Who Knew It with Matt Stewart - 110 - Josh Earl, Gillian Cosgriff and Marcel Blanch-de Wilt

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

Who Knew It with Matt Stewart is a comedy game show podcast hosted by Australian comedian Matt Stewart. This episode features Josh Earl (Four Burners podcast), Gillian Cosgriff (Harry Potter And The Cursed Child) and Marcel Blanch-de Wilt (Newly Weds Improv)!Check out Matt's stand up special: https://youtu.be/cWStRpI-BhESupport the show via http://patreon.com/dogoonpod and you can submit questions for the show!See the podcast/Matt live: https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/Check out Matt's podcast network: https://dogoonpod.com/Theme song by Evan Munro-Smith, Logo by @muzdoodles and edited by Connor Schmidt! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Acast.com. Welcome to Who Knew with Matt Stewart, the show where the guests write the wrong answers. I'm the teacher of Matt Stewart. Our first guest won the most outstanding show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2023. It's Julian Cosgrove. Oh, it's me. Hello. I specified 2023 for that reason. Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2023 is Gillian Cosgrove. Oh, it's me, hello. I specified 2023 for that reason.

I didn't look that far back, but assume our other guests also have one in the past. Everyone gets a go. It's a really beautiful system. The future. Yeah, that's true. People can be listening to this at any point. Mm hmm. Our second guest this week is host of the Four Burners podcast.

It's Josh Earle. Yay, it's me. Have you won most outstanding show? In Perth Josh Earle. Yay, it's me. Have you won Most Outstanding Show? In Perth I did. Yeah, there you go. In 2012. 2012, is that the cake show? It was the cake show.

What a show. It was, it was a good show, and I'd already done it two years before in Melbourne, and I thought, oh, Perth can have this old show, and they liked it. Yeah, they ate it up. That's awesome. In your bio, do you have Perth,

2021, 2012 in brackets, or do you just write most outstanding show? It's not even in there, in my bio. Oh my goodness. It's my best. I know, Frenchman, I'm sorry. It doesn't make it anymore. Our third guest performs improv with his wife

and a team called The Newlyweds, is Marcel Blanchet-Wilt. It's true. Hello everyone. It's a thrill to be here. You had too many things to choose from. Oh well, I wear many hats. Yeah, that's what your bias says, I think. Yeah, exactly.

Marcel wears many hats. Yes. Now that you've been married for almost a decade, are you going to change the name to? Oldlyweds? The old ball and chain? Who wants to be, who gets to be the old ball and chain? And what's the other, I'm the prisoner and she's the old ball and chain, Who wants to be who gets to be the old ball and chain? And what's the other? I'm the prisoner and she's the ball and chain.

Is that the idea? Yeah, I think that is the idea. OK, great. Yeah, we will. Is that how you're feeling? My wife is currently on a cruise ship job for the last three months. I feel like I'm I'm in a relationship with someone who's been cursed by Davy Jones himself. Oh, OK.

She's not having an affair. That's what I thought you were going to say. I feel like having a relationship with someone who's got a secret second family. She's in the room. She's at the bottom of the ocean. She's having an affair with Poseidon. Oh, that's hot. OK, so the way the show works is I ask a relatively obscure trivia question. Our contestants have to write a convincing fake answer.

I then read their answers, as well as the real one. And I have to guess which one is correct. And while I've got you, why not follow us on Instagram, Facebook or whatever. Who knew a pod filming episodes now? And I'm putting up a clip every now and then. And I'm even aiming at bringing that up to one that will we. Can you check in with us and tell us, like, if a moment was clip worthy across this episode? Me?

Yeah. All right, no, let's ask the listeners to do that. OK. I was really having it. worthy across this episode? Me? Yeah. All right, no, let's ask the listeners to do that. Okay. I was really having it just- Maybe if we're in a clip moment, just give me a thumb and I'll make a note. I think putting it up every now and then is also really good as a fan.

Going, oh, I don't have to worry about it. Missing one every day. It's like every now and then, I can deal with that. Exactly, and I don't want to make following us stressful. That's beautiful. I don't like people who are needy. Exactly. All right, so the first question comes from listener Melanie

from Melbourne, and the question is, what does Toddy Mungus mean? What does Toddy Mungus mean? Well, they're writing their answers. I'll explain how the scoring works. So you get one point if your fake answer is guessed by the other contestant, and another point if you correctly guess the answer. By the way I'm also playing as the house and I've put in two of my own fake answers

for each question with the help of the question writers and we get a point for each one of those that our guests choose so each of us can score up to three points per round which seems fair but according to a mathematician who listens the probability the probability actually favors me the house and the house always wins Although if you listen to previous episodes, you'll know that is not necessarily the case Anyway, most of our questions come from our great patreon supporters If you want to submit a question sign up on any level via patreon.com slash to go on pod Which is linked in the show notes. I like that this questions from Mel Mel from Mel. Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel Mel woman, a huge mug of hot Irish whiskey,

something that looks large from a distance, but turns out to be remarkably smaller when you get closer to it, or a hot drink for when you have a cold, including honey, whiskey and mushroom fungi. There's a couple here. There's some themes, there's some themes going on. Yeah. You want to work us through your logic there, Marcel? I mean, I think they're all great.

I am always excited when people, I mean, also when people go, oh, yeah, I'm such a unique thinker and then we see so many of these. But pretty much I'm hooked from the number one. I think that one is great. Let's do number one. They're pouring out whiskey. All right. Lock that in for Marcel. What do you think, Julian? I'm going to go with the absolute outlier because to me this feels like wildly

preposterous that todemongus is a word for an extremely attractive woman. That feels like chaos. You know, and I choose chaos today. I think. You can't picture yourself, you know, walking down the street and, oh, check out, oh, todemongus. Check out the todemongus over there. You don't have todemungus in your bio?

I do now. There's your name. Yeah, check out the songwriter. Toddymungus. Toddymungus. It's got such a yucky mouth feel to say it to. A friend of mine who, I won't say his name, but not the smartest guy in the world,

and he'd heard of innuendo, but didn't know what it meant. And so once we walked past some young women, this is when we were like 18, and he goes check out the innuendo on them. He's about to stab at it. He had a go. I think this one is the one where you see it from far and it's bigger than when it's up. No, what is it? It's smaller than you think. Some of it looks large from a distance, but it turns out to be remarkably small

when you get close to it. That's what I'm gonna go for. All right, I'll come in for Josh. Here's who wrote the answers. A hot drink for any other cold, including honey, whiskey, and mushroom fungi. That was Josh Earl. Mm, it's a new one.

Hot toddy. I would like one of those. I was thinking the same. Huge mug of hot Irish whiskey. That was the house. Melanie, okay, the house, wrote something that is surprisingly small compared to how you imagined.

Then something that looks large from a distance, basically the same thing, but turns out to be remarkably smaller when you get closer to it. Josh went for that, that was Marcel. Oh, Marcel will get some points. I was proud of that one. I was proud of that one.

Yeah, until you realize that Melanie. Yeah, I was like, maybe I'm under something here. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I was wondering if you're going to go for the alternative, but no. You went for the practice of pouring out whiskey barrel dregs into a Pete Bog. That was Gillian.

Oh, it's very good. No one would ever pour dregs into a bog. Have you met Pete Bog? I didn't ever like him once. Beautiful man. That was fun, three of us went for whiskey. But that means, Gillian, you're also correct. A word to describe an extremely attractive woman. Oh my goodness, Toddy Mungus.

It's a regional dialect thing, apparently, from certain areas of New South Wales. No, really? It's not even Irish? No, it doesn't. It sounds like it's not Australian. Toddy Mungus. Is it based on Toddy Goldsmith? Yeah.

Shantouzis. And the TV show Fire. You know I once met Toddy Goldsmith when I was like 13 years old. Wow. Did you like her innuendo? And Fire was a very popular TV show. So she came to our town for some charity event and the woman who was organising it

thought it'd be very cute to have like door people there. And cause I was in the local theatre scene. She goes, Josh, you'll be fine. And so I was opening the door for everyone and Toddy Goldsmith thought I was adorable. Kiss me on the cheek, both cheeks. And it was like, I got to go home and go, Toddy Goldsmith, kiss me.

Yeah, yeah guys. Huge, huge. Massive. Never washing these cheeks again. Toddy mongers. All right after one round the scores are Josh in the house on zero, Marcel on one but out in front on a really toddy monger two points to Jillian Cosgrove. Here is question number two, comes from two people, two different listeners sent this one in.

Dominic Hood from Stratford-upon-Avon, which is a Shakespeare's name, and Rebecca Loring from Montrose, Tasmania. That's my neck of the woods. Is that up? Nah, it's down south, I think. Right. I mean, you're Australia's bard.

Yes. Other people write my stuff for me. Alright, so their question is which of these are real birds? So you've just got to make up a fake species of bird. You know, something a little exotic and unusual sounding. Oh great. You just want a name or you want? Just the name. Okay great. While you're writing your answers here's a little more info about Toddymungus. Melanie writes, I found this word in the Macquarie dictionary because we're moving house and I've packed all my books already but needed something to read so I didn't just scroll my phone while eating lunch. As

soon as I read it I thought Matt needs to know this for who knew it and got on my phone to submit this, thus thwarting my brilliant plan to stay off my phone. According to a 2002 article in The Age, the word is regional from New South Wales and means a well proportioned woman. That feels worse, but what does... Yeah, anyway. It's like the old fashioned movies where like women would be handsome more. And I was like a much more sort of. And but he say it these days.

I. Oh, what are you trying to say to me? Why don't you call me Tony Munger's like a real man. Well proportioned. I don't know. Something about well proportioned feels a bit. No, it feels great, actually. It feels fantastic. I want to start saying it more. All right, we've got the answers in for question number two.

Which of these is a real bird? The Egyptian cotton pile. The long lost robin. That's option two. Option three, Tudus Magudus. Option four, the great eared nightjar. Option five, long toed hobgoblin. Or option six, flit-beaked saurer.

Jillian, your turn to go first. I'm scared of birds. I have to be honest with you. Ducks have it in for me. Are you able to hold it together in these moments? Yeah, I'm gonna try my, but evidently no. I don't mean in this moment. I mean if you're at a duck pond

or something like that. What's helpful is that people don't think it's real. Like one time I was with my partner and he's seen me, he knows that I'm not great with birds. And I remember we were sitting there and the way these ducks just came for us. And he was like, I see it now, we should never be. I'm like, thank you.

I think what would make me send in something, it would have to be Hobgoblin. To me, that's kooky enough that I'd be like, this'll get him. I think that's my choice. Long-toed Hobgoblin. Yeah, go on. I'm with you kind of with birds,

but only if they're coming for me. I like them at a distance. Yeah, it's just a beak is a shiv on your face. Yeah, yeah. And they can attack you from all angles. Yeah, and they can remember you, which I don't, when people are like, Magpies are so I can they can attack you from all angles Yeah, and they can remember you which I don't when people like magpies are so smart. They can remember you I'm like stop saying that like a boss in Tassie. There were plovers and they swooped My primary school. Yeah, but not me too. And so I was petrified of them

But friends of mine will go let's go get sweep by for fun Let's go get swooped and so I walking home would take an umbrella and I was the only kid who would walk with an umbrella for your big head If I was walking home I would have the umbrella up so the birds couldn't swoop me. That's very smart. Yeah Point Dexter over here take that Yeah, yeah, I do not like that. I thought there were plovers Maybe they weren't plovers at Torquay. One time we were staying at the caravan park there and we had to walk past their nest.

Are they the ones that nest on the ground? Dumb birds nest on the ground, yes. And they would, you know, get very protective. To walk from the caravan park to the beach, you had to walk right past them. Yeah, I still don't like plovers. Magpies, no one's stealing your eggs. No one. No one wants to speak. No. Speak for yourself.

Jillian, isn't that the point? Like, if you're nice and they remember that as well. Yes, that is true. Yeah. My Michelle Brazier has like a whole family of magpies that comes to her balcony every day. Of course, she does. She's Cinderella. Like, it makes sense. You know, some people can.

But also, I got enough friends. I don't need bird friends. Yeah, that's a fair call. Don't tell the birds that. You guys are great. I like that little bit of shade you gave to Michelle. She needs the bird. All right, Josh, what do you think? The night jar? Was that the... Great eared night jar. That's the one I'm going for. And you. I also was going to look in Nightjar and then I do just like in ordering in a restaurant when someone orders something that you were going to

order, I sometimes go, oh, no. Yeah. Do I want to be a copycat? I was brought up to think that copycat is the worst thing you can be. But I'm going to stick to my guns and say Nightjar. Because you could order something else and have a little bit of Josh's. Yeah, I don't know. I don nightjar. I don't ship.

All right, here's the answers. The Egyptian cotton pile, that was Dominic, one of the question writers, okay, the house. Really good. The flip baked Sora was Gillian. Tootis Magootis was Josh. Every time I'm on the pod, I put in Toots Magudus in something, something.

I think originally it was for a Star Wars character. And yeah, we laughed for quite a while. The long lost Robin was Marcel. Long toed Hobgoblin, Gillian went for that. That was actually Rebecca, another one of the question writers, AKA the house. Meaning the correct answer, Josh and Marcel got it. The great eared night jar.

Night jar, good to be a copycat. Good to be. I like a night jar as well. Yeah. What a good combination of words. It's really good. It sounds badass. Julian's writing down some lyrics for a new song. I fear the night jar. Yeah.

Oh, that's good. It's what your drinker Toddy Munger's from, a night jar. I met a guy in Brisbane who drinks pickle juice and vinegar out of the fridge at night and so he'd probably think of that as the night jar. Yeah, that's nice, that's really lovely. They try and sell that as a way to stop cramping. Oh really? He says he drinks it until his stomach hurts so he might be...

Oh okay, that's also cool. Is it the salt? It must be the salt, right? It must be the salt, yeah. Wild. The brine. The brine. So after two rounds, scores are Josh and the House on one point a piece, but out in front

on two points it's Gillian and Marcel. Ooh, neck and neck. Here is question three. This comes from Tom in inverted commas, Badger Hill from Rotherham in the UK. Like a person who keeps that nickname, you know, wherever they go. I like to think that Tom Badger Hill, that's his name at the bank. He writes, what is a Liechtenstein based fact from the 1936 Olympics in Berlin? So something Liechtenstein-y from the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

Something that stood out. Yeah, something from that Olympics. It involves Liechtenstein. Okay. While you're writing your answers, I'll let the audience know a bit more about these great eared nightjars. According to Dominic, they're native to Southeast Asia and they look like a creature straight out of a fantasy novel with dragon-like features.

Its larger ear-like tufts, nocturnal habits and stealthy flight through dense forests earned its reputation as one of the world's mystical birds. Though not a real dragon, glad you qualified that Dominic, its haunting call and ethereal appearance make it a marvel." I've got to look this bird up. Rebecca writes, lock up your goats! It's the great-eared nightjar! This big-mouthed, long-eared milk gobbler of a bird will desiccate your bleeders and

leave them blind! At least that's what Aristotle thought. According to the renowned Greek philosopher, night jars suckle directly from the udders of goats. Bear in mind, however, he also believed eel spontaneously generate from mud, so grain of salt. But myths are hard to shake, and so the night jar is still known to some as the goat sucker. All hundred-ish species of night jars are insectivorous and may have been attracted to domestic livestock to feed on the insects that associate with them. The name night jar refers to their nocturnal nature and their calls, which are said to be jarring. Although having heard a clip, to me, they sound rather like a bird.

You should do documentary. That was very soothing. Yeah, that was lovely. Well, you're saying about like nicknames and this Tom Badger guy and how this, what is it? The goat sucker? Yeah, the goat sucker. Yeah, that's like a high school nickname that just never went away. Yeah, yeah.

I sucked off one goat. I'm a lawyer now. I need you to stop calling me that. Call me the badger. I'm a lawyer now, I need you to stop calling me that. Call me the badger. Yeah, apparently, I've got to look them up because Rebecca writes, like all night jars, the great eared variety is a camouflage expert during the day it hides in plain sight among the woody undertones of the forest where its subtle feathery palette of greys, browns and ochres help to break up the bird's outline and blend seamlessly into the background.

Is it a pile of leaves? Is it a tree stump? Is it even there at all? Evolution has sculpted the great-eared nightjar into a true master of disguise. Ham, I've just been filming a pile of logs as well. I was going, this pile of leaves sounds awful. What's going on? I was going, this pile of leaves sounds awful. What's going on? Are you getting any curiosity to see what it looks like? Cause that people used to think it was like a dragon

or something. Where are birds ears? Where are they? Yeah. Good question. That's a good title for a show. Thank you for your help. They are pretty amazing looking.

Oh, there's like a tawny frog mouth. Oh, upsetting to me. Yeah. No, thank you. I think they're just on the side, I suppose. They are pretty amazing looking. Oh, it looks like a tawny frog mouth. Oh, upsetting to me. Yeah. No, thank you. I think they're just on the side, I suppose, if I had to guess. Are they just holes? Yeah, they probably are just holes, but I guess they're talking about whatever those are.

Are we like projecting ears onto them, but they're really just... Can a listener please Photoshop some ears, like some human ears on a bird? Yeah, big ones. I want to see how it looks. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Do they look, I mean, they look pretty, I mean, yeah. That's a pretty cool looking bird, I think. Oh yeah, that's sick.

In full flight, it's really giving. Yeah. Even I can respect that. That is high price. It's a real toddy monger sort of bird right there. Beautiful, yeah, beautifully proportioned. That is how ornithologists always sound like that. You ever read descriptions on bird watching websites?

I was like, they're beautiful feathers. I couldn't think of any other like bird related feathers. Haunches? No, talons? Wow. Yeah. All right. Haunches? No, talons? Wow. Yeah. All right. Question number three, the answers are in.

What is a Liechtenstein based fact from the 1936 Olympics in Berlin? I hope I'm steining that right. Does anyone know how to? Liechtenstein. Yeah. You stein it? Yeah. The capital is Vaduz, which is also good to say.

OK. That's very interesting. Gillian already, I think. Yeah, it's good. Had some automatic PIA quality. Vadooz, sounds like you're putting down your luggage. Yeah. Vadooz. Or it's giving Schwarzenegger.

Vadooz. Body slamming somebody. Here are your options. Option one, they were the only nation with 100% of their team meddling. This is because they only sent one athlete who bronzed in weightlifting Option two upon arriving. I realized their flag was identical to that of Haiti leading them to have to change it the following year Option three the long jump was canceled when the rain washed away all of the sand in the jumping pit when the rain washed away all of the sand in the jumping pit. Option four, they wanted to distance themselves from the past, from their past being part of

Germany following the rise of the Nazis. They banned all athletes from wearing Hitler style mustaches. Option five, they received a copper medal for fourth place in archery as there are only four competitors in the event. Or finally, Liechtenstein had only one athlete participate who was also a bus driver. Sorry, THE bus driver. Also, THE bus driver. That changes it quite a bit.

Alright, maybe I'll quickly run through them again. Yes, please. So you got the only team with 100% meddling, because there was only one. They had changed their flag because they realised it was the same as Haiti. Long jump was cancelled because of a storm. They weren't allowed to have Hitler mustaches. They received a copper medal for fourth place or they had only one athlete participate who was also the bus driver.

I'll go copper medal. Copper medal. Copper medal for Josh. Oh, these are all good. There's some really good ones in here. So now I don't know what to believe, but I might just throw caution to the wind and go, let's go to Haiti flag. Haiti flag.

OK, great. Nobody can change it when I talk, right? We locked in Josh. right? We locked in Joshua. Yeah, we're locked in. Cause when I heard you say the capital, Wittgenstein, I'm like, all right, Gillian's got some knowledge here. I have in the last many years become a geography queen because I am avoiding

all of my actual work all the time. You keep spitting that globe on your, on your table. I guess it's very that. So there's things that globe on your table. I guess, very that. So there's things that also, why would there be a bus if there's one person? Doesn't seem economical. Well, okay, let me explain.

For someone who's just heard this, before they do anything, the bus is the first thing they book in. Oh sure, before anyone qualifies. Okay, good, really good logic. I thought it was the bus that was driving the athletes from the village village to the event and then the bus driver went, you know what, I'll let you go. What, that means to other teams? Yeah, all the athletes stay in the village and then the bus driver drives in.

But surely every country has their own bus, they can't be mixing on the bus. No, not back then. Back in 36. Yeah, it was all about everyone coming together. Yes, and we are post-World War I too, so people are really like, they think everything's going to be fine. Not back then. Back in 36. It was all about everyone coming together. Oh yeah. Yes, we are post-World War I too, so people are really like, they think everything's gonna be fine. And we are in Nazi Germany, so. But it could have been like Disney movie type premise where it's like, the Olympics can't

go ahead unless there's someone from every country. We need a Lichtensteinian. Oh yeah. And the bus drivers are like, oh I've actually got a, I'm dual citizen. Yeah. I've got a Lichtensteinian. Also I have to say this because I was like, Oh, I've actually got, I'm dual citizen. Yeah. I've got a Lichtenstein. I've been thinking about it for two minutes. Do you know the do's is the sound that Lichtenstein Netflix makes when you're... Sorry. For me, it has to be number one, weightlifting, I think. All right. Locking that in for Julian. See, I don't think so because this is my thing and it'll probably be proven incorrect.

Well you would know about weightlifting. No, I was gonna say, because why would a country want the Olympics if they don't have any athletes competing in it? Like. Because it's post-World War I and it's like, guys we all have to go. We have to go to the party, the last party went so bad.

They're not, it's not their Olympics, Germany's hosting it. This is the Lieendrichen same. So they're, I think they're landlocked. Oh, sorry. They are landlocked. Do you know what made this? Are they fully, they're not fully surrounded by Germany, but they're fully surrounded by Germany and Austria or something?

Yeah, I think so. And it's tiny, right? So you drive across it in an hour. I did a Contiki tour when I was like 19, That was, I think, 12 countries in 20 days. So they're cheating a bit. And you didn't stop the bus. One was the Vatican. Grow up. You could call it small. I call it toddy mungus.

I think it's a beautifully proportioned country. Yeah, it's funny you say Vatican. We've got a Vatican question coming up. All right. So here's who wrote the answers. Liechtenstein had let me read it correctly one time. Lichtenstein had only one athlete participate who was also the bus driver. Did I, I gotcha that for you, but. Yeah, it's fine. I could have won this game, but.

It was the most joyful. I enjoyed it. Thank you so much. Hitler mustaches were banned. That was Badger in the House. Classic Badger. Uh, the long jump was cancelled because of the rain. That was Josh Earle. Uh, Gillian went for... they got bronze on the weightlifting. That was the house, I'm afraid, Gillian. Oh my goodness. You walked right into the house.

God, like a fool. Josh went for copper medal for fourth place. That was Gillian. Oh, it was good. That was really good. Participation award. I really wish it was true so it could be like, even in Nazi Germany, they were giving away

participation awards. And that means that the correct answer, Marcel got it. Even in Nazi Germany they were giving away patsy's with a question of what's... Um, and that means that the correct answer, Marcel got it. They had the identical flag and had to change it. Oh wow. Those flags are so different. They are now. That's wild.

That's so funny that they didn't know that another country had this flag until the Olympics. The same flag. Pre-internet, you're turning up comparing flags. But also Haiti's flag must have changed because the Haiti flag has a badge in the centre of it that's like some pretty specific stuff from Haiti. Yes. A cannon, is that right? It's got like a tree in the middle, sort of like looks like a palm tree.

That's how I always remember it. That's right. So they both ended up changing them. Liechtenstein has a crown now. It's very sheer. They both went away and changed it and then came back and it was the same. OK, let's stay in the same room and we'll do it together. Australia, when they were forming their flag, they put it out there for people to like submit options.

And one of the options was a kangaroo shooting a rifle into the Southern Cross. Yeah, right. We could have had that. Yeah, wow. In an alternate universe. So yeah, they are, so that's Haiti's current one. So we're looking at blue and red with a little thing in the center and then- Oh, I see, yes.

But before the pictures, they were just the blue and red. Brown and dark. So Liechtenstein changed this by adding a crown in the top left corner. Sort of a, what would we call that? Like a navy blue and a crimson? Yeah, it's got it. It's a striking flag. But you can also understand why it might have already been taken.

Yes. Went for two primary colours. Half and half. I don't think anyone else will come up with this. There are a lot of those though. There's one that's like just a marginally different shade of red. Yeah. I think it's like Monaco and maybe Indonesia. Yeah.

You know your flags. I just did flags because I was meant to be writing a musical. That's so funny. And you didn't go for the flag one because you had too much information. Yep. Wow. Interesting. Like a damn fumble.

I was so confident. Insufferable. So that means in that round, the house gets a point, Marcel gets a point and Julian gets a point. That's a long-winded way of saying everyone but Josh gets a point. Hey, we liked the, I mean, I don't know about, you think in 1936 they hadn't invented tarps to put over the long jump sand? I just thought it, big storm washes all the sand away, someone jumps in.

Ah, my back! I got it myself! Alright, let's call this off. And what would it sound like if a liquid shiny and landed? What do you mean? After three rounds, scores are Joshua 1, House on 2, but out in front still on three points apiece it's Gillian and Marcel. Oh my goodness, this could tear our friendship apart.

Yeah. We're halfway through now. Here's question number four. Can't wait for my copper medal. This is going to look so good on you. This is from Tess Matthews from Manchester in the UK. The question is, what village was voted as having the UK's worst place name in 2012? What village was voted as having the UK's worst name in 2012? While you're

writing your answers here's a little more info about Liechtenstein's flag. According to Badger, ultimately changing the flag was unnecessary, as Gillian's already mentioned, because Haiti updated its flag 50 years later to include a white box that has pictures of cannons on it. Also, as neither country won any medals at that Olympics, the confusion about the flags didn't actually come up. Additionally, Liechtenstein has never won a medal at the Summer Olympics, and Haiti didn't attend the Winter Olympics until 2022,

where neither country won a medal. Geez, Badger really laid into Liechtenstein, and Haiti there felt unnecessary, but I appreciate all the same. All right, while you're still writing your answers, let's go for a quick break. Acast powers the world's best podcast. Here's a show that we recommend. Halloween horror is about this spooky season with these hair-raising podcasts.

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Acast helps creators launch, grow and monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com. All right, we're back. Here's question number four. What village was voters having the UK's worst name, place name in 2012? Barking cock. Mid bottom. Clunge on stoat.

Tims of Pricksville. Crummy flaps. Or shitterton. Oh, that is an embarrassment of riches. It's back to me, isn't it? Back to you, yeah. I mean, that stoat got the biggest reaction from me. Let's get this, what was it, clunge upon stoke?

Clunge on stoke. Yeah, that's good. All right, looking that in for myself. Gillian? I think it's gotta be barking cock. And I've always said that. It's gotta be. Sounds like a troubling diagnosis.

Yeah, like a, your cock's got hooping cock. Coming back to report that to your partner. Yeah. It's not good news. You don't have your own pics on it. God. I'm gonna put it in a darkened room for a week, unfortunately. An iron lung sort of situation.

I'm gonna go shitterton. Shitterton. Beautiful. Yeah. What a beautiful, it's a beautiful country, beautiful language. Beautiful people. Beautiful food Really bad like Bridgerton parody. Yeah, yeah the musical shit it in the musical

All right, here's the right the answers crummy flaps. That was the house also a troubling diagnosis Mid bottom that was Tess. Okay The House. She did say that she went through and wanted to make sure her fake answer wasn't a real place and it took her ages. Everything she thought of was already taken, including lower bottom. So she had to up it to mid-bottom. All right, what else have we got?

Barking cock, Gillian went for that was Josh Earl Really well done, really good work from you Marcel went for Clunge on Stote. That was Gillian Nice It's worth rewarding that sort of penmanship Meaning Josh is correct Shitterton Shitterton Oh well done

Nicely done So geez Josh has a good round there. Two points to Josh and another point to Gillian. Little bit of hustling going on from Josh. Yeah. I don't know how to play this game. Wow, that really tightens things up now. On two points, it's the house.

On three points, Josh and Marcel, but out in front on four points of Jillian coming from most outstanding Award still update that resume Alright second last question comes from Kyle from Kansas in the United States. The question is in 1998 a band was held in custody by Vatican Police. What was the band and why were they in trouble? 1998, a band was held in custody by Vatican Police. What was the band and why were they in trouble? While you're writing your answers, here's what Tess writes about Shitterton.

Shitterton is a hamlet in Dorset, England. It has attracted worldwide attention for its name, which dates back at least a thousand years and means farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer. So it's not even a coincidence that it's got shit in the name. It is what it says it is. Shittaden has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. The hamlet includes a collection of historic thatched buildings dating back to the 18th century and earlier. Tess also says, my mum's friend used to live there when I was growing up and the name has always made me laugh. Making fake answers for this is extra hard as most of the things

I could think of are actual place names such as Lower Bottom. Alright, the answer for question number five. In 1998, a band was held in custody by Vatican police. What was the band and why were they in trouble? Backstreet Boys for posing with fans in the Sistine Chapel. Hole, Courtney Love gave the finger to the Pope. Radiohead, Tom York kissed Johnny Greenwood in a public protest against the Vatican's

stance on homosexuality. That's option three. Option four, the presidents of the United States of America arrested on suspicion that the lyrics for Peaches had hidden satanic messages. Option five, cradle of filth, keyboardist Lector was dressed as a vicar. Or option six, Babba the Abba tribute act. Because the Vatican City has strict copyright laws and tribute acts need special license which Babba did not have. Well, those all feel plausible. In 1998, all of those feel real. They've hit our sweet spot.

Yeah. In the last few years. Yeah. Oh my word. OK, Backstreet Boys, Hole, Radiohead. Presidents. Presidents Cradle of Filth. Or Babba.

Hmm? Oh, God. Ah. Well, you're hoping that you'd be able to get an anachronistic or whatever. You'd be able to go, I actually, they didn't form till June of 99. Well, this is where Josh is that this is Josh's flags. I think this is your geography round, right?

Um, Oh gosh. All of these feel achievable to me. Have radio had been arrested? Like, are they bad enough? I just don't know. Whereas Courtney Love feels too obvious. Backstreet Boys feels plausible. But 98. Are they in Rome yet?

You know, are they there? Yeah, backstreet back. Backstreet back. Are they cemented? Which Josh told us on on our on the sister podcast list to go on that that was their first single Backstreet's Back. They wanted to be their first single in America. Yes. Oh good. And the record label like, but you can't be back. We don't know who you are.

But back from the shops, back from something. We're back. Back from somewhere. Yeah. Oh, such a bullshit. But also the same thing with Return of the Mac. That was a song where there was never a like, Mac's here. Yeah. Yeah. We just were straight to Return of the Mac. It's implied, right?

So you just assume, oh, jeez, this Mac guy. Yeah. He's got a history. But I think about how many people didn't listen to that song, so like, I haven't heard the first one. That's true. People don't want to miss out. You think it could have been a bigger hit. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to take Hole. That's true. People don't want to miss it. You think it could have been a bigger hit. Yeah, exactly.

I'm going to I'm going to take Hole. Oh, OK. You went from too obvious to locking it in. Yeah, I went. What is that? Occam's razor? That one. Yeah. It was one of the one of the big razors. One of Gillette's.

The best a man could get. Outrageous. What do you reckon, Josh? I'm going to go Backstreet Boys. And they'd been touring around Europe. They were big in Europe before they hit America. So I think, you know, Vatican City might be on the touring schedule. Yeah, right. Okay.

Or at least like as a stop off if they're... Because it's near Rome, is it? It's inside Rome. Yeah. Oh, it's inside Rome. So yeah, it feels like you'd stop there. It's good by Rome. Good by Rome.'s inside Rome. Oh, it's inside Rome. So yeah, it feels like you'd stop there. It's Gert by Rome. Gert by Rome.

It is Gert. As their anthem goes. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, do we need to, I just want to quickly explain to international listeners. Gert's one of our great words in Australia. It's featured in our national anthem and we all love Gert.

It means surrounded by. Yeah. And the only reason we know that is because of the anthem. Yes. Marcel? Ah, man, I was also leaning towards Backstreet Boys. We all love Gert. It means surrounded by. Yeah. And the only reason we know that is because of the anthem. Marcel? Oh, man. I was also leaning towards Backstreet Boys. It makes a lot of sense.

And also, if it's early days, they're not getting the respect, you know. Yeah. Later on, they could come back there and do whatever they could have with their entourage and the people that we love. Thanks for coming. Yeah. Timberlake. Oh, my goodness.

Not Backstreet Boys. That's NSYNC. Oh, damn it, I don't know my voice from my sync. This is embarrassing, cut that out. This is my Phil Spector. AJ, cut that bit out where I got one thing wrong, okay? My fans need me to know that I'm perfect at all times. Myself, Connor, you really just annoyed Connor there. He edits this, he's gonna make you sound real bad.

Oh no. Oh this is a Conopod. That's why it sounds so good. You have, you've real bad. Oh, no. This is a Cotopod. That's why it sounds so good. You have it. You've dined with Josh once today. Yeah, exactly. What are you thinking? Well, we're sort of up to dessert now-ish and going for the same order. You don't want me to pick from your plate, but what about whatever's left over on your plate? Can I have some of that?

Yeah, dessert you can. I can have some of that. You have the trust of my flan. Well, wow, that's, now that's poetry. Write that down. Do you hear lyrics in the wild and go, I gotta write down? Crust of flan is a village in the blue.

Yeah, crust of flan. You should get that checked out. I should, I'm gonna go with my heart and I'm gonna go with Backstreet Boys. Backstreet Boys, all right. Looking in for Marcel. Here's the answers. Babbah the Abba Tribute Act. That was Josh Earle.

Yeah. Babbah Beer. They are a proper tribute act too. But I can't believe you didn't go for one of your 90s band. Interesting. Well, I just thought who's touring? Because I'm going to show them what I can get. I don't think Hole are going to the Vatican City to perform, I don't think Cradle of Filth are going. I don't think Radiohead would be there either.

But no one said they were performing there. But they were there. Yeah. So I'm thinking. They're humans. Yeah, I don't think Cradle of Filth are going. Let's go pop into the Pope. And was I right in saying license?

Cause I- Oh, what'd I write? I think it was a type of loco-murphy. Oh, yes, yeah. I'm like, I started sweating like, oh, is this a specific Latin? I thought it might've been a Latin like religious term. You did a beautiful job, Matt. You're getting better and better at plocophagous.

Yeah, yeah. I have in the past, I've faked like having a bit of a moment What? Like that other, oh sorry, my vision just got blurry, sorry And then I have to say, I was fine there, because everyone's yelling at me I was just trying not to ruin the game It explains the smelling salts you have on the table But now I've given that away, I can't use that in the last round.

What are we doing? So I had a moment there. Backstreet Boys. We found out that Babel was mine. Babel is yours. Thank you, Josh. You're so good at this. Thanks.

The presidents of the United States of America. That was Marcel. I reckon that's right in the area, isn't it? I was pretty happy with that one. Yeah. Was that a rumor anyway about peaches that had satanic verses? No, is that really not a real thing? Millions of peaches peaches for me. Millions of peaches peaches.

Peaches come from a can. One of those ones where people go, oh, who's the man? Yeah, I feel like that was a real rumor, but maybe I've you've just convinced me. Think about it. Well, it didn't convince you close enough, did it? Uh, Radiohead, that was Kyle in the house. Think about it. Well, it didn't convince you close enough, did it? Radiohead. That was Kyle in the house. Hole, which Gillian went for. That was the house, I'm afraid. It was so obvious that I wrote it.

Josh and Marcel went for the Backstreet Boys. That was Gillian. Oh, Walter. I loved you explaining to me that they would be touring Europe at that time. Yeah. Meaning the correct answer was Cradle of Filth. Oh my goodness, my theory is out the window. They went there for an article feature on them and to get photos there, I guess. Yeah, exactly.

The juxtaposition of the satanic, they are literally, are they like a, or like a, what's their genre? They dab position of the satanic. They are literally... Are they like a... I think... What's their genre? They dabble in the dark ass. It's like Emoth hanging out at the train station. It's like, we're not supposed to be here, but we're going to sit on these stairs. In the daytime.

Let me just double check, because there will be... They're extreme metal band. Extreme. Yeah. And they write their own bio, so they're able to sell it. We're extreme. We're hardcore. We're actually pretty badass. So, two points for Jillian. One point for the house.

Oh, I should have. This is the thing. Interesting. Sometimes I get very competitive in this game, but I think as Jill, you're just a delightful human being that I might, oh, I'm not thinking too much about, like, oh my God, I could be giving another point to you. Just any family member of mine that listens to this is like, that is a lie. Do not play a game with her. She's a monster. They're trying to call into the bunker.

Stop. Don't let her get away with it. So one round to go. And the scores are Josh on three points, the house on three points, Marcel on three points, but out in front on double that amount on six points is Gillian Cosgrove. Would you say it's anyone's game?

It is truly anyone's game. Good thing this round's worth four points. This week round is worth triple points. Yeah, okay, perfect. It is. For everyone, this is apart from the house. And some listeners are starting to get annoyed by that. They want the house to have equal advantage.

And look, I've taken that note on board and I'll think about it, but I really don't like winning that much. It feels so weird to invite people to do a podcast to beat them. This is why I don't have a podcast. All right. Final question comes from Connor Schmidt, actually the editor of the show from Perth. One of my favorite editors.

Connor hasn't written a question before and his question is, what is the synopsis of the 1991 film? French film? La totale. Can you spell that? L.A. Oh, do you do French? No. Oh, I would have been so good for someone here to be able to pronounce it right. L.A. Yeah. And then space bar.

T.O.G.A.L.E. La totale. No, that's what a time isn't it total lot to tell Let the tell Listening to an audiobook and they said, you know on from terrible infant and terrible Sounds so good. Oh man. That's so can you say one more time? There's a phone terrible. Oh Mercy book That's so good. Oh man. That's so... Can you say it one more time? Les enfants terribles. Oh! I love it! Merci beaucoup! You're about to get a year up. You can try and work that into a sentence. Well, the year we end, 1991. 1991.

Thank you. And you want to write like a... This one's about a paragraph, three, four, five sentences sort of long. It'll be your longest answer. While you're writing those answers, here's some more info about Cradle of Filth in the Vatican City. According to Kyle, it is illegal in the Vatican City to impersonate a priest. The police angrily pointed machine guns at them during the arrest, though they didn't seem to mind the Jesus is a C*** shirt another bandmate was wearing. Anyway, journalist Jason Arnop was wearing. Anyway, journalist Jason Arnopp was with the band at Lecter until he hands over the collar,

which is shaken aloft in a self-righteous fist. I've never been held at gunpoint before or since, but you won't be shocked to hear it's no fun. A sick feeling grows in the pit of your stomach, as you struggle to grasp that your very life now literally rests in the hands of others. Men who only need to pull a small metal lever to fire those obscene devices. When you're staring down the barrel, down that infinite black hole, guns have assuredly never seemed more wrong. Maybe if we explained that we have a gig to play with napalm death later on, considered darnie after 15 minutes of stilted interrogation. Luckily, a younger guard speaks English and mediates as we explain that we're not intending to assassinate the Pope.

Do you know Napalm Death? I think this is the band. There's not an original member in the band, so the original members can all go and see Napalm Death perform. Yeah, and they do. Sure, but they're they're all still alive as well. That's that. Yeah. And they do. I'm not sure. But they're all still alive as well. That is fun. Yeah.

Eventually, thanks to this younger guy calming things down, the atmosphere began to cool. When the young guard, our savior, tried to make conversation and ask what kind of music Cradle of Filth play, Rob sneered, evil music. To make matters worse, he says this with a dour northern accent. Outrageous. Despite this setback, we are finally set free

with a stern warning in Italian. That was quite amusing, Adani or Danny reflects, as we rapidly leave the area. I must admit everybody was shitting themselves somewhat. Different laws apply to the Vatican so you could find yourself in a cell for the night with a good kicking. Vatican City is indeed a landlocked sovereign city state with full independence. They can probably do pretty much whatever they please just like the Pope. It was totally unreasonable reckons guitar Stuart but I've seen unreasonable behavior before in other countries. The police are more unreasonable in England than they are in most other places.

I got nicked for walking down the street with intent to go home." That's good stuff from Stuart. Rikol's Lector. You can see the hatred in one bloke's eyes in particular. He would have tortured us and burnt us at the stake if he could have got away with it and thought it was entirely Justifiable to see so much hatred in his eyes for something so ridiculous as wearing a Vickers top and an I love Satan Shirt, it was like going back 200 years total fascism All right. Here is the final question. What is the synopsis of the 1991 French film la totale? Stunning, okay What is the synopsis of the 1991 French film La Totale?

Stunning. That is beautiful. Okay. A French file said at a wedding, two families meet for the first time only to discover they are related. The parents of the nuptials try to stop the wedding only for the happy couple, defying their requests and eloping.

It caused controversy due to the actors playing the couple actually being real life brother and sister and sister. That's option one. Strong stuff. Option two. Julian really backing herself right now. Mind games. That is fun. That is a good one. I hope you need to hear the other options. Yeah, that's a movie I've seen. when I was procrastinating from writing the show.

Alright, second option. Two young lovers looking for a romantic getaway suddenly find themselves set upon by hordes of the undead. I'm like, this sounds like the first one. No, no, this is just... Set against the backdrop of the French canals. Canals, canals. That's an English word, babe. Yeah. Did I say it was one of them right? Yeah, yeah. Ag, canal, canals.

Yeah, canals. Canals. I did, I had it right at some point there. Canal. French canals. The couple, that is an English word. The couple must find a way to survive the horrific onslaught while still managing to find time for a little bit of lovin' along the way.

Option three. A couple celebrating their first anniversary is unable to pay their bill at a high-end restaurant. They are ordered by the maitre d' to work in the kitchen until they can pay back their debt. Will this be a night to remember or will Pierre and Eleanor be unable to handle the heat? That's option three.

Option four. Camille struggles to fit in at France's most exclusive casino, where she's just started working as a croupier. With her tyrannical boss, Claude, always breathing down her neck. She just needs a break. When some rowdy backerat players steal thousands of francs of chips from right under another's. Camille must track them down and recover the money before Claude realises it's missing.

Option 5. To his family, Francois is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, he has been working as a crack secret agent. All goes well until Francois discovers that his son has been skipping school. Using all the resources at his disposal, he tracks down his son. Well, finally, a powerful depiction of the evolution of long division in French culture. Detailing France's mathematic history, tracing all the way from the abacus to the controversial implementation of the calculator by Antoine Guirault at Le Cébon in the late 80s which faced huge public outcry and led to the calculerites of 1987.

Apologies if I got that French too correct. You can be too French. Yeah you can. All right, so Josh, this is your go. Do you need me to try and quickly sum them or you got an idea? I'll have an idea. I think I'm going to go with the crack super agent father tracking Danny's son. Okay, welcome that in for Josh.

What do you think, Marcel? There's some really beautiful ones in here. father tracking Danny's son. Okay. Welcome that in for Josh. What do you think, Marcel? There's some really beautiful ones in here. I particularly like that one that could not have been more French with the croupier. Yeah, right. Yeah.

It felt like every fourth word better be something French. Like it was an insert blank. Yeah, French. One is way faster, patisserie. And so, yeah, it's hard. A lot of me with this sort of thing, and same with that game that shall not be mentioned, Baldedash, that I just mentioned. I'm not familiar with it. Sometimes I just do like to give credit to just delightful writing.

So there is. But I feel like very few of these. It seems weird that you even needed to bring up that other book. Yeah. I need a reason to bring that up. Installs now now get it. Not many of these seem to really if I'm to show off right now, I'm going to assume that La Total is English. The total. That's French.

French for the total. And I don't feel like many of these. I wonder what the total is referring to with the wedding one, for example, which was also good. But it makes sense in the one about gambling. So I might just give credit to that rider. I'm going to I'm going to choose this croupier one. Oh, you are. OK, great. No, I'm not.

No, that's great. It's a great. It's a great choice. Great, I'm not. No, no, I think that's great. No, no, that's great. That's a great, that's a great choice. Great writing, great choice. I, for me, I think it has to be one of the rom-coms. What are the, the first one is brother and sister. Yep. Second one is can't pay a bill in the restaurant. No, undead.

Undead. Third one is can't pay the bill. I, I mean, would the French be wildly upset about... they wouldn't be upset but they'd be intrigued. I'm taking brother and sister I'm doing it. Okay. No one mentioned the mathematical one? You don't want to talk us through that while it's on the board? Also... I was gonna do that until they talked about the riots. I know the French love to riot but I don't think they've taken to the streets about calculators. Okay.

Well, you might be surprised. I might, but I hope I am. But also, did they say anywhere that the wedding one was a romantic comedy? Are you mapping that? Are you printing? I'm mapping that. I've seen a French film.

It's a farce. I did say a farce. Oh yeah, my apologies. That's true. And it was at a wedding. Farce at a wedding. That's a romcom. I'm playing romcom there, Marcel. That's true.

Monsieur Bean is in it. All right. So Gillian's going for that first one. Yes. All right. Can we have a small window where people can change their answers if they feel like maybe the restaurant one was worth picking? Well, not now. I mean, yes.

It feels like whatever you're trying to do there. All right. Here's who wrote the answers. The one about the Calcule riots, the math wars of 1987. That was Gillian. I knew the riot was a bridge too far, but I knew I was onto something. Well I didn't know that it meant total, so I was like, yeah, once Marcel said that I'm like, oh that's...

Something about that one just didn't add up. And I don't know if you were trying to, but man you made it difficult with some of those words in there. No, I wanted to make it... Girol! Girol! André Girol, la savante de... André Girol! Le calcul riot. You said you couldn't speak French! No, I wanted to make it. Girol. Girol. And then Girol. And then Girol.

Le calculerai-a-tu. You said you couldn't speak French. No, I speak fake French. Oh, okay. When I was at uni, I had to learn one speech in French for a play. So all I know in French is de juste comment que l'aie vena pas v-

It's this very long speech, but it's like someone being like, I speak English, to be or not to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the question. What was the play? Medea. Oh, that was a big one. She's dying. You go, how you say to be? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was the play? Madea. Oh, that was a big one.

She's dying. You go, how you say Madea? Yeah. And you were in the Harry Potter play? Yeah, not French, babe. Okay. Where's that one from? It's near France though, isn't it?

Yeah, it's sort of near Shitterton, most of it. So quite near there. But who did you play in that? I played Moaning Myrtle, and then I played a character called Delphi. Wow, that's an iconic character. Yeah, she's camp, she's damp. quite near there. Who did you play in that? I played Moaning Myrtle and then I played a character called Delphi. Wow, that's an iconic character. Yeah, she's camp, she's damp.

She's living. What would Moaning Myrtle have chosen in this round? Oh, Moaning Myrtle would absolutely choose Brother Sisterfucking. That's canon. So yeah, you are, the lines of blur between you and Myrtle. Yeah, it's really an immersive. Eight shows a week. Yeah, you can't shake it.

You gotta leave these roles behind. Yeah, I sleep in a sink still. The one about a couple couldn't pay their bill, which had the beautiful French word in there, including all sorts of like the little triangle above the eye. Matra De. Yeah, did I copy and paste? I assume so.

That was Marcel. Wait, what? Yeah, I know that is going to be shocking. I was quite happy with that one. Wait, do you have French heritage? No, my mum just likes European names. I have Dutch heritage. I see.

De Vilt. Because Marcel is French. Mm hmm. You sure is. Like Marcel. Mm hmm. And others as well. Here's my impression of Marcel. Marcel. Like Marceau. Mm hmm. And others as well. Here's my impression of myself Marceau. That's good stuff. Thank you. Two young lovers looking for a romantic getaway

but the undead get involved. That was Connor the question writer. Okay. Well done Connor, you got me back. Backstreet's baccarat. Sorry. Jillian went for the French far set at the wedding with the brother and sister, that was Josh. Oh, it's good stuff. Beautiful work, really good. Bit of fan fiction from Josh there.

Thank you. Go to the Josh Hill website, you'll get the full script. And he's from Tasmania. And finally, Josh is also correct. You get the full script. And, uh, he's from Tasmania and finally... And finally, Josh is also correct! It's about the crack secret servant, AJ. Francois!

And, um, as Connor writes, I'll tabulate the scores soon on my abacus, the French invention. But, uh, yeah, Conor writes, keen-eared guests or listeners might have recognized some of the plot points from the real synopsis for this one. And that would probably be because James Cameron remade the film three years later as True Lies. Oh my goodness. Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Iconic. Yeah, that's the movie I would have watched the most because it was on every Friday night on Channel 10 I reckon. Also, you had like it's a very specific generational piece of discomfort to have watched True Lies with your dad. Yes, as Jamie Lee Curtis does that dance. I think it might be time for a cup of tea actually. And Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the dark pressing a... Yes, you give me flashbacks. I had the same experience and he says stuff like, that's it.

Do it slower. Do it slower. Move. Yes. That's it. Like yours. And your dad's looking very much like that in his chair. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, apparently the French original is pretty dated

and leans into parody a bit more than the later Cameron version does. Sounds like it's a bit of fun, but Connor says, I don't know. I haven't seen it. And they wouldn't be able to call it the total because it would be confusing for total recall. Yeah, that's right. But yeah, I looked up reviews and people didn't didn't seem to love the French one. Seems like it's a very different movie. I did a rewatch of True Lies a couple of years ago and it's not it's not OK.

Oh really? No, just you know, just get in, watch Jamie Lee Curtis dance and get out. Don't watch the whole thing. What's interesting too is that every James Cameron film is actually a French adaptation. Oh. Titanic was Titanic. Oh yeah. Aliens was Aliens.

Terminator. Terminator boo. All right, final score check. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Oh my goodness. Wow, wow, wow. Things have changed. Here are the final scores.

Scoring the copper medal for fourth place on three points, it's Marcel. Just happy to be here. Happy to be here. Final scores. Scoring the copper medal for fourth place on three points. It's Marcel. Just happy to be here. Happy to be here. You scored those three points in the first three rounds. Oh wow.

You really started strong. In third place with the bronze medal on four points is the house. Beaten by the house. Winning the silver medal, jeez, it was hers. From start to near finish on six points is Gillian, but out in front on nine points is Josh Earl. Yeah!

Nine points, goodness gracious. All those points at the end. I told you he was a hustler. Yeah. Goodness gracious. I'm in with a wet sail big time. All right, before we go, Josh, where can people find you? Four Burners, my podcast is out every single Wednesday.

And it's a podcast about this four burner theory where if you imagine your life as a stove top burner, each burner represents different facets. So health, career, family, friends, we have a chat. Sometimes it's really funny. Sometimes it's kind of nice and emotional. And the idea is you might have to turn one off completely or turn them all down a bit.

Here he says that if you have them all going, you burn out. So you kind of prioritise which burners you're gonna keep on and which ones you're turning off. I think you've had a bunch of guests on that... Gillian was the very first guest. Oh, amazing. And I feel like I didn't do a good job. You did great. I'd like to go again.

Some of my family are pretty upset now. All my burners have been turned off since... You've turned the family. I'd like to go again. You did great. Some of my family pretty upset. No, I don't get it. All my burners have been turned off since. You've turned the family. I've turned the family on. It was a short episode. Family's off. Career up full. Josh, can you get me on the project?

But yeah, I think most guests you've had listening to this show will be familiar with. Yeah. The one, I don't know when this comes out, but just a really great one with Nikki Britton and I'm really happy and proud of that one. So yeah, listen to that one. Awesome, so good. Gillian, what about you? Is Moaning Myrtle still going?

No, she's been dormant for two years. Oh, okay. Yes, I'm just at Gillian Cosgrove on the internet. I'm just doing bits and pieces and, you know, learning about geography when I should be working. And you'll be doing the festival runs coming up in 2025, what's that shit? Yes, good grief. Yeah, I reckon.

Back to Edinburgh as well? Oh, don't ask me about it yet, I don't know. What's the name of the show coming up? How dare you? Do we need to know this soon? Totti Mungus. We need to know in two weeks, I reckon. Oh my god, okay.

Yeah, pick a title, any title. Okay, alright. Send them in, send them in listeners. Pick a title, any title. OK. Send them in. Send them in, listeners. Masa, what about you? I have a podcast called The Comedy Writers Group. As of this week, it is free to listen. The first 100 episodes are behind the paywall. Everything else is free so you can subscribe if you want access to that.

This week's episode, as this comes- when does this come out? He doesn't know. Coming up. No, I do know. It's coming out in about two and a half weeks. OK, great. Well, the recent. No, I do know. It's coming out in about two and a half weeks. OK, great. Well, the recent guest was Dave Warnocky, mate of the Do Go On universe on the podcast. How'd you get him?

I've got all three of the Do Go Ons on the pod now. Oh man, mine's not in. You have behind the paywall. Thank God. I mean, I remember that. That was, I feel like I'd want that scrub from the internet. That is, I think even if I had the power, that's the first thing I'd get rid of. Not the problematic tweets or anything like that.

It's me trying to work through bits with myself. Oh man. I thought, I want a great opportunity and I just, yeah, some of the most half, anyway. Sometimes when you see how the sausage gets made, you don't want to see how the sausage gets made. Sometimes you become a vegetarian. Yeah, yeah. I haven't made a joke since. Jill and Josh have been on the pod as well. And a bit that we workshopped, I made it to my show and it works very well.

Oh, beautiful. So thank you for that, Marcel. I'm so glad. I'm so glad to hear it. And yeah, so check that out. Check me out, Marcel, the comedian. I do many things, including improvising with my wife. If you're in Sydney in November, you can come check us out at the ITS 10 year comedy, 10 year anniversary comedy festival. So good. I'm coming up at in Brisbane and Geelong and

Europe and all those details are at mathschewcomedy.com. Or do you go on pod.com? Anything else we need to tell people before we go? Happy with that? Alright, thanks so much for listening everybody. Please give us a 5 star review and tell your friends if you think you know anyone who might enjoy it. Cheers for tuning in to Who Knew What Matts Johatt. Now that you know it, I've been Matts Johatt.

Goodbye! I didn't ask you how rude. Have you won best show? Not not yet, but I live by the rules of that movie Looper with Bruce Willis. OK, as we all do. Yeah. Yeah. I've been going back in time and killing me every time I almost win the award. I believe is the logic I'm going by.

Yeah, no, but yeah, in the future, but at the pace I'm going, it's gonna be a brand new award by that time. It's gonna be called something else. Will be called the Marcel Blanchard-Wills Award. Oh, great. It's a legacy award. Also, where's the participation awards?

You know, people talk about, oh, there's too many participation awards these days. Let's bring them in for comedy festival. Everyone gets a ribbon. There are some festivals that are nearly like that. The weekly awards. The weekly award and there's like 17 of them. But I've never got one.

Yeah. I know. They're practically handing them out. Just like to me. Just like to me. I once got introduced to having won an award that didn't exist, which was the Campus Comedian of the Year Award. Wow.

Because everyone else on the bill had won awards. And so the MC just made one up and introduced me. That's awesome. Adorable. Congratulations, by the way. Thank you. Yeah, huge. Campus Comedian of the Year.

And that is on your bio. That one, yeah. Top billing. All right, sorry, just cutting and pasting here. Also that you would win Campus Comedian and Ruben Kay would see it written down and be furious he hasn't been nominated. How'd you get that? Also, that idea as well, the MC has to give you a credit before bringing you on. Otherwise, the audience just won't take you seriously.

Oh, this one hasn't won an award. Why would we listen to them? As an MC, I've stopped, like, saying too much about the person. Oh, I like a little line. I like something. Sometimes I've never seen the person before so I don't want to lie to the audience and say this person's really great because then they lose trust so I just get them clapping and then say their name really quickly in case I mispronounce it. Yes. I think that's what people want as it were before they brought up. Yeah great. Yeah I love the fade out on the surname. And this next guy is here, Josh Eel. Alright, let's start the hand talking already.

Let's go, let's get it up. And then quickly say it off, Mike. Yeah, I love that. It's a great, it's an excellent technique. It's perfect. I've started doing that in real life as well, and I'm like not super confident on someone's name, but I'll almost fade out their name as I'm saying.

Oh, yeah, good to see you. Do you have people miss saying your name? Yeah, Marcel. Marcel comes up a lot. Okay. But your surname. Bunch, Bunch De your name? Yeah, Marsal comes up a lot. Okay. But your surname. Blanche DeWitt. Yeah, DeWitt. I get a lot of DeWitt.

I thought it was DeWitt for a long time. You got an L on a T right next to each other. People are gonna get confused. But the Blanche DeWitt, it already feels like a reach. It's like, that can't be real. And then you get to Wilt and you're like, that bit's gonna be wrong. Surely.

You're panicking the whole way through, as an MC with that one. I'm doing it, I'm doing it. Oh no. It's a hat on a hat on a hat. Yeah. Too much, too many hats? You're ridiculous.

You and your name are stupid. Josh, I think this is probably fair to say you are well proportioned. Oh, thank you. No, I've really ruined my head, I think. I think as is probably fair to say you are well proportioned. Oh, thank you. No, I really grew into my head I think I think as a little as a little child I had quite a big bounce and finally finally grown into it you because you were like in the last Few years you've become a beefcake I

Yeah, I have been going to the gym for ten years. I didn't maybe I've only known you for 10 years I don't think I remember skinny Josh. I can I can show you some photos Here's one thing if you are out there and you think I might start going to the gym take a take a before photo I didn't because I thought I'm never gonna want to see that and I really do want to see like Have you seen some gyms are doing before photos like they'll take that before photo and they'll put it up in the office? I don't like that. You don't want them to force it. But you know, take a little bathroom selfie of yourself.

Oh yeah, that's Dorian Gray. I've definitely taken before photos. So maybe that was a smart thing for you to do. It's only a before photo if there's an after. I don't think I've talked about this before, but this is the kind of thing I'd bring up on your old podcast, Josh. But I once took some photos on an old camera camera. I'm about to get fit.

Out of interest, I'm going to take some photos. And then I was away in the UK. I was on a bus backpacking and I'm just scrolling through my photos and my old housemates had taken mimicking photos of me in their jocks posing like the before photos basically just like quietly going. How did they see them? They obviously just went through my camera and then I posted their photos on Facebook and got a very quick message saying please say this.

When you said old camera I thought you meant one with film. I thought the chemist was going to say hey. I think he was very clear when he said camera camera and what he meant. Yeah no you're right. Camera camera did sound like a film. We also meant chemist. Absolutely. Well I'm not from black and white era.

No I did. I have had film cameras as well. Is it Canon on who you knew it that you're also ancient or is that just Dugo on? I think it's mainly Dugo on. Okay, great. Yeah, cause here I'm, you know, it's great to have someone who's like three years older than me and Josh.

I'm very old guys. I mean, not, you know, like our body mass index, probably, or whatever. However you aid yourself at a gym, I'm older than you. Also, is it Canon, the camera you're using? On this podcast. Geraldine Hickey loves birds, as we all know, and I got to go to Australia Zoo last year and I got to watch Geraldine Hickey watch the bird show and it's really the most wholesome thing I've ever seen in my whole life. I didn't look at a single bird, I just watched her.

Hickey loves an activity with people. She once took me to swim with sharks and stingrays and it was an amazing experience. Yeah, very big on an activity. But the woman who was doing the thing, swimming with us, she was taking the tour, was a bit of a kook and told us that she got into it because when Steve Irwin died, she believed that his soul entered her body. And that is when Suzie Ruffall, UK comedian, got out of the water and went, I'm not gonna be in the water anymore.

Yeah. Oh my, entered that woman's body, not entered the body of another stingray. Entered the body of this woman and she had to continue his message. Wow. Yeah. Huge. Yeah. Interesting. I like it entering the body of the stingray. Does that make logical sense to me? That made more sense that Steve Irwin's soul would go into his body. It would have been a direct path. Then into the body of a woman who I presume was nowhere nearby. Yeah, yeah. Had never met him. It could be Highlander rules, like when you take out a Highlander, then you share the power with the remaining Highlanders.

Yes. Have you seen the movie Highlander? Thank you so much for putting in the terms I understand. Ah, like a Highlander. Yes, yes, yes. All right. Andy Matthews called me out for saying yes, yes, yes, recently saying I was ripping off Alexi Toliopoulos. Does he say yes, yes, yes? He frickin does.

And until that was the first time I'd caught myself saying it, I'm like, oh, maybe he was right. You doing a show next year? No show for me. First, first year off everything in 20 years. Wow. Goodness, this is going to be like when Ursula Carlson cancelled her Comedy Festival run and we all get the audience.

We all get the audience to shout across. There was someone from Comedy Festival telling me like numbers, like the amount of money that they stood to make from Comedy Festival was like down in a big way just from Ursula. Yeah, well she was for like two, three years, the most tickets sold in the festival. amount of money that they stood to make from comedy festivals like down in a big way just from it. Yeah, well she was for like two, three years the most tickets sold in the festival. Yeah, I didn't even, I know she was excellent. I didn't realise that she was like, oh my God, we're going to lose gross GDP or whatever.

I remember when she was in the bottom of the town hall, it was like a 40 seater and she was doing a split bill with a friend. And I remember that year and And then the next year, cause I was hosting Spicks and Specks and she came on that and she was in like 120 seater as well. She was super funny, but it was just sitting out this person's rig. And then the year after she jumped into like,

oh, she's the biggest act. Like it was crazy. I mean, not as big as Ronnie Chang's during the festival starting in a 60 seater and then ending up in the town hall, the main hall. Like, yeah. hall. Cheeso. Yeah. And selling it out. It's like, yep. I think he's funny. Like, yeah.

Are you, do you want me to just pick one, Marcel? Marcel seems to be brainstorming. Yeah, I don't know. Are you workshopping right now? I guess whatever might be distinct upon from the rest. I'm not excited about any of them really. Don't make me choose. It's a real save his choice situation. I'm just going to go with the last one you put in. Okay, great.

I like this little break. It reminds me of when Kramer has the talk show in his house. And he's like, we're going to take a break and then just He takes a sip of his drink. I Remember that as my favorite episode and I really say rewatched it went. Oh, it's it's not as good as I remember It's just the first time going that's such a great concept for a TV show And I think it's also just a beautiful moment ago. What can we do to make to like just make this character shine? So brightly, let's give Kramer a talk show in his house. There's a beautiful like that moment like George like walks in and he's going like what's going on is incredible.

That modern Seinfeld like the Twitter that just says modern day what Seinfeld episodes would, there was one the other day that made me laugh which was Seinfeld borrows, Kramer borrows Seinfeld's car. Jerry gets an Uber picked up by Kramer in his car. Kramer still charges Gerry. Good stuff. Good stuff. So good.

Your wife's from Perth, isn't she Josh? She is, yes. Yeah, Upper Swan, it's a Perth classic. Upper Swan, get Upper Swan. Upper Swan, Inner Lou, both perfect. That's a Perth classic. Upper Swan. Upper Swan. Upper Swan. Inner Lou. Both perfect. That's great. I'm going to be in the UK next month in November and I'm just thinking about it now. Hopefully I'm somewhere near Shittenden and I will detour past it. You really must spend at least an hour in humble Shutterton.

Apparently I was reading that they've tried to change its name in the past but it never took. Like there's a period where it was called like Shutterton or something and there is another town, the river nearby is called the Piddle River. No, this is Shits Creek territory. Yeah, it really is. Yeah, they they're trying to be ridiculous in a fictional way. The idea that Shitterton is just a strange little British version of Shits Creek is very funny. They should do it.

Yeah, dude, British. I feel like it's very rare that a British TV show would be like an American. Like they'll do, you know, there's an American office, but. Yeah, not the other way around. But I just saw that they're working on an English cheers, apparently. Oh, really? Oh, I love that. Did you know, I found out this week that Ted Danson is wears a toupee and is wearing one for most of Cheers. Oh, yeah. Really?

An episode where he takes it off. Oh, wow. Ted Danson, the like primo Silver Fox. Very upsetting to me. But does he still wear? Because in The Good Place he has a full head of hair. Yeah. So has he got a grey wig?

I guess he does. Yeah, you've got to sub out your toupee. And like there's people that like, isn't it like Frank Sinatra had like a wig officer or something like that where they would follow him around? A wig officer? I don't know what the formal title was, but like. Like an in full army dress. Yeah.

Elton John, you think, everyone knows Elton wears a wig. Have more fun with it. He always wears the same one. Like. Yeah. You're talking, you want him to be more like that, the producer. Phil Spector. Phil Spector.

Phil Spector. He had fun with it. He did have a lot of fun. Do you remember when he was on trial for murder? Yeah. Every day he wore a different ridiculous wig. That'd been fun for the court artist who always gets to draw something a little bit different.

Well, maybe that's what he was trying to do. Just go, see, you can't even believe that. That's a fun wig. I'm gonna draw a four foot wig. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But horrible man, Phil Spector. Let the record show that Josh does not agree with murder. He has an amazing Christmas album.

It's brilliant. We love the wall of sound. But horrible, horrible man. Yeah, apparently just like in general, I read a biography about Leonard Cohen and apparently the album, it's the one album he always hated. Yeah. And he'd go in there and he... What's the...

I can't figure... Spector would just have a gun on the desk and he'd sort of use that as a, you're doing it my way kind of... Yeah. Apparently he shot like a warning shot above Ronnie Spector's head to sing better. Just for the record, Chokers, Josh said it out loud that I also feel that I should say I also don't agree with my mother as well. Very quiet from Gillian, that's what I'm saying.

I really know anything about Phil Spector, but I do know a lot about wigs. No, Gill just knows that he's in the music industry and I'm in the music industry, I want to get high. I don't want to, I thought it cut any ties. Don't pull any feathers. That's so funny. Ah, he is dead. Great.

That I do not endorse. It's a fact though and I can't stress that enough. Yeah, he died in jail. I think it's sort of like, it's not, yeah. Any other beefs you want to? No, not currently. Just myself, but let's see how these schools shake out. Actually, any other beefs you wanna? No, not currently. Just Marcel, but let's see how these scores shake out. Actually, no, you're the wrong person.

You're not, you're not going any, Marcel sounds like he's up for burning bridges today. Yeah. He's burnt the Spectre Bridge. Any other bridges you're up for burning today? Yeah, I'm gonna see how the cookies fall. Okay. Yeah. Is that an expression?

No, it's not. I love it. It is now. Yeah. Yeah. Though they didn't seem to mind the Jesus is a C*** shirt, Is that an expression? No it's not! It is now? Though they didn't seem to mind the Jesus is a c*** shirt another bandmate was wearing. Bleep that c***. And that one too.

Thanks Connor. For our American listeners it's very offensive over there. Probably more so when you put Jesus is or at the start of it I'd say. Cheers for tuning in to Who Knew It with Matt Stewart. Now that you know it, I've been Matt Stewart. Goodbye! I told you to keep that! That was Marcel. I did it once and I like and the guest song were like... That the everything works with the podcast.

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