Who Knew It with Matt Stewart - 173 - Mish Wittrup, Ben Russell and Rob Hunter
Episode Date: January 5, 2026Who Knew It with Matt Stewart is a comedy game show podcast hosted by Australian comedian Matt Stewart. Episode 173 features comedians Mish Wittrup, Ben Russell and Rob Hunter!Check out Matt's new sta...nd up special: https://youtu.be/ZgukEPerWZc?si=SW8PttGAB-ly_GF8And his last 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 Murray Summerville and edited by Connor Schmidt! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to Who New with Matt Stewart, the show where the guests write the wrong answers.
I'm the titular Matt Stewart.
Our first guest is the biggest and wettest in the game.
It's Mish Wittrop.
Gidey, how you going?
Big wet, good to have you back.
It's very nice to be here.
You know what I'm feeling today?
Because it's a morning pod.
Can we reveal that?
Well, I guess so.
I'm just going to be, I'm going into this chill.
And I mean that.
I think I'm going in chill.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, I look forward to seeing that.
I don't think you've ever been chill on this show before.
It's time.
Okay.
It's time.
And, well, you did tell me you want to be challenged on this show.
You're sick of all these easy wins.
That's exactly the conversation, word for word.
So, well, I was reading between the lines mainly.
So I brought in two worthy opponents, hopefully.
Yeah.
The first is our podcast resident villain, Ben Russell.
You know, I resists.
that. I've done a lot of
reputation rehab
over the course of the last few
pods and I think I'm the
podcast hero. Oh, okay.
That's interesting. But
like Mish,
I am like
you know, and not unlike the band
Creed, I am greeting this pod with
arms wide open. Okay.
And I am talking about
which is a song about his father.
Is it? Is it? Is it? Yeah.
Listen to the
Well, guys, just listen to the lyrics, please.
I'm pulling up the lyrics.
With dimes wide open.
Because they're a Christian rock band.
I don't know anything about that.
I just assumed it was all, I thought it might have been like, Jesus, like on the crucifes.
Well, if it is, then I'll stop listening with it.
You've just ruined a great, one of the greatest bands that ever existed.
Whoa.
What?
I'm just reading the lyrics and they're full on.
Yeah, they're full.
Creed fucking threw down with this song.
Okay.
Do you want to hear some?
Well, yeah, I will, but let's bring in our third guest first.
Mish, I think he's very much worthy of you.
Great.
He's written for all the great Australian TV shows, including Rosehaven, Spicks and Specks,
the weekly Rove Live, get crackin problems, the yearly Bay of Fires and Hard Quiz.
Amongst many others, it's Rob Hunter.
Hello.
Thanks for having me.
Oh, I got applause.
First time, guest, welcome to the show.
It happened too fast.
My hands were on my coffee cup and it was just too far.
Rob, we met downstairs at the door.
We did.
I was standing there and I'd sent Matt a message saying,
Are you here for him to let me in and just got no reply,
which is classic of Matt's messaging, but Mish let me in the building.
I was here.
So we haven't spoken much.
We only just got into pleasure being here.
What are your thoughts on Creed?
Well, I was just thinking with the arms wide open would also be a good song about carrying a fridge.
Good direction there
That's the only thought I have towards creed
That's interesting because
Your arms are in a cloak
Like they're tensed up in a cloak
Like they're gonna be closed
But they just happen to be open
Yeah
You can't carry a fridge without first opening the arms
That's true
Write that down
Got it
Do you want a verse
I think throughout this pot-ev
I'll read different verses from this song
Okay that'd be really nice
So I'm gonna hit you with the first
The opening verse
Before we launch you
if that's okay with you.
I think that would be lovely.
Well, I just heard the news today.
Well, I just heard.
I'll do it for you.
The news today.
It seems like,
it seems my life is going to change.
It's going to change.
I closed my eyes,
begin to pray.
Close my eyes.
Begin to pray.
And tears of joy stream down my face.
Gay.
All right.
So the way the show works is ask a relatively obscure trivia question.
Our contest is after I had a convincing fake answer.
I then read their answer as well as the real one.
I have to guess which one is correct.
And the first question comes from listener Linda Moulton from Gainesville, Florida.
The question is, what does the word guttle mean?
Guttle.
Gettle.
Guddle.
Guddle.
Spell for me, please.
G-U-D-D-L-E.
What does the word guddle mean?
And, 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,
another point if you correctly guessed the answer.
And by the way, I'm also playing as the house.
And I've put into my own fake answers for each question,
with the help of the question writer,
and we get to choose, we get a point for each one that the guest choose.
Sorry, you just conscribed to three points per round,
which seems fair, but they're probably actually favours me of the house.
And, yeah, the house always wins, though, if you've listened to previous episodes,
you'll know that is nearly never the case.
And also do even things out, even more in the favour of the guests.
They get triple points in the final round where the house does not.
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 dogone pod,
linked in the show notes.
Hey, and hey, well, I've got you.
uh we're filming these episodes these days i'm looking right down the barrel mesh uh and if you want
to watch it you can see it on the do go on youtube channel um looks like we've phones down everyone
it's time to time to see your answers and now comes okay so guys can we just have a quick
pow wow out here yeah course because i'm tired of this fucking house winning bullshit okay okay
and i'm just here to say that i hope
Any of you, either of you win.
Did you know the, um, I'm going to choose, I'm going to try and choose anything but the house.
If I don't know the correct, or if I think, if I don't have a good, I'm going to choose what I think
is going to be either of yours.
You know the, so I want you to know that.
I hope, I hope you all do well.
Well, I just, I feel like, uh, I know a little bit about this game, but I can't foresee any,
possibility of miss or ben lying to me yes so i feel like today's going to be about the pursuit
of knowledge yeah yeah i think you're right yeah and knowing that ben's a villain uh you can take
everywhere he just said i'm sorry but are we not allowed second chances all right question one
the answers are in what does the word guzzle mean here your options the traditional garment
worn by participants in the scottish event of cabotos option two a rare condition
which causes someone to speak with a deep voice after drinking a carbonated beverage.
Option three, to catch fish with your bare hands by groping under rocks.
Option four, a duck born with at least one of its feet unwebbed.
Jesus.
Then you've got when a smaller rugby player attempts to tackle a larger player,
making no impact and looking more like a hug.
Well, finally, similar to a julep on cattle,
The guttle is a colloquial term for the flap of skin between the neck and chin on a mammal.
Most commonly, a dog.
All right, Mish.
The use of the word that I can't pronounce colloquially.
Colloquial.
Coloquial.
Makes me think it could be that one.
Very dictionary type word.
Yeah, but this guy over here is written for hard quiz, my dude.
So, I reckon.
Real egghead.
That one's hard
But I feel like that little flappy boy
Could be a guttle
Yeah
I think I'm gonna go with that last one
Locking in
The skin flap
I mean I like the duck
I don't like the rugby
Because she's from Gainesville
In Florida
And they don't know what the fuck rugby is
You're a person from Gainesville
He doesn't know what rugby is.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah, okay.
They've never even heard the word.
They're listening going,
what is this,
what is this mishmash collection of words?
And they confuse me.
And they make me angry.
Right.
Yep.
What are the,
what's the top ones?
Ones up top?
Traditional garment,
worn by Scots in the cabotts top.
The gudle, put your guddle on.
We're going to toss the keep.
No, it doesn't sound right.
That's that I'm pretty right
A toss that cat cabar
Guddle doesn't sound right
In the Scottish accent
Put you a guddle
Guddle
No it does
It sounds right
I mean I guess it could be
But I mean they just wear like
They wear a
A fucking
Skirt
Kett
Aye
Aye
Then you got the deep voice
After drinking
Carbonator beverage
I just had a Sprite
Yeah
And catching fish with your bare hands
Match and fish.
Groping.
Have a guttle around there.
It was the use of the term groping that lost me.
How do you grope under a rock?
Yeah, grop and guddle sounds, what is this, a Dr. Zeus?
What is this, a Dr. Zeus fucking book?
Aren't there, there are fish called groping hands just there?
Yeah, for the, for the listener.
Yeah.
He's doing the grope.
He reached out and showed me his gropy hands.
He's groping and imagining.
I think more importantly, groping face.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of groping's out of face.
Yeah.
He doesn't like it.
He doesn't want to be doing it.
I mean, the best scenario is you grab a fish.
Yeah.
And then take it out.
We're not going to find a tit under there.
Sorry, dude.
You're looking in the wrong place.
Where are they?
You know what?
I'm going to go duck.
Duck?
Yep.
Unwebbed feet, footed duck.
I love the idea of just ducks with toes.
Yeah.
Because that sounds like it could either be right or it could be a rob.
Right or Rob.
Right or Rob.
Let's play Ride or Rob.
That could be the new name for this game.
Who's that calling you?
I don't know.
It's an unlisted number which scares me.
Could be a job opportunity.
It could be.
I guess I'll let it go.
We're playing right or Rob.
And when I'm playing right or Rob,
nothing else matters.
That's right.
Rob, what are you thinking?
Well, I was also thinking the duck,
annoyingly, which is bad for the game, I suppose.
No, you're allowed to, you are allowed to pick the same.
The soft drink one, guttle, it sounds too much like guttural,
and I think somebody might have been influenced by that.
Gurgle and gutterle and guttled.
But it could be, you know, the good people at Macquarie Dictionary
who were influenced by that.
Macquarie, as if they're making words.
Go up.
Australia's national, it's like Australia's National Dictionary?
Yeah, I think.
The cultural cringe that Ben Russell feels is through the roof.
Yeah, prove me wrong.
I think I'm going to go with the duck
And I'm going to trust it
Neither Ben or Olmish would lead me astray
All right
Unless it's yours, you're smiling
Sorry
I'm smiling because I'm enjoying myself
You freak
I'm going to call the cops on you
All right here's he wrote the answers
Ooh
The traditional garment worn by our participants
In Cabotos
That was Rob
I'm sorry for
disin you.
This is one of the many times you've let me down.
I thought it sounded very Scottish when you said it.
Gull.
Gaddle.
It did.
If I'd lingered upon it for longer,
I might have convinced myself,
but I didn't.
The rare condition where your voice goes deeper after carbonated beverage,
that was Linda,
the questioner.
I thought that was a Ben Russell.
I have far better quality.
Sorry, Linda.
the smaller rugby player attempts to tackle a larger player that was the house
and I didn't really think about where the question was coming from to be honest
I was really just working off cuddle they really want you they really do
he's gone for a tackle but it's more ended up like a cuddle yeah or a guttle in this
but anyway you didn't need to hear the process was pretty interesting one though
but um now mish went for dog neck shit
That was Ben Russell.
Okay.
Ben and Rob went for the duck.
That was Mish.
Oh, no.
That's why I was smiling.
You fell into the puddle, boys.
I knew you.
I saw that smile.
I've got your tell.
You're having a little gull.
My tell is me sitting across me doing this.
Yep.
You've overplayed your head, Mish.
I've got you right where I wanted you.
And that means someone got the correct answer,
which is to catch fish.
with your hands by groping under rocks.
Okay.
I've got your tell, Matt.
What's that?
Gropin.
Gropin.
So, Mish, hot start with two points there.
Ben Russell with one.
Rob in the house yet to score.
No, I'm happy.
I've got a point now.
That's all I needed.
You got two.
Yeah.
Question two comes from Helena Kirk from Birmingham in the UK.
Helen and Kirk.
Helena.
Helena Kirk.
Helena Kirk.
I thought it was one of those annoying couples that
rited together.
Oh, they're annoying.
Come on, Kirk, let's do it.
You're hating on all things love right now.
I wonder why.
Go on.
These annoying couples.
Yuck.
Yuck.
Helen's question is, come up with a species of fish.
Maybe there's kind of...
One that I can guttle?
Maybe one you could guzzle.
She's been the name of a fish.
Rob, you don't need to describe it or anything.
Just the name of a fish.
a species of fish.
And while you're writing your answers,
here's some more info on guttling.
Linda writes,
originating from the Scots language.
Hey!
Holy shit, Rob.
That's wild.
Do you that, Ben?
I did.
Bloody hell.
Yeah.
It's also known as trout tickling,
ginnling, or noodling.
It specifically
is a technique of rubbing.
I'm pretty sure I've done a guttell of a noodling before.
Have you?
Really?
Any trout tickling?
No, not for me.
Tried it once.
It just wasn't for me.
Apparently, well, you'll know this then, Mish.
The specific technique is rubbing the fish's underbelly,
usually a trout or catfish,
causing it to go into a brief trance.
Oh, yeah.
During which it can be quickly caught.
Yeah, just a little rub on the thumb.
We're not so different, you and I.
This Ben talking to trout.
our traps my old friend we've got more in common than we do different
apparently it was popular in the Great Depression
because it didn't require any fishing equipment
nothing going to brighten that day out better than a tickle
let's try to take a little guttle
but yeah apparently because you didn't have any fishing stuff
so if you got busted poaching you'd be like I was just tickling the fish officer
Tickling the fish.
Apparently it's illegal in Great Britain now.
However,
noodling is still practiced in many areas of the American South
and has a lively culture surrounding it.
How are the South of America guddle?
How would they talk about it?
Do you want to go guddle?
Sure.
We haven't guddled for a while?
Yeah, they're just like us, Matt.
They're not clowns.
Fear newsman.
Yeah.
They're just like us, okay?
We're all, we all like, we all like stuff.
We're all part of the one race.
We all like to have our little bellies rubbed until we go into a trance.
That's true.
We're all in the marketplace of dangerous ideas.
Answering for question number two.
Which of these are real species of fish?
Pea puffer.
The go away fish.
The twinkle finger.
Tiny, giny.
Slick fanny or flat tip.
P-puffer, the go-away fish, the twinkle-finger, tiny-jiny, slick fanny, or flat-tip.
Ben, what are you thinking?
What are you going to, you can guddle us up a catch here?
What are you going for?
Yeah.
You know what?
I like the go-away fish.
Go-away!
Yeah, I feel like, because people name fish the hell.
they sees them you know what they're fish
who cares you know what I mean
yeah but I could see a fish that looks
like a tiny giny yeah of course
I'm not saying that's not right I'm just
saying that's the one that I'm going to go for
okay you can do whatever you want
I plan to and plus tiny
shiny is what you wrote that's what you want
me to go there I think that that would be
a like a beginners level
of how big wet plays yeah well exactly
but maybe I'm just going back to basics
maybe you are maybe you want me to think that that's just a
beginner's level thing that you would go for.
And that's why you're going for it.
It's a double bluff.
You understand what I'm saying.
Yeah, but also very, very easily,
what you could be doing right now is you wrote Tiny Jiny.
Maybe I did.
Sorry.
The villain is back.
Which one did you pick?
Go away.
I'm going to do go away fish because people, you know, flathead.
Oh, what's that fish?
Yeah, it's got a flat head.
That's it.
That's what it is.
That's what it is.
What's that fish?
Groper.
It gropes.
Yeah, we'll call it a groper.
It's that where they got the name?
It gropes around.
So I'm going to go, I'm going to go, man, that fish needs to go away.
What should we call it?
I don't know, go away fish.
Yeah, let's do that.
Okay, locked in.
Rob, what are you thinking?
I was also going to go the go away fish, annoyingly.
You know what I mean?
I'm inside your head.
Has anybody done two of the same answers in a row?
I'm sure that's possibly happened.
Could you read them again, please?
Sure.
Peepuffer, the go away fish.
The twinkle finger, tiny, johnny, slick fanny, flat tip.
Weighing up between the go-away fish and the slick fanny,
because it's got to be somebody who's looked at the name of the fish
and thought, I've got to send that into Matt, of course.
And even though she's let me down before, I think that was,
I think Mish lied to me last time by mistake,
and I can't see that happening again.
Same thing with Ben.
So I'm looking at their faces now to get a read.
Mm-hmm.
Did you write Slick Fanny, Mish?
No.
Look at that.
She went, no.
Well, because I'm really confused about when I lied to you before.
By a mission, I think.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, no, no, I hear what you're saying.
A mission with drop.
Slick Fanny or Go Away Fish.
It's one of the two.
You should ask, Mitch, if she wrote the Go Away.
Mish, did you write the Go Away Fish?
No.
She's got that shit eating.
I'm going to take her out a word.
I don't believe she wrote either of those,
and there's no reason for her to lie to me twice.
Except to win the game, Rob.
And that one, yeah, well,
that $1,000 grand prize that I'm here for.
I must win this at all costs.
I'm going to go with...
And also a trip to the big show.
The big show?
Yeah, yeah.
Any information on what that is?
My biceps.
Yeah.
It's in Sydney.
You get to see Ben's Biceps in Sanchez.
Ben's biceps in Sydney.
Ben's biceps in Sydney.
He had a private show with Ben's biceps in Sydney.
Okay.
I'm going to make the game a lot less interesting and go the go away fish.
Okay.
Locked in for Rob, Mish.
Oh, Mish.
I was tossing up between two.
Yeah.
And one of them was the go away fish, but I'm not going to go with that one because then that really is boring.
I wanted to be tiny, giny.
Because I think giny is a wonderful world.
Fantastic word.
I'm kind of leaning towards maybe the twinkle finger.
Yeah.
Because I would never usually go for that.
And I'm just feeling free.
So I'm going to go with twinkle finger.
I can also picture, like fish fingers is a classic thing, sparkly fish.
Yeah, just like a little thin kind of camp fish.
Yeah.
All right.
Blocking that in for Mish.
Here's who wrote the answers.
Flat tip.
So just before you say who wrote that, I want you to read that.
I want you to read that back to me.
Flat tip.
I mean, I think that as a host,
you should be able to read, right?
Like, that should be a sort of,
this isn't the first time he's done this to me.
This is like, I would say,
the sixth or seventh time that he has misread.
You know how the feeling of powerlessness
when the host reads your answer wrong?
Oh, did you read Ben's answer wrong?
He always does that.
What is it?
Flap tip.
It just lost so much.
Can I just...
Can I just...
Can I just...
Can I...
Can I...
Give a fuck about that.
Flap tip.
Hello, let's go to...
Yeah, the difference between the P and the T there is...
Yeah, exactly.
You fucked it.
No, that, like, I will...
As I always do, Ben, I'll give you a...
A pity point there for that.
What?
Thank you.
Why?
Why?
Read mine wrong.
Uh, flap tip was Ben.
Ben,
apologize for that,
Ben.
Make a really
convoluted
and complicated
answer.
Yeah.
Because he can't
read.
I mean,
that is,
that is pretty
embarrassing,
actually.
It's,
the old mistake,
a P for a T,
a T for a P.
Yeah,
they're not even,
not really even close,
are they?
They don't look at all.
My brain just,
my brain saw a few letters
when I got this.
You must have been raging
that whole round.
I was fucking furious.
Yeah.
this whole time.
I'm so sorry.
I accept your apology and I want to just move on.
Okay.
Slick Fanny.
It is interesting that we had a flap, we had a fanny, we had a Johnny.
The slick fanny, that was Mish.
And Rob was close to go.
And I don't know if Rob, if you recall asking straight up.
I did ask Mish if she wrote that and she said no.
And I can only believe that she had forgotten that she had that.
You're right.
Yeah.
Lide to Rob.
I did lie to Rob.
It's his first time, Mish.
Can we...
Could we not...
Would you lie to me if I asked you?
No.
Oh.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, I think that's an open a shot case there.
Tiny Johnny was the house.
Very good.
Was that you?
That was me, yes.
Yeah, good stuff with the use of the word,
Giney.
Johnny's fun.
So fun.
Twinkle finger.
Mish went for that.
That was Rob.
There you go.
There we traded.
Now even.
The go away fish.
Ben and Rob both went for that, but that was Helena.
Oh, okay, the house.
I mean, the correct answer, no one got it.
The pee puffer.
Fuck.
Which is really, to me, it looks like a twinkle finger, if you see it.
Yeah.
Would have been a better name.
Oh, maybe not.
You know what I'd say, that, fish?
That's a pretty cool looking fish, though, but yeah.
No, I'd say, go away, fish.
Yeah.
So that.
It looks like a flap tip
Looks like a flat tip
Looks like it's also known as a dwarf puffer fish
The tip of a flap
I'm so sorry about that Ben
I really do hope you can forgive me
I think you already have over there
I don't if he wins by one point
I don't forgive you
I would like to turn this opportunity
Into a healing teachable moment
Okay
After two rounds
The scores are Rob on one
Mish Ben in the House on two points
Oh, that's villainous from Ben
Those listening at home
We'll not realize
That Ben just flipped us both off
Yeah, flip the bird
I know we're talking about fish
But when you say flip the bird
Do you mean flit the bird?
Because of the P teeth
Shut the fuck up
Well, I thought it was weird
That Ben didn't get that
I thought it was fantastic
I thought Slick Fanny was a fantastic
Name for a Fish
It was a great man
When you saw that
Did you go
I said I'm like
This is gonna rack up
some points here.
Question three comes from
Locky Toos.
Locky Toes.
Locky Toos from Neutral Bay, Sydney.
The question is, in 1977...
Doesn't like to pick a side.
That's right.
Yeah, I guess, yeah.
It's not good.
It's not a good bay.
No.
It's not a bad bay.
Yeah.
That's fine.
It's just fine.
Locky's question is,
in 1977,
Paul McCannie produced an album of instrumental
with what pseudonym was he credited as?
So what was Paul McCartney's,
what was Paul McCartney's pseudonym
in a 1977 album of instrumental tracks?
While you're writing your answers,
I'll let the audience know a bit more about pee puffers.
According to Helena,
puppy dog faces cuteness overload,
but don't be fooled by these little guys.
What they like in size,
they gain in courage and attitude.
Dude, puffers never stop begging for food even when there's plenty sat on the floor of the tank.
When keeping pee puffer, puffer fish, you'll need to be mindful on food waste to prevent a build-up of ammonia and nitrite.
And make an effort to keep...
Is that right? Nitrite?
I thought it was nitrate.
Nitrate. Could be.
Maybe you've read it wrong.
I mean, I don't think that.
Wouldn't be surprised.
Be very on brand for you.
I would be very surprised.
It's spelled nitrite.
Nitrite is a thing.
Don't listen to Mish.
Hey.
Pea puffers enjoy a variety of foods,
but fresh, frozen or live bloodworm.
Well, that sounds delicious.
Again, I'm finding a lot in common with fish today.
You're very fishy, aren't you?
I'm a fish.
I'm a fish like.
I'm a fish man.
Do not to attempt to feed dry foods such as granules or fish flake as
don't even think about it.
Pea puffers will reject.
to them.
Puffa, puffer fish.
Oh, no.
Ben, this might, I don't know if this will make you feel better or whatever, but Helen says her fake answer, the goaway bird is a real, go away fish was based on the goaway bird, which is a real species of bird.
There we go.
Birds and fish.
Old enemies, but maybe friends.
Okay.
The answers are in.
For question number three.
in 1977, Paul McCartney produced an album
with what pseudonym was he known.
Marin Faraday.
Ooh, that's great.
Sorry.
Percy Thrills Thrillington.
Thrills in inverted commas.
Dean Jelly.
Captain Clown.
Rod holder.
Or Grayson Rando.
Maren Faraday, Percy Thrills Thrillington,
Dean Jelly, Captain Clown, Rod Holder or Grayson Rainedo.
What do you think, Rob?
Miss, did you write Marin Faraday?
No.
I don't think Miss wrote Marin Faraday.
Okay.
Great name.
I think you did.
I did not write that.
You think he's devil bluffing us?
Yep.
Prove it.
They're in Faraday's good.
What was the last one?
Grayson Rainedo.
Rain Doe like rainbow, but with a D?
Yeah.
It's possible.
And you're choosing to pronounce it Doe rather than...
Oh, Raind...
Dow?
Rainbow, raindow.
Is rain dough?
Well, I just, I guess it's so close to rainbow.
Mm.
But yeah, you probably wouldn't...
It's also really close to Jane Doe.
Jane Doe.
Grayson, Rain, Dough.
I think that's just me,
into that a bit.
Yeah.
Rando.
Did Paul McCartney
kill someone?
Probably.
Well, he's dead.
No, he's not.
What?
Paul McCartney's not dead.
Yeah.
Well, great.
Wait, is Paul McCartney dead?
No.
No, everyone.
Paul McCartney is not dead.
Is George dead?
George is dead.
Ringo's alive.
Ringo's alive.
But there was a big,
there was a big conspiracy
that Paul was dead.
And that's why he's, like,
all these really...
Because he's barefoot crossing.
happy right
and they're like
that's a sign that's not
the real
people are crazy
it also very much
depends when people
are listening to this
like in 10 years
he will almost certainly
be dead
and we're sorry
for your life
rip true
yeah
10 years
I might need you
to read the third one
the second one
and in fact all of them
please
third one is Dean Jelly
second one was
Percy Thrills
Thrilllington
and all of them
in Marin Faraday
Percy Thrills Thrillington
Dean Jelly
Captain Clown
Rod Holder
or Grace and Rando
or rain down.
Yes, it's definitely one of them.
Because it's almost like rained down.
It's almost, there's a lot going on with that one.
I think I'm going to go with Rod Holder because I don't believe it's that one.
And the ones I have thought it would be have also been incorrect.
So I'll go with the one that I don't think is right.
Okay, I like that.
Do you think he was been a bit cheeky in the 70s?
A little bit cheeky.
The Beatles were...
Famously.
Cheeky. Yeah, they're a bit cheeky.
Yeah.
What do you think, Mish?
I really like Rod Holder.
The first one, I just had such a visceral reaction to that.
Marin Faraday.
That's beautiful.
Yeah, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that that was Rob.
I didn't write that.
He hasn't lied to you yet, I don't think.
As far as we know.
I'm happy to go with, I said I'm going in with this chill and I really, really am.
So I'm just going to lock in the first one.
All right, locked in.
Okay, so you've gone Maren Faraday, you've gone Rod Holder.
What are the other ones that are left?
Percy Thrill, Stirlington, Dean Jelly, Captain Clown, Grayson Rondo.
Yeah, so, Grayson, Mariner, they're the only ones that kind of sound, but they're both fun.
He's gonna make up a name.
Yeah.
He, it's 70s, so he's not that, like, comedy's, you know, he's not that, he's not as funny as what he thinks he is.
because everyone's like, oh, you're Paul McCartney, you're so funny.
That's why Rod Holder works.
Captain Clown.
Captain Clown also works.
You know, that's more Ringo star.
That is Ringo.
You know what I mean?
That's a Ringo vibe.
Captain.
So I just decided to be Captain Clown and release a, oh, I just released a instrumental album.
It was funny.
Um, just trying to...
Billy Connelly's ended up into the chat.
I don't think you've fully dropped the Scots from before.
No, it's hard to drop the Scots.
Yeah.
Once you got a hold of the Scots, it's hard to drop.
Scott's got a hold on you.
It's true.
I like them.
Famously.
We, uh...
Oh, we just...
We got in the studio.
We was just a couple of boys.
We was in a garage.
Oh.
Who was that?
Was that Captain Clare?
Or was that Percy Threllington?
Grace and Rando.
Was it Dean Jerry?
She Thrillington.
Did you write Percy Thrillington?
No.
You did.
You did, didn't you?
No.
You did.
Look at me.
Did you write Percy Threllington?
No.
I can ask you if you'd like, Ben.
She doesn't lie to me.
Okay.
Did you write Percy Thrillington?
No.
There you go.
She's smiling when she's doing it.
I hate that smile.
I hate it.
Did you write Dean Jelly?
No.
See, I believe that.
Yeah.
Okay.
But I think that Rob wrote Dean Jelly.
Okay.
I don't know.
I think you wrote Dean Jelly.
Maybe I did.
Or Captain Clown.
Dean Jelly is fun.
Why would I be...
Without being too fun.
There's no point double bluffing when everyone else is gone.
Well, because Captain Clown's a good answer.
it's because you wrote it
so mish did you write captain clown
no miss didn't write captain clown
i'm gonna go rod holder
rod holder you two have gotten the same answer for everything
well what can i say we've got great taste
none of been right so far
let's see if that changes here
who wrote the answers
grace and raindow that was mish
meant to be bow i don't know there was a weird little spelling
it's not your fault i got really excited because i thought i'd got a point
but...
Oh, that's interesting.
I thought I liked it.
Yeah.
So when you said it's like Jane Doe, that wasn't actually your thinking.
No, that was just me trying to figure out how I could possibly...
Yeah.
You know, get away with having written something like Rained Doe.
Because it felt like that.
It meant so much, but it was just a mistake.
Captain Clown.
That was Rob.
Ooh, lucky.
You didn't write Captain.
I forgive you.
Thank you.
Dean Jelly.
That was the house.
If you want to know my process here, and I know you do.
Started with Gene Kelly.
I've picked Ben's.
I see.
And I want to...
Fuck me.
All right.
Mish went for Marin Faraday.
That was Ben Russell.
Very good name.
From downtown.
It fell right into my trap.
It was a delicious name.
It is, isn't it?
Rob and Ben.
House?
Went for Rod Holder.
That was Locky, the question.
I don't know.
Very good.
Thrillington.
Means the real one is Percy Thrillington.
I should have gone Thrillito.
I tarried on it.
Sad.
What does Tarry mean?
Tarry rash wanton.
I'm not I thy lord.
That's also from a midsummer night stream.
Wild that we come all the way back.
Yeah.
What did any of what you said mean?
Doesn't Tarry mean to like deceive?
Oh.
I believe, isn't it?
I don't know.
Let me have a look.
Yeah, it sounds like a fun word.
Do not tarry.
Do not take a while.
Oh, yeah, that might be right.
So, geez, more points to the house there.
Yeah, this is bad.
We've got to stop doing the house.
You stay there longer than you meant to and delay leaving.
There you go.
So at the halfway mark, Rob's on one, Mish on two, bends on three,
but the house now out in front on four points.
It's close.
It's a close.
It's only one's game.
I went into this chill.
You did.
You remaining chill?
Yeah.
I'm fine.
You've lied to Rob's face on two occasions.
Well, one occasion.
One occasion.
And one by O Mishwish.
One by Mish.
Question four comes from Chris Taylor from Conroe, Texas.
The question is, what product did legendary basketball a Shaquil O'Neal launch in 2024?
What product did legendary basketball a Shaquil O'Neal launch
in 2024.
While you're writing your answers,
he's a little more info about Percy Threllington.
According to ultimate classic rock,
one pseudonym just wasn't enough for Paul McCartney.
In 1965, he wrote and gifted pop duo Peter and Gordon,
his song, Woman,
on the condition that he be credited to a pseudonym,
that it be credited to a pseudonym Bernard Webb.
In 1968, he used the name Apollo C. Vermuth
when producing a single called,
I'm the urban space man by the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band.
A year later, he went by Paul Ramon when he contributed parts to Steve Miller's My Dark Hour.
Then in 1971, he used the name Clint Harrigan to write sleeve notes to Wings Wildlife.
And in 1970, he produced an entire album called Thrillington, consisting of instrumental covers of songs from Ram under the pseudonym, Percy Thrills, Thrillington.
Hey, while you're still writing your answers, let's go for a quick break.
All right, we're back at the answer.
And here is question number four.
What product did legendary basketball a Shaquillo Neal launch in 2024?
Sweeties, sugar-free chocolates in three flavors, peanut butter, orange and smalls.
Option two.
Shack attack tackle box complete with fishing line hooks and Diomonte covered fishing
lose.
Good.
Oh, I like that.
Option three.
A duck caller known as the shack quack.
Mm-hmm.
Option four.
Shaquille O'Neill's shackilicious, extra-large gummies, which came in the shape of
his head.
Mm-hmm.
Big boy pants.
Big pants for America's biggest boys.
I mean, there are some big boys in America.
Yeah.
Or finally, catheter bags.
Yeah.
Cather bags.
There's something
Michael, do I go first?
You do go first, yeah.
I really, really like the shack quack, quack, whatever.
And there's something in, like, he's got so much money, and he's a goofy boy.
So I could see him doing something wild like that.
He is for sale.
Like he'll put his name on anything.
Yeah, 100%.
He's down here, like he's on some Australian gambling thing.
He's on my menu log or something.
Something like that as well.
I think you'll do pretty open about just doing whatever for money.
I feel like it could be the gummies shaped like his head.
It's just the over-explanation of that.
Right.
That bothered me.
But I'm going to go with the gummies.
Shaquille O'Neill's shackilicious XXL's gummies in the shape of his own head for Mish.
Are they weed gummies?
Doesn't say.
Because that would be fucking cool, man.
That cool of that.
XXL, though, that's full on.
Yeah.
That'd be extra, extra large gummies, dude.
Fuck, imagine.
You can eat those while you wear your big boy pants.
What was the first two?
Sweeties.
Yep, the sweeties.
Sugar-free chocolate.
Yep.
Shack attack tackle box.
Shack attack, tackabogs is good.
Shack attack tackle box.
And then the duck collar, the shack quack.
The shack quack.
Shack quack.
I can imagine Shaq enjoying a nice fish, you know?
And the theme has been fish a lot this episode.
Yeah.
So.
Is it a secret theme?
It's a good point, actually.
Secret theme.
I smell a secret theme.
And it smells like fishy.
Um, yeah.
I'm going to go with Shack attack tackle box.
Shack attack tackle box for Ben.
What do you think, Rob?
I also wanted to go with the Shack Attack Tinklebox.
You can't.
It hasn't worked for you once.
No.
You've got it before.
You can do it again.
I mean, it is a chance now.
You've got, you've rolling, you've got more odds that it'd be correct now.
I think Ben probably wrote the Big Boy one.
Incorrect.
Look at me.
I did not write the Big Boat.
Okay, Ben didn't write that.
He's telling me he didn't write that.
So I'll take him in his word.
One more time, please.
Sweeties, Shack Attack Tacklebox.
The Shaq quack, Shaquille O'Neal, Shackalicious XXL gummies,
Big Boy Pants, or Catherabags.
Catherer bags.
Oh, wow.
You don't want to, it just goes straight in, just like,
Shaq with the ball.
Go swish.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, you can see the ad camp right now.
Yeah.
Swish.
Nothing but bag.
Let's, I believe it's the shack attack tackle box, but let's go catheter bag.
Go on catheter bag?
Why not?
All right, love that.
All right.
Here's who wrote the answers.
And I really was trying to write in Ben's voice with this one.
Big boy, Ben's, yeah.
So, I mean, that's a crowded market.
Yeah, okay.
In the U.S.
Yeah.
They got all sorts of big boys.
Yeah, it's fat.
Yeah, yeah.
And Shaq is a businessman.
He's looking for a blue water market there.
That means like an no one, not an uncrowded market.
Yeah.
That's a great term.
Thank you.
You're a businessman.
I do some business from time.
Okay, there you go.
I'm an entrepreneur.
I don't believe it.
The duck call are known as the shack quack.
That was Rob.
I thought that was Ben.
I thought I would catch someone with that.
That was very good.
Honestly, it was very close.
And the only thing to stop me was like, I reckon that's Ben's.
I probably fucking picked Benz
Sweeties, sugar-free chocolates
That was Mish
Peanut Butter, orange and smalls
That little bit of specificity
Did do some good
Some heavy lifting
Yeah, I tried my best
And you could see him releasing a chocolate thing
called Sweeties with a Zed
Oh yeah
If I knew it was with a Zed I might have picked it
See, fucking hell!
I needed to hit the Zed
Yeah
Shack Attack Tacklebox
Ben went for that.
I'm afraid that was the house.
Oh, damn it.
House is doing well.
Come on catheter bag.
Cather the bag.
Cather the bags.
Rob went for that.
That was Ben.
Goddamic, Ben.
I went for simple.
Oh, hell yeah.
I got the answer.
That does mean, Mish is correct.
It is shackilicious XXL gummies.
Interestingly, also coming in three flavors like your fake answer.
What the hell?
You were very close.
What were the three flavors?
The three flavors.
Fravorous
Free Fravorish
What are your free
Frivorite
Frivorish, Mash?
What?
Why is this happening?
You know, for someone
that I've been branded
the villain,
Mish is kind of...
I'm not villainous.
I'm just good at the game.
You are being villainous.
No offense.
I'm not...
Villains.
You dog.
So there's
the sour ones,
which are in the shapes
of...
of, of, uh, of, uh, random things.
Pineapple, mixed berry and watermelon.
And then the original, you're right?
You can't.
I can't see.
I can't see what the original is.
Wow.
Where?
Does there a photo of these gummies?
You could just make one up if you like.
Yeah, just say Apple, man.
It's cool.
The third one was Apple.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
Okay.
Okay.
So he's only holding two bags.
Is that why you can't find the third?
Well, they're the three flavors I said.
I can't figure out what those three flavors are.
And I can only apologize.
In that round, Ben got a point.
Yes.
Mish got a point.
Yes.
House got a point.
No.
Rob got a point.
End of list.
So, two rounds to go.
Rob's on one, Mish on three, Ben on four.
House on five.
Question.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
It's funny when you fuck up.
Okay.
Full villain.
Full villain mode.
I'm not a villain.
Big Wet is not a villain.
Big Wet is a villain.
No, I'm the voice of the people.
I'm not a villain.
You're a good guy is called Big Wet.
Grow up.
I didn't name myself.
Yes, you did.
You did choose that name.
No, but it wasn't for me.
No.
No, it was done in a weird context.
I never picked up.
Now people yelled at me from their cars.
Big word.
It's really embarrassing.
Question five comes from Colin Campbell from Tucson, Arizona.
Tucson.
All right.
And the question is, why did author Terry Pratchett decide to switch German publishers in the 90s?
So he switched from a German to another German publisher?
Yeah, his German publisher, he changed.
Someone happened.
To another German publisher?
Yeah, just his publisher in Germany, why did he switch publishers there?
Mm.
While you're writing your answers, he's...
some more info about Shaq's gummies.
As well as the original gummies that are molded after O'Neill's face,
there are also shacklishers sour,
which are offered in three seemingly random shapes,
cactus, shamrock and truck.
Chris writes,
I tried these sour gummies once
because I'm originally from Louisiana
and the colours reminded me of Mardi Gras.
Well, purple, green, and gold, not yellow.
I was surprised by how much I liked them.
I submitted this question just because I
the shape choice is so bizarre and random,
but it turns out the shapes are based on
nicknames he's had throughout
his career. The diesel, the big
cactus, and
cobra, sorry, I meant the big
shamrock. A bit of fun there from Chris.
Shack also has
a line of non-sour
XXL gummies, and they're
all shaped like his face and have a consistency
closer to a Swedish fish.
Fish!
Fuck. Oh, goes back to fish.
I've blown this whole thing wide open.
I know next to nothing about Shaq
except that he loves doing endorsements
and apparently candy
so I guess he and I have that in common
Keep being awesome
Hope you all are able to tour stateside soon
And I hope my next question
Won't be about gummies or shack
Thank you so much Chris
All right the answer for question number five
Why did author Terry Pratchett
Decide to switch German publishers in the 1990s
He married a Portuguese woman
And subsequently learnt that his publisher's name
Was a racial slur in Portuguese
option two the publisher was caught inserting branded product placements for
Maggi soup into his book
his publisher was arrested for spying on Pratchit stalking him and sending him
over 200 unwanted love letters
his book rights were included with with his permission in a bet between two
companies on a championship soccer match
he discovered his production house had
ties to the Nazi party in the 30s
and still kept a small collection of memorabilia
in their head office.
This is a hard one.
Or they started publishing Mormon Bibles.
All right.
Oh, this is good.
This is fun.
This is a tough one.
Yeah.
This is, I would say it's almost impossible.
Yeah, I think they're all quite believable.
This is the last question?
Second last.
Yeah.
So you got the Portuguese slur.
I like that one a lot.
Same.
You got the Magi or Maggie soup.
Magi soup.
Magi.
Magi soup ads.
Love that one.
You got unwanted love letters from the publisher.
You got his, the book rights were soccer.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, I love that.
Nazi party ties or Mormon Bibles.
Soccer.
Portuguese, Mormon Bibles.
They're my top three.
Okay.
Which one out of those?
top three though
I mean it's almost like
he'd be
is a like
he just didn't want to be associated
with Mormon Bibles
yeah I mean he strikes me
as someone that would be like
okay isn't
isn't I don't know Pratchett
but isn't he like a sort of an anti
Christ
like not religion but just like
it's all ridiculous type thing
he has fantasy books as far as I know
but
he seems
I mean he yeah
he seemed like oh
and more you know
he seems like a guy that would have it out
for the Mormons.
Okay.
I don't know,
but that's pretty easy to do.
Yeah,
okay.
No offense to Mormons out there.
None taken.
Was it you told me about soaking?
Soaking?
I mean,
I don't know.
I'm obsessed with soaking.
When I found out what soaking was,
I became obsessed with it.
It sounds like an urban legend,
but it isn't.
And they all do backflips.
Oh.
And they can't drink coffee.
Huh.
Some of my favorite.
Just purely because,
sorry,
because John Smith didn't like,
beverages. Not because it's caffeine or anything. The best ever corner of TikTok, one of them,
is a little kind of like little itty-bitty corner of Mormon University TikTok. And it's just these
like being like, hey, welcome. Like I'm at college now and like, you know, whatever. But they're all
so Mormon and they're like, it's just crazy. It's insane watching 18 to 21 year olds like just want to
fuck each other so much.
Right.
But Jess would never be like, it's just crazy.
Is soaking the one where someone's moving the bed or is that?
Yeah.
You soak,
you soak your genitals in each others and then you jump hump.
Right.
Someone jumps on the bed.
Yeah.
So it's a real.
And that's like they see that as a loophole.
Yeah, it's a real lawyer.
Someone shakes the mattress or something.
You're not technically.
It'd be so funny.
You believe in a God so much that your whole life is.
But you think that he's,
He's like, well, it's okay, you got me there.
He's really good.
No, there's not really in the wrong book about that.
It's so funny.
It's so funny.
Ah, you've got me.
Oh, damn.
Should have been clear on that?
I should have been clear.
I'm going to fire my lawyer.
So you're thinking of the Mormon?
No, well, those are my top three.
Oh, Mormon.
What were it?
Mormon, Portuguese, Mormon.
And.
And soccer.
Soccer.
Germans love the soccer.
True.
Bundesliga.
Yeah.
it's a great name for the league maybe the best whoever wrote that one is good so good
you're going to pick it what if it was the history books that wrote it you ever think about that
i don't know what that means that it means it would be the true one oh well then yeah i think
that i am thinking about that yeah i'm thinking about that constantly yeah right you're
absolutely that really should be front of mind it is yeah okay great
You're really talking me into the Portuguese one
Well, I don't know, I'm not talking
A little bit of biasness
I'm not talking to win to anything
A bias, little bias, conscious bias
I think you should go
Soccer match is good
You think I should go?
Did you write the Portuguese one?
No, but if you want to go for it, I think you should.
I feel like you wrote the Magi Noodle one
Because when you said that, you said,
I like that one
Could just be a Magi Noodle fan?
Yeah, I really like Magi Noodle.
I like the idea of that like sneaky
product placement.
I just liked the answer.
Okay.
I have absolutely no idea which ones you guys wrote.
I'm going to do the Mish Wittrip method of the one that I like, even though that didn't
work for her.
She picked mine.
So I'm going to go the one that I dislike the most.
Okay.
Which is soccer.
Soccer.
Out of my top three, I'm going to pick soccer.
Okay.
Soccer for ban?
What do you think, Rob?
Can you get it?
I guess what one I was thinking.
The soccer, that is incredible.
That is amazing.
I'm in your head, dude.
Yeah.
But in the interest of trying to catch up, I think I should choose something different.
So would you mind giving me a pricey of...
Portuguese slur, Magi soup ads.
Yep.
Unwanted love letters, soccer match, Nazi party, Mormon Bibles.
Yeah.
All right.
tossing up between Portuguese and the love letters one.
Mm-hmm.
Let's go to the letters.
200.
The 200 was the last straw.
Yeah, $199.
I can live with $200.
I'm out.
They're all so good.
They're really good.
I like the Portuguese one.
We're all going difference.
This is nice.
A bit of fun.
There's a nice spread.
It's a great spread.
But yeah, it really feels...
I love that word.
spread spread good word i nearly named my comedy festival show spread
it's a great name for a show great name for a show
put on a spread i went with something else for some reason i thought you were going to say
i nearly named my child spread
i'm not calling it spread
dinner time spread
spread put it down
is that your 2026 show
sorry is that you're not calling it spread but i nearly did
2027
26.
27 is the spread.
Yeah, 27 is spread.
26, what's the show called?
Not as good as I remember.
Fantastic.
I'd go and see spread, not sure about.
Yeah.
I could change it.
I literally said the email yesterday.
I wouldn't do that.
I'd go to spread.
You prefer spread?
Yeah, I prefer spread.
Spread is clean.
No, I like not as good as I remember when it's based on what my show's going to be.
But I think both are great.
But spread, you can see it.
It's like, you're all vegamide on a piece of toast.
or something.
Well, no, because my photos are all, like, based on that title as well.
But now, oh, fuck, I shouldn't have said anything because I was seriously battling in my head
and I went with the long one.
No, spread, spread 27.
Yeah, keep it in the chamber.
Well, Benj just said he doesn't like the, you don't actually like the other title.
You don't like long titles.
No, I don't, I don't, I don't, he's stuck in gameplay mode.
You ask him after we finish this episode.
Yeah.
You can't get a straight answer out of him now.
I'm not going to give it to you.
I'm devious.
He's the villain.
I'm not the villain.
I'm the hero.
Yeah, well, okay.
I guess every villain thinks of themselves as a hero.
All right, here's a row of the answers.
It's actually one of Ben's top three, Mormon Bibles.
That was Ben.
Ha ha.
I double bluffed you and it didn't work.
Did get us into some fun Mormon chat, though.
I thought you were Nazis or Mormon.
Yeah?
The Nazis was the house.
A bit too on the nose.
Yeah, nice try a house.
Yeah, no, I didn't like it either, to be honest.
Ben went for the soccer match, which Rob was close to going on for.
That was Colin.
Well done, Colin.
Question writer.
Yes, good effort, Colin.
Rob went for the unwanted love letters.
That was Mish.
Oh, dear.
Mish went for the Portuguese.
That was Rob.
You did a sneaky.
I did a sneaky.
Proud of you.
Which means Magi Noodle?
It is the Magi No.
So weird.
Wow.
Yeah, and apparently.
They were all excellent answers, truly.
I was happy with any of them, not like the Nazi one was good, whatever.
You know what I mean?
No, they were all there.
No, it's a baseline.
They all had to stack.
Yeah, bit hack.
Yeah, but fine.
Yeah.
I even, I spent more time going,
headquarters or head office?
Like, that's going to sway it.
But, yeah, the, apparently when they figured out that it was happening,
the publishers wouldn't guarantee they wouldn't do it again.
So that was the, he's like, well, I'm going to have to go somewhere who won't do that.
Very weird.
But how were they inserting the ads?
Like just pictures of Magi noodles in the cover or were characters saying,
I could really go for some Magi noodles?
I can show you a little Magi soup.
What's his name?
Terry Pratchett.
So there's a page like this in the middle.
Ah, I see.
Like things have been redacted and then there were, there are lines like,
The characters were, you know, be more specific, were getting tired.
They thought, geez, we got five minutes for some Maggi Noodle soup or whatever.
That's wild.
Yeah, so odd.
All right, final question.
This one comes from two people sent this in, actually.
Tim S. Green from Surrey in the UK, Nick Dennis from Eddard's, Pennsylvania.
Wow, across the pond.
Reaching out.
Reaching out.
Cross the water.
You love it.
Hey, maybe, maybe we can, maybe peace can work.
I think maybe it can.
I think Tim and Nick are showing us the way.
All right, so Rob, we always finish with the movie synopsis.
This would be your longest answer.
Yeah.
Three, four sentences, something like that.
And if you know, if you're having to know the movie, just play it like you don't.
All right.
Tim and Nick's question is, what is the synopsis of the film Johnny Skidmark's?
What is the synopsis of the film Johnny Skidmark's?
skid marks. And while your answer is being written, here's some more info about that Terry Pratchett
German publishing snafu. According to Jeffrey writing for the stuffed crocodile blog,
back in the 90s, Terry Pratchett changed his German publisher, a rather radical move in the
market for someone who had been published by Hayne, that was the name of the publisher, for a dozen
books to rising sales. I remember reading it in the Jarbush,
the science fiction and fantasy
1994, I think that's how it's pronounced,
English translation annual of science fiction and fantasy.
It stated in a rather laconic tone
that his books would now be published
by Goldman instead of Hain.
The brisk tone of the notice
might have been connected
with the fact that the editor of the Jabush
was also the chief editor of Hain
and he was reporting about himself
losing a best-selling author.
The reason for the change was, well, the Hayne Publishing House put in a soup advert in one of his books without asking and would not promise to not do it again.
As Pratchett himself said, there were a number of reasons for switching to Goldman, but a deeply personal one for me was the way Hayne inserted a soup advert in the text.
A few black lines and then something like, around about now, our heroes must be pretty hungry.
And what better than a nourishing bowl, et cetera, et cetera.
My editor was pretty sick about it, but the company wouldn't promise not to do it again.
So that made it very easy to leave them.
Jeffrey continues, yeah, it's real.
That was a standard practice for Hayne back then, at least with their genre novels.
And it was noticeable to a lot of people because they had the good luck of having one of the largest and best-selling selections of science fiction slash fantasy literature in the country, mostly thanks to awesome editors.
Pratchett was not the only one with the soup adverts.
I remember at least one Star Trek novel and a few non-franchise ones having the same stuff in it.
The whole thing was a holdover from the 50s or 60s when practices like that were more common,
especially with publishers of cheap genre fiction.
They were rather popular for pulling in additional revenue or cheaply priced paperbacks
that might not make their money back.
and as the genres were not really seen as literature at all by anyone who mattered,
fans and editors often had to fight bloody battles to get their stuff published
even if it did go bestseller in the end.
Fans of course got used to it if it gave them access to the books, why not?
But it became more and more grading the more genre literature was accepted into mainstream.
And then you actually had a bestseller author like Pratchett Jump Ship and go to,
to the direct contender, Goldman, just because one of these stupid stunts.
I wonder how that actually was taken by the Hain CEOs.
Back then, Pratchett was on the verge of becoming a star in Germany as well,
so they lost him just when he was getting big.
It might have just been a secondary thing,
but I never saw one of these adverts in a novel published after 95, or 94.
Yeah, I am not good at reading.
Clearly, is it four.
Oh, well.
Oh, there you go.
That's okay.
I think I'd just round it up, maybe because my brain just, like, you know, multiples of five, I suppose.
Hmm.
Will you accept that?
I have no choice.
Okay.
But to accept.
All right.
The answer is for the final question.
What is the synopsis of the film, Johnny Skidmark's?
Here are your options.
Skidmark's is an adrenaline-fueled drama about race car driver John Skidmark's Carter.
When a near fatal crash forces Johnny to re-evaluate his life,
he must confront his fears, men-broken relationships, and find a new purpose.
Either reclaim his prize as the fastest driver or lose everything in a blaze of glory.
It's option one.
Option two, when best friends and classmates Grant and Felix are dared by the school bully
to run through the haunted house at the end of their cul-de-sac,
neither of the kids expected that they'd be entering the home of Johnny Skidmark's.
A futuristic rock star sent back in time to save the world
From the evil Braxton gallstones
It's option two, option three
Johnny is a greaser
Living the fast life of rock and roll and girls
On the run from the law for illegal street racing
He hides in a retirement home
Where he meets the residence and learns
There's more to life than fast cars and even faster women
Option four
Bookish Dwee
Johnny Delaney's life has never been worse.
His newly opened Houston Shoe Store has failed dismally,
and to say his relationship is on the rocks is an understatement.
In a loveless marriage and being hounded by debt collectors,
Johnny heads to Chicago, ditching his old life and starting afresh as an alter ego who takes no guff.
Exit Johnny Delaney, enter Johnny Skidmark's.
Option 5. Crime scene photographer Johnny Skadino, okay, Johnny Skidmark's,
is working on the side for a group of black males,
photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels with sex workers.
One such assignment turns the wrong way,
and the black males he works for start dying one by one
in more and more brutal ways.
Will Johnny be next on the list?
Are you saying black males or blackmailers?
Blackmailers.
That makes more sense.
Okay.
All right, point for Rob.
If someone clarified the answer,
Did that person still get a point?
A group of black mailers.
Okay, but let's not forget that you did say black males there.
Did I say black males?
The whole way three times.
Well, that's weird.
Well, finally, a washed up magician accidentally summons a demon named Skidmarks
during a children's birthday party.
To banish it, he must perform the greatest trick of all,
reconnecting with his teenage daughter.
That's good stuff.
Rob, what are you thinking?
So you've got the first one is the race car driver.
Yep, it seems maybe too obvious.
The next one is the haunted house with the time-travelling rock star.
Yes, possibly.
And you've got the greaser who's hiding out in a retirement home.
Yep.
You've got the bookish dweeb who heads to Chicago and becomes Johnny Skidmark's.
You've got the crime scene photographer,
with the black mailers.
Yep.
I still hit a weird.
I should have really been hitting the urs part there, black male urs.
Yes, sir, very important addition to that.
Or the washed up magician.
Yep, yep, yep.
Haunted house for me, thank you.
Haunted house, love it.
Fuck.
And this is worth triple points.
What the fuck?
And also, I pick this in part because it really sounds like a character who could be in your,
ongoing series at the end of late o'clock was that oh right janeering and johnny skid marks could
be a character in that oh i see yeah in um my series erotic tits
which is a part of my talk show
right bring it back i might i may i may matt and ben have been in it
hey mish it's so good mish could be in it as well i could be
If you bring it back, I'd love to be.
If you could brave the anxiety that it brings about.
Oh, man, it is the most stressed I've been in my life putting that show on.
But man, it's a real electric stuff.
Like the vibe in those shows is full.
You can feel the electricity.
It's crazy.
It's exactly what the high-fi kind of, or sorry, back to what's needs.
It belongs there.
You did it 10 times.
More than 10 years, yeah.
Yeah.
It's on YouTube, by the way.
Check it out on YouTube.
Later clock with Rob Hunter.
Don't forget to like and subscribe.
And ring that bell.
Yes.
And then if you ever see it live again, that hot tip.
It's a hot ticket too.
Flat tip.
Flat tip.
Flat tip.
Oh my God.
Ben, another point for Ben.
I'm worried about you now.
Yeah, it's not good.
This is a 10 a.m. start is very early for me.
Yeah.
I think you might be having a stroke.
Like those little mini ones.
Yeah.
Not a huge one.
Not a huge one.
Just those tiny little ones.
Yeah.
Mish.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think it's either the car racing or the crime scene photographer.
You're thinking...
I'm going to...
There were two sort of car races.
The first one.
There was Johnny the Greaser car racer and the John Skidmark's Carter.
The first, yeah, the first one.
I'm going to go with the...
black mailers
black mailers
all right locked in
geez
see
I was going to go
haunted house
only a fool
would go haunted house
you went haunted house
you silly goose
I was being silly goose
so in the effort
that's not worked out for us yet
now do I go
do I say
just because it hasn't worked out
now that means the odds
have increased
You're at the roulette table.
Yeah.
You've bet red 12 times in a row.
Lost everyone.
Black is due.
Yeah.
Not black.
Red is due.
Red is due.
Oh my God.
I'm bad.
I'm gambling.
Truly.
Is red due?
I think it is.
Or is it, what's the last one?
Washed up magician.
Watched up magician is fun.
And if anything has taught me,
nothing is too ridiculous for movies
miss you went crime scene photographer right
yeah
in the effort of good gamemanship
I'm going to go
the last one
the magician all right
locked in
did you do magician
no I'm going to take
that out I didn't do it
I'm not going to do magician now
I didn't do that okay
did you do magician no
did you do magician no
Did you do magician?
No.
Did you do magician?
No.
Did you do magician?
Yes.
Miss, did you do magician?
No.
She didn't do it, Ben.
She just said yes.
I don't lie to rob.
She doesn't lie to me.
Can you ask her three times?
Miss, did you do magician?
Yes.
Okay.
Okay, so I'm not going to go.
I didn't do magician.
Did you do magician?
No.
Did you do magician?
No.
Mish?
Yes, Ben.
Are you a person?
Yeah.
Do you like coffee?
You nearly had it in.
Did you do magician?
No.
I'm going to go magician.
All right.
Magician for Ben.
Okay, I'm not going to do magician.
Okay.
Ben just pick magician, dude.
It's fine.
I didn't do it.
You know what, actually.
What, what point?
How?
What's Mish on now?
you two are even and four a piece
I've slipped into your head
little slippery dip in there now
Ben
look at me
look at me
Ben
look at me before you do something we both regret
I didn't do magician
if you did magician
I'm going to take it personally
and it's going to carry on it
I think the only reason you care so much is it's possible you wrote crime scene.
Because...
I didn't write crime scene.
Okay, I believe you.
I'm giving it.
I didn't write it.
Okay, I didn't write it.
Okay, I'm going to do magician.
All right.
Magician is...
I'm not going to do it because every time she does it, she goes, ah!
Okay, I'm not doing a magician.
I'm going to do haunted house.
Locked in?
Yep.
Let's go.
Whew!
You're all in.
Here we go.
Here's...
Who wrote The Answers?
The washed-up magician did miss write it.
We'll find out in a moment.
Bookish dweeb, Johnny Delaney,
who's open a Houston shoe store that failed dismally.
But now he's Chicago's Johnny Skidmark.
That was Rob Hunter.
Oh, not even I believe that one.
Oh, that felt like a movie.
That's a movie.
The race car driver.
Adrenaline-fueled.
that was Nick the other question right okay the house you just made you just
they won now no you miss you missed the no one got the house oh both houses
no one picked him so the house can't oh you didn't do oh I thought you did grace
child no I did crime scene okay uh the Johnny did you do Johnny the Greaser
that was Ben Russell yeah that's Ben Russell now
the washed up magician
that was the house
that was Tim the house sorry yes you didn't do
magician you did not do magician
did you do haunted house
oh dear she did haunted house
I fell into a trap
haunted house
which Ben and Rob went for
that was Mish
oh no and Mish was also correct
and his crime safe photographer
she had an absolute clean sweep
that's a hectic score in the final round
Big wetter softed it up late
I'm gonna piss my pants
Oh God
It's good victory
So yummy
Now this
I've still got out up the scores
We'll find out
But
I'm just glad the house didn't win
This movie does not have enough
Critics
To have a Rotten Tomato score
But the audience have given it
29% approval rating
That's not great
Is John Lithgow in it?
John Lithgow is in it?
Yeah, okay.
And Johnny Skidmark's is played by Sandy Cohen himself, Peter Gallagher.
Okay, yeah, because I've seen the cover.
I've seen the cover, but I couldn't, I didn't know if it was about a race car or a thing like that.
I knew that John Lithgow was in it.
A review by Mark G. reads, I thought this movie was well done, excellent cinematography and a slow burned feel for the story.
Gallagher is really good.
He has a definite noir vibe with a splash of David Lynch.
It's not a perfect film, but worth the watch.
Another viewer was not into it writing.
tries to be a film noir Chinatown movie
Fails really bad at that
Peter Gallagher looks dumb on screen
and everything I see him do
which is like he obviously hasn't
watched the O'C
All right so final score check
in fourth place on two points
It's Rob Hunter
In third place
On four points it's Ben Russell
In second place on six points
It's the house
But in the end
getting more points than all three of those combined
finish you on 13 points it's big wet
that's crazy
the villain wins
I think you're newly crowned villain
newly crowned villain
when you switch to the haunted house
I that was villainous
that was villainous was the most
that was a villainous move
where he did that what were you thinking
oh I was thinking that's fantastic
got some good big wet right there
I don't like that is like
somehow you're like just the
you're like the, you know, the boogeyman.
Just the idea of you is fucking Ben into guessing your answer.
You're the villain.
You're a bad person.
It's not, I'm not a bad person.
I played a fair game.
I didn't lie to you.
You're a bad person.
That last one, I didn't lie.
You're a bad person.
And you like to do bad things to people.
Whatever.
All I can taste is victory right now.
Fantastic.
Now, Miss, your new show, what's it called again?
No idea.
It hasn't been announced yet.
Well, it'll be an hour probably by the time this comes out.
This is...
December 5th.
Okay.
Yeah.
We'll put this out after it.
Okay.
I don't know what it's going to be called.
It'll either be called spread or not as good as I remember and I have a feeling it's going to be the latter.
Well, this is really fun because you might be in Ben's head in the game, but Ben's in your head in life.
I played the long game.
But that'll be in Melbourne and probably other places.
Melbourne, Sydney, Brizzy and...
Melbourne.
And Adelaide.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Ben, what about you?
I check out my U-Stubes.
I got a little bit of Gert.
You got to check out Gert, man.
It's so good.
On YouTube, Bon Russell is the YouTube channel.
And by this time that it comes out, I might have four out.
Awesome.
And Gert is, it's sort of like, what's that thing that's playing off?
What's the channel?
It's playing off Jubilee surrounded videos.
I'll be doing an encore version of my show,
my award winning show Ben Russell
for the Melbourne Comedy Festival
when I found a venue
and I'll also be hopefully doing another show
and also something good
at Comedy Republic is always on
on Wednesdays coming on to that.
Awesome.
And that's an improv show.
That's an improv show.
That's an improv show.
And Rob, what about you?
People can check out late o'clock with Rob Hunter.
I put out the 10-year anniversary show in full on there.
Who were the guests on that one?
Uh, that was good question.
It was Larry Dean and Geraldine Hickey and Ben Russell and Matt Stewart and Luke McGregor.
Uh, gosh, plenty others.
So good.
It's a very big line up and I'm leaving people out.
But, uh, yeah, that's on YouTube at Rob Hunter Comedy.
Awesome.
Uh, thanks so much for joining us first time.
Uh, it's, you know, you're really jumping into the,
into the fire when Bigwets on.
You did throw me in the defend, yes.
And I knew you'd be up to it, and you were.
You were a worthy opponent.
Like a worthy opponent.
Thank you.
I got two points.
Thanks so much for listening, everyone.
Why don't give us a five-star review
and maybe tell your friends
if you think you know anyone who might enjoy the show
and you can, yeah, watch it, like I said,
on the Do Go On channel on YouTube.
I'm thumbing you.
I'm thumbing you.
We're all giving a thumb there.
Big thumb.
Cheers for tuning into who,
with Matt Stewart.
Now that you know it,
I've been Matt's show.
It.
Good boy.
This is incredibly hard to think of answers why you speak.
I'm sure that's been brought up before.
It has, but it seems like...
Shut up, Matt.
You know what?
I just go with the flow.
Like, I just sort of...
I just sort of...
I'm like jazz, baby, you know what I mean?
I'm like...
Poetry.
Everyone says that.
It's like poetry, you understand.
You're just like jazz.
If you were a type of music, jazz might be the last one.
I'd describe you as.
Really?
What type of music would you describe me as?
Scar.
Fuck you.
Honestly, that's the rudest thing.
You're nothing like Scar.
You're nothing like Scar.
That's like a...
You call a corpse if someone's like Scar.
You know what you might be like?
That's the equivalent of calling someone an amber alert
Ben, have you written an answer?
No.
Nearly, just, jeez, that's very passag by the way.
No, no, it wasn't me to be passag.
It was just that I'm like, it's not come through.
That's all.
I've done mine.
Yes, I know.
I'm doing my best see of Rob's silence.
I can give you another verse while they're writing.
Well, I don't know if that'll help Rob, but if you want to.
Rob, block me out.
Got it.
With arms wide open, under the sunlight, welcome to this place.
I'll show you everything with arms wide open.
Okay.
With arms wide open.
Now he's sounding like a flasher.
He's holding his trench coat.
With arms wide open.
Show you wherever.
Later.
Are we not about forgiveness on this pod?
This pod is always about primarily forgiveness.
That's true.
empathy. But that's true. How many chances do we have to give you though, Ben?
Excuse me. I've had... We gave you a second, third. What are you on a fourth chance?
What are you talking about? You're acting a lot like scar music right now there. I've been so good
recently. And not only that, but I was wronged when you had David.
That's true. Yeah. When you had David. Correos.
Oh, he would have been fun. Did he win? He wronged us. He was fun. Except he picked
something. He wrote something right.
Yeah.
I'll never forgive me.
It was controversial at the time.
What do you mean he wrote the right answer?
He's my nemesis.
No, he did a similar move to that Zach Johnny Cash move that time.
Or was that your move?
That was your move.
Excuse me.
That's, that will go down in history as the best move ever.
That was a pretty good move.
But David Corioss pulled a similar one only with Pokemon.
Anyway, we're getting into the, into the weeds of the, of the law of the show.
And I can tell Rob has no interest in.
it.
Let's go.
Um, hey, should we do another verse of,
with arms wide open by Creed?
Why, do you not, are you not interested in hip puffers?
I heard enough.
Did you have more to tell us, Matt?
There is more, but I'll just skip to the end.
I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to be rude.
I thought you were done.
When you got to dry food, I was like, oh, he's running out of material here.
I haven't re-read, pre-read this.
Oh, okay.
Helena's put this together.
Thank you.
And I'm reading it out as we go.
And, you know, it's relatively.
try.
Helena is my favorite character
from a Midsummer Night's Dream.
No, that's not true.
One of the characters I like.
Helena is my favorite
Bonham Carter.
Okay.
Helena is one of the two people
that's part of the leftovers,
Helena and Pip,
a comedy duo
that were very, very successful
in like around 2019,
2020 and they're making a comeback.
Really?
It's so funny.
That's great news.
Well, I don't know if I'm ready
to be the man I have to be.
I'll take a breath
I'll take her by my side
We stand in awe
We've created life
Oh yeah
I think it might be about having a kid
Having babies
Yeah
Fucking
Fucking
Post fucking
Like the baby part of
Yeah
They're just
They're just
He's come
Yeah
In the pussy
And he's like
I've got an idea for a song
A flat tip
Is that
Maybe that's why he sings like that
Is he like
Mid come
You don't have to ask Mr. Stipe
Okay
Does he got a connection to the band?
I think that's what his name is, Stipe
Michael's, not Michael Steyer.
That's the R-E-M guy.
Maybe they're the same dude.
Could be the same guy.
Whoa, yeah.
It's him with a wig.
Yeah.
Holy shit.
What could it all mean?
That's some fabulous music knowledge you have there, Rob.
That's one of one facts I know.
What's the other one?
She just both your facts
REM guy is Michael Stott
and Creed guy is Scott Stapp
There we go
That's the same fucking guy
Scott Stap
Scott Stap is such a
Like he got caught in a lie
What's your name?
Stap
Stap
Scott Stap
Like in the Brady Budge
Which he's like his name is George Class
Fantastic
Tropicanna
I think, I think, uh, I think, uh, live and let live by Paul McCartney.
Yeah.
One of the best bond.
So good.
So good.
Yeah, that's it.
Sorry.
Well, thank you.
That's the other fact.
That one and Skyfall by Adele.
I reckon it one of the best, some of the best ones.
I really liked it.
It's got that little jazzy.
You say, living let me.
And then it goes, dude, goes in that real, like, jazzy, reggae.
It's a banger.
I like it, too.
I went to see Paul McCartney, sort of thinking it would be my last chance to see him before he potentially died and thinking it wouldn't be very good.
But it was very good.
You really want him to die, don't you?
It seems like you are really fanging for Paul McCartney to die.
I want so many people to die.
He's won a very long list.
But he's on the list.
He's on the list.
What did he do to wrong you?
Oh, he knows what he did.
I, yeah, I, was that at Amy Park?
Is that the, more recent?
It was last year whenever.
Right, I saw the time before thinking a similar thing.
Yeah.
He won't be back to Melbourne again.
And he's been back since.
And it was amazing that time.
And I imagine you saw him and it was probably not quite as amazing.
Because he was a few years older, I guess.
It was very good.
He played for like three hours.
Yeah, sick.
So, and the breadth of,
of the back catalogue he played a bit of everything oh yeah a ton of stuff i had no interested
in listening to oh really yeah oh he played the hits too i was interested in everything he played
did you see any dad's cry i didn't no i didn't when dads cry
uh my god this is what we've got some great products here
This evening this evening, let me tell you out.
Do not miss out on them.
Thanks, Chris.
You'll be able to tour us to stateside soon.
What a dream for you, Ben.
It used to be.
A dream.
Now it's kind of nerve-wracking.
But, yeah, I'm planning and going back next year, actually.
Is it possible now that,
Jules, like, you can get booted because they're like...
I mean, there's no rules now, right?
Right.
Like, it doesn't even matter that I'm a citizen.
Yeah, okay.
I could wind up in a prison in El Salvador for no reason.
Yeah, that's scary.
Yeah.
But, you know, hey, I'm still going to go back there.
Yeah.
Hate to play another game.
Right.
I guess.
Hate the game, not...
I don't know what that is.
Are many white men being sent away?
I don't know, but there's no real rules.
There's nothing.
All bets are off.
So I don't even want to talk more about it.
Yeah.
Because I want to go to the United States.
Yes, and they might be listening.
They might be listening.
While you're looking that up,
has everyone listened to Lily Allen's new album?
I was just listening to it this morning.
I didn't even know those two were together.
It's so good.
It is real fun.
She's so fun.
Have you listened?
No.
You simply must.
Have you listened?
No.
And you wrote on Spicks and Spex.
Only for a season, and perhaps that's why I don't listen to very much music.
What?
I should change my show to spread, shouldn't I?
That's going to bother me.
I've been thinking on that for days.
I think it's great.
You've just got your next one ready to go.
Yeah.
Because if this one's more show specific,
spread, I feel like, is a versatile title.
Spread is just such a great name for a show.
I think it looked great on a poster too.
But it has nothing, but I've gone the other direction aesthetically.
So that's why it's like...
You know titles don't have to have anything to do.
Well, none of my shows have ever meant shit.
But I just mean that, like, I've gone, like, aesthetically and, like, my shooters on Monday and stuff.
With a back-in-time kind of thing, and that's got nothing to do with spread.
Because now I'd just be lying on a piece of toast.
That would be good.
Yeah.
Just be spread out.
Yeah, just spread out.
Legs are limbo.
I would sell tickets.
Legs of Kimbo, another good name.
If it was just me and my jiby.
Oh, my God, with one arm.
With our arms.
Would you come to my show?
Absolutely.
What about Mish Wide Open?
With Mish White Open.
Yeah.
No.
What about Creed?
Are you doing a show?
I was going to, but I missed everything.
That's all right.
You can jump in.
I don't know any venues.
Go to the Greek.
Okay.
Oh, you just go to the Greek.
Go to the Greek.
Get them to the Greek.
Can't watch that movie anymore.
No, they're literally just doing it now.
Oh, really?
Century, yeah.
because they run that space.
Okay, I hit them up.
There's a place called the Porpo Jump that they were trying to fill up.
It's like a 60, 65-seater.
Okay.
Ben's back in.
I'm back in, baby.
If you need a show name, spread.
I'm going to take that.
His show two years ago was like one of the best shows I've ever seen.
Oh, yeah, so many of these shows.
I'm going to do an encore at that.
What was your show a couple of years ago?
The Walking Tour one.
It's called Ben Russell.
Oh, I never saw it.
So I still don't know.
Thanks, dude.
It was an award winning show.
So much.
I think I think we clashed.
We clash all the time.
And then you also, I think you also would sell out on the extra shows you did.
Yeah.
Went get into a tourable.
Yeah.
Well, you know, you got to be quick.
Yeah.
And I'm not, I'm a, I'm a very good comedian.
Yeah, very good.
I mean, no, no show.
Huh?
I didn't like that.
No show.
What a show.
Oh, no show is great.
I have fun memories of that show.
Big fan.
Dan and no shirt.
No, I like, which is that,
gorgeous show.
Which is the one that you did at Campari House?
I didn't know you when I saw that.
Fucking, the,
Broden took me to see it.
And it was the one where you were,
um,
funny lady.
Yeah,
I didn't know,
I didn't know you.
I'm gonna do one of those,
I wanted to do one of those shows,
which was just a fuck around show,
that show.
Like,
that was so fun to.
So I'm gonna do one of those
and then I'm gonna do it on court.
Well, no,
I think the reason I loved your show so much too,
we don't have to talk about this now,
but the reason I loved your show so much two years ago was
I hadn't seen you really just do straight stand-up.
Yeah, that's why I did it.
And it was so good.
Thanks, man.
And you're going to encore it so I can see it?
I am going to encore so you can see it.
Can you put me on the door?
Yeah.
Before the tickets go and say it?
Sure.
You're going to do a trial or something?
I can come to that.
I'm not going to do a trial.
You're going to trial your run-in show?
I don't need to trial a run-in show.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm glad.
Glad I'll get to see it.
Because I did hear that you reveal things in it.
uh that really just show you know what's happening below the surface a bit and you get to
really you know get to you get to meet the man behind the man the boy who's inside the man
is that true i don't know anything about the show i'd never say it like that okay never speak
to me ever again uh but yeah i've heard good things about it thank you
hearing good things about it.
You know who really liked it with Susan Provin?
Yeah.
She came in the director as a war,
Joyce Award.
Whoa, shit.
Yeah.
My favorite show I've ever seen at Comedy Festival was Rob Hunter's,
late o'clock.
Oh.
No, the, uh,
Oh.
Not that thing I've foot 10 years of work into it.
The detective show.
With Luke.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't see that and I'm so sorry,
but if I had to say my favorite show I ever saw it,
it would probably be Cassie Workman's.
giantess that was so she's not here yeah i think you're all incredibly funny but cassie workman's
show like we don't need to keep this in but um it was the best thing i think about it all the
time i think cassie workman is a is a freaky genius anyway let's get back to the show that
matt liked yeah sorry did yeah it was oh man i know the crazy thing was like i like i i came i think
maybe even you fired me.
I did, I did, yeah.
It was a midweek, very quiet show.
I think there were, there was, you know, single digits in.
That sounds like me.
And you said, you said, real backhanded compliment here.
No, this is a, I mean, I think it's a,
which you should know one was fucking there.
You couldn't sell a ticket.
I think it was, it's a full front-handed one.
Like, this is 20 years ago or something.
And, um, not quite that old.
It was, it would have been about, yeah, 14, 15 years ago, yes.
And you, you will, you will,
like do you ask the three of us or whatever in the crowd do you want to we don't have to do it
it's up to you and we're like yeah we're up for it and normally it's like it's awkward in a
smaller audience but it was it's the best show I've ever seen it was so funny like um yeah
there was a better vibe in that small crowd than I've been in a lot of bigger crowds it was
sick it's so good can I tell you it's the best and worst review I reviewed
show I've ever done.
Really?
I've got the best review
from Chortle.
One of, there's two UK Chortle riders.
One of them gave me the best review I've ever got.
One of them gave me the worst.
And that's not an exaggeration at all.
It's like a one star and a five star for exactly the same show.
The same show.
You're the same world?
Not the same night, but it was the exact same show.
So, I think the...
That's so funny.
The bad review came first, unfortunately.
And then it was some time before the good one came out.
But yeah, they are diametrically opposed.
Zero. Well, they don't give stars, but it read like a zero.
You can absolutely tell.
Right. And so both reviews for some time were on the Chauder website.
And I was like, I quite like that.
Like it shows, maybe I'm not for everyone.
It shows range.
Yes, you can be good and terrible, depending on perspective.
But I'm not sure I haven't been to the Chauder website for a long time.
but if I would ask you which of the two reviews is no longer there, which would you guess?
Oh, the bad one?
The good review is no longer.
Okay.
As far as I can tell.
Very helpful.
So, yeah, yeah, the guy who wrote that one has obviously gone in and...
Said, no.
It's like, I regret it.
This is different to my bad reviews, so I'm going to take away the good one.
Right.
So the bad one came from the main chortel go.
Yeah, Steve.
Yes.
So he hated it and his...
his colleague, Julia Chamberlain,
who's a very good reviewer, loved it.
So I like her more.
Yes.
Yes.
I can see that.
I appreciate her opinions a lot more.
Yeah, I think she gets it.
She gets comedy.
It was such a funny show.
Thank you.
I only remember bits and pieces.
There's like a painted on hat stand.
And I was like right towards the start,
you come in, take your jacket off,
hang the jacket, and it just falls to the ground.
Obviously, then the hat and it falls to the ground.
So fun.
Just some visual humor, yes.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
People wear their headphones on this one.
Yeah.
What do we feel?
Well, Matt's got them on.
If you got the cans on, then, you know, if the host can's up.
Yeah, you can up if the host.
I guess so, but I don't really know.
I don't know.
I vibe the host before I jump in.
Yeah, vibe check.
I've had five hours sleep, so we're on part.
Great.
Nice.
I reckon I've had about the same, actually.
I had a shocker.
Yeah.
But I'm depressed.
So that's nothing special.
Yes, really.
And how close do we have to talk to these mics, given I'm a quiet talker?
Oh, yeah, I'd go close if you want to.
But I mean, Connor, who edits it will, I think he'll.
Hey, don't be sad.
It's fine.
It's fine.
Bump it up or whatever.
If needed.
I'll try.
Thanks.
Yeah.
That always helps to depress.
No, when, so my dog spends, like, every third weekend at my ex's house.
And this is, that this weekend passed was, and I still don't have, I'm picking up today.
And that's always hard.
I miss my dog.
Is this allowed to, I've rolled up.
Are you allowed to talk about your dog on publicly?
I mean, that, I can, if you open your podcast with that, I don't think it's the best opener.
No, no, this, it might just go.
I don't know what kind of does.
Yeah.
I don't know what Connor does.
That's all I'm saying.
I don't know what weird stuff he keeps in.
in the dog stuff's fine the dog stuff is fine yeah we can talk about my dog okay yeah what's your
dog's name stanley stanley what a name for a dog yeah he's a perfect boy and uh you you you shit
time share him yeah sort of yeah isn't that good i have like a free puppy sitter i suppose right
yeah i think that that feels kind of good yeah you can travel and stuff yeah but i have a feeling
my dog makes my ex happy oh no you don't want that i don't want that
Now, Rob, are you all going to Facebook message me your answers?
Yes.
Yeah, great.
Should my headphones be on at this point or not?
Oh, you can't hear anything?
No.
It's kind of in and out and static ear.
It might just be whether or not they're like the plug.
It might just be.
Don't touch that.
Where'd you get it?
Nice nails.
Tell me the story.
That appears to a coach.
Maggie gets them so she doesn't lose because she loses keys.
So we have a place to do you purchase that especially for that?
Maggie purchased this especially for it and made it.
Do you have different colours for different things?
No.
Rob, do you want me to say anything to happen about that?
No, I didn't get to choose.
Is there any feedback?
Were you happy with green?
No.
I would like a metal.
I mean, the microphone sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
I would have seen you would like a yellow.
Thanks.
Pass that on.
I don't know.
That's totally because you've got yellow.
No.
Well, it would be ideal if it would be ideal if it worked on a podcast, I suppose.
Purple is the color of royalty.
I like in this point, listeners could.
you know, if we could get it, you know, to the left and right speaker,
you could, you could, you could listen to which conversation you want to listen to.
I am having a lot of difficulty understanding what you're saying,
good.
Ben and Mish are also talking.
Okay.
Sorry.
Sorry.
I was taking it all in my love, I loved every minute of it.
You're like a sponge.
Yeah.
Your filter feeder.
Yeah.
You've got no real central nervous system.
It's such a nice vibe.
A morning pod is such a nice vibe.
Yeah.
Like, this is my first coffee for the day.
I'm just vibing.
The sun shining outside.
Yeah.
You've been up for five hours already.
I have this.
Any questions right before you started?
Not that I can think of it.
How are you?
Well, I'm good.
Thank you so much.
That's a very nice question.
Everyone's asking questions, but no one's asking, how are you?
Are you okay?
Are you going to kill yourself?
No.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay, good.
Okay, it's such a low bar, it's wasn't it?
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Yes, I'm at least okay, I'll say.
All right, good to go?
Did not believe that.
