Podiots - Podiots: Episode 3 - But With A Pigeon

Episode Date: April 3, 2018

Peter discusses ingenious-yet-canned WW2 weaponry (but with a pigeon), Michael talks his favourite content creators, and Ben brings forth and exciting business opportunity. We're proudly sponsored by Turtle Beach! Get the Turtle Beach Headsets we wear: http://bit.ly/vidiotsbeach YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vidiotsofficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/VidiotsOfficial Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vidiotsofficial Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vidiotsofficial Follow the gang on Twitter: Ben: @Confused_Dude Peter: @ThatPeterAustin Michael: @ParrotBoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickax Hello Peter here from Vidiots I've been potentially facing the wrong way with my microphone for the whole podcast So if I sound weird That's what's happened We've got a bit of a janky setup today Because our recorder of choice isn't here

But we're making it work I just wanted to address it, you know Yeah, that's fine I always want to do this on a on microphone Should you want to start recording for... Okay start record Oh you did

You've done it already That's cool It sounds It sounds impressive As I hoped Yeah That's quite upsetting I fancy you drink

Can we ask Dave Dave Dave Dave Can you get me a can Or something Dave Dave

Dave Why are not talking to us Oh come on Dave Dave Don't be like that Dave Dave Did you listen here

At Dave on Twitter He's just walking Dave Dave Dave what you doing Dave Dave A cheek on that boy

I want a can of Rio Wow Looks like we're done Dave's got a bit of An attitude On this On the sand

I've heard He's heard that, yeah. His name is Dave, and he's at Dave on Twitter. Have you seen at Dave on Twitter? You must have looked him up by now. No, I haven't, actually. He's like a weird businessman with a private account. Oh, it's private, so you can't even say the tweets. Well, it's like closed. I think, I'm not, I don't think it's private. Why would you get at Dave and then keep it all to yourself? How selfish is that? You only tweeted like three times.

What a dick. See, people with accounts like that, surely they've had offers from people to buy that account for quite large sums of money. Maybe you can't go in touch for them anymore. Oh, maybe, yeah. I wonder if Marvel had. at Spider-Man. Oh. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Pottie, it's episode three. We are being introduced by Robo Ben.

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every day. You've got to wear the MLG glasses as well with the little aiming cross-hairs on. It makes people really good at Call of Duty apparently. We'd also like to thank our patrons. Our very, very special and delightful patrons from Patreon, they really would. They're fantastic. You've all now had

your money taken. So we're recording this in advance, but we'll see. We'll see at this point. Yeah, let's see you stick. We're making a list. We're checking it twice. We're going to find out who deserves to access our content and not. And you will be blacklisted. It's weird, Peter. I'm looking at you, and I can only see you through your pop shield. I can see you. You see the weird distorted version. Poking through this mesh.

It's like I'm about to rob a bank. I was going to say like when bank robes put tights over the head. You ever done that? It's great fun. Makes your face look really weird. No, I've not. I've not actually done it. I should do. We should do that. Yeah, that's a whole video that. Yeah. Someone's sending some tights. No, don't want. No one send in tights. We could do approve it if we do some kind of like the heist or whatever. There you go. Yeah, that's a good idea. Oh, Rob an actual bank Yeah, Rob a real bank I'm Rob a bank

Shut up No We're now on iTunes YouTube obviously Podbean Stitcher and Google Play What even are these websites Every week it's gonna double

All sorts of websites Every time we post something and say Hey we're now on a different site Someone says But what about the fucking stick At the end of my garden Why can't I get you on that? Jesus, why aren't you on NeoPets?

I just don't understand Why you're overlooking this huge audience Google Play, by the way, is premium, I've discovered. So I don't know why anyone would be a member of it. But if you are, congratulations, we're there too. If you've got that kind of money to burn, why not log on to Patreon.com? Is this ethical? I always feel, I mean, we're not like forcing them to do it, but as it's strongly suggested.

It's voluntary. There are no rewards. We're not hiding anything from people who don't pay. But if you want to just buy us a beer, then please, that would be great. Thank you. We are in dire need of new shelves, and that money is going to go directly. Peter some shells. Yeah, we are actually going to buy shelves for the games.

Spotify. We're still working on that. People keep asking. We keep saying, Spotify is happening. We need five episodes. That's where I listen to my podcast. On Spotify. Oh, well, there you go.

So hopefully that'll open up an avenue for all sorts of people to listen. We're going to try and be on everything. That's our goal. Your microwave, we're there. Your calculator, we're there. Your shoe, look. Look down there. Oh, it's us.

We're on your, don't tread on us, said the slightly nationalist snake in America. Oh, don't tread on me. Because I saw a picture on Reddit the other night of a fridge with a screen on it and on the screen it said Windows is updating. So theoretically we could be on your fridge soon. We could actually be on your fridge. If you've got a smart fridge,

get us on your fridge. Why does a smart fridge need Windows, for starters? Like, do you put Netflix on it when you go in a snack? Yeah. But why Windows 10? Just run Android on. If there's anyone out there with a smart fridge, get YouTube up.

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a single retweet that's the contract welcome back everybody to Pottietz we've all brought something as per usual to talk about today we're gonna start off with a couple of questions though if your boys are ready I'd love you too

I'm ready please do well I would but it's not loading oh here we go I've got it Phil Michael I've got it sing no you're not hardcore no you're not hardcore unless you live hardcore

unless you live hardcore But the legend of the wrench was a hardcore. No, no, no, I think it's working now. I love School of Rock. Ben, is it working now? It's been working since I said it wasn't working. Right. What, more, Phil?

No. First question comes from AKMB, at AKMB2 on Twitter. Yes. Why did you choose the colour yellow, and what was the second choice colour? Oh, we had like a whole design stage where I had about 10 different variations of the logo. I think yellow, we had like yellow and black, kind of like a Barry B. Benson inspired look. There's one that kind of stuck out the most to all of us.

Pink was another option. Yeah, we did actually, we were interested in pink. Yeah, but we didn't want to scare off stinky gamer boys. That's true. We thought like all the horrible stinky cod boys, you know who you are, wouldn't want to watch a channel that has a pink colour scheme because... Didn't trend well among the 12 to 35 audience.

Exactly. We know that pink is fine. Yeah. But I think there's still a lot of prejudice against the colour pink. But we've managed to squeeze it into us. games ever and other shows which i forget the name of prove it prove it that's it yeah all of you you thought you you thought you were free of it but it's actually all around you i'm wearing a pink hoodie right now you are look at that uh i just want to say that's why that's mostly why we

keep michael johnson on not not the pink hoodie uh the graphic design skills yes you know if it wasn't why i'm here we'd have left him at some kind of crash oh wow wow long time again. Wow. Yeah. I would have just tiled pictures of mere cats

on the wall and that would be making things in Photoshop and After Effects I'm quiet keeps me focused give him something

to edit and he'll be quiet I'll shut up for days on anything Peter and I could go to the shops and talk about where our marriage

went wrong Yeah God next question Listen to your mother She won't shut it up Now is not the time At dad

Dad Stop time Next question comes from Chris Trippy Kiddle At Trippy Drew 69 69 609

169 Oh If you could only play one game for the rest of your life, what would it be? I'm getting really boring with my answers to these questions, but binding of Isaac. He really could play it forever, couldn't you? Yeah, that's the thing. It was my favourite game for a reason. See, this is the thing, though, is that, you know, you can't... This isn't the same as what is your favourite game, because certain games, I think...

I wouldn't want to play The Last of Us. Yeah, exactly. I wouldn't necessarily want to play Sparrow the Dragon forever and ever. I certainly do play it forever and ever, but sparsely, you know? Not every day. It's not every day. For me, it would have to be some kind of sandbox game. It would have to be like, God, I don't know.

Maybe even something like GTA 5 just because there's so much to do in that. And there's always like new mods and stuff coming out. Yeah, I don't know. I may be looking through rose tinted glasses. Pink tinted glass. That's right. We're wearing pink glasses with our headsets. Yeah.

Maybe Oblivion. Alder Scrolls for Oblivion. I think it's something that I could play for a long time. I've been thinking about it's time. bliving again on PC. I downloaded Skyrim the other night. Yeah. But I don't know,

I've got that kind of itched play some kind of Elder Scrolls games. I might do it and just dive in. I'm so fucking over Skyrim. Like, to be fair, I ruined it for myself because... How many hours do you think you put in? I don't know.

Ooh. But actually, I do know roughly. Yeah. But it was over a really short time scale, which is why I remember. Oh, yeah. So I loved Oblivion. And then when Skyrim came out,

I was at university. And I, that was the first time I ever handed in a piece of coursework before the deadline because I knew that if I left it like I wouldn't fit I wouldn't do it so I did that got Skyrim went upstairs on a Friday evening

to my room came out on Monday morning I literally only came downstairs to get pizza from the front door and that was I was upstairs the entire weekend over the course of I platinum the game in a month it's nice as French toast

no that was another day that was me trying to plug the hole in my life that Skyrim left I played it solidly for a month Got the platinum I think I put about 120 hours in In a month And then I was like

I just couldn't play it anymore And I've tried to go back to it ever since And every single subsequent edition They've released has really riled me up Because it's just fucking Skyrim again I think this is half the reason why I'm in control When we play SkyRoy Yeah I'm over it

Ben would just die If we're doing fun stuff Oh yeah I think that was what we said is that Skyrim... It can't be a Skyrim. Yeah, absolutely. It cannot be a Skyrim play.

Because everyone and their mother's and their mother's dog did Skyrim play-thrus on YouTube several years ago. But now, there's still so much to be done. And we're proving it, so to speak. Yeah, exactly. You're changing the game. There's a lot to do and still a lot of fun to be had. But you can say that about any game.

And it's just, you have to play it in the right way, I think. Actually, that's the thing. I played Skyrim. I've got like 40 hours in Skyrim. It's nothing extortionate. But I did spend a lot of time just watching people play Skyrim on YouTube. Like, Sips has played. Play-through. I used to love that. Jesse Cox did a good play-through. That's where I get all my scarring from. I want to play it myself. I want to be in control. I want to make it my story. Don't it. It's the role-playing, I think, that's the most interesting part. Because otherwise it's like, I'll pick that up, I'll pick it up. I'll pick it that person, even though I don't need to because I just want the experience.

Yeah. Oh, I'll go to Xtown because I know that that quest is there. And it's like, no, I'd rather, like, stumble upon things and, like, be seriously, like, player knowledge and character knowledge, like, separate those two out. Yeah, there's a guy called Andy Kelly who used to write for PSM3 and then he was, I think he made some videos for CBG, I'm not sure where he is now, he was still doing game stuff, but he had a series on YouTube, I think he was called Olaf. It's a guy with like

no combat skills at all. That rings a bell, OLAF. But he had a dog and he was like a cabbage farmer and that was it and he'd make like 10 gold a day farming cabages. And then he'd like stay at and in and like buy some food. I don't know, it was just really, So living a very simple life.

Yeah, it was just weirdly very watchable. Yeah, that's what happened to, when Skaring first came out before I'd got it, and actually before there was even that much on YouTube, I was on a message board, and one of the guys on there had this thread going, and he'd got it on day one, and he'd been playing it, like, nonstop. And he was just talking about how he was, like, he was living in some camp that he'd cleared out, and he used to just go out and, like, hunt deer and, like, sell the skins and stuff,

and he would occasionally, like, go in and stay at an in or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And then he would talk about the random encounters that you get, which at the time, before they just became really samey, and you obviously know all of them. Yeah. It sounded like this just fascinating non-main quest life he was living, where he was like, oh, yeah, that house I stole from.

A couple of, like, rough guys came into town and were like, oh, yeah, we've been asked to, like, come and beat you up. And it just sounded like such a wonderful game. And then... But then when you're actually playing it... And you're just, like, going through it, going like, yeah, do that quest, do that quest, I'll need that, I'll sell that. And those guys are just a hindrance where I'll find I'll kill you, I suppose, if I have to.

Yeah, I think it's, if the role play stuff makes Skyrim interesting, but I cannot play it normally again. I think it's been long enough that I could go back to Oblivion. Yeah. But there were so many advancements made from Oblivion to Skyrim that there will be stuff that you're like, it feels fresh, but there's a lot of shit that's wrong with this game that Skyrim fixed. Anyway. The combat. Combat was not fixed in Skyrim at all. Well, no, no, but if you go back to Oblivion, the combat is even worse, yes.

It's dreadful. God, those oblivion gates as well were a pain in the ass. It was awful. Anyway, that was a question. Thanks for that question. It was a good question. Peter, I think it's your turn to go first. Oh, is it?

Yeah. Well, it's interesting, actually. When you talked about the glasses with the crosshair on them. Yeah. Right. Well, what I want to talk about... Are we about to get Leit? Oh, yeah.

Super Leat 420XX sniper pro with a zero instead of an O. Yeah. No, I want to talk about... failed World War II weapons tests. Okay. Okay, all right. Can you really just keep the theme of Nazis and war alive somehow every time? This is me attempting to go back to my quirky tales, Peter's Quirky Corner.

Okay, okay. Right, remember, remember Jeff the Mungoose? I do remember. How about the bat bomb? Oh, cool. Robin, get the bad bomb. See, that does sound like a Batman. It does.

It wasn't. It was, I don't think it even featured on Batman at all. during the 1940s, to be honest. Yeah. The bat bomb was conceived by a Pennsylvania dentist named Little, Lytel, L-Y-T-L-E. Lytle. Lytle S. Adams, a friend of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. So a dentist came up with this. A lot of military knowledge, of course. Absolutely, yeah. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over 1,000 compartments, each containing a hibernating

Mexican freetailed bat with a small, timed incendiary bomb attached. What? That sounds like so unnecessary. Right. Well, the bomb was dropped from a really high bomber. Yeah. At dawn. And the casing would then

deploy a parachute in mid-flight and it would open to release the bats. Wow. Okay. Yes. Smithers release the bats. Yes. In theory, this was an American weapon, so this was theoretically the target is Japan. Okay. the bats would then roost in eaves of houses and attics

you know Japanese houses which are mostly made of wood and paper that's not racist that's actually true you don't have to keep defending yourself as not being racist because people are going to think that you are racist there was a short pause of about one second and then you went like that and I was like no it says on Wikipedia that certainly in the 1940s their houses were made of wood and paper one point

would the bomb not kill all of the bats when it hits the floor? No, no, no. It doesn't it hit the floor. It opens up, it's parachuting down this bomb, right? Okay. Then the compartments open. The bats fly out. And it's like a mile above the ground or something.

Imagine seeing a bomb like deploy in the sky. It's slowly coming down. Oh, better clear the area. That's going to be an explosion. And then suddenly... Then a parachute comes out and you're like, what the fuck is that someday? Bats come fluttering towards your house. And then over a radio,

of 20 to 40 miles, the bats would scatter. They would then roost in the eaves of these paper and wooden houses. And shortly later, the incendiary device would go off. Jesus. And set fire to all these houses. Now, a series of tests to answer various operational questions were conducted. In one incident at the Carlsbad Army Airfield, auxiliary air base near Carlsbad, New Mexico,

the airbase was set on fire in May, 1943, when armed bats were accidentally released. Armed bats. The bats roosted under a fuel tank and incinerated the test range. Jesus Christ. That's unfortunate. Weaponized bats.

It's not the kind of thing you can test, is it? It's the sort of thing you have to hope works and just deploy it. You can stand there with all the clipboards you like, but really you're just crossing your fingers. Yeah, and also damaging yourself. Imagine being in that boardroom when the guy says, right, guys, I've got an idea. I'm a dentist. I've got an idea.

The dentist is out again. Right, just hear me out. bomb with bats in it now wait for it in august 1943 the project was renamed project x-ray wow for some reason why not project sonar that would be more yeah i don't know uh and after further testing it was concluded that it was indeed effective actually by 1945 it was estimated that two million dollars and this is in 1945 had been spent on the project

and it's thought that development of the bat bomb was moving too slowly and was overtaken in the race for a quick end to the war by atomic bomb right so did they Was that really what they were banking on to end the war? Yeah, well, and then the atomic bomb came along, and they were like, oh, yeah, we should probably be working on this instead. But let's put a bat in there anyway. But, yes. But dentist Adams maintained that the bat bombs would have been effective

without the devastating effects of the atomic bomb. He's quoted as having said, think of the thousands of fires breaking out simultaneously over a circle of 40 miles in diameter for every bomb dropped. Japan could have been devastated, yet with small loss of life. Wow. He's, God, he's a bit. salty about it all, isn't he?

I think the idea of an atomic bomb is not just, oh, we're going to knock all your buildings down, it's there is going to be a massive loss of life. That's part of the mutually assured destruction, isn't it? Yeah. So him saying, oh, no, not many people would have died. It's like, well... Is that kind of worse that you just ruined these lives for people who have to... I mean, they're not going to be dead, but their lives aren't going to be worth living.

Yeah. So that's fine. I don't feel bad for the vet with the... Not a vet. The dentist, no. So far removed from bats and bombs. Don't feel bad for the dentist with the stupid name, who I feel bad for. Are those bats that spent years training ready to go and serve their country?

And then they just burst into flames. Well, they weren't even allowed to burst into flames? Well, no. They were kept home, weren't they? Bless them. I hope a few of them got to ride the H-bomb. Do you think they bred the bats in-house? So I had like a room just filled with bats that slowly more than that must have done.

In a later review of the project, Stanley P. Lovell, Director of Research and Development for the Office of Strategic Services, mentioned that the bats during testing were dropping to the ground like stones. Aw, was it too heavy for them? So it doesn't sound that effective to be on. No, apparently a bat can carry more than its own body weight in flight, which is pretty amazing. Right.

Now, you may have also heard of Project Pigeon. Have you heard of Project Pigeon? I'm not familiar with the name, but I might be familiar with the concept. Yeah. So this one is perhaps more well-known. I think it featured on episode of QI once. Essentially, this works with a glider that has a bomb. attached to it

and in the nose cone of the glider there's a pigeon right remember that film Valiant yeah I was just

thinking of that and the pigeon does it control the is that what it is? Yeah so this is what I'm talking about

with the crosshair glasses so the pigeon had a clear screen in front of it with basically a crosshair on it

and the the pigeon had been taught by a very famous behavioral psychologist called BF Skinner

who's famous for electrocuting rats and steam to There's hope for Logan Paul yet to become a behavioural psychologist. Yeah, Skinner had come up with this idea where he would condition pigeons

to look through a screen and peck at what would be a target. Whoa! So like a battleship or whatever, right? So a pigeon sees this thing and it pecks either straight down the middle if that's where it is or if it's off to the side, it'll peck up there

and there's something inside the glass that knows, oh, the pigeon's pecking in the sort of top right quadrant, we will now slightly change course. So there's nothing else controlling this glide. No, it's literally, it's piloted by a pigeon. It's the first drone. It's the first drone. That's amazing. So this was before any kind of electronic guidance system. So this was genuinely like a really good idea. Yeah, yeah. But with a pigeon. Yeah. I think every good idea that has a pigeon in should be a really good idea. And then in parentheses, but with a pigeon. But with a pigeon. Yeah. So it would peck towards the target and that would readjust the course of the glider.

That's amazing. I love that. And once the target came into the centre on the crosshair, it would just be pecking right in the middle and the course would be maintained and the bomb would be flown directly. So there's a pigeon. How could this possibly go wrong, Peter? See, that's worse, actually, than the bats, because the bats were just using natural instinct in the, all the bats would do it. They hadn't been trained, right?

They're just doing what they do, which is roosting in the eaves. Right. But the pigeons had been trained to kill them. room to kill themselves. Yeah. They didn't know they were being trained to kill themselves.

All they were told was pet this target and here's some seeds and they loved it. Oh. And then one day they were put into a glider and they were like,

oh great, this is my first time out in the field. I'm going to get loads of seeds when I get back. Yeah. And then they never came home. Oh no.

Well, that said, the National Defence Research Committee saw the idea to use pigeons in glide bombs as very eccentric and impractical but still contributed $25,000 to research. research, but it ultimately, it never really came into fruition. And Skinner, who had some success

with the training, complained, quote, our problem was no one would take us seriously. Oh, wonderful. That's about right. It sounds like wartime is the best time to pitch a crazy idea, because anything could happen. Yeah, I mean, they say necessities the mother of invention, but actually war, I think, is the mother of invention. Well, there is a necessity attached to how the Oh yeah, definitely. Got to stay alive, got to get those Japanese by killing them with bats.

Any means necessary. Not killing them. Bats or pigeons. Just making them destitute with bats. Oh, that's my little foray. Thank you, Peter. That was delightful. You welcome.

Join us in however long it takes me to do another one for another quirky adventure from Wikipedia. Would you guys like a question? Oh, I'd love one. This comes from Richard Major. Yeah. Our Major 8-6. Richard Major.

He's not your major. He's our major. He's Dick Major. Major Dick. Major Dick. Ground control to Major Dick. Now, this is a brilliant question, and we're going to have to cut away to editing Ben for the answer. But I think we can all have a guess at it anyway. Okay. If you took the pile of worst games ever that you've got to C-EX, over 100. What would they be worth?

Oh, my God. You're literally count every game, calculate it, put into C-X. I'm going to put every game we've got in that spreadsheet into C-E-S. That is going to take you forever. It is, yeah. Well, let's have a little guess. Let's have a guess. What we think it could be. Well, the prices vary so much.

Like, some of the old games, like, PS1 games now have started going for, like, 20 or more pounds, like 12 to 25 pounds, whereas some Naf PS2 games go for 50p. Like, it's really difficult. Yeah, yeah. And then we've got some newish games as well, like PS3. Have we got any PS4? We've got one PS4 game. Yeah, we have. At time of recording.

So, yeah, I've got my guess. Have a guess. Go on. 47 pound 60 pence. Okay, Peter. I think more than that, I think a lot more than that. I think I'm going to say like double that, like 86 pounds and two pence. Okay.

I'm going to say 69 pounds, 69 pounds. Nice. It's the sex number. I like it. I'll change mine to 420 pounds. Yes. You didn't get part of that. No.

Sorry, Peter. Come here. Let's give us a little one of those slapadoos. Oh, I couldn't even pick it up on my microphone. So soft. Weeoo, weeoo. Hello, it's future. Ben here with some facts for you.

Are you ready? The total amount of all of our worst games ever comes to 56 pounds and 36 pens. Neat-W-W-W-W-W-Future Ben out. What did you say you changed your answer? I'm going to change my answer to £420. No, I'm not. That's ridiculous.

You're a ridiculous man. I'm really curious to see the result of this. That's fascinating. Can we just cam the show and just sell all our games now, is that? Yeah, that's it. We can retire off this. Send us your tat and we'll put it on eBay immediately. Send us all your copies of like TomeB1 and stuff, which is worth 150 pounds.

Is it TomeB or Tome B? It's Tome B in the UK, but everywhere else it's Tome B. Or in Europe, sorry, but do you know why? Why? Because in America, they decided to call it Tome B, and then when they tried to sell it in Europe, they realised that that's Italian for Grave. Oh, that's not going to love that. Okay, no mind.

That's a bit sad. Michael, who would you like to go next? Oh, I'd love to. I'm so excited. Is this going to be more cannibalism? and stuff. Oh, yeah. This week, on guess how many people they murdered?

It's me. How many people have I murdered? No, we're going down a nice more wholesome route. Who's getting out of this room alive? It's none of us. It's all dying. God, okay. There's bats everywhere.

Oh, I've left off my bat bomb. The pigeons tapping up, Ben. A bit more wholesome this week. Yeah. Just going to talk about our favorite content creators. In any capacity, be it musicians, YouTubers, artists, podcasters, etc. et cetera, et cetera.

Presumably we can't talk about Neil Cicerega again. He is on my list. He is on your list. Because he permeates every faucet of my life. He does. So I need to mention him somehow. Yeah, you go first, yeah. I've got quite a fairly sizable list here, but I won't talk about all of them.

But Neil Cicerega, famous for many things, music, films, games. Just Google him. You'll find a wealth of stuff. He did a, like, a Ted-style talk, talking about his history, like going from his childhood, making games. He was homeschooled, and his parents let him do whatever he wanted. No wonder he's so fucking weird But he's fucking amazing

You will know Neil Cicerega in some capacity He'll have done something that you've seen He'll be like, oh he did that one And that and that and that and it never ends But yeah, he's one of my favourite boys Dan Bell is a YouTuber My favourite series from him is called Another Dirty Room

Where basically they go to the most disgusting Dilapidated hotels in America And like properly read through the rooms To kind of like do proper analysation of They do like blood splice sprays They take apart the beds. Did it take like dark lights with them? Yeah.

It makes you feel, it makes you never want to stay in a hotel again. Like there's instances where they've picked up a bed looked underneath. There's like heroin needles and cocaine and stuff there. Oh my gosh. And like this room is where they start spraying it with like, I think it's called, it's the stuff that lights up the blood. The whole room is just covered. The ceiling is just covered from people spraying it with needles.

After the, after they shoot up. Oh my God. It'll make you terrified to ever go near a hotel again. That's awful. It's a good format, though. It's a good idea. It's genuinely amazing. He does other videos.

He explores like dead malls. It's like totally abandoned shopping malls. Oh, cool. He goes through them. I love like Erbex stuff. He's really good for that kind of stuff. LGR, lazy game reviews. I know Ben's been watching some of his stuff.

Yeah, just recently. He is one of my favorite YouTubers. He covers a lot of old tech from like the 90s and L20,000. Oh, cool. Like really weird little things. I totally unaware of that. Let's go thrifting. Yeah, see, Thrift series is probably my favorite.

That's the one I, yeah. I got stuck watching his thrift videos and sort of lived vicariously through his amazing finds. Yeah, he just goes to thrift shops across, well, near where he lives and just finds all weird little oddities and games and stuff. He's really fun to watch. He's very wholesome. Just makes me sad that UK charity shops are so now. Yeah, we get, like, nothing like that. You never get anything decent there.

Jay Foreman is another one. Musician kind of is one of his side things, but he does lots of general trivia about London and kind of the infrastructure of London. and lots of like general British trivia but one of my favourite series is Mapmen where him and someone else talk about just oddities with maps like loads of little weird maps you might not have heard of or little idiosyncricities in maps

I can't remember any major plot points from any of the episodes but I know it's very interesting I like to watch it but it doesn't teach me anything I'm like a say if everything goes straight through me but he's got a series called like Forgotten London or something where he goes through all like the forgotten tube stations that are like Derelicts are not used.

I like those. He does loads of interesting stuff like that. Lazzania cat. Oh my God. Lazzania cat is my favorite YouTube channel. It's haunting. Is it really your favorite? It's one of those things where it uploaded about 10 videos 10 years ago.

Yeah. And it went totally dead for that entire time. And then last year there was a resurgence and they just uploaded 10 new videos, including like a six-hour telethon where they put up a little video with a phone number on. It was a sex survey. so you just phone the number and say how many people you had sex with and then they put every single one of those voicemails into like a six hour long video and that video is it's a fucking piece of art

because it's dynamic because it oh dear I've locked my microphone the video takes place in real time so as Garf like what happens is the doorbells John answers the door opens it there's a mannequin there the voicemail happens but every like that repeats over and over for six hours but as the time progresses time changes like outside gets darker the clock changes, the lighting changes. It's an incredible piece of art.

But the people who made that, Fatal Farm, you might know them for their adverts. They do all the old spice adverts for Terry Cruz. Oh, really? Yeah, that's where they get the money for this stuff. Yes, exactly, yeah. Gotcha. That's cool.

I'm going to go on to a few podcasts now. This is going to be my little podcast recommendation area. Right. Talking Simpsons. And I really like the Simpsons. And I've always liked to know more about it. And Talking Simpsons is the perfect way to learn about all the back.

background of making The Simpsons. Like, these three guys know everything about the Simpsons. They talk about their childhood. Like, they were the kind of guys who recorded every episode. Right. Kept it all on tapes. And now they're just spurting out that knowledge for everyone to love. It's a, what's the word for when it's,

chronological watching of the episodes. Like, every week they do, like, a new episode in order. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. And it's, like, some of the episodes going for, like, two hours. Because they go really in depth, like, behind the scenes, talk about the writers and stuff.

So if you're interested in the Simpsons in any capacity, I highly recommend that. And lastly, back to serial killers. Oh, yeah. Last podcast on the left is my... It's a really nice kind of true crime podcast. It's... A lot of people don't like it.

They have a good logo. They do. Oh, I look... There are. I've got two t-shirts by them. Have you? Yeah, and I love their logo, but... They're not for everyone.

A lot of people find the humor very grating. It's very American bro humor. Right, right. It took me a few episodes to kind of get into it. But if you like anything kind of supernatural, spooky ghosts, anything crime or horror-related, it's a very good one to try. out.

Well, that's my comprehensive list of internet things I like. That would be my first mention would be the law podcast.

Oh, I've been meaning to get into that, yeah. L-O-R-E. We were talking about the other day, weren't we?

The three of us. Yeah, it's a similar kind of thing. It's presented in a very, very different style, though, to last podcast

on the right, padcost. And on the left. Well, whatever. No wonder you keep missing. There wasn't a turn. Going down

the wrong road. God. I'm subscribing to Law right now. Yeah, do it. Law is a single guy called Aaron Menke. Mankey. And he essentially talks about perhaps an urban legend or a ghost story or an aspect of folklore. But then quite often he'll sort of tie it to kind of supposedly real anecdotal stuff

where something may have actually taken place. Yeah, it's like the roots of the... Yeah, the roots of the myth, really. And there's still, like, some of the stories where he's saying, like, oh, but maybe it was chillingly real. And then he'll tell a story that's also clearly an urban myth. But overall, it's really interesting. His presenting style is a bit weird in that he sort of has this weird.

He kind of pauses between words in his sentences. But at the beginning, I thought this is going to be really greating. But I got used to it, and I genuinely would recommend it massively. If you're into either your serial killers, Mikey, or just sort of folklore and spookums. I really hope I can get down with his voice because it sounds really interesting. I've been wanting something like that.

So I'm going to try it tonight and I'll report back tomorrow. And on Amazon video, there's now a six episode thing that he's done where it's like animated. It's basically just an episode of law, but they've got this really nice... Actually, it's not animated, it's live action. It's got a nice animated intro, but a live action representation thing.

Right. sticking with the spookums one of my favourite but also one of the weirdest YouTube channels I've ever watched is Alan Tutorial Oh yes Are you aware of Alan Tutorial Ben?

No It's this guy who He's behind the camera He's holding a camera And it started off I think maybe the very first one Might have actually been Almost like

Like you couldn't tell the difference Between it and a normal tutorial And you just sort of goes Hey guys welcome my tutorial page Today we're going to learn How to draw a picture of an owl and he'll draw a picture of an owl but then as it went on it got

first it got more abstract so there's quite a famous one called How to Pick a Blue Chair Up off the floor and he just picks a blue chair up and then it just gets weirder and weirder and eventually he ends up in this room that he seems to be locked in it's like this white cell

and as more and more episodes pass by these bottles of piss start gathering in the corner and he does more and more tutorials he's getting all covered in paint and stuff and then when he does a tutorial a dollar gets slid under the door and then it's just this weird kind of descent into madness with this creepy Michael Jackson voiced man

He goes, hey, welcome my tutorial page Don't forget to subscribe my tutorial page And then it's incredible I do love Alan's so hard to describe But it's one of those things So just like start from beginning And work you with through his videos It's so worthwhile

I think the turning point was one that was called Something like how to get back into your house When you're locked out And it started with him outside of a house and by the end he doesn't actually manage to get back in again and then from there he just he's like living out in the wild and he's like eating berries that he finds

in the bin and stuff and it just got... You guys are really into your obscure shit aren't you? That's great. Speaking of eating berries I've just remembered another YouTube channel like, oh shit what's he called? The guy lives in the forest and makes things and I have to Google this. While you're doing that Michael

the last one I would say it's super mainstream now this is like it's properly sponsored by YouTube kind of thing But I can't get enough for the slow-mo guys. Have you watched any slow-mo guys? I watched a recent slow-mo guys video, and it was a, it's like, I can't.

Oh, really? Yeah, no. Not anymore. What, the hosts? Yeah, the hosts and the whole setup and the whole show format are not a fan. No, really? I've never really properly died into it.

I watched a professional wrestling one as well. I just thought it was a bit crap. It was a slow-mo, a slow-mo guy's episode about professional wrestling. Yeah, like, Luchadors and stuff. Oh, cool. Johnny Mundo in. I think they're still, like, coming up with really good ideas, personally, like some of the things that they do

like you kind of you feel like they've been doing it for so long that surely everything that looks good in slow-mo has been done now but they're still like using those six foot water balloons but in like different ways in quite interesting ways I watched one where they split a bullet with an axe

so they had a super sharp hatchet and they lined up this rifle and fired and the bullet slices into four pieces as it hits this axe and they're just like I love watching it. It's like really calming the music they play and stuff. So, yeah, that's my mainstream

entry after Allen Tutorial. Alan Tutorial is good, though. I remembered the channel name. It's primitive technology. It's a man in the woods making primitive tools and stuff, and it's mesmerizing. That's cool. Ben, what's your stuff? As far as podcasts go,

this one. My brother, my brother and me is excellent and weird, and I enjoy that very much. And I listen to a few wrestling podcasts, Art of Wrestling is great with Cockabana and what else is there there's that

Anna Farris is unqualified is something I quite like She is She was in a scary movie She was Anna Farris Yeah wasn't she with Chris Pratt's ex-wife Yeah Quite recent

And she basically just talks to Because obviously she's got Ridiculous access to loads of Famous faces She just chats with them about shit But she's really vulgar And promiscuous and it's quite funny.

Yeah, she's like a strange person, isn't she? She's really weird. You sort of expect her to be quite... I think the first time you see Anna Faris, do you think she's going to be quite innocent? Anna. It's not Anna. It's one N, isn't it?

I think, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway. Anna Faris. Anna Faris. Yeah. She looks like quite a sort of sweet young lady.

No, she's not. Yeah, she's really, she's quite weird. It's great. I sort of fell out of love with it recently because they started putting adverts on it, which I haven't got a problem with in general. but people who treat it on podcasts like they're huge fans of every product they're shilling for It makes me it's just disgusting like she's got this guy who's her friend called sim who just drives me up the fucking wall I find him so annoying and and he's just like Anna let me talk to you about this food it saves me so much time

And it's just I just have to skip it every time because it's just it's almost unlistenable I'd much rather than say because my brother my brother and me have have a section of sponsor bit which they just call the money zone where they just they have these reads but they read them live and they just they fuck about with it and have fun with it and it's great um but yeah some some podcasts really my god well i'm not such a huge fan of like the the grim murdery podcast my girlfriend is a huge fan of the murder podcast but she seems to her about new york murders yes you did yeah with actual photos of bodies great yes it was great what a great book and sometimes when we're driving together she listens to to some of them but there's i'm i'm over

okay with that because she's found one that's not like as you said not like full of the the bro humor and stuff it's this this Australian guy who just treats it very spookily in a sense where he just reads it with ominous music in the background and it's like an hour long and it's just read as if it's a documentary rather than a than a than a ha ha and then he died yeah it's a bit I think it's a bit weird when you're talking about someone who was like you know butcher to death and then you're going loll yeah yeah I'm not such a huge fan of that but that was good that he he does a good one and uh in terms of youtube i really like binging with babbish someone i've been watching almost since the beginning

where he just recreates food from tv and film and games sometimes as well but it's like he used to be a a special effects guy for adverts for food and things so it's really well shot and really well done um she says there's another one who does boundary break oh boundary video games where he gets into the commands and can basically just break out of the environment and show things from different angles and that's really cool. Yeah.

I think that's really about it. I don't want to go on too long. But yeah, lots of interesting people out there on the internet. Yeah. We're the best though, right? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Next question.

Ooh. It comes from CAF. Hey! Calfcast. Fellow Yorkscast member. Off of the Yogscast network. Off of. He says if you were signed to the WWE,

what would your wrestling person owner be, and would you be face heel or on the sidelines making a fool of yourself? Oh. So I'm not a wrestling boy, so a lot of those words are kind of lost on me. Ask me any of them. A face is a good boy, a heel is a bad boy. I'd be a face. I'd be a good guy.

I've thought about this before. What would be your character? I can't remember my character, but I remember my move, which is called the WD-40, where I loop myself up and just run at the wrestling ring and just slide over and not people like by the legs. Like a bowling ball. Yeah, like a bowling ball. Yeah.

That does require oiling yourself. Is that part of the manoeuvre? Or would you come to the ring already? Like, what was it, was it WrestleMania where they had like the really long entrance slide? I would just slide down that like a penguin and then build up some momentum and use that to get into the ring. I would pay to see that, to be fair. Yeah, yeah. I would pay to see that.

I don't know what wrestling name I'd have, though. Any ideas? Loud. Loud. Here comes loud. And now, making his way to the ring, loud. Oh, God, that would be the music. That would be your finish.

They're just going in their ear. I think anyone would tap out. Make it stop. Peter. God, I don't know. Do you have an answer prepped? Because I've not ever given any thought to this. Make one up, I think.

Just based on playing previous wrestling games. Well, that's the thing. If you've done that already, then, yeah. Yeah. Well, I'd be called Chocolate Thunder. Yeah. Nice. And I would wear a cape to the ring,

which always goes well. Yeah. And I would, my finishing, I'd be a bad guy. My finishing move would be, it's like, I think it was called the 99 crusher in one of the games. It's where you get them into a suplex position. You lift them up and then you just sit down and drop them on their head. Oh, yeah. It looks really horrible, but it's a cool looking move at the same time.

Yeah, Britie. Breitie. Eatie, Breitie Hart. Speaking of Chocolate Thunders, when I was in New York years ago, went to the Outback Steakhouse and four dessert. I got a chocolate thunder from down under. What is that? It was just a shit turn of ice cream and brownie and stuff.

Oh, that sounds good. I thought you meant I went to Albeck State House and had a chocolate thunder. Just went to the toilet. Just did a massive shit. Real diarrhea right here. Just before going to the restaurant, our taxi driver said, oh, be careful. People get stabbed around here.

Bye. That's sweet. Thanks. Welcome to New York. Concrete junk, gold, where dreams are made. People get stabbed all the time. You'll get punched in your face. I think I'd be like super gimmicky.

Like I would go way over the top. I'd either want to be like dressed up like a proper robot with like a big like a big square cube on my head and like, you know, serious serious like 1930s style film robot or like I don't know, something really campy like a Robin Hood man in tights kind of thing. Okay, I think that would be good for you. Yeah.

You could fly in on wires. Yeah, flying on wires dressed as Robin Hood in mostly just green tights. and I guess the rest of the costume, but I'm all about... Well, who knows? You could be called... If you're the robot, instead of being called Tiny Peter,

you could be called Binary Peter. Oh, I like it, yes. Yeah, that's good. Or Tiny Computer. Yeah, Tiny Pooter. Tiny Pooter. Yeah. And as Robin Hood,

I would definitely be like a face. Yeah. You'd have to be. You'd steal from the bad guys and give it... Well, it could be inverse Robin Hood. You just go around stealing everyone's championship belts. Yeah. Just keep it.

Yeah, never win any match. just steal it all. Yeah. And I don't know. My finishing move would just be like, it would be called the, fuck you. Nice.

I just like punch him in the face. The fuck you. I don't know what it's called. How about fuck you? Yeah. Hang on. Oh, and it's Bobin Hood with the fuck you. John Sini used to have a move called the FU.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, because he was feuding with Brock Lesnar back in the day. He has a move called the F5. Oh. And so he did the FU, which is now called the AA. Right. Because they had to change it.

because John Sina likes children now. Not in that way. Whoa, he's a good man. He's a, he's friends with the children. Yeah, he's a friend of children, John Sina. There we go. That's us thinking on our feet, trying to come up with... Amazing.

Content. My turn. Yep. I brought something for you boys today. Whoa. A nice little story. Hello, Eleanor. Settle in.

It's Bobby Baboloon. Hello, Eleanor. What is it? Elaine. No. Hello. Shit. Who was it?

Hi, Evelyn. Heverlin. How could we forget? I was close. No, not that one. This is a different one. Now, you guys might be familiar with a chain of toy companies called Toyserus. Oh, no.

Or as we call it in the industry. Dead. Toys Rus. Toys Rus. Now, Toys R Us going through a bit of a financial issue at the moment, by which I mean it's fucked. Oh, yeah. Totally. And I don't know if you heard this, Peter.

I think you did, because you told me. I told you, yeah. So I did hear this. Toys R Us, that was just a segue into conversation. I needed to get defensive, Peter. Toys R Us founder, Charles Lazarus, has died. Lazarus. Charles Lazarus.

Well, he'll be back soon. Just put him in the pit, right? In his self-titled pit. And he'll be right back. But yeah, as the company is folding and crushing and dying, so too, has the founder, Charles Lazarus. They've got to be connected. That's got to be a stress thing where it's just like, oh, my fortune is coming.

I mean, he was in his 90s, but yeah, it's kind of very good timing. It's like that song about the grandfather clock. And it stopped short, never to go again when the old man died. That's a bit more. That's just a fucking Yorkshire thing I think, so I've never heard of that. Ackythump. We're not here to talk about Charles Lazarus

here today. I don't know, it's just... Don't entertain his northern... No, I want to hear about Yorkshire. It's like a shire. It's magical. I'll tell you when you're older. It's fine.

We're not here to talk about Charles Lazarus today, though. We're here to talk about dearly beloved. We're not actually here to celebrate the life of Charles Lazarus. We're here to celebrate the sort of the hubris and the presumptuousness of Isaac Larian the billionaire toy executive

behind Brats, Little Tikes and LOL surprise dolls who wants to save Toys R Us Oh Lord and Save it! I didn't know this. Do you want to know? I can put all of your heightened expectations

just straight into the grave with this with one hyperlink Oh no. GoFundMe.com Help Save Toys R Us. How? No. No. How was she need? Surely it's in the billions.

Is he a billionaire? He is a billionaire. This is taken from the GoFundMe page. Oh God. Toys R Us is on the verge of permanently closing its doors. It feels like the end of an era with sad headlines spreading across news and social media. But there is still time to save this American icon and you can help. Now, who wants to guess how much this GoFundMe page is for? 120 million

500 million 1 billion he wants a billion He's got a billion dollars He's got a billion dollars fuck off The deadline for reaching the one billion dollar goal Is Memorial Day Which we don't know

But here is in actual words The 28th of May Which at the time of recording Is about a month and a half That's literally not going to happen No What's the point? That's so weird Trust me, it gets better.

There's a magical place where nowhere near there. The funds collected through this campaign would be used in the formulation of a bid to acquire some of Toys R Us' assets through the bankruptcy process. This is not a charitable donation and certain donor disclosures apply. So we've got funding to me.

You don't get any perks with that, do you? You don't get any. Well, actually, you do. You do with this, and I will list them shortly because they're kind of ridiculous. Please read before donating. Be advised that this is not a donation to a charitable cause and there is no tax deduction available.

It is a donation to a potential commercial venture. The funds raised would be added to other capital being gathered by the potential purchasers of some or all of Toys R Us. A donation to this campaign doesn't qualify you to claim equity in any potential acquisition. It simply means you want future generations to be Toys R Us kids. Oh, Jesus. So basically, join our scheme, we might.

spend it on this but who knows you're not getting it back if we don't the thing is right everyone's sort of going oh no toys are oh no no no the reason it's going out of business is because none of these people saying oh no have fucking been to toys are us because it's not a viable business model everyone's so like two-faced and and like fickle about this kind of thing like you know you can't you can't complain about something disappearing if you've not been using it it's like people say like oh I'm sick of these supermarkets coming in and taking over the local Bob the Bakers, and it's like, well, you've been going to Morrison's yourself, and if you've not been going to Bob the Bakers, then he's going to get moved.

Let's be honest here, guys. As much as Bob the Baker deserves to be supported, his bread's just not as nice or convenient as Morrison's bread. Whoa, you've been paid by Morrison's here. I'm just saying, sometimes local shops are shit. You can't go to Bob the Bakers and get your photo taken from a webcam and put straight onto a cake. Which you can do at ASDA. You can.

That's ASDA price. In bed, there is a little toy shop, like a little independent toy shop, which we've walked past a couple of times. It's a very, I don't know, like opening up an independent toy shop, for starters, is a very risky. Opening up an independent anything is a risky. And I'm not saying people shouldn't, because some people can create incredible, delicious things. But we are... If anyone has a bagel business, please open a good one near Bristol, because I really want some nice bagels, thanks. Let us know.

The problem is, guys, that... you can't always afford the homemade stuff. And typically, you get less of it. It's sometimes not very good. And you're paying a premium. Whereas if you go to a supermarket, you can live there, you can spend money there, and you can get quite a lot.

I sort of disagree with that. Do you? Okay. I mean, in my current financial position, yeah, I have to just go to a supermarket and get whatever's on offer. But, you know, when I'm 30, I have every intention of like getting doing the local

brass. Yeah. So I've just got. Well, like to quickly go back to Ecky Thump, I grew up in a village that didn't have a supermarket. Oh, same. Or like a town. I'm not even saying I was in a little villa.

I was like a reasonably large settlement in Yorkshire, but there just didn't happen to be a supermarket. And you would have to go to the butchers and then the bakers and then the candlestick makers. The green grocers. The green grocers. But look out. Here come the horse and carriages. Yeah.

You might get hit by those. Yeah, steady. Just don't let your hoop roll into the road there. Exactly. You get in trouble. It's really dangerous. Yeah. And here comes the Yorkshire police.

A-o. Hey-up, hey-up. Now then, we'll have nothing. We'll have none of this. No, stop that. Go on. Off you go. Listen, I know your dad.

Everyone knows everyone's dad. I am your dad. I grew up in a village that had no shops. Yeah. I, even when I'm 30, I'm going to try and save money. Right? I'm going to shop at supermarkets. And I will show.

shop at small shops sometimes, if and when, but they're just not as convenient. And that's why they're dying out. They're not as convenient. They can't just become convenient. I realize that. No. But it's not for me. But sometimes I'm terrified by this monopolization of big corporations. Sometimes the quality is way better, though, like a nice oven bottom, Lancashire muffin. Fuck, say. You've got to stop this. You know, a good, a nice steak from the butcher's proper, like, good steak. Yeah. No, I'm not, I'm not saying that, All that stuff is bad. I'm just saying that for the price and the convenience,

there's a reason why big business wins out. You're right. That's the way it's going, unfortunately. And it'll all be delivered by drone soon. Oh, yeah. Look, I'm okay with just lying there, sedated. Yeah, just with a tube down your mouth. With my Tesco-branded tube right down my throat.

I'm all right with that. I'm all right with that. Exactly. Like, it's just, it's just sustenance, isn't it? Yeah. You don't need to enjoy life. No. Just feed me that brown slot.

You exist and then you don't. Yeah. Might as well just treat it that way. No, co-op do funerals. No, co-op do funerals. So you're sorted when you're dead. You don't need to go to a local funeral organizer. I think that is actually Tesco's slogan, is you exist and then you don't. Yeah.

So why try? Yeah. Anyway. Tesco. You exist and then you don't. Every little helps. Do you think, because speaking of independent shops, snappy tomato pizza. That's pretty good.

But they're franchises. Yeah, but you think Tesco would buy them out and just eventually Tesco will start selling huge 27-inch square. If they do that, that would be a lot more convenient for me. No! Sometimes it's not the end of the world. You're a bad boy. That's what I'm saying. Supposed your local stoves.

Let's get to these contributor rewards. Now, I want you to bear in mind the amount of money that you need to pledge to get these things, okay? And also what you're getting in exchange for that money. Because obviously, they want a billion dollars. If you pledge a billion dollars, do you just get toys our rocks? Oh, that'd be amazing. No, you don't. Because it doesn't count as any equity in any potential acquisition.

So you're just pissing a billion dollars. Wow. It just means that you want future generations to be Toys R Us kids, which I wasn't. Declaring that by giving money to a man who might not spend it on Toys R Us. Fucking Isaac over here. Right, first pledge. There are a few, so bear with me here. If you pledge $5 to $49, you'll get a Save Toys R Us bumper sticker.

Sick. Wow. 50 to 99, you'll get a Toys R Us bumper sticker and a special Save Toys R Us numnums. What the fuck's a num-nom-nom? I don't know, but presumably this guy has all sorts of lines of toys, so a num-nom-nom-n-n-n-is-a-thing. If you pledge $100 to $499, which is already too much, you get the bumper sticker, a pin.

Oh, my God. And... Not a pin badge, just a natural pin. And Safe Toys are a special edition, L-O-L-S surprise. Right. This is all stuff that's costing literally pennies to make as well, because he owns the people of the person that manufacturing these goods. He's not telling what the surprise is.

$500 to $99,000, you get the bumper sticker, a pin, a magnet. Whoa. A customized, save Toys R Us special edition, Little Tikes, Cozy Coupé. Ooh. Don't know what that is. So you're spending $1,000 and you're getting a toy car and a magnet. Yep. If you spend $1,000 to $4,999, you get the bumper sticker, a pin, a magnet,

and I'll always be a Toys R Us kid t-shirt and a Little Tikes Build a House, which I've looked up, it's worth £200. Wow. Oh my God. $5,000 to $9,99. We'll get you the bumper sticker, the pin, the magnet, the I'll always be a Toys R Us kid t-shirt,

and a Little Tikes super slam and dunk. What if I don't like Little Tikes, but I like Toys R Us? Well, that's the problem, Peter. Yeah. Well, they may win you over if you donate between, $10,024,99. You get the bumper sticker, the pin, the magnet, the t-shirt, an invite to a local Toys R Us reopening block party.

No. And... You get to go to the Toysolus! And a Little Tikes backyard makeover. I really like how the bands are so wide there. So that's up to $2,000, $24,000, $999.99. Why won't you just spend an extra dollar and get, a bumper sticker, a pin, a magnet, a t-shirt, an invite to a reopening block party,

a tour of the Ohio Little Tikes Factory, the oldest toy factory, currently operating in the US, including travel and accommodations. For one pound more, one dollar more even. What a bargain. 50 grand to 75 grand. You get a bumper sticker, a pin, a magnet, a t-shirt, a personal block party. for your friends and family, including Little Tikes products, food

and all associated items. I don't know what Little Tikes food is, but I imagine it's plastic. Yeah. It's toy food. Right, you're ready for a big jump in bandwidth here. Oh, you keep going. 75K to 250K.

You get a bumper sticker, a pin, a magnet, a t-shirt, an invite to a local block party. Not your own one this time. You'll lose that. And attendance at a special taping. of Unboxed, whatever that is, and it includes travel and accommodations.

If you spend $500,000, you get sectioned. Are you ready for this next one? Because now it starts to get silly. Right. 250K. To a million dollars! Oh my God! You get a safe Toys R Us bumper sticker.

Yes. A pin, a magnet. And I'll always be a Toys R Us Kid T-shirt. An invite to a local Toys R Us Reopening. block party and toys for five years from Toys R Us. I'm not confident it would

ever stay open now. Yeah, that's such a stretch. Five years. Right, only two tiers left. Okay. And the bands are really going wild now. One million to ten million dollars. You get a hashtag safe Toys R Us bumper sticker, a pin,

a magnet and I'll always be a Toys R Us kid t-shirt, an invite to a local Toys R Us reopening block party. And a signed thank you letter from Isaac Oh, you fucking kidding. CEO of MGA Entertainment and

an I helped Toys R Us hero plaque at a Toys R Us location of your choosing. Even though that's more stuff, that somehow seems worse than the previous one. Doesn't it? You get to go to a secret unboxing taping in the room. For seven digits you get a thank you letter.

Finally, the final band is 10 million plus. Right. You get a Hashtag save Toys R Us bumper stick, a pin, a magnet. And I'll always be a Toys R Us kid t-shirt. Invite to a local Toys R Us reopening block party. A signed thank you letter from Isaac Lerian CEO of MGA Entertainment.

A plaque. You don't get a plaque. Well, we're getting there. Okay. There's a lot on this one. And Kid CEO for the day experience, including a trip to a Southern California theme park. Right. Not stated.

travel and accommodations and Toys R Us store dedication naming rights for the location of your choosing and Toys for Life from Toys R Us Jesus. Can we call it Toys Russie Mac Toys Russie Face? We could.

The fine print does say, however, that he will ultimately decide which toys and how many you get. What? Here's a single doll. This is such bullshit. This is the worst Go-Bunds deal in here.

What? While you were talking about this, I was thinking, I don't know if you saw, but Atari started a crowdfunding thing to get a roller coaster tycoon on the switch. Oh, I mean, fuck Atari, because they've desecrated that franchise. They've completely ruined it. Right. And they were asking for about $1 million to get a roller coaster tycoon on the switch. The rewards aren't quite as criminal as yours, but if you invest at least $750,

you will get a 25% discount off the price of the game. No. Wow. You don't get a free copy of the game. When I was browsing through R-Ford-slash shitty Kickstarter, in which this was right at the top, there was one that was something like a $10,000 contribution will get you a free copy of the game when it comes out. Unbelievable. On this, on the Roller Costs Tycoon fundraiser, there's no option to get the game. The highest one is if you donate at least $1,500, you'll get an art book.

It's like the special editions that don't come with the games anymore. Yeah. Insane. We go back to a quote here from the man himself, Isaac. Children need a place to play, he said. I can't imagine a world

where that doesn't exist anymore. Or one million dollars. This guy has a very warped idea of what children playing is, I think. Yeah, they don't play at, well, they do play at Toys R Us, but only because they're there and they've got toys in their hands.

Yeah, if you take them to a McDonald's, they'll play at McDonald's. They'll play at home. I get the feeling he's not in it for the kids, he's in it for the money. He's very much in it for the money. And also, I think he might be panicking that little time.

hikes isn't rather than 10 more. Oh shit, yeah. So yeah, anyway, that's the kind of business insight you can expect from a man who wants to raise a billion dollars in just over a month. And to be fair, he has managed to get $200 million, $26,000, $239 in just two days. No way. That's got to be fake. But a staggering $200 million is from investors that he already knows. Meaning he's only raised 26K. And at the time of recording, with one and a half months to go, he has $799,973,761 left to raise. It's almost there. Just keep watching.

Hey, guys, if you donate $1 to Vidiots on Patreon, you won't get any benefits. You can dedicate a Toys R Us plaque. Yeah. We'll give you a pin, a Magna. No, we won't. No. We're not going to do any of that. No.

But you're just, it's a more sound investment than it is to gamble on Toys R Us. Isaac Larian there. This is the kind of man who's so rich that he thinks a tin of beans cost $2,000. Yeah, he does. She has no concept of what money really is. For like $75,000. You get the T-shirt, you get the buffiness.

People complain Kanye West's lining of clothes is expensive. Look at this shit. This is a risk. Isaac Larian, more like, I suck dick. That's it. Isaac Morion, more like. Finally, we go to our last question. Oh.

This is from Ode to Sleep. Oh, fuck yes. What's the ideal gift for Post some tat other than Peter Austin and his white chocolate? Now, I want to hijack this because next week... You're right there, Mikey.

Michael just heard that I wanted the attention and instantly decided that he needed it instead. Michael's allergic to hijack. Just by fucking dying over there, like he's so important. I want to hijack this for a second. Yeah. Because next week, it's Peter Austin's birthday.

Oh, God. It's Peter's birthday on the 10th of April. It's Peter's birthday. You will hopefully have... already seen a picture, a very well put together picture that states that it's Peter's birthday listing his interests as being Spiro, white chocolate, and the flakes of pastry that are left over after you eat croissant because he's too small to consume a whole pastry by himself. Yeah, I just eat a single one. He just has the little flakes that are left out. A flake.

You don't need to send those in, but that's just sort of the, oh, I whack my microphone. That's just the kind of stuff he likes. So we're going to have a special post-some tat on or around that day. If you're going to send stuff in, please address it to the normal address, but put Peter's birthday at the top of the address. So we know what it's for. And then we will open it and be merry. Am I going to get sent loads of Skylanders and stuff? You've said Spire. Well, now you will because you've just said that. Yeah. I also just like general PS1 like obscure. Yeah, he likes PS1 memorabilia and weird stuff. I collect PS1 old PS1 games and stuff. So, and I feel like we've, people, the ones people have sent in are obviously bad because that's the brief.

Yeah, but, um, but you would kind of like to own them yourself. I'd love to just have like the weirdest PS1 games you can find. That would be cool. Yeah. Oh, what a, what a kind thing to do, Ben. Well, we're all in this together. We all get a birthday a year, I guess. So it'll be you guys soon.

We'll get there. But apart from that, obviously, that's stuff that you would like to see in Post some Tatt anyway, but specifically for your birthday, that's the kind of stuff we want to cover. Yeah. Michael, is there anything you would love to see in Post some Tant? some point. I think someone said they were going to send you some of that serial you talked about. Really? Yeah. Ooh.

It might have already arrived by this point. Oh my fucking God. Because we're recording early. On the topic of worst games, I would like some PC games, truly awful PC games. We want them box, though, because you can go onto Steam in like two minutes and find something that's broken.

We want something that got a proper release. You know, like games from like 2000s to 2010 is that kind of 10 year period where I imagine there was a lot of stuff that came out. They're very easy to record. and stuff as well. We have to set up either a console or an emulator, so just sit down. There's nothing, I don't know,

in regards to Post and Tat, she's doing great, just keep sending the tat. Loves it. We're going to run out of space. I don't know what we're going to do, because eventually we're just going to have to buy a storage locker for all this stuff. Yeah, we are. You're going to have to get a big old trunk, all that junk inside your trunk.

I'll have just open that case with the worst game ever in it and just put some in there. And then we better not do that. That's about it. What about you, Ben? What do you want to see on Post some tat? Uh, this would, oh, sorry, I've just turned off airplane mode and my phone went. Um, this also sort of bleeds into, to the kind of thing I would, I would be interested in on a personal level for birthday type stuff. Yeah. But I'm a big fan of weird Game Boy stuff.

I've got a big old Game Boy collection. So I've got all, I've got copies of all of the Pokemon Game Boy games, all boxed. Um, I've got the, uh, the strategy guides for Pokemon Crystal and Yellow, but I love a strategy guide. So if you've got any for like the original games, they're really hard to find now and if you just got it lying around you don't want it I'll tell you right now

it's worth a lot of money so you should sell it but if you want to send it in I'll happily and very gratefully receive it that would be amazing just again like Peter said just sort of obscure stuff from that period

like travel cases and carry boxes yeah like 90s early 90s gaming big old horrible plastic things the stuff that they get on the thrift show that we can't yeah pretty much exactly that but yeah that's it you guys are all doing an incredible job

with Post some time you off. Thank you. Thanks, guys. And we love you very much for it. Signing off, guys, we want to thank Turtle Beach for sponsoring this podcast. But they don't, but they sponsor us. And that's, that's easier. So, bit.ly, forward slash, Vidiot's Beach, where you can browse all the headsets that we have. Even if you don't buy one, just go click through that link. It helps us out. It makes us look really important. This week's schedule, which is subject to change, because we're weeks in advance at this point. Hashtag subject to change. Part two of our Sims prove it series is going out. Part two of the Let's Play? The Let's Play. It's going out. I think it's you building, or is it me?

I don't know. You're editing it. I can't remember it. I am editing. It's going to be a little while though. Worst games ever on Friday. And also a post some tat. Probably a Skyrim Zoo. Don't know at this point. Who knows. We're a way off, aren't we? It's anyone's guess. But all to come, thank you very much everybody for listening. You can find us on every social media forward slash viduets official. We're there. YouTube. Come check us out. Almost daily content. Almost. Loads of stuff like that.

And as I said, at the beginning of the show, you can find us on most places as far as podcasts. Yeah. We're not on Instagram yet, are we? Well, I don't care. Snapchat. Whoever wants to do Instagram can do it, but I don't think it's worth it.

But, yeah. Hey, boys. Yeah. Thanks for talking today. That's all right. Thank you. Thanks for coming in. Oh, if you go chit-chat.

Don't forget to come along to your own personalised. Toys R Us opening celebration block party. Can we make a new stretch goal on our Patreon? A low, low price. How much was it they wanted? 1 million. 1 billion was at all, wasn't it? 1 billion.

Yeah. If we reach $1 billion, we'll buy Toyser Ross. Yes, good. I'll add that now. But for one million dollars, we will get a plaque. Yeah. Just one plaque. And it'll say one plaque on it.

One plaque. Hello, I'm Juan Plac. My favourite rapper is two plaque. Two plaque. Yeah. Too plaque, you're sure? Yeah, more boy, I'm sure. Thanks for listening, everybody.

We'll see you in a couple of weeks. Love you. Bye! Bye-bye. Time for Toby. Bye-bye.