Podiots - Podiots: Episode 161 – It Is Beans Time

Episode Date: July 26, 2025

In this episode, Peter’s watching TV and taking drugs, Mikey’s making bean dishes, and Ben’s choke slamming a man of the cloth! Donate £3 or more to get a shoutout and join the Pod Squad! - https://podiots.com/ Visit our shop! - https://vidiotsofficial.com/shop ------------------- 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

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I think it's a great way to start, really. No, it's not. We can do better than that. I don't want to talk about the burp. I want to talk about the bloody birds. That's why I've got to do. The birds? The birds?

Are they trapped in supermarkets again? I wish they're bloody. were. I'm sick of them. To be fair, I've been a long time defend of the birds, a long time advocate, a long time fan of the birds. Many of my friends are birds. Yeah, I know, I know birds very well, thank you. Yesterday, on my lunch break, I thought I'd treat myself to a little Sainsbury's jam

donut as a little treat on a busy work day. I bought my donut, walked over to a little square, perched up on a little planter, sat down, pulled up my phone, pulled up my donut. I had one bite, one single solitary bite of the donut. And then I just felt this wind next to me, this big wooft. I look over a seagull. I just swooped in, stolen my bloody donut from my hands, flown off with it and brought it to all its mates,

and they were all sat on top of like an umbrella above a cafe, all laughing. at you. Like, yeah, cackling and laughing at me while ripping the thing to shreds and I just had to stand there and watch it happen. It was... You got psycho seagull. Yeah, you did.

Yeah. Good thing you don't have a car or, I mean, it could be worse. It could be worse. It could get revenge, yeah. They can't steal a car, though, they can poop on one. Actually, I'd be more upset

if they pooped on the donut, to be fair. Oh, yeah, that would be very spiteful, wouldn't it? Spiteful bird. Yeah, no one gets on the donut. Or if it, you know, took away one of your pets, leaving behind just a paw. You know, that would be the one.

Maybe I don't have it that bad, all right. Just said, Mikey, you know what? If anything, you should thank that, Seagull. You know what it's capable of. He did me a service. I'm not happy. It took me 10 minutes to calm down. I was festering like all hell.

Did humans see you? What did the humans think? I think I got very lucky. It was in quite a crowded area. And when it happened, I looked around with kind of like a smile on my face, like a, uh-huh, huh? Yeah, like a bit daft now. Yeah.

and just like not a single person was looking in my direction, which good and bad. I kind of wish someone saw that, but anyhow, what are you going to do? Yeah, like, I'm obviously aware of the seagulls taking food from people, meme. It's not really a meme. It's a real thing that's happening. But I'm not sure, I'm trying to remember if it's ever happened to me. Certainly, you know, if I've ever dropped, I'm sure if I dropped an ice cream as a child, they would have swooped down and gobbled up my losses.

But I don't know if anything. anything's ever snatched anything out of my hand. Not sure. Have you experienced that, Ben? No. No, honestly. Part of me sort of, I mean, I wouldn't want it, because it would annoy me. If they got away with it, I'd be cross, but part of me once wanted to try.

You know, just fucking try me. Try it. Give me a reason. Yeah, I'll kick that bird's ass. This is my second time it happening to me, so I'm getting old, look. Yeah, bad. Maybe you've just got bird victim written all over you,

You're an easy mark to the birds. I think both times it has been when I've kind of just been kind of walking around like my hand with the food out in front of me just kind of walking along. So maybe I've been asking for it, but still, like, that's... For you not to happen to you guys at all. Next lunch break on a Sunday day,

just go along the harper side with a Greg sausage rule, hold it out in front of you, and see how long it takes. I would never do that. I would never hold food. The thing is, Mikey, it sounds like you have not fully adopted the rat technique. Are you about to victim blame here, then?

scurrie. Oh, I've already victim blamed. He has been blamed. What you need to do is, as soon as you get your food, you scurry on all fours to like a little dark corner. And then you hold it in both hands and you nibble it and you look around all frightened. And that way the birds won't even know that you have it. Or if they do see you to think, we can't get that food. It's not going to be very easy because he's not walking around holding it out in front of him, like an umbrella. I mean, you say that. It sounds like is what you're doing. Pretty much, yeah. But as I, I mean, you know, maybe the rat technique sounds good in practice, but as I may have said on some content or other or may not have yet said on content somewhere, I saw a seagull eating a rat not long ago. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I definitely told you, but I don't know if it was while we were recording anything.

But, you know, that was... He FaceTimed me as soon as it was like, you will not believe. But you wouldn't believe the psycho seagull I've just encountered. in a hospital car park. So, you know, not only, if you do the rap technique, it might not only take your sausage roll, it might take you. Oh, God.

You'll go and join Gizmo. Oh, that's true. But I think, again, I just want, I want one of them to try me. So if I get transported by a flock of seagulls to the magical farm where Gizmo ended up, I think I could, I'm assuming Gizmo's alive on the farm,

they're just sort of P-O-Ws. I could break them all out and lead this grand procession. back into civilization where I bring everyone's beloved pets back and there's like donuts and anything else that's been stolen we march back into town with it. Maybe the seagulls are just gathering things to bring to Uncle Fatti so he can feed. Oh my God.

He's like King Louis from the jungle book. He's just sitting and all of his little servants are bringing him food. The operative word you used at the start, Mikey there, where you said that you perched to eat your donut? Do you think that, they could have taken offense to that, that you perched? Yeah, that's almost cultural appropriation. I think we're going to have to cancel you over this, Mikey. We'll have to get back to you next time, but it sounds like maybe you were in the wrong.

You don't, how dare you perch? You know, there's a whole history of perching that you don't, you know, it's nothing to do with you. Okay, well, expect an apology video on the channel soon. And classic, you know, like no music, just set up a camera. well this is a video I never expected to make I mean you could use a ukulele I understand that those are pretty good yeah yeah that works out pretty well brilliant well I'm really sorry to hear about your donut

Mikey next time I see you I'll buy you one and I'll teach you the rap technique we can we can rat a donut together sounds good oh lovely I don't like that don't forget to film it for only fans sounds great has anyone seen the boy I mean the the robot the thing whatever it is the seagull's not carried him off. I don't know. Is he yours? He's not at mine. He's not here. Mikey? Here he is. I got him.

Oh wait. Oh wait. Seagull just took him out of the bloody window. Oh, for God's sake. How did that? Maybe there'll just be a distant. Yeah. Oh, it's just going to be a quiet intro, is it? Hopefully the seagull will fly back

at some point. Floating in on the breeze, here's the potty at's theme music. Oh. Hello everybody and welcome to Pottie. It's the official videos, videos, 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 to talk about.

I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm Michael. Hello, boys. Hello. Hello. So sorry about your donut, Mikey. Stop bringing it up, please. But aside from the donut, Mikey, how is your life going?

Fine. All I can think about is donut is good. I spend most of my time being moist. I went, Aldi, it's been very warm. And I thought, it's time to buy a new pillow. And lucky me, Aldi had a really nice one in the middle aisle. And I thought, perfect. It's got a little memory foam center. So it's not just a sad, you know, nothing pillow that I used to have,

which basically was barely a pillow because it just had nothing in it to give. And it had this magic hydro-cooling technology, whatever that means. I thought, great. Just to plumb it in? How does that work? Pour a bottle of water on it before bed. I think I'm plumbing it in with my own sweat because it just, it does not cool you down. I wake up every morning hotter than I've ever been with just.

just a literal puddle of sweat on the pillow. It's disgusting and it's awful. And I keep using the pillow because I spent 13 pound on it and I'm not, I can't return it now. So what do I do?

Fremow pillow. See, if you'd gone to the middle aisle of Liddle, not only could you have maybe got a pillow if they had some going that week, but also they do baked goods there and you could have got doughnut.

Yeah, replacement donut. I did think you were going to say that after you bought the pillow a seagull stole it. There's a seagull somewhere with hydro-cooling technology in its nest. I've been scammed by that stuff before, though, but which I mean, anything bragging about its ability to regulate heat is fucking lying.

Because I didn't have any hydro-cooling, whatever the hell. But I did spend a lot of money on a duvet once that I thought, this is going to be my forever duvet. It traps heat in the winter, and then in the summer it regulates heat, and it should be really cool. That's not true. It's just hot. all year round. It's bollocks.

I recently bought a tin off paint to paint my living room wall with, and when looking at the range of paints available in B&Q, some of them now boast air purifying qualities. I've just Googled this to find out a bit more about it. We saw it on the label and we're like, okay, well, that's bullshit. I'm not paying for that. Rustolium Little Stars air purifying wall paint uses innovative technology that transforms your walls into air purifying surfaces.

Johnston's Trade Point does it. Lakeland paints, which is quite a big brand in the UK. They're all doing air purification through paint on the walls. They just put some charcoal in it or some box. Maybe. Fart on your walls and see if it smells. Yeah. Is it just the shreddy's lining just against your wall?

Maybe they're very good at growing algae and that helps purify the air. Yeah, your walls will be mouldy, but the air. air will be perfectly clear. I'm so sorry to inform you that there's a top video result when you search, how does paint purify air? And it's from a YouTube channel called Best Crowdfunding Campaigns, and the title is The Future of Paint. Wow.

It's a scam. It's a scam already. So air purifying paints remove toxic fumes from the air such as CO2. But how? CO2 is not exactly toxic in domestic levels. Like, I'm not, I'm not going to asphyxiate if I don't put special paint on my wall. God.

I'm trying to, right, I am actually using this stuff right now when I picked it up from somewhere this morning, the gentleman behind the counter called it fart paint. Yeah, okay, some people are saying that it's got, it contains cyclo dextrins, the same type of chemical used to absorb smells in febrize. Ah, yes, cyclodextrins, the same type of chemical used to Absorpe Smiles and Fabriz. I know them. Biffidus actoregularis. It's full of tummy feel

betterium and it will. It works. Trust me. Yeah. Cool. Brilliant. Well, I'm sad you didn't buy it, Peter, because you could be, you could become sort of a Superman. More so than you already are, of course. Well, yeah, thank you. If I go quiet halfway through the podcast, it's because I've died of CO2 poisoning in my house. If only he'd bought the CO2 paint, the fart paint. No. the fart paint. Oh dear. Well, outside of potentially dying from fart paint, how are you, Peter? Are you good?

I'm all right, thank you. It's not been as stiflingly, you know, classic potty's weather update, obviously. It's not been as stiflingly warm up here as it probably has been down in Bristol Bath for Michael Johnson. But, you know, it's, I mean, I'm kind of warm right now. It's been a bit of a warmer day today than it has been

in the past few days and shut in a room with a PC turned on. So we'll see how we get on. How are you, Ben? Yeah, it's a similar deal. I think I've overdone it today in that I streamed earlier today and it was a bit of a stressful, high-intensity, frustrating stream playing Dark Souls, getting a bit cross.

And then, yeah, with the PC tower and a PS3 kicking out loads of heat, I did have to take a nap afterwards, and I felt worse when I woke up. Yeah. Just sort of cooked myself. But yeah, everything's fine. Since last time I went to Sunderland and I have some questions about Sunderland for Mikey Johnson because you're not from too far from Sunderland.

Oh, what's up? What's your thoughts on Sunderland, Ben? It's not good, is it? It's not. It's main claim to fame is the three Greggs like 30 seconds walk from each other. Other than that, there's no point. The High Street is a fucking ghost town.

I mean, admittedly... Oh, that's what I was just about to say. Yeah. I got out of the metro station. And it was like Friday night, nothing's open, no one's there, this is Central Sunderland Metro Station, deserted. I went there to see, I think I saw Darren Brown there, or I went to some kind of show, whoa, maybe not, to some kind of gig or show or something like that. And the theatre where we were seeing the act, whatever it was, was full of people inside and out. and people were outside drinking on the street and stuff.

But every single establishment we passed on the way there was dead. And most of them were just boarded up and for sale. They're just, you know, it's not just that they were, because it was obviously the evening, so the shops aren't going to be open. But they were not even, they were vacant, you know, which is, I mean, it's a shame. It's happening all over the country as well. Yeah. It's really bizarre.

So, Mikey, I will put it to you now. They're obviously living in the northeast for as long as I have and as, as long as Peter has and not being from here originally. Especially being based in Newcastle generally as well, you hear a lot of Sunderland slander because the two cities are at war and have been for centuries. And I didn't think, like, there was a part of me to thought, I'm sure it's nice though.

I'm sure it's the people of Sunderland say exactly the same thing about Newcastle. And then I went there and you know what? Nah, it's pretty, it's kind of, did you ever go into Sunday? Sunderland as like a, on a day out, or would you, or would you go, would you prefer to go further to go into Newcastle? Like, as, it depends on if it was me going there on my own or if I was a small child and my parents took me there. Of my own volition, always Newcastle and it was always so much better. But when I was younger, the Sunderland High Street was pretty popping. I imagine it was, yeah.

These things have, a lot of this problem has arisen in the past decade, really. If you want a betting shop or a vape shop, I mean, that's all there is to do in Sondland, right? Yeah, it's, I mean, it's quite drastically gone down. I think there's still some little pockets of joy to be had in Sondland, but they're few and far between, but not quite the halcyon days of me going to Dixon's butchers and getting a Saveloid dip with my dad and chomping on that thing. Popping into Willys, going to blockbusters. Yeah, and they're all gone, and now we've got nothing left.

yeah it's it's bad i don't even bother visiting sundland town center when i visit home now it's just not worth the effort i think i did once two years ago and just just be like oh i wonder i wonder how sunland's doing and yeah it was not a pretty sight so i'm just going to neglect it much like that town is no man i am and to a certain degree we all are so generalizing um because there there are nice parts of sunderland i'm sure i've got a family member who lives in sandalind and when i was telling him about this he was like oh no no like near me there's like a lovely park and like the buildings are like they look a lot like the centre of newcastle tall and old and and quite pretty but i was just i was struck by how empty it was on on a friday night yeah in the in the centre

there was just everything was closed and no one was there it was it was very it didn't feel like a city at all to be fair i think on for a night time you want to go to like the by the bus station Oh is that where it's kicking off That's where everything's popping off I think that's where the nightlife goes But in general it's pretty dire So go visit Sunderland everyone It's lovely

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We had Mikey versus Ashton. It happened at Peter's wedding. Yeah, that's actual fight. Yeah, he did. And also at the episode 150, right? Yeah. Ashton beat up Mikey, which, you know, got him. I've lost both times. Yeah. And finally, Poddietz and TJ double sadness. Oh, yeah.

Oh, no. Well, there we are. That is your pod squad for this week. Thank you so much, everyone. We really appreciate you. Poddiots.com, three pounds or more to get a shout out at the beginning. And the end of the next episode of the podcast. What was your guy's favorite pod squatter? Really strong pod squad this month. I'm spoiled for choice. I like I've sharted so I'll finish.

Wait, which one really made me laugh? The neighbor's shat. Yeah. I think it's got to be that. I think that's my favorite too. I'm divided between Wobbley Wilson for summertime or I've sharted so I'll finish. So I'm going to pick both.

very selfishly. Sure. I'm going to throw a little cock, big fart into the ring as well. Good, yeah, it's a good one. There we go. A lot of thought in that one. Brilliant. Well, it's time to move on to the actual podcast.

We've all got some things that we've brought from home. We've also got some things that were submitted by the wonderful viewers slash listeners. I would like, I forget who went first last time. So I'm going to say, I'd like Michael Johnson to do his listener submitted thing, please. I'd be delighted in boy, what a treat. this one is going to be this was submitted on Blue Sky by Joe Keating

this is an article from the mirror and the headline reads Who is the Wirral Catman The mysterious cat figure inspiring an online witch hunt The subtitle reads I put the flash on my phone

and I saw the cat man sat there staring right at me A mysterious suited figure has been terrorising and fascinating the people of Wirrell, but who is behind it? Would you like, would you like to see a picture of the catman? I would love to. Yeah.

Did you say this is from Joseph Keating? Or someone else? Joe Keating, yes. Oh right, yeah. Because also we've had it on Twitter from, as it turns out, the same person. I was just making sure we're crediting both people, but it's the same person. It's the same man. I didn't want to promote both of his socials accounts because that's greedy.

Yeah, it's really crazy. You can't have both. It's too much. I was going to read out the name, but there's such a mouthful to read out. So, Ivo palilo at dot B-sky.orgal. There you go. There's your handle. Anyway, oh, the file name for this is lovely.

You'll see maybe in a minute. If not, I will tell you the file name. That's the Whirlcat, man. Oh. He looks like a lizard. Do you want to know what the file name is for this? What? Cat Gimp of the Wirral

On the Rampage Terrifies local By writing on the ground Making Panta Noise.JPEG Oh, NatGim JPEG! No! Cat Gimp

I can't even make out what's going on with the head Which direction are they facing? Are they looking at the camera? I think he's on the floor on all fours. Yeah, there are other photos of him where he is just as haunting.

There he is, yeah. Oh yeah, I've seen that one. I saw that on social media. That's like a cryptid. It's like a sighting of the devil or something. It's horrendous. That is proper cryptid stuff. Oh my God.

For listeners, it's a man in a gimp suit and a dark field with a grainy photo. It's just, it looks like something out of a creepy pasta. It's bad. It's real bad. It's the worst. I mean, you say gimp suit. It's more like a, I mean, that kind of, when I think of gimp suit, I think of various bits of metal work attached and maybe bits of skin showing. But this is just an all in one.

black, it's a morph suit effectively with a mask on. I'm not seeing any resemblance of a cat. I don't know about you guys. I mean, I know it's difficult because he is a cryptid, but I don't see ears. It's just a man or a human in a black suit. I thought I may have seen another photo where they're a bit more feline looking. Like they are wearing a cat mask, but I don't know.

I'll keep looking. I'll quickly Google. Yeah, I find a nice picture for us while I read it. Oh. There's this one on the left. Still not completely obviously a cat, but... Oh, it's kind of got ears. It's got a mask on, yeah.

Oh, yeah, I can kind of see that. It looks like he's posing for some of these photos. Yeah, I think he is a bit of a... What's the opposite of a voyeur? Like an exhibitionist, I think. I don't know. Mike he'll tell us, I'm sure. I was going to say it's a bit Peter Parker, isn't it?

Yeah. He's dressed up and taking photos of himself. Oh, my God, look at this action shot here. There's one where... It looks like someone's driving. passing past him and he's running alongside the car. Oh my God. This is his blurry photo.

It's like, like, yeah, it's so Sasquatch, isn't it? All of these pictures. No one's got a clear view of this man. Awful. The article reads. Yeah, we've already, we know enough. Yeah, that's it. Thanks, Mikey.

Anyway. Oh, God. We're all residents may be witnessing a new urban legend in the making. unnerving sightings of a cat man in a black cat costume have been reported that is a cat costume apparently barely barely

he's been stalking the coastal streets of Merseyside inspiring amusement confusion and terror yes more terrifying than anything it's been turned into a TikTok witch hunt with videos of sightings racking up thousands of views

but Hugh is behind it Facebook user Abby Gilbert was walking her dog when she first heard the sound of a grown man making cat noises good fucking hell she shone a torch

and suddenly he was there a man in a cat suit waving his arms at her before scarfering up a hill what the fuck he's eating rat style that's all he's doing yeah he's going rat

he's going wrapped on it and that's fine She then posted the photos to Facebook asking Does anyone know who the freak in the cat mask and morph suit is At the Coastal Park near the Harvester Near the Harvester Oh dear It's just going to be someone's friend Darren or something

And they're all out on the piss at the harvester And he's like sorry guys I've got something important to do And he goes into the toilets and like Superman He gets changed into his gimp suit And then he runs out and he says at people On the coastal path. The strange cat ear wearing figure has since been seen prowling mainly beachside areas in the scrubby, the scrubby grass and nearby parks. Is that thing? Scroby grass.

You know, like Scroblund. All right. Most recent report sightings appear to place him around the Liso Beach, a popular local spot. I spotted something on the picture. It looked like a black figure. So I put the flash on my phone and I saw. saw the catman sat there staring right at me that's horrifying imagine that's like a horror movie they're taking a picture of something else and they're like wait what's that let me put the

flash on and then I was absolutely shaken please stay safe although it hasn't committed a crime it's it's a matter of time before it commits a crime I fear this feels like a crime already it feels like it has committed a crime just by doing this maybe he has because on July 10th, another Facebook user claimed that the cat man was found peering through somebody's window and approaching people in a threatening manner walking their dogs on the beach. Meanwhile, there have been reports that the cat has been caught hissing at people. It's quite an array of crimes here. So apparently now TikTokers are posting videos of themselves hanging out by the whirlcoast at night,

hoping to catch a glimpse of the mysterious figure for themselves. Good God. I think there's a, there's a, yeah, sorry, carry on, talk about the group. I was about to bring up the group. Oh, I see. Well, they've all met up in the car park. Yes. Wait, I'm going to see if I can share this TikTok.

It looks like this is a video. Yeah. No, it's not dogging, remember? This is catting, which is very different. Yeah. It looks like, oh my God, there's a car park full of people, literally all, like, waiting to meet the Catman. Ah.

Um, a group has even been set up on Facebook specifically to track sightings of the mysterious prankster, which now has over 2.2,000 members, though this, of course, has led to its own problems. Within the scope of just 12 hours, group members have claimed to have spotted him in the middle of a field, getting into a caravan, and in two separate parks. Everyone's lying. Can't be in seven places at once, LMEO, one person wrote. Maybe there are some copycats out there. God, let's see. This is a surprising long article. for such a thing I guess it was any other highlights. We've got to document this, Mikey,

so that when he does take his first life, then at least we have a thorough record of what he was up to beforehand, you know? Yeah. Of course, yeah. Oh, oh wait, yeah, you're right, maybe there is copycats. The article says, there may even be copycats.

Vicky Cummings recently posted a TikTok of a cat man, citing from her car. Though, as the suited figure approached, many comments pointed out, that it looked like a woman casting doubt over the authenticity of the sighting cat woman, cat woman, cat man

someone bring them together they can finally be happy be a cat family yeah and oh that was the end of the article yeah cool amazing terrifying I'm going to join that Facebook group

and keep up to date with what goes on with this man because we covered a we covered a gimp man before didn't we who was like yeah when I just googled I googled images of the Catman just now, and one of the related images was that man. I wish I'd grabbed a link to it before I close the tab.

But, yeah. He was a proper scary grimp. He'd lie on the ground in grunt and moan. Yeah, he was getting some sort. I mean, far be it from me to suggest that this isn't sexual in nature in some fashion, but the other guy was definitely sexual in nature, and that is very upset. Somerset Gimp Man, Joshua Hunt. Oh, he was caught, was he?

He was caught and I think was He was banned from wearing a gimp suit in public How are they going to How do they know it's him? You got a license for that gimp suit, might? I don't know And yeah, he was charged with leaping out At shocked victims

Right Is there a law against that officer? Is there a specific law against spooking people? I've got one I've just found a face big post Oh no Is that it? Is that him?

Oh That's like Donnie Darko It's like this small very distant black figure with like white glowing eyes It's just it's like it's barely perceptible on the image That's spooky That is spooky as well I like the ring that they've drawn around it just to draw attention to it It's here

Just in case you're wondering Wow well that's horrible Great start to the podcast thank you Mikey for that You're very welcome. I'm now in the group, so I'll come with updates next episode. Please do. Please do keep us posted. Well, Peter Rosson. Sorry, there's a message for a minute ago saying, anybody going out tonight? Oh, no, they're on the hunt again. On the prowl.

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Conditions supply, visit your local Volvo retailer or go to explorevolvo.com. Peter Austin, I would love to know what your thing is, please. Okay, well, here's, we've not done a little guessing game in a while. I've come up with a special one for you. I've not come up with a clever name for it because I didn't think to do that until three seconds ago. But you will be trying to distinguish between CBBC programs from the past, well, from the history of CBBC,

or street names for drugs. Okay. Amazing. So what I've got here is I think there's 15 or 16 pairs of things. and so what I've done is I've taken some CBBC shows that are something and something like you know this isn't a real one but say there was one called Michael and the Wombles

you know something like that and then the other the false ones I've simply stuck two street names for drugs together and I've played around with like some of these are imploreal some of them are singular some have the behind them and some of them don't because that's going to help me hide them behind some of the CBBC names that might maybe have the in them,

which you know you wouldn't necessarily expect in just two drug names together. So shall I read you the full list first and then we can go through? Yes, please. People can play along at home. So here we go. You have to find the drugs. These are, I think I actually just put them in alphabetical order. So baggy pants and the nitwits.

Big Chief and Little Smoke. Bleep and Booster Captain Cody and K2 Charlie and the Herbs Dmitri and the Dragon Fly High and Huggy Guba and the Ghost Chasers Herb and the Half Moons

Jimbo and the Jet Set Johnny and the Bomb Morpho and the Mind Eraser Nuzzle and Squam Pixie and Dixie and Sally D and the Spirit Molecule. Wow. Wow. Okay.

So, we'll go from the top. What do you think of baggy pants and the nitwits? Oh, God. Well, I'm trying to think with all of, with bearing in mind how cool and down with street lingo that I am so much so that I said lingo that is nitwit, could knitwit

possibly be the name of a drug? You've got to imagine it being said in a hushed manner on a street corner like, you got any nitwit? Have you got any nitwit? Have you seen the price of nitwits? 20 quid a gram? Oh my God.

I want that to be an actual drug. But it doesn't really the baggy trousers and the nitwits doesn't sound like a TV show either. It doesn't sound like anything. Baggy pants. Baggy pants. Baggy pants. Sorry, baggy pants. Um, oh, I'm going to go with, I'm going to say that that's, that's children's television. I'll go drugs. Baggy Pants and the Knitwits is a 1977 American animated series produced by

Da Patti Freerlang Enterprises and broadcast on NBC and syndicated in the UK in, In I don't know when, but it was shown on CBBC. So I should have said, to begin with, actually, there are a few shows on this that everything has been shown on CBBC, but some of them have, you know, there might be some like Hannah Barbera and stuff like that. Apparently, Baggy Pants is an anthropomorphic cat mimicking Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character,

and the nitwits is about an elderly superhero named Tyrone. Oh, is it two, it's like a two-parter. I think they're not even the same. Yeah, it's two segments. So they're not even, you know, partners in crime. They never met. Yeah. The nitwits are some elderly superheroes or something.

I don't know. Strange one. There we go. What do you think of big chief and little smoke? That's got to be drugs. Big chief and little smoke. I feel like that's a misdirect. Oh.

I feel like it might be a misdirect. I'm going to say that's children's television. I'm sticking with drugs. That's a pair of drugs right there. Oh, damn it. A pair of drugs. Yes. So Big Chief is mescaline, if you're aware of that.

Not sure what that is. And Little Smoke is Silocybin. Apparently, it's one of the names of Magic Mushrooms. Oh, okay. Little Smoke. Little Smoke. That's lovely. Very cute.

It is, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it really makes it quite appealing, I think, to the younger generation. bleep and booster Come on now I feel like I'm just saying drugs for everyone but that like booster Come on, come on

Yeah, bleeper mate What could bleeper? You know what, yeah I'll go with drugs as well for this one I'm getting bleep tonight Yeah, bleep me up Yeah drugs, big drugs Bleep and Booster is a children's cartoon series By William Tim

originally shown on BBC's Blue Peter A total of 44 5-minute episodes comprising 10 separate stories were produced between 1964 and 1969. Nice. Do you want to see a picture of Bleep and Booster? Actually, would, yeah. Here they are.

Ready for their adventures. Oh, you've got found the nitwits as well, baggy pants and the knitwits. That's the annual. Yeah. All right, all right. Okay, that makes sense. Booster looks like a little nerd.

Yeah, he does. He does. What's that weird bug he's holding? I'm not sure. Looks like Bleep's about to strangle it. I like how they've got space age technology, and Bleep is clearly some kind of AI robot, but Booster still has to wear normal human glasses.

Yeah. They've not mastered that technology yet. Yeah. Right, what do you make of Captain Cody and K2? Oh, man. Now, these, I'll remind you, these are in alphabetical order, so don't necessarily be thrown off by the first.

fact that you know that that title feels like it go it could go with that picture really isn't it yeah good yeah yeah i'll i'll go kids tv i'm going to go drugs and that's because i know they're drugs they are drugs well done michael johnson um captain cody is do you want to guess mikey it's codeine indeed well done uh and uh k2 is that spice it's Synthetic marijuana. Is that what spice is? Yeah. Yeah.

Bathesaw. Nasty. Nasty stuff. Very nasty stuff. Yeah. I should say that all... All nasty stuff, kids. Don't do anything.

No, even... No, don't do any of them at all. Terrible. All of these street names are coming from AddictionCenter.com. Oh, lovely. Okay. Yeah. What do you think about Charlie and the Herbs?

Oh, well... Well... Well... Even I know these ones. Yeah. I have a feeling these might be drugs Yeah If they're not drugs

I'll eat my hat Well there was a show on CBBC called The Herbs But Charlie and the Herbs is not real Herb is of course Marijuana It can also Cratum or Cratum

Can be called Herbal Speedball Would you believe? And Charlie of course Cocaine What do you make of Dmitri and the Dragon? Is he chasing it? Yes, yeah, that was my thought. But Dimitri, interesting.

What the hell's Dmitri? Not the sort of name you'd expect to find syndicated on UK TV potentially. I want to think that's a kids TV show. I'm going to go drugs again with this one. This one is drugs. It is drugs. It is drugs. Dmitri is DMT.

I guess it sort of sounds similar. And the dragon, of course, heroin. You may have heard of that one. No, what is it? Tell me about it. Quite Moorish heroin, so I'm told. Is it? Yeah, you can't just have one.

You have to have like a few. Fly high and huggy. Fly high, if it helps, is hyphenated. Don't know if that helps. in a sense it sort of does because my guess for this one is going to be children's TV and I feel like hyphenating a drug name

is potentially too complex I just want the drugs now I don't want to have to deal with punctuation you know they both just kind of sound like vague terms for drugs in general

like fly high that just sounds like anything I'm going to go kids TV show this is a quite recent It currently has a CBBs page. It's drugs on CBBs, my job. It's so weird. It's a quite recent drug on CBBs.

Join Fly High and Huggy on their mighty adventures to deliver the golden nut to the king. No, you can't be delivering nut to the king. Well, you can apparently on CBBs nowadays. Woke nonsense somewhere, right? Keep your nuts at home. Are you tempted by Goober and the Ghost Chasers? Oh, I mean, if you're offering.

Guba and the Ghost Chasers Oh, it sounds like Kids TV I'm going to go with Kids TV Goober for some reason really makes me think of drugs Yeah, is Ghost Chases hyphenated No, it's not Oh, drugs, it's drugs, then But no, I'll go to kids TV

Oh, because Ghost Chasers is probably like MGMA Like Pac-Man eating pills, right? God, maybe Are you saying drugs, Mikey? I'm saying drugs. Guba on the Ghost Chasers is an animated television series produced by Hannah Barbera Productions. It was essentially kind of a Scooby-Doo rip-off.

There was a dog. I think the dog might have been a ghost himself and then, yeah, a bunch of, you know, his mates who were all solving mysteries. Wow, that dog is on drugs. I mean, it's even made by the same company. Yeah, that is. Gooby-Doo.

They've just palette-swapped all the characters. Literally, there's a blonde one, there's girls, there's a dog. It's the same thing. Were they on strike at some point in the Scooby-Doo factory? And they just needed something to fill that slot? Wilt Chamberlain, American professional basketball player, played himself in Goober and the Ghost Chases. Big Goober fan, yeah. Yeah, apparently.

G-A-T-C, of course, as the royal fans would call it. Yeah. We're about halfway done. We're having a repeat of a word we've heard before. It may mean the same thing. It may not. This is Herb and the Half Moons. Drugs.

Kids TV show. Kids TV show, I'm saying. This one, it's another drugs. I just accidentally used Herb twice. Half Moon is Pioti, is it pronounced? those flowers that you can get in GTA and other things. You know, in real life as well, they exist. It's a GTA drug.

Yeah. Jimbo and the Jet Set. Kids TV. Kids TV, yeah. Jimbo and the Jet Set is a British animated cartoon series centered on the eponymous Jimbo an anthropomorphic aeroplane, hence Jet Set. Brilliant. Good.

How can a boy be friend with the plane? That's ridiculous. Oh, look at that idiot. This looks quite old based on the blurry photo on Wikipedia. 1986 to 87. He's never getting off the ground. Look at him. Yeah.

It featured, of course, Jimbo, the titular Jimbo. Tommy Toe Truck, Phil Fuel Truck, Freddie Fire Truck. Yeah. And Amanda Baggage. Whoa, Amanda Baggage. Goodness me. That somehow feels misogynistic, doesn't it? It does, that's going to be, that's a difficult last name to have to deal with.

Yeah. Well, from one airport to perhaps another with Johnny and the Bomb. Oh, you can't have a kid's TV show called The Bomb. That's a drugs. Johnny's are condoms. Condoms aren't drugs. Yeah, fair point. But you can smuggled drugs in condoms.

Yeah, true. I'm going to say Kids TV show This is Kids TV I believe based on a Terry Pratchett book So Johnny and the Bomb A Gang of Kids are thrown back into the Second World War For a breathless adventure In which they can't help tampering with time

Relatively recent that one I think 2006 I think it says somewhere I'm sure I just saw Yeah 2006 Okay we got five left Oh no, that was the fifth last. What about Morpho and the Mind Eraser?

Drugs. This is our drugs. Big drugs. It's the most powerful drugs of them all. No, I'm going to say Kids TV show. That has to be Kids TV show. No one calls their drug Mind Eraser. Well, Morpho is morphine.

Oh, shit. And what was Mind Eraser? Hang on. Let me find out. Rehpnal. Oh, no. Jeez. Oh, God.

Yeah, that makes sense, isn't it? Apparently, rehypnol is also called the forget-me-pill, which is horrible. Moving swiftly on, how about Nuzzle and Scratch? That sounds nice. That sounds kids TV to me. That sounds like two cats. It does, isn't it? Kids TV.

Nuzzle and Scratch is a British children's television program shown on CBBs from September 2008 that ran for three series. I don't really have, there's not really a one look. Oh, it stars two eponymous puppet alpacas. Created and developed by Barry Quinn and Alan Robinson. Oh, look at them. Here they are, nozzle and scratch. They look like lovely fellows.

Oh, they do. Yeah, all right, yeah, I'm down with that. Two left. I'll tell you them both in case it sways you in any way. We've got Pixie and Dixie. And Sally D and the spirit molecule. What do you think of Pixie and Dixie? The first one is drugs.

And I think the second one, it may be Kids TV. I'm going to go the other way around. Mikey, you're bang on. Pixie and Dixie. It was listed as Pixie and Dixie on the Wikipedia article for list of CBC shows. But actually, when you click on it and go to the article, it's called Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks. which may have given it away.

But that is one of three segments in Huckleberry Hound. Again, Hannah Barbera. It's two mice, Pixie and Dixie, and Mr. Jinks appears to be a cat. Here's another very small image. And Sally D. in the spirit molecule is two drugs. So Sally D. is Salvia divinorum, whatever that is. Nasty.

And the spirit molecule is DMT, again, thymethyl tryptamine. Tripthamine, yeah. And that's it. So don't get those mixed up. If you do have children at home, make sure you're giving them pixie and dixie and not herb and the half moons. No.

You mustn't. You simply mustn't. Yeah. Amazing. Thank you very much. Thank you very good idea to update that website with some new names of drugs. Yeah.

You're very welcome. Thank you. an eye-opening journey through television and drugs. Yes, yeah, that's right. Maybe we won't add those to the thread because it will spoil the answers ahead of time. Oh, yeah, good point. Okay, yeah, maybe.

But if you want to see what they look like, a bit of Googling, you won't have to look far to see what those kids' TV shows look like. Or the drugs. Or the drugs. Incredible. Well, it's time for my listener's submitted thing.

This comes from Ryan Seambal at R Seymal 28 on Twitter. It's an article from Local 12 and the headline reads, Today is his birthday. Man allegedly stole tour train high on meth picked up passengers. Oh, okay.

A drug or a children's TV show. It's definitely a drug. Here's the man in question. It was his birthday. Oh, it's one of those trains. Hell yeah. Oh, wow. He's just living my job.

I'll tell you more. A man allegedly celebrated his birthday by stealing a city tour train and picking up multiple passengers while high on meth. Oh, he's been on the bleep and booster. He certainly has. According to an arrest report obtained by local outlet, WPLG, officers were dispatched to the Conch Tour Train depot on July 4th for a report of a stolen train. Employees told police that they were tracking the train's GPS system

and that it was driving around the downtown area. Police arrived and learned that a man later identified as 57-year-old Jonathan Winslow arrived at the depot in a Kia vehicle, which was still running and playing music on the radio by the time officers arrived. Winslow reportedly told an employee that he used to work at the depot and that he wanted a tour of one of the trains. Winslow then allegedly got into one of the trains and drove it off the property, leaving the employee, in quotes, confused, but he assumed that Winslow had permission to take the train. That is the definition of, I I'm not paid enough.

Yeah, not my job. More than my job's worth. Winslow drove the train into the downtown Key West area and picked up two random passengers before abandoning the vehicle on the street, per the outlet. Police reportedly located Winslow at the southernmost point of the continental USA boy, as in buoy, and noted that he exhibited rapid speech and appeared excited. Well, I mean, of course, he got to drive the train. I'd be excited, having been on the train, yeah.

claimed that he simply borrowed the train and that he used to work for the company. Furthermore, Winslow alleged that today is his birthday, which police confirmed, it says. I mean, that's fine. I used to work for what culture? So if I ever want to go in and just help myself to a couple of PCs, that is actually allowed.

Yeah, it is. That's how it works. And it was your birthday, too, which police confirmed. While being checked into jail, a deputy reportedly found a meth pipe in Winslow's pocket, although he claimed it was a weed pipe. Windblow was charged with burglary, grand theft, auto and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Bless him. What a day? I mean, if you're going to go to jail for something, that's pretty fun, isn't it? That is good. And he's got like a slight smile in his photo. Yeah, he's had a good day. He doesn't regret it. He's still excited. I mean, you would be. Look at that hair. That hair only comes about from being excited because of the train that you got to drive. Yes, brilliant. But he didn't hurt anyone, it sounds like, and it, you know, it was resolved. relatively peacefully, and it was his birthday, so... It was his birthday.

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Oh, oh. We received a package with a letter from Adam, or Black. country smoggy, if you're out there. I'm trying to remember this. The letter begins. While digging through my old stuff, I came across this gem from my childhood and thought of you. Having already sampled each of the 90s

delights it has to offer, I thought it was time it found a new home. And who better to give it a new lease on life than the Beanie Bum Burpee Boy himself. Wow, how do you feel about that nickname for a start? Beanie, Beanie B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, How do you feel about that? That's good.

I mean, I'll take it. I've leaned into that side of me too much now to not be happy with that nickname. So yes, I am the Beanie Bumberpy boy. I will just add, not to keep calling back to my thing, but I nearly went with Billy Bean and his funny machine, which was a 1957 TV program on UK Kids TV. Billy Bean. I wonder what his funny machine was. I bet it was one of those trains. Yeah.

The letter continues, whether starter, main or afters, I'm northern, it's not dessert. There's something to everyone's taste as long as you like beans, and if not, this book will convert you. So, boys, yeah. Today I present to you the Heinz Book of Baked Bean recipes. Oh, good. Lovely. Oh, good. I've cooked a handful of dishes from this.

Have you really? Oh, I have. I have. And you are a delight. An absolute delight. At the front of the book, it says, Heinz, makers of makers, oh, in proper West Country there. Meagers. Meagers. Hines, makers of Britain's most famous baked beans have compiled this mouth-watering selection of recipes which offer you 30 menu suggestions, including quick snacks, meals for kids, salads and casseroles. No. Oh, no. I don't want beans in everything.

It's going to get bad and I want to call back to the letter received with this where Adam says he sampled each of the delight when I read out this list. Every single one. I mean, the main notion that afters exist in that book is terrifying. Yes, you should be scared, be scared. Here's a selection of items or recipes from this book. Orbejean's proven call Baked Marrow

Surprise What's the surprise Is it beans It could be bees It could be bees Um This is They think this is the

worst offender Bean cheese cake Oh You mustn't No No Bean and cottage cheese pancakes Bean and vegetable flan

Beans lasagna Curried bean and egg mayonnaise Exotic winter salad Stop it Noodles with bean sauce Too many beans Spicy pasta with prawns Tacos with beef and beans

It sounds quite nice Turkey Yeah that one's all right Turkey bean bake and winter warming bean casserole to name but a few I'm going to send over some pictures now would you like to see the

curried bean and egg mayonnaise I'd love to see all of it oh just whole eggs they're not even being chopped up it's awful it's shredded letters with mayonnaise draped over just

yeah whole eggs it's bad that's lettuce there's so much orange on it that you can't even see that it used to be lettuce. Oh my God. The description for this recipe says, Add a taste of the Orient to your table with this delicious cool dish.

With beans. That is authentic, yeah. It's full of flavor and easy to prepare. Not really sure it makes it oriental, but fine. It also says you can substitute duck for the chicken to make it into a special occasion dish. Oh, yeah. Yes.

Can I substitute nothing for the beans? You must have beans Would you like to see the baked marrow surprise? Yes There you go Surprise, it's gone It's got whole slices of lemon on it and beans

Is it orange? It might be orange Oh it could be orange So this isn't To clarify when you said marrow I thought you might have I know you're vegan obviously But I thought you meant like maybe bone marrow Or something like a savory dish

But that is an entire gourd With baked beans stuffed in to it. It looks like it's not just baked beans. It's minced beef as well in there. Which is, yeah, grim. Oh, my God. Wrap it in foil, place it in the oven at 200 degrees C, and bake for a one and a quarter

hours. I'll be dead by the time it's done. It's worth the weight, Peter. It's a wonderful dish. And now the beans cheesecake. Would you like to see the beans? So sadly, these are ones I did not cook myself because either two meaty orders weren't up to snuff.

Oh, no, where are the beans? Oh, where are the beans? Is this not the beans surprise? The beans are well hidden. And you notice there's olives on top. Yeah. Cucumbers surrounding the rim of the cheesecake. Yeah, this is not 90s.

A Mediterranean twist. This feels 80s at the latest, if not 70s. I think this book was 90s. 1980, it was released. Right, yeah, it does feel pretty 70s. On the cusp. Exert from this recipe is, when it comes to packing a picnic basket,

most people are stuck for original ideas. A bean cheesecake may sound unusual, but it tastes delicious and makes a pleasant alternative to the more standard keesh sandwiches or sausage rolls. Those all sound great. Why have you made a bean of cheesecake, ma'am? I just want a sandwich.

Scanning this, it still seems to be prepared as if it were a sweet cheesecake, but then they've added in beans and garlic and cucumber and olives. I think it's supposed to be kind of like a savory cheesecake, but that's not good. They've not gone far enough to make it savory, I don't think. Yeah. It suggests that you can use digestive biscuits as an alternative, because the standard recipe is water biscuits, i.e. Oh, God.

just plain cheese crackers. So, yeah, I think it is a kind of a savory thing by default, but you can make it sweet if you really want to. You don't want to. No. And lastly, before we get into the ones I actually cooked, here's the, here's a flan. Oh, God.

It's so shiny. It's just a pastry flan case covered in beans. It looks very, it looks like a puddle of sick. Like, it looks like a drunk person's just eating a lot of chips. and tomato sauce and outcomes of that. Oh, yeah. Anyway, okay, so I whittled it down from 30 recipes down to three for me to try myself. Yeah.

So let's begin today's bean banquet. It is beans time. It is beans time. God. We begin with, I'm going to imagine this is like a meal for a fancy event, okay? So can I be in that headspace. Come die with me. Come die with me.

Please. I wish I was. Canapes upon arrival Can I interest you boys In some bean bites Per chance Sure You know what

This doesn't sound too bad A bean bite To line the stomach Just a bite of bean Go on Could you show me a bean bite A bean bite? Is it just going to be beans

On a cracker Kind of Kind of I'm going to describe it to you Then I'll send a picture Let's build up some Oh suspense The book says

These fun bite-sized snacks are quick and easy to make And the kids will enjoy them too It sounds like you will enjoy this This dish consists of Fried Bread Stacked with cheese Beans Sausage

Olive and cucumber All held together with a cocktail stick Okay lose the cucumber and olive That sounds good That's just beans on toast baby Yeah, it's just some of a breakfast. Cheesy beans. Yeah, cheesy beans.

So this one was quite an easy one to put together, as you can imagine. I did a masterful job of cutting some bread into stars. Oh, look at those. It's like the you did it, meme. I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't think stale whole meal sourdough bread is quite what the recipe had in mind. But hey, ho, let's go. So, fried up the bread, very delicately stacked it with cheese.

cheese, then you put it in the oven for a little bit, let the cheese melt, and then bring it out the oven, hot dog on a stick, then you add, sorry, no, beans, and then the hot dog on a stick, and then a vertical olive, and one-eighth of cucumber. You have to pierce the beans with the stick? I tried to, I tried to. Here's, I'm just going to send a bunch of photos through now that we have the description. Oh, wow, yeah, there he is. Oh, look at you, working away.

Oh god Those are Those are big beans That's uh Yeah it's I'd say it's more of a sausage Snack than it is anything else Evadly I use my own sausage Because vegan beans and sausages are very expensive

So I just did it myself But the bread was very small I'll say that I think I goofed up The ratio was off But Aren't kind of supposed to be a mouthful Almost by definition Imagine trying to get your chops

around that. It's massive. I mean, it certainly is a mouthful. It's all right, though. It's exactly as you think it'll be. It's just a bunch of ingredients stacked on a cocktail stick. Yeah. So, yeah, it was far too tall to try and take a bite from. So instead, I opted to just point the stick at my mouth and slide everything off into my mouth.

Yeah. And yes, chewed, struggle to breathe. and just all I got was an overwhelming taste of olive that was the most obvious flavour in the dish the bread was overfried quite crunchy, that's my bad

but it did offer satisfying crunch to the dish so I think that's a plus it's basically very tiny beans on toast with some cold vegetables thrown on top yeah that's it lose the veggies that's you're overcomplicated it yeah well you know you've got a you got to flesh out a recipe book somehow

i suppose yeah it's good they can't just say add some beans and then for a little bit extra add some beans they can't do that delicious hinds beans you will buy more hinds beans you did use hinds beans right mike you didn't use tescoes i very i really i i don't like hines beans usually i'm a bransden man okay um today i did spring for the hines and i'll never look at a bean again so great with me was also my girlfriend she was sampling these dishes I laid them out as like a little sampling platter

and we worked through them and reviewed them and I gave the dish a seven out of ten sorry no she gave the dish a seven out of ten which you know what it's fine it tastes all right the olives a bit much but on the whole it's perfectly serviceable and I gave it a six out of ten

overall just quite weird and could have benefited from more bread right fair enough starter now we're on to the main meal um how do I put this curried bean and apple soup no stop it

yes no thank you yes I actually filled up on appetises so I don't know that I want any of that you are stuck to this table until you finish every goddamn bite of this banquet boys kids will love it I had some bean and apple soup before I came I filled up on bean and apple soup at home

The description for this one says A delicious and refreshing soup recipe from Heinz beans This curried bean and apple soup can be served hot or chilled Oh great Or thrown away Served chilled It makes an ideal starter for a light summer lunch Yes

So the ingredients basically consist of butter Onion Apples Beans and chicken stock I was quite scared of this one because that's a lot of apple and a lot of beans together beans are already kind of sweet so it kind of makes sense

like I guess for people who aren't familiar with British beans they are like it's I don't know what kind of beans they are but like small little beans suspended in quite a sweet tomato sauce it's not like a natural flavoring natural flavored tomato sauce I'll find out what kind of beans baked beans are thank you

but yes it's maybe different to what beans you all used to. Haricot. Am I saying that right? Haricot beans. Oh, no. Hines, you use navy beans. Oh, yeah, also known as haricot beans.

Oh, very good. Yeah. Okay. Nice. So I want you to picture the fact that when I was cooking all this, it was about 33 degrees in Bristol, and it was sweaty, and I was kind of hoping to have the chilled version of this soup. But I also, the recipe says you must leave it overnight to chill for the best effect.

And I didn't want to put this, like, delay things any longer than I had to. So I just committed to warm bean soup. This was quite fun at least to put together because you got to at least use a food processor to blend everything up. Handily, the recipe states, if you don't have a liquidizer, push the mixture through a wire sieve using a wooden spoon. Lovely. Would you like to see the mixture pre-liquidisation? I fear we must. You must.

Okay, that doesn't look too bad. It's onions and apples and beans. You know, describing it, that doesn't sound so good. Yeah. It's not good. And this uses curried beans, so I put some curry powder in there to give the same effect as curried beans. And sultanas. Apparently the curry beans of the 80s used to have sultanas in them.

They fucking love doing that, putting sultanas and stuff, didn't they? did they do that? Like, the worst part about coronation chicken is the sultanas. Why did they do it? It's healthy, in it? It's tropical. We just got these new things called sultanas. Take them out.

Then don't it belong there? That's bad. So, yeah, basically you just sauteer the onion in a pan. Then you just threw in the apple, water, stock cube, beans and let it simmer for like 20 minutes. The smell was a lot, quite sickly, to say the least. Yes, at the very least. Once they've cooked a bit, throw them into a liquidizer

until they turn into this brown slop. Here's your soupy beans. It looks kind of like soup. Yes. Yeah. But it doesn't because you know what it is. That was, I think, the theme for this meal was, I know what's in there.

And that's upsetting. I know it's just been blended, but the bubbles are quite off-putting, actually. It's screaming out for help. Yeah. Please. Then once you've blended it, you return it to the pan and add a few extra beans to be left whole in the soup. Oh, gosh.

You've got to have a few full beans. We've got to have more beans. So I went, that was it. Lovely soup. I went the extra mile and I had some offcuts of bread from the previous one. So I made some croutons to go with there, which is quite nice. And yeah, I want this to be a statement dish. And so also I topped it with.

Don't worry about it. Hell yeah. I topped it with some thinly sliced apple. Oh, no. It's bad. I was picturing the way you said thinly sliced apple. I was thinking it was going to look so delicate. It looks like two large wedges of apple.

Four or five. Is it a small bowl? Why is the stuff in there? It's a very small ball. I didn't want to eat much of this. It makes it look like the stuff is massive. Guys, we've just had 20 refund requests for the Pod Squad of this week. They don't want their names on this.

Oh, God. It's bad. It's bad. It's bad. How did it taste? It wasn't bad. It wasn't good either. My girlfriend gagged.

It's a ringing endorsement, isn't it? there was a strong hit of Heinz after the initial curry hit the dish was basically an identity crisis in a bowl the crouton did help things along it gave a bit of crunch and kind of I don't know something to distract from

the sweetness going on it was very sweet is the overarching kind of theme it mostly tasted of the I don't know it kind of it didn't taste of beans it didn't taste of apple it just tasted gross like it's like nothing you'll ever eat in your life

because you never naturally eat this Yeah, I will never eat that I can Do not serve this to me Do not do it Is yeah It's just it's liquid beans Like it's it's what's weird

It's off putting So we also try taking a bite of the soup Just with the apple As well to see what effects that had Slice off a wedge of the soup Yeah That was awful The secret to enjoying this recipe is to have as little apple in every bite as possible.

I imagine that's quite difficult in the soup that contains apple. Yes, it's everywhere. I think it's the same weight of apple as it is beans to give you an idea. That's a ratio's there. Yeah, I could definitely eat the dish, but I wouldn't very much enjoy it. I think it's more the thought of it. It's like, if I didn't know what was in it, I'd be like, it's kind of interesting soup. Okay.

Yeah. But not good. I gave the beans an eight. My girlfriend gave them a four. Right. Oh, so you said that was better than the canapes. Why did I give it more than the canopets? I think because it had more going on.

Like, it was a recipe, you know. It didn't just taste of all this. I'm not, I guess I'm not, what am I reading on here? Taste or effort? It's, it's, it's, it was interesting. It was kind of tasty in a weird way, but I felt dirty for thinking that. Right. So I've liked it in the score.

The best thing about the dish was that you could just pour it down the drain afterwards when you didn't want to finish the rest. And I'm just going to send through a picture of my drain outside the house after I'd poured it down the drain. No! The beans have escaped. That looks like the sewers are backing up. It was bad.

I poured it down the sink and then went outside and then saw that. Oh, hot deer, that smelled lovely. Oh, no. Oh, dear. Right, finally, let's get this over with. Yeah. This is my favorite. This is my favorite.

For your main, we're having. Yeah. Go on. Chinese-style beans and sausages. What does that mean? It's beans and sausages, just the way that people in China have them. You know. You know, cooked.

Yeah. And that's it. No, I wish it was just that. It's bad. Is it all bad? This exciting mixture of oriental ingredients such as bean sprouts, soy sauce and ginger, and Heinz baked beans with pork sausages,

creates an unusual and tasty dish. You can't describe it like that. That word gets top billing before tasty. Unusual. A bit obscure. Oh yeah, worth a try. So, in essence, it's a stir fry with a tin of beans thrown in.

Right. Brilliant. wet it's got like peppers onions beans sprouts all the usual stuff chop them up fry them up for a little bit

and then you just throw in an entire tin of beans and voila that's the recipe good god here is here is my

here is my walk after adding the beans that looks like you know when the Victorians used to take photos of ghosts and it would actually just be two pictures of people overlaid on each other in separate rooms that's what that looks like those beans aren't they couldn't possibly be in the same walk as Asian food it's not right it's not happened no it must be a double exposure it's a creepy pasta that someone's made so I'm just trying to identify what I'm what I'm

looking at here you've got some onion sauteing maybe at the bottom there's some chilies or some peppers on top of that and then just a fucking mountain of paint beans in the centre. Oh God.

That's it. Okay. That's it. My favorite bit of this recipe is it also asked for mushrooms. It asks you to

put in the mushrooms after you put in the beans. Well, yeah, you wouldn't want to ruin the rest of it, would you?

No, you boil them in the bean juice. Good God. Where did the sausages come in? I chuck them in towards

the end. They're supposed to come in the tin of beans, but I just chucked them in. Okay. The recipe suggests serving it with rice. I opted for udon noodles instead because I didn't want to wait 12 minutes to cook rice. Which maybe was a rogue choice. But yeah, when someone has the audacity of committing that to a book, I can just do whatever I want. It doesn't matter.

It's unusual, actually, to use noodles. Bit brave. Really? I always have a stir fry with noodles. I'm joking, Mikey. I'm joking. Don't worry. I'm joking.

I was going to say. Because the rest of it is. I don't know what's normal anymore. Yeah, as though there are any rules here. Can't believe. That's a bit unusual going noodles with this bean dish. I can't believe. This would have been rescued if it'd used rice.

Why are you using more beans with your bean stir fry? Come on. So it features the bare minimum of spices. It's like soy sauce, ginger and a bit of garlic. And so really helping make sure that the beans are the strongest flavor in the dish. Here is, I'm going to send another picture of it with the sausages in and the mushroom. Oh, lovely.

I had so much of this stir fry, and I didn't eat a lot of it, but I had a lot of it, so there was a lot in the pan. Yeah. Let's see. I'm just going to get the two images of it served up, ready to send. I'd like to apologise to any Chinese listeners at this point. This is deeply offensive. And here it is served upon a point. Beautiful. With the picture from the book.

If you squint, it looks all right. Right. But the moment you realize there are loads of Heinz baked beans in it, you realize that something's gone terribly wrong here. Yeah, I think this might be the best looking one of the bunch. And I mean, I know the bar's fucking low, but still. Yeah, it looks the most like food. Yeah, you wouldn't immediately know something is terribly wrong. Yeah, I wouldn't want it, but if I had to have it,

I'd rather have this than anything else that we've seen. Yeah. Okay, fair, okay, yeah, yeah, fair. We picked up our forks, bean juice, running down the noodles, into our mouths it went. And instantly we knew that udon noodles were a very bad choice for this dish. Something about the thick texture of udon noodles and the texture of beans was very confusing to the palate.

It was very just, yeah, like nothing I'd ever tasted before. It felt very much like the kind of meal. A drunk uni student would make it four in the M after a heavy night at the pub. Because there's nothing left. All I've got left is a tin of beans and some noodles. And stir fry. Why did I have to put the beans in the stir fry? Overall, quite an upsetting dish,

especially since you throw in the mushrooms at the same time as the beans. So instead of getting nicely fried mushrooms, you just get mostly big, under-cooked chunks of mushroom instead. Bad. We managed two bites before giving up. An interesting dish that just simply doesn't work on any level. Unusual.

And tasty. Very tasty. Maybe it's my fault for using Udon noodles. most likely it's the recipe writer's fault for putting this together and into a buck we both gave this dish a four oh dear so if you tally up the scores

technically the winner of the day is the bean bite oh okay I'm gonna say you like the soup more than this no wow he gave it an eight yeah but if you add out his partners it's yeah it's I don't know it was like the soup it works as a soup like

it tastes a little bit weird but it could like, it's so hard to describe without you having eaten it. I'll send some in the post. No, but there's, like, there's something just so in, just incredibly off-putting about the Chinese style beans and sausages that just, it just did not work and it was hard to eat. I think maybe at that point, my tummy was just a little bit upset and didn't want me to put anything else inside of it. That's fair.

That's, that's where we ended up. Well, so thank you, Adam, Black Country Smoggy. I'm going to go burn this book now. That was amazing. Thank you so much, Mikey, for going above and beyond. You're welcome. I've been sitting on it for a while. I thought, fuck it.

Why not? Let's have some beans. The price in the book, I think, is like $9.99, which in today's money is about $18. But Adam bought it in a charity shop for one pound, so he did all right. He paid too much. He paid too much for it. There he go. Yes.

I can't believe you ate all the recipes. What the fuck. God. Well, amazing. Thank you, Mikey. Thank you, Mikey. I would now love to hear Peter's listener-submitted thing. Well, I've got it right here.

It's submitted to us by Nicholas Otter at Lord Brought. And it's a two-part story. We have a follow-up after this first initial story. And it's according to bluevin.c.h, or blue-win.c. Actually, I'd put a German accent on it, thinking it was a German newsout. that and I don't think it is. But it's a German story. Okay.

Police officer shoots aggressive two meter fish. And the accompanying image looks quite exciting. Okay. Because it's a giant fish. But the caption on that image is a giant catfish similar to this one. Ah, so this isn't the criminal fish? I don't think so. That's quite a scary looking fish.

Actually, this one might be, anyway, I'll, oh yeah, no. It says, in parentheses, symbolic image. Okay, I see. A giant catfish has caused a stir in a bathing lake in Bavaria. The 90-kilogram animal repeatedly attacked swimmers until a police officer reached for his service pistol. An aggressive fish, over two metres long, injured at least five swimmers in a swimming lake

in the Bavarian district of Weisenberg-Gunsenhausen. A police officer finally shot the giant catfish with his service pistol as the police reported. According to the officers, the animal weighed around 90 kilograms. The aggressive fish had become conspicuous in the Brombaxe late on Friday afternoon.

That's the name of the lake. It had been in the area of a swimming island for a long time. It was very aggressive and repeatedly attacked swimmers, the police reported. Rescue workers from the Red Cross treated the swimmer's bite wounds

on site. My gosh. The next subheading is Giant Animal attacks again and again It's quite dramatic Because the giant animal would not rest The water rescue team alerted the police The officers initially closed off the bathing area

To prevent further attacks As the aggressive fish was deemed to be a safety risk For bathers and visitors to a music festival taking place at the lake This is not a good sentence As the aggressive fish was deemed to be a safety risk for bathers And visitors to a music festival taking place at the lake, comma, the emergency services decided to kill the animal.

Brilliant. Good. A police officer, as we know, by now, shot the catfish with his service pistol. It's just repeating the same information. And then it talks about, I think, previous cases. So catfish can become extremely large and cause quite a stir in Germany from time to time. In Munchen Gladbach in the North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, a fish known as Kuno the killer catfish gained international media fame over 20 years ago. At the time, the animal was said to have swallowed a young, rough-haired dax hunt. Bloody out. Oh, my God. Regional psycho seagulls. Yeah. Crazy calps. In German gizmo. In 2003, a catfish was discovered floating dead on the water in the aforementioned pond in Munchin Gladback. It was quickly assumed it was Kuno,

and this fish was stuffed and placed in a museum. And I think actually we have... Yes, we've got a picture of Kuno stuffed in the museum. Okay. There. But that's not all. There is a follow-up to this story.

Okay. So it's just like in... You know, it's like the end of jaws. They've blown up the shark and they're like, it's finally safe to go back in the lake. Another catfish attack in the same Bavarian bathing lake.

When will it end? I don't know The case made headlines for days An aggressive catfish attacks bathers And is ultimately shot dead by police officers Now there is another incident at the same lake Once again there's been a catfish attack on Lake Brombach in Bavaria A fish bit a swimmer's arm and injured him

said a police spokesman The incident occurred in the area of a bathing island Near Abbsburg in Middle Freconia The bathing island was subsequently dismantled Antold. Okay, I guess a bathing island is a man-made structure. That's news to me. The Nuremberger Nakhrichton and Nuremberger Zaytung newspapers first reported on the incident. At the end of June, a catfish, more than two metres long, caused a sensation,

and as we know, it was shot by a policeman with his service pistol. But there was then a second incident within a few days. Police had closed off the bathing area and finally killed the fish with shots from a service weapon to prevent further attacks and also in view of a music festival taking place at the lake at the same time. Essentially, we're repeating the same information over and over again, but there is another fish. I think there's a really good ending sentence to that article that's like peak, not only peak Germany, but also feels like a German children's story. Yeah, I've just spotted that at the bottom.

In fact, I will read this other bit as well. Experts suggest that the catfish may have been defending its clutch of eggs, which could explain its unusually aggressive behavior. Catfish are normally considered shy animals that hide in deep water during the day. So I think it's quite difficult to tell the difference between these two animals, but I think the second one is still at large. Right. But the first one that was shot dead by police officer with his service pistol,

we have an update on what happened to that one. After much media attention, the two meter fish was completely, Completely eaten in an inn in the region, according to the innkeeper, divided into 120 fillet portions. The end. The end. And they didn't do their homework and they were divided into 120 fillet portions and devoured in a local inn. The entire village gobbled them up. Yeah, it's like there's old folk tales that you read, Struel Peter or whatever he was.

Tom Sucker Thumb. Yeah. God, a very German conclusion to that story, I feel. so stay safe in the lakes in Germany Lord Brothovich and everyone else scary stuff absolutely well thank you Peter maybe it's Mabelaine is such an iconic piece of music

hit the track everyone in the studio that I worked on this jingle with all had like childhood stories or memories around either watching these commercials on TV or sitting with our moms while they were doing their making their makeup and it became really personal for us. Maybe it's Maybe it's Maple Lane. Thank you.

It is now time for my thing and I would love to regale you with the story of, I've got to find his proper name here. It is Frey, where is it? Why can I not say? Mentos. No, it's not. It's Frey Tormentor. Tormenter.

That is exactly what I thought. Freibentos, the delicious pies that are impossible to get out of the tin sarcophagus that they are packaged in. No, this is a story about Frey Tormenta, and I'd love to tell you about it. Frey Tormentos. Yes. So in 1970s, sorry, I should say this write-up is from Good, apparently, written by Eric Barnes. That better not be any false advertising here. If this isn't good, I'm going to be livid.

It's good. I-I-S, whatever that domain is. I have no idea. So in 1976, young priest Sergio Gutierrez Benitez found an unconventional way to raise funding for a local orphanage in Mexico. By day, he would don his priest robes to serve his community, but at night, he would dress up as a cat, and he would growl and hiss at people in Merseyside. But at night, he would exchange those robes for tights and a mask performing as a professional. professional wrestler and using whatever money he earned to help raise the impoverished children under his care. For four decades, Gutierrez Benitez would be known by another name, the luchador Frey Tormenta. Wow.

What's the Jack Black film? Nacho Libre? Natural Libre. Yes, it's giving up. It's a bit like that, isn't it? I think this has inspired the character King in Tekken, because he was exactly the same. He was a luchador. and he, in most of the games, if he won the tournament, it was just to fund an orphanage.

Oh, he's even a Catholic... Oh, it says here on the Wikipedia page. He was inspired by a wrestling character, Tiger Mask, unsurprisingly, as well as Mexican wrestler, Frey Tormento. There we go. There are a couple of other things Frey Tormentor inspired, which I'll get to at the end of the article. But, yeah, it's an interesting thing.

Also, it reminds me a lot of, what's his name, the main guy from the Yakuza games, because he also has an orphanage, I think, that he raises loads of money for it, and he just beats the shit out of people all the time. So it could be the same. Born in 1945 in San Augustine, Mexico, sorry, Gutierrez Benitez's childhood was one of struggle, drug addiction, and crime. I started when I was 11 or 12. In this country, drugs have always been very present, he said.

I did everything. Marijuana and cocaine every day. Have we got any fun names for those? Even mushrooms from time to time. A little after that, I started heroin, moorish. By the time I turned 18, I had already become a criminal and a thief. I even worked as an actor and clown in a circus, but I spent everything on my doses, and I needed more, so I started stealing. At his rock bottom, Gutierrez Benitez turned to a church confessional,

which would change the direction of his life. He dedicated himself to the priesthood. After about in rehab, joining the seminary and studying in Rome and Spain, he returned to Mexico to serve. After aiding drug addicts, his focus turned to starting an orphanage. It desperately needed financial support, and he got an idea after watching the film El Senor Tormenta. The film was about a priest who wrestled in order to fund an orphanage. In the case of life-imitating art, Gutierrez Benitez would wake up at 4 a.m. to train for Lucha Libre, so he would get his sessions in before morning mass.

In his first match, he only got a measly $15, but he knew that with time, experience, and goodwill from the fans, his luchador persona of Frey Tormenta, or Friar Storm, could draw significant money for the kids at the orphanage. Would you like to see a photo of him? Yeah, please. This is him wrestling. I think he might be potentially getting on in years here, but you can tell it's from a long time ago, based on the graininess of it. God, there's the catfish is still there. There we are.

Sending that to you now. So there he is, getting beaten up. Oh. Frey Tormenta blessing. Hard call. And he wears a mask. That's the significant thing here. So over time, Frey Tormenta got onto bigger shows and better pay,

further funding his orphanage while keeping his dual life as a priest by day, luchador by night, a secret. Oddly enough, he would get greater success when his identity was accidentally revealed by a fellow luchador, Huracan Ramirez. After being unmasked, the public news. not only Gutierrez Benitez's identity, but his mission to educate and feed the orphans of his community. Now, of course, in Luchador culture, the mask is very, very significant, and a lot of those wrestlers will, it's more difficult these days, of course, but they will go their entire careers

without unmasking and without revealing who they actually are. It's a little less common now, though. With this knowledge, more people became fans and would cheer him on during his matches. He would also put on his masked persona while serving as a priest during the day as well. There's a TikTok here. Let me see if I can copy it. You can see him sort of his mask being peeled back. I assume he'd been, his identity had been revealed by this point, but there you can see sort of him in action. After Frey Tormenta retired for good in 2011, so for context, when did he start wrestling? Do do, do, do. I don't think it actually says here when he started. wrestling. It'll say on his Wikipedia page, I'll have a look in a minute, but he was going until

2011. So after Fraytormenta retired for good in 2011, it is said that he helped raise 2,500 kids at his orphanage. Now, aged 79. Okay, so he was aging 17. He was wrestling at age 79, simile. The community he raised wants to give back. They found out that Gutierrez Benitez was suffering from a series of health issues, accruing high medical bills to treat his heart, kidneys, and prostate. His story inspired a GoFundMe to help raise money to continue financing his health care with people throughout the world contributing to it. Gutierrez Benitez currently lives, so he's still alive, with a man who was raised in his orphanage, Crispin Bautista Alvale. Bautista Alvale not only cares for Gutierrez Benitez, but also assumed the mantle of Frey Tormenta as a wrestler

himself. Guittierrez Benitez is frequently seen either in the crowd or at ringside at Lucha Libre's shows, cheering the new Frey Tormenter on. More than anything, the father wants the good name of Frey Tormenter to have someone who will really take care of it and won't misuse it, said Bautista Avali to the Times. He gave his entire life to support young people. We're going to return what he gave us. In an on instance, Mikey, of life imitating, art imitating life, while Gutierrez Benitez's career as Frey Tormenta was inspired by a movie,

his life would inspire two other movies. 1991's Lom O Maskdor, starring Jean-Ren-O, and 2006's Nacho Libre, starring Hours. Jack Black. Given the flashy costumes and masks, luchador's are seen as modern-day superheroes, but Gutierrez Benitez had a simpler, humbler take. What is hidden beneath the mask, it says in quotes.

The face of a priest who wants to do good. And that is the story of Frey Tormenta, the Luchador priest, actual real-life Natcheligre. Crazy. It's so good. And it's inspired so many things. as well. Yeah.

Sounds like he did genuine good. His debut was in 1973. It's like all school. Yeah, really old. So he was going from 1973 to 2011.

So that's a near four decade career as a wrestler. Jesus. Which is, no wonder he had a lot of medical issues because good Lord.

Yeah. But there we are. That is my thing. Bad ass. And that is, that's old that's old Frey tormentor for you.

He does, he looks. like a hell of a priest though he's got that look about him but when the mask goes on he transforms what an incredible life i mean that's that's pretty cool yeah big fan big fan there we are that's my thing thank you very much brand you're very welcome and thus concludes all of the things from this episode of poddiots thank you so much for listening everybody there's a few things to tell you about before we disappear so don't go just yet mikey i believe there's some sort of shop Yo, darn Tootin, if you head over to Vidytsofficial.com and click on that lovely enticing little shop button, you will be greeted with a veritable bounty of goodies, including mug, hat, hoodie, shirt and other. Please go check it out. Have a look. There's lots of nice shirts on there. New and old and middle, too. Wow. Yes. Got it all. Go check it out. Videosofficial.com and click on Shop.

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This is what came out in July. We started our Minecraft series. Few Dam's. Although it doesn't say Few Dam's. Did we do it twice? Or was Fudam's triple jump? I'm confused. I'm all mixed up.

Fudams was definitely. Yeah. Yeah, it was, wasn't it? Just as Vanilla Minecraft episode one. Maybe we just didn't put Fudams in the metadata. I don't know. Maybe it's how we branded it in episode. Yeah.

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wasteland survivor prove it as well. We started that at the beginning of the month and let me just go to the next page. The finale was also in July as well. So there we go. Those are the highlights of July for you. Amazing. Mikey, where can people

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