Podiots - Podiots: Episode 98 - Purple Quality Street

Episode Date: April 12, 2022

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event. Conditions supply, visit your local Volvo retailer or go to explorevolvo.com. Summer's here, and you can now get almost anything you need for your sunny days, delivered with Uber Eats. What do we mean by almost? Well, you can't get a well-groom lawn delivered, but you can get a chicken parmesan delivered. A cabana? That's a no, but a banana, that's a yes. A nice tan, sorry, nope, but a box fan, happily yes. A day of sunshine, no. A box of fine wines? Yes. Uber Eats can definitely get you that. Get almost, almost anything delivered. delivered with Uber Eats. Order now. Alcohol and select markets. Product availability may vary by Regency app for details. Guys, I have a question for you. Ask your question. When you're walking down the street and you like see maybe some discarded, well, let's be honest, it's discarded food, right? But it's not in an open container. It's apparently in its packaging.

How tempted have you been to just sort of just fucking dive in and just like grab that, grab that bad boy off the street? I've been tempted. I mean, I wouldn't. I guess you mean not just in its packaging, but like closed. Like if I saw fast food, if I saw a perfectly good whole portion of medium fries in a bag on the street, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot barge pole. But, yeah, like closed stuff. I think I have done when I was perhaps a bit more reckless and younger.

I'm pretty sure I once picked up a starburst that was wrapped. It was just on a wall. It was like a red one. I was like, I'm not missing a red one. it does sound like I mean yeah that's like exactly what you're taught

at school not to do but it is sweets so how can it is sweet so yeah if it was a rat to tell you that it is sweet I wouldn't have taken it don't get into the unmarked van

unless it's a red starburst and then you know what all bets are off yeah fuck it it's worth it head first I only ask little boy I've got

puppies in here and I've got ice cream not interesting interested but look at these this is sweets this is you have the sweet well now now I'm now you should have said you should have said that single starburst count me in rapers on one one grubby starburst and mr Austin died in childhood he couldn't resist I only asked because I was walking down the street today actually and I saw something glittering up ahead And it looked, I was like, is that money?

And then I got closer and I asked myself, is that a quality street blowing in the wind? And it was. It was like a purple, you know the purple one? Wow. And I really thought about it. I really, I was so tempted, but I didn't do it because I am nearly 30. Yeah, very, very nearly 30. It did occur to me that maybe, maybe there were, I mean, there have been, like I've, I've picked

up a whole pack of cigarettes off the floor that have been run over and squished by a cup. Oh, no. That's pretty desperate. Sorry to say. You know what? That was six years ago. It wasn't even that long ago. Squished by a car.

I remember trying to smoke them. And they're all snapped and rubbish. They're just these floppy, leafy cigarettes. But they were free. So, you know. Deering me. What about you, Mike? Mikey, have you ever gone for some floor foraging?

Not recently. I'm quite, I think with food, for some reason, I'm quite an anxious eater in the sense that, like, if anything's even, like, a little bit off, I'm not going near that thing. I'm like that, I think I would have been tempted by the purple quality street, because I don't know why,

but I trust the quality street rappers. They're quite sturdy and, like, yeah, I don't think nothing's getting in that. Mikey wants to brought a cat home that had been squashed by a car on the street. Hey, we want a cat. I'll have that one. Here we go.

I did once find a full box of cigarettes, non-runover, as a small child, which is great fun. Wow. Did you enjoy them? I instantly handed over the moment to my friend's lamp. There's drugs on the floor. Someone's been drugging. The naughty death sticks. I gave it to my friend's mom, and she was, over the moon.

Oh, I bet. My friend just looked at me and shook his head, like, oh, Mikey. The one consolation, Ben, from the fact that, you know, you were a big boy and didn't pick up the quality street blowing in the wind is that it did give you the poetic phrase quality street blowing in the wind yeah sounds quite profound i think i don't know what it means but there's something there only a real poet could come up with that my mind would be racing in that moment i'd think right who's who's hiding in a bush with a camera waiting to record me is it attached to a fishing rod am i on a prank show is barney from prank patrol going to hop out with his ninjas

Yeah, that would be my first thought Maybe wait until they get to save distance and then grab it Absolutely But you know I mean the real benefit there is meeting Barney And the ninjas I've definitely said before Probably twice on the podcast

About the time I ate the gingerbread man From a Halford's car park Yes, I remember I remember being really proud of you And also a little bit jealous Yeah Because I was really really really drunk Well I was almost post drunk

Because I've been being sick since 11pm and it was like 3am at someone else is 21st and there it was and he was like I want you to eat when you get in I said I'm not going to eat and he says well you're going to eat this gingerbread man we've just found then oh I thought that you're saying the gingerbread man said that yes I want you to eat I want you to eat me yeah wow well I suppose we should uh you know do that do that thing yeah I suppose so let's do it Hello everybody and welcome to Poddy. It's the official video.

Podcast. It's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law. Oh my goodness of the burps. Of the three. It's because you just ate that quality street, isn't it? You know what I lied. I did eat the quality street.

And I am well. We obey the law of the third. three uhs where everybody brings a thing along to talk about i'm ben i'm peter and i'm michael hi guys how are we doing generally all three of us i know from having spoken to both of you and worked with one of you all day all three of us are very tired and feeling a bit out of whack um so it's going to be a top class episode i think so i think the energy is going to be here Maybe like the delirium will kick in and that's when a real magic happens. Yeah.

I'm a big proponent, at least personally, like all my best shit happens when I'm sleep deprived. Every video's merch had, every bit of like every stream asset has been made like four in the morning when I'm just just literally throwing stuff on a canvas and going, yeah, that's great. I love that. And that's when it gets unhinged and great. Yeah. It's when all the best video stuff was edited by Michael. Yeah. When I got myself locked in the office and stayed overnight.

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and be recording a pottyets in the flesh. We will announce it on social media but if you wanted to mark such an occasion by being featured on Pod Squad, pay attention to our social media. That is what I'll say. Michael Johnson, are you the question boy this week? I am indeed question master for today. Could I tickle your fancy where the question says?

No, you can tickle my fancy however you like, Mikey. We start with a question from always an adventure podcast at AAA underscore Alex Sam on the Twitters. And they say, or they ask, Given that energy costs are soaring, what revolutionary, self-sustaining power generation method would you come up with? So this is relatable. This is for the people.

This is a benefit of the nation. We're here today to solve a crisis. How the hell do we do this? I had the brainwave. I'm going to call it a brainwave because it is fucking genius. Candles, right? Problem with them is, you know, the wax. has nowhere to go. So I propose you make a little candle, but at the bottom of the stand. It's

got little holes in it for the wax to drip through. And you've got an extra long wick that carries on down the tube. And so as you burn the candle, the wax melts and goes down and essentially forms a new candle. And it repeats time and time again. And therefore, just for the prices of a wick, you've got unlimited candle. Yeah, that's how it works. Yeah, that's exactly how it works. Are you going to tell him or am I, Peter? That's exactly how it works. Yeah. No, I don't dispute that. You might want to literally Google that word for word and see if such a thing already exists. Wait, wait, that's a lot of words. I don't Google this. Endless candle.

Just like a reversible. I'm fairly certain that you can get those. They don't last forever, obviously. Wait, what? You can? What? That already exists. This is what the fuck? Yeah. What? Yeah. Oh, why are we using them then? This is ridiculous.

I don't know, my God. I don't know. The answer's been on the shelves for years. The world needs to hear about these. Why is no one talking about this? Look at the picture. It works perfectly. Look, it's a whole new candle.

It's exactly the same amount of wax. You get like 50. You get like 50 of those bad boys. Stick it around you, your water tank. Bam, you're sorted. Just for the price of like a new Bick lighter every week. You sorted. Yeah.

Yeah. I think it's a great idea, Michael, and more people need to hear about this candle. I'm right. I like that you came up with that as an invention all by yourself, thinking it was like genius, which it is. It is, but it already exists. It is genius. Guys, I've had an idea, and then it just describes the product that already exists. I mean, that's the mark of a good idea.

If it's already on the market, I mean, it's just shame I got there late, but maybe I'll rebrand it a bit. It could do with a, you know, a bit of revamper. I've got this crazy idea for a rectangle that can hold loads of music and you can listen to it anywhere. Whoa. How's it all fit in there? I don't know.

I haven't word that out yet. That's for the scientists. Well, I guess music's just like sound waves. It's just sand waves in a box in it. Sound waves are very big. If you play the sounds at the rectangle, maybe they'll just sort of, it'll absorb it. Like a sponge, if you just put music in it

and squeeze it, it'll play the music back at you, right? All at once, yeah. I've got an idea for this button, just a big red button on a panel that when you press it everyone who exists and everyone who will it ever exist just lives in like perfect happiness and bliss and like all the problems in the world get solved I also haven't worked out how it works

that's for the scientists but that's my idea yeah just the fix it button yeah it sounds like a hellscape actually yeah it does doesn't it a world where everyone is happy all the time we'll just evolve into the mouse the mouse scenario won't we we're going to start eating each other and beating each other up. Yeah. Got a level with you guys.

I sort of tuned out when Michael was reading the question, and I've desperately been trying to reverse engineer what the question is from your answers. Right. I'm not going to tell you, yeah. I can't do it. Okay, well, if I give my answer, my answer would be like maybe just a donkey with a stick on its head

and there's a carrot just dangling in. front and then you just tie you know like a like a dynamo or whatever it is to its back pretty sure that would that would also just go forever wouldn't it I think yeah I think so don'tkeys do go forever yeah yeah hardy little things aren't they I don't know why no one thought of that like I've seen cartoons where that happens but no one's bothered to give it a go in real life so yeah that's why that's what I'm gonna do well maybe wait well what if you could attach like a motor to an office chair and you power your laptop by spinning around on the chair at all times. So it's like it's foot powered. So I guess it's just not totally, totally, you know,

foolproof because you've got to fuel yourself to fuel the laptop. But you have like a little laptop stand built into the chair. So you just constantly kind of spinning around a little bit. That'll be fun. Yeah. Yeah. I'm full of good ideas today. So this is an energy crisis thing, right? It is. Well done. Well done. Well done. It was only a after you talked about your fix-everything button, Peter, I thought that was your answer to the question. Right. And then I thought, oh, I've got really got the wrong end of this.

No, I was just talking about inventions that, you know, it's for the scientists to work out. Yeah, that is. Yeah, they'll sort that out. They'll get right on that. They've got nothing else going on. How about, I mean, we'll just, I'll just get this one out of the way. It's long-hanging fruit. No one else has said it.

We just sort of strap some sort of methane converter to Mike Johnson and laugh and And now my real suggestion, which is maybe we thoroughly invest in mutual alternatives and lower them farty cow herd stocks. Or maybe, just maybe, we start taxing corporations properly and then they lower their emissions output because as much as, you know, we are all guilted into turning off light switches, not that we shouldn't when we leave a room. our carbon footprint is absolutely nothing and will never be comparable to big corporations and quite frankly that's bullshit so you know maybe it's on them to fix it maybe it's not on us

maybe those planes with no passengers on have to keep flying without anyone on it just to reserve airspace right Ben that's yes yeah I mean that's only reasonable because the billionaires and the economy and so on take your TV off standby mode right that's important that tiny LED you just killed a fucking frog in the rainforest you piece of shit

sure for that that frog died. Its name was Froderick. Froggerich. Yeah, and it had a wife and children, or a husband and children. Or a husband.

It adopted frog children from another family that Michael killed. Yeah, those kids were also from a dead frog family. And they're just being passed from one parent to the next. The saddest frog babies are just

these two sad tadpoles with bundles on their backs. This is the biggest crisis in the world right now. Yeah. We ask if we all take it seriously. Okay, please. There is a, I've got an idea that combines both of your answers, Ben, which is we can do some, we can genuinely do something right by the planet in that we could

perhaps attach methane extractors to the asses of cows, maybe. Yes. Oh, there you go. Just get them all wearing big cow nappies, like big sort of iron lung. Whatever the opposite of an iron lung is, stick it to a cow's ass. And, you know, you have some tanks that you feed all the methane to. And then you do whatever it is that you do. Burn it.

Because that's good for the planet, isn't it? Burning methane. Yeah. Makes it disappear, right? Yeah. I think that's good. I think that works. Got an even better one for you.

Seven jumpers. Seven jumpers. Everyone wears seven jumpers. Yeah, whatever it's called, just put on seven jumpers. It's got me seven. What about your extremities? What about when you need to clean your... Seven gloves.

Fourteen gloves. You put more gloves on to wash. That's what you're suggesting. That's the answer. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. No.

Yeah. I'm not sure. I'm asking you, you're the scientist, question mark. I think we just don't worry about being stinky. Well, true. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you all just learn to accept each other smiles,

we won't need a shower anymore. Bam. instant saving there, no more hot water. And if you wear enough jumpers, the smell won't get through. Yes. Yeah, if you make your base layer of bin bag. More jumpers. We just get bigger and bigger.

Or, you know, we could just stop caring because there's nothing that we can do. Right? Accept off it. Just accept it because the people who can affect real change aren't going to do anything. Yeah. Not until they've made all their money

that they can spend in a desolate hellscape of a planet. Yeah, absolutely. You know, they'll be fine. We won't. But they'll be fine. Yeah. But of course, you know, make sure you turn off the standby button on your TV, please. Yeah.

Yeah. All those frogs will die. Is you awful them frogs? You did that to them. You did that to Frederick. How dare you? Well, I think we've raised some truly innovative, individual, unique, spectacular solutions there to the climate problem.

And, well, the question was energy bills, but we've really just gone above and beyond on that. So, well done. Well done. One and all. Thank you. Would anybody like to present their thing? sure why not

I've had a little mini thing for a while I mean it's not always the size it's what you do with it but I have been wanting to bring this along for a while and I thought it's not really it won't feel enough of a thing thing

my little thing won't fill enough of a slot is what I'm saying but I've got a little this sort of leads into a slightly larger thing that I have since discovered on the internet. So this is from smartcitiesdive.com written by Donnelly underscore B and it's called riding an escalator for the first time.

This is nothing to do with the YouTube videos you may have seen where some people in, is it Cameroon? Hang on, we have to check this now. Yes. In Cameroon, a shopping mall was opened and there are videos of people in Cameroon going on an escalator for the first time

as fully grown adults and sort of falling and stuff and it's all very slapstick, funny, I'm sure. Fair play of them, though. Imagine seeing one of them for the first time. Like, what the hell is this is a little toothed beast in front of me? But no, this is nothing to do with that. This is literally the first escalator. So on Wednesday, November the 16th, 1898,

Harrod's department store in London opened up the first escalator or moving staircase as it was called in England, the first one in England. The first escalator-like machine in the world had actually been patented many decades before in the US, but this was the first real application in England and likely one of the first in the world.

At the end of the 1800s, this was a big deal. Victorian England had never seen or experienced anything like this before and people were genuinely concerned about its use. More specifically, People worried what such a rapid change in elevation would do to the body. It was believed that it could discombobulate your inner workings. People were unnerved.

Which is why, when it was first introduced at Harrods, people were offered brandy and other substances at the top of the escalator in order to revive them after their ordeal. Oh, wow. Riding an escalator was no... I'm pretty sure you can run upstairs quicker than an escalator. I know. You could run up... Oh, you know, run up a hill.

but no, you need some brandy after your ordeal. I like as well the fact that even the people in charge of this escalator are saying, yeah yeah, this is like a bad move you shouldn't do this. If you're going to go up our escalator, we'll give you brandy at the top. But anyway,

here it is. We've installed it. We've switched it on. Up you come. So it says riding an escalator was no small feat for these people. Now to us today, this sounds ludicrous. Most of probably ride a few escalators a day, it says.

They're ubiquitous, it says. But I tell this story because I think it clearly underlines how disruptive the new and unknown can feel and how difficult it can be for us to accept sometimes. The article continues but mainly I just liked the idea of people being offered brandy

at the top of an escalator and thought that's like a Pollyett's thing but that's kind of it. So I was like, okay. And then I got thinking, though, about, well, there are lots of other things in history, aren't there, that when new technologies were introduced and, you know, people were worried about what it was going to do. I think I couldn't necessarily find a specific reference to this,

but we've probably all heard that I think some of the first passenger trains or like the first passenger trains to go at a certain speed, fences were put up on either side of the tracks so that people watching wouldn't see like the dead people inside the train going past them on the. off chance that people ended up dying I've certainly heard that before or like the windows are blacked out or something

but I since found this which is very interesting this is from atlas obscura.com it's written by Joseph Hayes and the article is called the Victorian belief that a train ride could cause

instant insanity railway madmen were thought to be activated by the sounds and motion of train travel so here we go January 1865 The peace on a regular English train journey From Carnforth to Liverpool

Is shattered by one man's deranged laughter And erratic antics Armed with a gun And attacking the windows To get to the other increasingly frightened passengers He seems out of control At the next train stop in Lancaster The man suddenly becomes calm

And serenity is returned But as the train begins to roll again his aggression returns. I don't know why this man wasn't taken off the train at Lancaster. He's calm down now. He can stay on.

He's a good train. Yeah, he's got his brandies. Yeah. He said his brandy, indeed. The motion of the train becomes the only means to gauge the man's behavior. His mood changes from one stop to the next,

twisting and turning with the carriage. The railway passenger prancing around with a pistol was by no means the strangest case of, quote, railway madness, reported during the Victorian era in Britain. There seemed to be something about the railways that made people, particularly men,

suffer mental anguish and unrest. As the railway grew more popular in the 1850s and 1860s, trains allowed travellers to move about with unprecedented speed and efficiency, cutting the length and time of travel drastically. But according to more fearful Victorians, these technological achievements came at considerable cost of mental health. as Edwin Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller wrote in the invisible plague

the rise of mental illness from 1750 to present trains were believed to injure the brain in particular the jarring motion of the train was alleged to unhinge the mind and either drive sane people mad or trigger violent outbursts from a latent lunatic mixed with the noise of the train car it could it was believed shatter nerve

In the 1860s and 70s, reports began emerging of bizarre passenger behaviour on the railways. When seemingly sedate people, boarded trains, they suddenly began behaving in socially unacceptable ways. One Scottish aristocrat, or aristocrat, if you want to get British about this, was reported to have ditched his clothes aboard a train before leaning out of the window, ranting and raving. After he left the train, he suddenly recovered his composure. regarding the specific type of mental condition believed to have been caused by the trains Professor Amy Milne Smith, a cultural historian at Wilfrid Laurier University, notes that

Railway Madmen would have all likely been seen to be suffering mania. Medical journals at the time were very concerned about how Railway Mad Men could be detected and when their madness could be detected when their madness might lie latent. So people were worried they were just stealth madmen. Men would be unlocked. Yeah. People would seemingly, quote, unquote, normal, you know, in probably in those terms of, terms of the day, people who would just suddenly crack on the train. You jump on a trip, like a rickety old train, you get wobbly head syndrome.

Yeah. Just like something in you. Wow. Not all goings on in the first and second class carriages involved eccentric rambling in the nude. Vicious attacks with knives and other weapons that could result in death, were. reported as well. The trains themselves were considered to be ridden with perilous conditions that endangered passengers. Confined carriages were locked for privacy reasons, meaning people were at risk of being trapped in small rooms with lunatics who were ready to snap at any minute. The lack of

suitable onboard communications meant that if attacked by such a person, you couldn't easily call for help. The media did its part to whip up a frenzy of a railway madness, one 1864 story starkly titled, A Mad Man in a Railway Carriage, gleefully related how a burly sailor became incensed, flailing around in an erratic manner, first trying to climb out of the window, and then swearing and shouting at the other occupants of the carriage and struggling with everyone. A superhuman strength gripped this aggressor, and four people were required to restrain him, and he had to be bound to a seat. The conflict was not over yet, though. When the sailor was released, he charged viciously at those who'd restrained him,

and accusing them of stealing from him, it took railway officials and finally the police to subdue and arrest the sailor. The problem of railway bandists did not just refer to those driven insane by the process of the journey. Another concern at the time was that the railway provided a swift and convenient getaway

for patients who had escaped from the various mental health institutions throughout Great Britain. In 1845, Punch magazine published a cartoon showing train tracks leading to an asylum. The logistics of the railways dotted around the countryside meant that a, quote, mental patient could evade the staff and hop on the next train to freedom.

Stories of maniacs and terror on the tracks terrified many and delighted others. So the article sort of continues for a while, but yeah, I just thought that was like, I've never heard of this, but apparently there was this whole fear that like gripped late sort of 19th century Britain that not only were trains driving people mad but also that oh there might be loads of scary you know mental health patients out there who have escaped and hopped on a train

and you know zipped away but this you know I've never heard this at all I suppose it's the same. Have you seen the propaganda about when the electricity lines were first people? being installed and like everything dying around it. Yes, there's like drawings of, yeah, dead stuff. Death, the death wires.

Yeah. That's crazy. People are just resistant to change, I guess, and, you know, technophobic to an extent. I think, I don't know, I think it's still got, it's got, it still stands today. You've seen the, uh, the get off the metro now, you know, right? Yeah. Still happens today. I feel like every time I've had like a violent encounter, it's been on a train or a metro.

Like, personally, that's it's, it's, it does. seem to have some weird energy around it where I've been threatened to sometimes. Yeah. Maybe it's just

crappy public transport this just makes people angry. It could be that. Yeah, the only place I've ever been like threatened to be kicked in was on a metro.

Oh my gosh. What a treat. Oh, wow. Fantastic. There you go. Thank you for that, Peter. Be careful next time you're on a,

you know, a virgin rail train. anything could happen you could go mad mental mental absolutely mental thank you very much Peter

would you all like another question yes please yes please let's go for Darius Owen Canning at Darius Canning on Twitter

nice one here would you rather be a man in black or a ghostbuster I've got limited knowledge of both franchises But Yeah me too actually I'd rather be a man in black

I think Because they get cool weapons They don't have to deal with the paranormal And they hang out with aliens And they know all this cool state secrets And they get to white people's brains When they do bad stuff Which seems to be quite often

So I could pick up a purple quality street off the floor Anyone who's around And that's it They forgot everything And Will Smith renowned hitter of Chris Rock get to write a kick-ass theme song for you

and then it's remixed by Neil Cicerega into one of the greatest works of music at my bees yeah bees bees oh wow I didn't realize that was that's the that's the men in black theme song what's it stands for bees

oh shit of course it is yeah wow wow yeah but he somehow manages to get the word bees out of wiki wiki wiki wawa west as well in the following album he'll still say bees in that one too because the bees cannot be found what is the name of the Neil Sissariga

remix please Peter for people to look up for the line is it just MIB's what is it? I think that one's called Vivid Memories Turn to Fantasies I think that's the whole name of the song but the YouTube that In fact I'll stick it in the thread right now Okay I think that's what it's called

I might just be called like vivid memories That whole trilogy of of albums god if you've never listened to it before listen to mouth moods mouth sounds and mouth silence I think it's the last one there's mouth dreams as well

have you heard the fourth one excuse me there's a fourth one what mouth dreams what's that stand for bees so good wow I didn't hear about mouth dreams

I'm a whoa okay I'm listening to that straight after this wow that's in the thread now on Twitter if people want to go listen to it's just a mysterious bitly link that no one's going to click on

there's also you should definitely also listen to wow wow which is the wild wild west one when you walk into the wow wow wow oh it's great it's so silly in distress oh god's in my head now I think yeah I'm going to I'm going to

err on the side of men in black because I mean talking pug as well that's pretty lit a little suit yeah it's true yeah it does it does not so yes of course yeah sorry go ahead no no you go first I was going to say you get to hang out with

Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Earl Tom oh Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy Joe Tomy Tim Beade Tomby Jones Jones Jones

Mr Jones Tommy Lee Tommy Lee Tommy James Earl Jones Tommy James Earl Jones Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones I wanted

because I was feeling Earl as well I was like why's Why do we both come up with Earl when it's Tommy Lee Jones? It's Darth Vader, that's what we're thinking of. James Lee Jones, that's the guy. James Lee, Tom, Tom. Yes. Yeah, I think it's got to be men in black

because it's a far more glamorous job. It's probably more dangerous than, I don't know. I mean, I'm not that familiar with Ghostbusters, so maybe that's just as life-threatening. But, yeah, it's probably worth it for all the cool guns and cars and tech. I feel like, yeah, Ghostbusters is like the homebrew operation and Blacks. The government funded, like money's not an issue, have whatever you want. But saying that, I would very much like to drive around the hearse.

The modified ghostbusters would be pretty lit. But beyond that, I don't know, you just, you look at them. They weren't jumpsuits, man. How can I respect a man in a jump suit? Yeah. You've got to be in a suit. Absolutely. So smart.

I'm just looking at pictures of Ghostbuses now. Oh, cute, aren't they? theme song note ghost busters must say true busting makes me feel good another nil sister is a good busting busting busting busting busting it's great uh yeah i think i think ghostbusters have heart and soul but men in black have money and i know where i'm going to go yes absolutely do you mind if i do my thing oh absolutely please ben you do mind I've mined a lot, actually. Michael, I don't know if you've seen my tweet from last night.

Oh, my God, banger, yes. Did you see it? Yes, so good. Okay, so I've got to recount this story. I was kind of hoping you hadn't seen it so I could get your real-time reaction to it, but that's fine. But there is a second half to it that I, that has been kept from me, from me and Mikey, yeah.

So I will play the, I'll play the audio over the microphone as well when we, when it comes. But last night, because at the time, time of recording, it's Peter's birthday this week. And we had a little office gathering to celebrate Peter's birthday. And we went to Lane 7 in Newcastle and had a lovely time. And on my way back afterwards, I got in the Uber and the guy who was picking me up had a five-star rating and I thought, okay, well, I mean, it'll be a good ride. He's probably really polite.

Maybe he has some charging cables, might offer me a breath mint or something. Didn't think anything more of it. Got in and he was very nice and he asked me lots of questions. you know what have you been up to this evening um so i've been out for for my friend's 30th like oh 30 i'm turning 40 next month and like oh i'm turning 30 next month and we bonded over that and i was very charming and i said well you don't like a day over 30 and he went what and that was cool and that not all and then he asked me what kind of music i like oh and i thought well this is interesting and i said well i've i don't know this is like a five-minute

journey, by the way, back to my house. Rock music, I suppose. I was like, okay, I like some rock. I have my favorites. And then on the dashboard of his car, he had like, there's a little sort of dial thing in the middle, but they were clipped to almost the air vents on the dashboard. There were two little screens either side of this little circley thing that he had there. And he started scrolling, like, there was impossibly small text.

He started just like swiping up, like all the way through these thousands of songs he's got there. He goes, I like this, and he starts playing Rage Against the Machine, killing in the Name Off. And I was like, okay, I'll nod politely along to this. This is accommodating. Thank you so much. He gets maybe five seconds in, taps like a load of buttons on one of the small screens, and just it goes, and he plays an air horn sound effect in the middle of killing in the name of. And I was like, what is happening?

So I took out my phone and started recording, at which point. is when I got this recording, which I will play now for people who haven't checked Twitter. But this is, here we go. So, sorry, Ben, I think me and Peter just, I was just going to politely Did it just cut out on Discord? Yeah, it cancelled it for us It recorded on my microphone

I wasn't going to say anything But sure, yeah I didn't hear a sound But You guys have seen the video You know So he smashes that air horn And I start laughing

Then he presses another button And disco lights come on in the car And they're like projected All over the ceiling And I couldn't believe What was going on He then swipes a few more things On his dashboard

And he starts going He starts like scratching on the disc and it's it's the again I just do not know how to react to what is happening he then drives me the remaining minute to my to my flat and then as he gets nearby he then presses one like one after the other several different sound effects one which is like the please fasten your seat belts you're in an airplane noise just goes And then he plays a sound effect, which is him saying, like in an Eastern European accent, thank you so much for riding with Pavel today.

I hope you've had a pleasant ride. And then another, bing, please wait until the vehicle is stopped before you get out and have a, and he goes, p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p pbent evening. And then he stopped and let me out. And it was, I didn't know what to say. I just said thank you for the most amazing Uber ride of my entire life and then I raked him five stars

and I dipped him two pounds That is spectacular I didn't realize it was a five minute journey He went all in There is a reason this man has a He's incredible There's a reason this man has a five star rating People were talking about in the office

This morning I think you'd like just gone out of the room or something And we were saying like Yeah, you know, it's insane. And people are saying, like, why, what on earth is he doing that for? And it's like, well, because there are that many Uber drivers out there. You can't just be, at this stage, you can't just be a nice person. You have to have, as you say, bottled water and sweets.

Charging cables. Red Starburst. That's not even Peter's Uber. He just saw it in there and got in. And charging cables and stuff. And even then, you know, those are, you get a fair few Ubers like that. So at this point, you have to outdo everyone else by being a DJ, I guess. So I can see why he does it.

He must get a lot of good ratings. Oh, yeah. It's a sure fire way to get tips. But that was my, it was, I'm still like, people were asking me questions in the morning. And I'm still processing it. I can't really believe that it actually happened. I was waiting ages for an Uber driver as well. Like I was told that there were no cars available a couple of times.

Yeah, there was some event had just finished. Like, we should have left when you did because 10 minutes later. Oh, it was in the arena. I saw people queuing in when I... When I was just never even at all. And the metro was absolutely packed. What are the chances of being connected to Pavel that evening? Indeed.

And I got it. Did you favourite him? Oh, can you do that? I think you can do that and you can like, it sort of tries to match you with him again, like with certain drivers again. Okay, I'll have a look in a second. If I can work out how to do that, I absolutely will because he was... I believe so. I might be making that up.

He was unbelievable, but he operates in the Newcastle area, so keep an eye out for Pavel. But that was, I'll link the, I'll put a link to the tweet in the link dump again so people can find it. But yeah, absolute insanity. At Vidiot's official, by the way, on Twitter, if you want to see there, the thread of things that we're talking about. Yes. And that's my thing. That's just incredible. That's like I would never recover from that taxi ride.

like every every taxi journey in future we're just pale in comparison I wish I had my boy back you're gonna be hunting him down forever if you ever if you ever do manage you get in a taxi room again like just say just take me around the city for like now

can you give all the hits all the classics please and I'm gonna film it I hope that's okay I've had you before you were amazing I will tip you I promise right let's see if I can find him do ask another question though Mikey in the meantime

uh let's go for a fun one Tommy the wank engine at Trigley Serriot T on Twitter, as if it came down to it, do you think you could win a fight against the common man or woman? Would Ben Speed help? Would Mikey whip out the skateboard and self-defense? Would Tiny Peter flip around like Yoda?

Yes. Let's just put yourselves in the scenario of a physical confrontation is imminent. What do you do? Do you think you could hold your own? Just against the average Brit, maybe, or... Yeah, just the most common average man. It's not, not someone particularly beefy, but... Yeah, just picture a Brit.

I don't know. I don't think I'd be very good in a fight, even with someone perhaps sub-part. I mean, I say that, to be fair, like... I didn't have... I didn't fight at school at all. had like fights with people and that's kind of partly where what I based my thing I was like well I've never fought people and I'm also not particularly strong especially like upper body

but that being said me and my brother used to fight all the time like and I don't just mean when we were like 10 I mean like we would just physically fight until we were like in our teens and just because as much as anything else it seemed to become just a bit of a habit like yeah we'd sort of go home we'd watch raven we'd have our tea and then we'd have a fight so it just became kind of part and parcel of a weekday evening so I've probably got more experience than I give myself credit for and he's quite tall as well I mean he might have been as tall then I don't know how I don't know at what point we stopped fighting each other

but he is now over six feet so maybe at one point I was fighting a six foot man or you know boy so maybe I'd be I'll probably do better than I think I would but I still don't think I'd win. Yeah. He's been too long since I fought anyone. These reviews of the Uber driver, Ben. Sorry. Oh, wow.

Yeah, he's got a profile and he's written about himself and everything. I didn't want to interject, but I have a lot more Pavel information than I realized I had. I couldn't fade at him, sadly. Didn't want to leave, big up DJ Pavel.

The best of regret I had, we love you. Spill, is the much, off spill. I want to know everything about this man. You want to know his, he's written about himself. Right. I can tell you he's got fun facts. Do you want to know fun facts about Pavel? Definitely. Please. Hang on, let me just hop back in. Trips. He was. Uber drivers could have profiles like this. Wow. We just never look at them. You just don't take the time to look. No. So his name is Pavel Henrique. If you see him take his ride. He's an Uber pro platinum. I like meeting good people with good vibes. He knows English, Spanish, Polish and German.

he's got a five-star rating he's been driving for three years fun fact I'm also a lumberjack with a license to work in the forest on scaffolds I am a passionate DJ and a certified dietician

paying high taxes for my Uber job every penny plus 25% input company tax I think critically constructively these are the funny facts so much to this guy

he's fascinating a dietitian and a lumberjack best taxi I've got in my life mate ha ha cheers amazing driver yeah there's just a there's just a lot like that thanks for a great trip didn't want to leave yeah it tons he's he's yeah he's a hero

I don't think I'll ever see him again which is the saddest part yeah well very sad fingers crossed one day oh what a man what a man what a man what a mighty good man are we talking about beating people up yeah yeah so let's just say someone was was approaching our friend paville with their fists and you've got a stand in to defend. Why are you clenching your fists?

I would have to stand in. Yeah, you're there. It's go time. This is it. Do you think you could take someone on? I mean, I'm a pretty big guy. I'd like to think I could de-escalate certain situations and I don't think I would ever want to fight someone with the objective of hurting them or winning. But certainly,

if it came to it but I mean there's some there's some fucking jacked up orange blokes walking around Newcastle right? Yeah. So you never fucking know but I think in some situations as long as it's not like a multi-person mugging I would like

to and again it's not something that I obsess or or you know fantasize about being this big strong boy beating up 20 people who are attacking me but I'd like to think that if it was a one-on-one situation I'd at least be able to maybe subdue someone

or like avoid a proper scrap that would be my goal in that situation yeah I reckon you'd do pretty good I did judo for one year

when I was 13 so I think I'll be okay I have you know I'm a green belt I was not even that so you got the skills when I

when I shave my head on the stream and looked in the mirror like the first thing I came in my head was like I looked like I could fight

this guy fucks this guy fights I think I'm I'm I think I'm I'm one of the least confrontational people on this planet in that I will avoid

any kind of any kind of unnecessary interaction if I if I can especially when it's someone aggressive I'll just put my head down and walk away

saying that I do off I really want to know how I'd hold up in a fight with no knowledge. I just think if there was like a sanctioned fight club that I could go to

just to have a go. I mean, these things almost definitely exist but I want no rules. Just meet up in a car park and beat someone for a bit and see what happens. I mean,

almost definitely I'll be on the floor in about 10 seconds. But beat someone up for a bit. Easy. Yeah. Why not? Easy. Bit of fun.

Bit of fun. I don't know. It's hard to say because I guess when you're in the moment, it's just like every caveman instinct kicks in and he just,

yeah. He's just like, oh, got a spark, got to make hurt. Yeah, absolutely. Maybe I'll, maybe, maybe I'll, my savers and boxing classes nearby, so it's an outlet for this desire of, could I beat someone up? Oh, thank you very much, boys. Thank you. Would you like to hear?

I would love to. It's a relatively girthy one, but it's a very good story. I think it's very much worth sharing. It's related to something, I think. I can pretty much safely say everyone has had an interaction with or at least is aware of it in their life. I'm talking about the good old sea monkeys.

Did either you ever have them as kids? I think so. Sorry, I thought you were going to say seamen, which was very good old jizz. Everyone's had an interaction at some point with jizz. Your own is jizz. I'll introduce you to jiz.

Yes, we had sea monkeys as children. Yes. underwhelming little creatures, right? Yeah, I'll go into the history of them and the wild story that it takes you on. But, yeah, sea monkeys. I don't know what I'm more to say about them. I guess I don't want to spoil anything in the story.

So let's just go on. So in 1957, by the way, this is this, oh God, what website is this from? Oh no, I need to give my sources. Mental floss. I heard this, is something like, if something gets brought up on podcast every once a while, but I found a really good write-up on mental floss of the whole

history. I'm kind of giving it an abridged version of it because it goes even deeper than what I'm what I'm sharing here. Okay. So in 1957, a man named Harold von Braunhut walked into a pet store and noticed a bucket filled with brine shrimp, scientifically known as Artemia Salina. And after some research, he discovered that they have some fascinating biological traits. It can exist in a state of suspended animation known as cryptobiosis where living organisms shut down their metabolic processes in the absence of water, essentially making them very, very hardy, can dry up and then be brought back to life with a simple drop of water. It's quite magical. They can survive for years in their protective casing in the event of a lake drying up. But when you add water, their protective shells hatch

revealing a translucent creature born with only one eye they develop two more upon reaching maturity and can breathe out of their feet which I think is a little fact the males have tiny little whiskers

under their chin and females can self-fertilize eggs so most people the shrimp was simply just fish food but to Von Braunhut they were a way to capture the imagination of children by selling what he termed

a quote unquote bowl full of happiness which sounds more like the tagline to a bowl of cereal to a few months, which is quite a gross thought. Delicious brine shrimp eggs. A bowl of cereal, a bowl full of happiness, delicious. If he could send the dehydrated eggs in the mail

then have them come to life in water using his secret nutrient formula, he was certain kids would be amazed. But why did von Braunhut consider the secret world of shrimp so appealing? Maybe because he had a tendency to see the magic in the world. as it's got this

like a kind of crappy daytime TV documentary Van Braunhead only saw the magic in the world As a teenager he performed illusions as the amazing telepo After dropping out of Columbia University

he became a talent manager for acts like Joseph Duninger A famous mentalist and Henry Lamoth who spent decades jumping from a platform 40 feet in the air and landing in a kiddie pool as shallow as 12 inches

without killing himself, it clarifies. Just good. Made a career of not killing himself. In other words, Von Braunhut knew a good act when he saw one. Kids at that time were already fascinated by Ant Farms, and von Braunhut

thought the Aeselina could be a brine gold mine. He spent years working in a barn on his property, assembling a mail order package that consisted of one packet of one packet to condition tap water, one packet of nutrients, including yeast and algae, and one packet of the shrimp eggs themselves. Owing to their

amazing ability to emerge from something that looked like Kool-Aid powder, von Braunhutt dubbed his product, instant life and began approaching retailers in the early 60s with what he thought was a guaranteed hit. Sadly, it wasn't, because there was already something called instant fish. No. Oh, no. That idea came from a Whamo, the toy company, responsible for the hula hoop, and had a very similar premise, only they were using a different sea creature for their instant life. But then von Braunhardt had another idea.

Instead of trying to convince executives, his shrimpies, it says here, is shrimpies a word? I've read this three times. I've never clocked the word shrimpies. What's wrong, Ronald Coon? My shrimp is. My shrimpies. He, instead of trying to convince executives, his shrimpies would be lucrative,

he decided to aim his pitch directly at his target audience, impressionable children. Yeah, fucking idiots. Yeah, idiots. In 1962, taking out an ad in a comic book was an inexpensive way of getting your message out there in comparison to television commercials that major toy companies were using to advertise their goods. Von Braunhut went on an ad-buying spree, grabbing space and everything from Batman to Archie to romance titles. He didn't discriminate, at least not with the comics. That'll come back later.

Oh, okay. And made his appeal to as many young readers as he could, using the time-tested method of selling straight up crap to kids. According to von Braunhut, who wrote the Sea Monkey ads and the 32-page handbook that came with the kit, His little creatures were capable of all kinds of incredible things that were not all scientifically sound. He said they could be hypnotized.

Brian Schimp would follow light around, but it's not exactly hypnosis. They'd obey commands. Aside from following lights, sea monkeys have as much regard for instructions as cats. They pretty much do what they want. And dance. And they seem to like music. So, yeah, whatever. We'll go with that one.

And that's not all. That's not all. Shrimpies. The shrewpies haven't been delivered yet. Your Brian will be with you in seven days. Von Braunhut even said his sea monkeys could play baseball, race on a speedway kit, and rise from the dead. Which, I mean, that last one is. It's kind of true.

Not technically, but close enough. I'll give him that one. Von Braunhut later said the sea monkey ads appeared in 303 million copies of comics. annually. It says here that number is probably an exaggeration, but with popular comics selling hundreds of thousands of copies a month, he had plenty of prospective buyers. He began getting five, he began getting five sacks of mail every day from customers who were now shelling out one dollar for this secret society of shrimp. In the meantime, von Braunhert had become a mail-order mogul using a carnival barker approach to market an entire array of novelties. There were

x-ray specs which promised to let the wear a see-through clothing young voyeurs were disappointed found out there were really just glasses stuffed with bird feathers which oh that is that is a scam artist right there yeah that's terrible i really actually want to find a four of these old x-ray specs don't see exactly what that looks like oh it's just a band i love the complete lack of advertising standards that he could just say hey buy sea monkeys they can dance and he can just make up You can play baseball. It could go on a speedway. Yeah, I think this used to be like, well, I think it's still a thing to an extent,

but definitely back then it was just kind of like, you just sat, you just advertise whatever the hell you want. And for the sake of a dollar, no one's going to come chase you down for it. It's just easy money. Yeah. But then he didn't leave it just X-ray specs. He also had aqua specs, which promised to let you see right into water, eliminating glare.

The trick, it was just tinted lenses. So, I mean, technically worked, but not quite amazing. And then there were hypno specs, which promised to put people under your control, but the spinning spirals on the lenses were more distracting than hypnotic. And he also, this is my favourite of the list, he also marketed crazy crabs, which were nothing more than a hermit crab shipped in a box. Wow, that is crazy.

That's harrowing. God. Sounds like the fish I ordered during quarantine. Gee, I'm just picturing this man in his shed surrounded by glasses, brine shrimp and hermit crabs shoving them in boxes, God. Oh, Jesus. But von Braunhood's real triumph,

meaning the one thing that should have gotten him sued but didn't was invisible goldfish, a kit that guaranteed a breed of fish you'd never be able to see. Kids who sent away for it got a fish bowl, some seaweed and fish food, but no fish. that was it's kind of like pet rock to the nth degrees you want nothing here you go but none of it resonated quite like sea monkeys

which got another boost in the early 70s when a comic book artist named Joe Orlando drew the most famous sea monkeys advertisement ever a depiction of an entire sea monkey family with human facial features I think chances are you quite familiar with it it's that kind of haunting illustration that you see I think still today

yeah I think so I think we had that picture on our packet of Sea Monkeys. If you see it, you'll get in the ad now, maybe. Oh, is it, right? Nice, nice. But there was a disclaimer. Characatures shown not intended to depict Artemia Selina, but kids who are not known for reading the fine print were captivated.

Thanks to Von Braunhut's marketing technique, sea monkeys were a certifiable sensation, one that made him a millionaire. And really, the idea of attempting to breed a master race of pet shrimp wasn't so far fetched. After all, in the words of the Washington Post, von Braunhurt was, quote, unquote, active in the anti-Semitic neo-Nazi right.

Oh, boy. Okay, here's the U-Term. Are we going to get to those other comics he's been advertising in? Oh, something of the sorts. Interesting an addendum on that. He was also Jewish, which is a real. Oh, okay. Interesting.

Wow, okay. Yeah, yeah. So now we get into the dark side of sea monkeys, which is absolutely astounding. Yeah, the Nazi side of sea monkeys. Of course. You saw it coming, right? Yeah.

Somewhere during his life, he added the Vaughn to his name, so it sounded more Germanic, according to a Daily Telegraph article. And then he invented the Keoga Agent M5, a self-defense weapon von Braunhut began working on in the late 1960s. The Keoga is an important part of Seamon. monkey law in 1988, the Washington Post and the Spokane, I think it's pronounced, Spokane spokesman review published stories revealing that the weapon was being advertised as part of a fundraiser for Richard Butler, the leader of the Aryan nations who needed money to fight charges of

sedition, the polite term for plotting to overthrow the government. Oh, excellent, like all those people that raided the capital. Exactly, just like that. get you get your brine trip in boys with fundraising hit no specs might be useful if you're trying to overthrow the government he didn't see anything butler wrote that for each keoga his followers his followers bought the manufacturer that would be von braunhut would pledge twenty five dollars to his legal fund

butler who was acquitted called von braunhut a long time friend and a quote and quote member of the Aryan race who has supported us quite a few years. Jesus Christ. According to news reports, von Braunhut had attended numerous Aryan nations gatherings, sometimes as a guest speaker,

and sometimes as the honoured lighter of the Burning Cross. Oh, Jesus Christ. He was also leader of the imperial order of the Black Eagle, which was also affiliated with the Aryan nations. I don't know anything about that group,

but just the name alone, it sounds pretty. Yeah, that sounds great. It sounds great. terrifying. No. Even though they always suspected he was Jewish, the white supremacist didn't seem to care, probably because he was a generous donor. In 1985, it was reported that he lent a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan named Dale Ruch, $12,000 to buy 83 illegal guns. I just want to keep in the back of your head through all this. Those sea monkeys, this is where his money

he was going. This is where he's millions from these little brine shrimp funded fucking neo-Nazis. Jesus. Von Braunhut refused to comment on the allegations other than to tell the Seattle Times that quote, that's very ominous, you know what side I'm on. What does that mean? Stop it. God. But even with all this, sea monkeys continue to thrive.

In fact, their highest profile project came not long after in 1992. When Howie Mandel co-created, produced, and starred in a CBS Saturday morning live action series titled The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys. The Sea Monkeys continue to sell to the general public too, going from one distributor to another. In 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that a company called Educational Insights was distributing it under the Exploratory Division with the full knowledge of the allegations against von Braunhutz. So, yes, it's not like it was a well-kept secret in the business. People knew what he's up to, but can't turn down that briny dollar, I guess. Company executives said they never asked him about the charges directly and didn't think he'd be the type of person to spread hate speech.

No. He seems... What, the shrimp guy? You're talking about the shrimp guy? No, stop it. Conner fly, come on. What, the guy who sends crabs in the post? No, he's a really decent fellow.

He's a pretty good fellow. The bird feathered glasses. Nah, not this guy. It's a bit weird, but natty. at a stretch. Meanwhile, von Braunhut, who was also an ordained minister, it turns out,

officiated over the funeral of Richard Butler's wife one month after signing his licensing deal with the company. He was also photographed wearing Aryan Nations lapel pins to planning board meetings in Charles County, Maryland, according to the Washington Post. And

von Braunhut died 2003 at the age of 77 and his second wife, Yolanda, Signorelli von Braunhut replaced him his CEO of the company. And as far as I'm aware, I think she's not a Nazi. I feel like I can't say that for certain, considering the bloody roller coaster. We'll probably never know while Harold Nathan Braunhut, born and raised Jewish, grew into Harold von Braunhut, who funded anti-Semitic groups and stood up for Hitler.

We'll also never know why he saw a bucket of fish food and decided it would send him on a path to success. people like sea monkeys can be mysterious creatures but sea monkeys aren't Nazis so let's not make such a flippant comparison there who was it who did that article again let's see oh where have you gone that was written by Jake Rosson of mental floss mental floss

come on mental floss who knows why Nazis like sea monkeys you say that then but I believe in the fifth uh indiana jones film that's coming up the villain is a sea monkey oh well then i take it all back i feel pretty silly now i really want to see an illustration like in the original sea monkey style of them wearing little nets on oh my god sounds like you've got a you got something you got to work on after this michael oh yeah you've got new merch coming out you fast very important very important they'll definitely kick us off the network after that that's for sure oh yeah that's a

That's a one-way route to the streets. Everyone knows that Nazis, if you desiccate a Nazi, they can remain unharmed for years and years. And you just add water again. They just bring back to life. Well, well, thank you, Michael. That was an educational journey. It was.

Thank you. Yeah. I heard, like, I heard that he was a Nazi, but I didn't realize just how far it went. Like, it wasn't just like, oh, he had, well, oh, he, quote, unquote, just had some views Oh, no, he was like a full-on, full-on, big old, big boy. Active NAR.

A-K member and, yes, burning the cross and all that. Brilliant. What a guy. Would you boys like a final question for the night? Yes, please. Go on there. Got one from Sam Collins at Sam underscore Collins underscore 96 on Twitter. And they say, with Paraboy predicting the atrocious and unforgivable Tesco meal deal going up in price.

Have any of you had any other poorly slash well-aged things which you care to own up to? Or do you have any other predictions which we look back on in the future, which we can look back on in the future and blame you for? I think making poor predictions is maybe a rare occurrence. So let's lean on the side of what terrible things you think are going to happen in the future so we can be blamed for it. A specific. What regarding us?

Yeah, well, you said that can be blamed on us. Is that what you said? I guess I'm like me, me didn't. Right. Oh, okay, I see. It was like, ah, you did that. You said it. You did the bloody Tesco meal deal, didn't you, John?

Yeah, I do feel bad about that one. Well, between us, me and Ben did COVID. Yeah, we did actually do COVID. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, not long before COVID, we did a main menu episode at my flat and we poured, we had a frying pan that was full of oil, and then we were supposed to add spray of rosemary, but we only had ground rosemary, so we then

sort of sprinkled ground rosemary in sort of a stick shape as though it was a sprig and as this pile of rosemary hit the oil, it started to spread out like a petri dish, like growing you know, like, you know, when you see microbes grow in

a petri dish at full speed, increased speed. And we sort of said to each other, this is the, this is like a pandemic waiting to happen. I say this looks like a pandemic waiting to happen and Ben says yeah this is the virus that will end the world or something and I think within less than 12 months maybe within six months uh COVID-19 happened wow thanks guys I did do that yes I'm trying to remember no no no you definitely

would have been in the office but it was even like just before COVID became a thing or just as it became a thing hat films did a video where they like tested Hasmat seats and stuff. Oh, my God. Well, they're always predicting like celebrity deaths, aren't they? Yeah. They say whenever they talk about someone, they always end up dying within a few weeks. Oh, God.

I've said before that I predicted, or years before it was a popular thing, I did a remixed version of steamed hams. Oh, wow. No one, like, was, it wasn't like a popular skit, like, you. If you'd ask people their favorite Simpsons stuff, it wasn't really one of the kind of mainstream Simpsons things at the time. And, yeah, when I used to do, like, remixed music, I just did the entire skit from start to finish to the beat of a drum.

And I feel like I might still have it somewhere. I mentioned it on a podcast like last year or something. I said I would look for it. And I feel like it exists, but I don't know where. But, yeah, that happened years and years before it was, you know, I mean... An innovator. Wow.

Yeah. What else can possibly go wrong? What's beloved? What could be stripped from us at a moment's notice? Well, it's not so much... No, fucking Elon Musk getting on Twitter. That's... I got a DMCA strike yesterday on Twitter,

so that's probably going to happen more or more. I don't know why I'm going to blame Elon Musk for that. You bought those shares and I got a striped coincidence. Mm-hmm. Maybe not. Maybe not. I think not. I mean, it doesn't necessarily, I don't know if anyone will blame us for this after the fact,

but we have been joking for pretty much our entire YouTube career now that Billy Ray Cyrus is going to get cancelled. And when he does, we are going to have to rebrand Billy Ray Warris. Like we've had conversations about it. We've got like a plan B ready. It's like how the royal family have got Operation, whatever it's called, London Bridge, you know, for when the Queen dies. They're all prepped.

We know what we'll do when Billy Ray Cyrus gets cancelled. Regardless of what our thoughts are on cancel culture or whatever you want to call it, but certainly there has been a real movement, and rightly so, in the past few years, since Billy was born, Ray Waris, this is, to call out and sort of end the careers of monsters, basically. And we're not saying Biller Osiris is one. No, we aren't saying that, but from the very beginning, we were joking about the fact that Billy Ray Cyrus probably has a scandal pending, right? That's where that came from.

And in the time since, the general public's opinion of people in the public eye who are monsters has become, let's just say the patience has gone down quite significantly. So if literally anything substantial came out a bit about Billy Ray Cyrus, that that prediction has come true perhaps well it's way more likely to come true than it would have been if we were still in the same sort of societal place that we were when billy ray warris was first born yes yes so somewhere there's there's a there's a like a briefcase with two keys um waiting for the defcon five yeah you should go go in turn the key at the same time open it up and there is billy's replacement yeah there he is with a pre-written state

statement. I am not pretty Ray Waris. I am a difficult well we've we've sort of retired Dick Machenko

now. Yeah sort of partially because he was apparently a bit problematic but we always knew that

but it was just when he died it just felt weird people talked more about it as yeah what from Cheggers well you know

I don't really know shut up Cheggers you're dead why to Neegger's or us so we'll stop when we're told to stop yeah

I predict that Dave Benson Phillips will come after us like legally he will pursue us and get a cease and desist so we can't talk about him anymore

and we can't start every podcast with a photo of his face that's a horrifying connection I don't like that one yeah well I hope that one doesn't come true but if it does I've just realized this is the longest

I think we've got in a podcast without even mentioning Dave right yeah that's the first I mean we did post about him before we even started recording on Twitter so we may not I mean that's that's essentially white noise at this point

this isn't meaning no no it's just a lot of pixels that happen to look like Dave yeah at least resemblance to Dave nothing I don't know if I've got to make a bold prediction

let's just go with a let's go with the price of fuel and the energy bills are going to go up again. Oh, don't. Oh, my God.

All right, you don't blame me for that. You can. I don't want it to happen, but there's one. How much worse can the world get, really? I'm going to go for a very, this was a slightly morbid one, but a specific prediction.

June 8th 2022 3 or 2pm Queen Elizabeth Oh my God Gross wings Yes it goes Yes yes

And goes back to her home planet Mikey if you're correct You will probably be arrested They'll want to know how you knew I'm coming for you Liz Watch it Diana for life I don't know

That's all I'm going to say on that If that comes true I'm going to feel very bad probably just delete all online presents. I mean, the Queen doesn't survive 2022. I think we're all agreed on that generally, right? Probably. She's really old.

Like, there's nothing more to it than that. She's had one hell of a run. That's for sure. Yeah. Just let her enjoy her celebrations this year. And then can we just, can she just sit down for God's sake? Queen, please. Take it easy, all right?

Love you. You're getting on a bit. Just, just, look, dealing no deals on repeat on child four. Go on sit down. Yeah. Got some crushed cigarettes and, uh, Purple Quality Street, she can have if she wants those. Peter, Peter doesn't have a starburst, because he ate it, so that's gone.

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of stuff so starting on March 30th we had The Sims 3 Prove it

part one but we played the game Skyrim Zoo Chapter 5 Necromancing Queen Memory cards

April the 2 Hannah Montana Lego Star Wars other stuff Pottiet's episode three But With a Pigeon Taking on Takeshi's Castle

In Nippon Marathon's Lobster Mode Was that an ad? No, it wasn't I think we just got giving a code for it There's no hashtag ad on it Post some tat number seven The Montana Mother Load Oh, good, that's a good one

Is that the one with the thumbnail of like just surrounded by Montana Two Faces In a couple of box I think so. That was a good worst games ever game selection the 5th of april 2018 i love those i've watched a few of those recently like they're genuinely really good videos it's just us spinning a bingo wheel but they're they're really good oh come friend prove it the sims three part two worst games ever

naughty bear uh in the spotlight a way out now now now good game Skyrims Zoo chapter 6 The King of Carrot Flowers Memory cards April 9th Oh hang on I've overshot again It's so easy to do that

I should have stopped on In the Spotlight away out Forget Skyrim Zoo Didn't happen That's next time Bleeped by the men in black Will bleep a device Well actually no

I'm being a fool Because it's April 7th today So I do need to carry on Until the 12th of April So I will carry on In the spotlight a way out Skyrim Zoo chapter 6 memory cards April 9th Spider-Man

Mario Kart Wii and Postal 2 are on that episode Loomo di Milano The Man from Milan part one Betrayal That's the Milan noir Three-Parter that we did Very good

I very vividly remember making a shit ton of spaghetti For that the night before And then when I brought it in on the day It was just a big solid comp There was a lot of spaghetti I didn't really I don't well I didn't remember anyway That you made it the night before

But I suppose that makes sense You didn't just cook it in the office on the day So, yeah Post some tat number eight Happy Birthday Tiny Peter Oh, that's nice Prove It to The Sims part three Live Action Challenge

Where films came in And did Well, it was the only Prove It finale That was in two parts actually Oh wow So get to in a minute So it was the live action challenge

Part one Then it was Man of Milan Part two, redemption I have to really watch those at some point because they're very good too Crash Team Racing Spinning Challenge piece of cake where Ben felt really ill

spinning on a chair and then had to eat cake at the end Prove It Sims Live Action Challenge part two where films come in and do some talking heads for us and we're going up to yes there

that's where we stop excellent that sounds like a pretty good week actually that one yeah they're all good week They're all good weeks, even the ones at the end where there was nothing, all good weeks. Yeah, top class content. Killer, not filler. No filler at all right. Mikey, where can people find you on the internet?

At Paraboy on Twitter is the best place to keep up to date with my antics. I stream on occasion. Just Paraboy on Twitch, no, at. I am still very erratic with my streaming schedule, so best to follow me to keep up to date. Thank you, Keith, guys. Peter, where are we? Hello, I'm Peter, I'm at that Peter Austin on Twitter and Instagram and Ben is at Confused underscore Dude on just Twitter

But together we are making content over at Triple Jump That's YouTube and Twitch YouTube.com and Twitch.TV forward slash team triple jump Where we do all kinds of things. We do live streams, we do list content, we do interesting shows, silly things Worst games ever. Rules boss is over there. We've got two podcasts. So go and have a look at all that if you want. Absolutely. And you do want that. So go and do it. Full stop. You do. Yeah. Finally, why not leave us an iTunes review or a review slash rating on your platform of choice. Five stars, please. Five stars. It helps something to do with Al Gore's rhythms. Thank you so much for listening all of you. Do we have a final question before we disappear off into the night?

what what what what predictions do you have yeah let's say that yeah let's everyone get in on it yeah even though inally half one of them ever comes true like send us a tweet and show shows a screenshot of your comment yeah geese a kiss excellent thank you so much for listening everybody we'll see you in two weeks time look after yourselves bye bye

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