Podiots - Podiots: Episode 165 – Spoons At Dawn

Episode Date: November 30, 2025

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Pickax Guys I would like to tell you about an adventure I went on recently Oh, okay What you've been up to? I'll tell you. It was sort of, how best to describe it, an adventure to an abandoned wonderland of merriment and despair. A pasadise of sweet teats.

Not even a passadice of sweet teats as such. I want you to sort of conjure up what the sort of place I could be describing is that, like, have I done some herb eggs? Right, okay. Have I gone to Blobbyland, maybe? The Tosty V house, maybe. Tosty V house in the middle of that farmer's field. Could that be it? Of course, where I actually went to was a weather spoons at opening time.

Oh, yeah. Have you ever been to a weather spoons at opening time? Yeah. What time is opening time at a weather spoons? 8 a.m. Well, didn't we go to a weather spoons at, well, I don't know if it was opening time, but we went pretty early to one

when we were in Bristol last, Ben, when we were, I think it was when we were down there, might have been when we did the commentary for the Oggscast or some other reason, but we were in Bristol working, and we went to a spoons in the morning. It was like 10 a.m. Oh, okay.

That was, yeah, that's a slightly different vibe at that point because people I feel like a filtering in for their breakfast, which is probably what we were. we were doing. But you were at the door. I was, I was sat in the car park waiting for it to open. Right. Okay. That is different. Which, it is different, isn't it? I'm not going to tell you the sequence of events that led to me waiting in the car park for the Weatherspoons to open. But I saw the man unlocked the door and I went straight in. And I can only imagine what these, what these Weatherspoon staff were thinking when someone walked immediately in. Yeah. Because you must

see fucking all sorts, right? Working in the Weatherspoons. So I went in there at 8am, understandably, there was nobody there. I have never heard a Weatherspoon so deathly silent. And it was a big Weatherspoons as well. Like quite cavernous, really. All the gambling machines were switched off.

Somehow the tables were still dirty. Like, they were just cutlery and menus just strewn everywhere. And I don't really know how that's possible. Maybe they just, Maybe that is why Weather Spoons is always dirty and messy is because they never actually bothered to tidy it up. Because they think, what's the point? A baboon's going to come in here at 8 a.m.

Tear the place apart. So I made the point of writing down some statistics and some facts in regards to how many people were there, how long it was before someone else arrived, how long it took to get our food and our drinks as well, when no one else is in the building. except the staff. So we were alone in the weather spoons for 13 minutes before more people arrived. See, I think that's the responsible amount of time to wait. Like if you genuinely want to be in a weather spoons at opening time, you give it like 10 minutes just so you don't seem too eager. Yeah. When you're next to the phone and it rings, you just, oh, one and two rings,

and then there we go. Yeah. So someone's delivering your food to the door. You don't want to be waiting by the door. Right. Hang on. Before we go any further, I say that all the time. in that well i don't say all the time i said it once in our house and amy takes the piss out of me all the time for it anytime food gets delivered to the door she says jokingly don't answer the door too quickly right i feel indicated that you've just said that sorry to just rail road over your story but you're right peter because that is serial killer behavior you can't be standing at the door which we were and he you know we were like just behind the door and i was like well i can't just i'm not opening the door right now don't answer too

soon and now that's all I get every time the doorbell rings the takeaway don't answer the door too quickly I'm sorry your home life is so so challenging can you tell how much that's bothered me that I just you know it got it right I genuinely like if the door goes and I know it's food I'll spring up and then I'll pace around for like 10 seconds yeah and then act like oh oh yeah sorry yeah I forgot all about it wasn't even hungry anyway so So, yeah, that's, I thought that was like an un, that's just a thing, isn't it? I thought that was a thing. I'm pretty sure that Amy's the weird one there.

No, I'd be inclined to agree. Even if you're really hungry and you're stood up and you're, you see the lights on the drive and you think it's here. You don't then just go and answer, because then you've got to just sort of awkwardly smile at a delivery person as they identify which house is yours and wander up the driveway. You don't need to subject yourself to that at all. Anyway, so I was in this weather spoons. It took 13 minutes for another person to arrive. Sorry, I put in our order. That was a couple of drinks and a couple of breakfasters.

And did you know that there's a loud beep that plays from the kitchen when an order gets put in? Because I do now. Oh, because it's so quiet you can hear the beep. It rang out across the empty weather spoons. it then took 91 seconds for the drinks to arrive very efficient really efficient food took a little longer eight minutes and 29 seconds and here's an additional weather spook cavernously empty weather spoons fact for you it plays a little tune when food is ready to be taken out out of the microwave yeah yeah it does yeah my food

finished microwaving and we heard the little tune and I could see it sat there on under the heat lamp and I was thinking there's fucking no one else here. Why is my food under a earlamp? And it took them, it took them a further like three minutes to actually come over and pick it up and bring it out.

And then they didn't want to seem too eager to take the food over to you. That'll be it. There was almost a look of pity in the eyes of the server who brought us our items. And then by the time we left at 8.33am, there were six other people,

in the whole of this weather spoons. And that was my adventure through, I don't know, it was like a portal to a different world. I would like to say that I will never experience that again. But it was humbling and very interesting as well. So I hope that that was exciting for you. That really was, yeah. When did we go out of Spoons when we were told Vidyots was ending?

That was like about 11am or something, wasn't it? Yeah, there were quite a few people. Yeah. yeah that's quite hand spoons is always rammed probably at 8 a.m as well I'd imagine yeah lunchtime spoons sometimes feels weird enough but morning spoons is yeah one day when I'm feeling really melancholy and I kind of want to go reflex somewhere I'll be I'll be there a year I'm just to hear the little jingle of the food it's the people who have the pints in the corner people who've got pints on their desk on their desk on their table uh like 930 when you go in for a morning

Spoons. You're going for breakfast and there's always a couple of old blokes who've already started. I mean, you know, maybe that's just called having a drinking problem and, you know, it's not really something I should be commenting on. But I mean, it's, I find it different. I don't mind a bit of Spoon's food when you fancy, you know, a cheeky bit of, I know this isn't very good, but I'm going to eat it. But for breakfast, I'm like, I'm going to have to force this down a little bit more than I would have to force down a spoon's tea and then when you're sitting there like eating this food

and watching old men drink pints at nine in the morning I don't know it's not it's not my preferred choice of breakfast location but sometimes needs must of course you know I'm not a snob about it but yeah I thought it was fascinating every time I go in

everyone should look out for the old men drinking their £2.50 pints and I think good for you One day I aspire to that as well But there we are Do you know who actually came into the Weather Spoon shortly after I arrived Could you hear him coming from a mile off

Partly because it was so quiet Bloody well could he was shouting out his little song And that of course was Kevin Has anyone seen him last place I saw him was in the Spoons He may still be down there But if we really listen, we might just hear his call. Oh, there it is. Oh.

Oh. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Pottie. It's the official video. Podcasts. It's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three urns, where everybody brings a thing. A-thi. A-long to. talk about. I'm Ben. I'm Peter and I'm Michael. Hello boys. Hello. How are we doing this

month? I suddenly can't fill my toes. Oh. It's not for health reasons. It's just it's it got cooled. It got 12 degrees cooled over the course of 24 hours. That's right. It's the potty. It's weather update. It is really cold. I went out to Liddle this afternoon, and it was two degrees. I mean, this was after the sun had gone down. I'd say this afternoon, but yeah, it was two degrees. Yellow snowflake on the dashboard. Oh, not yellow snow.

Don't lick it. Sorry. Yeah, no, just a single yellow snowflake. Someone found the one flake of snow and pissed on it. Whoa. Oh, no. It's a hardy snowflake there. It is chilly.

My house has been freezing all day today. And I'm wearing shorts as well. What an idiot. Well, that's on you. fucking joggers are in the wash like a moron yeah I really dropped the ball there

what's going on in your life Michael Johnson I should really come prepared with an answer for what's going on not a lot honestly just slogging through you know how it is

racking up fat stacks of cash in a everyday gangster shit how are you both doing yeah not bad aside from the fat stacks of cash that we're all also racking up.

Oh, yes. You know, yeah, doing all right, thanks. Yeah, it's been, I mean, it doesn't feel like it's been that long since we recorded. I suppose technically it hasn't because we did it. Did we do last month's episode towards the end of the month? I'm looking at my calendar. I think we did. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I tell you what, let's do the video it's calendar updates. Yeah. Let's really dive into it. Some important announcements for you, find folks at home. The final Vidyat's reunion stream will of course be taking place next month. You may have seen some social media posts go out asking for what your favorite videos are so we can organize the annual watchalong that's always a part of the stream in advance

so we know what we're playing. Do go and have your voice be heard. We will be tallying that a bit closer to the time. And we can officially announce the date upon which the Vidyat's reunion stream will be taking place. Does one of you guys, does one of you guys want to say it? Sure. Oh. Should we say at the same time, Peter? Yeah, okay. It's going to be on the December 12th of Friday, December. Fuck. 7 p.m. Really good boys, really good. Actually, I don't know if it's going to be 7 p.m. I've got a question mark written after 7 p.m. Have we established

the time? 7 p.m. feels right. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Nailed it. December 12th, 7pm or 12th December. Why don't I say it December 12th? What is that? I'm not sure. Well, I nearly said February because I saw the word Friday on my wall. So the Vidyat's reunion stream is officially happening.

Do come along for an evening of mirth and merriment. We've already got a couple of things planned. We'll be auctioning something off, of course. And there'll be a watch along at the end. Do join us live for the first. final live thingy. I say the final live thingy, but technically there could be one more

live show in the future. Yeah, that's right. That does make sense. Mikey, what is it? Well, we are still in the planning process of our proper, proper final, final, final V2, V3, final podiates episode. So this December 1 is not the last time

we'll be together in podcast form. We want to do one last proper send-off. Hopefully, in a room, filled with you lovely lot. We are getting ever closer to getting things nailed down, but it's still not quite at the point of being able to announce anything or dates or anything like that. So please hold on to your seats.

Information will come soon, hopefully. You'll all be able to celebrate together and watch three men be very nervous in front of a river of people, maybe. Yeah, yeah. But that will be, of course, sometime early next year. We're not going to be squeezing it in sort of. tail end of this year, as we hopefully have made clear in the past couple of episodes when we've talked about this. And the, also, as Mikey alluded to there, we will be doing a December

episode of Poddiots as usual in addition to the reunion stream. But that will be Christmas themed and it will not be end of poddyets themed. So although it will be the last sort of normal in air quotes episode, I mean it will be Christmas themed, but the last sort of proper episode in the usual format. We don't need to be, you know, sort of doing favourite moments and crying tears of sadness and tears of joy in that episode particularly. So, cheer up everyone. A happy festive episode next month from us. Yeah, absolutely. And we'll treat it as if there is going to be another episode after as well. So we'll, and honestly, that's probably what we'll do with our live show as well. We'll say it right. We'll see you next time. Goodbye. And then the next time we'll

never come. They don't need to know that yet until it doesn't. But yeah, we will, as you two have said, we will give you more information as soon as we have it. Next month will be, as you said Peter, technically the final episode like this where we're all on Discord and we're doing it this way. Yeah. But one more live show coming your way. Hopefully next year. I know people are very excited and I want to know where it is and where they can get tickets. And as soon as we have that information, we will pass it on to you. But it is still very much our intention for it to happen. Emails are being sent and exchanged per super Michael Johnson. And hopefully it won't be long now before we can get something concrete out to you guys. And the live show

will come to the feed as well. Or certainly the YouTube channel, I mean, it might be a very visual one but we'll probably stick it on the audio feed anyway but definitely you'll be able to watch it on YouTube all being well so yeah yes and we are very much intending to give everyone months of notice ahead of the show so you have time to book travel and whatnot so we're not going to spring it on you so don't stress too much or try we try to make this good for everyone we don't we don't want an empty room we don't we definitely do not want that so we're not going to let that happen no thank you 100% for now though we will continue on and have a bloody good show we've got three things. We've got three listeners submitted things, but first, we must honor the

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who is in charge of things this week when you hand it over to him are you handing it over to him to ask what his favourite pod squad is? Yeah that's exactly it that's the first thing of course that's the secret seventh thing yes and on the list here is so Ben what is your

favourite name from the donations we've done had this episode oh oh man I mean perhaps recency bias but I quite liked gobbledy gooch oh yeah I was going to say that We've had Neal's Poo Cannon before.

It's a very good one, but, you know. It's a great one. Yeah. I like the novelty of gobbly gooch. They're quite like Albatross stuck in a screw fix. Yeah. It's also good. Filth of bumvember as well.

Got a little chuckle out of me, I think. Bella's final podmas, like that. Often forget about Bella. Yeah. She's important. Radgett's Newcastle branch as well. Should we just read them again? Should we just go?

All of them. All right. Here we go. Now, as Commander-in-Chief today, I say, no, I think we're going to move on to my listener submitted thing. Oh, now, this is unorthodox. Wouldn't you say, Peter? This is unorthodox that he's gone first, and he's a child. I would say so, yeah, definitely.

We're getting near the end, so we're just shaking things up a bit. What will we do next? It'll be someone's thing. Whoa. This was donated by two people. Googley, movies. Ugly at Robert M.W. James and Connor Bennett at C. Bennett 12 on Twitters. This is a news story that comes from the CBC, which I believe is a Canadian news organisation. And the headline reads, Man who took Hamilton Bus on Joyride, did a great job driving, left no dings, say police.

Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, good for him. Good job, man. We had someone stole one of those funny little trains that you get on holiday in Spain, like the drivey trains that take it in. Oh, yeah, those look so fun. And now someone's gone and leveled that up and stole an actual bloody bus. I'm just going to send you the picture of the bus. That's in the article. I don't think it's the bus. I think it's just a bus.

There you go. Enjoy the bus. I see. So when you said Hamilton Bus. Yeah. I don't know why, but my mind immediately went to. Is it some sort of like. Musical bus?

The Musical Sightseeing Tour? What is that? Bendy Bus. Okay. This is, the caption to that picture reads, An accordion type bus was stolen from a downtown Hamilton Terminal. An accordion type bus. Is that what they call them?

Does that make a technical term? I suppose. For a bendy bus. Bendy bus sounds less technical, isn't it? What sounds more serious? Yeah, it's very British, isn't it, calling it a bendy bus. Okay, here we go. actually.

Articulated bus also referred to as a. Are you ready? Slinky bus. Yeah. Bendy bus. Tandem bus. Vestibule bus. Stretch bus or an accordion bus.

Okay. Okay. Very good. We've learned a lot here. Slinky bus. Slinky bus. That's good. I can start using that.

I believe accordions are sometimes referred to as squeeze boxes as well. So arguably, we could add squeeze box bus. to that list. The squeeze box articulated bus. Yeah. Fuck sake. Go on, Mikey. A man.

This is good. No, I've got any more names anymore, anymore. I will think of some. A man took a Hamilton City bus on a joyride Tuesday with passengers still on board, say police on that. Oh, no. That escalates things a bit. That's kidnapping, isn't it? Yes, that's Anne Grand Theft Auto.

That's a lot of charges. At about 9pm, a bus driver. parked at the downtown McNabb bus terminal and left for a short break, Hamilton Police said in a news release Wednesday. So a 36-year-old man of no fixed address boarded the bus, sat down in the driver's seat, and drove away up to the mountain, it says. God, the mountain. He's going to ramp that fucker off Mount Chile. He's trying to solve the UFO mystery, I think. You have to take a bendy bus up Chilliad and see what happens. Oh, bus fans, I love this next sentence,

or at least bus fans who like the different names for buses. The bus was an extra long articulated model, meaning it had an accordion-like attachment joining the first vehicle to the second vehicle, said police spokesperson Trevor McKenna in an interview. Thank you, Trevor. I wouldn't call the back of a bendy bus a second vehicle. It wouldn't go on its own. Surely. Does it have an engine in the front and the back?

No, I don't think so. Or maybe. It does not like it's one bus at the front and then a big carriage, doesn't it? Yeah. It's not like there's like another steering wheel at the middle bit. No. So I can split off and drive off on its own. Don't be silly, Trevor. The man made several stops along the way, allowing passengers to get on and off at bus stops at roughly any time.

Ten passengers were on the bus, McKenna said. Wow. He just worked the route. I guess they didn't realize that he wasn't the driver. What the fuck? Did they pay him? I hope so. But what?

Wait, so it wasn't just like, people didn't run off in fear. People stayed on and then also people got on and chose to stay. Wow. They were like, you're not going up the mountain, are you? Oh, you are? Okay. It's fantastic. Oh, God.

There was not a ding on the bus. He did a great job, said McKenna. It's comical, but at the same. time it's serious we're thankful nobody was hurt yeah it's come it's really funny but it's really fucking people people to steal man but plays don't do us but if you're gonna steal at least don't ding the bus and you get you'll get creds from the police from it that way yeah one of the better thefts we've ever seen really just professional work I think he gets time off in jail for having done a good job of driving yeah for good behavior yeah I come out of jail with a job actually I

think. Yeah. Transit director, Nancy Perser, said the city is working with police to see if any changes can be made to prevent similar incidents in the future. The union representing drivers did not respond to request for comment. Don't leave the key in the bus, maybe? Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah, it's a bit of a rookie era, isn't it? There's a weird title again in the middle of the story here.

Passenger gave man directions, comma, police. At first, passengers didn't realize the man wasn't a bus driver, McKenna said, but when he started making some wrong turns, they started asking him questions, and one gave him directions to return to the scheduled route. I guess, if you're on the bus, like, you don't want your evening to be delayed anymore. Just get me home, and then, you know, you can get the police involved. Yeah. He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pack.

Wow. He really just wanted to be a bus driver. Yeah, it's got to, right? They'll find out that he used to work this specific route. I like the moral high ground as well. He's stolen a bus with 10 people on it. And he's going, no, no, you're not allowed on here with that. That's not allowed.

That's not allowed. Get off. That's so funny. Police strategically followed the bus, mindful of the potential risk to public safety. officers worked with Hamilton Hamilton, I can't say that word, Hamilton Street Railway and accessed the bus's GPS

to know where it was going, but they kept their siren off. We didn't want to spook him, he said. We didn't want to make this a tragedy. Oh God, oh dear. When it stopped on West 5th Street, about 15 minutes later, the man was taken into custody without incident.

He was charged with theft of over $5,000, possession over $5,000, obstructing the police and driving while prohibited. McKenna said they didn't release the man's name because there may be a mental health component. Fair. $5,000 possession? Oh, he was charged with theft over $5,000.

Possession over $5,000. Yeah. So he's been charged kind of for the same crime twice in that he's done for stealing something worth more than five grand. and then he's also being caught in possession of the stolen property worth more than five grand. The policeman quickly said, could you put your hands back on the steering wheel for a second?

I'm just going to get a photo of that. Right, so that's you driving the bus. That's another crime. But yeah, bonus points for not letting the man off without an expired bus pass, well done. Yeah, that's huge. Yeah, that was good of him. That's good.

Well, well done, I guess. You know what? He gets a well done for that. He's one of the good ones He's one of the good feeps There you go Thank you very much for submitting that We move on to

Peter Can we have your very own thing please We can I have got a story From my family this week And I didn't I should have sort of like written it down and made notes

So I'm hoping I'm not going to sort of go meandering And sort of Talking bollocks for the next five minutes minutes but hopefully where do you think you are peter i'm not sure am i on the bus are we going to the mountain again that would be nice um so i recently uh saw some of my wife's family um we were sort of catching up with them and finding out what i've been going on with that whole side of the family and their friends and so on and a story was told about something unusual that happened to my wife's aunt

I'm going to change names for Doc's reasons but let's say that her auntie is called anti-kevin maybe Kevin Kevin. Okay, yes so Kevin, Kevin, not now, sorry this isn't the theme of you. No, sorry, I shouldn't have said your name there, Kevin.

So Kevin was had recently heard from a childhood friend of, it's going to get confusing calling her Kevin. I shouldn't have gone with that at all. Okay, let's rewind. Let's rewind. There is a male character coming up, so we'll use Kevin, but we'll say Auntie Mary, okay? So Auntie Mary had recently heard from a, what had been someone who she'd known since childhood. So she and my wife's dad and their

siblings had had this friend they'd known for years and years and years, and he was called Kevin and apparently Kevin unfortunately had gone through a separation with his wife his wife Caroline maybe so Kevin and Caroline no longer together

they had at least one child I believe who was sort of there at these like in his teens or something and it had been quite a while since Mary had had kind of caught up with Kevin I think years it had been five or ten years

but they'd still been sending Christmas cards and things like that so they were in touch but they'd not been seeing each other in person for a very long time but Auntie Mary loves a crisis and she loves to help people out and check in on people and so on and so she'd been kind of ringing up Kevin

seeing how he was getting on living alone and stuff and he was still sort of taking care of the teenage children and so on, so she was seeing how he was doing. And after several phone calls over several weeks, she said, oh, perhaps I'm going to be in the area, actually, at some point soon. So I could, if you like, I could, you know, we could just get together and have a, have a cup of tea or something. I could come around and see how you're doing and so on. And Kevin said, you know what, that sounds really nice. So they made arrangements. And Kevin said,

come on this certain day and when you do make sure you park on like the next street over or something because there's all these roadworks and you can't park on my street and so she said okay that's fine I'll get there and it took her ages to get there but eventually she arrived and she saw the street with the roadworks on and she parked on the next street over she walked back to the roadwork street to Kevin's house and she knocked on the door and Kevin's son came to the door and sort of looked at Mary

with a puzzled look on his face but she'd not seen this boy since he was like probably in nappies or something so why would he necessarily recognise her by her face and maybe he didn't know she was coming round so she said oh yeah hi is your dad in and he said yeah yeah

well he is he's a sleep at the moment though and she said okay uh right well i think he's he should be expecting me and she was sure it was the right day she was like is this maybe i've got the wrong day but she she went into the house and there he was asleep uh on an armchair and he was sort of covered in paint he'd been doing it looked like he'd been doing some DIY or something and eventually he sort of came to and looked at her and said oh oh her Hello. Sorry. Yeah, sorry. I didn't. And he seemed a bit confused. And she said, have I got the right day? Am I here on the wrong day? And he said, I don't, I'm not really sure. Anyway, never mind. So he got up and went to make her a cup of tea. And this dog came into the room and she was petting the dog. And he wandered back in with a cup of tea. And they chatted for a while. And this boy had like gone out the front door and got. gone out to see his friends or something.

And then it became apparent that, like, she was looking at him thinking, God, he looks rough. Like, this is really, this is not, he's having a bad time with this divorce. Like, he looks, he looks unwell, he looks tired, he looks a lot older. And then, eventually, this lady came through the front door. Oh, my God. and it's not the wife who he's just separated from and for a minute she's thinking

what oh is he has he got someone else has he got someone else on already and the man sort of looks expectantly at his wife and then he looks at Mary and they're all sort of looking at each other and it turns out she's in the wrong house oh jeez and she's been in the wrong she was there apparently for half and this

I swear this is true. She took a photo with the family and showed it to us. Because when I heard this story, I was like, okay. With the family. Yeah, yeah. I said this, I thought this sounds like it's either just a made up story or it's like something from a sitcom, but she did take a photo with them, which obviously I won't share on the podcast.

But it turns out that she'd walked into the wrong house. I don't know if it was also the wrong day, but she was in the wrong house. And this guy had not been expected. anyone to come in and he assumed this is one of my wife's friends and I've got no fucking idea who this woman is and I'm probably supposed to know who this is so he sat there making small talk and at one point she'd said something like um she'd asked about mutual friends or relatives or something and and she'd said something something to him like oh uh you know how have you been since so-and-so died or something and he was he was he was

He sort of kind of shrugged and said, yeah, fine. Yeah, you know, there's a lot of this, like, she'd been talking about specific things, and he'd just been assuming that he should know all of this context and didn't and was being a bad friend or neighbor. So he was giving all these, like, generic answers. And he said after the fact, and I was sure that, like, you must belong here. Like, you must be here for a reason, because the dog hates everyone. But the dog seemed was like really friendly with her and he said, I thought you must have been in this house many times before for this dog to like not be going mad at you.

So I thought you're definitely one of my wife's friends. Hopefully she'll hurry up and get back from the supermarket soon or whatever it was. And so she took a photo with them and showed it to us and she just got the wrong house and that was it. She was in there for half an hour. He was asleep covered in paint when she arrived. And she thought, God, he doesn't look well. He's almost unrecognizable with grief. Did she eventually go to the right house?

I don't know if she did that day, but she's since been in touch with the real Kevin. Oh, man. So they had a sense of humor about it then. They weren't just like, get out. Yeah, yeah. So I may have, you know, Maybe she's made a new friend here.

Yeah, I know. It's that kind of thing, isn't it? Where you could sort of stay Pally with them after the fact, potentially. But yeah. So that's a strange thing that did happen. I may not have told it quite right, but that happens to one of Amy's family recently. Bizarre. I can't imagine being in that situation.

Yeah. You can see how it happened with kind of polite Britishness. I mean, there's a lot of things that British people say is a British thing. It's actually just a human thing, I suppose. But, yeah, kind of just sitting there awkwardly, he's like, yeah, here are some generic answers. Where is my wife? Please hurry up and come home. I was trying to have a nap.

And then this woman just walks through the door, and they're all sort of looking at each other like, who is everyone here? I don't know any of these. All three of us don't really know each other properly. Wow. Oh my God. If that happened to you and a stranger came into your house and you, would you assume that they knew your partner or would you ask them like, can, you know, can I help you? I suppose if you've worked up and they're already in the house. Yeah, I think it was probably taken by surprise.

Yeah. I think she, I guess she, like, she probably rocked up to the door with a certain level of confidence like this. She's the house and that just wooed him over and got her through the door. Wow. Because you would expect him to say something like, oh, well, you know, Caroline's out at the moment, but she'll be back, you know, but it might have been that Mary jumped in straight away with the kind of, so how have you been? How are you doing? And sort of didn't even give him a chance to say, oh, by the way, my wife will be home soon. You know, if she was sort of making conversation immediately, then he might not have just, he just probably didn't have the chance. But I couldn't believe. genuinely it just sounded so made up this story like how do you go that far without him clock like him realizing that you're asking a lot of kind of questions out of concern like you know as though you've come to see him and comfort him but apparently that's how long it was and we saw this very good photo of them all posing together like thumbs up smiling I was wondering if they were pausing or anything yeah they all sort of leaned in and

a selfie and they seemed to have taken it quite well but um yeah it's an anecdote you can tell for the rest of your life yeah it is it's a good anecdote you remember when you let that strange woman you made that strange woman a cup of tea yeah do you not know what any of me who any of my friends are kevin like you'll have to uh send them a Christmas card this year surely yeah she knows where they live yeah he makes fun of you every time the door goes off now and tells you to wait a minute for the food delivery now Every time the dog goes off, like, oh, don't let them in. Yeah.

You know who they are? Why you let them in? Don't make them a cup of sea. My favourite detail is just that he said, like, I was sure you must have been here before because the dog liked you. Our dog's a bastard. Yeah. And the fact that it was all over you, I was like, I don't know what's going on here,

but this woman does belong in this house. You know, I'll just wait to my wife's home and we'll sort it all out. But, you know, she's been here before. she knows the dog so strange incredible thank you very much Peter

you're welcome Peter I'm just picturing it now I wonder how long I could hear with someone like that before asking a question but I think he's probably he was knackered after a hard day of paint in the house and you just yeah

yeah I wonder if I can't share it on the podcast but I'll have to see if I don't know if the photo was sent to us or if they just showed it on their phone but yeah anyway it can't in the thread sadly but no amazing there we go thank you very much you're welcome next up we have

ben can we have your listener submitted thing please of course you can this comes courtesy of joe keating at evo paleo uh on blue sky and it's an article from the metro written by sarah ping and the headline reads mystery of crocodile spotted in UK river solved after police's strangest appeal ever Oh, is what it says A police force issued its strangest appeal, strangest ever appeal, sorry, this week after someone reported seeing a crocodile dumped in a river.

Officers at Derbyshire Rural Crime Team appealed for clues about a washed-up crocodile in Willington South Derbyshire on Thursday. The team said an onlooker spotted a dead crocodile suspected to have been dumped in the river. The discovery caused some fear and concern among police staff after the reptile was cited between Bridge 22 and Bridge 22A on the Trenton-Mersy Canal near Mercia Marina.

Do you want to see a screenshot of the map where the bridges are? This is some real in-depth reporting here from Sarah Ping. Just next to 22B and 23, right, I think. Possibly, I mean, you clearly know your Derbyshire bridges. I have no idea. That's in the article. Police arrived at the scene to find the crocodile had disappeared, prompting a public appeal for anyone with information about the creature.

In a Facebook post on Thursday, the team wrote, We know this is probably the strangest appeal ever to grace our Facebook page. However, we are appealing for your help in relation to a suspected crocodile that was reported dumped in South Derbyshire. Yes, you read that correctly. A crocodile! We're going to go out on a limb and guess this little guy isn't native to Derbyshire, and as such, if you can offer any information about the crocodile's whereabouts now.

the full stop the mystery was solved in less than 24 hours with the team issuing a surprise update confirming the crock was no deceased animal but was in fact

a oh no it's just popped up with a sign up to our newsletter thing was not the crock was no deceased animal but was in fact a taxidomied creature

stuffed with hay oh no oh in an updated post it in the river seemingly yes so it was It was actually a crocodile.

Yeah, it was a dead crocodile in a sense, yeah. In an updated post, the police said a huge thank you to everyone who shared our recent appeal about the crocodile spotted near a South Derbyshire canal. We can now confirm the mystery has been solved. A member of the public has come forward and explained the crocodile was a stuffed taxidermy one filled with hay and inadvertently caught while fishing. While it gave us all a bit of a surprise, it turns out this one was more fluff than fear. The force thanked the public for their cooperation and urged people to remain vigilant because you never know what might turn up next.

They joked. It's not every day. We get to say we've dealt with a crocodile in Derbyshire. You never know what might turn up next. Sounds like a threat. There's one comment. Yeah. And it says in quoting the article here, the croc was no deceased animal, but was in fact a taxidermied creature.

It then says, someone clearly doesn't understand how taxidermy works as a taxidermy works. a dummy croc is still a dead one. So they've got them there. Here's what it looks like. I don't know if this is gruesome, perhaps too gruesome to put on the thread. Well, wait until you hear what I've got for my story. Oh, God.

Well, the image I've just sent you does look like a crocodile that's been hacked up. So I don't know that we're in the right place. It very much is a crocodile. Oh, no. I'm sending them straight to Mikey. Oh. I've been waiting on this map of the bridges.

Oh, my God. Sorry, Peter doesn't get to see them. Right, there's, Mikey's enjoying the bridge screenshot all on his own, hoarding it. Oh. So there's the crocodile. And here's the, here's the sexy bridge screenshot. Oh, wow. Quite low about the bridge.

It's a good one, isn't it? Really good bridge screenshot. I like that there's two labels for Mercia Marina. One is double capitalized and one isn't. That's really good. Do you reckon Poddietz might present one of those? Yeah, possibly. Bridge 22A. Can we present Bridge 22A?

God. Well, there we are. That's my listener submitted thing. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. If you see a crocodile carcass in a river, maybe you do still call the police, but don't be surprised.

I was waiting for the punchline there. It was like mystery of crocodile spotted in UK River solves. It turned out to be a crocodile. Crocodile. Okay, fair enough You never know what might turn up next Someone's dumped a crocodile Elephant in the river

God Oh dear Thank you very much Ben You're welcome We move on to me And my thing I brought a little game today As a change

I'm stealing Ben's format And I'm doing that game So get ready to have fun Okay Got a little bit of an intro here Before we get into it though One of the reasons movie studios make so many action pictures as that they do well overseas. There are no translation

problems to be had when Bruce Willis has seen firing a newsy or fleeing a fireball. Comedies and dramas, however, are a different story. Comedy in particular frequently hangs on the thinnest of cultural threads. But when a comic film takes off, the distributors will do everything possible to push it overseas. Take, for instance, there's something about Mary. To foreign audience, audiences, the title was mystifying. So 20th century Fox renamed the movie Country by Country. In Poland, blonde jokes are popular,

so the title became for the love of a blonde. In France, it was Mary at all costs. Pretty good. Scott Neeson, the executive in charge of foreign distribution at Fox, said Asian countries tend to prefer literal titles. So in Thailand, it became,

My True Love Will Stand All Outrageous Events. And in Hong Kong, it became Enjoy yourself in the game of love. So, in that vein, I've gone down the rabbit hole and I've found a bunch of examples of films that were translated differently in other countries. I want to play a little game of, can you guess the original film from the translated title?

Some of them, this isn't going to be easy. Some of them will be fairly easy. Some of them are just genuinely bloody bonkers. So I will have clues to help guard along. I think the first one is one of my favorites film title is Imaginary dead baseball players Live in my cornfield

Wow Okay Imaginary dead baseball That was Hong Kong It's not signs is it That has a cornfield and baseball in it But No

I realize this is there's some old knowledge to be had he've not seen every film ever so don't feel bad if you don't know it not even many by peter and eyes standards imaginary have fun imaginary dead baseball players are in my cornfield yes this is this is a relatively famous film but i admittedly haven't seen it either um okay it's a 1989 film can i guess can i can i can i can i oh sorry i thought you're about to tell us there's sorry no no no no no go for it i have a guess and it it came to me and i've just googled it in that does sort of line up and you've just said the year as well

which lines up too. I was going to guess I've not seen it before Field of Dreams Bing Bing, Bing, correct Field of Dreams the film where a farmer builds a baseball field

that draws the ghosts of legendary players Oh, okay So cute I mean yeah that's that's the film the title there imaginary dead baseball players

live in my cornfield Yeah I've heard of the film but I had no idea that's what it was about Yeah, Field of Dreams cute I do you want to watch it now

well this is one hopefully you have seen the boy who drowned in the chocolate sauce I think we know which one that is right yeah that was Denmark would you like to take a guess well depending on the year it's technically either Charlie and the chocolate factory or Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory because I think the two films have different names for some reason but wow look at you boy even got both of them I think I believe this was the 2005 remake, so yes, well done, points to you. This one, it's my favourite of the bunch, but it's just confusing to read, the happy dumpling to be who talks and solves agricultural problem.

Is it Chicken Little? No, but yeah, I think you're kind of, in the similar vein, I think. That genre of film, I think, family, money. Agricultural problems. Agricultural problem. I was thinking

chicken run because they're pies to be aren't they? No, it's true. Good guess, but no, I can give you a year

and a synopsis if you want some help. Give us a year. Ninety-five. Not Stuart Little, is it? No, sadly not. No.

Dumpling to be. Not the mouse to be. Affectionate, small thing name. Oh, is it babe? It's babe. Oh, of course. He does solve an agricultural problem.

It's doubling to be. Babe. Who talks and solves agricultural problem. That is great. This pig's doing too much. Yeah. And the synopsis for babe there is. An orphaned pig learns to herd sheep after a farmer wins him in a contrast at a country fair.

Bar and you. I've been meaning to rewatch that film because I remember watching as a kid and it just felt like a fever dream I didn't really know what was going on. I feel like even as an adult, I'm still going to be confused by it. Yeah. I'll see, I'll watch the Hong Kong version instead.

This one, this is one word, I guess think laterally. Vasilene, Argentina. This is a... Vaseline. It's an old 178 film. Some bops, some music in it.

It's a, oh, a musical number, romance extravagant. Oh, Greece. Oh, Greece. Vaseline. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, that's good. Of course.

Like, we don't know what Greece is. I guess that's right. I guess, yeah. Yeah, still, not nice. Are you going to see Vaseline this weekend? Oh, yeah. Nope. No, I'm not.

Anyone's seen that film Lubricant? It's really good. Next up. He's a ghost. China. Kinder. Did you say? China.

China, sorry. Oh, China. He's a ghost, kinder, is the name of the film. He's a ghost brackets. This was China. This film was known in. I hope it's not the sixth sense. Well done.

It is the sixth sense. Wow. No. That is such a film. Spoiler. Yes, it's ridiculous. I know they say they like literal films, but, whoa, come on, not that literal.

Let's not just have the entire film. Bruce Willis is a ghost the whole time. Can't wait for that to watch that. Wonder what happens. This is kind of a fun one. Big dumb monkey man keeps whacking tree with genitals. Oh, Tarzan! Yes.

George of the Jungle, sorry. George of the Jungle. Yes, yes, that's the one. With genitals. He doesn't, though. With genitals. Slams into the tree. What is he called again?

Big dumb monkey man. Big dumb monkey man keeps whacking tree with genitals. He kind of, like I guess his legs kind of go beyond the tree. Yeah, I guess legs go either size, don't they? Yeah. That's his genitals. We're going for,

this is a film, an English film, but the Chinese title was six naked pigs. This is a very, very weird one. So I'm going to give you the, right off the bat.

1997 Full Monty It's not the Full Monty is it It is Well done Wow that's a tricky one Damn We're on that one

Naked pigs A bit rude That's rude very rude It's horrible yeah The Full Monty synopsis is A group of unemployed steel workers Form a male strip teas act

To earn money and regain self-respect Or six naked pigs Six naked pigs Yeah Six naked happy dumplings to be Who solve agricultural problems Yeah Who talk and solve industrial problems

Yeah We're going for a more modern one here It's raining falafel Cloudy with a chance of meatball Yeah Yes Yes And raining phallap

Do they really just pretend in the whole movie That it's falafel and not meatball I suppose they could right? I suppose. Actually, yeah, I guess it's a good comparison to make, yeah, because it looks, they look the same. That was Israel, that country was known in,

so I guess they don't quite know as much about meatballs, but boy, no falafel. Yeah, maybe they're not kosher, meatballs, I don't know. I'm not quite sure the rules. No idea. We continue with American Virgin Man. Okay. The Chinese title.

It's just going to be the 40-year-old virgin. Yeah. No, it's not. Oh, American Virgin Man. This is a 1999 film. It's quite famous, kind of a legendary teen comedy. Oh, American Pie. Yeah, that's the one.

Oh, right, okay. American Virgin Man. I like how he's got man on the end. American Virgin Man. It sounds like the worst superhero. It could have been worse. It could have been pie fucker or something. Yeah, he could have been the man whom fucketh the pie.

Hi. This is a good one. The young people who traverse dimensions while wearing sunglasses. Whoa. Spy kids? No, go close. This is the French title for the film. What's it called the time-traveling hot tub or?

Oh, hot tub's time machine? Yeah, yeah, that's the one. Time-travelling hot tub. Sadly not. We're staying in 1999 here. Traverse dimensions while wearing shades. And what was it? I know what it is, but like, can you give me the full name again, please?

The young people who traverse the dimension. It's the matrix, but the young people... Oh, God. That really threw me off. The young matrix, yeah. They're kind of young, I guess. I suppose. Yeah, I guess that sounds like a kids movie.

Yeah, it does. It sounds like a family thing. Yeah. Yeah, well done. Very well done. That is indeed the Matrix. Wow. Going a bit more classic now, another French title here.

The Teeth of the Sea. Well, that's Jaws. Yes. The Teeth of the Sea. The Teeth of the Sea, yeah. Okay. There's a name at the beginning of this title, but I'm not going to mention it because it will spoil it. Maybe I've spoiled it there, but we'll see.

The spy who behaved very nicely around me. Okay. Right. So they still have James Bond at the beginning. Yeah. The spy who behaved very nicely around me. Sounds like a parody. Yeah, it does.

Oh, actually, is it the spy who loved me or is it the spy who shagged me? Yeah. Well done, Peter. It is a spy who shagged me. That was the Malaysian title. So it was a parody. Yeah, in Norway, it was called The Spy Who Spirmed Me

Oh, crikey A little bit, a little bit too much there All right, we got two left We're in China for both of them Go ahead A very powerful whale Returns to Heaven Returns to Heaven

It doesn't go to heaven, does it? Free Willy It doesn't, it doesn't It almost acts like it came from heaven And then return to anyway, yes It is free willy That makes no sense Wow

Very powerful whale would have done Yeah, it would Yeah Okay, this last one I'm throwing it in here Because it's funny I'm not expecting Anyone here to know this

Mr cat poop Wow Garfield Nope It's a 1997 film It stars Oh, what's he called The bloody, he was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholson Mr Cat Poop It's not Batman, is it? Batman, yeah No, sadly not, no What was he in in 97? Jack Nicholson?

Is it an animated movie? No, no. Is it a kids movie? I don't know, admittedly. Let's see what I put down the genre here. Romantic comedy slash drama I don't know anything about the film I wish I'd looked into it to see what this was referencing exactly

Okay So it might just be a movie that I would have heard of Is it? Oh, that was Leslie Nelson, I think Would you like me to give you the answer? I'm ready. I guess so, yeah. Yeah, as good as it gets.

Woo! Yeah, I don't think I haven't guessed that. Right. I've just Googled it here. Mystic as it gets. Oh, there is. Oh, I think, okay, wait, okay, as good as it gets, I see, I think the character's name in the film might be Melvin or something, or like Mr. Melvin, and in Cantonese, Melvin, it's pronounced

very similar to their word for cat poop. Oh, no. So they just went with that, did they? Does that not change the entire tone of the movie? There's just a character called Mr. Cat Poop. And no one is reacting to the fact that he's called Cat Poop. So I can't wait to watch the funny movie about Mr. Cat Poop, and it's just a very, straight-laced movie about a man who happens to be called Mr. Cat Poop.

That's what people in America are called, right? Yeah. Joe Baseball, Mr. Cat Poop. There you go. I hope you enjoyed that cultural trip overseas. That was great. That was really good. Thank you, Mikey.

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What is? I scroll all the way to the top of my silly titles now. Peter, could be. you and your listener thing. It is me. The listener thing came from Praying Osolot at Prayingoscelot. At prayingoscelot dot B-Sky dot social on blue sky. And it's

according to the Independent. And this story was written by Caroline Mortimer. And the story, the headline is Frozen excrement dropped from plane crashes through house roof. So when I said

that my story is gruesome, it's not gruesome as much as lavatorial. For me. Oh no. Did anyone die? Well, we'll find out. Stephanie Moore says she was woken when a lump of

blue ice crashed through the ceiling 15 feet from her head. She's like Donnie Darko. Sorry, she might have died. A Canadian woman who has claimed a frozen lump of excrement from a plane passing overhead ripped through the roof of her mother's house

full stop. Stephanie Moore said she was woken up by a crashing sound and saw a huge hole in the ceiling in the hallway less than 15 feet from where she was sleeping. The 36-year-old teacher had been staying with her mother overnight after returning from a trip to Cuba. After the incident, she said she found pink insulation, dry wall, ceiling material

and shattered bits of wood on the hallway floor in a puddle of water. In the morning, daylight in the morning, comma, daylight could be seen shining through the hole, which was around one meter in diameter, and the crash had caused damage to the roof's planking and shingles. Miss Moore told CBC News, at first I thought it was just damage to the ceiling. I couldn't tell it went right through the roof when I first saw it. She said, both the insurance appraiser and roof repairman who visited the next day said it was

the strangest thing they had ever seen. The roofer, who inspected the damage, said there was no room. rotting wood in the roof, and before the incident, the outer shell of the house was solid. They did not find any evidence that a tree or branch caused the damage, and there was no ice or snow on the roof when it happened. The roofer said it was most likely to have been blue ice, a term for frozen excrement that can accidentally leak away from planes mid-flight, named for the color of disinfectant used by sewage systems in commercial planes. Blue ice has been known to hit homes and melt on impact, leaving little evidence

behind. The only other thing that could cause that sort of damage would be a small meteor strike, but that would leave a rock or mineral in the debris. A spokeswoman for Transport Canada said they were looking into the claim. She said the department takes all reports of possible debris coming from aircraft very seriously. Every reported incident is investigated by Transport Canada officials. Canadian aviation regulations forbid creating a hazard by dropping waste mid-flight she added as though there was the chance that that might be allowed

but no that's the end of the article so she she no one actually knows that this was a lump of blue ice The evidence just melted away

It's gone It's going to be anything Yeah there's just a hole in the roof and then apparently a puddle of water But a stinky puddle Yeah I mean you think it would be The fact that the headline calls it frozen excrement and that's a quote you would think that there would at the very least be a stink

and that the water wouldn't be clear like the frozen blue ice whether it's blue from disinfectant or perhaps some other color because of what's in it you'd think it would leave some kind of residue but apparently there was just some water on the uh on on the floor and that was it lovely yeah really nice god um so that could happen to you it could happen to anyone. Look out. Any point a blue block could come flying through your ceiling and you'll never know a thing. Just make sure you put it in the freezer immediately so they can process your claim. Yeah, true. And then buy a new freezer when you're done because you've just put poo in your freezer.

Yeah. Funk you smell that. So there you go. That's the story there. According to the Independent. I'm glad she's not dead. That's good. Yeah, me too. Yes. I was shocked at the lack of poo ponds in that article.

That's a very restrained journalism, I'd say. Yeah, that was the independent. Maybe we should have found a similar write-up from, you know, the mirror or the sun or something. Yeah. Thank you very much, Peter. Thank you. Yes, thank you, Peter. Ben, could we finish with your thing, please?

It would be my pleasure. I am vamping for time as I am. Talk very slowly and I'm ready now. Okay, so you guys might not know this or you might know this, but I was in Iceland last week, not the shop, but the country. And before you ask, yes, I did see an Iceland in Iceland. And I was very excited about it. Made my day.

But Iceland is a fascinating country with. striking vistas and natural wonders are plenty. It smells of eggs everywhere all the time because of all the sulphur. And they do a lot of cooking in the ground. I don't know if you knew this, but it's true. So I'm going to give you a little bit of background here. Traversing Iceland's terrain, provide... I just ripped this from BBC, by the way. A glimpse into the sublime. Jagged stone formations rise up, swathed in creeping mist. Hunks of fragmented glaciers drift silently in a blue lagoon and bubbling hot springs

break through rifts in the earth. It seems improbable that people can live alongside such titanic natural forces, yet Icelanders have long proved they are capable of doing just that. Their relationship with the natural world goes beyond mere resilience, however,

and reaches into the realm of harmony. To understand how Icelanders have lived with the formidable elements of their island, you need only look at a rather unsuspecting source. Their bread. Traditionally known as probably not how I'm about say it, fairer brow. The bread is the sumptuous result that comes from baking dough underground in the heat

of a local geothermal spring for 24 hours. So, I was in Iceland last week, as I said. While I didn't bake any bread, I did get another opportunity, and that was to cook our egg in the ground. Wow. All right. And I'm going to tell you about it. So I went to a geothermal park in a a town called, again, it's not called this, but it sort of is. Havera Gerdi, maybe. And they've got loads of geothermal activity there. Like when you're driving through, like just towards the town, you can see the steam just sort of billowing up from all over the place

because it's just coming out of the ground. Sometimes it's just coming out of sewers, like just the vents on the street. There's steam rising from them. And so I went to this geothermal park, as it's called. called, it only cost 500 Icelandic crona to get in, which is £2.99p. And as the lovely American lady behind the desk made clear to us, this is the cheapest thing you will do in Iceland, because fuck me, Iceland is so expensive to do literally anything. They have dedicated alcohol shops.

And to get like a crate of beer and a couple of bottles of Prosecco, it was. something like 50 quid, and everything else just costs a fortune. And understandably, you know, if you're going to pay to go and watch whales or go to some hot springs, then you're going to pay a lot of money for that anyway. But even just like groceries are very expensive in Iceland. So £2.99 to get into the Hvergerdi geothermal park felt like an absolute steal. But then if you pay them 150 Icelandic Krona more, which is 90p, they will give you a egg, and you get to go in with your egg, a stick with a little net on the end, and you get to boil an egg in a geothermal spring, which is ridiculous and very fun.

Is this the real reason why it smells of sulphur everywhere? Well, that's the thing, right? Cheap tourists saying, well, we may as well go and stick an egg in the floor. of the first things I said when I got there is that you could fart here and no one would know ever. So whether it's the egg, whether it's the hot spring, whether it's you passing gas before after eating the egg, it doesn't matter. You can get away with literally anything when it comes to gas there. Mikey, you should head out. Yeah, this is my new home. Mikey would have the time of his life. The sales for shreddies are on the floor over in ice cream.

They just can't, they can't shift them at all. Some people might be familiar. with the UK TV series Travel Man which was formerly hosted by Richard Iowadi and I now think is hosted by Joe Lyset and they both did an episode where they went to Iceland and the second one with Joe Lyset and Bill Bailey they went to this specific park and one of them I think made the very apt remark

that this doesn't this surely isn't something that people from Iceland actually do where they sit there and they boil one egg at a time from a net on a stick. Like, this feels like it's something they have 100% invented for tourism purposes. Although, as far as I'm aware, this is one of the few places that actually offers it. Baking the bread naturally is something that has been done for a very long time, as well as, you know, cooking fish and other stuff like that. But certainly, I was not expecting to do this.

So I paid my 90P. I got my egg in a sack on a stick. and then there was sort of like a grate over one of the bubbling geothermal springs and you sort of you twist your rod to unwind the string and you lower it in there so it's just in the water set an eight-minute timer on your phone have a little wonder round it sounds like I'm doing an advert for the park doesn't it have a little wonder around the park and realistically the park is not even the size of a football pitch like it's it's tiny but it's got a little gravel path that you can walk around and it is flanked by

As, in my experience, most geothermal natural wonders in Iceland are, it's flanked by really ugly industrial place because they are also harnessing the power of the local geothermal springs and things like that. So you can wander around, and every 12 minutes, they've got a fucking geyser there that erupts every 15 minutes. So while you're waiting for your egg to cook, you just wander around and then watch this spurt of water fly. up into the sky, which was...

It looked like a kind of egg timer, couldn't it? Exactly. It was incorrect the egg. There goes my egg. It just shoots off into the sky. But yeah, then when my timer went off, I went back and I got my egg out. And then I went inside and you can also pay a little bit of money for some bread to go with it as well. For some soldiers.

Was that? With some soldiers. For some soldiers, yeah, for your egg. and it comes with a little bit of butter so I spread it on the bread and this bread is sort of very dark I think it's rye bread I believe and I also think I read

they make it with a lot of sugar as well so it actually tasted a lot like a cake it tasted a bit like a malt loaf in a sense and then I ate my egg that I boiled out of a hole in the ground and it was ridiculous it was a very surreal experience

So I just wanted to share with you the time that I cooked our egg in a hole in the ground. That's lovely. How was your egg? Was it done to perfection? Too runny, too hard? It wasn't runny. I'd say it was, it wasn't too hard either. You know what?

I think it was just right. Wow. Because I sort of needed to cut it in half with a wooden knife that they supplied. So if it was really runny, it would have been a bit messy. So it was sort of, the yolk was still kind of soft. but it was done so it was it was good it was a good consistency brilliant yeah was anyone else boiling eggs at the same time was it just you it was like a line of eggs it much like the weather spoons

it was it was surprisingly quiet in there there were a few people already through sort of the entrance building and meandering around the park but then by the time we left a number of other people had come in but it was surprisingly quiet and it is crazy given how expensive that country is, that more people wouldn't want to, A, do something as weird as that, and B, do it for such a small amount of money. It is just like whether the cheapest. It is, yeah.

This breakfast was cheaper than a Weatherspoon's breakfast. When your egg was done, not factoring in the flights. Did it play a little tune out of the floor? No, it didn't. Sadly not. No, when I put it in, it went, beep. Yeah, it was incredible. It was very, very surreal.

So if you're in Iceland, make sure you go to the Havera Gerdie Geothermal Park. It's a great time, sums up. That's why mums go to Iceland. Yeah, I've made that joke so many times, man. I bet you did. I just wanted to get a mum in an Iceland in Iceland and see what would happen. Because I think the world would end. Oh, another thing, actually, from this thing.

thermal park in 2008 they had a major earthquake and it's it must have been quite sad actually because when that stuff happens because no one could cook their eggs no eggs get made full stop and also all of the the locations that the geothermal hot springs are coming up changes and so these springs that have been there for hundreds and hundreds of years and generations and generations a lot of them just dried up and stopped functioned but they're but they're still there but they're still there like the craters where they used to be. And one of them was called the Trash Spring. And I was really interested in that.

And it turns out that there was a lady in town who for like 30 years, maybe about 100 years ago, was putting all her household waste into this spring. God. And so when it dried up, they just found 30 years worth of, oh no, okay. So when the earthquake happened, the hot spring basically erupted and like spewed up really, really high in the sky. The entire town was covered in her rubbish. Oh, no. And then, yeah, it was dried up, but not without that parting gift where it spat crisp packets across down. So, yeah, it's good.

Fucking weird. What a place. It's good. In Iceland, you can go to Iceland, you can put an egg in a hole. It's stuff of dreams And if it's not blue ice coming through your ceiling It's going to be banana peel And cardboard boxes

Toil, toilet paper Yeah Yeah, and that stuff doesn't melt So, No, it does To do yourself, lucky other ice lady Amazing Thank you very much, Ben

You're welcome I want to go to Iceland now I just live off nothing but egg That's it You're going to have to get used to eating egg though So Oh yeah Sorry, man

It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make to save money We'll have to let you boil a new potato. Would you do that? Oh, yeah, yeah. Just a little tetee? Yeah. Put that in a little titty. All right, let's go.

I'll take my, I'll bring my own. I'm not going to my own convenience of them. I'll bring my own potatoes. Thank you very much. Just take a whole. You're not fucking cooking your potatoes in our hole. You piss off. You buy our potatoes.

There must be a recipe book for like 100 dishes you can cook by boiling or steaming. And you could take the book with you. And then, you know, you could do like a broccoli dish in there. You could do... People cooking the dishwasher, don't they? That's basically the same. Yeah, people cook salmon in the dishwasher, yeah. Do that.

It'd be great. Yeah. Amazing. Thank you very much. And that brings us to the end of the podcast, at least the end of our things. There's still a little bit more to come. Isn't that right? Ben?

Yes. That's right. Thank you so much for listening, everybody. Thank you for submitting your things. Thank you, you boys, for your things as well. There's a few places you can find us around the internet. We will be touching again upon the things that we spoke about at the beginning of the show, just to remind you. But, Mikey, I believe there's some sort of shop.

You're damn right. If you head over to vidyatsofficial.com and click on the shop button, you will see a lovely selection of things that may make a good Christmas presents for you. or another video act. What's the wait? Do we have a term for the vidiates fans?

Just video, just video, right? Yeah. Hello poddiots. That's what the neighbor's cat said, right? You go over to Vidis Official.com. You'll find the shop with t-shirts, hoodie, cap, all sorts of lovely things,

mug, and we definitely weren't getting thousands and thousands of spam orders because of naughty internet people trying to hack us. That's all fixed now. No one noticed. that we didn't even notice it for three months didn't change anything

thankfully but yes now you can visit the shop and buy something for real rather than being a fake robot pretending to buy something why would you do that annoying videosofficial.com shop there you go that's my need to start sticking to a script for this actually no fuck it no more come on man

it's way too fucking late for that 165 episodes in I should write this down no this is why it's ending If, Mikey, if you had a slicker outro, we'd still be going. It's all your fault. So sad. Sorry.

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absolutely don't feel you have to do that and Peter what came out or I suppose what was the highlights of what came out oh there's almost there's fucking nothing is there at this time well on video it seven years ago this month we did start the month with worst games ever spooky special

Billy the Wizard Rocket Broomstick Racing that was the second of November rather than I guess that was the closest to Halloween and then in true this is the last sort of normal episode of the podcast style on the 3rd of November

Vidyits is changing announcement which only has an 82% like to dislike ratio it's one of our worst like ratios so that happened we did the penultimate tat

that's post some tat number 38 then New Vidyat's merch was on the 9th November for those who wanted a last piece of something Worst games ever 007 Racer the Vidyat's announcement Q&A where we had to put out some fires because people

were cross the Spiral Reignited Blindfold Challenge that was a fun one Worst games ever Miami Vice Potty it's episode 21 we split the The sausage, as we really sort of did the final little run of content.

It was a private video, Happy Birthday O'Shea on the 23rd of November. So happy birthday once again, O'Sheen, if I've said that right. We did worse games ever, The Legend of Spiro, the Eternal Night. There was some video it's live then towards the end of the month, and then that is kind of it. Oh, the Red The Redemption 2 horse cliff diving challenge. Your mum's favourite. Yeah, my horse-loving mum's favourite video. Oh, and Biker Mice from Mars was on the last day of November.

Oh, yeah. That was a killer episode, wasn't it? That one, when it wouldn't load properly. Yeah. We had weird shadows and artefacts. That'll do. Put it out. Yeah.

It was great. Yeah. Fantastic. Mikey, whereabouts? Can you be found on the internet, please? Someone was asking if there's, I mean, I know you said last time that you have no interest in streaming, but if there will be any post-poddyat's place for people to find you doing things relatively regularly, if at all? There will be, I do have gears in motion to start making stuff,

but I'll announce that when there's something to show rather than getting anyone excited before anything gets delivered. Too late for now. I'm excited now. Oh, damn it. Oh, gosh, darn it. Well, so hopefully only next year I'll have something out. That's the plan at least. But for now, Paraboy on Instagram and Blue Sky are the two online bits of internet that I do my interneting on publicly.

There you go. Fantastic. And Peter, where are we? You can find us together at YouTube.com forward slash at worst games ever, where the worst games over format continues on its own channel. We're still playing bad video games however many years on. You can also find Ben playing not bad video.

video games on Twitch.TV forward slash confused underscore dude and also you're not just putting vods on youtube.com forward slash at confused uh underscore dude vods have I got that right I'm gonna have to check it now because I think I might have changed the name recently thank you all right okay for that for that acknowledgement um it is uh let's see it is uh confused underscore dude Y-T is what it is now because it's not just VODs anymore what have you posted Ben

I released my first solo video what I have been slowly working away at when I have had a spare singular fucking moment to do it is taking me ages it's similar in format to the launch games videos I made at

triple jump but this time I'm going through and playing the 10 worst reviewed games on each platform I just can't get away from those terrible games peter i can't no no he loves him even as an independent venture you're still having to play bad games um meanwhile you can find me not playing bad games not playing games at all on youtube.com forward slash at that peter austin where instead i'm doing kind of weird capetia sort of stuff a little bit a little bit potty at sea not as silly fewer farts but actually i have done a little bit of fart content so you know it's all there yeah

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Appreciate it. Do we have a final question before we bugger off? I mean, just another reminder, please, to email us and let us know your favourite potty. It's moments with timestamps. Thank you very much. Or leave them in the comments as well. A question. Yeah.

Oh, well, what Christmas foods have you bought from your local supermarket now that it is apparently Christmas season and everything is Christmas. Even the music has started to become Christmassy in shops. Yeah, I heard a Christmas song today in Liddle. Oh, no. Mid-November now, which I don't know, too soon. It's just, I feel sorry for the poor staff. Actually, I should, correction, because there is a very slanderous remark. It was in Morrisons, not in Liddle.

I'm not putting that on Liddle when they weren't doing it. That's not fair. It's rude. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you so much for listening slash watching everybody. We will see you at the reunion stream on Friday the 12th of December. And after that, probably in a week or so's time, there will be the final of this run of Poddiet. It's one live show still to come, but the final of this specific run.

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