Podiots - Spookiots: Episode 110 - The Mad Gasser

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

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Pickax Oh, hello, everyone, hello Hello, hello Have we started every spookier episode in the same way by just going, ooh, I hope so. I mean, that's what we do at Triple Jump as well. Oh, it's good, it really sets the tone. It's our go-to.

Spooky. Hello. It's a good way of flagging it up for people who are re-listening, in, you know, six months' time. They're just going through the feed, da-da, episode 100 and whatever. Ooh, you instantly know. Those ones.

Yeah. If you have any special spooky its guidance to help immerse people into this episode, go to your local Tesco. Yeah. And you know the seasonal aisle with all the Christmas stuff in it. Yeah.

Burn it. Yeah. Burn it down. Yeah. Turn off your lights, obviously. eat a pumpkin i think that's what you're supposed to do yes yes whole all of it is that yeah it sounded like you were gearing up for a third thing and so on and so forth yeah sure well i think my halloween suggestion is go to your nearest corner shop buy yourself

a jammy joy lock yourself in the bathroom candle let snowy snowy no there's a christmas oh snowy jammy jammy for Halloween sure that's like the blood blood yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, yeah, lock yourself on the bathroom and spend a couple hours making a big old spooky its while listening to it. Oh, making a big old... Yeah, to make a spooky, it sounds like a bowel movement. Well, I think that's what he was getting at, yeah. That might be it, yeah.

Oh, okay, cool. Well done. Oh, that's great. I understand. Nobody wants to make a spookiots. No. Should we make a spookyits? Well, yeah, speaking of that, let's.

Let's do it. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Spooky It's, the official Spookiots. Spookcast. It's a spook-versational spook cast where we spook some spook-sions from Spook at Spook, and obey the spook of the three spooks. Spook Ben. What? Spook Ben. Spook Ben.

where everyone brings spook thing Spook long to talk spook bowed And I'm spook-le Is that where we're at? Did he do yours? Peter? I didn't do mine, but Ben didn't do the spookers. I have no idea

No clue what's going on right now. I'm spooker. And I'm spookle. Brilliant. I think together all the necessary information was imparted. Yes, yes. You have to work on deciphering some of it,

but it's in there, we promise. Well, that's just some of the scary nonsense that you can expect today on this very special episode of Poddietz where we've all brought spooky things along. We've got some spooky questions from you at home. It's going to be an exciting time. Of course, as we record this,

it's not quite Halloween yet. Do you guys have some scary Halloween plans? I'm going to two not Halloween parties, I think, because there's a potential Newcastle gathering that I've heard rumour of. So vague. Yeah, well, who knows? And also, after Halloween, me and Amy are going to see some of her friends.

They were all the bridesmaids at our wedding and their partners. And it's, the main occasion is that it's someone's birthday in like very early November, like the fourth or something. But we're just sort of making it a late Halloween thing as well. So it's a birthday gathering, but everyone has to go dressed as a scary thing. So I'm doing double spooks this year. Double spooky. Big boy. Nice.

Just not on the actual day. I don't think. No. So far, my Halloween preparation, well, our Halloween preparation, preparation, oh, is boogie. Our Halloween preparation this year has consisted of buying three different outfits for Karen to wear to greet trick-or-treaters at the door. Excellent. Amazing.

We've got a little pumpkin hat for her. It's like a pumpkin helmet with a matching human one. So you get to answer the door with a pumpkin purse and a pumpkin cat. She loves that one. Good. Does she love that one? Oh, you should see the look in our face. It's just pure ecstasy.

She's over the moon to be dressed. and made it ridiculed of and we've also got a little vampire cloak for her because she's got little fangs so she's gonna be doing it right this year so come knock on my house you know my address my dad leaked it out there years ago

so he did yes he did and make sure you knock on his house not his door just hammer on those bricks knock on the house the good thing the easy thing for you of course Mikey is that you don't have to worry about decorating the house just decorating the cat

because your house is, it has Halloween stuff in it all year round, and it's fantastic. It's in a perpetual state of spook. It's just Halloween's when we top up and buy some new decorations. Yeah, because they're actually in the shops. Yeah, and then they just stay up for the rest of the year and we keep adding to it. It's, uh, yeah, it's a delight. Delivery workers must hate our house. It's just outside his skulls and like a little bug castle, painted black and pumpkins and stuff.

Oh, it's bloody Adam's family again, this one. Here they are. What's a bug castle? What is that? I think I've bastardized the wording there. It's, you know, like bug hotels where it's like a little structure full of little tubes and wooden things that bugs can get in and nest in and have babies and stuff like that. So we've got one in the shape of like an old style castle.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. And it means that like all the insects live and breed right outside our front door and then come in when it gets cold. It's great. Of course. Well, I mean, that's what you want, right? That's why you put it there. Yeah.

One of the National Trust places I visit on the regular in The Grounds has one of those that's called Buggingham Palace, which is very nice. It's not shaped like a palace or anything is, just a box of tubes and things, but they've got a sign on it in Comic Sans laminated paper. I like it. That's nice. That's a fun one. Right. Well, thanks everyone. Yep, no one going to ask me.

That's fine. Oh, sorry. No, no. No, no, it's, no, it's all right. I just want that, I want that silence to hang there. I felt every second of it. Yeah, as the scariest thing that's happened so far on this episode, a lack of social inclusion.

I mean, I asked, I asked the group. My friends didn't want to, my friends didn't want to, I asked the bloody group. My friends didn't want to ask me. Yeah, no, I mean, I answered, how about you guys? So I'm, that's on you, Ben. I'm saying it. I'm about to say it. I feel excluded.

Bet, you're the leader. You ask the questions. You just assume you'll ask yourself, all right? I can't do that. It doesn't work like that, Michael. I need reciprocal social inclusion. I can't. Maybe we're subconsciously just assuming that the answer is,

no, Halloween's for idiots. But I don't know. This year you might surprise us. Maybe. Well, the thing is, Peter. Yeah. We won't know, will we? We're not going to find out.

We missed our chance. Oh, no. It's a mystery, so we'll never know. But if you want to help support us in a way that would allow us to, let's say, hand out, well, should we, what's the correct term? Give the next generation die of beaties. Yeah, okay. Right. By purchasing plenty, plentiful chocolates and sweeties galore, then you can go to Pottiots.

No, streamlabs.com forward slash podiots donations. If you give three pounds a ball, you get a shout out at the beginning and the end of the show and you get to join Pod Squad, and we appreciate you very, very, very much indeed. Mikey's got the first group right there. We begin with Siri play Wave of Death, brothless ramen for Wankers, clit Eastwood, nice, Dave can't come to the phone, double double toil and trouble tubs. Trouble Tubbs, very good.

That's good. It is spook time, my dudes. Spooky Mr. Black. Spooky McSpookerson. Ben's weak upper body. Spooky It's. Mr. Blobby goes on the run. Jack for 94.

And Lord Cost of Living Crisisovich. The spookiest of all, thank you. Terrifying. Also, Poddietz presents their butts. Spooky name Nick Gage The Jacobite The Jacobite Weddy Feber the Spook Boy

Put Your Fucking Clothes in me Oh that was from the last episode I think Something about a wardrobe Crushing existential dread Night of the Living changed Spooketh Who was spookily generous I mean absolutely terrifyingly so

I can't even begin without just saying how much it was to give you listeners an idea of how much Spookweth gave. Thank you, Spookweth. Thank you, boys. For another lovely year of Vioids silliness. I know this is an odd time to be thankful,

but hopefully I can at least contribute to your festive day and a half off candy purchases. Loved the Warus Klan and the Ferret Squad as always. Thank you, Spookweth. Thank you, Spookweth. Thank you, Spookweth. You're a legend. We've also got Stephen Skodaghs. Mr. Blobby, but Skelaton.

Ian Jasper was born in 1965. Kermit Boo Park. And Fun Trust Hum. We've also got Bartek, Sega, C.D.'s nuts. Very nice. Garlic pudding and chips. Oh, we haven't spoken about the fact that that video surfaced. No, I was going to wait until, yeah, it did come to me while Mikey was doing his.

Okay. We'll get to it. We'll talk about it in a minute. Something has risen. from the dead you might say oh yeah exactly yes uh gone to synagogue with simon miler that's good nice uh b and q carpet roll trauma normal name nick gage adolf sex set your cocks back prince beef cakes mr macker dicking dom in da bumgolo done that one before you clearly wanted enjoyed it so much wanted to do it again don acco 7

Your boy Milo, who is obscenely generous. Thank you so much, your boy, Milo. Thanks, dude. And they say, hello, boys, been listening slash watching since Billy was just a twinkle in Ben's eye, but I've never joined Pod Squad, so I thought I'd give you everything I've got or one pound for each episode. Oh, they've announced how much they gave. You've been a great help to many, so thanks. Ooh, sincerity is spooky.

Thank you. Thank you, your boy, Milo. Thank you. Thank you, Milo. Sorry to hear about Bella. Yes, sorry about Bella. I hope she's doing better. And finally we have

It is Pumpkin Spice Beans time. Thank you to Pod Squad for this week. Remember, streamlabs.com forward slash poddy at Stonations £3 or more to get a shout out at the beginning at the end of the show. It means an awful lot. What is your favourite Pod Squad name of this week? Easley.

Double double toil and trouble thumbs. Night of the living changed. Very good. That one It's a subtle one That one's really good That's lost on me It's too subtle for me

And I get that No change I get it It's not dead That's very good Yeah Yeah There we are

I enjoyed the simplicity Of clit eastward Yeah Okay Thank you Do you want to tell us a bit About that there Chogson

Yeah sure Thank you to Jack Squires At Jack Squires Sorry at J. Squire's underscore comedy who sent me a DM on Twitter and said, hey, I don't know if you guys have seen this,

but I stumbled across this video while bored at work and thought the vidiads might like it. The return of Michael Jugsson, and then in parentheses it says, he has been found. So if you had to... If you had to our Twitter account

at Vidiot's official, you'll see that we've just reposted the video with no credit. I think, I mean, it was, Jack Squires had found it on a Facebook page that almost certainly wasn't the original source so it's not even like we could give fair credit but he's out there

it's him for sure in the comments of the Facebook post where we found it or where Jack found it there were some people saying ha ha that I know this guy that's not him it's definitely him you can tell by the way he speaks

it's just that ominous spooky face I'd recognize it anywhere at any age and it's so Jugson. Yeah. And at one point he pulls the two guys. So there's two, for those who haven't seen it, there's a couple of guys who seem to have found Michael Juxon on a night out. And they recognize him as Michael Juxon.

They've got the camera up. He's performing. And then he pulls them both in. He's saying like, get your heads in. And there's something about the way he goes, oh, that just, that's him. If there was any doubt, there's something about the sort of the quality of his voice there. Pulls him in and he goes,

it's 100% Michael Juxson isn't it from a few years ago as well yeah that's the thing apparently so I thought this was some kind of new video and then again I think like sort of in the comments of either the Facebook post or our tweet of it people were saying oh yeah this actually it's from like three or four years ago so it's gone

unfathly it's gone under the radar for so long even though Peter you said you've been somewhat regularly searching Michael Jokeson on the internet and this is just completely slipped by us all. Yeah, I occasionally just, you know, check in on YouTube or whatever or Google and just see if he's made the news or something like that. And I've just never come across that.

I don't know how, given that it's such an old, like relatively old video. But yeah, he's there, he's still going. I mean, that was four years ago. He might have died of some sort of garlic overdose at this point. He could well have done, stunted too far. Yeah, he could. Good thing about Michael Juxon, of course, on Halloween.

vampires won't go anywhere near him Hey, nice Safe as houses Is there any way we could put the audio of that video In the podcast Kind of nowish Absolutely, here you go Wow, there he is

What a delight That noise That's him I fucking did It sounds exactly like him It's got to be him It has to be Amazing

He doesn't even quote it properly Everyone else knows it better than he does as is often the case with these things it's like like a list celebrities who've never seen their own movies you know he he doesn't know the the full script it's too busy he's too famous yeah he just he just waxed lyrical it was poetry from his mouth he didn't need to remember it he made an impact and bam left and now he just gets called up on it wherever he goes but my god what a legacy would you all like to begin with a question love yes it spooked but yes we begin with a question from Addie

Pineapple emoji at 2 Addie underscore P on Twitter They ask Vampires are played out Let's shake up the formula a little Which one type of liquid do they sustain themselves on now And which root vegetable is now their weakness So yeah I guess Vampires

Lusting for Blood is getting a bit played out How can we revamp the Vampire? for the modern age to spook a new audience because blood and goods do nothing anymore, I guess. Okay, uh, piss. Piss, they desire Pits. Because I still think there's got to be a human element, otherwise they're not scary anymore, are they?

They're just, they're just night people, you know? Does that mean, instead of biting your neck, they come and just suck your dick? Or indeed your balls, because piss is stored in the balls. Piss is stored in the balls, yeah. Oh, yeah, I get that's it. Yeah, just, oh. Oh, no, I mean, it's not that different to the way a vampire operates,

but for some reason that seems so much worse than sucking blood. It's arguably safer. Yeah. It's, yeah, it's slightly less intrusive than going at someone's neck, but no, thank you. No. I mean, Pace can be replenished. It's a renewable resource, or you need a bit of water in your, bam, you're a vampire factory. Yeah.

I'd quite like to see vampires that drink. iron brew for no other reason than I'm not drinking it so they can have it if they want I think it's disgusting tastes a bit like blood to be honest it's got iron in it yeah that's why they want it yeah it's an analogue it's it's synthetic orange blood yeah oh cute I quite like the idea of petrol vampires being a thing like in the night cruising around as the car parks opening up tanks and trying to with a very long straw sucking up all the petrol and running off giggling into the night that's good I like that

it's like people who siphon petrol into their lorry or whatever but no they're just drinking it stick a straw in it's kind of cool though of petrol vampires it sounds like something from mad max or something like that okay so that's that's liquids but what about root bedge oh yeah what would pair nicely with piss parsnip

piss nips no piss nips oh no what the fuck did you just call me Oh, you piss nips What are the root vegetables? Carrots I'm just naming root vegetables Yeah, I mean I was going to say carrots

For the sort of the orange For my iron brew I think it sort of ties in So yeah, carrots is good What other root vegetables are there? What are potatoes? Do they count? Yeah, they're technically a root veg

Oh I think beet roots are, aren't they? Swede. Ginger? Mmm, delicious. That'll keep their immune system strong. We're going for, like, well, I guess my vampire is going to be petrol-swilling ginger-combutcher drink-drinking vampires as well. They're going to be very health-focused.

They want to keep their immune system healthy so they're, they're, oh, wait, no, it's a root vegetable that keeps them away, isn't it? Yeah, they don't want this. Oh, they've got to be fearful. Yeah, no, it's going to drive them. Drive them away. Oh, what's the scariest root vegetable? There aren't that many, or not many sort of mainstream root vegetables. I'm sure there are some weird ones if you're a green grocer.

Any grocers out there? Beech roots, parsnips, celeriac, turnips, carrots, potatoes, yucca, and dicon radish? I'd like to see someone try and drive a, uh, a, uh, a selytic. deliriac through the heart of a vampire with a hammer. I think it wouldn't go very well, and I think it would be quite enjoyable. That's true, but do you normally do that with garlic? Do you try and hammer garlic through the heart? But I just, that's in the mythology that we're creating here,

that's what you have to do with the root virgin question here. Okay. I'm sure at some point in history there's been a garlic-tipped sword. That's been used in defense of a vampire, so yeah, yeah, we can talk about shoving vegetables into the hearts of beasts. hmm parsnip and chips snip and chips

yeah I'm going to stick with carrot because I feel like yeah if you get like a really sharp carrot

that could be a good defense strategy yeah characters are in abundance so it's a good resource to have as defense

it's true it's very true thinking reasonably yeah yeah yeah well thank you boys we've given

vampires a facelift keep an eye on your cars and your cocks It's a harsh world out there They're coming Which one of you boys would like to begin The Spook Fest with your spooky thing

I'll start I'm happy to begin So I've got a weird Capitia here that I There's a little bit of me that's scared That in over 100 episodes Maybe I've done this one But I don't think I have

And I don't know how and why I've not come around to doing this one Because it's a really good story Mikey you brought along in the early days the story of Spring Hill Jack, did you not? I did, I did.

It's one of my favourite urban legends. I think it's really cool. Well, did you know that there was a similar in certain ways case in AmeriCorps of strange things that happened with a sort of phantom attacker?

Oh. This is the story of the mad gasser of matoon. Oh, no. Matun. Matun just realized this. garlic and chips in Matun The mad gasser of Matun

also known as the anaesthetic prowler The Phantom Anesthetist or simply the mad gasser Was the name given to the person Or people believed to be responsible For a series of apparent gas attacks That occurred in Matun, Illinois

During the mid-1940s The Phantom anathist kind of sounds like A rejected Star Wars title Yeah, it disappears Star Wars Episode Zero and the phantom anesthetist. More than two dozen separate cases of gassing's were reported to the police over the span of two weeks, in addition to many more reported sightings of the suspected assailant. The gassas' supposed victims reported smelling strange odors in their homes,

which were soon followed by symptoms such as paralysis of the legs, coughing, nausea and vomiting. No one died or had serious medical consequences. Police remain skeptical of the accounts throughout the entire incident no physical evidence was ever found and many reported gassing's had simple explanations such as spilled nail polish

or odors emanating from animals or local factories victims made quick recoveries from their symptoms and suffered no long-term effects nevertheless local newspapers ran alarmist articles about the reported attacks and treated the accounts as fact

so we've got the story here of some of the reported attacks to begin with actually we've got a description here so most contemporary descriptions of the Mad Gasser are based on the testimony of Mr and Mrs. Bert Kearney of 1408 Marshall Avenue the victims of the first Matun case to be reported by the media they described the gasser as being a tall, thin man

dressed in dark clothing and wearing a tightest of fitting cap. Another report made some weeks later described the gasser as being a female dressed as a man. The gasser had also been described as carrying a flicked gun as an agricultural tool for spraying pesticides.

You know the ones with the big sh-ch-ch, those ones. You've seen them in cartoons and stuff. Which he purportedly used to expel the gas. No one said it yet, but yeah, it all sounds like farting, doesn't it? Can I just be able to finally?

break that down and do obviously it was Michael Johnson all along yes yes my alter ego yes good let's hear about the things

yeah let's hear about what Michael was getting up to in 1940s Illinois good the first of the 1944 gasser incidents occurred at a house on Grant Avenue

Matoon on the 31st of August 1944 Urban Rafe that's someone's name Urban Rafe was awakened during the early hours of the morning by a strange odor. He felt nauseated and weak

and suffered from a fit of vomiting. Suspecting he was suffering from domestic gas poisoning, Rave's wife tried to check the kitchen stove to see if there's a problem with the pilot light, but find she was partially paralyzed and unable to leave her bed. Later that night, some contemporary accounts refer

to the time as the morning of the following day, a similar incident was also reported by a young mother living close by. She was awakened by the sound of her daughter coughing, but found herself unable to leave her bed. The next day, September 1st, there was a third reported incident. And Mrs. Kearney of Marshall Avenue, Mattoon, reported smelling a strong, sweet odour around 11pm.

At first, she dismissed the smell, believing it to be from flowers outside of the window. But the odour soon became stronger, and she began to lose feeling in her legs. Mrs. Kearney panicked, and her calls attracted her sister, Mrs. Reddy, who was in the house at the time, and was ready, presumably. Have you? Yes. Mrs. Reddy also noticed the odour and determined it was coming from the direction of the bedroom window, which was open at the time. Police were contacted, but no evidence of a prowler was found. At around 1230 a.m., Burt Kearney, Mrs. Kearney's husband, a local taxi driver who'd been absent during the time of the attack, returned home to find an unidentified man hiding close to one of the house's windows. The man fled, and Kearney was unable to catch him. Cooney's description of the prowler was of a tall man, dressed in dark clothing. Yes, we've heard this in the previous section. Thank you, Wikipedia. After the attack, Mrs. Kearney reported suffering from a burning sensation on her lips and throat, which were attributed to the effects of the gas. So that was the first little flurry of sort of gassing's. Yeah. And it continues. Initially, it was suspected that robbery was the primary

motive for the attack. At the time of the instance, the Kearney had a large sum of money in the house and it was surmised that the prowler could have seen Mrs. Kearney and her sister counting it early that evening. Local newspapers incorrectly reported this incident as being the first gasser attack. In the days following the Kearney attack, there were half a dozen similar attacks, see Table Below, and there's just a list of all the people who reported it over different days. Though none of the purported victims were able to provide a clear description of the prowler and no clues were found at the scene of the attacks. The first specimen of physical evidence was found on

the night of September 5th when Carl and Buehler Chords of North 21st Street returned home at 10pm. After spending a few minutes in the house, they noticed a piece of white cloth, slightly larger than a man's handkerchief, sitting on their porch next to the screen door.

Bueller cords picked up the cloth and smelled it. Don't worry about the gassing that's been going on in the village in the past few days. As soon as she inhaled, she became violently ill. She described the effect as being similar to an electric shock. Her face quickly began to swell, she experienced a burning sensation in her mouth and throat,

and began to vomit. As with other victims, she also reported feeling weak and experiencing partial paralysis of her legs. She later hypothesized the cloak had been left on the porch in order to knock out the family dog, which usually slept there, so the prowler could gain access to the house unnoticed. In addition to the cloth, a skeleton key, described as looking well-used, was reportedly found on the sidewalk adjacent to the porch, along with a large, almost empty tube of lipstick. The cloth was analysed by authorities, but they found no chemicals on it that could explain Buehlercord's reaction.

On the same night, a second incident was reported, this time on North 13th Street at the home of Mrs. Leonard Burrell. She reported seeing a stranger, break in through her bedroom window, and then attempt to gas her. Public concern over the alleged gassing's quickly rose. The FBI became involved and the local police issued a statement calling on residents to avoid lingering in residential areas and warning that groups set up to patrol for the gasser should be disbanded for reasons of public safety. The chief of police, C.E. Cole also warned citizens to exercise due restraint when carrying or discharging firearms. So that was around the sort of the peak of it, really.

It says during this period there was also an increase in physical evidence of attacks being reported ranging from footprints allegedly being discovered underneath windows to tears being found in window screens. But by September the 12th, local police had received so many false alarms mostly from citizens believing they smelled gas or they'd seen a prowler that they reduced the priority afforded to gasser reports

and announced that the entire incident was likely the result of explainable occurrences exacerbated by public feelings. and a sign of the anxiety felt by women while local men were on war service. After the police announcement, Gasser reports declined. The only instant of arguable note after that date was the case of Bertha Burke, who claimed she saw a gasser, who was a woman dressed as a man. So there you go. That's sort of the main write-up.

There's some proposed explanations which are, I mean, the main one is obviously mass hysteria, unsurprisingly. There's also potentially toxic waste or pollution in the area, which could have been sort of affecting various people. And potentially, there may have been an actual person prowling around and, you know, going through people's, looking through people's windows and stuff. I mean, it's kind of sweet.

It's all fine and well, smelling smells, until you find a nap, like a napkin that's going to knock you out on your doorstep and also a skeleton key. That's just like, in my head, that's just as someone going around house to house with this magical key, making you sniff the stinky stuff and knocking you out for a bit, which is a bit terrifying. In a couple of the differences, though, no one was forcing anyone to sniff these things. They just did it themselves.

Well, I've got to get my nostrils around that delightful free handkerchief. Couldn't imagine picking something up off the floor and then putting it that close to my nose regardless, even like something that looks like a hanky, the best result. there is going to smell some old snots. That's not... Oh, smell some old snotts. So there's a whole table of, like, well over a dozen different incidents

that people reported over about a week or two. And my favourite is that on the 6th of September, Miss Francis Smith and Miss Maxine Smith, I guess sisters, who lived on Moultry Avenue, made a report. There are no details on that. And then the next entry in the table on the 7th of September,

so the day after, the same two women made another report in the same area. And they said that they saw blue vapor and heard a motorized buzzing sounds that they believed to be from gassing machinery, which is written in italics. Oh, there's no Wikipedia article for gassing machinery, is it? No. So that's interesting that those two apparently had, you know, back-to-back-and-counter. one day after the next, and they saw blue vapor and herd gassing machinery. So, yeah, I mean, it's an unexplained incident.

The theory really is that it was probably mass hysteria. But, you know, you only need, as with all of these things, you only need one case of the physical evidence to be true or genuine or based on something for there to be, you know, for it not to be completely explainable away by mass hysteria. If there is literally a rag with some kind of chemical on it on someone's porch, or if there are strange footprints around people's windows or someone's cut holes in their window screens, then that's kind of dodgy.

And you have to wonder what was going on in Illinois in the 1940s, 1944 was it? So that's a little bit spooky. No one ever was brought to justice. Probably just start. with someone with like a leaky gas pipe in the kitchen, um, smell the weird smell got like felt them well and like,

oh, that was this weird smell of my kitchen. Everyone else goes out. Yeah. Smells it and it's like, oh, spreads like that. Yeah,

that's right. So there you go. Um, let us know if, uh, you're listening, Mad gas, uh,

of Matun. You're still alive. Yeah. Yeah. Let us know. Would you boys like another question? Thank you very, much, Peter, for your spooky thing. You're welcome. I'd love another question. During the Volvo

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The only catch is that you are Brian Butterfield. What do you do? So, yeah, let's spin up a Brian Butterfield equivalent of a haunted house. I feel the instant thing for me is Brian Butterfield forgot to pay the electric bill. And so it's very dark and plunge into darkness. But, you know, plays it off as extra spooky. Yes. It will be a warehouse of some kind that he is using for several other businesses simultaneously. so there'll be sports memorabilia around

there'll be leftover trays from treat day I would assume yeah as with all these haunted houses you know where you're wandering around there's people dressed in as zombies and stuff jumping out of you it's just Brian who is running from room to room ahead of you

and all he's he's in his grey suit and tie but he just puts a different hat on oh that's cute adding on from Ben's one way it's like an old warehouse I imagine maybe it's like a working functional warehouse but before anyone gets to go in

to do their job they have to put in a little costume so you just get people moving stuff around just as ghosts and occasionally to say the word boo at you yeah I like that and of course you know treat day

you've got to hope that Halloween falls on a Saturday otherwise he brings you for trick-or-treating he brings to the door just toasted cord flake whatever well

maybe he's a resortful man or butterfield so he's just using the natural colony of spiders and claiming it as an attraction look at all the spooky spiders do not get too close I can already hear the talking heads now

he said it was a haunted house but when I got in there there was someone staying that they said it was a hotel or something like that someone asleep in the corner if he actually had a haunted house I'd love to go to it

I think it would be great it would be a real experience you know there's like that like I think it's a it's a trope of haunted houses where like arms come out and grab at you

as you're going down a thin corridor I just want like arm flailing inflatable tube men just them wrap with arms poking through haulsers rapidly just flapping up and down as you try and run through. There's bright neon arms reaching out for you as Brian hums

spooky little songs in the background to accompany it. The Booterfield Haunted House. Oh, perfect. Yeah. That's it. You can have a full brand package coming for you, Brian. Yeah. Sounds good. That sounds good. Brian, get on it. You've got a couple of days to get it together.

If anyone can do it, it's you. Would you boys like a thing? Yeah, yeah. Get ready. Mine comes with some mild audio accompaniment at times. Oh, fingers at the ready, boys. It's a dark evening in 1974. You sit at home listening to your radio,

flicking through a newspaper in front of you, and you notice the headline, mouse tripped on marijuana. the body of text depicts the story of Marty, a mouse who made himself home in a box of weed in an evidence room in a Californian police station. The police were only able to lure him out using a trap baited with marijuana seeds.

And then once they caught him, they proceed to make him the police station mascot. You giggle to yourself. Of course, the weed mouse. He's a pillar of the community, damn it. You close your newspaper. a giggle and turn to your radio and you're getting ready to hunt for some rad tunes. The mouse story is completely a non-secondary.

I just thought that was funny. I just wanted to work it in so. Oh, wow, okay. I'm going to say it's not that spooky, but I like it. Oh, it's building a scene. I just, yeah. So we begin, yeah, you get ready, turn to your radio and begin the hunt for some rad tunes. So the music is a little bit of a plug on your three.

So the music of the 70s. Oh, we got Convoy. Not a big fan of this song. Let me change the station a bit. Oh, what is this? Oh, it's disco duck. God, I hate this thing. Get it off, get it off.

What's next? Oh, what's this? What's going on? Who's this lady? What is this? What are these seemingly random letters and numbers and spooky garbled audio. Welcome to the weird world of numbers stations.

So I've took the word spook. I've gone from its haunting meaning to spooks, which are spies and secret communications and stuff. And it's a little bit unsettling, this world that's all around us, but we are blind to. So we're going to have a little look into some number stations and what they are. I mean, even without the lateral step into spooks as inspires,

I think number stations are still slightly eerie in and of themselves. So I don't even worry about it, Michael, don't even. I just like to double up, you know. You've probably heard them before. Like inherently just spooky sounding things, the technology itself lones itself to this kind of spooky ambiance. 1.27, like that, right? That's what they sound like.

Little jingles mixed in. as well. Yeah, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Weird. Weird. So in an age when computers and internet rural communications, it could be that old-fashioned radios are still the preferred tools for the job. In this time where everything is tracked, it's best not to leave a digitized trail that can be traced. So since World War II, so-called number stations have been transmitting coded messages via shortwave radio antennas. These transmissions are eerie and weird to casual listeners, nonsensical and puzzling to cryptographers, and to the right set of ears may contain information that changes the course of history.

Yeah, these are just little messages that float out in the air, which to 99.99% of people are meaningless, nothing garbage, but there's someone out there who can decode that, and it could mean anything. It could be the lunch orders for the military troop, or it could be plans to dismantle a government. and all your hearing is 16, 24 Baba It's a bingo call

Bingo, yeah Two fat ladies 88 We and I have Yet another Just another excerpt From another spooky station

To lay down the spooks If you can press play it in three Two one One It's a very old. And so it's a big, very eerie. Yeah, it's great. Is it just like it's all old text?

So it's like all voice generators and just all garbled recordings. So it's a thing of beauty. But before we start diving into this whole world of secret messages and all that, it's just at their most basic level, these are not complicated things. It's essentially just a radio transmitter. that's very powerful. This is the kind of thing that most people could set up an own

and part of that is that anyone can tune in and listen to these which is an interesting choice for when you're trying to send spy messages but they also helps disguise them so it's just sending a message

out into the world and you're not going to know what it is and you can tune in on it you're never going to know this true contents it's there for one person and one person only. They're transmitted in many,

many countries I think most of Eastern Europe still operates them at this time, but they're located across the world, but no one knows just how many, because it's not like there's a log of them all, they just occasionally turn on and throw some transmissions out in the world and shut off again. So it's very much chance whether or not a normal person would come across one.

They often transmit strings of numbers on, numbers or letters intoned by a computerized sounding voice. Others send broadcast via Morse code, or they just emit various types of numbers. noise. I spent like an hour going through some stations earlier, and the noise ones are the weirdest, because it's just, and apparently, like, people have, like, picked up on that.

It's not just noise. Like, it is a very well-coded message. But, yeah. There was one in one of the Neil Cicerega's albums, wasn't there, like, mouth silence or something. Halfway through, it was just doing radio static, and there was a man going, like, seven, seven, three and uh i think if you like turned it into letters of the alphabet or something or other it it spelled out like smash mouth or you know shrek or something like that

oh cute they've become quite permicious if that's the word we've kind of infiltrated all all areas of popular culture they used a lot of music and it's just it's like you know that nuclear alarm sound that it's joined the ranks of just inherently spooky sounds. Yeah. But yeah, as I was saying, yeah, the interesting thing about this is while it's transmitting super secret of potentially

highly classified information, literally anyone can just tune in and listen to it. And you can do so yourself. If you want to have a little listen to some of these, if you Google WebSDR, it's like an online radio that you can control and like you can spend hours just flicking through all these channels

it's a lot of it is just normal radio but see like you had a nice Chinese station that's playing some good music and some Spanish speaking country doing some kind of broadcast so like it mixed in with all these normal things you'll occasionally find just a little beep boop and some numbers and there's an active chat room there

but people like flag up like in real time like interesting places to go check out so it's worth spending like 20 minutes on there having a read through because it's like there literally like war stuff on there like the Russian military using it and it's just there out in the open people can decipher it very interesting I just like I like how in plain sight it is I think that's what interests me is like it's it's yeah it's just it's out there and it's super spooky and special does it have horse dance to MP3 out there it's it might it might be out there you never know Of the entire catalogue of Tom and Jerry or whatever it was. So, yeah, some of these stations have been airing their signals for decades, and usually the peak was hit around the era of the Cold War,

and I think there was a lot of espionage and undercover stuff going on, so it really peaked then. But even today, untold others are continuing to fill the airwaves, but for what purpose no one knows. Yeah, this isn't just a relic of history. This is like an active ongoing way of transmitting and sending message. messages. A lot of journalists have tried to untangle the mystery of number stations, but it's pretty hard to decipher anything, and the best they're able to come up with is that

it is in fact a way of espionage and transmitting little tidbits of information. I'm going to play another spooky one just to get us all in the mood again. The voice is kind of the least spooky bit of that one. It's that merry little jingle at the beginning. So, yeah, at the beginning of broadcast, you'll usually hear some kind of signal, for example, that one, which is a nice little ditty, which kind of indicates the message is beginning.

It might be a simple tone, or it could be fragments of a song, as we heard, which is called the Lincolnshire, poacher station. We'd be glad to hear. This is a British one because we do it right and we know how to make something sound absolutely or horrifically spooky.

So it's a classic old folk tale they've chosen for that one. What follows after that is just, yeah, as you've heard, it's a string of just random spoken numbers of letters, sometimes like a digital voice, sometimes it's a real recording of a person doing it. And it repeats again and again and again. And one more little spooky sample. So we can continue to listen to it.

This is the last one for now. So breathe it in. Another cute one. That sounds like the intro music for a 1960s television show that Peter loves. It's like, yeah, it sounds like, you know, it's only been saved by, you know, it didn't make it through the purge of the BBC archives, but someone had a VHS in their attic for, not even a VHS, like a beta max. It's been well-played and degraded to the point of just sounding scary. Horrible. Yeah.

Yeah, that one was Cherry Ripe, which is a sweet name for such a horrible little sound. Yes. So yeah, the structure of these messages alone kind of indicates it's super secretive and spooky and intended for spies avoiding detection. But it's all linked together with like a very simple form of encryption where it's mathematically impossible to crack any of these. So generally, I don't think there's any public translations of these things because it's like the person to receive it has like a bit of paper with instructions to decode it. And when they're done, that's it. it'll never work for another broadcasts, for that one instance. And usually, like, in a pinch, these codes, like, written just on bits of paper

so that if they're captured, they just gobble it up and destroy it straight away. It's all built to be, like, only this one broadcast, this is one time for this one person. That's who you can hear it. But, yeah, what kind of instances of these things been used in? So, from 1940, hello? What kind of instances of these things been used in? Well, I'm glad you asked, Ben. So from

1945 to 56 the CIA and British Secret Intelligence Service dispatched agents to support anti-Soviet guerrillas in the Baltic states Belarus and Ukraine

and when they found these people on the ground they were captured with little radio transmitters and code books so it isn't like this isn't an offshoot of like weird underground groups

is like the government's using this stuff oh and they're just sending men out with little radios but yeah they're not just a relic of history there's been cases in 2001 there's someone who worked for the US Defence Intelligence Agency and they were arrested and in their home

they found out that they were actually spying for Cuba and at the home they had a whole radio setup that were using to receive signals and a code sheet 2011 German authorities arrested two people for being Russian spies they moved to Germany in 1988 and they kept working for 30 years as undercover spies.

Again, they had this whole transmission system in their house. They found out that the Russians had be paying them 100 grand a month for their work for the entire time. Obviously, they've got no idea. I imagine they didn't really let out any secrets, but it's like, oh, what were they doing to be cemented in there for 30 years and we paid that kind of money? Even more recently, after a halt and activity from 2016,

North Korea officially resumed broadcasting encoded messages. But this, not just from like really specific stations that are hard to find, but actually from their like state radio, Radio Pyongyang. So I was just part of a normal broadcast. They slip in these codes. It says here that they were disguised as mathematics or physics problems for distant university students to solve. Sure.

Wow. Sure. Okay. I like that. a codename for a spy. Oh, yes, I'm a distant university student. And my favourite is one. There's no information on this one, but I just have the name of the broadcast, which is

titled Hitler's Birthday, which is... Oh, Hitler's birthday. Happy birthday, Adolf. Yeah, it was a one-time broadcast some years ago on the 20th of April and never again. And that's literally all the information online about it. I don't know if they're just saying, oh, well, it happened on this day, so we'll call it that or if there was something in that broadcast, which alluded to it, but they've dubbed it that.

Yeah, and it's still going on to this day, although numbers have declined. Like, you can go out there and find stuff. If you want to listen to some recordings, there's the Connit project, I believe, the C-O-N-E-T project, which is like a compilation of all the spooky stuff that people have found,

people have spent like years, just crawling through thousands and thousands of frequencies and like logging and seeing what goes on. Yeah, the website I gave earlier, which I've already forgotten the name of, web SDR, yeah, that's a really good resource. We're just having a look around, having a hunt around and being spooked.

And I did say it earlier that we've never actually been able to decode a single message from these, but that was a lie. There is one that has been decoded. Okay. And I have the privilege of sharing it with you today.

For the first time. Ever, we have a decoded message. So you tuned your radio in. You've got your notebook at the ready, at the ready, and you hear this. Hello, Poddiotz. It's me. There's cats from Dick and Dom in Da Bombolo. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I thought there was a part of me that thought, when I press play on this, it's going to be the Stoke-on-Trent song, isn't it? It's very nearly was. That was my original thought, but I thought, let's have a little corded message from Dave Chapman. This is how he sent it to you, didn't he? Yeah, it sounded just like that.

I had to tune my radio in. I don't have a physical radio, but I had to tune it in anyway. I was convinced it was all, obviously, until Dave kicked in, but I was convinced it was genuine. I was going to be a bit cynical and go, oh, yeah, well, I mean, this one's Morse code, so obviously

they translated it, Michael. It's not very interesting. I'm more interested in the numbers. But, wow, yeah. I'm sorry for leading you down a path and throwing it back in your face. But I felt like I needed a bit of vidiates nonsense and all this spooky Cold War

espionage and undercover codes. Absolutely. Wow. Thank you, Michael. You're very welcome. Thank you very much. Would you boys like a question? Mm-hmm.

Yes. And let's go for Tommy the Wank Engine at Triggerly Saride Tea on Twitter. He says, I've always found it ironic that Ben isn't a big fan of spooks. I know he's better. I know he's better now, it says, in brackets. I got better.

Well done, Ben. We're all really proud of you. Because you're a huge fan of Bloodborn and such, because those games seem pretty creepy. I mean, you don't like jump scares, but I think you're all right with a bit of creep, aren't you? Yeah, and I'm... I guess they're more Gothic,

really and gory, aren't they, than actually... Yeah, they're scary. They're scary in places, but it's more atmospheric. I don't like the psychological horror stuff, the stuff that sticks with you. I'm generally okay with things that go bang, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't want to be messed up. But the actual question is, do you all have any things that others find scary,

but you personally do not? Anything. You're an iron-clad man when it comes to certain things. I don't mind most British spiders. The only British spider I don't like is the big, the, this time of year spider, the really big, I think their sort of common name is the giant house spider or something. I'll Google that now, but I think you know the ones.

Yes. You know, they can be sort of as big as, yeah, they call the giant house spider. a spider. So if you give that a Google, they can be really big. I mean, if they're a bit smaller, if they're the size of a 50p and, you know, I'm convinced that I could get them up my asshole, then I'm fine with it. But when they're the size of, uh, I don't know, sort of a wagon wheel. That's your limit. Yeah. Um, but I don't mind sort of spindly spiders, you know, the ones that some people call daddy long legs, even though daddy

long legs is definitely a flying creature and not a spider but you know the ones some people really don't like the big spindly ones I don't mind them at all and any other kind of I don't mind jumping spiders I don't mind money spiders I'm alright with them I can quite happily remove them from my house without

fear I could put them you know carry them out with my hands if I wanted to just the big ones that I put a glass over I'm very jealous of that I'm horrified by spiders but now I think about it I kind of agree on the the daddy long leg situation because you can literally breathe on them

and they float away they don't really pose any threat they just little spindles spindly leg things that can be wafted away at the moment's notice then it pose no threat I'm generally I feel like I'm pretty comfortable like in

dodgy areas at night I mean I know there's this is there's a actual reason to be scared those places and maybe I speak from a place of privilege to be able to constantly walk around industrial states at 3am or whatever but I find I like them I like it a lot I I'm a big late night man so I tend to do my like big shop just before the end the shop closes like I'm a big proponent of going to astra at like 11 p.m. and getting you stuff then it's great it's like another world as it's like all the shelves have torn out people are trying to get them with the work

and you're there trying to find um onion rings at the dead of night. Yeah, I found myself there before. I'm a big fan of it myself. But yeah, it just means walking home at night and it can be quite, it goes through some weird areas. And I don't know,

I find it quite fun and exciting myself. I know what you mean. You're right that obviously we come from a place of privilege being, well, male is the main one. But yeah, putting that aside, I mean, there are people who, there's like subredits and YouTube channels and stuff that are literally just devoted to night walking

because people are in like it's just a thing that people are into and whether that's urban or even rural um yeah I find it I do find it a little bit slightly slightly creepy or slightly unnerving but I think that's why I like it I think that's um I don't always understand when people do

or watch things that scare them outright and say that they enjoy that and that it gives them a thrill like I don't really like horror movies that much I don't really like roller coasters particularly, but the one time I can relate to that is when I'm sort of, yeah, walking around somewhere at night and it all looks a bit different to usual. And you're like, ooh, what could be here? But it's kind of interesting.

We call them spicy walks. Spicy walks. Yeah, spicy walks. That's it. Spicy walks. I love a good spicy walk. I'm not scared of making phone calls. Right.

Oh, that's a really good one to know. Yeah, good for you. It seems that a lot of people are. Don't get me wrong. I find it to be irritating in that it's obviously easier to, or it's less of a time commitment to not call, say, a business. But equally, if I have to call a fucking business, I'm going to call them.

It's usually if I need to give them a piece of my mind about something, something's not working or I need to cancel some kind of recurring payment and stuff like that but I am not afraid of phone calls it does seem to be a very common thing and if you want me to make phone calls on your behalf send me money on PayPal and I'll do it you can hire me to make phone calls for you that's a really good business venture I think I'd definitely use of that I'd break out of laws, I think, pretending to be other people. Just don't get caught.

Just don't get caught. Yeah, I'm jealous of that, though. That's a great one to have. I mean, I'm not as scared as some people are. I know some people get, like, actual anxiety about it, and I'm sort of all right. But, yeah, I wish I was just confident, like, I don't like complaining whether it's on the phone or not. Do you like, do you have no fear complaining in restaurants, Ben?

You good at that as well? I've, I don't think I've ever complained in a restaurant. I've just, because it's not, it's, the person I complain to, it's not their fault. Yeah. However, if I order, you know, food online or something and it comes and it's bad, I will complain, you know, quite, quite happily. But yeah, I've, you know, I've had, I've had takeaway before and certain items have not shown up and I've called the restaurant and said, hey, this isn't here. And usually they don't, they don't lift a fucking finger. They just say, oh, sorry, we'll give you some money off next time you order from us. Like, I'm not going to

order from you again. And also, how on earth are you going to remember? Are you going to keep a record of that. I bet you've only won't. So, yeah, I, if I have been wronged in some way, I really do not mind giving, giving a telephone call. We did some, what was it? We did some axe throwing the other week. Oh, I wasn't there for that, but.

And, yeah, Ashton booked it, and she hadn't heard, she had an email confirmation through yet. And so I said, do you want me, do you want me to call them? She was like, yes, please. And there was a part of me, well, I didn't get confirmation. there was a part of me that knew that if I offered to call I would be taken up on that offer

because I sent an email they didn't get back to me have you called them no well I'll send another email then yeah I'll just call them that's fine I'll see if they've got a live chat I really don't mind calling them I'm very much in the camp of like

some phone calls are fine I can make them out thinking there's sometimes where like if I've got like say I've got a problem like a problem with an order or something like that. I have to like write down every beat of information rehearsing like half an hour before I call because I know like at some point in this conversation they're going to ask me a question and we're like, oh shit, I don't have the answer to that.

And I just kind of go, uh, uh, uh, sorry, I need to have all the beats planned out. It might be because I've been on the other side of those phone calls that I know the, I know how bad it can be when people call. And I know that even if I fall over myself and I don't know what I'm saying, it will still be better than you know the worst thing that that person has had to put up with that day yeah that's true i always find as well as soon as i've started the call as soon as they said hello and i start speaking i'm like fine it's it's just the act of like dialing and ringing being on hold and then you can almost tell straight away that like you know most of these people are actually really

friendly and actually want to help you so yeah hello i can help you today it's like oh okay yeah I'm happy now. Especially if you're nice. There's a, yeah, there's a repeated story in my, or joke in my family. I may have even told this on Pollyts before, but my dad was once, my dad's really good at complaining, like in restaurants or on the phone, like, he'll do it. You know, he's one of those people. He doesn't make a fuss.

He doesn't look to complain, but if there's a problem, he'll complain. And he had to phone talk talk to do something. about, I think the old lady who lived over the road, something about her phone or something or I don't know what it was. So he rang them up and he was like being put on hold and he's being passed to like the next department and then, oh right, I'll put you through to da-da-da. And he was on there for like half an hour and he was getting really mad. And finally he got through to someone and he said to them, oh, do you mind? Could you tell me about your complaints procedure please? Because I do want to make a complaint. And she's like, oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

What's the issue? And he said, well, it's ironic that you. called Talk Talk, because I don't seem to be able to talk, talk to anybody today. And so that's an oft-repeated thing. I mean, I should be clear as well, he wasn't saying it. He wasn't mean to the person. He was sort of laughing. He was saying, well, I'd like to complain about the, you know, the business as a whole. He's not, he's a nice man and doesn't complain.

He is a nice man. Like you say, Ben, it's not, it's never that person's fault, is it? whether you're in a restaurant or, yeah, you're ringing up a company because someone's fucked up your order. It's not the person who's on the phone lines who's made the mistake. Yeah. Yeah. I would, and to be clear, in a restaurant,

if the wrong food's brought out or the wrong order, I wouldn't complain, but I would say, hello, can you fix this please? Yeah. I've never gone out of my way to say, can I just, I just want to say this was fucking terrible. I've never done that. But I, you know, if the wrong food comes,

I will get someone's attention and, get it sorted. Yeah. Which is also, I think, Achilles heel of some people. Yeah. Oh, you're a big brave boy. Well, we'll get on that service set up.

Yeah. In our own ways. In our own ways, but Ben more so, because he's not scared of a phone. Look at us, hey? Our great grandparents fought in the war. Yeah.

Michael won't call the bank to sort out a transaction he didn't make. It's fine. They can have the money. Scary. Scary out there. Ben, would you like to continue your big strong boy energy and let's give us a spooky tale

I do, I have a spooky thing it's time for the second annual Spook or Spock Oh yeah Don't know Oh my God Those of you listening at home Remember but this time last year

I introduced a very silly game called Spook or Spock And what I have in front of me are a number of quotes One of them is from Spock Off of Star Trek And the other one is a quote from a spooky movie and you two have to

tell me which one is spook and which one is Spock. Now, I have mixed in a couple of curveballs here. A couple of quotes that aren't necessarily from horror movies just to throw you off the scent a little more. So

you'll have to identify those as well as they come through. Also, I want to take this opportunity to thank the literally hundreds of people who have tagged us in the Billy Ray Cyrus is dating someone who was on the Hannah Montana show tweet. We have seen it. Thank you very much.

You can stop. Please stop. Okay. Is that scandal confirmed? I think so. That's what everyone is saying. Yeah. Yeah, it's finally confirmed.

That's what everyone's saying. So more to come, but we are aware. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Okay. First set of quotes. Are you ready?

Yes. Goat. Quote one. Insufficient facts. Always invite. And the second quote, Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise? Which is a spook and which is a spark?

They both sound pretty spocky. I'd say the first one is maybe more spocky and less spooky. I think the second one's more spocky. I couldn't imagine anyone saying, alas, in a horror film. Yeah, maybe so, but I'll stick with my guns. Well, the first point goes to Peter. because of course Alas how terrible is wisdom

when it brings no profit to the wise is Lewis Seifer from Angel Heart which I am told is a horror movie And the other one of course is Spock The next one Computers make excellent and efficient servants But I have no wish to serve under them

And My mission responsibilities range Over the entire operation of the ship So I am constantly occupied which is a spook and which is a spock computers make excellent and efficient servants but I have no wish to serve under them

and my mission responsibilities range over the entire operation of the ship so I am constantly occupied I'll say the second one is spock this time I'm going to say the first one is spock just I mean controlling ship is very spoky but also I could see the computer

Yeah, I'm going to go that one Spock Could be a pirate ship, a spooky pirate ship So the first one is the Spock Computers make excellent and efficient servants But I have no wish to serve under them The other one was Hal 9000 from 2001 in Space Odyssey Oh Of course

Of course Next one We survive by remembering But sometimes we survive by forgetting And fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected. In this case, I would think interesting would suffice.

I think the second one is Spock. First one, spook. Yeah, I'm going to say that as well. The first one kind of sounds like the dramatic last line at the end of a movie. Everyone survived. It was Beauty Killed the Beast. Well, you're both right.

The first one was Dr. Sibberling slash Cyberling from the uninvited, which apparently is also a horror movie. So there we are. Next one. May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed, hang on, let me try that again. May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find there are logic and foolish emotions a constant irritant. And humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. I think you missed that. Oh. God, these are tough. I'm going to say, you go first, Mikey, you go first. I'm going to say the first one is the spock and the second's the spook, personally.

Yeah, I think that's what I was thinking as well. Well, it was one of my curveballs, but you identified it. The second one is Vision from Avengers Age of Ultron. Aha. What? Yeah, so not a spook, just a curveball. That's a good curveball. We've got three left.

Next one. The world of men will fall. and all will come to darkness and my city to ruin. And in critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see. First one, I've got to say, is not, I've got to assume is not Spock because he said, my city to ruin. I mean, maybe they went to flipping Volcanoia at some point, but I don't know. I mean, it could be a metaphorical city.

Yeah, could be. my city I'm I can have the second one once more Of course you can In critical moments Men sometimes see Exactly what they wish to see

I'm going to say I'm going to say the second one Spock I'm going to try And try and go against the What feels right And Peter you think the second one is Spock as well Uh Yes

Because I think the city is not Spock Well, you're both bang on again, and you've managed to dodge another curveball. That first one was Boromere from the Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring. Oh, God. Next up, I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize. And I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

I feel like I might have heard that second quote. before but it could I mean I've never watched any Star Trek but it could be you know the kind of quote that you get shared around from Star Trek or it could be from a film I've seen not sure Mikey what do you think

I want to say the first one Spock and the second is spook I'm feeling like it's some kind of like epiphany moment maybe where they've overcome the evil or the evil realizes it's true powers I became this blah blah could you just read the second quote again of course I see now that the circumstance

answers of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. I chose to take life with my gift of life. I feel that's from a different movie that I might have seen. So I'll say the first one, Spock. Again, you've both dodged a curveball because that second quote is Mew2 from Pokemon the first movie. What? Yeah, I think I might have seen memes, memes of it on Twitter. And final one, after a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. And I will say now, however objectively, that human teleportation, molecular decimation breakdown reformation is inherently purging.

I mean, the second one sounds like the transmat teleporter thing that they use, right? I'm going to say the second one, Spock. Yeah, I think second one's spot as well. Spot? Spot? Spot. Spot the dog. Well, I've got you there.

That was, of course, Seth Brundle from the fly. Ah, well done. The first one was the Spock. And there we are. That is this year's edition of Spook or Spock. Nice. That last one was great, yeah. I already thought I'd get you with a Pokemon one, but no.

Very good. You had heard it somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get you with a different Pokemon one next year. yes well we'll be ready uh would you boys like one last question spocket monsters i just wanted to say that yes we have a question from they who stay quiet in the void um at the underscore foul on twitter they say you've died

who or where will you be haunting and what version from your life will you present as I like this one, because, I mean, the haunting question is quite a, quite a common one. But I've never thought about, like, because ghosts don't age. They just, they stay, like, they're eternal in their form. Let's say we have a choice over our form. I'm instantly drawn towards, like, 12-year-old me at the height of my Jordy. It's like a little, a little small child with a bowl cut running around. Speaking Jordy nonsense.

Dressed as Mary Poppins, perhaps. Yeah. monkey's blood monkey's blood monkey's blood can you not hear that it's coming from the walls Began

Began I don't think I'd haunt though That's an interesting one It's always Is the question of Am I there to entertain someone Or comfort them

Or just ruin their lives And be a blight on their existence Hmm Yeah I mean I could think of a A really unethical way of sort of gaslighting someone it would be to find someone

who is really interested in the Jeff the Mungo story I'm sure there's some academic out there who knows that you know who's like written papers on it and he's really into it find someone who's obsessed with the story and I would choose my form

to just be invisible and then I would go to their house and just sort of whisper at them in the night saying you know I'm living in the walls I am from I was born an Indian and I whatever else he used to say it's Jeff he's back he's back yeah

hmm I don't I don't know I would probably go with modern day version of myself just because I feel like the various iterations have passed me are ones that I have moved away from you know I don't want to be necessarily stuck as them forever

yeah So I would Do you want your afterlife to be cast As something you don't want to be representative of yourself Exactly I don't want to be stuck as Peak Ben that's going to hold I'm stuck as season one Ben

You know I've got to Still finding his footing in the pilot And now it's season three Ben Where everything's cemented and golden Exactly That's what I want Also I've just

While I was looking up a photo of Spock For the thread on Twitter There's a photo That looks exactly like Trot from films and apparently

A photo of Spock As As Spock Actor Ethan Peck talks Taking on iconic role of Spock For Star Trek Discovery Now I'm sure we're way behind the times And lots of other people have already made This

This connection But how much does this look like Trot? Oh my God oh yeah I think I might even seen Trot post that photo before And say yes I get it Yes, it is me That's him, right?

Yeah, that's literally him Just with a wig on I mean he was in Kill Keith Wasn't he as an extra Yeah, true There you go, he got noticed He's moved up Apparently Ethan Peck

Looks just like Trot So There we are So that's the form I would take Ethan Peck as Spock Perfect I still don't know who I want to haunt I think I'm just going to, maybe I'll just go for,

I want a radio personality to haunt so my tails can be told on the airwaves, but maybe, oh, the one who looks and sounds like me from cultaholic, I've forgotten his name, my God. Oh, no. Oh, no. Like, we both have a laugh. You mean Andrew? Andrew. No, Andrew, no. My God, why can I not

remember the dude's name? Help me. He both had a laugh. Campbell? Tom Campbell. I think people have said, look, it'd sound like Tom Campbell. We've got similar

colouring, I suppose. Coloring, you know, because you're like a set, yes. There's a somewhat similar energy to us, I guess.

Similar for. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to haunt him. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to come for you. Oh,

he's just going to hear is buging. I, why are you, man? There's a little Jody ghost. I feel like they're underrepresented

in classical literature. It's all spooky, posh ghosts. Yeah. The working class took their throne And echoed through the wind With their They're seeing their price are cool

Are we That's it That's what I want Well, I think we've done it, guys Thank you so much for the questions And the things And thank you all at home So much for listening

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