Podiots - Podiots: Episode 71 - Meat Products
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So do you remember your face in meat?
Our company, Worldwide Logistics, get your face in meat.
Of course.
I sent them an email as promised.
I was wondering if you'd actually do it.
I'm so glad.
I did.
I did email them.
Here's what I said.
Hello there.
My name's Ben Potter, and I'm one of the editors for UK-based
comedy podcast, Podiat's.
Each show consists of three hosts bringing one thing to discuss.
And on a recent episode, we were all very excited by the idea of ham with a customizable
design, particularly as we all grew up with Billy Bearham.
I'm unsure what your policy is on meat samples or ordering single meat items, but
we'd love to submit a meat design and see it proudly displayed in meat.
Plus, I believe it would make for a great discussion.
And then I give a little bit about our credentials.
At the very least, we've gained a new fan, surely.
How many downloads we get?
Adolf Ham Friend.
What was this surname?
Feldhoys.
Feld, that's the same thing.
It's German for Ham Friend, I think.
Right.
Certainly.
Then I linked to our YouTube and Spotify,
and I said, let me know if this is at all possible,
and please pass my thanks and admiration on to Mr. Bernhardt, A. Feldhoys.
He has inspired a generation with his fun meets.
Kind regards, Ben Potter.
Now, I just wanted to give an update because I did follow through as promised.
I am really sad to report that I didn't get a reply.
Oh, for God's sake, Bernard.
Come on, get on top of you still.
You would have thought, Burnhard, a man of Bernhard, Adolf Feldhoes, stature would want to deal with us, but apparently not.
Have you tried emailing Bernhardt atfeldhoys.com.
No, let me copy and paste this right now.
so burn
burn
I'm going to have to copy and paste his name
it's very complicated
burn
burn hard
just at Feldholmes
surely
surely that is his personal email address
oh dear
can we be careful
I don't want to be banned from buying
Billy Bear meat in the future
I like I don't want them to cut us down
is it.com or
DE? What do you think?
Is it a German, Belgian?
Oh, you know, that's a really good question.
Failed Hoys, right?
Flemish.
They're in Germany.
They are in Germany.
Yeah, they are closed currently,
but they open 7am tomorrow
for all your meat needs.
Your meat needs.
They only have a contact us form, obviously.
I'm trying to guess what their internal email address would be.
Given that their website is feldhoys hyphen group.de, it might be feldhoes hyphen group, is their email.
You try and do some snooping around LinkedIn as well.
Yeah, I could definitely, definitely get someone, maybe Adolf himself, group.
If we've got any listeners who are in the novelty ham trade, then let us know, because you might know someone who knows someone.
Yes, they all know each other. It's just a big, it's a big, meaty boys club, isn't it?
It's a big sausage fest, I think.
Oh, very, very good.
Yeah.
Yeah, I did a typo in the original email.
It's fine.
Okay, I'm going to send this.
We'll see if I get a bounce back.
Fingers crossed.
No one wants their ham to bounce back.
That's not a good thing at all.
No, it's not a good thing.
Okay.
Consult a physician.
Oh, no bounce back.
That doesn't mean that it's a monitored, used or real email address necessarily,
but it does mean that that domain certainly exists, I think, right?
I guess so.
It might have gone to like just some sort of back-end admin thing that's never looked at.
It's not a real inbox.
It's just a...
Okay.
Okay, I have had an auto-reply.
I got very excited because it was in German.
Yeah.
But I don't know that it's real.
It might be German for the email address you have selected is not real.
Yeah, that could be it.
Let's pop it in a Google.
translate and see error delivering message to the following recipient so vibes
well dear fechler by the nachrich tunst well exactly
a folgender and fanger older groupen you know so depending how desperate we get we could
try and apply for a job there with a fake CV yes and go through the interview process I did
notice if you Google them it does say own this business question mark which I'm now
clicking on. Say yes.
That's how you claim it, I think. I think you
own it now. The listing has already
been claimed and it does say the listing has been
verified by bf dot dot dot dot dot at
dot dot dot dot. So Google
knows who it is but they won't.
We're getting close. Guys, we're getting closer.
Dispute. Dispute.
Could that be Bernhard
Fadolf?
It could be
it does say request access underneath.
my tie
yes I will
yes please
okay I do have to give a lot of personal information
to request access
and I don't think that will be good for me
no if the meat boys will come after you
suggest an edit
change name or other details
I can suggest an edit
category
manufacturer can I search meat
meat packer
hey we've got
okay we can
We can suggest an edit to the category.
We've got meat dish restaurant,
meat packer, meat processor,
meat products, or meat wholesaler.
Ooh.
Juliet's in the realm of meaty product, isn't it?
Yeah?
Meat products.
Okay, send.
That's my suggestion.
Thanks for your feedback.
You're welcome.
It's my pleasure, honestly.
We'll get there one day.
I think at least we've made an impact with this.
Well done, Ben.
Really tried, not getting any success.
you know, if you know
Adolf
let us know.
Please, we want to talk to him.
We just want to talk about it.
We just want to talk to Adolf.
We just want to talk to Adolf.
We just want to talk to.
It's not in trouble.
We just want to talk.
We're just disappointed.
Hello, everybody, and welcome to Poddy.
official videos, podcast.
It's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home
and obey the law of the three urs, where everybody brings
a thing along to talk about.
I'm Ben.
I'm Peter.
And I'm Mikey.
How we doing, guys?
What's going on?
Very well, thank you.
Do I always say Mikey or Michael in my intro?
I don't.
I say Michael.
He definitely said Michael a lot.
I don't know if you...
Why don't I suddenly just call myself?
Mikey. Why have I not been calling myself Mikey before? I saw quite an old
video the other day and we were calling you MJ, which really goes back. Yeah, that's a long one.
Until you eventually told us, please don't call me that. That was just a nickname that was chosen
by someone else. It's not my. Well, it's nice to be known. It's nice to have people
know who you are. You should be known by your name. I don't think he ever said, please don't call me that.
I think he just said that people are really, like, going back to, you know, more of his childhood,
people tended to call him Mikey.
So then we just started to do the same.
Oh, I remember it very differently.
I thought like, like, chairs were thrown and.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, it was brutal.
Stop calling me.
MJ, that's not my name.
Do you have any idea what those two letters mean?
Some vicious swear words.
I'm sorry about that.
It was a pretty rough start of idiots, but we got through it.
What?
MJ, guess what?
Your edit to Feldhoist Fun Foods GMBH has been accepted
What?
They're officially meat products company now
He's gone
Who the hell approved that?
This is Google vandalism
I didn't want to
Yeah, look, it's just got a line through manufacturer
And it says meat products underneath it now
Oh no, I feel like I'm in trouble now
they're going to track you down
but at least if you get legally served
you'll have a contact email
yes that's the thing if they sue me
I have to meet
Bernhard legally
I have to meet him
I think that's how it works
should have replied to our email
category
crossed out manufacturer
meat products
so sorry
the category of their
business is
they are no longer a manufacturer
they are our meat products
is that what that means
according to Google they are now meat products
wow this is amazing
we did that
I love that it's crossed out
no we checked
and they're not that
oh wow
that's a that's a meat products right there
you look at that and tell me that's not a meat products
yeah oh god
sorry Mikey you were saying
I don't even I just talk about my angry tirade
to the name MJ but I'd say
It's been overhaul.
It's been struck off and replaced for meat products.
Just a line through it.
They said MJ there was a line through it.
And then it said, Mikey.
I submitted a request on Google to be called Mikey.
And that's where we...
Michael products.
Michael.
I believe you were saying, Ben, actually.
You know, you're Ben.
I'm Peter and he's Mikey.
And then you go from there, typically.
Yes.
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Splatoon. Yeah. Yeah, it's the first platoon. Regiment. We start with Adolf, who says,
please guys, leave me out of it. Leave my email alone. Sorry, Adolf. We'll leave you out of it.
No crows here, cyber slum. A regretful one.
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Oh.
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Have we done a Dave?
Yeah, the Dave's gone.
Okay, just checking.
We've got a Dave.
We've got an Alamy stock photo of Dave this week on Twitter.
Oh, wow, look at that with the watermarks.
Yes, good, isn't it?
Big fan.
It's a good one.
Looks like an older photo of Dave.
Well, I'm immediately going to add to the thread,
the crossed-out meat product image.
This is potentially incriminating, but let's do it.
Let's lean into it.
It has to go.
I mean, there's all episodes incriminating.
Nobody go to their website and use their contact form and dob on us, okay?
Oh, God, please.
Don't tell the teacher.
Don't be like that.
Is it fraud?
Did you commit fraud just then?
No, they did not ask me to, like, I didn't have to click any boxes saying that I legally
confirmed.
It was a suggestion.
You can suggest an edit, and immediately Google said, yes, that is true.
They are a meat product.
Yeah, thanks for pointing it out to us, because we thought they were just a manufacturer.
They're clearly not a manufacturer, are they?
No.
It's been averting taxes all this time with incorrect categorization.
Can you imagine if we sunk Feldhoys, the Feldhoys group?
Serves them right for not replying.
Yeah, really.
All they had to do was send us our meat face.
That's all we wanted.
One slice.
That's all we wanted.
Just in a bag.
Pottiots will be a named Feared in the meat manufacturing world
if you get an email from them from us.
You better reply.
We will destroy you.
We will sink your business into the ground.
No mercy.
Question one this week comes from Robert Mansell
at underscore Rob underscore Mansell underscore on Twitter.
Okay, lads, I'm paying for a dream holiday for you and a plus one
each fantasy post-pandemic world, it says in parentheses.
Where are you going?
Keep up the good, hard.
Sweaty Work, Lots of Love.
Rob Mansell slash Titanium 91990.
Great.
I don't want to think about too much because I get sad about the fact that I've not left this out West in so long.
Shenzhen.
Oh God, Jesus Christ, Michael, learned to speak.
Shenzhen, China, I think it would be absolutely amazing.
What's there?
It's basically like the electronics manufacturer, well, not manufacturing, but like the electronics capital of the world.
And it's just like this, it's kind of like, it's, it's just like a mecca of just all the weird stuff you find, like literal malls filled with one particular kind of item and just, sell is selling nothing but like very specific little items.
It just sounds so cool.
It looks, it's very futuristic and weird, very much like a, like a real-life cyberpunkky place.
Nice.
It sounds quite fun.
Is that the one from viral YouTube videos where the man goes and builds his own iPhone?
Absolutely.
That's where I learned.
about it. I've seen that place. I've seen that place. Yeah. It looks so fun. I want to build an iPhone and
I would also love for you to build an iPhone.
I'll come out on the video. It's channel in a couple of months when I rip my hair out in the
process. Real footage. I exploded an iPhone and lost a finger with like a crying, smiling
face emoji. Not clickbait. Not click bait.
Gone sexual.
What about you, Pisa? Where would you go?
I think it's a bit of a cliche
but I would really like to do
a huge road trip around
the States
somewhere like either in a really nice car
and maybe just stopping at like
hotels and motels and stuff
or in
some kind of you know
RV motor home kind of thing
the really
sort of motor home porn ones
you see on like Reddit or Imja or whatever
where someone's completely ripped out, you know, an old, like, RV or like an old ambulance
or an old fire engine or something, and they've turned it into this amazing bespoke thing.
And they've got a PS2 in the headrest.
Yeah, exactly, like all the amenities.
A chocolate fountain.
Yeah, with, like a cheese fountain.
Have you seen that video of the guy who, like...
Yeah, with the wrong cheese in it?
Yeah.
Well, the first one goes wrong, and then I think there's another video where he makes it work.
But, yeah, the first one is not good.
So yeah, I think that's what I do.
I mean, to be more specific, I guess.
There's places in America that I've done, I've been fortunate enough to do two trips to America
once when I was about 13 and then one bit more recently.
And there's places I'd love to go back to.
I'd love to do more of New York City.
Like I've been to Manhattan, but there's like other parts of New York that I'd like to see.
I went to New Orleans, which was amazing, like a really cool.
place with very much
its own identity
and I'd like to maybe do
more of the West Coast as well
so yeah
I could drive around the whole country to be
honest and enjoy all of its
all of its gifts
America is a little bit
like a gift basket filled with 52
individual countries isn't it? Yeah it is a little
bit and I like
I do like holidaying
to go to places
that are culturally very different to the UK.
But equally, I think it's nice sometimes to go to a place
where everyone speaks English
and you can go around and just meet lots and lots of people
and actually be able to have a conversation with them
about, like, you know, what they do
and, you know, like the differences between you and them.
So what is it that you do?
So what do you do then?
Yeah.
I remember going to San Diego
and I was just in the queue
in a supermarket
and an American just started a conversation with me
and I was terrified.
Oh, fuck off.
Leave me alone.
Do you don't know how this works?
He's sitting silence facing your head.
How about you, Ben?
I think I know.
Oh, do you?
I have a feeling you might say Japan.
Oh, well, see, that's the thing.
I was about to say,
there's lots of places I would love to go on holiday.
But in the
in the fantasy post-pandemic world
that is suggested and pitched by
by Rob here, part of me just wants to sit on a beach and drink beer.
Oh, for sure. That sounds really nice too.
And not really do anything, you know?
I kind of want to do this, but where it's not here, you know?
Just be away from here for a bit.
I have never really considered myself the kind of person that really likes that sort of holiday.
but then I went on a very brief holiday in 2019
over my birthday for like three or four days with my friend Ben
and we went to a place, a island, one of them Spanish ones.
I don't remember which one it was, but it was in the same time zone as here.
So it was probably off the coast of Africa somewhere, one of those ones?
One of them ones?
Anyway, it was sunny and beautiful and there was a really cheap bar,
right next to the beach where you could get
you know, pints of
mystery Spanish lager
and just sit there and drink it in the sun
and it was amazing and the hotel was super comfortable
and it was all inclusive as well
so you could just eat from a buffet.
It was really nice.
I want to do that.
That's what I want to do.
And then go to Japan when I'm, you know, when I'm ready.
Just have a recovery like period.
Yeah.
We've been watching Benadorm, the TV series.
Yeah.
And I'm sure that's supposed to, you know, make fun of the British holiday goes and kind of show how dire it is, what the British have done to it.
And we're just sat there watching going, this actually seems like a lot of fun.
That's absolutely got a Benadorm.
Just to go, like, by a swimming pool in an all-inclusive hotel.
Yeah.
Imagine the luxury of being able to get a sunburn, you know.
Yeah.
God, what a treat.
Spending more than an hour outside a week.
Unimaginable.
It is kind of unimaginable.
But yeah, that's where we'd all go.
If we could.
Let's move on to a thing.
Who has one? Who wants to do it?
Well, we've all got one, Ben.
That's the point of the podcast.
I'll go.
Go on, then.
So, last episode, when we were in the depths of the UFO alien talk,
I briefly mentioned an underground alien base,
like the Dulce Underground Alien Base
and I thought it'd be fun
to do a little bit more of
digging a dive on that
because it is quite a fun little story.
Fantastic.
I want, my boys,
this is all serious, factual information.
Okay.
I want you to treat that as such.
Should we take notes?
We take notes, yes.
It's all very important.
This is undeniable proof
of aliens on Earth.
Is it off of the internet?
Is that why it's true?
Yes, it's off
I'll
The source I had
It turns out
I think the government
are wiping the internet
of this because there's very little writing about it
No God
Luckily I did find a website called
The Burlington News.com
Which is peak
conspiracy theorist web design
Encapsulated
And you know you can trust the website
Because the person who runs it
Also has a YouTube channel
That features videos titled
Why Can't I See Big
foot and an 80 minute video titled Learning How to Be Psychic.
Oh, so this sounds like a person I can trust.
Yeah, if it's from, I mean, anything on the internet, I believe anyway, but especially
a news, if it says news in the website, I'm all aboard.
So go for it.
Tell us all this truth.
So this is, the man at the heart of this tale is Phil Schneider.
Finding information about this is bloody difficult because it's either in Buksy wrote or
it's in talks he did.
I'm not going to look through hours and hours and hours of an alien man talk about definitely true alien things.
So I did the best of what I could find.
I think I've put together a good little summary.
It's either.
Books he wrote, talks he did, or smearting shit on the wall of his cell.
Essentially, yes.
So for context, Phil Schneider was an engineer who worked as a geological and structural engineer.
So he was actually very highly educated and trained.
add more credence to this point.
He says his father was originally a German U-Boat captain
who was captured by the US military
and was put to work on several highly secret US military projects.
And these are secrets he held until the very last moments at his deathbed
where he spilled the truth to his son.
Among the secrets was the claim that he invented
a high-speed camera that took pictures of the first atomic bomb tests
in Bikini Island in 1946.
Sounds plausible.
And Phil himself elaborates, and this is a direct quote,
I have original photos of that test.
The photos show UFOs fleeing the bomb site at a high rate of speed.
Bikini Island at the time was infested with them.
Whoa, infested like a parasite.
Yeah.
Ridden.
Bikini Island.
Maybe that's like Benadon for aliens.
Yeah.
Maybe.
They love it.
There's three aliens somewhere right now going.
Oh, I know it's a bit of a comedy program,
but wouldn't you love to go back to Bikini Island?
Like, you know, it would actually be really nice post-lockdown.
Post-Aliant COVID.
Yeah.
Oh, hopefully we'll see them again soon.
Later in life, Phil became known as a whistleblower
on deep, deep underground military bases,
or D-U-M-Bs as the name.
known.
That's not just thinking I'm made up.
That is, that's genuinely what they're called.
Okay.
Or known as at least.
Phil explains that the US military has a quote-unquote black budget, which consumes about
$1.25 trillion per year.
And this is in 1990s money as well.
So that's, you can only imagine how much they spend now.
And part of that money is used to build interconnected deep underground military bases
and states that they are, as of 1990,
129 of these bases in the United States, some of which have been in use since the 1940s.
There's a better truth to this.
There is definitely underground bases.
I mean, the one at the centre of this, Dulce is, in fact, a genuine real military base.
There's definitely aliens in them.
I'm just stop thinking there's not aliens, okay?
Yeah.
I'm sure there are loads of them.
In 1954, the federal government formed a treaty with alien entities.
the 1954
Griada Treaty,
which essentially meant
that aliens could take a few cows
and test their implanting techniques
on a handful of humans, if they wished.
This is backed up by cases of mutilated cows
in the surrounding area of Dulce.
But slowly, the aliens started altering the bargain
until they decided they wouldn't abide by the restrictions at all.
And they just kind of went crazy
and started abducting and implanting people
left right and center, which is very naughty.
Phil was involved in building an addition to a deep underground military base at Dulce.
The base itself does indeed exist, as I said earlier,
and his work was to test rock samples and advise on what explosives to use to clear out the rock.
And as the team started drilling, a terrible smell that was similar to burning garbage emerged from one of the holes.
The smell was in fact coming from an artificial cavern that they had accidentally drilled into.
Oh, my God.
Oh, spooky.
As Phil was lowered down into the hall to investigate
and found himself inside a large cavern
he was greeted by, in his words,
a seven-foot-tall, stinky grey alien.
Which is rude, quite frankly.
Yeah.
None of it, like, brandish words like that.
So in response, Phil did the responsible thing
and he heroically whipped out his pistol
because engineers carry pistols, yeah, yep.
And his shot.
Everyone, everyone, the mum's packing around here.
And so he unleashed fire on the stinky grey alien.
No.
And in retaliation to this, more aliens appeared.
Well, yeah, right.
Obviously, yeah, got to get back up.
I'll defend my boy.
My boy.
What's the done?
Steve, Jesus.
So more aliens appeared, and an alien blew off some of Phil's fingers with a kind of laser blaster.
And Phil was indeed actually missing a few fingers.
A kind of laser blast.
I would love to know the true story behind how he lost those fingers
and why he needed to make up a story about aliens shooting them off
that was somehow better.
He lost them in a sex game with a prostitute
and he had to tell his wife, oh, well, what happened was?
Aliens.
You know, they all was out alien blasting.
Phil was saved by a green bury
who allegedly gave his life to protect him.
This relatively small scuffle evolved into an all-out battle
which led to the death of 60 soldiers and scientists.
And Phil, of course, was one of the three people to survive.
Yes, real.
There's not much other information about the other two people.
He states that they had been sent into hiding
and weren't allowed to discuss the matters.
I'm not sure why Phil got the honour of...
No, it's real, it's real.
This is all real.
All real.
After the incident, Phil began sharing his story in print
and at various UFO conventions
until his death in 1996.
The mythology had developed.
into an incredibly complex degree during this time involving a war between gray and reptilian
alien races, tales of thousands of aliens being held in this underground base.
Basically, this was the seed for more truth to be unearthed.
Thomas Costello was one of the people who helped develop this true story.
He was a security guard at the base at the time, and he himself had direct contact.
with the alien and human captives that were held in this underground base.
He told stories of underground caves occupied for centuries by reptoids,
caves that were taken over by the Rand Corporation for use by the New World Order
to create biological weapons, fleets of alien ships stored at Los Alamos,
human alien hybrid cloning, and his arguments with a cranky reptoid leader named
Karshfashed.
I'm going to send that.
that in text.
I think I did it justice.
Oh, yeah, cash-fashed.
It's a powerful name.
That's what a child says when a car goes past.
Yeah.
Cash-fash-fash.
It's what the snacks child said.
It might be the same one, yeah.
So I'm about to share something very top secret,
and we can't share out of this room.
And if it somehow ends up on Twitter, well, on your head be it.
But this is a highly accurate map of the underground base.
so you can see it's
I'll describe it
done using clip art
oh it's beautiful
so it starts at the top
the ground level
which is you know
agricultural premises
and just general
outdoorsy stuff
it's all the front
for the dark
dark depths beneath
and at the top
there's a big tunnel
and it's labelled
UFO entrance
and there's a handy little
diagram of a spaceship
floating down into the depths
and so it's all connected by this middle shaft
which is essentially an elevator
to help people get around this top secret base
so the top floor there's seven floors in total
the top few floors are pretty uninteresting
it's stuff like security communications
human staff housing executives and labs
it's just you know the the administration side
of running a secret centuries old underground base
yeah then we go down to level four
this is where it starts getting interesting
level four is home to the mind control experiments
wow
I don't know what else to say about that to be honest
that's just where they have
yeah that's that's where the mind control experiments
live it's going to happen somewhere
I mean level four is as good as any
and you know that deep underground
that's where you get less interference makes it easier
right right um beneath that
level five you've got alien housing so that's obviously where all the aliens are living
causing major interference to the floor above
doing the mind controlling
experiment.
They also had a treaty agreeing not to interfere.
Not to think while there's an experiment going on.
I just did a reverse Google image search for that schematic slash map.
Yeah.
And it's taken me to a GoFundMe page by Ryan 4 Prime Minister, just with an R on the end.
Ryan for Prime Minister, close underground military bases.
And he's...
Is that his campaign?
Yeah, and he types in all caps.
We all know human cloning is, and then lower caps, fictional does not.
Exhist.
I will close down all underground military bases.
Send your donation to, and then there's an email address.
Guess how much he wants?
He's going to need at least 10 grand for that.
No, a bit more than that.
I mean, it's a trillion a year goes into keeping it going, right?
So...
He wants 90 million US slash maybe Canadian dollars.
Right, okay.
And then there's just a photo of this in here.
It's just, there's no context at all.
So that alien map is in there.
Oh, wow.
That's how he gets past the artificial intelligence
that scours the internet for anyone saying that it's true.
Oh, wow, there's a video in there.
No sign of intelligence here.
What's this?
This is Ryan.
This is him talking about, hold on, what is he talking about?
Yeah, he's got several videos.
one of them is donate to his campaign.
He addresses Washington.
Ben, have you considered sending him an email asking for a slice of customized hand?
I don't want to interact with this man very much.
No, probably not.
He streamed it live on the 30th September.
It's got two views.
I think that's us.
Well, sorry.
Sorry about that.
No, that's what I'm going to save this video Ryan for later.
It sounds very interesting.
I don't dare, Ryan, with you very quickly.
So we've got alien housing on Level 5.
I wish there's more details about what these levels look like.
I imagine in his speeches he goes into great detail about it,
but I don't feel like bashing my head against a table for 10 hours.
But let's just imagine it's a lovely hotel resort, much like Benadorn.
It's all inclusive.
The Ayan's having a great time just to help keep them happy.
Swimming pools. Yeah, little fake palm trees.
Yeah. It's lovely.
Beneath that, we start then to the genetic.
Experiment Realm on floor six.
The most deprived things happen.
Ooh, spooky.
And the last lowest level is the cryogenic storage level, where I think, from what I
could gather is where they store like old, like hybrids of aliens and humans and like
decades old aliens.
And it's basically like a living library of aliens, hoping to emerge again someday.
And of course, this is off to the side.
We've got an underground shuttle to Los Alamos.
because I think
yeah
the fact is
that all of these bases
are connected
by like magnetic rail trains
like it just speeds across the country
so you can transport your aliens around
without ever having to take them above air
except for when they enter the big tube
that's why they call it Kajfashed
nay very good
so that's
that's pretty much all I've got
well that I mean that's more than I
ever expected.
You know, that's a lot of evidence there.
It's stunning.
I mean, this schematic,
not a drawing,
is just evidence in itself.
If you Google schematic,
dulcie base,
you'll see what we're talking about.
I'm sure it's in the year.
You're sure it's not a photo,
because it looks very real.
Yeah.
It is like those mountains.
I feel like I've seen those mountains before
in real life.
Yeah.
Can't fake those, can't draw that.
No.
Yeah, there you go.
That is a brief over
view of the Dulce War and
the Dulce base. I hope one day
we can all take a trip out there when it's safe. No,
I would track my Shenzhen thing. I'm going to go
to Dulce. Yeah, that's our holiday. We'll all go
together. I'm going to jump down the UFO
entrance. Amazing. Well, I'll see
you there. We'll go together.
Thank you, Mikey. That's all right.
Let's all Naruto run
our way to alien
happiness. I can't stop all of us.
Maybe Dick Machenko
will be there again. Oh, fingers
crossed, yeah, we'll get him on our team. He'd be the
But there, he won't get any fingers blown off by no damn aliens.
No.
He can kill aliens with his mind, probably.
It can.
Absolutely.
This next question comes from The Overthinker at Spector Zero One on Twitter.
Mundane, shitty design, an inconvenient truth.
What salts your apples the most?
Offenders may include flimsy paper lids, misaligned furniture screws,
and paper straws that turn to mush after one sip.
Ooh.
So this is about badly designed products or household items or just do-to-do things.
Yeah, essentially, things that are just crap and cheap and rubbish.
I do hate with flat-packed furniture when the pilot holes for the screws are either in the wrong place or they don't fit properly.
Yeah, yeah.
That happens more often than it should.
And you just end up kind of bashing it in there and it works, but you slightly have less faith in the structure of the furniture.
put together.
It's terrible.
It's always the naughtiest wood as well.
And it just squeak.
You know that squeak that it does?
The wood squeak.
The wood squeak when you try and get a screw into one of those stupid holes that they've drilled
in it in a factory.
It's not a squeaker to scream in pain.
Yeah.
It's a very sad piece of wood.
Additionally, how hard and why have we not reached the point yet where if I buy a cheeseburger
that's wrapped in paper.
Why does all the cheese stick to it?
Yeah, what the hell, McDonald's,
invest in some hydrophobic paper?
What is that about?
You know, but it even happens at like five guys
and they wrap it up in the special aluminium foil stuff.
Yeah.
You open it and all the chitch is just like,
most of it stays on the packaging.
Do you lick the cheese off the packaging
or you leave it there out of just horror?
Depends how upset I am, really.
A lot of times I'll go after it, you know.
I'll like, when no one's looking in private,
I'll just take a bite of it and sort of rip it off.
But I'm not happy about it, you know?
No, not the, well, again, depends how mad I am.
How hungry you are.
Yeah.
You know, if my nutritional needs haven't been met for the day,
perhaps I do take a chump of some nice shiny, shiny packaging.
This isn't an issue with fridges on the hall,
but it's an issue I face quite often.
And I'm, well, it's an issue that could probably be fixed
with an expensive fridge, but can you please have a fridge that closes the door automatically
after it's been open for half an hour? Just earlier today, I accidentally left the freezer
open. Now there's water dripping all over the floor. Oh no. Why did that have to happen?
That's terrible. I'm going to look into fringes. How, I'm going to guess how much it'll
cost? Maybe you could make your own with one of those, you know, those automatic door closes,
the massive things that are above the doors, like schools and stuff. And you can just screw it
it'd be really hard to open your fridge then oh it turns out there's an easier way um i found a
reddit post that just says tilt your fridge slightly back so that what a genius solution
yeah or your food will fall to them you can get fridges with alarms on them so they will go off
if the door's been open for too long yeah i've had fringes that have beeped at me before oh
we went for the cheapest fridge we could find on facebook market
clear, so we're...
Oh yeah, I mean, I don't have one, but, you know, they exist.
I've been dealing with the sealant falling out of my fridge for about seven, eight months now.
So lining the ceiling.
Yeah, it's like, I'm struggling to describe it.
It's like a rubber strip that runs along the inside.
When you open the door, it's on like the far right.
And it peeled off, like it just wilted like a terrible flower.
And every time, like I've had that happen a few times now where I've tried to shut the fridge door
and it's just hit that, and I didn't know.
And then sometimes you'll open it,
and it will, like, unfold like a cheese string
and slap you in the face when you open the door.
I've got a life hack for that, Ben.
Just lay the fridge on its back.
Oh, God, you're right.
Gravity won't affect it anymore.
Just don't have a fridge.
Have you tried not having a fridge?
Yeah.
Have you considered never having been born in the first place?
Oh, man, I think a lot of us would have taken that option.
I'm joking.
I am joking.
Yeah.
I mean, not to, I hate to just use one that was in the question,
but I hate paper straws that just sog on you.
I mean, I don't, I really hate plastic straws
because I've seen videos of them like inside turtles and nostrils and stuff,
which is not nice.
So I don't use either.
But like, I would rather not have a straw at all
than have one of those stripy paper ones
because they do not last.
I remember once getting a milk.
from McDonald's a while back, and I had a paper straw, and just beyond the usual floppiness
of a paper straw, it was just functionally useless. I literally could not suck up the milkshake
no matter how hard I tried. So I ended up having to just pour it into my mouth, like some kind
of monster. I'm trying to, I feel like there's something, like on the tip of my tongue, like
an item that I hate because it's always crap and they've not perfected it, but I can't think
what it is. And I know it's like the kind of thing I'll remember when I, you know, when we stop
recording but when you go downstairs and you go out there you off yeah i'll use the thing and i'll be
like fuck that's the one oh oh cafe tiers are the bane of my existence i know there's like
easier better ways of making coffee but cleaning cafetiers is the bane of my life because you've got
all these coffee grounds and if you put them down the sink it's gonna it's gonna clog up your drain
and you put them in the bins effort i mean should be put them in the compost bin but that's
outside and then just little bits of coffee stick to the inside and you've got to spend like
three minutes cleaning it just i'm on a self-cleaning coffee coffee cafeteria yeah that's
that's very very nice i can't relate at all but it sounds like a real problem it's it's it's it's
it's it's kind of a self-inflicted problem because i'll make coffee and then i'll be like i can't
me bother to clean that i'll leave that and then i come back later in the day for another cup of coffee
I'm like, oh, bloody hell.
Fuck sake.
It's dirty.
Well, how's this happen?
Now I've got to clean it.
Who did this?
Tell me, which one have you?
I'm the same, Peter.
I came up with an idea earlier when I was getting these questions and I thought that's perfect.
That's like, that's one that really annoys me.
And then it came time to do it.
And all I could think of was, what is the cheese not?
Come up on paper.
Yeah.
I don't really like, I find that most salt grinders are crap.
Like you just get giant salt crystals on your chips
and you bite your chip
and then it just, it's like chewing sand, you know?
I don't want to crunch salt.
I want to just taste it.
So they're normally pretty rubber.
I've never really had a good one.
I'd rather just buy table salt
and get a pinch of it out of the top
and sprinkle it on my chips
than use a grinder.
I feel like we got more and more
sort of picky.
Yeah.
As that conversation went on, you know, doors, they squeaks sometimes, don't they fucking doors?
I hate that my bed isn't downstairs in the living room all the time, you know?
Why is that?
Yeah.
I hate that I've got to go to the bathroom when I want to do a poo.
God, someone should get on that.
You've got those special pants, though.
Shretty's.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah, you can't put in there.
That's how it works.
I'll send them an email just to clarify, make sure.
You should send them a really angry.
email as though like, whoa, what the fuck? Yeah. I was just in a really important business
meeting. Now the carbon's all clogged. I want to refund. This is ridiculous. You should. Let us
know how you get on with that. I have a contact email there if you want it. Okay, let's move on. Peter,
what is your thing for this week? I've got a thing that was actually sent to me and it was sent
privately to me, which was the right, it's the right way to do it, really, so that the guys,
you know, whichever the other two of us is, they have not heard it. So that's good.
Although you may have just read it just by chance. But here we go. It's according to the Guardian
and it was sent by David at Dalek Platypus, who is an active member of the Triple
Jump community. We know that one. We do. We know that one.
Texas, sorry after mistakenly sending emergency alert
for cursed Chucky Doll
Okay
Officials apologize for test malfunction
After message asking citizens to keep an eye out
For film villain was sent three times
So this is one of those mobile alert things
That they do, I think a bit more in America than in the UK
I think they do do them here as well
but here we go.
The Texas Public Safety Department
raised a few eyebrows
in the Lone Star State
by reportedly sending out
an emergency alert
asking its citizens
to keep an eye out
for Chucky,
the evil-possessed doll
from the horror movie series
Child's play,
whom it said
was a suspect in a kidnapping.
The message went out
all over the state's
Amber Alert system,
which has blasted
to people's mobile phones
usually to help find
a missing child.
It was sent
three times.
Oh.
It described the suspect
as being called
Chucky and listed him
as a 28-year-old
with red hair,
blue eyes,
standing at three foot
one inches tall
and weighing 16 pounds.
He was said to be wearing
blue denim overalls
with a multicolored
striped long-sleeve shirt
and carrying a large knife.
Wow.
His race
His race was listed as other, colon, doll.
Oh, for God's sake.
In the movies, which debuted in 1988,
Chucky is a child's toy possessed by the spirit of a dead serial killer
who murders numerous people.
Faced with numerous media inquiries as to why an alert
was being sent hunting for a cartoonish villain from a slasher movie series,
the department issued a statement saying,
this alert is a result of a test malfunction
we apologize for the confusion this may have caused
and are diligently working to ensure
this does not happen again
so that's it
it's short and sweet but I love the idea
that they sent out three alerts saying
hey guys Chuckie's out there
Chuckie's coming keep an eye out
I'm incredibly glad that the test alert
which accidentally went out was for such a ridiculous thing
because if it was an act, like, a believable thing,
that would heighten concern.
But instead, no one's going to look out for a little doll.
Maybe that's the plant to get away with it.
Presumably, like, you know, they were doing some back-end testing or something
and someone was like, oh, let's just, like, put some filler information in there.
What should we do?
Oh, we'll do Chucky.
It's just as well that they didn't, like, do something really, like, tasteless.
You know, like, something really sick.
Like, I mean, I can't even think of any, or I don't want to think of it.
anything, but, like, thinking that it was only going to be internal, you know, you're right that
either it could have been really terrifying if they'd just done a generic thing, like, serial killer
on the loose, you know, his name's John Smith, and he looks like this, and he's in your area,
that alone would be scary, but they definitely could have, like, you can imagine them doing
something that they thought was funny that's really not actually funny at all, and it accidentally
getting out there that, you know, I don't know what, but I think you can kind of get my, get the
idea. It could have been really, really a bad PR move. It feels like these automated systems,
I'm not going to say fail, because it is human error. Like, this happens quite often. I can't
remember what exactly it was, but there was that story. I think it was like some, like maybe it was
Hawaii sent out a message to everyone in the country, like saying something like a meteor was
coming towards the island. Was it like a nuclear strike or something? Yeah. Oh yeah, there's been
nuclear ones before saying yeah
you need to find shelter immediately
because missiles are coming
yeah there's like a 10 minute period
where everyone just got this text
and was like oh my god this is the end
this is it yeah
it's great when it works though
oh yeah it's good it's good to have it but
please in turn please be careful when you're testing
if chucky does ever go
on the loose in Texas now no one's
gonna believe it
you know it's just them knobbeds
playing around with the alert system again
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Imagine if it was true, though.
What would have happened?
Yeah, someone found out, oh my God, we don't know how it's happened, but he's real and he's coming for you.
Quick, everyone, send an alert out on the mobile messaging system.
That would have been...
That would have been...
I mean, it would make for an interesting next Chucky film, I suppose, and that he's not just in one house or whatever.
Everyone in Texas knows he's coming.
but nobody knows where
Yeah
Wait sorry
Did the article start
Texas apologises
Yeah Texas
Apologises
The state of Texas
The state of Texas
Has apologized to all Texans
For saying that Chuckie is going to come
With a knife
And that his race is dull
Brilliant
Oh dear
God damn
Well thank you Peter
You're welcome
Thank you David
You're willing
Yes no that's fine
This is your alert
everyone at home, keep an eye out.
Next question comes from Ethan Stewart
at Ethan underscore Stewie 98
on Twitter who asks
a bit of a basic question here, boys,
but what was your favourite video you ever worked on
at what, I mean, name redundant,
minus the worst games ever, of course.
Love you guys.
Oh, that is a fun one.
Do you have a favourite video you worked on there, boys?
I think either
I thought the ad that we did
for What Culture Gaming was pretty good.
Oh, yeah, that was great.
It was quite fun.
Just, you know, a silly script with silly visual gags and stuff.
But if it was, I mean, I even have a couple of favorite lists, like, that I've embedded on my, like, on my website just to show, you know, I've got stuff from, like, every company I've worked at.
And in the tail end of what culture, Mikey got assigned to edit a bunch of my voiceovers, which, you know,
I think you're about to say the exact same videos I was about to say.
Yeah, and there were some really good ones.
Like he, well, I mean, they were all really good, but like there was like a two part one where we did like even more later, which was like horrible facts you wish you didn't know or something like that.
And it was stuff like how much percentage fecal matter is in office coffee mugs and, you know, like bull sharks can adapt to fresh water and swim up rivers.
and, you know, things like that.
And it was, it was very fun, very well animated.
Yeah, you're right.
That was like in the final month or so, like month or two,
when it was like, yeah, things are, we're leaving soon.
So I didn't shy away from spending days animating, you know,
like cats eating off human faces and going off in a rocket and stuff like that.
So I just went hog wild on it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've still got like a playlist of every what culture video I worked on.
Oh, have you? Wow.
Maybe he's one or two missing, but it's total's 105.
videos and yeah they're and those like offbeat kind of weird weird fact ones are up there
yeah a lot of fun geez i think i did a similar thing actually saving all the i think i stopped
after a while i'm looking at the i've still got the folder favorite i've saved the actual files
like the the render files um for a time and then again i sort of stopped after a while i only
saved the good ones after that when is it i'm still scrolling it's been scrolling for a long time
we're chatting about Destiny 2.
It's just,
it's, yeah, there's a lot.
Seven most insane attempts to create a super soldier
was the last one I bookmarked.
I think I stopped after a while
because it was just kind of pointless, really.
There's a weird thing with,
when What Culture Gaming got
a quarter of a million subscribers,
you'd only just started there,
but I think you'd only been like...
Yeah, hadn't been there that long.
Yeah.
We did a, a,
like a live action skit video
where we were trying to think of new show formats and stuff
and it opens with you sitting in the glass office
and I burst in.
I was going to mention this.
You're talking about the GIF?
In the meeting room.
Yeah.
So there's a GIF of me
bursting into a room and saying,
Ben, great news.
And for some reason,
well, I know the initial reason this happened.
There was someone, and I don't know his name,
and I don't know if he's an actual fan of us
or if it was like by chance.
I think he thinks he looks like me
and I suppose he probably does
and he for some reason recreated
the Ben Great News
like where from the same angle
he bursts in through a door
so there was a GIF made of me doing it
then there was a GIF of him doing the same thing
now I've found a third GIF
of someone who has just copied me
coming into a room saying great news
it's really weird
I have to try and
maybe I'll put them in the thread
but yeah it's a strange one i do remember that video though and i remember i remember that
gif doing the rounds it's a good it's a bloody good gift it's a good gift but yeah the gift that
keeps on giving when people are recreating it like that is it was a strange discovery i just found
what was absolutely my most um at least from the audience most hated edit i did oh the title is
what Game of Thrones characters
look like in the books.
So for this, I
had to reconstruct
representations of the characters
using royalty-free images
from the internet, which is bloody hard.
That's bullshit. What a terrible edit to be put on.
So I'll send an example of one of them.
I just kind of took the piss with it.
And you're about to see an example there.
Oh my God.
That video has 2 million
views, 11,000 likes and 10,000 dislikes.
That's brilliant, because they clicked on it thinking that, I bet the thumbnail was that
image that someone made of Tyrion with his nose cut off.
Yeah, absolutely that.
So they were expecting, like, fully accurate representation.
They got the Rainbow Man with Blue Hair.
Oh, okay, the comments actually seemed to kind of be in on the joke.
When I saw the title, I was pissed as I thought what culture have now really run out of original
content but now as I'm watching I cannot stop laughing at how much of a piss take this is
there we go what culture running out of original content was that like four years ago yeah
oh dear the 250k video was my 27th video according to the order I saved things and this this folder
I have has 567 videos in it wow which is more than one probably of each day I worked
there um impressive the
The video I think I'm most proud of that I did there was it was the review I did for Persona 5 when that came out.
I wrote and recorded and edited that one and I thought it was a really good video and it explained what the game was and people really liked it and I thought it was a great piece of reviewing content and I was very proud of that one.
I like that a lot.
Some actual journalism from what culture?
Yeah, and then it got shut down because reviews took too long to make.
Remember that, Peter?
Reviews were taking too much time away from recording, you know, lists.
So we had to stop them, and then they just became discussions,
and then I don't know what they eventually went on to do.
I'm sure I think they got a lot more leeway now than we did.
But, yeah, we were told to stop.
We had to fight to do them, and then we were told to stop.
Stop putting this much work into our content.
Yeah, pretty much. That's great.
What is that? What have you sent there?
Wait, let me see who that actually is.
I've gone off the video now. We have to guess who that is.
That's just...
Can you explain the constituent parts of that?
I don't... What's the name of the character at the top?
Dumbledore. That's it.
I'm about to say I don't want to Lord the Rings, but that's not right.
So Dumbledore with chainmail armor,
some gold rings around their arms holding an Ormack right.
jean shorts and short little stumpy legs.
At what point in Game of Thrones was there ever an automatic rifle?
I took some liberties with the script, all right, Peter?
Yeah, I guess so.
You did.
Very good stuff.
Oh, wow, look at it.
There are all the GIFs.
Yeah, look at them all.
Well, yeah, that guy does look a bit like you.
He does.
The second guy does look a bit like me, especially with low GIF quality.
That's so bizarre.
The third guy looks nothing like me, but for some.
some reason has also done his own version.
That is amazing.
Isn't it weird?
It's like early TikTok.
Yeah.
Everyone's just doing the same thing that you're doing.
How weird.
It's so strange.
They're all in the Twitter thread for those who want to see.
Oh.
I like the middle guy.
He's not walking through the door because it's his closet by looks of things.
Yeah.
It is.
It is a closet.
Oh, dear.
Very weird.
It's time for my thing.
Okay.
Do you boys know about Eam?
No?
You'll have to be more specific.
The village of Eam.
I do.
Too well, I know a bit about it.
I don't know the full story.
Well, you're not going to get it here, Peter.
Okay.
Because while I did try to find a more credible article,
the more credible articles, understandingly,
and yeah, understandably,
were really long and very long.
detailed and I couldn't be asked. So we turn to the next best citation very much needed source
that is Tumblr. Okay. Yes. Who's going to teach us all about the village of EIM spelled EYAM if people
want to look it up. So here we go. I keep, and this is written like someone who's on Tumblr,
so bear with me. I keep hate reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed
as it makes me, there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bitters
and I like to revisit it.
That's the story of the village of Eam.
Would you like to see the village of Eam's church?
Yes.
Absolutely.
Then you can imagine that you're there.
There's the church.
It looks like a church.
It's a lovely church.
Graves.
It's got toopuri.
It's a church.
I'm going to say topiary.
It's got two bushes.
It's got two bushes.
Eam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people.
It has barely grown since 1665 when it has been.
His population was around 800.
Where the story starts with Eam is that in August 1665,
the village Taylor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth
that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas.
A few days later on the 7th of September,
the Taylor's assistant George Vickers died from the plague.
Back then, people didn't fully understand how disease spread,
but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread
and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.
So, two religious leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Momperson, got together and came up with a...
You think something's funny?
No, sorry, sorry, no, not at all.
William Mompbell's in, Michael, that's his name.
His name is William Momperson.
Mr. Momperson.
Mr. Momperson.
And of course...
Son of William Mompah.
His male child would be William Momperson's son.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, sorry, sorry, I'll not interject.
Okay.
Thomas Stanley and William Momperson got together and came up with a plan.
They would put the entire village of Eam under quarantine,
and they did. For over a year, nobody went in and nobody went out.
They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar-filled basins
that people from out of town would leave food and supplies buy.
I'm scrolling past some photos.
Over the 14 months that Eam was in quarantine 260 out of the 8th,
100 residents died of plague. The death toll was high. The cost was great. However, they did
successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much
bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through
their sacrifice. So, I really like this story, because it's a sad story, but it's also a beautiful
story. Instead of fleeing everyone, instead of fleeing, there should be a comma, everyone in this one
place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others
and I guess it's one of those good stories
about how people have always been
people for better or worse.
Thanks, Tumblr.
Thank you, Tumblr.
It gets better.
Here's the thing.
One third of the residents of Eam
died during their quarantine,
but the Black Plague was known to have a 90% death rate.
As high as the toll was,
it wasn't as high as it should have been.
And a few hundred years later,
some historians and doctors got to wondering,
Why?
Here's why.
Fortunately, Eam is one of those wonderful places
that really hasn't changed much in hundreds of years.
Researchers going to visit
found that many of the current residents
were direct descendants of the plague survivors
from the 1600s.
So maybe William Momperson's son, son, son, son, son, son, son, son, son, son, son, son, and his sons.
By doing genetic testing, well done, Michael.
They learned that a high number of Eam residents
carried a gene that made them immune to the plague and still do.
And it gets even better than that.
Because the gene that blocks the Black Plague question mark
also turns out to block AIDS
and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication
for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.
Well, I did not know that. That's amazing.
And then it links to a documentary
and it says it's a little under an hour
and here's a lovely well-produced documentary
about Eam and its disease resistance.
But there we go.
I did know that there was like,
weird cases seemingly
like weird cases of resistance
to the plague in Eam
because I think
like the local
undertaker was
handling all these bodies and he never
even, I don't know if he never got plague but he certainly
didn't die of it and
there's another woman as well
who her
partner and I think
she had like five children or something who all
died of plague
in the space of like two weeks and she
didn't get slash die of plague and basically I think researchers say that it's very unlikely that
it's improbable that that that would happen so yeah absolutely insane yeah like 1600s the disinfecting
coins isolating could you imagine or you think this lockdown's boring being stuck in the english
village back then the hell do you do the only entertainment is just people dying of the plague
Put bets on who goes first.
There probably was some kind of
Deadpool, wasn't there, in that village?
Although if you think there's an
like an anti-masking movement,
anti-quarantine movement now,
can you imagine being stuck in that village
with people who didn't want to be there
who this concept was, you know,
for them, totally alien.
Yeah, they wouldn't even know
the reasoning behind it,
like not other than some kind of movement
of people makes the plague spread.
Like they wouldn't really.
understand why quarantine would help and all they know is they're locked in there with the plague yeah
that would be difficult to enforce i would imagine but they did it good people being good people
and they saved sheffield my uh sacrifice my family went to visit eam about a month or so ago i think
just just went for a little a little walk and uh showed some sent some photos to the family
WhatsApp so is that where you you take your 50 peas every christmas yeah we put them in the
Yeah. We actually quarantine. Before COVID was a thing, we've been like doing periodical, periodic quarantines because if you're putting coins up your butthole, there's a real germ problem with that. And you have to, you have to watch out with what you're doing there. You don't want a pound coin in your lower intestine. No. No, you don't. I don't want that at all. Well, there we are. That's my thing.
And it bears remembering as this lockdown
continues to drag on.
Yeah, it could be worse.
We could be we could be vinegaring our coins.
We could.
The only person who has to do that is your family, a person.
What was literacy levels like back then?
Because I'd love to read diaries.
It would like an insight into what Facebook would have been like back then.
yeah there's got to be some amazing graffiti somewhere
I might look into this more
I'm going to watch that documentary that sounds like a great time
you should I'll send you a link
thank you
that thing about the AIDS like resistance AIDS treatment is
amazing I had no idea that that was
sort of linked to him
that's why I say citation needed
is that really true
I don't know but the Tumblr said it
right final question
are you ready
yeah
This comes from Callum's story.
If you had to build a house entirely of cheese,
which cheeses would work best as building materials.
Oh, um,
probably a hard, waxy cheese.
Let's talk about Gouda, right?
Yeah, the Gouda times.
I think that'd make for good windows.
It's already got holes in it?
Gouders, no, which one is the holy cheese?
Oh, God, wait, have I fucked it.
Edam?
Edam.
I'm Googling now, Edam.
I'm looking at Edam without holes in.
Emmental?
Emmental.
Emental.
Definitely has holes in.
Emmental cheese, that, that's a fun house.
If we can get a big emmental and we can just live in the holes,
and maybe that will be a great start.
And maybe eat our way through to make some corridors.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I like it.
See, that's a good start.
It usually comes with some sort of wax or rind on it,
which I suspect is probably quite waterproof.
That's probably the whole point of the rind.
So, yeah, if we could just get a real,
big emmental with holes the size of small rooms then we'll live like ants yeah so we've got this
giant emmental that we live in is this going to be a problem for you mike you're okay to live in the
cheese house with us uh i'll i'll first for science and for you know just the thrill of living in a
cheese house i'm willing to put aside my my ethical beliefs i can put aside my my butthole belief
Lactose intolerance.
The thing is, we don't have to eat it.
We just have to be present in it.
Well, no, but what I'm saying is I can eat Emmetile
because it's very lacto-free
because it's very hard and mature.
Essentially, almost all of the lactose is broken down by the culture.
Brilliant.
No vinegar for this guy's coins.
No.
Emmental House, Peter, has what he wants.
Yeah.
Do as he pleases.
He's as he cheeses.
So we've got the giant Emmental house.
I like to imagine that if we are consuming bits of it,
we can sort of chew it into the shape.
And this will require maybe bespoke wax work,
but chew it into the shape of like a castle that we can all live in.
And then because people, I think, only pretend to like it
because it's the only explanation.
You've got some really stinky blue cheese out the front.
to sort of ward off potential cheese invaders.
When I was little, we used to go to the local market on like a Wednesday
and buy, you know, green grocery and cheese and biscuits and things.
And the cheese man used to tell me at age seven that blue cheese was blue because it had dead flies in it.
Oh, I didn't want to eat the dead fly cheese.
That's one way to make sure, like,
The customer never bothers buying your product, isn't it?
Yeah, I know.
Sounds true, though, doesn't it?
Yeah, looked like it.
What else could we have?
We've got a castle made of Emmenthal.
Mozrella beanbags.
Mozilla beanbags is a great idea.
Could we have a nice raclette moat, like a liquid cheese moat.
Can we contact the cheese fountain guy?
Yeah.
To maybe put that together for us.
We need a draw.
bridge as well, I guess just more emmental or just whatever's heart, really structurally sound.
Maybe a piece of mature cheddar, but the mature cheddar is quite crumbly, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
So maybe some juvenile cheddar.
Yes, and you could lower it.
So if it came down from like the portcullis over the moat, you could use two cheese strings to dangle it down.
Oh, cheese strings, of course.
Yes, yes, absolutely.
and we could have baths and basins filled with the cheese that comes with derely dunkers.
We could, we could become ourselves, dunkers.
We could.
I want a Hulumi trampoline out back.
Yeah, Hulimi trampoline is good.
Squeaky.
Yeah.
I like the idea of that.
He's on the trampoline again, Jesus Christ.
What if we also, I mean, I know we're doubling down here, but we get the derely triangles.
I feel like that would make great.
Roof tiles.
roof tiles yes i was going to say if we take it out of its you know foil prison
we could quite easily use that to as a sort of mortar yeah to construct to construct some sort of
outside play area maybe i had a baby bells yeah mini baby bells we could yeah have um a baby bell car
like so it's got baby bell wheels what's the rest of the car made of michael cheese string axles
Cheese string. Oh my God. Cheese string axle. That floppy.
Yeah. You could fuel it with the strong, powerful gases released by Parmesan.
Oh.
Feet cheese.
Parmesan's another one I don't think I'd want near by the house.
No.
Smelly cheese. Smalley cheese indeed.
For some reason my head went straight to feta cheese for the body of the car.
Because, no, that's not. I was thinking in car crashes, you want the car car car.
crumble. I've just realized, no, you definitely
don't want the cart crumble.
Yeah, you want you to crumple, but not
crumble, I guess.
Do we have any cheeses that would crumple?
I'd probably be emmental, again.
It's very versatile cheese.
It is good, isn't it? Because it's got air pockets in it.
And it has, yeah, a little slot
where if you did crash and your head went,
oh, straight forward. It could just go
thunk straight into a little hole in the
cheese. Yeah.
Oh, we could wear, yeah, little
cheese hats out of it, couldn't we?
carves them out, bam, there you go.
Yeah. I'm going to email
Ford next
and see if they're, in fact, let me see
where the local Ford is and if I can
update their Google listing.
CC Dairy Lee into that email
please.
Yeah, I feel like
that's two companies that need to
talk to each other.
Unfortunately,
it doesn't
give me any
options to claim this business for
own unsurprisingly here. Yeah, I'm not allowed. I mean the next thing really is to come up with
the ideal ham house. Oh man. Well we need to get the meat products. We'll see what
are they called. I can't even remember what they're called now. No, I can't. I keep forgetting.
It's here we go. It's, well, GMBH is what it's is, yeah. Feldhoys, Fun Foods, GMBH.
we need to get them on the line
brand new
task for you guys
can we make a house out of your ham
and is it possible to mass produce it
because we could solve world hunger
and the
sort of homelessness crisis at the same time
you could get them to
print onto the ham
like blueprinted
like bits of
bits of ham
so like it's like a self-assembly house thing
so you get like all these different slices
with different shapes printed on
that you have to cut out
and then make your own house
out of all the different bits
it's like a Nintendo Labo
but with Ham
yeah
yeah it is
that's exactly what it is
the future is really opening up before us
isn't it I could pretend
I could pause as a producer
of grand designs and say I've got
someone who wants to go on the shore
or to make a meathouse
and try and, you know, talk them into it.
It's great, great, you know, promotion for your brand.
We'll settle on a ham shed if a house is not possible.
We can make this happen.
You think Kevin McLeod would be up for it?
I think so.
I mean, it'd be the most grand design of them all, wouldn't it?
It would.
It would.
Hammed designs.
Terrible.
Well, I think we've, I think we've cured it.
Yes.
Yes, we have.
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Yeah let's go
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Pumpy platoon is good.
Yeah?
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Fast.
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does anybody have a final question
before we say goodbye
what would you do with
you know like the thin American cheese
and your cheese house
I feel almost a shit like I was trying to think
of what we could do with it
find a use for that yeah
the answer is quite clearly
curtains
but we'll see what people
come back
Carpet.
I suppose.
Oh.
Actually, I haven't thought
about walking on cheese
and instantly I don't want
to live in this house now.
Awful.
Well, we're going to go now
with thoughts of cheese
cheese dreams
and cheesy floors.
Don't have nightmares.
Sweet dreams, everybody.
Sweet cheese, everyone.
No, night.
Bye.
Bye.
You know,
and a lot of
Oh,
and the
MOYA
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