BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie - Episode 13 - Unlucky 13!
Episode Date: May 22, 2019Unlucky 13! Phil Wang and Pierre Novellie talk about our bad luck, getting milkshaked (THAT REALLY HURT, ACTUALLY), Phil had a shocking encounter on the tube with a dog lover, the spread of bin bags a...nd keep jackin’ it, a university OK THANK YOU, another email from the SLOW POOER, visit Malaysia, Marjorie leaves another message, Rock N Roll Dark Web, Pierre finds a metal straw soulmate, The artists we recommend are: “Ikhlas” by Fauxe and “Hide And Hair” by The Trials Of Cato! Get bonus BudPod on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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That was funny.
Yeah, okay, well...
Hello!
This is episode 13 of Budpod.
The unlucky episode.
Well, put a black cat's lucky paw on your best mirrored ladder.
It's time for some bad luck, everyone.
Have you had a bad luck week, Pierre?
Or is bad luck coming?
I think I've had
my bad luck
what happened
I lost my lovely
headphones
oh no
they disappeared
oh yeah this is on
your trip back from
gigging in Wales
in Cardiff
Cardiff yeah
in Cardiff
where the people
were very Welsh
yeah they're pretty
Welsh in Cardiff
I even heard some
Welsh speaking
which is more
unusual down south
it is very rare down south.
Wait.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a northern thing, isn't it?
Oh, there's both.
There's both.
But, like, it's certainly...
I don't think it's a city thing.
I don't know.
But, yeah, it's always amazing to try and focus your ear on some Welsh.
Yeah.
Some audible Welsh.
It's an audible Welsh.
It's quite a disconcerting feeling in the UK because a non-English language spoken by a British person is very rare.
Yes.
And so suddenly it feels like you've been cursed.
Now the tongues of men are unintelligible to you, kind of thing.
Like a sort of Tower of Babel.
You may no longer comprehend the language around you.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like, did I hit my head?
And everyone else around you is going,
Ascari, kara, kara, ascari, ascari.
Being cursed at the bus stop.
Ascari, ascari.
But also so rare, not just for a British person to speak a non-English language,
but to speak it totally fluently to another British person.
To the point where they're both just standing there going,
oh yeah, just in a different language, having what you can see is a normal chat.
With no commonly identifiable root words like any Latin or Greek words.
Yeah, just every now and then,
oh, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, computer.
And you go, oh!
Oh, this language is too old.
They didn't have computers.
And they have not updated it for the modern world.
It is full of ancient wisdoms.
Yeah, I don't know.
So maybe that's what happened to your headphones.
Maybe they were cursed off you by...
Merlin has them.
By a Cardiffian warlock.
Yes.
What do you call someone from Cardiff?
I don't know, actually.
Cardish? Cardiffian?
A card, a real card.
A card.
I'm not sure, yeah.
I'm sorry you've lost your headphones.
They were nice boys as well, those headphones.
Buying nice headphones is such a...
You will never relax for the rest of your life.
It's a Faustian point.
It really is.
I made a deal with the devil for crystal clear hearing,
but at any point I could be down 200 pounds.
That's like nice headphones are the designer sunglasses of the year.
Yes, absolutely.
My week has been not too unlucky. So I'm worried that my bad luck is going to happen in the coming week
and that I'm going to get milkshaked. Oh, no. Because you're running as a...
I'm worried I'm going to get milkshaked. How funny would it be if you were running as like
a Brexit MEP for the London area?
That would be so funny.
What a right turn.
Oh, it'd be a right turn, yeah.
What a right turn for old Wang.
It would be so odd.
It would be such an odd, like it wouldn't...
I'd get a lot of publicity for a couple of weeks and then my career would be over.
Yeah, there's a real chance of that.
Because I'd become that guy.
And you haven't laid the groundwork to successfully become one of the
quote, only
right-wing comedians, end quote.
Yeah, it would come out of nowhere. It would look very,
very cynical.
Yeah.
It would look cynical or
there's something quite upsetting
about sudden changes in behaviour
because it implies that you've actually been
like this the whole time, if you're being honest.
So either it's cynical or if it's sincere,
this is just boiled over.
Like you've been trying desperately
to suppress your Brexit party-ness for so long
that it's exploded and now here you are
with a big rosette on your chest.
I guess I'm worried that milkshaking is going to extend
to even people who are not on the far right.
Just everyone.
Yeah, I'm just worried I'm going to get milkshaked.
Yeah, I mean...
I think this is going to become one of society's leading anxieties.
A prank war.
Yeah, just... yeah.
Did you ever have a prank war at your school that got out of hand?
None that I took part in.
I don't like pranks. I find pranks really stupid.
Pranks are, by and large Very bad
There are very few good pranks
Some are very funny
But they need to be so
Carefully thought out
And contextually interesting
Did you have any good ones?
We didn't have good ones
I remember sack tapping
Got out of hand
Oh sack tapping
Yeah I got sack tapped once.
A few times, actually.
Absolutely horrible.
Yeah, really horrible.
If you don't know, listener,
it's when someone taps your sack.
Yeah, your ball sack there.
It's like a light backhanded tap when you're nuts.
And it got so out of control at school
that people were walking around with books
on top of their dicks.
But the skill of it is to tap the sack
lightly enough so the initial
contact doesn't really feel
of anything. It feels like nothing.
And then it calms around.
Yeah, the nausea. Yeah, it goes
up into your stomach and you get this weird stomach
ache. Yeah, it's awful. It's such
a unique pain being hit in the
balls. It's like
it's like the it's like the
pain version of when you do a shot of whiskey right there's an initial like ah and then a slow
warming oh oh actually that wasn't as bad as i thought oh no and then but then you feel the
warm the whiskey you can feel it spread in your stomach right yeah right right yeah that warmth
imagine that it's pain and instead of your mouth, it was your sack.
That's how I'd describe it.
Anyone listening without a sack?
Yeah.
Would you milkshake anyone?
I think I would milkshake someone.
I think every human, Phil,
deep in their soul,
has a milkshake threshold.
Oh, we've probably explained milkshaking
to people who are not in the UK.
You're correct, though.
Let me just shut the window
because I can imagine
there's going to be a little traffic soon.
Okay, so
for anyone, we have a couple
American listeners, which is very glamorous.
So, to explain to you, there's
been a phenomenon in the
UK recently of
people expressing
their distaste for
the right members of a political firmament by randomly throwing milkshakes at them in the street.
On them.
At them and then on them if they're successful.
I think it's important to be clear that thus far milkshaking has not involved throwing the container.
Ah, okay, okay.
It's been a pouring liquid action.
So as to minimize any actual
damage. Physical trauma. Yeah, which is one of the reasons why I'm more relaxed about it. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Because like having a... It is just pure humiliation, isn't it? Totally. That's why
it's like it's more annoying, right? Because you can't be like, like if someone throws an egg at
you, you'd be like, that really hurt actually. Like when you're a kid and someone complains.
hurt actually when you're a kid
and someone
complains
yeah sure
no that
no that really
hurt
it was quite hard
actually
that's the most
every annoying
adult says
says that
that way
no that really
hurt
yeah yeah yeah
oh just hearing that
makes me want to
scream that person
is a very annoying
person
that where the
snowball had too
much ice in it
yeah yeah don't say that really
and just go, oh, fuck!
Say that like a normal person.
Don't go, oh, that really hurt.
That really hurt, actually. What are you, a prefect?
Ridiculous. Just go,
fuck, oh!
You know. Also, like,
yeah, so exactly, to avoid that really
hurt, where it's like an egg,
if it hits you in the eye, that could have gone in my eye! That's the next thing they say. That really hurt, actually, could To avoid that really hurt. Where it's like an egg, if it hits you in the eye.
That could have gone in my eye, that's the next thing they say.
That really hurt, actually. It could have gone in my eye.
Always say those two things in a row.
Instead of that, they just go, I'm covered in a dessert.
Yeah.
And that's so... I'm going to have to wash this.
Yeah, and you go, yeah, well, you were going to have to wash it anyway.
And now you have to stop leafleting for your fucking fascist party
or whatever it is, Tommy Robinson.
It is a good protest
because it is very humiliating
but so far down the violence spectrum
from what the victims are campaigning for
or how the victims operate.
I've read a good article which I tweeted
which is someone defending it, because
they were pointing out that
Ed Miliband got egged.
And just laughed it off, made a joke
about it. Arnold Schwarzenegger got egged
when he was campaigning.
Well, back in the day for California.
Back in the day, he got egged. You know what he said?
Protein.
Oh, that would have been good.
That would have been good
Listener send in your best Arnold Schwarzenegger being egged themed comeback
Protein's a good one
What he actually said was
That guy owes me some bacon
Oh yeah
That's great
That's very good
But the article is making the point that
These instances of humiliation
Give us a chance to see who these people really are
Yes
Whereas when Tommy Robinson had some
A little bit of milk on his haircut
he immediately punched a woman
in the face or tried to kill that guy
and his friend punched the woman in the face
and knocked her out.
Immediate angry violence.
It's almost like he's a convicted football hooligan
and mortgage fraudster. How strange.
When I was in
Australia, did you guys get the story
about Fraser Anning, the senator there, who got egged by a boy?
Egg boy?
Yeah, egg boy. Egg boy got here?
Oh, egg boy was a global smash.
At least for people who spend too much time on Twitter, like I do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, the way that Fraser Anning just turned after getting hit, like, how quickly he got violent.
Yeah.
He just turned around and just swung.
Without even taking a second to
comprehend the situation
yeah
and you go
oh right
that's what that person
is like when
that person is pure rage
you get this flash of honesty
that's it yeah
maybe we should
everyone
it's like a ritual now
at some point
you'll be milkshaked
and in that moment
your truth
will come out
but it won't work anymore
because people know it's coming
so everyone
they'll be like milkshaking coaches
you know
politicians will take milkshake training
of how to behave
when they get milkshaked
they'll just be like
will it be like in the matrix
where
where
Ed Miliband is in this kind of
infinite white space
and
and
Morpheus is just
sloshing desserts
yeah yeah yeah all those racks all these racks of milkshakes And Morpheus is just sloshing desserts on him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All these racks of milkshakes.
Yeah, and he's got to come up with as many sort of dairy.
At least it's not a bacon sandwich.
Everyone's like, yeah, that's funny.
Yeah, maybe.
So now you're worried that...
But then you might get milkshake,
but then you'll react and we'll meet the real Phil.
I don't want people to know the real Phil.
You immediately take out a knife in their eye.
I want people to know just how violent I am.
Well, you're a black belt in a martial art.
Yeah.
Which is a fact that you don't tell people,
but I tell people.
Well, I gained it through some measure of nepotism.
Yeah.
I knew the um
the instructor yeah my uncle so I don't know if I completely earned that black belt and I do not
want to be tested on it well you just sat there eating eating lollies and they were like oh that's
the way he's eating the lolly though you're up to brown belt brown belts high up isn't it brown belts right below black
yeah that's right yeah yeah but i mean there were loads of brown belts who are so much better than
me yeah could you the other though these old guys really took it seriously and didn't want
the black belt so they'd really nailed it whereas i was like yeah i'm going to the uk soon can i
get this go back well i just have a black belt so i can freak out the natives yeah that's good
but that's isn't that always the case where like,
there's that type of person
who's like the guy
in the fantasy movies.
I will only call myself a knight
when I have defeated
every great warrior in the land.
Yeah.
You go, man, it's a lie.
I'm like the worm,
Joffrey woman.
Yeah, no, I want it now.
Uncle,
give me my black bear.
You'd make a great, like, spoiled king.
Yeah?
Yeah, well, because it's so not how you behave in the day, if you see what I mean.
If you ask some people, that is exactly who I am.
Like, Fern Brady is obsessed with the idea that I am a horrible, rich prince.
Really?
She calls me the Malaysian prince.
Shout out to Fern Brady for bringing that to the podcast.
And in general, hello, Fern.
That's so funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But also Fern overreacts just how much of an orc she is.
I remember that she once,
I don't know if it was on stage or if it was just after a gig,
but she referred to,
she tried to like,
she referred to like my ancestors as being really fancy yours yeah yeah but they're just like farmers and soldiers who moved to africa
from italy and france uh-huh like they're not fancy uh but because they're from france and
italy okay she's like oh but she's like oh they're so fancy like all these oh italian you know you
know not every italian is like the Pope or something, right?
Like not every Italian is Leonardo da Vinci.
I think that's...
Your ancestors could have all been just fucking Berlusconis.
Yeah.
Gross, horrible troll men.
Yeah.
Without even the money.
She's doing that very British thing of mistaking any diversity in your background for being fancy
because in Britain it's fancy to not just
be from the same village for a thousand
years and I think she's
said in the past that she's like
as far as she's aware she's just like
that
just a straight like
every ancestor from within 10 miles
of the well
when I first moved to the UK
and I told people I was from Malaysia,
they'd say like,
oh, wow, Malaysia.
Just from the sound of it.
You've never,
you don't know what I'm talking about.
That's like no other country
has a shit part.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Every other country is
the best bits we've seen
extrapolated well we've
we've often enjoyed the the adverts for going to malaysia where it's just um it's sort of uh
malaysian looking guys in sort of formal east asian dress like traditional dress swirling big
tablecloths over like uh tables that are then like covered in just bowls of loose spice
as if that's how you spice your food
like you just slap it on top of
cooked unspiced food
and just
like that whole tourism campaign
yeah
Malaysia
ooh
like there are no slums or whatever
yeah so I'm worried I'm going to get milkshake
I think you're going to get milkshake now
for something I've said on this podcast, maybe.
You've made fun of people's love of Malaysia.
English people go,
It's full of the magic of the Orient for me.
And they'll be like,
Throw a big milkshake on you.
Nigel Farage got milkshaked yesterday.
I don't feel too bad about him getting milkshaked.
As long as I don't throw the container.
Yes.
That really hurt.
That really hurt.
The corner got me there.
That really hurt.
The rim of the base could have got me in the eye.
I'm a pilot.
I'm a pilot.
That really hurt.
I'm a pilot.
I'm not supposed to fly my plane now.
I'm not supposed to drink this milkshake now.
I'm not supposed to fly my plane now.
I'm not supposed to drink this milkshake now.
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Something pretty shocking happened to me the other...
Well, it didn't happen to me.
It happened around me.
Shocking?
Yeah, it was quite shocking, I suppose.
I was...
It was Friday night.
I had two gigs in London.
First one was in King's Cross.
Second was in Shepherd's Bush.
I got on the tube from King's Cross after doing the first one.
That's quite an easy double.
Very nice.
Just on the Hammersmith and City line.
Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug yeah when we got to edgeware road uh oh well sorry before this i i'm bumped into someone from university on the tube yeah on the tube and so we're like oh hey so we
just all sat together and just caught up and blah blah blah yeah and we got to edgeware road and as
we're chatting uh we hear hear a guy at the end of
the carriage start speaking out loud
which happens a lot
homeless people they do
a speech or they make an appeal
at the end of the carriage and then walk through
to collect money from anyone
who wants to give them any money
and so I was chatting to
this uni pal
and at the end of the carriage,
this guy starts and ladies and gentlemen,
uh,
look,
I know this is really embarrassing and everyone just kind of drops their shoulders in that
way.
They go,
here we go.
And the guy continues.
I know this is really embarrassing,
but I fucked a dog.
What?
I fucked a dog. I, when I was a child, I fucked a dog what? I fucked a dog
when I was a child
I fucked a dog
and everyone just goes
that is embarrassing
well everyone's just like
if you can just feel, I didn't know you could
hear people's eyebrows go up but
and he's
furious and I look over and he's a really
tall lanky guy
Very droopy
Clothes
Everything's dirty and hanging off him
And he goes, I fucked a dog
When I was young
I fucked a dog
And now look at me
But I didn't come
I didn't come
And the dog didn't come in me
I fucked the dog.
And he just starts running down the carriage past everyone.
I fucked a dog.
And everyone's like, look, doesn't know where to look.
Everyone's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Everyone's just looking around, trying to look at the floor.
And he's like, I fucked a dog, but it didn't come.
It didn't come.
And he runs up down to the end of the carriage.
And he's just looking at these final few people at the end of the carriage.
And I've never seen people look at the floor so hard.
Oh, my God.
But he's just hovering over them.
I fucked a dog, but it didn't come in me.
It came on the tree.
It came on a tree.
And he takes a couple of beats.
And everyone's just like, oh, my God.
And there's like two seconds of silence.
And he goes,
so if anyone has any money...
And I'm like, holy shit!
And he starts like...
You're hired.
And like the human in me is thinking,
that is fucking horrible.
But the performer in me is thinking,
yeah, you gotta have an edge
you gotta you gotta find a way of standing out from a saturated market these days phil
you've got to have an edge you gotta have a thing usp unique selling point and i i started thinking
about like the other really really just immediately went into the Do you have any money? Yeah, pretty much Jesus Christ Help a guy out
Christ
I fucked a dog
So if you have any
It didn't come
On me
It didn't come
So it wasn't so bad
But
And I just started thinking about like
Did the other like
Homeless people talk about this guy?
Like
Whoa, have you heard what George has been doing?
I mean it's out there
It's
If you ask me it's just not proper
Proper begging
It's this new alternative begging
You've heard about
Yeah the alternative to begging
I was like wow that is intense
Astonishing
And you don't get that really in London
That's like New York subway
Yeah yeah
You very
rarely get
crazy
in London. Yeah. You just get
begging. Yeah. And even then
less than, say, New York.
Absolutely. I mean, New York, if you go on the
New York subway after like 10pm,
that guy is every person.
Pretty much. The New York subway
after 10pm, or even in the day, in my limited experience, is like a haunted carnival.
Oh, it's absolutely ghastly.
I've never seen a western city with so many people eating out of bins.
Or so many people who should be in a psychiatric ward.
Oh, they should have got them in a big dog-catching net,
like a fucking cartoon.
Like these people need to be in a building being examined and medicated,
not fucking wandering about screaming about dogs.
But that guy went straight back to lucidity, right?
Like it was still to ask for money.
He returned to some amount of lucidity,
but not enough lucidity to go, oh, sorry about that.
That would have been so much
creepier, though, right? If he'd immediately
straightened his tie
and been like, oh, good gracious.
Oh, sorry, I don't know
what came over me. Mondays, right?
I mean, it was Friday. I guess the dog came
over me. Or was it the tree?
The dog came on the tree.
Well, I mean, there's a lot of...
That's the detail
that made me think
his story is real.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No one would think
to make that up, I think.
Yeah, I mean,
I don't think we actually
disbelieve the story.
What is the link
between homelessness
and childhood sexual experiments
of the dog?
That's a study
that has yet to be written.
What an insane thing.
Yeah.
And so,
it was intense.
And so,
and then,
so the next day I got to in Shepherd's Bush,
I told the story and everyone was like,
whoa.
And,
um,
seemed to enjoy it.
It's a mad story.
And in the context of a standup gig,
it worked.
And then the next day I told it,
um, at the dinner table at my friend's gig, it worked. And then the next day I told it at the dinner table
at my friend's wedding and it didn't work as well.
That is one of the...
That's a great danger of doing stand-up
is you start to lose...
You lose any concept of...
Anyway, to the bride!
Yeah.
Yeah, it really didn't go down as well
as I thought it would at the wedding.
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we've been getting
some stuff through
from you fuckers
thank you for that
it's a bit harsh
yeah
it's nice
affectionate
don't be one of those
people Phil
don't be offended
oh yeah
that's pretty good
yeah
that really hurt
actually
that really hurt
actually thank you very much and be offended. Oh yeah, that's pretty good, yeah. But really hurt, actually. That really hurt, actually.
Thank you very much from Charlie K,
to Charlie K, rather,
who just said,
she says,
me bringing bin bags into the mainstream.
She sent me a screenshot of some texts
to her friend.
Oh, this is your word, bin bags.
Yeah.
Something that is bad.
Yeah, I've started,
I think,
I've started saying it
in my mind about things.
No, that's a bit bin bags.
But you came up,
is it from anywhere?
As far as I know,
I came up with it.
Okay.
I don't think it's from anywhere.
I bet, like,
with all the great inventions,
there's someone in Croatia
who's also come up with it
just at the same time.
And he's, like,
he's going to be really, like,
rediscovered in a hundred years. There's this unappreciated, he's like, he's going to be really like rediscovered
in a hundred years.
There's this unappreciated,
yeah, yeah,
there's going to be
a whole social justice campaign.
Yeah, there'll be some
really annoying Twitter thread
like, you might think
that Pianovelli
came out with the bin bags.
Well, sit your ass down
and listen to this.
Well, strap in
for the knowledge dildo
is going to fuck
your eye holes out
and sassy bitch emoji.
Boodly doodly.
People are the worst.
Anyway.
It's gross.
So.
So.
I started saying it to replace poop pants.
Okay.
Because I kept saying.
Because you're growing up.
You're maturing at last.
I'm growing up.
And I can't keep saying that Justice League was poop pants.
I'm now saying it was bin bags.
I'm just going, oh, that's absolute bin bags.
And the idea that it's not even rubbish,
it's like the container, I don't know.
It's fun to say, it's the alliteration.
Yeah, and it's also the plurality of it.
Bin bags.
Yeah.
And not saying some bin bags,
that it's conceptually bin bags.
It is bin bags, yeah.
So the text is, she says,
she says, I have a new favorite thing to say from Bud Pod. It's bin bags. It is bin bags, yeah. So the text is, she says, she says,
I have a new favourite thing to say from Bud Pod.
It's bin bags.
Her friend says, what?
And she says, like, oh, I had a bin bags day. Oh, this is a tech conversation.
Yeah, yeah.
And her friend goes, oh, as in, like, that was bin bags.
Like, that film was bin bags.
And then her friend goes,
the current season of Game of Thrones is bin bags.
Yeah.
And she goes, yes, very bin bags.
Right.
So that's Charlie K's opinion on
Gott. Gott.
On Otter. I
don't mind Game of Thrones Series 8.
I think I'm just relieved that it's ending.
I'm just so relieved to have
one less thing to keep track of. I was about to say
one less job. Yeah.
That's the thing. It feels like finishing school.
And I
got the same feeling as at the end of the school people like sad like, oh no, my friends are going. It's like finishing school. And I got the same feeling as at the end of school,
people were sad, like,
oh no, my friends are going.
It's like, and I was just there going,
school's finished.
This is better than any friendship
you will ever make.
Freedom.
Yeah, what was wrong with you?
I'm going to miss everyone in prison.
Yeah, that's what it felt like.
You're free, you son of a bitch.
This doesn't matter at all in comparison to being free.
That's so funny.
To have finished the most oppressed period of your life.
Where you're almost in the army.
It's as close to military life as you're going to get.
And you're sad.
You have to wear a tie.
You're a child in a tie.
It's perverse!
It's weird.
Yeah, Game of Thrones, I'm relieved that it's over.
Don't worry, no spoilers if you've not seen it.
I get very annoyed about the old spoiler thing as well.
So don't worry about that.
It's like, I can't wait to not have to worry about these fucking people.
If you want to shock yourself, Phil and the listener,
go and find a picture of Tyrion Lannister from season, like, one.
Uh-huh.
That guy looks 40 years younger than he is now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
His face, right now, be craggy.
Yeah, he's abominable.
Crag face, like you wouldn't believe.
He's like an ancient...
His face is as craggly and wrinkly
as the face of any South American coffee seller
on the wall of a Starbucks.
Wow, that's craggly.
Exactly.
Okay, so people have been saying bin bags Which is great
People have started to say bin bags
And that's very pleasing
So we also got a lot of emails in general
I've now had work emails
That signed off Keep Jack in it
No
Yeah
Are you serious?
Yes
It really backfired didn't it so it's i just replied no
keep jacking it from your mortgage advisor
okay so funny yeah all Alright Frank gets in touch
Hi Frank
Hello peas in the
Keep it
Short
Keep it short
Hello peas in the bud pod
Yep
Lovely
Very nice
That's nice
Just wanted to share with you
The tale of an okay thank you
That has haunted me
Since my university days
Oh lovely
An academic
Okay thank you
During my first year of uni
In one of my minor subjects
Cultural studies Whatever that is He says And I don one of my minor subjects Cultural studies
Whatever that is
He says
And
I don't think that's minor
Cultural studies
Isn't that everything?
All art?
Yeah it's pretty
That's a broad
That is vague
Yeah
We were tasked
With one of the uncoolest
Cool things
A powerpoint presentation
Can a powerpoint presentation
Be cool in the first place?
I don't know
I guess you're surfing
The information Superhighway which is kind of cool.
Never surf on the highway.
It's very dangerous.
I was due to give mine, my presentation, in week six of term.
So I had ample time to bang it together and not worry about it.
Lovely.
The day the presentation came, I was fairly relaxed about it.
I'd hit all the key points.
I'd changed the generic font. Very nice. Yes. Papyrus.
Impact. What will it be?
Show them you've put in some thought. Put some colour in there.
I'd done an extremely
mediocre job.
All previous presentations, no matter
what the standard, had received a well done
from the lecturer. And there were some extremely low
standards, he says. Some of his friends were bin bags.
And a compulsory round of applause from other students.
Oh, gosh.
So I had that to look forward to.
I delivered my presentation just slightly above half-heartedly
and managed to get through all my notes,
and it felt like it had gone fine.
Turning to the lecturer,
waiting for the praise to wash over me,
and my humble face prepared for the applause.
That is a funny face.
The face you put on
anticipating approval.
Yeah.
Anticipating something you're going to have to downplay
for the sake of humility.
Yes, yeah.
I'm ready to pretend not to enjoy this.
Turning to the lecturer,
waiting for praise to wash over me
and my humble face prepared for the applause.
I was met with... okay, thank you.
Silence.
And I had to shuffle back to my seat.
It still haunts me to this very day.
I was the only one for the entire class that didn't get a well done.
That okay, thank you stung.
Love the podcast.
Keep jacking it.
Oh no!
But that is funny for everyone to get praise.
Well done!
But also like when something is so unanimously bad
that everyone silently agrees we're not going to share this.
There's an understanding, a tacit understanding that that was bad, completely unambiguously.
And also that we've all clapped for everyone, but that was so bad, not one of us feels that justice needs to be done.
We've all silently silently telepathically decided
that there will be no clapping for you.
I want to see that presentation.
I actually am fascinated.
Frank, what was it about?
What part of all human culture?
Do you think he just stood up and he went,
weaving,
a play,
pencil sketches. He just listed. Maybe it was Baffler. Okay, thank you. A play Pencil sketches
They're just listed
Maybe it was Bethlehem
Okay thank you
Okay thank you
Okay thank you
Just silently walking back to the seat
Okay next one
Yeah
Quick one from Adam
Oh hi Adam
Hey Bud Pod Buds
It's like my mum always says
There are two kinds of people in this world,
wankers and liars.
Okay.
Keep on jacking, Adam.
Is that it?
That's it.
There's only 2,000 people in this world,
wankers and liars.
As in, like, people who jack it.
Oh, of course.
Yeah.
It's about how we were talking last time
about how wanking is the thing where you...
The most normal...
The weirdest normal thing. The weirdest normal thing. it's the most normal, the weirdest normal
thing.
Weirdest normal thing.
Weirdest normal thing.
That's a good category.
We should do that.
Henry gets in touch.
Hi, Peabuds.
Oh, hey, Henry.
Or Harry, which is an insane shortening of Henry.
I think Henry was the one who said keep jacking it.
I think he invented it.
Oh, really?
Or maybe he's...
Well, thanks a lot, Henry. Yeah. He says,
I apologize that my well-intentioned email
has resulted in the unwanted and actively
disliked catchphrase. However,
I'd like to express my delight that my love
of bashing the bishop has become
so intimately linked with the podcast
as to become an unofficial catchphrase.
Keep jacking it.
Phil, you may remember someone tweeting you
about having the same shoes as you
at one of your works in progress at King's Cross.
I'm looking for some new ones
and I thought I'd see what you're currently repping.
Oh, I'm wearing New Balances 373s.
They're just very comfortable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I put off getting New Balances
because they've got a fucking N on them.
Like, they're called New Balances and their logo is an N.
Just a big N.
Yeah, just a big N.
Or a sideways Z.
Yeah, that's it actually.
From some angles it looks like my feet are sleepy.
Oh, Phil.
Oh, Phil.
We've got some messages.
We've got another message from the slow plopper.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Okay, so to get her on up to date,
Pierre and I have a close friend
who poos slower than any human has ever lived
because he genuinely believes that it's bad for you to squeeze it out
and that it has to fall out of you naturally by erosion.
That if your natural muscles don't do it on their own.
In my head, it's the equivalent of holding in piss until it bursts out.
Yeah, it is insane.
Okay, what was he saying now?
Dear Phil and Pierre, and this is going to be hard to read.
Okay.
Because it's all in capitals.
Great.
And it's mad gibberish like it was last time.
Dear Phil and Pierre,
capitals great it's mad gibberish like it
was last time dear
phil and pierre
been on molly days so
just caught up with
your weasley
plodcast episode 11
you'll catch it you'll
catch it it's done now
it's finished having a
plop at me welding a
sword like a real man
what's finished the
holiday or our podcast
first think this phil
you make me laugh
having a plop
just cause I was
learning to defend
myself with a stick
over the park
wist you were
busy rubbing a
calculator all
over your face
in a hair
condition room
crying because
knobdy licked you
cause you're licked
like Dexter's lab
oh my god
cause we're talking
about him spinning
the sticks
spinning the umbrella spinning his the umbrella Spinning his sword
Second thinks, second thinks
Why taunt a man who can slay thee with a blade
You're for it, both of you are for it
And by it I mean death by blades
What's an uncool cool
Think it's uncool, Phil not having a head
It's cooler for Loppet or for the plastic tube
From Matalan, slow but nice
And great, ho, ho, ho.
I'm imagining it now.
What a wheeze.
Ho, ho.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Lop, lop, lop.
Etter, allo, andoren.
Utilian.
I don't even know what that is.
I can feel us losing listeners every time you read one of his emails.
I can feel people turning off and unsubscribing.
What's that?
It's Aragorn's
coronation oath
have that you
fucking pair of
scutters
watch out
scutters
slopoo
is how he
signs off
oh my god
please stop
sending those in
horrible
nonsensical
garbage
absolutely mad
gibberish
and we will not
stop
which just means
he's going to
keep writing in
we will not stop saying you're supposed he's going to keep writing in.
We will not stop saying,
you're supposed to squeeze your poos out.
You have muscles in there for that purpose.
God's sake.
Hello.
No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone.
Oh, um, hello.
Yes, is that the Respica? I'm calling the, is it RSPCA? Or Respica? The Respica? I, hello, Rispica, it's Marjorie here. on a hike in my special shoes from my wedding. And I was hiking for nostalgia reasons in
the woods. And I'm calling because I know that you're the animal people. And I don't
think it's a matter for the police because I don't think anything's been done wrong.
But I think I saw the Bigfoot. And I don't want the police to have the Bigfoot, because they're
small-minded, possibly. And a Bigfoot is an animal, and you're the animal people, is what
I'm calling. And I saw him, and he had a Bigfoot. And it wasn't like, it wasn't the biggest
foot I've ever seen. But it was too big for his body. And he was like a big, an L. And
he was in the woods in Harry and he was making a barbecue
but it was um outside of the normal barbecue area that's why I was suspicious and it was a tray
silver tray with the coals but he wasn't he was cooking it was an apple he was then put an apple
in half and was cooking it and that's what I'm calling about because I think the Bigfoot shouldn't
be doing that I assume his diet is more carnivorous.
And he's cooking apples.
And I'm worried someone's got to him.
Someone's got to Bigfoot and made him a vegan.
And he doesn't have that understanding of his own dietary requirements.
He might not be the same as a person.
Like you're not supposed to have a vegan cat.
And maybe he's going to be sick.
And as soon as we discover him, he dies because he's afraid of
beef now. Anyway,
I hope you can find me. I don't
know where I am. I'm in the woods.
On an unrelated note, we have
a message in from our friend George.
Oh yeah. Hello lads, he says.
What's George saying? It's me, your long-term friend
and mine. That's funny.
Actor and sometimes sketch comedian
George Fouracres. I absolutely love
the show, lads, as you know, but I think you need to give some careful
thought to the demographic you're attracting with the subject
matter. Every time I tune
in, I get a creeping feeling that each episode
contains a niche bit of depraved sexual
titillation, usually by Phil. What?
There's
the obvious example of humiliation by
German poo categorizer.
I remember that one.
Yeah, that was Bud Poo.
The infamous Bud Poo episode.
But also more subtle things like Phil pooing quietly onto a cloth.
But that's the same episode.
Phil chopping up said poo kneeling on the floor.
That's the same episode.
Phil covered in his own jizz, having been caught off guard by a fellow dormitory boy.
Okay, to be fair, that could be any episode.
Phil having his toenails perfected.
Talking about which type of piss is the stinkiest.
Not the fresh kind, insists Phil.
Phil demanding he has a squeaky clean bum bum all the time, at all times.
I don't mean to kink shame anyone, but having been friends with both of you for ten years, I thought I'd give you a gentle heads up in case some well-meaning deviant starts sending
you some absolutely appalling home-drawn fan art.
Especially now that you're literally encouraging people to keep checking it.
I'm not!
I'm not encouraging people!
Oh, that's great.
I hadn't realised quite how many fetishes your content aligns with, Phil.
I'm just talking about piss and poo which we do every episode.
And fucking dogs now.
But that wasn't me
and I said it was mad.
George says,
okay, thank you.
Keep up the good work.
And he signs off,
best wishes to you
pair of professional pod pilots.
See you soon for a smooth,
thick, disgusting glass
of Lucky Kentucky.
Ugh, what is that?
Oh, right.
Lucky Kentucky from last year.
It's your own brand.
My own brand of Tennessee whiskey.
I like that your mind
was so in the gutter.
You thought that
Lucky Kentucky meant
God knows.
God knows.
Sorry, Lucky Kentucky
is a delicious brand
of bourbon.
It's the octopus eggs.
Oh, it's got octopus eggs
in it.
Charlie gets in touch.
Hello, postage and packaging.
Lovely. That's good. Yeah, I like that one. Loving the Bud Pod so far. Hello postage and packaging. Lovely.
That's good.
Yeah, I like that one.
Loving the Bud Pod so far.
I have a question for you both.
What are your favourite albums?
I would love to know.
Albums?
Like musical albums?
Or like albums of childhood photographs?
Well, for me, it's 1999.
Favourite albums?
Music albums?
Well, I mean, that's a big question.
Yeah, I'm not really someone who talks about
music or albums in that way.
I'm always very envious of people who are like,
oh, that's a great album.
I go, oh, yeah, is this song on it?
I like that song.
Yeah, I wish I knew more.
I feel like a real stooge.
I know that I am, as a music fan to music,
what some people are to comedy,
and those people make me frustrated.
Right.
Because they're like,
oh, is that good?
Is that good comedy?
And I don't really,
I don't really,
the kind of people who don't remember
the names of comedians,
I don't know the names of anyone in a band.
I just know the name of the band.
Sure.
You know.
Although on that note,
shout out to my own radio show
that went out on Sunday night
It's called Wangsplaining
So please check that out on BBC Sounds
And give it a listen
Phil's favourite album is Wangsplaining on BBC Sounds
Well no the music on it is by a Singaporean musician
Called Fox
Spelled F-A-U-X-E
And he's got an album called Ikhlas
I-K-H-L-A-S
And that's on Spotify
And it's a beautiful album
So check that out
That's very nice
It's like he's
He's remixed
Of Malaysian folk songs
And stuff
Cool
With new beats
And it's brilliant
Well on that note
In fact
It's one of my favourite albums
At the moment Charlie
Trials of Cato
That folk band
I was playing you and George
Oh yes
They're good
They're really good
They have an album
Called Hide and Hair
and it's sort of modern folk
with a couple of covers.
Hide and Hair by the Trials of Cato.
They're a lovely new folk
band and they're really lovely boys.
So I guess we have albums we like
but I've never...
Abbey Road by the Beatles is
about as good an album as I
can imagine.
Also, I have albums where I love them, but I don't think that you will. I don't think that it's somehow an objective quality, and often I love them for personal reasons.
Even if now I think they're a bit bin bags.
I'm a big Marilyn Manson fan.
In general.
I never gave her a chance.
She's a beautiful, talented woman, Marilyn Manson fan. Uh-huh. In general. I never gave her a chance. She's a beautiful, talented woman, Marilyn Manson.
Charlie also has a libertarian, authoritarian thought.
Every citizen is giving...
I've thought this.
Is this a libertarian or authoritarian one?
Charlie, I've thought this.
Which one is this?
Every citizen is given a metal straw at birth,
and it's theirs to use for the rest of their life.
This is authoritarian?
Yes, I think so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You get one free replacement.
I think this could reduce plastic waste.
I've thought of the metal straw.
In my head, Charlie, it was on a necklace.
That's lovely.
That's like a little fluke toot.
Like you're a sommelier.
They've got that weird chalice around their neck on a chain.
Yeah.
Like a little ritual thing.
Imagine if everyone had a necklace with a little toot toot straw.
That would be, I think
it would be cool. And you could pass them down.
This was my grandfather's milkshake straw.
Before he threw his milkshake at a Nazi.
It has been suggested
semi-jokingly that we all should carry
our own straws. Yeah, but then I guess
people would be like, well, we have to mine loads of metal now.
Sure. And that's bad for the ground.
But I think it's fine for the ground. But I think it's
fine for the ground.
But I haven't costed it, frankly.
Quick one from David.
Hey, Puff Buddies. Puff Buddies?
Yeah. Okay.
Been enjoying the pod since the heady days of
episode one. Wow!
David was right fucking in there.
Like a legend. Just a quick weird
un-weird for you.
Oh, that's catchy.
Weird un-weird.
Okay.
Like weird as normal thing?
Oh, weird as normal thing.
Oh, yeah, sure, sure.
The eating of eggs.
Okay, okay.
Okay, thank you.
Dave?
I did a show on Sunday with a comedian who carries around a cooler with hard-boiled eggs in it.
Okay, let's stop that story immediately.
Say that again.
You did a gig with a comedian who has a cooler.
Yeah, he carries around.
I won't say his name in case he doesn't want people to know.
He seemed perfectly happy.
He shouldn't want people to know.
Because he's carrying around a cooler full of farts.
Full of hard-boiled eggs.
How many?
So he's got a carton of them in there,
but instead of, like, eggs, like raw eggs,
they are hard-boiled eggs.
Like a prank almost.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So he'll take them out, and he'll salt them,
and he'll eat them, and he'll go do a gig.
And he's absolutely repulsive.
You don't like eggs, though?
I love eggs.
Oh.
I just find that, like, wheeling around a cooler
with a little fake punnet of eggs.
But I always forget how much I like a boiled egg until I have one.
I'm like, oh, this is a bit gross.
I have one as actually that was brilliant.
I think that it's like not a food for just in public because it's like...
It makes you look insane.
It makes you look like a character in a film who's going to kill at some point.
It smells like farts.
It does smell like farts.
There's shell.
There's bits of shell.
There's an element that
of clean up to that.
You've got to peel it and it's a bit like visceral.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What's their...
How do they justify this?
It's good for you, high protein.
Yeah, but just eat your meals when it's meal time.
How busy are you?
You have time to boil six eggs
and arrange them back in their own packaging.
Well, it's just like people bring in packed lunches.
That's...
So eating eggs is the weird...
Why does David think it's weird?
He just says eating eggs.
Like it's an odd...
I guess conceptually it's quite odd.
It's very common in nature.
I get very annoyed with people like,
those are chicken periods.
It's like, yeah, well, steaks are animal muscles.
Well, what do you want?
Yeah.
This is life.
Animals eat each other.
Yeah, what's fucking wrong with you?
Have you not seen that yet?
Also, it isn't, because chicken and people are different.
No, Phil.
Everything is the same.
It's important to remember that everything is the same,
and all good things are bad actually
and all bad things
are actually good
if you can draw
a tiny element
of parallel
between those
between two
seemingly different things
they're basically the same
yes
yeah
there's been a lot of that
Nigel Farage being hit
by a milkshake
is the same
as an assassin
killing
everyone's favourite
charity worker
tomorrow
everything is the same but it isn't nothing is different things are the same the amount of times Killing everyone's favourite charity worker tomorrow.
Everything is the same.
But it isn't.
Nothing is different.
Things are the same.
The amount of times I feel I have to tell people it is okay to have double standards
about two things that are different.
People's completely lost touch.
Oh, oh, see, like in my show
where I talk about the double standards thing
where it's like, oh, you'd eat a chicken but not a dog.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like you'd breastfeed your own child but you won't breastfeed
my friend Colin.
And they're both hungry humans and they both need your help.
Yeah, but I don't want to.
That's fine. Everything's made up.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Zara gets in touch and I won't say her name
but it's a hell of a name.
It's one of those complicated names that can only arise from, I don't know, diplomacy.
Let me see.
Have a little look at that name.
Ooh!
Her parents have been about.
Yeah, I can't help but feel Phil is overplaying it somewhat there, but never mind.
Wow!
Hi, PP boys.
Yeah.
I think it's fair enough that we're PP boys. Hope you're well. Just coming at you with
some thoughts I've been having during my exams.
The level of influence this pod has had on me really struck me.
Oh, God.
She's going to fail her exams.
She's going to walk up and down a tube carriage.
When I was young, I listened to a podcast and I failed my exams.
I fucked my exams.
I fucked my exams.
The level of influence this pod has had on me really struck me.
When I opened one of my exam papers, I didn't like the question.
And all I could think was of an extremely exasperated,
I'm a pilot.
I can't possibly answer this.
Also, I got me thinking, coolest uncle thing, invigilators. Yeah, they are kind of cool. I uncool thing invigilators
yeah they are
kind of cool
I kind of thought
invigilators are cool
I know but hear me out
sure they're kind of
fusty and universally scorned
but I think it's the most
baller thing
that they get
to flex their freedom
and get paid for it
in a room full of
discontented youth
I think that's one of my
favourite ever
coolest uncool things
because that is spot on
because you think
oh what a dork
but also you see these teachers who are like usually like supply teachers yeah suddenly this
new powerful light you're like wow mr davis actually he's got something to him now that
he's got a swagger i didn't see it before he's he's in he's instilling the fear of god in these
people yeah that's really good that's a good down. I'm just finishing as a pen.
Pens down.
Yeah.
Finish the exam.
Yeah.
Time's up.
That's a good,
cool example.
That's a good one.
It's the ultimate
power move,
she says.
Yeah.
That might be
batshit,
but just a thought.
Anyway,
totally love the pods.
I keep going.
Okay,
thank you,
Zara.
Okay.
That was good.
Thank you,
Zara.
That was a good one,
yeah.
Very good one.
And of course,
a lovely email
from Gunnar Garais,
who says he'd love to discuss a business opportunity with us.
And he's offering us pay-per-click.
His primary focus is to generate sales through clients
through online marketing.
So thank you, Gunnar.
Yes, please, more of those, guys.
Yeah, please.
Love hearing from you.
We would love to generate more clicks through online marketing
to sell shirts that say keep Jacking It, I guess.
Imagine if we got an email like that,
that was obviously spam,
and then at the end was Keep Jacking It.
Whoa!
He meant it.
This is a real guy.
If you started getting Nigerian Prince emails
with Keep Jacking It at the bottom.
Dear sir, madam, we am looking for a trusted person for the transfer of over a million
pounds dollars sterling of inheritance money i am a general from that just on and on keep
yacking it right at the end oh yeah my coolest uncool thing is people not believing me. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.
Me and my baby having fun
on the dark web.
Me and my baby
looking for drugs
on the dark web.
We're gonna get some drugs.
We're gonna buy some guns.
We're gonna have a lot of fun on the dark web On the dark web
I got a pocket full of cryptocurrency
I'm gonna spend it on stuff
They're not gonna jail me
Because you can't be traced
on the dark web
I'm not really sure I've not done
enough research
on the dark web
gonna buy some gross stuff
on the dark web
ooh it's horrible I shouldn't
have seen that right there
oh dear that
wasn't meant for human eyes
But I'm in too deep
I'm gonna buy some guns
I'm gonna buy some bombs
And buy some drugs on the dark web
Oh, oh, oh
The dark web
I'm gonna go to jail on the dark web
I've really failed on the dark web.
I've really failed on the dark web.
Yeah.
But at least I know where to buy high quality CBD.
Yeah.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
That was episode 13 Episode 13
We got through it
We did it
The
I'm trying to think of more bad luck stuff
Opening umbrella indoors
We opened the umbrella indoors
And we passed a knife from one hand to another.
Is that unlucky?
Yeah.
To pass between your own hands?
To hand someone a blade.
How are you supposed to give people knives?
Put it on the table.
Is it?
Yeah.
I never used to think that.
And then someone in my art class when I was in high school said it.
And I was like, that's a good one.
Now my brain will think that too.
Well, it's good because it's just practical.
A lot of people got stabbed in the hand
and they went,
you know what, this is bad luck.
Yeah, and also it's almost like
if they use the knife
to murder someone, right?
You can be like,
I just put it on the table.
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I don't feel bad about that.
Well, Pia and I have been
passing a knife between each other
for an hour.
We've been juggling.
Yeah.
We've been juggling three knives.
It's been so much bad luck generated.
Yeah.
But that's fine. We hope that you guys don knives. It's been so much bad luck generated. Yeah. But that's fine.
We hope that you guys don't have the bad luck we're going to have.
I hope you all don't get milkshaked.
Good luck out there.
A lot of milkshakes.
Unless you deserve milkshaking.
If you deserve a milkshaking, I really hope you get milkshaked.
And I hope it's the silliest flavor.
But do still keep listening to the podcast.
We really appreciate it.
Yes, please.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Thank you.
Bye.
Bye-bye.