Podiots - Podiots: Episode 164 – Cremains

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

Ben's playing guessing games, Mikey's got some spookies from down under and Peter smells something foul. 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 does anybody read this far down? hows it going gang, hope you're doing okay, love you xoxo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickax We start every episode like that, every episode like that, every spooky, it's an annual tradition. Start recording and then go, that's what Halloween is, right? He's just go, ooh. Yeah, I think so. Just do your best monkey impression, and then eat. some sweets, I think. That's how it goes.

Like monkey in a hospice. That's Halloween. Yeah. You going trick or treating, boys? Not this year, no. Can you do that still as an adult man? Yeah, yeah. In a costume, if you sort of, you know, raise the pitch of your voice a bit, I think you

get away with it. That's true. Just go as a child for Halloween. Problem solved. Yeah. Yeah, with a beard, yeah. Yeah. I forgot that trick-or-treating was a thing.

I haven't considered our game plan for avoiding the children at the door this year. Oh. You put a sign up that says, we hope you, happy Halloween. We hope you have a good time, but we're not playing this year, and you leave a small bowl of sweets out the front and just say, please take one. And some asshole will take 30. Take more. At the very least, they'll know, okay, these people aren't taking part.

true. That's true. But what if I want to make a stand against the children? I don't want to play say at them. I want to tell them to fuck off. Well, then tell them to fuck off. Yeah, put a sign up that says fuck off. Although then you might get egged. That's the tradition, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'll come back and think about this. Or maybe I could be nice and just open the door with a ball of sweets. You can do that. I should do that. Good. There's a man in our area at the minute who's going around stealing everyone's copper pipes from outside their houses. Oh, no. So, I don't know. You're going to put a sign for him.

Fuck off. Get off my pipes. If he dares come around and ask trick-a-treat or give him one. Yeah. Anyways, ooh, spooky. How's it? Welcome to Spooky. I've got no copper left to my house.

What was the best sweet you ever got sick or treating? Like, what would you hope to get? Full-size Snickers. Full-size Snickers. Snickers. I seem to remember once getting one of those really long red cables, like not just strawberry laces, which are just a thin bit of strawberry, but sometimes they're called pencils, you know, where it's like a round red tube with white stuff inside. I think I got one of those once. And I really like those. So I was probably pretty pleased with that.

Did you have to do a lot of swaps because you can't do chocolate? Yeah, I don't even know if he did a lot of swapping. I think I just gave some. some of the chocolate to my brother and sister, my brother and sister. Oh, so, yeah, I don't know. Occasionally, I'd be lucky enough to have something swapped back, but, you know, I guess they were just like, well, you're not going to eat it, so you can either put it in the bin, which obviously you're not going to do, or I'll eat it. Doesn't mean I have to give you any of mine, because that's what kids are like, so, yeah.

Maybe I'll do, instead of a ball of sweets, I'll do a bin bag of popcorn for the children to reach into and grab a handful, and then off you go. That's a great idea. Yeah, that sounds hygienic and safe. We've started putting out fortune cookies. Yes, I remember you did that last year, right? Yeah, they're novel. Yeah.

They're different. It's exciting because even if the fortune cookie is completely out of date and quite stale, which they usually are because we've just hoard them from takeaways over the course of the year. Kids will love them because they got a little treat inside. It's like a kinder egg, but they won't choke on it. Yeah. Yeah. It's all the rage.

They love it. So that would be my recommendation. If you can get fortune cookies, kids go wild for them. All right. I'm building up a hell of a Halloween banquet here. I opened up a picture of my favorite suite. I don't think I ever got these are Halloween, but they're like there's smiley faces,

like chewy smiley faces, but kind of like jelly sweets, but they're incredibly hard. Like you could really chew on them. Oh, they were a rare treat. They're kind of one of those rare sweets that would pop up like, Like, I don't know, what's a rare sweet? Not like chocolate mice.

Chocolate, no, because chocolate mice and UFOs were too common for their own good. Like, they should not have been as regular as they were. Yeah. It's like a big jelly snake, every once in a while you get out. A big jelly snake. Yeah. That was the best one. Yeah.

I'm hungry now. Oh, God. Those, I've never seen those smiley button things. You've posted that. Really? Yeah. I can kind of taste them, though, already. Like, I've never had them before, and I can look at that picture and know what they taste like. Oh, that's so good.

Colors. Colors, yeah. Colors and sugar. Maybe it's a northeast thing. They call it a Niki-nocky sweet. Or some fucking stupid thing like that. Eat one of those and then get in a death-hole bath. That's a northeast way of life. That's a good name for a pasta restaurant.

Nick a knock-a-nock-e, oh, God, I can't even say it one. What's the one way? I forgot, oh my God, it's just left my... Nicky Nocky Nocky. Nicky Nocky 9 doors. It's a knocky restaurant. Oh, nocky. Oh, nocky.

I see. Right, that's clever. Oh, not... Yeah. Gnocky. That, yeah, if I ever did like... Gnicki, gonocky, gnaind doors. I'm gannotican. Yeah, if I've opened up like a tasting menu back up north, I'd call it Gnicki, gonoky, gnaign, gnaws.

You could call it Gmikis. Sorry, Gmikis, Gnokies, Gnokies, Gnokies, Gnokies, Gnokies, Gnonononononononon. doors. Perfect. All right. Happy Halloween, everyone. We did it. We completed it.

The conversation is finished. There's nothing else to talk about. Anyone seen Kevin? Maybe he's out trick-or-treating. I don't know. Is he going around as a speed? He's just got a sheet. Oh, I hear a doorbell at the door.

Could it be? Could it be Kelvin looking for speedies? Yeah, wow. What's it doing? Oh, I'll open the door. Yeah. Who is it? Oh, the theme song's playing now, Ben.

I'm sorry. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Spookiots, the official. Spookiots, Spookcast. It's a conversational spook cast where we obey the law of the... Hang on, no, I've lost my place. This is the spookiest bit, where we take some spooky questions from you at home and obey the law of the three spooky urs, where everybody brings our spook along to talk about.

about something like that i'm ben i'm peter sorry i spoke over you i'm peter oh oh oh no i'm oh michael oh wow i think that was one of the best ones we've ever done yeah that we all fell apart there it was really good i'm not in i admittedly i was question man and i forgot this was a Halloween episode entirely. Luckily, my thing is Halloween themed just by just by sheer chance. Oh, okay. It's not even a recent thing. It's from years ago.

I just, I'm not feeling the Halloween spirit anymore. And it's, I just, I don't know, I used to be one of my favorite times of the years. Times of the years. Times of the years. Not to just do like an age old, low hanging fruit thing. But this year in particular, I am genuinely shocked and appalled. at how early the Christmas stuff ended up in the shops. September, I saw some Christmas stuff this year.

September, that's not even, they should have the Halloween stuff in there at least, you know, in September. I mean, preferably 1st of October, but, God, I was aghast. A ghast. Oh, you said, a ghost. Wife, look. Yeah. I went into Aldi, and they had all their Christmas stuff out. and they, all of their mince pies went out of date in mid-November.

What? Wow. Yeah. That's really weird. Which I thought was perhaps the most damning indictment I'd seen of the early Christmas stock. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to piss off all the spook heads out there who love Halloween by bringing up the cursed Christmas creep, even though we're criticizing it. It doesn't exist until at least halfway through November.

That's the rules. welcome in everybody welcome to poddy it's it or spookiest sorry it's our spookiest podcast of the year hello boys how are you michael johnson i'm van davy dozy i've got to go to the dentist tomorrow well actually i say that as if it's a bad thing but i i after living in bristol since 2018 i finally found an NHS dentist so wow that's that is pretty good yeah well done sadly that is that was like it was like one dentist nearby had like an old open day and there was a queue around the block of people queuing to sign up for the dentist and it was bizarre people would walk out holding a little bit of paper with like the biggest

smiles on their faces just like I did it I got a dentist but I guess it's good but I'm scared because I eat a lot of sweets and I don't brush my teeth nearly enough after eating those sweets so have you not been for a while I've not been I've not been in quite a while and it's bad in there it's real bad so this might so I might sound entirely different next time when I get a new mouth installed to stop us. Yeah. So it's not even, just jawline and everything, just rip it all out. It's not even worth salvaging at this point.

This is actually the real reason why Podius is coming to an end, because we knew ahead of time that Mikey would probably be fortunate enough to get a dentist, sort of end of 2025. And we thought, you know, he is going to have to have his mouth off surgically. So we won't be able to do any next year, unfortunately. It's weird that the prophecy was foretold. the Terrence and Philip looking pottyets characters are now going to become

a reality, I'm just going to have a flapping head jaw. Yeah. Flapping mouth. Just a hinge. How are you both doing? Flapping and hingee? Yeah, sorry, I was just going to ask you, Mikey, quickly. How you're feeling? Because you were a bit, you're a bit poorly, weren't you?

I did a bit of the sickums, yeah. I had suspected COVID last week and all it did was make it hard to get out of bed really for a week straight. So that was fun better now look at here my dulcet tones i didn't have a sore throat i didn't have a cough i just couldn't get out of bed actually i did have a little bit of cough that's a lie it just

felt like so long ago so many hours in bed yes i'm fine thank you i'm glad glad you're feeling better yeah uh peter austin i think we we both would like to wish you many congratulations on your on your big video success oh thank you very much that's very kind thank you i'm sure many listeners will be aware, but Peter had a video that went proper viral. Yeah, hashtag viral. What done, Peter. Even to an extent that my parents understood what was going on. Wow.

The first time your parents have understood your job, maybe? Or at least to have. I also, when I went home to see my parents just this weekend gone, the first thing my dad said to me as I came through the front door was, hello million views Pete it's like my dad so they're very proud

which is lovely yeah this is it now you yeah you get to retire right yeah you've won't it you've completed YouTube that'll do you that's all yeah you just just sit back and let the residual

evergreen views pay your mortgage from that point on it's easy yeah it's so easy but yeah congratulations thank you That's, it's really, it's really exciting.

That's lovely. Thank you very much. Well done. What else you've been up to though? You're good? You're right apart from that? Yeah, well, there was one thing that happened to me that I was hoping would, like, it would be better and funnier and weirder than it was so that I could talk about it on Poddiet's because it seemed like it was going to be real good Poddiet's fodder. But it wasn't really, which is that I went to the Greg's pub in the Phoenix Shopping Center in Newcastle.

I thought, this is bound to be like something weird's going to happen. The weirdest thing that happened was that I walked in and I saw Tom Campbell sitting at the bar and said hello to him, Tom Campbell of cultaholic fame. So apart from that, just sat down, had some, you know, not great beer. They've got their own, two beers of their own, and one of them is a jammy something or other. It's like based on, I guess, their donut or something. And it's a beer, and then at the very end of drinking it, of each sip you kind of taste a bit of sweet strawberry flavor in a not very nice way the other one was fine don't remember what that one was called but yeah and then we got like

the sharing platter of just slightly pounced up uh gregg's food i say that in the nicest possible way like you know i i'm the only reason i'm sounding bitter is because it it all went very swimmingly and it wasn't weird enough for poddius but uh apart from that had a good time and uh yeah they just they just do a nice plate of Greg's food presented in a kind of a bistro pub sort of a way. It was nice. It was kind of fun. That does sound nice.

Yeah. I'm sorry that nothing weird happened. Yeah, me too. Sorry, I couldn't provide a better anecdote. You just went to the pub, Peter. Yeah, went to the pub and saw a guy from work and the beer was a bit weird. That's it.

Yeah. I think you could have stretched that into 15 minutes. Maybe. Yeah. Could have just made something up, I suppose. I drank my beer, and there was a dead rat in it. There was a rat in my beer. Oh.

No. No. I'm afraid not. How about you, Ben? You've been drinking any dead rats? Was that sorry? Drinking any dead rats? No, I'm aware of.

That's rat juice. Hopefully not. I was sick as well last week, but I couldn't even look at light fixtures on Friday. My head was hurting so much. Oh, I forgot you were sick, actually. Yeah. Are you doing better now? Much better, thank you.

I still feel a bit weird today, and my voice hasn't properly come back yet, but I'm feeling a lot better. I'm not like stumbling up and down the stairs in a very dangerous, precarious manner, so that's an improvement. It is. But over the weekend, I got a pizza, right? Not pizza delivered. Was it square?

It wasn't, sadly. But I had an unfortunate encounter. with the delivery driver and I'd like to talk to you guys briefly about delivery driver etiquette when it comes to food. So I think we're probably it's like a it's like an unspoken rule

right that a delivery driver for food is simply not allowed to comment on the content of your order. Absolutely not, especially not the size of it. Yeah, 100%. This guy did that twice. Oh, how long was you there for? He wasn't there for long.

It wasn't just food for me. either, to be clear. And it took way too long to arrive. And they did that stupid thing that always pisses me off on delivery apps where they don't show you the map, but it says, oh, it's been delivered and it hasn't because they're fucking fudging their numbers and they're lying to head office or whatever about their average delivery time. So, like, where's my food? And like, oh, be with you soon? It's not. So it took nearly an hour to get here. And then he arrived. And he was like, you must be hungry then. And I was already thinking, that's not okay. I'm fucking hungry because you took so long to get here. That's why.

Yeah. You're not, and I was like, yeah. And then he took it out and said, and he must have been thinking, I'm going to go, you know what, I haven't made it clear enough that I think this person has ordered too much food. And he, and he said, then he said, um, you could, you could live off that for three days. Oh my God. It's like, I don't know what to say to that. Like, why would you say that?

That's so unacceptable. It really is. That is not your place. That is absolutely not your place to comment on. Especially given that he didn't know whether or not you had anyone else in the house. Like, you could have just been a guy on his own who chose to order that much food for whatever reason, as you're entitled to do. So as far as he's concerned, he could be saying to you, wow, you're eating all of that. And that might be true.

Maybe you had ordered it all. What a horrible thing to do. It's just not on, is it? No. And that food did last for three days, by the way. There was still some left this morning. but that's not the point. And even so, I shouldn't have to say,

well, the intention is to actually have some leftovers as well. Yeah. I shouldn't have to defend. I shouldn't even be, I shouldn't even be a topic of discussion. It's none of his fucking business. Was this one of the large pizza chains or a smaller local one? Oh, my God. Oh, man, you got a complaint there.

Yeah, you do. I left some feedback and I said this was completely unacceptable and I'm not going to be ordering from you again for a while. And they'll probably, you know, dab their tears away with 10 million pound notes. But still, I was like, this is just so unacceptable. You're not allowed to do that. It's a safe space between you and the delivery driver. It's just a silent exchange and you go on with it.

And you don't want to be quite, that's a very vulnerable moment. It's a really fast food, man. Like, it's not, I know what, I know I'm killing myself with this, right? It's a treat. And yeah, you don't need to tell me that it's bad for me in whatever quantity I'll do. Do you want me to stop supporting your company because I'm guilty? into not eating any more of your big pizzas because I'll stop ordering and it'll come out of your wages. I guess there'll be less work for you then. Yeah. That's sad.

So yeah. Okay, well, I'm glad we're on the same page. I was just like that. It's, I was talking about it earlier and I had to say, it didn't upset me. And then I'm saying it was like, just really furious. You tell everyone, yeah. Just pissed me off. Like I'm still like, I can't believe it. The cheek. To even say one thing. Two things. You didn't need to. It's too much. Meanwhile, I believe I've told on a recent polly, it's the fact that I have an issue going in and collecting from dominoes because we have a dominoes near us. And so we normally pick up and they say, what's the name? I say Peter. They think I'm saying pizza and we have a commenter back and forth for a while. It's always me who goes in to collect. But a week or so ago, Amy and I decided to order dominoes. And I said, oh, I'm in my gym jams. I'm not getting dressed for dominoes. If you want dominoes, you want. will have to go in and pick it up.

So I'll drive with you, but you have to get out the car and get it, which, you know, it's just not what we normally do. She was like, okay, deal. So she went in, and it was ordered under my name still, and I got my moment of retribution where she had to go through the Peter Pizza issue, and I saw from outside through the glass windows, she walked in, and they were definitely going back and forth like three times. I was like, why is this not a one-and-done exchange? I know why and then I knew for sure it was going wrong when she turned and pointed to the word Peter on the TV screen where they have a list of like wait, you know, in progress or ready for collection.

I could just, I couldn't hear a word and I saw them talking for a little while and then she turns and just points at my name and he goes, oh, and goes and gets the food. So I felt I felt a little bit better about that that she at least knows. my pain. Man, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often. You know, so much so that they would learn that Peter doesn't sound like pizza. Someone will come in called Peter now and then, whether it's me or another Peter in Newcastle. Just be prepared that if you say what's the name and they sound like they're saying pizza, maybe they're saying Peter, especially if it's on the screen next to you and you've been preparing Peter's order.

Maybe they should have like a big red alarm that goes on if Peter makes an order So they know that in 10 minutes time Someone's going to come in and say his name is pizza Pizza's coming to pick up his pizza Just to prepare them We're going to have that thing again Be aware of everybody

Do you think it happens to Dominic as well I don't I don't fucking know what you're talking about buddy What is the name Dominic? Yeah But what is your name? Yeah Oh God same problem every time I go and collect my call delivery is it my cook my call my my yes yeah you're cool yeah 20 quid gram you know price of it man I can't believe that's happened more than once

that's like that's almost every time it's like a too ronnie sketch and also it does it does but just bonkers yeah great as if now we've got so many food anxieties to worry about either the delivery driver talking to you or them just totally misconstruing your name amazing yeah well did you guys know that if you went to pottyets dot com donated three pounds or more you'd get a shout out at the beginning

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you're damn right we begin with Ace at Grace Lord right on time Steven Scores, Anonymous, Nobzilla versus King Dong, Donak O'7, Fweds taking me to Podiat's Live, Bonglona, Longboona, very good, Anoncy Mouse, and Honeycombe Yoki. Thank you all. Thank you. We also had Honeycombe Yorke again, seemingly, or is that a No, they're different times. We had two from Honeycombe Yorkie.

Thank you very much. Neil Spook Annan. Very good. The obscenely generous spooky slug provocateur who said, been mostly lurking since name redundant but wanted to give you boys a proper send-off.

This should be enough for a grammar calls for each of you. Adjusted for inflation. Inflation! It went a little bit funny on at the end there. Signed Brian. Thank you very much, Brian. Thank you, Brian.

Have you served the price of coals? They're hovered but delivered yet. We also had donations from Powmusek, Powmusek. The also very, very, very generous Auntie Sasquots, who says, hey, lads, been following you for a long time and expect to keep following you wherever you make content. Pottieitz may be ending, but the joy of my boys certainly won't. Maybe we can all get together for a cruise through Gravy Bay.

Thank you very much, Auntie. And we also had a generous donation from Jens Herman who says, T.J ended, sadness. Podiates is ending, sadness. The world becomes more and more cruel and empty. So I'm going to enjoy the last bit of Podiat with everything I got. Also, congrats to Peter for his 1 million views,

totally blasted Al Gore's bumhole. Well, chin up, Jens. We've got a few more episodes to go. But thank you very much for your days. And we also had donations from I've sharted. I'll finish. Unlucky Lovejoy, Kata Karen, and The Nude Jungle Leader.

And finally, we have, I've shouted so I'll finish again. Oh no, hang on. I've copied some of yours, I believe. There we are, right, that makes a bit more sense. I was just saying to Mikey earlier, how have I miscounted? And I've ended up with way more donations to read. It's because I accidentally doubled up on some of those. Okay, makes a bit more sense. We've got Big Chief Kegwin, yes.

Yeah, yes. The generous Matt 66727 who said, In episode 65, I congratulated my then-housemate, now girlfriend Nicole, on starting her PhD. On episode 121, she congratulated me on finishing mine. Now, before the end, I'd like a shout out congratulating her on finishing hers and becoming a doctor. Thanks. Wow.

Congratulations, Dr. Nicole. That's how that has been going. Over the course of podium, We've had like an entire story arc there of people meeting and then and then get to be starting a relationship and then going to school and getting a proper job, magic. Being clever and more clever, mad. And before the end, it will be instead of Caroline, Nicole,

where is the TV remote? We've also got Simon Miller says, that's okay. The very generous Dominic from Czech Republic who says, oh boys, can't believe. that this is ending. Thank you for almost eight years of getting insight into British culture. I was hooked since the big toilet survey. I will always think of you

when I see a bird stuck in a supermarket. You should be, oh no, I am out of were, and then he's donated again, to finish the sentence. Thank you very much, Dominic. Thank you, Domit. That's a very generous of you. We've also got Plopatunity

Knox. Very good. That's great. fuck's sake. A slugsylant clingle strike yeah? Very good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pumpkinel and the very generous, the

obscenely generous, quite frankly, Miss Sluggy Naked Snailwurst Snailworth, Miss Sluggy Naked Snailworth, who donated twice, first saying, I really hope you understand what the name is in reference to otherwise I just seem very odd. Thank you so much for everything

you have helped me through in life. I couldn't have done any of it without you cheerful chaps in my ears every step of the way i wish you all the best in life you will always have a lifelong fan in me michael smiley face hopefully the message reached you in order it certainly did miss sluggy naked snail words well on hat films they had a character called miss sluggie slugworth slugworm but i don't know if that's if that's that there can't be many other things in the world that begin with miss sluggy and have the worth in there as well but it's certainly a variation upon. Did we, why do we have several slug-related donations?

Did we talk about slugs last week? It's not even been that long. No, this happens a lot though. And I'm sure we have had other slug ones, haven't we? Wasn't there a... Have we? I don't think I've seen any slug ones. Oh, maybe not.

I thought there was one other slug one. I might be making that up. Spooky slug provocateur. Oh. Oh. I don't know. Oh. Hmm.

Hmm. Hmm. Was we learned the German word for slug was homeless snail or something? Oh, yes, we did learn the German for slug. Ben did a story about slugs or snails or something. Yes, on a doorbell. I remember. Oh, yeah, on the doorbell.

God's sake. Don't trust us with information. We'll forget it really easily. That is the words Miss Sluggy, Slugworth Slugworm, but instead of, but they've inserted naked snail because that's a translation of slug. Gotcha. We've got it, Michael. Well done. Mystery solved. Let's go. Let's go.

Fantastic. Thank you so much, Pod Squad. Really appreciate it. Poddiots.com, three pounds or more to get a shout out at the beginning. And the end of the next episode of Poddietz, there are, I'm sorry to say, two episodes remaining. Just to keep you guys in the loop, the live show is still chugging away in the background as we explore options. it's obviously not going to happen before the end of this year. So technically there will be hopefully, fingers crossed, one more episode and that will be happening at some point next year and it will be live. But thank you.

Massive thank you to this week's Pod Squad. I really appreciate you all. Yeah. Michael John Sen, you are in charge of things today. What would you like to do? I would, I wrote in my order. I'm going to throw it back to you straight away, Ben. Could I get your reviewer submitted thing?

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Yeah Right This is a story On Westword.com Written by Thomas Mitchell and the headline is as follows Pueblo County Coroner Cancels Halloween Party

amid Rotting Corps Controversy Oh no Oh Why go to And I will say from the brief bit I've read This is very Casual in the style that Thomas Mitchell has written this article

It doesn't feel particularly journalistic Shall I say We love a casual article Why go to the rich name neighborhoods for trick or treating when you can go to the morgue instead. It begins. Yesterday, October the 16th, the Pueblo County Coroner's Office announced it was throwing a Halloween party on October the 31st, hoping to provide a safe and sweet Halloween celebration for the community. Kind of weird, but okay, Thomas says.

The local coroner isn't the first place I'd take children on Halloween, but it's hard to hate on someone wanting to bring a little joy and candy to children in a supervised setting. some murder fetishizing influences or podcast hosts would be down and it's still way less creepy than whatever's going on at the evangelical church well done coroner's office says Thomas Mitchell he's got a bit of an agenda is not unbiased journalism what is going on here I don't know what this website is or what Thomas's slant is here it continues but parties are all about expectations and the Pueblo County Coroner's office probably should have expected

raised eyebrows while announcing a public Halloween party less than two months after the office was at the centre of a nationally infamous controversy involving hidden and decomposing bodies. Oh my God, what? Oh my God. What? In late August, Pueblo County Curran O'Brien Cotter was busted for allegedly stuffing well over a dozen decomposing bodies and, it says, cremains. That's right. Behind a hidden door at a mortuary he owns in Pueblo.

Is that just a made-up point? word, or is that actually... I don't know enough about morgues. Defined cremains. To question what cremaine is. Cremate. Is it cremated remains? I don't know. Oh, a Cambridge dictionary says,

Cremains is the ashes that remain after a dead body's been cremated. Apparently, it's a real word. That sounds fake. Yeah, it does. Wow. Also, that person sounds like a pseudonym for you, Ben. What's his name? Brian Cotter.

Brian Cotter. Are you on the wrong, Ben? Was this you? No relation. I didn't even know what cremains were. I mean, to be honest, I don't think Brian does either, but it's beside the point. The case is still under investigation, but Cotter quickly resigned after pressure from local authorities and governor Jared Polis. According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the total number of bodies found at the mortuary is still unknown, but some of them could have been there as long as 15 years while the next of kin may have received fake. Oh my God.

Sorry, this is really horrible. So then it says have received fake cremains and it still doesn't sound right. Yeah, no, it doesn't, definitely not. It does just sound like it's having fun. Like, he set himself a badly here because he had fun at the beginning of the article. Yeah, and it's really serious. It's so serious. Because I chose this because it sounded funny because I think I read like the first half of it,

I missed out the bit where it mentioned stuffing many, many dead bodies into places. It's fucking hell. Yeah. continues, like basically this isn't the only thing that's happened at this mortuary. It's not good. It's not good. It's like a literal horror show. There's been all sorts of stuff happening from 2010 to 2018. Something to do with a funeral home that was connected might have had some stuff. Anyway, regardless. So comments in a now deleted social media post announcing the Halloween party called out the coroner's office for being tone deaf

and out of touch. By around 9pm last night, the flyer had been taken down from the Pueblo County Facebook page and a written statement from Dr. Greg Graheck, the current Pueblo County Coroner, had been posted. According to Graheck, the coroner's office had actually held Halloween parties before and didn't mean to cause any discomfort with the recent announcement. So, yeah, it's then just a normal statement, but I don't know, it's, so I'm trying to get my head around this. The county coroner's office is different from the morgue where all this stuff happened. Ah, I assumed it was happening in the more.

Yeah, so did I. That's what the article makes it sound like, which I think is very misleading on the part of Thomas and his weird writing style. But all of these. Oh, he co-owns the private funeral home with his brother, seemingly, Cotter. So the Pueblo County Coroner, Brian Cotter, co-owns a private funeral home with his brother where I think this was happening. Gotcha. So it's all connected

but the actual Halloween event was not happening at the morgue in question. So yeah, basically horrendous things happened at this morgue and then the governing body responsible for overseeing that stuff said hey kids want to come hang out at the coroner's office Bad, bad press. That's bad

just weird. On the one hand I'm obviously I'm not I don't really want to know much more of the gory details about that story. But on the other hand, I'm just kind of thinking, like, why did that even happen? Because, like, that's literally just your job.

Like, it's not... There's nothing to be gained by, like, stuffing bodies in a... Whatever it was. You know, if it was like, oh, you know, there's a big market for cremains and they were selling them off to all the people who want to buy cremains illegally, then I can see how they could be tempted to do that.

But that just sounds like they couldn't really be asked to do their one job. It feels like more effort to not cremate them Yeah Yeah Yeah Really really bizarre

Yeah I think you're going to have to go to an actual website To find out more information Yeah And and read between the lines Um Jeez Yeah he just ends it with a question

He ends the article just saying Does anyone else feel bad now And that's how the article ends Yeah I do I just read your weird article So weird isn't it Yeah. Thomas Mitchell has been the news editor of Westward. Okay, yeah, maybe never go to this website. Bad website. He's earned numerous awards and acclades for his work, including placing second for the Marijuana Enterprise Reporting Award.

Right. He was named a top cannabis journalist by Leaf Buyer in 2020. Are we starting to form a picture of Thomas now? He's a character, isn't he? Oh, he's a card. Yeah. Wow. I can't believe there's a list of top cannabis journalists. I know. Guys, can we all just be a bit more respectful to Thomas, please?

He is, after all, a top cannabis journalist. Not the top cannabis journalist, but he's one of them. God. You send a picture of, like, a poster for the thing, and this trick or treat. Come be spooky with us, Pueblo County Coroner's office. I just don't understand this. It's an office as well.

Who's going to take the children to an office? What? It's just bizarre. I think this was someone's idea and they were really well-meaning, but it's not been thought through at all. Yeah. We've got a lot of bad PR in the last few years, guys. How do we fix us?

Let's throw a party. Come and celebrate Halloween at our office. Just do not look in the locked filing cabinet that has dust on the handle. Full of cremains. It's got candy, costumes, and spooky fun, which is exciting. Spooky fun. I like how costumes is. one of the bullet points as if they're providing it.

Like, they need people to come with the costumes, surely. That's not something they can promise that we'll be there. That reminds me of two things, one of which I may have told you, but I'll say it quickly. In the summer, Amy and I wanted to go to one of those big country fairs where they have animals and fairground rides and stuff. And we were looking at various different ones. And one of them had bullet points listing all the stuff, and it said, like, fairground, craft area

blackface I was like whoa what what and then under blackface were three more breeds of sheep as bull

oh my god I can't lead with that no don't at least put that one after you know airshire or whatever like start with some other breeds it was just as a bullet point

underneath fairground it was oh my god but also there's a church near us in the village near us where on the outside they have a big poster for their like Saturday Kids Club Day and it's really sad really where it sort of says

like we'll watch a DVD film pizza party for lunch and then in like quite small writing it says 10 minute worship session and then it says like balloons fun and games they're desperately trying to they're like please please praise the Lord we promise we will only talk about God for 10 minutes and we'll give them pizza. It's like, oh God. I mean, those numbers have got to be fucking dwindling now. Yeah, I know. They were pretty low when we were kids.

Yeah. 10 minute worship session. And then more pizza. Children don't want Jesus. No. They want Roblox. Roblox and a 10 minute prayer session. If there was a prayer session in Roblox, you might have more uptake. Oh, there's absolutely some crazy religious stuff going on on Roblox, surely. Yeah, it has to be.

It's where the kids are. That's where they'll try and reach them. Mm, yeah. The message of God. I want to find an online church now That's got to be a thing Oh, in Roblox Oh, I definitely will be Just anywhere like

All right That's a new project for me Attending online church With your really broad Square character Trying to file into pews Excuse me Trying to put his cube hands together in prayer

Yeah Make the sign of cross Amazing God Well that's my thing Thank you very much, Ben. I'm going to roll into my thingy thing thing thing, my big thing, my big thing. And I have a bit of history, a bit of spooky history.

We recently had a new story about the Catman of Wirral. Do you remember that? Yes. Like people going out and hunting a man in a leotard. What's a leotard? What's a leotard? Yeah. No, he was in a leotard or something like that.

He was in like a bondage costume, wasn't he? Yeah, I was being too many catmen now. Like a one thing. Yeah, I think the photos were too sort of blurry crypted to know what he was actually wearing. Well, sadly, this is not a story about the Burrell Catman. I did check on the Facebook page. As if you remember, I joined the local Facebook page for the area

that was focused on hunting the catman. I think the last post was in all. August, and the last post was something along the lines of, has anyone seen the Catman recently? And everyone said no. So I think, sadly, the Royal Catman is retired or moved on or dead. Or dead. But please do check your basements and sheds and see if he's locked in there, please. But I need a fix of public nuisances.

So let's take a step back in time to an entirely different continent, to a land of gold, dust, and apparently, terrifying, glowing perverts. Oh, wow. This is a mixture of a couple of articles. The main one is in At the Subsecure one. This is quite a fun, quite a fun early, early, early tale of weirdness from a young country. Sorry, I realize I haven't said where it or what it is. I try to leave all these details separate.

So I'm trying to tantalize without even saying anything. It's going to be spooky. Okay. In 1882, in the Southeast Australian state of Victoria, repeated attacks on the general public were carried out by a figure only known as the Wizard Bombardier. No. Oh, no.

Not the Bombardier, the Wizard Bombardier. He's magic and explosive. This individual was known for wearing an ostentatious outfit of white robes and a sugarloaf hat. Do you know what Sugarloaf hat is? No. It's like when I, when I, when I, when I, when I, when I, when I, when I, when I, when I, when I, I was like, yep, that's an evil hat. I don't think I'm like, it just, there's something about Sugar Loaf hats that give off bad vibes. Let me see if I can find.

Diabolical. It's kind of conical, really, like a little. Yeah. It's a bit like a sombrero, but tall. Sugar loaf. There we go. That's a, it's, it's kind of like a cowboy hat, but taller. Oh, yeah, weird.

Yeah. It's like a. Settling. Which find a hat. Yeah. It's quite possibly the scariest hat that exists. It's menacing. A menacing.

The wizard's strategy involved disorienting people with loud screams before hurling stones and other sorts of missiles at them. No, that's kind of monster. Look at my big hat. Oh, you're a bastard. And the ghoulish individual made a quick dash and was gone. Very spring heeled jack, but the wizard was far. are from the only spectre roaming Australia at the time. Attacks like these in which pranksters, disguised as ghosts, would wreak havoc

and came to be known as ghost hoaxing. So this is a thing which wasn't just like one weird person. It was enough of a thing that it got a name and lots of people were doing it all around the same time, which is genuinely baffling and kind of fun, but also not fun because they're throwing rocks of people and screaming in people's faces. Not cool, guys. Don't do that. I think this used to happen in England as well,

but I guess a lot of, you know, most of the Australian population were formally English at that time. I guess it still happens, actually. It still happens. We have the cat man. We have gimps walking around. Yeah. Proud tradition.

That's what makes us human is our ability to dress up and scare people in the dark. Attacks like these, there were many cases and perpetrators in Australia from the 19th century to the first. First World War, to the point that rewards were offered for apprehension of ghost hoaxes. It started off simple. Someone drapes a sheet over themselves, jumps out at a passerby, everyone screams, ha ha, job done. But then the amateurs were outdone by the professionals.

Men who decided to take ghosting to the next level. Darling, I'm going out to do my ghosting. It's very serious. I'm a professional. I am a professional. I am paid for this. paid for it, yeah. I live for the arts. So yes, it started off. Yeah, it started with just men in sheets and then it became a little bit more. It became a lot more effort got put in, far more effort than is warranted to do this kind of nuisance.

In this era, Australia was the perfect location for villains and rogues who wished to imitate apparitions for their own ends. David Waldron, author of the article, playing the ghost, ghost hoax. and supernaturalism in late 19th century Victoria. Look at that. See if it's got in research and articles about it, man. Woo.

Says that the lack of professionalised police meant that Australia had a particular lawlessness. And in that lawlessness, people decided to dress up as ghosties and go boo, which is quite, it could have been worse. Could have been a lot worse. Could have been. That, along with an abundance of leisure time

and a lack of affordable entertainment options created an environment ideal for ghost hoaxes who often use their theatrics to entertain themselves. This is the news needs to need a youth club or something. Here's, I'm going to give you a little clipping from a newspaper article at the time. It's quite a cute little drawing, big fan of it. Cute. Looks like it's from Scooby-Doo. Oh, yeah, that's good.

But that's one of your amateurs, that's just an idiot in a white sheet. Right. But I went to the professionals, as they were dubbed. Technology helped make the ghost pranksters look spooky, as Waldron writes. The recent invention of phosphorescent paint meant that individuals could glow in the dark as they menaced others. Oh my God. Probably, like, whilst also developing cancer while they did it. Yeah.

Yeah, it's got to be good for it. Yeah. I've got glow lung now. which made all of their outfits all the more believable and gave them another worldly appearance. Ghost hoaxes sometimes fashioned elaborate disguises. In 1895, for instance, one prankster created a costume to resemble a knight and emblazoned the phrase,

prepare to meet thy doom on this armour. I really wish to those cameras at this time. I want to see this outfit. Yeah, it's a professional. To, yeah, that is a professional. I mean, like, you can hear him coming from a mile off. Yeah. That's dedication.

It'd be quite difficult to run away once you've scared the person, though. Yeah. I'm sure, but what are they going to do? They can't get to you. You're shielded, man. Yeah. It's the perfect outfit. And to ratchet up the threat factor this night would also threaten people with decapitation.

Fun. Not as fun. Don't do that. Too far. Nauty. Australia during this period was very concerned about the threat of larikins. Is that a term still in use today? Larikins?

I'm not aware of that word. Larikins. A larikin is an Australian English term meaning a mischievous young person. Oh, there you go. I'm sorry, I'm just Googling. Here's an example of a lariken. Look at that. Look at that larrikin.

He's got his hat on. He is so ready to cause some mischief. He's poised and ready to Ha-hoo The Laranquin Nauty Dier Rowdy youths out to cause mischief

Some of these Laracins regarded ghost costumes As suitable devices With which to commit crimes and violence A sort of urban warfare Was thought The ghost hoaxes on one side And on the other

Vigilante's and armed guards Determined to shoot the pranksters With Buckshot As a way to end their mischief And their lives maybe Yes, I'd say that's pretty It's pretty forceful This will end your mischief

Oh, it was Halloween It was a small child Oh god Maybe that's why that guy was walking around in a suit of armour Who was like, I'm going to get shot Walden writes that Despite the ghost pranks being associated With the working class

Once the ghosts were apprehended Many, if not most of the ghosts arrested were in fact school teachers and clerks and the like and a small number of middle class women middle class women oh my god no no which I mean to be fair that makes sense

because if you're going to put a lot of time and effort and money into your outfit I guess you do have to come from you do have to be educated and have money otherwise you're just a dickhead in a white sheet yeah where you're going to get your glowing paint from if you don't have a bit of cash in your pocket exactly exactly one unexpected

ghost hoaxer was Herbert Patrick McLennon, who in 1904, so God, we go like, this is over the course of 10 years now, we're talking. He equipped himself with a glowing outfit that included a top hat, a frock, coat and boots. And most menacingly, McLennan carried a cato nine-tails whip and used it to whip people as they went past. Oh, wow. But this spurred on a five-pound bounty to be put on his head. And after this, he declared war on the authorities himself, which weird, you can't catch me. I'm going to catch it. I'm going to get you. I'm going to put a bounty on your head. Threatening to, he threatened to shoot anyone who came after him in a letter addressed to local leaders in which he referred to himself as the ghost.

Weird, weird. You're sincerely the ghost. The ghost. when McLennan was eventually arrested however he turned out to be a powerful influential clerk and public speeder McClellan was sent to jail but he was soon back out again and he was given a slap on the wrist and told not don't do that again naughty

some ghost hawks has made their own custom disguises such as where this is the most baffling thing in this whole article made their own custom disguises such as wearing a coffin strapped to their backs so as to give the appearance of having risen from the dead and brought it with you it's like a snail like a ghost snail

he's not very agile outfit so you got a knight and a coffin man it's weird um it does there's a case in 1895 with coffin man bizarre um one female ghost hoaxer even incorporated music by playing a guitar while she's sculpt around near a hotel according to reports in 1880 and 1819, 1889. Jesus, get a hobby. I mean, you have a hobby, get a better. Get a better one. Get a nicer hobby.

One theme common to ghost hoaxes was the use of pre-existing superstitions and locations that were regarded as haunted or associated with death, such as cemeteries, in order to double down on fare. Some hoaxes even painted a skull and crossbones in a particular location to create a sense of fear before they arrive to wreak havoc. It's like announcing Oh, oh, the night ghost is going to be here next week He's done his skull thing

Great Weird Da-da-da-da But yeah, to the wilder community Ghost hoax has presented Yeah Well, to the wider community Ghost hoax has presented a threat

Not just through fear But also through crime and violence And then it states here Or even just egg theft No, that's the word one. Classic, thanks there. That's my least favorite of the crimes.

I did try and get a bit more context on that. I guess maybe the ghosts were just running up and got the eggs. Go into hen houses or something. Cheers after me slowly. I'll throw a lid paint at you. Not all citizens were prepared to stay helpless in the face of this threat, though. In 1896, an ex-soldier named Charles Horman seemed to be a one-man army against the spectral impersonators. He opened fire

with a shotgun on one youth who was pretending to be a ghost, while using a cane to attack another hoaxer who was assaulting a woman. So he's like, whoa, he's doing it. He's the man again, he's like army of darkness shit. He's going there against the undead armies. He's really doing it.

Parents whose children had been attacked by ghost hoaxes also took the law into their own hands. One woman unleashed her pit bull on a hoaxer who had assaulted one of their children. And didn't, yeah, like things were getting serious. In 1913, a mob of vigilantes chased and beat a man wearing a glowing ghost outfit who had terrified an old man. It's just what the what is going on? Oh, dear. Eventually, finally,

it says the authorities cracked down. I think also part of that is the authorities were invented in Australia, I think. And the hoaxes were fined or jailed. Eventually, the headlines faded and the craze fizzled out. But for a few glorious years, The gold fields were haunted by glowing idiots in rubber boots, jumping out the darkness, yelling, boo. And historians like David Wardron point out that the ghost hoax panic revealed deeper anxieties, social unrest, poverty, fear of crime. Maybe, just maybe that is true. But I like to think of it another way. It's just a bunch of overworked, bored, clerks, miners and frustrated people who just want to feel alive by pretending to be dead.

by bothering children and children yes I'm going to feel alive by being not more than a nuisance a criminal I really like the screenshot you've sent us of an old newspaper and it concludes by saying the residents decided not to hand him over to the police

but to administer a sound thrashing with a paling this was accordingly done and the ghost set at liberty not the man dressed as the ghost The ghost was exercised with a sound thrashing And justice was served Yeah The costume consisted of a sheet

With eyelet holes And decorated with red paint Like genuinely the most primary school Ghost costume But as you say Mikey He wasn't a professional that one He was an amateur Yeah

Just an op-ed Yeah Let me see if I can find Here's one illustration of one of the ghost people. This isn't a ghost. I mean, it is a ghost, but it's not... A ghost with a revolver, it says at the bottom.

Yeah. That's the caption. That's just assault. Yeah. And it's terrifying to look at. That looks like something you'd get in a horror game that someone's made. Yeah, that's quite unsettling. But it's got a gun.

Oh! Yeah, just a gun coming out of a sheet with a dark, spooky-looking face peering out of it. Very weird. So yes. Be thankful, people don't do this anymore. Instead, they dress up as cats and gimps. Yeah. I guess.

There you go. Merry Halloween, Miss everyone. Thank you, Mikey. You're welcome. Thank you, boys, for listening. Next up, we've got, oh, Peter's, a viewer submitted thing. Yes.

And the spooky things continue. But you know what's spookier than the paranormal and the supernatural? It's things that could... What is it, Peter? Things that, what could really happen to you in real life. I mean, you know, someone argue that the supernatural and paranormal can happen to you. But sometimes, you know, nature is the scariest thing of all. So I've got a story here that was sent by Joe Keating at Evo Paleo on Blue Sky.

And it's according to the mirror. And you know at the top of news articles, they have like subcategories. So it might say news lifestyle fashion. You know, they've got like a sorting system. This one says, mirror, news, ladybirds. So they have a whole category for ladybirds, apparently, on the mirror. For all the ladybird stories. Good.

And the story is, and the headline is actually just a quote, hundreds of ladybirds are taking over my house and have started peeing on me. No. No. Oh, God. That's really spooky. A horrified woman shared a video of ladybirds. swarming over her windows and walls

after they invaded her home but it became too much when one had a smelly wee on her hand Oh my gosh Jesus Just one Not even like the whole swarm was pissing everywhere One ladybird did a smelly wee

Anyway Have you ever been weed on by a ladybird Yeah it's not very nice but you know It's a bit weird That's unlocked like a deep childhood memory of me I forgot that ladybirds did that They leave that little residue do, don't they? Yeah. Anyway, never mind. This is written by Beth Hardy, and the story goes.

Lois Mallet Walker considers herself something of a nature lover, but even she couldn't cope with hundreds of insects invading her personal space and taking over her house. The UK has seen a huge increase in the number of ladybirds this year, thanks to warmer weather, providing perfect breeding conditions and plenty of food. But it seems they're not done swarming yet, even though we're well into autumn. Although Lois thinks the tiny red critters are very cute, She didn't really want them all over her windows, walls and curtains and was mortified when one relieved itself on her hand, hyphen, and it smelt revolting, exclamation mark.

If it smelled nice, I wouldn't have minded it. Yeah, piss all over me if you like. It continues, one peed on me and it stank, the 35-year-old said. There was yellow stained liquid on my hand, and it smelt so bad. Lois claimed there are around 300. ladybirds, including baby ones, crawling all over the area where the doors in her house lead outside, around the windows, in the sills, under the patio doors and in the curtains. I love ladybugs, or ladybirds, but it was far too many in my house for me, she said.

Being an animal lover and the director of a dog event company in Hertfordshire, what's a dog event? Dog event company? Do they put on like plays and stuff? Yeah, little parties and stuff. Lois attempted to get as many outside as possible, but had to hoover some of them up. She believes they were hiding in her windows,

preparing to hibernate for winter, but a spell of warmer weather woke them up. And it just goes on with just her saying that there were lots of ladybirds in her house. She normally thinks they're cute. She hoovered them up. But then there's a bit that says, Lois shared a clip of the ladybirds on TikTok

to ask if anyone else was experiencing the same. thing. I love them, but this was too much. Also, one let out some liquid on my finger, and it stank, she said in the clip, which wrapped up almost 30,000 views. It's just the same information over and over again. It goes on and on. It's absolutely nothing, the mirror. There's nothing here. He doesn't even mention. Someone saw a TikTok and wrote an article. 40,000 views doesn't seem like a lot on TikTok. No, not really. To be deserving of an article. and the bit about weeing which they ran as the headline

and repeated several times in the first few paragraphs was only when they actually disclosed how it came up in the original TikTok it was just mentioned in passing like a tiny bit and they're like this is front page fucking wait until the ladybird division of the mirror hears about this

the writers are one of them just a single one weed on her but I'll give you the wording of the headline again hundreds of ladybirds are taking over my house and have started peeing on me, implying that hundreds of ladybirds have been peeing on her.

One of them did. There's got to be some sort of governing body that can this can't be allowed. You can't just write shit like this. What else is in the ladybirds category on the mirror? Just that story.

Oh no. Wow. Girl bewildered after crunching on ladybird as they swarm UK households. Oh no. I don't know if that means. chewing on it or stepping on it. Ladybird invasion, as people told to act, if any scene in home. And popular UK seaside town invaded by swarms of ladybirds of beetles that bite.

And that's it. I've got a fun one here. STD riddled insects. The other bug carrying deadly infections as disease ladybirds invade British homes. Oh yeah, there's more if it's fall down. Christ. What the fuck? So it's scared.

I mean, it's not good news, obviously, but it seems like, where's the nice pieces of news about ladybirds, huh? Yeah, come on my hand, and it was so gentle and pretty, and then it flew away, says, mum, 37. Also in the ladybirds category, new series of ladybird books for grown-ups features brilliant explanations of modern themes. Yeah, let's file that under ladybirds. It's the same thing. That's the same thing. This article feels like it was written by someone who had a real bad experience. Jeremy Armstrong hates ladybirds. You care to be hit by billions of smelly ladybirds.

Ew, steaky. God's sake. Fantastic. Billions of vile-smelling cannibal ladybirds will invade homes this winter. Experts warned yesterday. To be clear, this was published in January 2012. So that didn't fucking happen. No.

With this weird anti-Ladybird ladybug propaganda. It's bad, isn't it? What have they done? The mirror is just an outlet, a propaganda arm of big anti-Ladybird. Yeah. Disgusting. That's all it is. All the articles and videos are just like, they got STDs.

They got STDs. They're coming. They're coming. Yeah. God. Well, that's it. That's the story. Great. Thank you, Peter.

Thanks for sending that in, Joe. Thank you, Joe. Ben. Yes. Would you like to grace us with your thing? I would love to. I've got a spooky thing for you all. All two of you.

Now, in previous years, we've sort of, we began a bit of a tradition where we did spook or spock. Is it a spot quote? Yes, we did. Or is it a spooky quote? We did that a couple of times. I believe last year we did, no, the year before we did Fright or Sprite, is it a horror movie quote?

Is it a quote from an advert for a soft drink? Yeah. Last year we did Bear or Scare. Is it a spooky quote? Is it from the Disney movie Brother Bear? And this year, that continues with vampire or umpire. Oh, good. So I have, this is going to be quick fire because I've got quite a few.

But I've collected a list of vampires from all across fiction, be it TV, movies, literature or video games, as well as a list of current and past tennis chair umpires to hold or have held a gold badge International Tennis Federation ITF rating. Now, as we all know, gold badge umpires typically officiate Grand Slam, ATP Tour and WTA Tour matches. The names I've collected include only those who hold or have held a gold badge as a chair umpire and not those who hold or have held a similar badge in refereeing or chief umpiring do you understand i was going to say are you including people who've held similar badges in in other umpiring you know that was my first question so i'm glad you've

cleared that up thank you yeah i thought it would be worth mentioning yeah so i want your i want your knee jerk reaction one at a time and if you guys could keep track of your own scores that will be great sure yes are you ready yes Yes Adrian Ivashkov Ompire No, that's a vampire from Vampire Academy

Don't know what that is George Grime Emphasis on the Grime Just to really make it spooky George Grime Umpire Umpire That is an umpire

He umpired five Wimbledon finals between 1982 and 1992, of course, from Great Britain. I wish my voice was fully back after this sickness so I could give it the gravitas it deserves, but here we go. Rudolf Sackville Bag. What?

These are getting very difficult already. Sackville Bag. Sack. Hiphonated. He's got two bags in his surname there. Sack and bag. I think that might be a vampire who carries children away in his sack.

Mackville bag. That's got... Yeah, I'm saying that. Yeah, I'm saying vampire. It's a vampire from the little vampire. Okay. Freddy Saw. Freddy Saw.

Freddy. Oh, Freddy. Freddy. Hmm. It doesn't sound like a vampire name, does it? Freddy. Sounds like a murderer, but maybe not a vampire. I'm going to say umpire.

I'll say vampire just because we've gone with the same thing every time. that of course was the longest serving umpire at wimbledon over 40 years i should have known old freddie saw yeah freddie saw yeah is that because he's been sitting in the chair for so long is freddie knoll-ass is what he's also in i know edward fender ummm obviously there's an edward in twilight right so is that a bait and switch is that a uh that's an umpire i would say vampire The Last Vampire. It's a vampire. Cecilia Alberti.

Oh, wait. What was the answer? You dropped out for me there. Did you hear, Mikey? I did hear. Okay. It was The Last Vampire. That was a vampire. Oh, okay. Edward Fender. Cecilia Alberti. Cecilia. Cecilia sounds vampiry. I want to go vampire. I'll say vampire as well, yeah.

That's an Italian umpire. Oh, God damn it. I'm not doing very well here. Adel Nour. I'm not even sure what you said there. That was just sounds. Adel Nua. Umpire.

Vampire. That is an Egyptian ATP umpire, yes. Okay. Oh, I think it's an Egyptian vampire, don't it? Sadly not. Jan Luca Moscarella. That's got to be a vampire. umpire that's a hell of a name

that's an italian ITF and wta umpire and apparently not a very nice man per my reading wow shame leif helgarsen is that a trick he's got hell in his name but i'll say umpire i want to go vampire that's a vampire from the iron druid chronicles hell yes Brie, Tanner

That sounds so unlike a vampire That's got to be a vampire I want to say vampire as well That's a vampire from Twilight Okay Hell yeah Roland Hurfel Ruland for some reason to me

gives big vampire energy I'm going to say vampire I'll say umpire that is the German ATP umpire and supervisor who is noted for defaulting after being called by court being called on court by chair umpire Jesus I can't even read this Greg Allen's worth

Sharapolov No Sharap it doesn't matter fuck it I was going to give you a tennis quote I can't even fucking read anything I've written down Jukasarasti Jukasarasti Umpire They're all good names.

Vampire. That is a vampire from blind sight, apparently. Okay. Damien Dumoisois. Umpire. I'm going to go vampire for that one. That is a French umpire. It's an ITF umpire officiated the 2012, 2015,

2016, 2018, 2018, 2020 and the 2023 French Open Men's singles final. He must be a vampire if. he's lived that long my god that's at least 40 years yeah Eric Knight how are you spelling night

with a K bed time okay Eric Knight that's a vampire surely I'm gonna go vampire as well that is a vampire from the

House of Night series oh great Ah very good Nazuna Nanakusa Vampire That's so vampire That I want to say umpire instead That is a vampire

From call of the knight Which may be related to the House of Night series I don't Eric Knight, yeah Augustus Giovanni Umpire Yeah umpire That's a vampire from Vampire the Masquerade

Oh, okay Eva Asderaki That sounds like a vampire We've not had an umpire in a while But I'll say vampire I'm going to go Empire That is a Greek umpire Officiated the 2011

US Open Women's singles singles final Okay Philippe de Castro Vampire Vampire Vampire Vampire

That is a vampire from the southern vampire mysteries apparently what do you think of louise azamar engzel i can hear the thunder clap in the distance umpire umpire i'm gonna go umpire it sounds posh that is a swedish umpire officiated the women's singles final the 2012 olympics and much more That's a vampire if I've ever heard one. I'll say umpire. That is a vampire from The Little Vampire. Damn it.

Got five left. You ready? Okay, yeah. Marta Mnorsinska. Umpire. Vampire. That's a Polish umpire. Okay.

Mohamed El Janati. Umpire? I want to go vampire Moroccan umpire Okay Renaud Lichtenstein Would you name a fictional vampire Would you give them the surname

Lichtenstein Yes Vampire What was the first name there Renault like car Renaulte It's just a name of a car Renno Lichtenstein

I drive a Renaulte Lichtenstein oh that's that's an umpire that's an umpire that's a french umpire yeah oh damn it janda sun star a sun star vampire vampire vampire vampire of the mists is what that one is from camille belcour camille camille's giving umpire i'll say vampire That is a vampire from the mortal instruments and the infernal devices, apparently. And the final one, Marianna Velyovic.

Oh. Umpire. It's a vampire. That is a Serbian umpire. An ITF umpire officiated the 2018 Australian Open Women's Singles Final, the 2019 Wimbledon Championship's Women's Singles Final, the 2021 U.S. Open Women's Singles Final, the 2025 French Open Women's Singles Finals

the 2025 US Open Women's Singles Final and the Fed Cup Final 2019 She officiated the 2021 Tokyo Olympics Women's Single Final match officiated the 2021 Billy Jean King Cup Final And in 2022 she officiated The Australian Open Women's Singles Final And the 2024 neck biting competition

She was a vampire the whole time Oh my God How many were there? How many were there? there were 26. Yeah, I did worse than chance. Oh, no, I didn't. I just barely scraped 14.

14. Mikey? I just, I just eeked the win with 15. Oh, you're ahead of me. You guys know your umpires. Kind of, sometimes. Well, that will be the last of those. I do, I came up with a few of these.

Honestly, with my fiancé, we were brainstorming them like a few years ago. And I have like a recurring reminder that comes up every year at the beginning of October. Right. You've got to do one of these. So we made it to vampire or umpire. Do you want to hear the other ones that I've got noted down? Yeah. The things that we could have had but never will, just to make us all sad.

Let's hear it. Yeah. Blood or spud. Type of potato or what? I don't know. Vampire. I work out. Oh, you don't know.

Okay. Work out. It's just rhyming. Fear or beer. okay um and the other one that's left is meth or death okay so this the ones those were my my patented really good ideas um but vampire or umpire rhymes really well so i thought it's it's this it's this one's turn um thank you for playing thank you i'll miss i'll miss this every every Halloween might just do it for fun we could do the three of us could get together

and not press record. And Ben can just do a quick quiz for us. Yeah, I'd love to. No problem. There you. Amazing. Thank you very much, Ben. You're welcome.

In our hearts forever. And names will live on. On to me and my viewer submitted thing. This is from Beardy Samas on the Discord. And this is a real spooky Halloween treat. This is a BBC news article. And the headline reads, the city full of tongue-in-cheek road signs

Absolutely terrifying This is by Ooh, I found the spook The journalist here is called Elliot Dedy Elliot! Oh gosh There we go

A council is urging Whoever is putting up tongue-in-cheek signs in the city To stop the spoof I demand an end to the spoofs. The spoofery will come to an end. It's getting spoofy. Saying they could mislead residents and cause confusion. Oh my God.

Several official looking signs have popped up across Chelmsford over the past 18 months, with the latest poking fun at a double-decker book, poking fun at double-deck. Decker bus drivers after one vehicle became wedged recently. Would you like to see the sign? Yeah. Very good signs, I will say. It's a very official

UK street sign. Yeah. With like a little diagram of bus and a blue square and text that reads tall buses. If you see a tall bus approaching this bridge, please shout, Duck!

Very good. It looks very legit, doesn't it? It's well done. They used the right font. Yeah. Yeah, incredible. A logo, oh my God, a logo was installed for the failed retailer Woolworths. And another sign was put up suggesting the local council would provide snorkeling equipment to navigate a flooded underpass.

Cheeky. Is that what we're calling Woolwifts now, the failed retailer? The failed retailer. It lives on in Australia, sort of. Yeah. It's true. It's not failed. It lives on in our hearts and memories.

Essex Highways asked for the pranksters to stop While we appreciate the imagination and good humour being shown by this creative person in Chelmsford We do ask members of the public to not put up false signage As it can mislead residence and cause confusion Would you like to also see a picture of the bus that got stuck under a bridge What it did inspire the sign? That's a bus stuck under a bridge

Embarrassing Oh like see it looks very close Looks like like inches away from just getting through that Yeah. Look at all the scuff marks on the, I don't know if that is scuff marks. I think it's like graffiti or something. On the black and white,

black and yellow thing from people going the other way and maybe scraping it. But I don't think so. The latest suspicious sign appeared on a bridge next to Chelmsford Railway Station after a bus got stuck under it in August. Another suggesting pigeons were banned from gathering outside Chelmsford Market

appeared in recent weeks here is here is the sign there's strictly no pigeons permitted in this area except on bank holidays this could cause distress and confusion

to residents apparently yeah pigeons this is a real troublesome thing yeah at the top of the sign there's got a little silhouette of a pigeon with one of those red circles with a line through it terrible

And in January, a sign displaying a width restrictions for boats passing through a railway viaduct was installed after pictures of a one million pound yacht looking stuck while moving. What? Sorry, let me read that again. Yacht. In January, a sign displaying width restrictions for boats passing through a railway viaduct was installed after pictures of a one million pound yacht looking stuck. Yacht, yacht, that's not. I'm tripping up again. There's so many hyphens in this sentence.

Pictures of a one million pound yacht, looking stuck while moving slowly, went viral online. Oh, here's, okay. Yacht, yacht. I don't know. Here's that, that slow moving yacht. That is, oh, oh dear, oh dear. Here we go.

And here's, this is like arguably the least cheeky of the bunch. This is, that's fine. It's just a, that's fine. This is a fun hobby that someone. one's got and I enjoy it. I do kind of, and I do appreciate this. Eagle-eyed shop has spotted the Woolworth's logo at

the entrance to the Chelma Village Retail Park in November 2024. The shopping centre said, despite wanting to see the former High Street favourite make a return, the sign was not legitimate. Here is it's very, I mean, this, like, this that's good, that's gold. That is good,

yeah, that was convincing. Oh wow, yeah, they've just added this to the retail. amongst all the other shops. It just looks like the wall of the warehouse, Argos, Curries, McDonald's, Woolworths, incredible. Earlier in 2024, Essex County Council stressed

it did not provide swimming equipment after a sign suggesting it would hand out flippers, masks and snorkels appeared at an underpass near the city centre. I'm just going to send that one through as well. Sadly, not a picture of the flooded underpass, just the sign.

two months later signs appeared stating rowing through another nearby underpass prone to flooding was prohibited I think this is a little bit a little cheeky bastard who's trying to make change in his local constituency by signifying the problems through Cuba I think it's genius it's like when people draw rude things on potholes yeah to make the council go fix them or like the story covered a while back where they put a parrot in a pot hole? Yeah, there's a parrot, right? Weren't people borrowing the parrot for different potholes? Or is that, no, that's the tank,

the tank that you can park in car parks, right? Oh, dearie me. Many of the signs have been removed, but some of the more recent installations remain. I think that the fact they call them installations. Come on. Art. Art.

They appear to be authentic with similar design characteristics to genuine road signs. It is not known who is behind them, but city council leader Stephen Robinson suggested it could be someone having a gentle poke at the county council. I wouldn't condone it, but it seems to be a lighthearted criticism the Lib Dem councillor set. And there we go.

Very cute. That is fun. Keep an eye out if you're in Chelmsford for some wonky-looking signs. Yeah. Poddietz Presents, maybe. Someone could do that one. Very good. Thank you all.

And we finish with Peter, Austin. No thing, please Well, I wanted to cover something spooky And I was a little bit stuck And I thought, hey, you know It served me well quite recently on a few different episodes Head to the tabloids, see what's going on

Bring my own thing along And there was nothing that really excited me Recently And so I thought, okay, I'll search the archives, I'll look for some older stories And I thought, well, I can't just search for ghost or spooky or Halloween. I need to like potty it sit up a little bit.

So I have found three tabloid stories relating to ghosts or Halloween-type monsters that all involve not seeing a ghost or hearing a ghost, but smelling a ghost. Oh. We've got some stinky ghosts here now to talk about. Stinky ghost, stinky ladybirds, what next? So I'll do these in, I think maybe in chronological order.

so we will begin with actually they're not in chronological order I have a special order so the first one is according to old faithful the mirror which always provides us with badly written but very very long

padded out articles I only need to read a bit of this because it sort of veers off halfway through but this is according to share heismar the story is I'm stalked by a ghost

which smells of fish in all capital when something bad is about to happen. Laura Dixon, 27 from Kent, first felt something supernatural as a child when she noticed the odd smell shortly before getting bad news about a relative, is the summary there. Okay. So we've got some more caps in this sentence. Some people claim to have seen ghosts, but this woman believes she can smell them.

Laura Dixon says she's being stalked by a whiffy spirit, which emits a fishy, yeah, a wiffy spirit. It's the worst kind. I hate that. Yeah, which emits a fishy odor to warn her something bad is about to happen. The 27-year-old says she first felt something supernatural as a child when she noticed the odd smell shortly before getting news that a relative had been rushed to hospital after suffering a stroke.

Laura, from sitting born in Kent, said, The Pong always appeared right before something bad happened. Ever since I was little, I've sensed spirits around me. I pick up on presences in the room. and the fishy smell would come as a warning. Recalling her first supernatural encounter, she said, I remember one time my mom rang to tell me about a close relative who'd been rushed to hospital after suffering a stroke.

In a way, the spirit's whiffy warning helped prepare me. Her experiences have led her to work as a ghost hunter, one of the UK's few female specter stalkers. Did she get much work? I don't know, but she includes an image that allegedly features Orbs By which I think she means There was a lens flare

Hang on, let me send you this What she called again, Laura? Hang on, I'll tell you Laura Where was it? Laura Oh, Dixon, not Dickinson, Laura Dixon

With an X? But C-K, D-I-C-S-O-N But that's Amazing as well She can walk in a room and got I definitely smell fish. Yeah, there's a ghost here. There you go. There you go. Give me 500 quid.

But this is a photo she took. I'm not sure if it's the sort of the glowy dots in the foreground or I guess there's kind of a spooky face in the top right, maybe. That's a fucking cobweb or something. Yeah, it's stupid. Terrible. Anyway,

the article goes on for quite a bit more, but it's mostly just talking about I took some photos and there were orbs in the photos and there's more and more of that. We sort of don't get any more updates on the whiffy spirit, sadly. But we then go to the sun

who in 2020... So that story was from 2015, I think. This one is from 2022 and the headline is Phantom menace. Ghost hunters capture smelly six foot ghost at one of Britain's most haunted buildings. And this

is written by the mouthful that is Lottie Tip Lady Bishop. Tip Lady Bishop is hyphenated. Vampire, yeah. Tip Lady is a very unusual surname. T-I-P-L-A-D-Y. Tip-L-A-D-Y.

Maybe you have families to own a dump. Yeah, the tip lady. Or she's looking for, you know, a little fiver in her pocket for doing a good service, perhaps. So, the story is, a crack team of ghost hunters say they've run into a six-foot-tall spirit

that stinks of B-O. The team had been casing the historic and apparently haunted Bolling Hall in Bradford, West Yorkshire, for paranormal activity. The hall is one of the oldest buildings in Bradford, with parts of it dating back to medieval times, and lead investigator Dean Buckley said it is, quote, very active. Dean and his team of mediums, which includes his partner Veronica, toured the haunted halls late into the night, even capturing some snaps of what appear to be ghostly figures. Here are two ghostly figures. I can't wait to see these.

Some mist in the foreground. Oh, fuck off. And this is, what do you call it? Paradoilia, is it called? Where you can just see a face in something that's definitely not a face. Sure. Yes, that's, yeah. It's not good.

That is a bit spooky looking, but it's not a face. Yeah. The whole is one of the... We just got a bit of Ben sent through the meaning of Tip Lady. It was quite spectacular. The tip lady surname may have originated from a nickname for an adulterer or a promiscuous man in middle English. Why would you choose that name? Yeah.

Tip lady. I guess because like prostitutes give them money tip lady. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. There we go. Tip lady. It's quite cute. So they were looking in this hall and they got those snaps of ghostly figures.

Describing the moment the ghost hunting crew stumbled upon the stinky ghost, Dean told Yorkshire Live, the team were scrambling up the stairs after a mysterious tall figure when the stench hit them. He said, there was a smell about him. One of the investigators said, oh, there's an awful smell and I could sense the figure. It's like body odour, like someone who hasn't washed for days. Dean, who has more than 20 years experience in the field, told how he started off in the hall's blue room where he saw a woman on the side of the bed. He said, I started off in the bedroom, the blue room, and during the first part of the night it was taking some photos and saw a woman in the room

on the side of the bed. It just literally repeats the same thing. Did you get a photo though? No. No. And there's also another picture I took later through the night about 1.40am and it's like a face on the right hand side of the bed of a male coming through

and I thought that's what the mist on the bed is. And I think that's the one I sent you guys the sort of misty fog. Anyway, the article sort of ends soon after that, but that's another smelly ghost for you. Yeah, he's not out of wash for a while. Do you think maybe just possibly one of his medium teams had a bit of VO? That's so likely. Yeah. I think that there's no other explanation for it. Yeah, but maybe he

was embarrassed about it and was like, oh yeah, God, I think there's some sort of smelly ghost here. Oh, no. It's crazy you guys didn't see it. Yeah. The ghost did a fart and then I reached over to get my phone and it ripped my trousers. You couldn't fucking smell it? And the final article comes from that pinnacle of good news, The Daily Mail.

Excellent. This is written by Jessica Ware from 2016. And it's quite fitting she's called Jessica Ware because this is about a Jessica Werewolf in Yorkshire.

The Weirwolf of Hull, exclamation mark, it says in the title. Witnesses claim they've spotted an eight-foot-tall fanged beast with human-like features, nicknamed Old Stinker. I love that. A old stinker. That's what we used to call our family dog. Old Stinker! A number of werewolf sightings have been reported in the woods outside of Hull, sparking locals to organize a-a-hunt for the beast on the next full moon.

Over the past months, witnesses have come forward to speak of spotting a huge hairy creature around the Barmston Drain, a man-made channel near the town of Beverley. Some locals believe the sightings are evidence of a mythical Yorkshire beast called Old Stinker. Scroll down for video, it says. I don't think there is a video in this article. There's not. There's not a video. I don't know why it says that. A woman who, hang on.

A woman who cited the potential werewolf in December told the express, it was stood upright one moment. The next, it was down on all fours running like a dog. I was terrified. It vaulted 30 feet over the other side and vanished up the embankment and over a wall into some allotments. She said it ran on all... She said it both ran on all two legs and on all fours.

Great. All season fours, right? Yeah. as if with the qualities of both human and wolf. Then it takes an absolute left turn, this article. Another couple say they saw something tall and hairy, eating a dog next to the channel, which runs through the countryside.

Eating a dog. Jesus. Horrible. They added that it jumped over an eight-foot-high fence with the animal in its mouth. Another woman who was walking her dog spotted something half-dog, half-human. told the express her dog she said refused to go any further along the path they were walking down

the dog was probably like did that guy eats dogs i'm like going down there there's then just a photo of a guy in like b movie grade werewolf costume great um oh oh yeah um yeah um um old stinker smell it through just looking at it yeah um so a team is going to the drain to hunt for the werewolf on the next full moon, they will be armed with cameras to prove their scary sightings were real. Local Labour counsellor, Steve Wilson, said he was willing to offer his services to the effort.

He said to the express, I am happy to keep a diary of sightings by people around here and report them to Hull Council. Witnesses and folklore experts have been quick to link the sightings to the well-known legend of Old Stee. Old Stinker. Old Stinker is said to roam in the Yorkshire Wolds, an area of beautiful

countryside north of the Barmston Drain. More specifically, the beast is supposed to stalk the Wold Newton Triangle, an area known for mysterious activity. For centuries, tales have circulated of zombies, ghosts, and the Old Stinker Werewolf and other paranormal activity. There's the legend of a werewolf called... It's just like, rebels are scary. You don't call it Old Stinker. Every sentence has... Old Stinker in it and I just think I'd get distracted. Yeah. There's the legend of a werewolf called Old Stinker,

a great hairy beast with red eyes who was so called because he had bad breath, author Charles Christian told Whole Daily Mail. It was known for the wolves to dig up the corpses from graveyards. From that sprung the idea that they are supernatural beings who took the form of werewolves. When people would glimpse what they thought were the rear lights of a car in front, it would instead reveal itself to be the red eyes of a wolf. But now, those well-versed in the paranormal fear that old stinker has outgrown his triangular haunt, wait, does not, what is the grammar of this sentence?

But now, comma, those well-versed in the paranormal fear that old stinker has outgrown his triangular haunt, comma, and moved to the Balmston drain. And that's in the end of the art. No. And that's the end of that article. but I should just add, as a final thing, it includes embedded in the article a different story about a werewolf sighting.

And I'll just give you the bullet points, which is that a couple were driving along. They saw what they thought was a big cat, you know, because there's the idea that there are some big cats roaming the countryside in England. And so they took a bad photo of it, which is just a blur. And then they drew a picture of it, right?

a sketch done by Robert Ingram of the Beast he and his wife Nicola believe they saw in the Cotswolds and this is the sketch I'll send you now Wow we Oh God And so it says that they saw this thing They were convinced it was a big cat

Then he drew a picture of it And it says But the pencil drawing that Robert Ingram and his wife Nicola have come up with Is now likely to raise fears That what they encountered rather than being a big cat was in fact a werewolf Yeah but they did this They did this

And they said it was a big cat This isn't evidence This is this They drew a fucking furry And they're like Oh no There's werewolves There's not

You drew Because he can't draw A very good picture Of a panther Then the daily male Is now convinced There's a werewolf on the loose Jesus

It does look Really fur suit-esque though Yeah, it doesn't look like a person. Eyes and everything. Yes. That is incredible. So there you go. There's all sorts of spooky characters.

That picture of them holding the drawing they drew. Both looking a bit disappointed with what they've produced. Yeah. That's brilliant. Do you reckon they've got that on the fridge? Oh, yeah. I'm sure they have. Oh, yeah.

Very proud of that one. So watch out. There's stinky creatures about. they've also doubled up on that not that this matters at all it's the least interesting thing they've doubled up on the citation in the bottom left corner of that photo of them there's two they have they've just laid one over the other but it's slightly misaligned cater's news agency good job yeah really good well done well done perfect damn god well that was great incredible thank you peter you're welcome you smell a foul smell it could be old Stinker Oh, stinker. Thank you so much

for the things, boys, and thank you everyone for submitting some things. I'm wearing little Halloween Dili Boppers and I've bent one out of shape. Hang on. Oh, no.

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Knobzilla versus King Dong personally. That's good. Tickles my fancy. Thank you very much, Pod Squad. Appreciate you all. Peter, don't suppose you have any highlights of what came out on video seven years ago this month. Do you? I do. I do. I can't. remember if I may have accidentally said this at the tail end of last month's list, but first of October, we had the extended deluxe director's cut of Peter gets hit by a car. That was fantastic. We did the Rules Boss Bomb Disposal Challenge, where we play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. It was worst games ever, America's Ten Most Wanted.

We had Booth on the channel, and we did the Sex Olympics, the 1990 Amiga game or something. I can't remember. We did the art attack version of Peter gets hit by a car, which was fantastic stuff. It was Mikey's birthday, of course. Oh, Mikey, did I message you on your birthday? I don't think I did. I did. I meant to.

And I can't remember. Oh, yeah, I did. I did. Okay. I had a real scary moment there. That was the spookiest part of the podcast. I did. The classic Spider-Man upside-down challenge where Ben unfortunately had to wander through Bristol,

just as Spider-Man Worst games ever Bad Boys 2 Worst games ever All-Star Water Sports We did the The Dunster thing Was in October as well

So we went to Dunster Did Age of Empires Live Action finale Prove it And to really have To finish off with something Truly spooky We did the worst games ever

Spooky special Casper and the Ghost the trio Yes One of the worst thumbnails I've ever seen yeah it's really bad oh and we made nukicola in october as well we crammed a lot in we made it savory didn't we i think somewhere yeah oh that was bad the star anise and then we drank it and realized afterwards we were supposed to dilute it 10 to 1 yes put the whole

fucking thing in the trade yeah really really awful fantastic thank you peter um michael johnson where are you and what are you doing at parrot boy on instagram and blue sky. I'm working at the minute. That's all I do. I work, work, work, work, work, no matter what. But go follow me on Instagram occasionally. I post a nice little something, something on there. And Peter, where are we? You can find us together playing worst games ever at YouTube.com forward slash at worst games ever. We're having a wonderful time over there. And it's the same old show. Come and check it out if you're not watching it already. You can find Ben at twitch.tv forward slash confused underscore dude where he streams three.

still doing four times a week or are you on three now? Four times per week. I've been threatening three for ages. I haven't done it yet. Yeah. Still four. Okay. Four times a week. Playing Pokemon and wrestling and all kinds of things. And there's loads of Vidyat's universe characters in his BenXT promotion, which is a good time.

And you can find me independently on YouTube.com forward slash at that Peter Austin where I had a little stroke of luck recently and I've done two big videos if you've not seen them. Apparently you're missing out. Everyone else seems to have watched them so maybe go and look at those um but i've got a spooky one coming out for halloween as well so go and look at those amazing why not leave us a five-star review on your platform of choice it helps something to do with algor's rhythms maybe i don't know and uh do we

have a final question to end spooky it's with maybe we also reiterate that we're still after your favorite things for the final episode yes uh so please send those in via email or on social media, et cetera. Thank you. Yeah. That's it. That should be the question. Oh.

I don't want to distract from that. That's a very important task. That's true. Unless you've got, if you've got a pressing question, by all means to ask it. I was going to ask what everyone is dressing up as for Halloween. That's a nice.

Lovely. We can just tell them to do work instead. Yeah, no. You've said it. So they could answer it. But really, they should tell us what their favorite moment is, you know. How about if you had to go as a favorite moment from Vidyat's for your Halloween costume,

what moment would you go as? Very good. What is your favorite moment from Vidians timestamped and also what would you go to Halloween as? Yeah, what's your favorite time stamp? Excellent. Thank you so much for listening. That's watching. Everybody.

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