old channel trailer that was on our Twitch page. one was from an old TikTok on our TikTok page and one was from Ashton's own personal TikTok

and like you could look at any video on our channel I could have clicked the most recent video on YouTube and there would have been something in there that was just not child appropriate just a wink nudge joke or a kind of a political I don't know because there's all sorts

that it's not terrible stuff but you know probably not the kind of thing they want their audience finding when they seek out triple jump after having seen us on their show. So yeah. So we were pretty lucky. We got off pretty lightly there. And then it was after that call, we're like, oh, God, we just need to like limp to the finish line now and hope they don't dig any further.

We were saying the closer we get, even if it's like three days out, at that point, it doesn't matter what they find because they're not going to source extra guests in time. So as long as we get three or four days away from the show, we're probably okay. You had to, you tagged CBBC in your post on Twitter and then had to hide replies because everyone was replying saying, oh, don't mention the Nazis. Oh my God. I'm like, I've tagged them.

I've tagged them. Stop saying don't mention the Nazis. Yeah. So that was, yeah, that was something. And then literally the day before we went down, they emailed and said, oh yeah, we've changed things up. So Peter, you're going to go in the car now. And I was like, I want to go in a bloody car against Ashton.

and Ben, why don't you do live commentary over it because that's something that Dave Chapman normally does and he's not in. And obviously excited to do it, but at the same time and I said to you guys in the moment my heart fell out of my asshole. I was like, oh my God, this is immediately way more pressure than I was already feeling.

Live commentary, energize, no hesitation, no stumbling. Yeah, it's tricky. Just had to perform. You did a great job though. Thank you. Thank you. you did a great job in the car as well Ashton did a terrible job

Ashden, yes, absolutely. Ashton managed to break the car, yeah. Break the car and go the wrong way. Did you get to sit in the car at any point like in the studio? Yeah, okay, good. Fortunately, we had a, I suppose we should just get on to talking about the day itself.

They put us up in a hotel nearby. It was lovely. There was breakfast, but I wanted to eat loads of it but I thought I probably shouldn't because then I'll do a diarrhea on television. Interpol were in the foyer. recruiting or getting tips or something. I don't know what they were doing there.

At 9pm we got there and a lady from Interpol was just sitting in the bar. It was very strange. But before we went on the guy who was sort of our chaperone, Ben, he was fantastic. He sort of made sure we knew what was going on. He looked after our phones, brought us water and just like accompanied us everywhere just so we always knew what was going on. And he let us have a go in the cars beforehand. So I had a little go, which was nice.

But I think we should also mention the night before Peter in the hotel. You mentioned Interpol, potentially the people who Interpol might have been looking for. Yeah. So we got there miraculously in one piece because our taxi driver almost crashed the car on the way there. But we made it. And then we were kind of sitting around in the bar a little bit. You got a welcome drink on checking. So we're like, well, I'm not going to go to bed without my drink.

And eventually got to the point where Ben and I were, well, all three of us were like, let's go to bed now. Because we've got to be up in the morning at the crack of dawn. And we're not going to sleep anyway. So Ashton was, she was hanging around just to finish up what she was eating or drinking or something. And she said, oh, you guys go, go off. So it was just me and Ben. And we stepped into the lift that was there waiting at the ground floor with the doors open. And immediately, before anything even happened, I thought at least one of these guys looked quite sinister.

looked like a hitman or like a Russian gangster. He looked scary. And we stepped in and the door to the lift was just starting to close and then it opened up again. And it's because someone had pressed the button on the outside. And then when they saw that there were four of us in there, they were like, oh, no, it's fine. That's fine. And as the door closed again, they then pressed the button to call the other lift and the door opened again. And because the door kept opening and closing, which was because they were pressing the button, the man thought that I was standing in the way of the door. But without saying or doing anything, all he did was reach out his arm, grab me by the shoulder, and slide me out of the way of the door.

And I'm like, okay, all right, fine. Yeah, it was a bit weird. Then the door shut. And then did he say something at that point, Ben? Or because he did after you've gone, but... He stayed pretty quiet, but he was exerting some, like, a pretty dangerous energy. Some strange energy, yeah. And he was with a much bigger guy.

Mm-hmm, yeah. And it was the bigger guy, after, like, we started going up, the bigger guy sort of broke the silence. And in a thick Eastern European accent, went, we are going up now. Yeah, yeah. As if to sort of be like, you know, it's all fine, we're all okay. And immediately, we're both conjuring up images of, like,

this is a hitman duo. And it's one of those, like, typical pairings where the big guy is the nice one and the little one is the nasty one. Yeah. so then I get out the lift at my floor, Peter keeps going and he just, the big guy comes out with the best, just such a good line. Ben steps out of the lift, the door closes and I'm like, fucking all, it's just the three of us now.

And he just looks at me and goes, Friday. And I didn't know whether to smile, laugh, nod, yes, say Friday, tut, look angry. So I just kind of made zero eye contact, and I was fortunately only one floor higher than Ben, and then the doors opened, and I retreated to my room. He's just trying to break the silence, and he's excited. It's Friday. Friday. You might be excited it's Friday?

Yeah. Do you think that's the code, the sleeper agent code, that wakes up his friend before he. If maybe he thought you were another agent, like, that's the, yeah, that's the super cool. Yeah. Friday. Bride. Yes. Yeah, so that was great And also I had a bit of a debacle

Getting my soup It turns out they burned it The Irish guy who brought me over my Who was like coming over and apologising He just went They burned it And then he wanders off And that was for some reason

That was really funny to us That he just came in and was They burned it Somehow they burned the soup So that was good Anyway so we got in our taxi in the morning We got chaperoned over along with the How are you feeling the night before

Were you nervous or was Very nervous? Yeah. Yeah. Because I feel like I'd be nervous than I before, but then the real panic sets in like the morning, you know? I was weirdly calm in the morning. I felt like this is happening and you've just got to lean into it. Yeah. Yeah. So we got picked up along with the cast of Mallory Towers, which is a show on CBBC based on, like an Enid Blighton book maybe? Series of books, yeah. Yeah. And it's doing very well this series. They've done, I think they've done five seasons now. So it's clearly popular. Yeah. So the three of them hopped in the taxi with us, and we got chaperoned over, met at the door, given our badges. We did some digital content, so we'd like stood in front of a big CBBC background and recorded some like short form content for them about our most irritating gaming things that happen. Rage quits, yeah. Rage quits, yeah.

And then we were taken up. Our makeup was done. I looked fucking weird because they put loads of foundation on my eyelashes. So I looked like I was ready to be buried. Yeah. I looked like I was ready for my own funeral. So, fortunately, I could just wipe it off. We were then obviously thinking, okay, it's definitely toilet time before we go live on the TV.

I mean, you'd want to do that anyway, but also, you know, you want to just make sure that you're not going to shit yourself. Not that either of us took a shit, but, you know, it's on your mind. Trip to the toilet. So Ben, who was looking after us, was saying, oh, yeah, head to the toilets. And he pointed us in the vague direction of them. and we went around the corner. And on both of the toilet doors, it said on just a piece of A4 paper

that had been stuck on, children's toilet on both of them. And we're like, oh, is this for us? I mean, the kid, the child audience hasn't arrived yet, so maybe we're all right. And we sort of like turned and looked and said to Ben, like, is this, are these right? And he said, oh yeah, don't worry.

You will never be left alone with a child. Which is, he said, you can use those for now. It's weirdly reassuring, actually. Yeah, he said they're fine for now. they will obviously turn into the child's toilets when the kids arrive. But incidentally, throughout the day, you will never be alone with a child because you're just, you know, purely because of the environment and because there are children and it's a television environment and, you know, I was terrified to even, you know, stand near a child

at any point during the show. And they were at various points standing as near children. And it was, yeah, you do just feel like, okay, you know, make sure everyone's okay here. So they showed us around the studio beforehand, and it was impressive. Like the mash car rally set just loops around actual working stations and of various departments and storage space for other shows, including Mrs. Brown's boys, having like a storage locker back there. And that was really cool to see. Huge production, as I suppose you were. expect with live TV, loads of, like, loads of people in.

Dozens of black set up and get up, you know, to stay invisible. Then all the kids were brought in and they were run through what was going on. We were very, very briefly introduced to the hosts, like literally just before they walked out. We then went out there and did a little practice of the intro. And then they were like, okay, right, we're doing it. Here we bloody go. And several times they told us, like, just in.

embrace the madness. It's chaos, but like it'll go so fast and you'll have a good time. And if at any point you don't have a good time between sections, come and grab someone and we will try and fix that. So that was also reassuring that like if we were genuinely having a horrible time, you know, they would try and help us out. But yeah, then they rolled the intro and we were just, we were just fucking live on television. And it was happening. They said you and Ashton got in your mash car rally get up because you had to do the the race almost immediately after the intro. And they said to me, inside your little school desk, your sat at for the intro, is your fake microphone prop. Once we've done the intro, literally it's

going straight onto that. There's no break. So as soon as it finishes, Peter and Ashton, you need to come with us and get ready to go in the cars or come over to the preamble section. And you need to stand on that spot with your fake microphone and don't move because it's a static camera. And I was like, So as soon as the intro ended, we all basically had to stand up and, like, sprint to our locations and just wait until things happened. Yeah. Because I'm watching that. I was like, everything moves at like an absolutely breakneck pace in the show. Like it was genuinely kind of like, oh my God, wow.

It keeps like the next thing, the next thing, the next thing. I couldn't imagine being on the other side of that where you're being carted about and ferry between stuff. And like, yeah, it seemed like a lot. We did. Yeah, we had people who were not quite physically dragging us, but there was always someone, usually Ben, but a couple of other people as well would just beeline to you as soon as a VT started and say, right, you're coming over here. We want you standing right there and, you know, go in tight because it's going to be a tight shot or, you know, you can stand far apart or whatever. You know, it was, it was, it's, I think I was saying on my stream the other day, it was the most, it was the epitome of the phrase organized chaos. Because normally when people say organized chaos, what they actually mean is, oh, my bedroom, it's organized chaos. What they mean is it's really messy. But because I know myself, I can probably find that piece of paper that you're looking for in my bedroom

because I understand my own mess. But this was actually, it was chaotic, but it was so, it was like military chaos. It was, they knew exactly what was happening all the time. It was amazing. As soon as a cartoon ended, someone shepherded all of the children out to like a little viewing area where they could watch the cartoon while sets were moved around. Oh, cool. And after we did the intro, and I'd love to hear about how you found the car in a second, Peter.

But after we did the intro in the rally part, we had a fair bit of downtime where it was a cartoon, there was a section we weren't involved in, and we were able to just sort of mill about a bit and catch our breath. And I think once we got that section out of the way, I felt like I started to settle into it a bit, like, okay, cool, didn't swear, managed to get through that bit without shitting pant, so we're all good. Yeah, yeah, it was good. The car was good. I mean, it was, it went fine.

I mean, they're pretty slow. When they said that they wanted me to do the race, because I knew that Ben was quite keen to do it, and I'd been thinking, I don't know if I want to do the drive. This was before they said it would be me, but ahead of time, I thought, oh, I hope they don't pick me for the driving

because it's so slow, the car. And you've just got this camera slowly following you as you go at two miles an hour. and have to look like you're having the best time. So I was a bit like, oh, I don't know if I'm just going to look like a bit of a Pratt doing that. But actually, the cars were really fun. And one thing I didn't expect was about, I mean, there weren't, how many kids were that? I think they were about 30 to 40 children.

They, the crowd of kids had two, they had two special cheerleaders who you couldn't see because they were behind the camera all the time. But they were like telling them when to cheer, when to stop, went to class. what to shout and as I'm going around the track I can hear 40 children going Peter Peter which was bizarre and not I did not expect that at all and it was like oh that is actually really lovely yeah I've watched this back since doing it I've I have watched it back actually yeah I've seen bits yeah yeah yeah that was be quite a special woman this is like a proper chorus of kids all screaming in it was hilarious it was amazing

Yeah, it's never going to happen for the rest of my life, I don't think. I have 40 children chanting my name, yeah. Managed to get a rules boss and approve it mention on commentary as well. We were talking about it. As soon as they asked, I was saying to Peter, like, what should I do? I think I can get maybe a rules boss in there. You're going to have to consult rules boss. I was going to say, oh, he's made a right main menu meal of it there,

but I thought that would, that's too wordy. I was like, oh, if you just say, oh, it was a big talk from that, from that drive. let's see if they can prove it. And I think that's what you said, didn't you? Did do that. Yeah. The other one is, oh, let's see what it means to them. It's a show we don't even do on Triple Jump anymore.

But yeah, so that all went well. Then we moved on to the caravan section. And talking about the sort of cheerleader for the kids, one of the camera ops who came through for the caravan bit, where there were no kids in that area. We were just sort of there with the other guests. And it was like a competition caravan thing where we had to show off the prizes and things like that.

And the prizes that we'd brought along, like a little Billy Roy Warris T-shirt and assigned photo and a little waris that your wife had made, Peter as well. Yeah, we bought just the standard pink, what's it called? Jelly cat, no, not jelly guy. I don't know what's called him. It's like a beanie baby. Standard warris, and then she'd made a little denim dungaree thing

that Dave Chapman's puppet normally wears. Stanley, he's called. He normally wears this little denim overall thing. She'd made a little custom one for the walrus. That was nice. So we were in there, and one of the cameramen went, like, when they were doing like a practice run, he went, woo! Oh, no, no kids in here.

So they were all trained at all times to, like, just make exciting noises that the kids will hopefully glob onto. I see the video you put there, Mikey, where you can sort of see me in the corner of the screen. Oh, yeah, that's great. is when the race stopped I guess you didn't move from your position No, I wasn't told to Yeah, you were just in the backer on the shot You clock the camera and then do a little turn

It's because I've got the I do have a reference monitor in front of me And they kind of caught us off guard a few times during the show Where they were like, it's going to cut to you So you can like wave hello or whatever And like I waved and it didn't cut to me When it said it would And then it cut to me

And I wasn't ready to wave So then I quickly waved and then on that reference monitor it took me ages to spot the fact that I was in the background of the shop which is when I turned around and pulled a face I was brilliant

I like that bit yeah so after that we did a game review didn't we or something? I was just going to say the caravan was in its own separate little studio we had to go out of some big doors

at the back of the main studio across a car park and in this like smaller studio space there was this actual it's like a proper genuine moldy old caravan that smelled weird and yeah it was really strange with like oh yeah the caravan it's across the car park in this special space but yeah that was strange then we did the game review yeah um where again ahead of time we had done a written game review for them about the sonic

and shadow game and they had just lifted some lines from that that they wanted us to say and that i think that went that went pretty well didn't it i think we were happy with that it did i think the entire rest of it like went well. Yeah. This bit in particular, I feel like I started to hit a bit of a wall. Like I started to feel quite tired and I was struggling with like smiling and grinning and being enthusiastic all the time. And I stumbled over my words a little bit with the game review and I felt a bit gutted about that. But I think it's, I don't think it was as bad as I thought it was a time. I think I was just tired at that point. There was actually another bit. You, you and Ashton did a bit in the crowd and I did like another game where I had to...

Yeah, you want a video call with a child. Yeah, I couldn't see the child. It was weird. So they had to like, no, I couldn't, not from that. I thought you might have had a monitor, but... No, couldn't see it. So I saw it I had to, like, peer like I was looking. But I was given hints by the hosts for things that a child could find in their bedroom.

And then I had to give the correct answer while the child tried to find them in their room. And the first one, I didn't understand what he said. That was a hard one, yeah. I thought he said, a wad. And I was like, a wad of what? Yeah, and then he said, oh, Peter won one earlier. And I was like, oh, okay, like a trophy. Okay, an award, gotcha.

That was fine. And then I feel like I answered the same, if not more questions correctly than the other person who went before me with a different child. And we were told, be careful on this little set because it's got like legs at the back. that you could easily trip over, and depending on who wins, or if it's a draw, you need to go and stand at that window again so they can talk to you at the end. And I stepped off as soon as it was my turn, and again, it was a very quick rush turnaround at the end. And then one person was shoving me to get back in there because it was a drawer. And then another person was grabbing my shirt and pulling me out and saying, no, no, no, it wasn't a drawer. It wasn't

actually a draw. It turns out that my child had unsuccessfully selected an item from their room. And so it was down a point. Yeah, because she, because the, the other guest, the singer, who was supposed to be in the window when the curtains opened, she sort of rushed in. She wasn't there yet. Yeah. Yeah. That was why. It's because there was some argy bargy because the people running it in the back weren't sure who had actually won. So yeah, we did that. And then there was like a Q&A section, wasn't there where we had some other rehearsed answers. Yeah. Yeah, that was all good. one of the, there was a bit where the kids in the crowd got to ask questions,

and that was the only bit that wasn't really rehearsed. In fact, we did, we got told those questions five minutes before, but yeah, it wasn't something we talked about like days before. And the question was, do you know any cheats? And that was the question. It wasn't, do you know any cheats for this game or what's your favorite cheat? Or so we were thinking, well, I mean, I know the GTA3 weapons cheat off by heart. Do you want that?

Or do you want the Atari code or the Konami code or whatever? So Ashton just said, oh yeah, handing the controller to a friend who's better at the game than you. And they turned to the kid and said, is that what you were hoping for? And he just went, no. That was it. What did you want? Yeah. What did you actually want?

I think that was my standout moment. Then child had gone, no. Yeah. Oh, so good. Yeah. it was really good and the rest of it was was great as well everyone we encountered was an absolute delight yeah they were they were so friendly and so helpful and pleasant to deal with and yeah it was it was just a really good experience and the most surreal bit for me at least was

the fact that as soon as it was done there was a taxi waiting for us to take us back to the train station we were back on a train and then once we got off the train in newcastle there was a taxi waiting for all three of us to take us back to our respective homes and by like after being on live television at at 10 a.m., by 3 p.m. we were all back home and it was really like it was just such a whirlwind experience like it never happens. It's like when you wake up from a dream and you sort of you can remember it to begin with and then you start forgetting all the stuff that happened in your dream. Um, my, my highlight watching it back at least.

Sorry, Peter, Peter. Oh, yes. What was your power up and what were your glitches of the experience? I don't think this sound... Oh, my actual power-up was a cheeky nap, is what it should have been. I think they're called, like, when you were doing the game reviews, like, what's your power-up and what's your game? Glitch. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's what, that was the, that's their code for say one nice thing about the game and one bad thing about the game.

So, yeah, we just, we'd written a whole thing and they just, they then told us what things from our review we were going to say for our power-up and glitch so yeah yeah um my power up was um just just the experience and being able to say that i've done it yeah that was very cool yeah and my glitch would be that i didn't i didn't eat more of the cooked breakfast at the hotel because that's one of my favorite things in the world yeah my my power up uh in the moment was it was driving around in the car for sure um and i don't know what my glitch would be, maybe also not making the most of a free hotel breakfast because I didn't eat a great deal either. But watching it back, something that I really enjoy, and I did talk about this on my stream, so I'll keep it brief. But when we were in the car in the morning with the

Mallory Towers girls, they were a bit like, they really didn't want to be slimed. I can understand why. And they're like, oh, it's going to be one of us and I don't want to do it. And we knew that the questions that they get asked are about things that happened in the news that week. And I said to them, I guarantee you, one of the questions will be, what have Edinburgh Zoo named the new pygmy hippo that's just been born there? Because you know, there was Mou Peng, Mugeng, Mugeng. Mugeng. It's Mupeng.

Mou peng, yeah. I was like, that is so, it's millennial, it's Scottish as well, because it was filmed in Scotland. I was like, they're going to ask that. And I said the hippo is called haggis. and then the girl who was being slimed got her first four questions wrong which I also would have done

because they were pretty tough questions and then when there's five seconds left they say what have Edinburgh Zoo just named their baby hippo and if you watch it back just before they cut away from her face you see this like wave of relief or like of recognition

move across her face and then it cuts back to her and she looks so smugged and she goes haggis like that and then they slime her anyway And the slimer anyway, but the microphones don't pick up the fact that all of the guests sitting on the sofa who know about this ahead of time, like a great big cheer went up from all six of us before she'd even given the answer to the question. They were like, what's the name of the baby hippo? And we all went, yeah.

But none of it got picked up fortunately. Yeah, amazing. It was an incredible day. Yeah. And still doesn't feel real. No. that it happened, but it's so, so cool to have done it. And I've actually got some quick fire questions here to run through from our Instagram.

Lovely. Because some people have some specific questions that we can get through. A lot of them are similar, so I'm going to group them together. Some of them, Peter, you can just answer off your own back and I'll chime in for others. Are you ready? Yes. Gimson 91 says, is Mr. Blobby frozen in a freezer freezer somewhere? A Scottish dude said, what does Mr. Lobby smell like?

A Price 83 said, did you get to hang out with Blobby? I think he's got a special dressing room on a higher floor somewhere. He's in the penthouse. So sadly, we didn't get to hang out with Blobby. No, we didn't. Tragic. Pet Shop Man said, was it difficult keeping the energy up throughout? Or did everyone just take the recommended dose of LSD?

Similarly, Richard Major said, could you work presenting on CBBC? Does it look hard or easy? And James State said, were the presenters as energetic, off-camera? We didn't really see them off-camera as such, did we? I mean, we saw them when VTs were running, so I guess that's off-camera, but we were still, you know, you're kind of still in a crowd of kids, so you have to have some energy to you.

And I saw him, like, chatting to kids in between segments and stuff. So, yeah, they pretty much maintained it all the way through. Even when we met them backstage, the guy was like... Yeah, ahead of time. He was very excited. Big energy. Yeah. I mean, to answer the first question, Ben, as you said, you kind of hit a bit of a wall still while we were alive.

I think I managed to like cling on to my energy until pretty much they ran the credits. And then suddenly I felt like, wow, I am dead now. But like throughout, I still kind of felt with it. But I mean, I couldn't do the, I don't think I could do, I could maintain the level of energy that they maintain every Saturday for two hours. I don't know. Maybe I think you've probably build up to it and get used to it. But, and I think when we had so much kind of nervous energy to us as well, it's like that kind of, you know, you get the spike of adrenaline and then it probably and it kind of tumbles away and you do crash. Whereas I guess if it's a bit more of your bread and butter and you're used to doing it more frequently, then maybe it is a, it's easy to, it's easier to maintain that energy compared to when you're feeling like, oh, I'm going on live TV.

What's going to happen? and then, yeah. I guess there's also that element of like, you know, that host is kind of in control. Like, I guess his guess is a bit more like, oh, what's next? Yeah, I think so. I'm like, roll it at least to it. Yeah. So maybe if I had their exact job, I might be able to do it.

But yeah, being a guest every week on a show like that, but not knowing what's happening. No, I couldn't do that. Yeah. I think it's a really tough gig. I think it takes a very particular kind of person to be a kid's TV presenter and happy, happy to make appearances. But, yeah, doing that full-time, I don't think it's for me. Yeah. It takes a very special demeanour to be able to be at that level of excitement all the time.

Yeah. So, yeah, impressive. Pet Shop Man said, well done for not suggesting dying light to a small child who wants a zombie parkour game. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, they asked us what our favourite games were. That was one of the questions. We do have a question about that in a bit.

Okay, yeah. Yeah, well, we'll get to that. I'll say it now. Is Crash Team Racing really Ben's favorite game? I assume Dark Souls isn't PG enough. That's from Armand 13. Yeah, that's what happened. Someone in my chat said, Ben lied on TV.

And I was like, what are you talking about? And they said, he said his favorite game was Crash Team Racing. Because they spoke to us five minutes before that segment and said, you're going to be asked this question. I said, oh, I'll say Spyro. And they were like, okay, what about you guys? And Ashton was going to say Horizon. And what were you going to say, Ben, Dark Souls?

or Final Fantasy 7 Oh right, okay Well that's surprising I guess that's not Yeah, we weren't allowed those So we had to change them So Ashton said My current favourite game

is Mario Party I think that's what she said Yeah But there was a kid Who straight up described dying light Is that a perfect idea For a game We're like, okay

I don't really know what to say to that Mm-hmm A-Codge 89 It says For someone who isn't from the UK What is CBBC? Oh, goodness. Well, BBC is the British broadcasting, is it commission?

Corporation, yeah, which is our national broadcaster. And CBBC is the children's BBC. So it's just, I mean, at one time it was, you know, a couple of hours a day would be dedicated to children's programming on BBC 1 channel or BBC 2. Then it got its own channel. And I think, I think they have said, haven't they, that it is going to go all digital eventually, like soon, like next year. They're going to, the channel will be gone and everything will just be going out on IPlayer.

So it'll kind of essentially just become a brand at that point rather than a channel. They've always had a big multimedia presence anyway, but I assume that's only built over the years. But even when we were kids, CBBC had news round, which was like an actual news show dedicated for kids, delivering some pretty big stories in ways that kids can understand. And they have a big web presence as well. BBC byte size was always like a big revision and learning portal. Yeah. So they, yeah, they're a really big deal in the UK for kids. I mean, also, yes, it's where Dick and Dom was.

Exactly. That's what we grew up watching our children's TV on everything. Dave Benson Phillips was branded. On BBC as well. Neil Buchanan was C-I-TV, which is our... Channel 3 was children's ITV. But yeah. Yeah, so there we are.

A couple of similar questions here. Cathy Karen and Jonathan Y. Hodges. Where can I watch it if I'm not in the UK and missed it live? Is it available anywhere now? I don't think legitimately it's available anywhere now. So if you missed it in the UK, it's available on IPlayer for 30 days after broadcast. So still a couple of weeks. You can go and watch the whole thing.

they will probably post a few clips on again it might be on their sort of their BBC web page section and I don't know if you need to be in the UK to watch those clips on their website and they do have social media so they've got Instagram and I think a YouTube channel as well so again they might post some clips of it on there but I don't know if they will but certainly the whole full episode won't be available I'm not going to say you know Having been a guest on there, I'm not going to say go out and find it in using other methods, but all I'm saying is there are probably other ways that you can view it internationally. But I honestly, I wouldn't know exactly what those ways are.

There'd be a great spot to put in a Nord VPN sponsorship, wouldn't it? Yeah, it would. Yeah, it would. Nord, hit us up. We'll do it. A scruff of a duff says, who has nicer toilets, CBBC or BAFTA? I don't really remember the BAFTA toilets The CBBC toilets were pretty good They were fine

Yeah, they were clean Quite nice It was all right Yeah, nothing too crazy Found it were the children's toilets They were the right size They were Yes, they were

We also went in the adult's toilets toilets at one point But yeah Oh, that was another fun experience Yeah I went in, so it was a single-use one So I went in first

And Ben and Ben are standing outside I do my piss, wash my hands, leave And I'm outside talking to BBC Ben while Ben Potter goes in for a wee. And then suddenly we can hear sort of Stanley on a VT being played on one of the monitors. And then what happens, Ben, at that moment? CBBC Ben starts hammering on the door saying, quick, quick, now, now we need to go now.

And I was like, oh my God, luckily I was just washing my hands. And I flung open the door and he was like, actually, it's fine. Sorry, I thought it was. Yeah, he was, oh, sorry, sorry, I thought it was already, I was taking a poo or something. Yeah. He was like, oh, sorry, I thought it was like a tent. second VT, but it's actually like a five-minute one. He got confused about where we were. Come on, come, come, quick, quick. He looked really, really, really anxious because it was when the game review was about to happen. Yeah. Official Molly McDade said, how did the BBC find out about you and reach out? Was it BAFTA related? They've not said how they found out about it. I wonder

if we are on some, I mean this in a good way. I wonder if we're on some kind of list somewhere. internal list or if maybe they just because the email that they sent to us when they reached out was we are doing a cbbc do much more gaming now and uh saturday mashup has been running for so many seasons we want to increase our gaming content or something so we would like to have you on so it might be that they've just googled uk gaming channels maybe they've even just thought logistically north of england scotland so it might have helped that we're basically in Newcastle, they might have just looked for gaming channels based in the northeast or based in the north of England. So they've not said exactly why. So it's either, because since BAFTA as

well, we've done, yeah, we did BAFTA and we did children in need for them as well. So we may be on a list. And a BBC Sounds podcast as well a few years ago. Yes, we did. BFTA obviously is not BBC affiliated, but they probably all talk to each other, I think, these people. So it could be multiple things. It's nice, though. It's nice to be considered for sure. Yeah. Will Howell says, did you meet the guy who has his hand inside Hacker the dog? And Bays Window similarly said, did you get to meet Hacker and explain that your normal men? Oh, no, sadly not.

We couldn't explain we're normal, innocent men. Hacker wasn't there. I believe, though, Hacker, it was formerly a puppet presenter on MASH-up. I think Stanley replaced Hacker at one point. I'm sure I read that somewhere. So it could have been Hacker if we'd been there a few years earlier. Justice for Hacker. Um, yeah, so...

Is Hacker another Dave Chapman puppet or is he... No, I don't think... No, he's not Dave Chapman. He's a different guy. Oh, Phil Fletcher. He's the same guy. He's his name, Phil Fletcher. Yeah.

Damn. Armand 13 says, how hard was it to censor yourself? I was a big fan of Billy the Walrus. Yes, Billy. There's so much we're forgetting to talk about. We, uh, we knew that like, we can't really go on and not in some way referenced Billy. And we thought as well, if we're doing the merch giveaway and, you know, the little plushy

walrus, they're going to want to know some kind of context there. So we were like, okay, let's just say his name is Billy. They don't need to know why we have a warress. His name is Billy. Then, of course, inevitably, in the research call, in fact, she didn't ask us in the call, but she emailed me after us saying, one thing I totally forgot to ask you, what's the origin of Billy? Why is he, where did he get his name from?

Why do you have Billy? And I was like, okay. And I did tell her the full story about Ben saying that, well, I said that Ben said if Billy Ray Cyrus stole a sea mammal, he could call it Billy Ray Walrus. I didn't say that we both thought he looks like he's about to be involved in some kind of crime. And she said, oh, okay. And we basically said to her, I think I may have said to her something like, oh, officially he's called Billy Ray Walrus, but quite often we just call him Billy. So it wasn't really, they didn't say to us, you can't call him Billy Ray Walrus, but we kind of just decided it might be for the best.

So that's why. We did. Also, I did blaspheme. Did you? I did say, oh, God, at one point. And as soon as I said it, I was like, oh, God, Ben, you're really letting the bloody side down here. And it was when we were surprised, because as good as CBBC Ben was, he did not warn us that we were all going to sing Frozen. Yeah, it was the one thing he forgot to warn us.

an utter surprise. We'd leaned into it, belted it out. They had cue cards with all the lyrics on. That was my niece's favourite bit that I apparently knew all of the words to Frozen. All of my family have said that as well. They're like, oh, you know all the words? I'm like, I do not. I did think, yeah, I did guys were such big fans a bit, but that makes sense. Complete shock. And as they said, let's sing a bit now. I did go, oh, God, as I stood up, and then I immediately thought, oh, no. But thankfully, they, whoever the sound mixer was, you would expect in a live production was was fucking on it with whose levels were were hearable at any given moment. Me and Ashton didn't sing. We mimed. No, I heard that

afterwards. You cowards, I really went for it. That's for Ben. Yeah, I mean, this is your one time to shine. Making loose of it. Come on. I'll be on Frozen 3. Is there a Frozen 3 yet? Probably. I don't know. Okay. As soon as it was done, BBC Ben ran out, because he had told us everything that would happen. Like, you know, he probably told us what pair of pants Stanley was wearing that day, kind of, you know, every detail, except that. And he came afterwards, he was like, sorry, I totally forgot to tell you, you'd be singing, let it go. That's the one thing I forgot. What a weird surprise to have. I came away from that looking far better than I could have done, because I didn't have my glasses on, right? So I couldn't quite read all the words. And I didn't

want to be seen to be looking at the card. So I was trying to look at the camera occasionally or look to the room. And there were several moments where I was not singing the right word. And mercifully, it was the exact moments they cut away from us and cut to the crowd. So every time you see me, I'm like pitch perfect singing all the words. But all of my stumbles were hidden by the director, thank God. By chance. Louis Weber and Connemara Bonsai each ask, what snacks did they provide you with and how was the catering?

Well, of course, we had our hotel breakfast in the morning. They did tell us to have breakfast before we get there because, well, they made no promises. They didn't mention that there would be anything else there. But when we got there, there were actually some things that were there for quote-unquote breakfast, which was, I think, basically just some pastries and some fruit, right, wasn't it?

Yeah, the pastries were the ones you buy in multi-packs. They're like pan of chocolate with like a little plastic sleeve around them, you know, like a little lunchbox snack. And I think there was a box of celebrations maybe as well. Oh, right. but we didn't touch any of them and by the time we came back to that room because we were largely just hanging around like the stage area or like in the next place we were needed we didn't go back to the staging area where that food was until the end and by the time we got

back there I was like right I think I'm ready to eat something now because I'm knackered and we haven't eaten since 5am and they'd tidied it all the way so we didn't actually get any of that we all got a water bottle though with our name tied around it because I'm sure inevitably the six identical water bottles all get mixed up during the day. So that was a good little detail. That was handy. Yeah. PDCruthers says Gunge, which I think we've discussed already that we unfortunately were not allowed to be guys. Sadly not. Sadly not. And because I'm Brian, sorry, also asked what was the catering like, people very interested in that. William Ross 93 said how difficult was it to get back out of the

go-carts, presumably maybe they saw your Instagram story, Peter, where I had to sort of grab one leg at a time and bend it to force it into the car? Yeah, it wasn't that easy because obviously the thing you're trying to, the tiny thing you're squashed into that you're trying to get out of is on wheels. So as you're kind of putting your weight on the ground, it's sliding around underneath you because, you know, there wasn't like a handbrake. So, I mean, managed to get out of it all right, but that was the most undignified thing that I expected. I expected that to be the most undignified moment, and it was fine. But, yeah, I think Ashton struggled a bit as well, but it was okay.

Final question from Herney 777 says, how hard did you focus to make sure you didn't accidentally swear live on kids TV, which again, I think we've already sort of discussed. But it wasn't an issue for me at all. The old God did slip out because it was a genuine surprise. But, you know, when we swear on content now, it's intentional. It's for the bit. You know, if we swear on triple jump, it's to just be a bit of a,

a doofus. A shock jock. Yes, exactly. So we've gotten very good at censoring ourselves over the years, even though we have slipped up. And that was, we weren't going to do that on kids TV. But introducing, do not say, oh my God, that is where it does get more difficult. I think I don't remember saying,

there's a chance I said it when he said, you're going to sing, let it go. But I don't remember whether I did. I think the only time I'm like to have said it is. I think I said, oh God, when they said that as well. Yeah. The only time I'm likely to have said it is while racing. around in the car like oh oh god oh god but um you couldn't hear my mic for most of it fortunately i was

making sure i was filling all the way through in case my mic was loud because they sent us some examples of previous episodes and sometimes you can hear them really loudly just like commenting on on what they're doing as they're going around the corner so i was like okay yeah i need to talk from start to finish here but ashton said she specifically barely said a word because she was scared of saying oh god so she goes around in almost silence i think she'd She did, like, absolutely terrified during that entire through the car thing. She was so scared about getting it wrong, and she wanted Peter to go first, which he did, and she still went completely wrong. It was complicated, though.

That was a nightmare route. It wasn't just, like, go around here. It was like, all right, loop around this, then around that. The figure of eight is, I think that's a bad idea. I don't think they should have that in there. I don't know why it's in there. Just turn it into a roundabout, say. Yeah, but just say you have to go around this circle once rather than the figure of eight, because people don't know where to join the eight.

You're supposed to go up to the top of the eight and then complete it, but people go in halfway or around the bottom of it. And yeah, it's a strange shape to put into a race, I think. Mm-hmm. Agreed. And that was our experience of live children's television. Yeah. We covered most bases there.

Thank you very much to CBBC for having us and taking such good care of us. We definitely do it again. And thank you to all of you for submitting your Instagram questions at vidiot's dot official. Thank you very much. I am. Thank you. Wonderful stuff. This means it's time for our final thing of the day,

which is Mikey's listener submitted thing. And we have a lovely little news article from the BBC. Ooh, staying in our friends. This is from Dan Lockie at Dan Lockhe 25 on Twitter. This is a new story of the decade. Man finds smooth Mars bar without. Signature ripple. Oh, no.

That's bad. They got rid of the dick vein. Yeah, the veinless chucky bar. There you go. There's the picture. Thank you, Ben. It does look weirdly unsettling without it. There's something wrong with it, isn't it?

Oh. It's like it's been airbrushed this year. Not right. Harry Seeger posted a photo of his find on Facebook reads the subtitle. A man who discovered a Mars bar without its signature ripple on top said he found the reaction to it on social media, bizarre. It's a bizarre looking chocolate. I think it's warranted.

Harry Seeger's photo of the chocolate has attracted over 11,000 reactions on the Tull Men's Club Group on Facebook. Are you in Dull Men's Club Group? I'm not, but I'm aware of it. It's very good. It is one of my highlights whenever I do dare open up that app. One person on the group labelled it hideous. Oh, no.

The 33-year-old said he posted the photo. of the chocolate, which is manufactured in Slough, Berkshire. Oh. For a laugh. That's filler. That's filler, baby. For a laugh.

A spokesperson for Mars Riggly UK said the smooth bar had slipped through the production line and confirmed, yeah, not right, not good. And confirmed the classic swirl on top of its bars had not gone away.

Don't worry, everybody. The swirls Still there. Mr. Seeger from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, said he was driving to a classic car show in Birmingham on Sunday with friends when they stopped at a service station in Thame, Oxfordshire. We decided to stop and fill up and get some coffees, and I thought I would get a Mars bar, he said. I love just how boring this story is. Yeah, talk about Dull Man's Club.

It's just what I fancied that morning, he said. I love the dick vein It's oh yeah I can't wait to see that delicious vein And put in my mouth When he opened the bar He showed his friends Who had never seen anything like it before

I thought I'll take a picture of it for a laugh And ate it And thought nothing of it He says He uploaded it to the Facebook group Where it has so far garnered More than 200 shares

And 2,600 comments Woo And then Here it has A lovely picture of the Mars factory, and the caption below that is, Mars bars have been made in Slough since 1992. Oh, cool. It's great.

It's good to know. Commenters have labelled the chocolate bar, unsettling and pre-licked. Oh. Oh. What does that mean? What? I think they just mean it's been in someone's mouth, melted, and then solidified smooth or something. Oh, that's great.

Pre-licked. And some people He even accused Mr Seeger Of buying another chocolate bar I mean it crossed my mind Yeah It crossed my mind I think when I first

So that's kind of what I thought Come on you have an ass on here This isn't that It's not a proper Mars bar The Mars Rubly spokesperson said With all their 2.5 million bars bars Produced daily At a Slough factory

It seems this is Slip through without its signature flourish While we can't reveal all the secrets behind our product line we can promise fans that these smooth bars bars are a rare find and the classics world isn't going away

a good I was worried where the Mars bar doesn't have its signature dick fade very good thank you very much for that I thought that was a tremendously

boring story and I love I love how much detail there is in the story The mask buyer's just what he fancied that morning. It's really important. We all knew about that. Wonderful. Thank you very much, Mikey.

Thank you to all of you for listening and submitting your things. A reminder before we get into the preamble that the 14th of December on Saturday, probably 7pm. That's usually when we start these things. The Vidyat's reunion stream will be happening. There will be, we'll be raising money for charity. There will be a live auction, as always, for a bit of Vidyat's. memorabilia. We are running out of video it's memorabilia, so you know that this year it's going to be extra special. So make sure you tune in and find out what it is that we'll

be auctioning off. There'll be live things. We'll be reacting to our videos. So come along for a night of fun on Twitch and again, we'll tell you more about that very, very soon. We really need Dave Benson Phillips to sell another toilet seat or something. Oh, we do. We've been on eBay for a while. Dave Benson, Philips. I think he's selling an OB-Sheen. Pre-licked. Yeah.

You can buy a Get Up and Go DVD with Dave Benson Phillips from 2003. That is, that's 95 pounds. It's not even sold by him. Wow. 95 pounds. So rare. That's why. Okay, I found a eBay again.

You can still get a picture of his face on a badge. Okay. And he's still selling all his VHS tape. as well. Oh, no, they've still not gone. Maybe we could get him to sign Life of Brian on VHS. A bridge too far? Is that still there?

You've got double feature the Pink Panther and a shot in the dark. Monty Python's Life of Brian, the man with two brains. Those are the VHS as you know. Oh, okay. Someone's bought a bridge too far. Well, I'm happy for him. He sold one. He sold one of them.

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we posted a video called Vidyat's is changing very nice thumbnail on that one I'd give that one a watch I don't really know what it's about but it's probably worth doing we did the penultimate tat as well we apparently I don't really remember the timing

of this but we released there's a video called New Vidyat's merch that came out a week after we announced Vidyat's changing I remember because yeah we have like merch in the pipeline and then we found out the channel was dying so we purposely delayed that launch until after Channel's dying

so people didn't feel cheated if they bought it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've a couple of worst games ever, of course, W-O-7 Racer and Miami Vice. There's the Vidiot's announcement Q&A as well where we talk about some of the things that we talked about

in the announcement and clarify a few things. We then split the sausage towards the end of the month and that is about it for November. I'll probably just do these month by month rather than exactly up to the date of when each episode goes out. Last thing, last highlight of November, I would say, is Red Dead Redemption 2, horse cliff diving challenge. Of course. Yes, classic. Upset your mum,

that one. Yeah, it did upset my mum. She likes horses. Yeah. They're not real, these ones. Or in real life, they're all just men in suits as we've determined. Yes, yeah, that's right. Mikey, whereabouts are you on the internet, please? That's Paraboy on Instagram, and I've joined the Blue Sky as well. If he's such Pariboy in there, you'll find me. You'll find me. Yay. It's slightly that's what I find on Twitter. Woo. And Peter, where are we, please? Yeah, I've danced around Twitter alternatives for the past few months, but I'm quite settled now in Blue Sky. So you can find me at That Peter Austin on Twitter still and Blue Sky. You can find Ben on Twitter at Confused underscore Dude. And you can find both of us at Team Triple Jump on

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