Podiots - Podiots: Episode 60 - Horse Dance

Episode Date: September 8, 2020

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and he comes out with like this two-hour program way he does something that's kind of cool but it's definitely drawn out too much and this was Dave Benson Phillips recreating not Dave Benson Phillips Jesus Oh man I wish Dave Blainson Phillips Day nice

This is David Blaine he attached like 50 balloons to himself and went up to like cruising attitude for planes and then released and parachuted down and it was all presented live on YouTube and there was I kid you not two hours of build-up to the actual thing. Wow. 24 and a half thousand feet, I think it was.

It looked into it. Like, it is impressive, but it's definitely the kind of thing that works better edited down to a news segment or like a 10 minute video rather than three hours of a presenter trying their best to continue a conversation where nothing's happening. Sure, yeah. Is it magic, though? Yeah, I was thinking that. Absolutely not. He's just doing dangerous stuff. It's just another case of Dave does stuff for money, isn't it?

It is a bit, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah, he's kind of transcended, you know, card tricks, and now he's create, the magic is the feelings he creates all around the world. Right. Have you seen that interview he did with Aymann Holmes? No. It's something that comes up on, like, clip shows of when,

when TV interviews go wrong, or, like, most awkward British TV moments and stuff like that, where he goes on to whatever morning program it is that Aeman Holmes presents or presented back then. It was like, I don't know, early noughties. And he's like just not giving him any answers at all. So Aiman Holmes is trying to like plug him and say, so what, you know, how would you describe yourself?

What, you know, are you a magician? Are you an illusionist? Do you what? And he's just, he'll be like, I don't know. And it's like, okay. And he just chat, you know, Aiman Homes really trying and he's getting one word answers. And at one point, David Blaine, like, moves his hand a little bit.

And Eamon Holmes sees that he's got an eye tattooed on the palm of his hand. And he immediately jumps on that. He's like, oh, fine, they've got something to talk about with this guy. He's giving me nothing. And he goes, what's that all about? What's the eye on your hand for? And David Blaine pauses for ages. And then he goes, protection.

And he's like... Oh, Christ. Right. He's just playing some weird, stupid character at the expense of the guy who's trying to interview him. It just goes on like that, pretty much. Oh, I love David Blaine. He is amazing. What treasure.

He sounds like hard work. Yeah, he does. He eternally sounds like he's just walking up from a nap that accidentally lasted six hours. He's like, uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh, protection. Protection. What, from having charisma. Yes, it's working pretty well, David. Oh, got him.

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That's been nothing. That's true. Nothing memorable has happened to you. Let's make this a memorable memory, eh? Yeah. says, 80. No, that's the other podcast we do. This is also a

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But this is not a precedent that you can all follow, okay? Thank you very much for your generous donation. Thank you. Since we all know that Pietro's wedding will be Tom Thumb themed, if you were to pick any Larp-style wedding, what would the theme be and first dance song? Oh man I want to go for a bird-themed wedding That's not a lot

Well that is It's a live action role play You're playing something else I want to go for a bird themed wedding Everyone comes dressed as a different bird And the first dance Is the birdie song What's it

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da Chicken song Yeah We got there eventually The Birdie song The Chicken song The chicken song is the one By spitting image

That they actually had a I think it was a number one Which is weird Oh, wow. Just a bunch of puppets. It's strange that you know that as well. Yeah, I'm just sort of vaguely aware of it. Excellent.

Oh, man. Well, apart from the fact that I'm obviously, yeah, going to have a Tom Thumb themed wedding and the first dance is going to be, you know, that Tom Thumb song from the film Tom Thumb. Outside of that, well, surely, for me, it would be a Star Wars. Oh, hell yeah. And we would, I don't know, dance. to the canteena theme or something like that. What about the Han Solo song from the dancing game?

Oh, yeah, maybe that one. I'm solo, I'm Han Solo, I'm Han Solo, Solo, I'm Han Solo, solo, solo. You already know the dance. I do. What was it? Oh, I'm trying to remember any of them. I think there was It's a trap. I think that was one move.

Millennium Falcon. I keep wanting to say Golden Shower, but I don't think there was a Golden Shower. No, I don't know that Disney would do that one. No, probably not. Anyway. Excellent. I would have a Pirates-themed wedding and everyone on the dance floor would

just be skanking out to the Pirates of the Caribbean theme. Right, okay. Just going for it, you know. There's a lot of good remixes of that as well, so you could have fuel all night. Yeah. Brilliant. There we go.

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So, well, I've got some questions here from the audience. This is from Chris Widdick at Mr. Widdick on Twitter. And Chris says, congrats. You've all suddenly become parents. What one life lesson do you decide to pass on to them? I've had a similar question to this before, but it was a bit more sincere and serious. It was like, what thing would you do?

What thing do you wish the entire world did that you do? You know, something like that. But this is a slightly broader theme. life lessons. Wisdom. Okay. Just eat all the fucking silica gel you can,

so don't let the packets put you off. No. Just read the bit that says eat, ignore the words, do not. Or just ignore the word not in life. Do eat, even better. Do eat. What a strange word.

It's a strange sentence. Yeah. Do eat. I should think of some actual advice, but I don't have any on me at the minute. I've got some. You can't heat up butter.

in the microwave if it's wrapped in foil. Oh, Ben. Oh, no, don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. Sparky butter. Yeah, purple butter. Purple?

Purple sparkies. Oh, yeah. God, that's a bad thing. When do you learn that? Age 27? Yeah, too old. Too old. I mean, I hadn't moved out yet.

It was pre-university. But I don't know. I'd never, I'd never, I don't think at that point, I realized, huh, it probably makes sense not to put metal things in the microwave, but I think it's just such an obvious thing that no one had ever mentioned it to me. So I just thought, well, I want this butter to be soft, so I just heat it up in the microwave, and it was sparking, so I took it out of the microwave, and I learned my

lesson then. It's true, though, like, no one ever told me not to put metal things in the microwave. The only reason I knew from a very early age about metal things in the microwave is that we used to have some of our dishes had just around the rim. It wasn't gold, as in actual gold or gold leaf but it was like a metallic paint or something just a very thin golden line around the rim of some of our bowls and occasionally we would put some people in my house would put something in the microwave and there was so little of it that you'd maybe get like one spark per per microwave so we would just kind of if you put one in and realized oops just put one of those metal ones in we'd go never mind it'll be fine so uh you know it was something that happened

semi-regular in my house and I knew that like obviously if I put any larger amount of metal in the microwave than that that's probably a bad thing but otherwise I don't think I would have known really no one told me no yeah

I'll pass that on yeah pass that on don't put metal in the microwave good one um god my advice my advice would be um take take things a little less seriously as a kid that's what I think

I think I thought the world was going to get me from a very early age just you know I have to like not do naughty things um you know I think kids could have can afford to actually just be slightly slightly more anti-authority not hugely I don't want a load of I mean because I hate I hate kids who have no flippin respect as well yeah as long as they do what you tell them exactly maybe just do everything that's my advice, just do everything I ask, but not what anyone else asked you to do. Don't get like hung up on your exam results when you're 11 doing your sats. No, absolutely agree. It was that, wasn't it? It was exams, secondary school, exams, sixth form, exams, university. And then when you

get to university, you're like, well, this is a load of bollocks, isn't it? Yeah, I didn't have to do any of those other ones, really. Yeah, exactly. You realize it just doesn't fucking matter at all but at the time it's your entire world and I don't think I don't think authority figures do a good enough job of really communicating that to people or perhaps the system in general oh I think imagine no if you said to a group of kids oh don't worry it'll work out in the end they're not going to give a shit I don't think you should say that necessarily just let them know that there are other there are other paths in life and it's okay to pursue them yeah yeah try stuff out Have fun.

Try it yourself. Be a dick. Just annoy your teacher. Make them cry. Live a little. Come on. Coward. Hearing the word sats just brought back the most vivid memory.

For some reason, our school let us have sweets with us during our exam. Oh, to keep you energized. I don't know the reason for it. It was just like, before the test, we're like, oh, just like test tomorrow. Everyone bring in a little bag of sweets or something if you want. Right. And just the whole class. Last just had little bags of sweets perched in front of them and slowly nibbled away.

It was quite nice. We didn't get those. We were allowed a support stuffed animal. And I brought a dragon that didn't look anything like Spiro the Dragon. But to me, he was Spiro the Dragon. And I was very proud of him. And I brought him in. He looked after me.

Oh, I'm sure he served you well. Well, I mean, I did fine. It could have been worse. Well, there we go. Live by the Vidiot's laws and you'll go far. Sun. No metal in microwave. Don't take life so seriously.

And... Whatever Mikey said. Mike did you say one? Do eat. Do eat silica gel. Yeah, there it is. I can't think of a better one, so we'll go with that. Okay, fine, you'll be all right.

It's not as bad as everyone says. It ties into the anti-authority one anyway. It does. It does. It does. I'll quickly We'll do question two as well Before we do earthing

Here's something from Funky Cobra Except it's spelt with a zero Oh my goodness One of those internet cobras Yeah at Funky Cobra on Twitter What children's film Scarred you so bad

That you still can't watch it Mine is the witches And I'm not talking about Oh Mikey And I'm not talking about The face peeling scene I'm talking about the little girl who gets trapped inside the painting and slowly grows old and dies before disappearing forever.

What? I do not remember that bit. The melting, like the witches is notorious for scarring children, isn't it? That was going to be my answer. I have one. Oh. I have one. I have a specific one that I've not yet tried to re-watch. You may have seen it, and I don't think it's something you would watch at home for fun,

but we were shown it, I think, I was in year five or year six, so I was 10 or 11. And it was, and I've just Googled it, it's the Shakespeare, the animated tales, Macbeth. Okay. And the art style is absolutely fucking horrific. I'm going to send it to you now. Okay. See what you think of this and maybe.

Oh. Try that on for size as well. There's a couple of photos for you. It was just a really upsetting, spooky art style. Macbeth, a bit of a spooky story anyway. It's got witches in it. and he gets beheaded at the end in quite vivid, visceral fashion

and his head gets impaled on a sword and raised up and I remember that Rick, because I was quite susceptible to the world around me being terrifying and there was something about the animated tales of Shakespeare Macbeth that really, really fucked me up when I was 10. I can understand. That's pretty...

I mean, 10 seems a little bit. young for whatever the hell that is I think so we did Macbeth but we watched a really tame just live action version of it where you know it was probably made in about 1978 and the effects weren't that good and it had

that very it was that era where they just discovered electronic music and then every TV show had weird synthi organs in every scene I miss that I don't know whenever you like watch things from their era without a doubt everything will have like a

that's not a good sin but it's just got oh so good like Stanley Kubrick as well like it's just fucking everywhere bring back the sins the shitty shitty scents yeah we want more shitty synths please it turns out it's not a movie it's 25 minutes long so it might have just been an

episode of a series going by the title of various Shakespearean tales but that one in particular it was just a bit it was spooky it was really spooky the whole thing's on YouTube Shakespeare the animated Tales Macbeth if you want to see it Okay.

It's too intense. Just looking at it. It's just, yeah, it's too much. I remember, in fact, I think I tweeted about this recently, funnily enough. I remember, or it might have been in a list that was edited recently, actually. In the never-ending story, when the horse, like, sinks into the bog. That was pretty horrific. Have you seen that film?

No, no, I've not seen that. Yeah, yeah, I remember that. This boy who's, like, on an adventure, and he's riding a horse. And it's quite early on in the film. It's in, like, the first third. and he's like he's got this loyal steed and they get to this bog and they're like wading and then he turns back and realizes his horse is like up to its horse armpits and it just starts sinking further and further and the horse like the the actor horse that's in it looks really

distressed like you know I'm really hoping that they just trained it to look distressed but you know it's it's sinking into this mud and it's just oh it's really horrible and you do kind of just feel you're not that's the thing about it is it's not just watching a creepy scene in which a horse dies i think i at the time was thinking about how did they film this and like that horse surely is really really having a horrible time and i think that is as much as anything else what really disturbed me about that whole scene and now i really struggled to watch it even today yep that sounds about right that sounds horrible yeah it's pretty grim yeah and the kids just like yelling at his horse, like, come on, you've got to get out of there. Come on, please.

I don't know if it scarred me, but I haven't watched it since I watched it as a kid, so I'm going to say it scarred me because I haven't been able to go back to it. But E.T. Spoilers for the 40-year-old film at this point. But it's just, like, when Elliot, like, I can't remember what happens, but basically E.T. has a bad time. And, like, Elliot finds him in the forest. He's all white and even more shriveled and horrible looking.

And I was, like, as a kid that broke me, I was like, no, not 80, you can't happen to him. Like, I was there with my sister, try my hardest not to cry, and I just haven't been able to face that film since. You mean that you felt bad for him or he creeped you out? I don't know, it was a mix of just, it was very visceral looking. It looked quite disgusting. None of us have mentioned it, but I don't feel like perhaps we've had any inclination to go back to it as an adult, because why would you? But very quick, shout out to my board. water ship down.

Yeah, of course. Can't go on without mentioning that one. No. And also the animals of farthing wood, which is equally brutal. Did I talk about, I think I've spoken recently about, there's a kind of bird, it's called a Shrike, but it's also known as a butcher bird. And what it does is,

it looks like a little tiny songbird. It's like a really small bird. But what it will do is catch or find, like, mice and stuff. and it's a carnivorous tiny bird but because it doesn't have like talons like a bird of prey it's not really able to rip the flesh off a dead mouse

so what it does is it impales mice on thorns on bushes and then like tears the flesh from the thorns do you mean like the sausages in fallout the fallout video we did oh yeah of course

just like that the sausage plant exactly like that yeah and there was an episode of the animals animals of farthing wood where like a load of mice had been impaled on thorns by the butcher bird it was horrible oh dear wow so there we go we're all thoroughly uh thoroughly plopped yeah absolutely love it

would anyone like to to think us good to make us feel better yes i would and i'm sick of us not talking about it okay right oh god we've got we've got to talk about it all right it's been long enough i'm fed up of this being in the public domain and us having just not disgust it at all and that is the contents of Bin Laden's hard drive. Oh! Yes, okay. There's some really weird stuff on Bin Laden's hard drive. Yes. There is.

There is. So this is an article from Wired from 2017 and the headline is Inside Bin Laden's files, Gifts, Memes and Mr. Bean. That's it. Yeah. I knew there was some sort of TV show on there that really is out of nowhere. Just you wait.

You're in for a bit of a right. It's a bit of a lengthy article, but it is worth, it's worth enduring. Here we go. It's not unusual to have fun with anyone. No, it's not, especially bin Laden. For a laptop or external hard drive

to house a bunch of old photos and documents, assorted gifts and memes, home videos, pirated software and movies, and some porn. But when those things show up among infamous terrorist leader Osama bin Laden's digital files, it's worth a closer look. On Wednesday, the Central Intelligence Agency released more than 470,000 files seized

at Osama bin Laden's Abadabad. Abatabad? Is that it? Is that the place? Sure. I don't know. Pakistan compound after the May 2011 raid that killed him. Hailed by researchers and international relations experts as a valuable gesture of transparency, the stash offers a window into the former Al-Qaeda leader's approach and plans. and insight into the terrorist groups, sorry, the terrorist groups, global organized structure, global network, and allies. It also contains hallmarks of any person who uses the internet,

copies of venerable film classics like Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Final Fantasy 7. Episodes of Tom and Jerry, and IMAX versions of Mysteries of Egypt, a download of the Charlie Bit My Finger viral YouTube video. A Mr. Bean episode. and 28 crocheting tutorials, including one for an iPod sock. Whoa, lovely.

I really want to know which Mr. Bean episode he chose. The one where Mr. Bean is hiding in the caves from American military. Where Mr. Bean is some kind of terrorist threat to the United States. The new files expand a collection of declassified documents from Abatabad that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has published over the last three years, and it's impossible to know how much of that data was of specific interest to Bin Laden versus other residents of the compound. It's like, ooh, it says this here.

It's like, ooh, Osama bin Laden is a Tom and Jerry fan. And maybe he is, it's quite possible, I like Tom and Jerry too, says Bill Rogio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and the editor of its Long War journal, which got early access to the trove from the CIA. But I suspect a lot of the sort of frivolous or the personal stuff was more for his family. It goes on Let's see Other gems include a lot of clip art

A video called horse dance Numerous episodes of a Jackie Chan Television show Image files of the Yahoo logo A few funny cat videos And an image of a cute stuffed animal monkey Who has this much variety On a set of hard drives

It's crazy isn't it One thing like if they found You know the entire catalogue of Mr Bean And that was it That would be weird, but at least it's just his Mr Bean hard drive. Yeah, sure, it's where his Mr. Bean is. Yeah, but he's got the Yahoo logo, Charlie bit my finger, some crochet tutorials, horse dance. Horse dance, which is a good one.

You know, so strange. Sweet little monkey picture. Yeah, of course. And who knows when you're going to need that? The files also show that Bin Laden and those close to him were interested in how Western media depicted him. Agents found documentaries and news reports like biography, biography, a samabra. bin Laden. Where in the world is Osama bin Laden? And in the footsteps of Osama bin Laden, CNN, in the compact. That's where is Osama bin Laden, but we're also following the footsteps. Isn't where in the

world is Osama bin Laden the where's Wally like joke book that they did or where's Woldo? I think it was the ill-advised, very specific localisation of where in the world is Carmen San Diego. Right. Sure. I don't know how many copies that sold. At least one, clearly. Unless he pirated it. There's also video of Hamza bin Laden's wedding, Osama bin Laden's son. Al-Qaeda has promoted Hamza since the death of his father, but the group has always published photos of him as a child, not an adult. The wedding footage would be a few years old, but gives a clearer sense of what he looks like now and indicates who was at his wedding, which could be useful for tracking connections and relationships with Al-Qaeda.

So there we go. It goes on. There's also a lot of information about al-Qaeda's connections to Iran, which we shan't get into here. what is exciting is that all of these files are genuinely, genuinely made public, as in... Because of like evidence. As in you can look at them and you can download them. And I've just linked you to them. So I'm just scrolling down to Little Ducks.fLv. And if you're wondering, yes, of course, I have downloaded and prepared horse dance for you.

I will send that to you both now. I'm sorry, Ben, but I've known about this. for years, but I didn't realize it was an actual catalogue of everything you could download Bin Laden's entire hard drive. This is the best thing ever. Yeah. Well, because I saw a tweet recently. I don't know if this is what inspired you to bring this along, Ben, where someone said something... I'm just about to read it. I'm just about to read that tweet. I'll wait for it then. I'll say it now. Yes, so this tweet, I think Peter and I were talking about it at the time. Sorry, I'm watching horse dance. Horse dance is good, isn't it?

What the fuck is that? I have no idea. Horse dance is a good video. I mean, I think we are ideologically opposed to Osama bin Laden at the very list. Oh, yeah, I mean... But horse dance, good shout. That's a good shout there. Horse dance didn't do anything to those towers, right? I mean, pretty problematic in that, I mean, the horse has probably been beaten in order to... Oh, absolutely.

The horse isn't having a good time, but it is nonetheless a horse dance. I just love the idea of Osama bin Laden sitting in his room somewhere, just watching horse dance. really enjoying horse dance. What are you going to do tonight, Mr. Bin Laden? Horse dance, probably. Probably watch horse dance again. There's a horse dance kind of night. Along with all 121 episodes of Tom and Jerry.

This is a tweet from at the Kafka dude, Ghostface Kafka on Twitter. This has nearly 50,000 likes. And they say, you can still download 121 Tom and Jerry episodes for free from the CIA 2017. release of Osama bin Laden's hard drive I understand that people don't have a lot of money for

entertainment in these tough times so if you want to download free episodes of Tom and Jerry Osama bin Laden and the CIA have you have you covered but they do have names like Tom hyphen Jerry 17 so you're going to have to do a bit searching

but yeah that's it we've done it now we've talked about Osama bin Laden's hard drive there's a YouTube video down here about learning about the Quran all sorts all sorts all sorts I love I love how relevant we are

constantly we're always on the button aren't we on the pulse we're talking about Osama bin Laden's hard drive brilliant well thanks for that you're welcome this is like you've

given me entertainment for the next few weeks at least going through this entire list and just seeing what is in here I look forward to hearing what you found it never stops scrolling

no is a lot is this one hard oh my god yeah I've just looked at how small the scroll bar actually is is like relative to the page. This wasn't one hard drive, surely.

How big was this drive? I don't know. It said there was 470,000 files or something like that. So this, I don't think this is all of them either. It's just a lot of them. Oh, it's 162 gigs it says at the top, I think. Or is that part of, I don't know. Maybe that's, I don't really understand how they've formatted this page.

I'm not entirely sure. No, but it's a, thank you very much, Ben. This is a real treat. Horse dance is, wow. While horrific and cruel is one for the ages, thanks. Some of bin Laden's horse dance. There we go. Thanks.

Thanks, Osama. Thanks. Thanks, Osama. Fantastic. Well, we'll move on to a quick question, which is from Big Titty Jesus 42 at Big Titty Jesus 42 on Twitter. Who wants to know what was the first song, movie, book, etc that made you lads cry. Oh. I cried at Titanic

Did you? Fair, fair Yeah, I found Titanic quite emotional I was watching it by myself And that bit where Jack Dies at the end That got me

It got to me Yeah, I can see why I cried I think when Mufasa died In The Lion King Spoilers Simbo

I think partly because it's off the back of a shot that really also used to creep me out as well which is when Scar is like holding him on the edge of the cliff and he like leans in and just says long live the king then there's a shot of like Mufasa's eyes like widening as he realizes he's got like five seconds in which he knows I'm about to die and there's nothing I can do

and they just sort of zoom in on his face And immediately after that, Simba's like nudging the corpse of his dad saying, come on, Dad, we've got to go home. Oh. Wow, that got me good. That's a lot. I'm just going to totally sidestwipe that with I cried in the cinema. This isn't like the first thing I cried out, but I think it's the most noble thing I've cried at.

2006 Adam Sandler film Click. Really? That's quite sad, though. I don't remember how it ends. I've seen it once, but. He gets really fat and then. dies, right? Is that what happens? Yeah, it's like, I know his whole life just kind of fast-forwarding ahead of him.

And I can't remember what happened, but it's kind of looking back at all the things he didn't do and how he fucked up. And it was like, oh, this is actually a bit sad. Well, and they don't like resolve it with him waking up before he got the remote or anything. Oh, no, they do resolve. Yeah, oh, absolutely. You go home happy, but it's quite sad. I thought you meant that was literally the end. They just rolled credits. Oh, God, that'd be good, though. I'm going to, I'm going to make the Mikey cut of click. Yeah.

It's just six minutes long. Have you guys seen, I think we must have talked about this at the time. I think it was in the video it's year where those guys had edited the Blu-ray release of Toy Story 3. They were showing it to their mom at Christmas and they do it so that as Woody like holds everyone's hands as they look into the abyss, it fades to black. And then it just plays like a really sad rendition of You've Got a Friend in Me to the credits. God. It's so good. They're filming, like, their mom or whoever it is, like, watching it.

And she's like, what? Is that how it ends? That can't be how it ends. And they don't tell her until the next day. Like, everyone's laughing at her, and she's telling someone else the next day. Like, have you seen that Toy Story film yet? Do you know how it ends? It's horrible.

And then they eventually let her in on it. Oh, that's amazing. So good. Imagine, like, she must have been so shocked, because it is literally, like, they're going towards this fiery inferno, all holding hands. Like, this is it, this is the end. And then it's just... I think there's a feature in that

in uploading, you know, parroted movies, but slightly altering them a bit so that all the naughty pirates out there come out with sadder, worse experiences and I don't know anything else about it. Oh, excellent. Would you like another question or a thing from me or Mikey? I could go for a thing.

I might do my thing. Oh, okay. By all means. Let me get my speaking voice going. Sorry, I'm very coffee today. Oh my God, not again. Oh, wow. This happens every time.

Right, there we go. Everybody Zen. All right. Close your eyes. Imagine this. Congratulations. You've climbed the ranks. And after years of hard work,

you've been able to enroll in the prestigious Philadelphia phonograph school of languages. Yes. Oh. Yes. You've finally done it. Oh, yeah. What hard work does pay.

off. Or should I say, yeah, we. We! We! We! Piss! Oh dear! You excitedly turn up for your first day. The school's founder, Mrs Hope, greets you and leads you through the doors. You're escorted to your first lesson and you take your seat. You look in front of you. You notice a phonograph, currently not making any sound. To your right, a ball filled with nutritious brain food. And to your left, you notice a mirror. You've gazed into the mirror for a few moments and you realize this isn't any ordinary school. You are in fact a parrot. Yes, this is the Philadelphia phonograph school of languages for parrots. Barretts. I'm so confused. Is this real or are we doing a bit? No, this is real. This

is 100% real. It sounds real. Well, it sounds not real, but also real. So cast your mind back to the turn of the century, 1900s. Business is booed. 19, 20, 19. 1800s? No, 20th century, the 19th hundreds. There we go. That's how you do time. Yeah. To turn of the century, your bird education business is booming, and your institution proudly boasts its pedigree as the only school of its kind in the world, with other 100 feathered graduates able to speak phrases in three different languages. But how did this all start? How do you grow this birdie empire, this polytechnic, if you will? Oh, very good. Thank you. Thank you.

I was very, I literally at 2M last night, I thought that puns like, alright, that's getting nice somewhere. That's good. This makes it worthwhile. Well, for all this, we can thank a woman named Mrs. Hope, the school's founder and only teacher. She started the academy because her husband, a bird seller, found that he could make 10 times the profit on a single parrot if it could talk. Brilliant. She wanted in. Mrs. Hope's Philadelphia School soon sparked a revolution in parrot linguistics.

I pulled this from an article and I can't like there's not much information about this and I I'll just read the sentence then we'll unpack it previously the norm was for a professor to hide behind a curtain because seeing a person was too much distraction for the birds and this this professor would repeat the same phrase hundreds or thousands of times

the norm how the norm The norm is you take your parrot into a laboratory where a professor stands behind a curtain and says, who's a good boy to the parrot a thousand times? I don't know how that's normal. I want to see that. But then Mrs. Hope came along and said, no, no, this is, we need a new normal. There's got to be a better way. And, oh boy, did she reinvent it? She called this process monotonous and tiring, and I think she's right, and she had an epiphany. Rather than endlessly repeat phrases like Pretty Polly, she could instead make phonograph records and play those on loop.

Of course. Of course. I tried this upon eight parrots and the success was beyond my expectations, he said. The parrots were declared to be the finest talkers in Philadelphia. Wow. She went to the board of talkers of Philadelphia and they said, Yep, these definitely are the finest talkers we got. What are the best talkers we've ever seen?

Does that include the human race as well? Are they the best? I mean, it says the finest talkers in Philadelphia. One can only assume. Full stop. And each of these birds sold for a whopping 20 pound, which is a 2,000 pound in today's money. So it's actually a pretty good way to make a profit.

Yeah. To play some sounds at a bird maker, repeat them. Bam, off it goes, you made your money. Yeah. The birds were such a hit that Hope's husband began boasting of them to the press. To one publication, he described how the school had trained a parrot for a soap company called Apple Soap to squeal at customers.

It would squeal such iconic memorable phrases as, Buy Apple Soap, Buy Apple Soap, What? And Apple Soap Forever. Apple Soap Forever. Oh, my God. The goal was for customers to heed the advice of the feathered employees and purchase the product. And this was, he proudly declared, the future of advertising. Yes.

I'd, to be fair, if I walked into a shop and I had a parrot screaming at me, try ready salted walkers, rah, I'd do whatever that bird wanted. I think I would, yeah. Especially, I mean, you especially, Michael, given that it ends, it ends its sentences with, you know, it speaks your language. Buy ready salted crisps. Call of Judy's out on Friday. No, I think he was right.

That is the future of advertising. It just never sadly caught on. Maybe there's reports of it all over America in the turn of the century, but it didn't go much further than that. Oh, that's so sad. As news of Hope's successes with phonographs spread, other parrot owners began requesting that Hope gives speech lessons to their birds. And she agreed for a full schoom, scoomterms, for a skull, a fuck.

A school, hello? Just call it, you know bird'sity. for a full school term she could teach any bird to talk for the price of just eight pounds although most customers opted for the shorter 10 shillings per week option because eight pounds a lot to sink into your bird saying

he's a pretty boy then and luckily tuition didn't just cover the lessons it covered the room and board for the birds so it was like a little holiday it was like boarding school for your birds birding school and things were going well by September 1903 the school had enrolled 20 students

and one of the school's most distinguished alums was a parrot that in the morning could tell the children in its house it was time for school and at night could ask them this is the weirdest sentence ever with a knowing look if they've mastered their lessons

and expressed the hope that they've been good scholars wow I think the operative word in that sentence is could. They could say it. It chose not to. It just knew the kids were good and didn't need to get on the back about it. It could be a problem if they then decide, oh, well, this parrot's smart enough to just be in charge now. It'll send them to school in the morning and bring him in at night. What if, you know, at sort of quarter to eight in the evening as the sun goes down, it says, right, time for school. Off you go. Go on do what the bird says. Do what the bird says.

I like the cutter this bird's jib. How would you like a full-time position? Yeah. Two reporters visited the school and described eight parrots sitting in a room, staring intently at a phonograph that repeated, pretty polly, pretty polly. He wrote, The birds were listening attentively, and every now and then, one of them would stammer, pre-pah, pre-paw! They kept repeating the words until they got them right. Hope remarked, those parrots would hear those, those parrots. phrases for a week and it takes about the average bird a week. Sorry that's got my English is all over the place today. I do apologize everyone but I just get very excited around

parrots. You need to go to the phonograph school. I do one of those schools. Do some better learning get me words good. It takes the average bird a week to learn one sentence and only one lesson is given a day and it lasts half an hour which I feel like is actually a bit of a rip-off. It is. Especially given that people are paying her to just play a play a looping sound. to their parrot. Like, surely the method would just get out there and people could invest in their own, you know, phonograph or... Or, I mean, there's the more standard approach of, you know,

having quality time with your pets and loving them and talking to them and just naturally seeing what phrases blossom, but you could just send them to Mrs. Hope's school. Yeah. Reporters went to visit a star pupil whose valedictorian status had earned him his own room all to himself in the school. and in the room he was practicing what is believed to be the longest speech

ever mastered by a parrot Do you want to guess what it is? Not much. No, it's really not. Yankee Doodle went to town a riding on a pony. And that's it. Oh, that's it. I thought you're going to carry on.

No. No, he got two lines in. If you get enough parrots, you can get them to say the entire thing in sequence. True. If you give an infinite number of parrots an infinite number of grammophones, they will one day say the entire works of Shakespeare. They will eventually, statistically,

recite the entire works of poddietz. Yes. Nice. Someone get on that. That's the school. There's not a lot of information about it online. I think there was like this one article was written about it and for some reason it just kind of escaped all of the news outlets.

I hope things went well in their very bizarre world of just sticking parrots in a real. and blasting sounds at them for, well, only 30 minutes a day. It can't be that bad. But I just thought that was quite fun that at one point in time, there was a university just for parrots. That's amazing. I can't believe there was a school where parrots could go to, right?

And it was like a holiday for them. So you had parrots, holidays. But I don't know if there was any bacon. Can we confirm that there was bacon then? Maybe if it's a school, surely in the middle of the day they would go on their lunch, they'd be lunch breaking. Close enough. There we go.

Good. Nailed it. Yeah. Something like that. Amazing. Excellent. Well, I've got a question now from Mark Turton at Marcus Turton on Twitter. If the power went out for a week, what board game or games would you reach for to pass the time?

I would immediately set fire to any copy of Monopoly that was in the house. Hate Monopoly. Terrible game. Really bad. I've never played a proper game of Monopoly. I've played so many half-assed games where the rule, I haven't probably played the rules properly that I don't feel like I'm in a position to judge it. You've never played Monopoly properly? Monopoly properly. The rules seem confusing. I never got it. I'm not a board game man. People just fall out with each other playing Monopoly in my experience.

It's quite an antagonistic game. You have to kind of like actively screw each other over. You know, some games, it's like everyone's making their own way around the board by answering questions or whatever. And, you know, you're not really, you might occasionally get a bonus point if someone gets their question wrong and you get it right or whatever. But in Monopoly, you have to take money off each other and, you know, charge people for stuff and just be a dick. I like Monopoly, but I do. I do find myself getting bored of a game of Monopoly after about half an hour. Okay.

Yeah. Oh, we've got Popper Pirate downstairs. Oh, have you? Yeah. Aoy, mateys. Claudia went to, someone was giving away the Simpsons Monopoly, as it would be. And it was a package deal. You had to take the Pop-up Pirate as well.

Sounds like you should have to take Simpsons Monopoly with the Pop-up Pirate, not the other way around. Surely. I'd rather play Pop-Up Pirate for sure. That's the best, man. Buckaroo was good as well. I mean, these don't really count as board games, I guess, but, you know. Something that moves, something that gives you a fright, reminds you you're alive. Yeah. Well, I live alone, so I can't really play any board games of consequence.

No, I guess the implication is that you're in a, you know, you're snowed in in some alpine retreat with, like, six people. Who am I there with? Darren Brown. Yeah. Oh, nice. This creepy Macbeth from the Macbeth animation. Oh, I don't think any board game would be fun with him. No.

Am I having a nice time? Stephen Fry's there. That's better. Yeah, you're having a great time for sure. Okay. Are we safe? Is it just a temporary inconvenience? Well, I mean, Macbethman is Snowden with you, but you are mostly safe, I think.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. I again this probably doesn't actually count as a board game but you'd definitely find it in the board game department in a board game shop which is the whole shop presumably but we play tellestrations sometimes my family which is sorry tellestrations is like it's like Chinese whispers but with drawing so you get given a card tells you to draw something so you draw it on your it's a wipeable like dry wipe marker card thing and you draw the picture of the thing you then pass that picture along to the person on your right they have to guess what it is so they just write the word on a separate page what they think it is that then gets passed to the next person it then has to draw that thing that's been written down and it goes around like up to six times or eight

times or something and by the end because people are bad at drawing or can't work out what someone's drawn, it completely changes. And that's where the fun is, ladies and gentlemen. Good game. Please, Peter, at some point, can you just release a box of the Austin family favourite parlour games, which includes a stinky 50p, the whiteboards you need for this game? I mean, this one is at least, it's an official game that you can buy in the shops, but yeah, it's up there with the weird games, I guess. No, it's a good one. I like that. I'm, I'm I'm a Scrabble fiend, I think. I like putting letters together and making words.

Oh, you fiend. Oh, what am I like? Yeah, I think Scrabble is, it's different every time. I know what every game is, but Scrabble truly is. It all depends on that first layer, the first letters, and the whole game can go wonky or great from there. I just like, I just love Scrabble. I made it, I think you must know this.

I made it to the top of white people read it, once upon a time for tweeting that I was about to place the word quinoa on the Scrabble board. Yeah. Fucking animal. Got hundreds of thousands of up votes and rightly so.

Well done, Peter. For how white I was and still am. Congratulations, you're the whitest of the whites. I was the whitest man that day in the whole internet. You were? Done.

Yeah. You got any favourite board games, Ben? We used to play board games, didn't we occasionally? In the What Culture Days? did yeah with the gang i liked i liked a lot of those board games i liked some more than others i like the spooky one i can't remember what it's called now murder at house on the hill is it called is that the one there was another one not murder uh there's haunting at house on the hill

something like that where it's randomly generated and you sort of make your way through the house and uh any any number of horrible things could happen and then one of you is randomly chosen to be the opposing force that could take the form of several different things and then you've got to try and kill everyone while they're trying to escape or complete some kind of task. It was really good.

I really liked that. Yeah. Can't remember what it's called though. So there we are. Betrayal. That was it. That was it. That was it.

That's the guy. Let's have a look at that boy. Yeah, I really liked that one. That was really good fun. Yeah, it was. Betrayal, that house on the hill. There it is. Good.

Well, I'll do my thing, given that we've only got one question left. Do it. Guys, I don't know if you remember Meatface Oh, how could I forget? I don't know if you remember Meatface, I'm hoping you do. We delve once more, not to weird news stories, the Daily Mirror or, you know, they've got a weird news section, so that's easy to find.

But we delve into Weird Capitia for the first time in a while. And I want to tell you all about the Kentucky Meat Shower. Okay. This is not a household appliance where you stand and have your meat shower in Kentucky. This is an incident that happened, presumably in Kentucky, but maybe it's because it was Kentucky-based meat from the kernel. I don't know. We'll find out. KBM.

KBM. I do know what it is. So the Kentucky meat shower was an incident occurring between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock for a period of several minutes on March the 3rd, 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat, measuring approximately 2 inches by 2 inches, with at least one being 4 inches by 4 inches, fell from the sky in a 100 by 50 yard area near the settlement of Rankin in Bath County, Kentucky. Mmm. Delicious. There exists several explanations as to how this occurred and what the meat was, it's in quotation marks there. That's a word you never want to see in quotes. Quotation marks.

Meat. Including, well, I don't want to give the game away. It says there's a particularly popular theory, which we'll move on to shortly. The pieces fell to earth from a reasonable height, whatever that means. The exact type of meat was never identified, although various reports suggested it was beef, lamb, deer, bear, horse, or even human. No. And then there's underneath that, this.

being Wikipedia for mobile. There's the little sort of data box where it's got, you know, like the date and the location and stuff. It says like, date, 3rd of March 1876, time, and it just says quotation marks again and says between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock

in the morning. Duration, in quotation marks, several minutes. It's just the previous paragraph again in note form, but that's fine. At the time, Mrs. Crouch, a farmer's wife, was making soap on her porch when she reported seeing the meat pieces fall from the sky. She said she was 40 steps from her house when the meat started to slap the ground. The meat looked grisily, according to Mrs. Crouch.

Mrs. Crouch and her husband believed the event signified a sign from God. A similar event was later reported in Europe. The phenomenon was reported, yeah, apparently so. The phenomenon was reported by Scientific American, the New York Times. Times and several other publications at the time. The text then repeats the bit about it being two by two inches or four by four inches. The meat appeared to be beef, but according to the first report in Scientific American, two gentlemen who tasted it, judged it to be lamb or deer.

That's the only way to be sure. Yeah. Stick in your gob. Spares meat. A local hunter identified it as bear meat, but the best thing about it, is his name is B. F. Ellington, which just makes me think of Beef Wellington. It is, isn't it? That's amazing.

Yeah. Writing in the Sanitarian, Leopold Brandeis identified the substance as Nostok, a type of cyanobacteria. Brandes gave the meat sample to the Newark Scientific Association for further

analysis, leading to a letter from Dr. Alan McLean Hamilton, appearing in the medical record and that's a publication and stating that the meat had been identified as lung tissue from either a horse or a human infant.

What? Which is lovely. The composition of this sample was backed up by further analysis with two samples of the meat being identified as lung tissue, three as muscle and two as cartilage.

So it seems to be a variation in what kind of meat it actually was. How close is horse lung tissue to human infant lung tissue and why does that differ from adult human lung tissue, exactly? Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. I don't know, I'm afraid.

Weird. The Nostok theory, that's it being this sort of weird bacteria. The Nostok theory relied on the fact that Nostok expands into a clear jelly-like mass when rain falls on it, often giving the sense

that it was falling with the rain. So it doesn't actually fall with the rain it kind of comes out of the ground in some way. So Charles Fought noted in his first book The Book of the Damned that there had been no rain

during the incident though so that kind of throws that theory in a bit of a curveball. Locals though favoured the explanation that the meat was vomited up by buzzards who as is their custom seeing one of their companions

disgorge himself immediately follow suit. Their custom. There were some buzzards or vultures flying around or possibly on the ground one of them threw up and all of the

all the buzzard buddies do the same thing just because that's how they work apparently Oh that's... I was just picturing I don't know someone being launched in the air and disintegrating and spreading all over but buzzards make sense Yeah it kind of does doesn't it Oh I like that though

Bird spreading joy A Dr. Castenby presented this theory in the contemporaneous Louisville Medical News as the best explanation of the variety of the meat vultures vomit as part of making a quick escape and also as a defense method when threatened they'll actually vomit at a threat

so Fort explained that the flattened dry appearance of the meat chunks that was as a result of pressure apparently and noted that nine days later on March the 12th Red corpuscles with a vegetable appearance fell over London. And that's just where the article ends. Oh, okay.

Just with a little cliffhanger that sort of weird red fleshy bits and vegetables fell in London. And see you next time on weird news, apparently. How bizarre. You'll never guess how big they were, though they were two by two inches and four by four inches. No. No. No. And they were definitely from either a horse or a small child. We can't be sure

We keep getting the mixed up It's definitely one of the two though Yeah That's weird I'm strange I think the weirdest thing about that whole story That comes about halfway through Where it's like

Oh no some people identified it as lamb Because they tasted it And said it tasted like lamb Like Oh God Who in God's name would I hope it didn't come out of a vulture If they ate it later on

Seems a terrible thing to do Like do you think They self-appointed themselves as tasters Or was it like the village had a meeting? It was like, oh, I think, I think Derek should be the one to have a taste of it. He's got the best stomach. He's like, all right, bring it, bring up the meat. I'll just lamb that.

That's very strange. Thank you, Peter for your, thank you, Meeter. For a horrible. Grisily tale for gruesome kids. Oh, excellent. You're on fire. Nice. Absolutely on fire.

Yeah. We finish today's questions from the audience with one, from Ryan Seamble, I think I'm saying that right, Ryan Somebody who said, what is your favourite conspiracy theory? Either one you believe in or one

that you laugh at people for believing. Oh no. There are so many good ones. It's hard to choose. I'm a big fan of moon-based conspiracy theories. They're always good fun because they're always super out there. But there is some good text

out there you can read of like hollow moon and the moon being a projection and all this good stuff I like the Avrilavine one Oh yeah Yeah The real Avril Avivine died And was replaced by a fake one

And that's why she went super pop music And that happened also to Was it Paul McCartney? I think one of the... Yeah, at least two of the Beatles have died at some point I think and bring brought back somehow Yeah I did a Beatles based conspiracy

on a potty it's ages ago but I think the recording was lost I remember yeah that never I don't think we ever spoke about that again which is really sad because it was that lunatic's blog wasn't it? It was really good as well I was really happy with that I might recycle it

I think you should yeah you should bring it back yeah well maybe if you want to learn more about some spooky conspiracies check out a future episode oh ha ha ha ha yes it was me all long. The sad thing about conspiracy theories is that I think for a while they were super

fun, it was kind of light-hearted, like, oh, look how ridiculous this is. Well, I mean, that's not true. There's always been absolutely mental, just shrouded in racism and anti-Semitism conspiracy theories. But it just feels like recently, they're all just a bit, just aggressive and boring. It's not like, oh, Hitler's got another clone in Venezuela. It's like, oh, no, there's paedophiles everywhere. Yeah, there used to be like, it kind of felt like stuff that didn't really affect us other than the fact that we were being lied to,

but not about anything that really mattered. Reptiles, reptiles, bring them back. What's wrong with the queen being a lizard? You know, it didn't really matter that, for example, if the moon landings have been faked, it's like, all right, so yeah, maybe we were lied to if that turned out to be the case, but ultimately it doesn't actually matter

to the man on the street whether we've been to the moon or not. but now it's like yeah 5G is going to kill you COVID's not real yeah just things like that which do affect the man on the street in terms of like altering behaviours in potentially dangerous ways

so that is yeah it's the more depressing side of the modern conspiracy theory I would say yeah make conspiracies great again yeah COVID being made up is my favourite one I think currently especially as what was it

You see that Herman Cain died from COVID after saying it wasn't anything to write home about. And then they started using his Twitter account to continue supporting President Trump. Right. Oh. And he recently tweeted after dying from COVID that, well, this COVID lark seems to be a bit inflated, doesn't it? A, maybe it's not quite a biggest threat as we all thought. God. I'm only dead.

Yeah, I've only gone and died. Oh, it's ridiculous. It's so tone-deaf. Do you remember that one where Alex Jones, you know, the guy from, what's it called? It doesn't matter what he's from, we all know who he is. Info wars. That guy.

He thought that the government was putting chemicals into the water supply to turn people gay. And he said that there's now evidence that he says, oh, you can see that this is the case, because it's not just affecting humans, it's turning frogs gay as well. Yeah. And he goes on about how, like, the, the freaking frogs are turning gay as well because

of what's been added to the water. So gay frogs is up there for me. Gay frogs is a good one. Yeah. You just reminded me of another, we shouldn't be talking about Alex Jones, because he is a genuine shit, but it is just some genuinely bafflingly, hilariously things. This is, this is from, like, when his wife was leaving or something, and, like, the court proceedings, he said, um, uh, I'm just reading.

from an article here. Sitting on the witness stand, his ex-wife's lawyers had him read from a deposition transcript in which he claimed he could not remember the names of his children's teachers or the details of their schoolwork because he ate too much chili. In the transcript, Newman asked Jones if chili had affected his memory, quote, big old ball of chili sure does, yeah, Jones responded. He's not well, is he? No, he's really not. No, definitely not. No, get some help. And he gets so, he gets so, he gets so pink when you see him shouting. I do remember he wants, I think he probably still sells, like a lot of,

weirdly a lot of right wing talk shows have their own stores that sell supplements and things, which doesn't really make a lot of sense. But there was one supplement where the before and after photo, he just got red between the two of them. Oh, God. Amazing. If he wasn't so harmful, he'd be really fun to love. laugh at. He has a lot of influence

and that scary. It really is. My goodness. Well, is that all? Have we made it to the end? Oh my God. I believe so, yeah. It seemed to go quick today. Well, thank you boys for your things and thank you for bringing along those questions, Peter. No problem. Thanks for submitting them.

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