BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie - Episode 130 - HolPod
Episode Date: September 8, 2021The boys talk last words, the queen, holidays, Slytherin, email and info security, robots and cars Get bonus BudPod on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
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It's Budpod 130 or 130.
130, fun and dirty.
That's us.
130, the best time for lunch?
One, yeah, because you know...
Well, because you know,
well, 2.30 is the best time to get your dentist appointment.
2.30.
So 1.30, yeah, 1.30 is when best time to get your dentist appointment. 2.30. So 1.30.
Yeah, 1.30 is when you're good for lunch because you're hungry.
One is hungry.
One is hurting with hunger.
1.30.
1.30 is when the queen goes to hospital.
Your Majesty, what's wrong?
1.30.
1.30. One hurty.
Oh, my God.
Get her into the ICU, Sam.
Please.
What were Her Majesty's final words to the nation?
It was all just stuff about the country.
Just really try and cover that up.
One hurty. One hurty.
One hurty.
Yeah.
You want some good last words.
You don't want to say one hurty.
I wonder...
I wonder what the Queen's last words
will be. Or rather, I wonder
what the reported last words of the
Queen will be. You know what I mean?
I don't believe a single famous set of last words i just don't i don't believe it unless there were enough of it completely
neutral witnesses there like an accountant or a lawyer signed off on it and yeah i want cameras
and in the age of phone cameras we should be i think and i don't care people think it's tasteless
we should be filming everyone's last moments just to be sure what their final words were i don't care if people think it's tasteless. We should be filming everyone's last moments just to be sure what their final words were.
I don't believe all this fucking Oscar Wilde.
Oh, I'm better to be fashionably late
than never to have arrived at all.
I don't know whatever he fucking said when he died.
But I don't believe it.
Some of us are dying looking at the stars.
Yeah, some nonsense.
Some absolute nonsense. Yeah, I want to know what the Queen's Yeah, some nonsense. Yeah. Some absolute nonsense.
Yeah, I want to know what the Queen's real final words are.
I think, yeah, it's tough, isn't it?
Because if you're disoriented, then they could just be gibberish.
And then people will feel like that's not as worth passing on.
Whereas if it's something like, I did my duty.
That's what you want, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did my duty would be good.
I did my duty would be good.
Yeah.
Where's it going?
Where's that mango gone?
Just like some mad fucking fever dream delirium, shout out
I mean that's
You don't want that engraved on a plaque do you
I really hope
The Queen's final words are
Don't let your dreams
Live you, live your dreams
Live, laugh, love
That would
Throw the PR into a crisis Pop, fist, love. That would throw the PR into a crisis.
Pop, fizz, clink.
I'm just glad that I'm dying at wine o'clock.
That's funny. Some official portrait with Popfizz Clink Engraved in a brass plate underneath
Speaking of the best that Britain has to offer
You're currently on holiday in Cornwall
I am
Listeners, I'm recording this
I'm in a kind of...
I don't
know how to say it. It's a kind of...
Imagine
a sort of stone hut
with one wall missing
with a kind of dining table in it.
Like they've kind of...
Like a stable?
It looks a bit like a small stable.
It's sort of so you can have food outdoors on a kind of patio.
Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes.
But it's made from bricks.
It's not like a lean-to made of sticks and a kind of thatched roof or something like some tropical beach.
It's a sturdy Cornish building of some kind.
Yeah, I'm in Cornwall, and it's very hot and sunny and uh that's why i'm assuming
that there's you may you may hear gusts of wind or holiday style shouts of joy from yeah you you
sound like um adam buxton on his intro bits yeah yeah i just don't have the same charm or dog which is it's tough
i am i wish i were there i i want to send you a postcard saying i wish i were there
has anyone done a postcard from a war yeah instead of i was there i'm going to send you a postcard
from home saying i wish i was there. I was originally before.
Listeners start to think I wasn't invited to this staycation.
I was.
Yeah.
And then work came up.
Phil's on tour, baby.
He always does.
On tour, little bits here and there.
It won't let up.
And, you know, Wang won't be getting work forever and cornwall well i was
gonna say cornwall will wait but with current global warming rates maybe maybe maybe it won't
um hey but i'd love to when i finally have the time pierre i'd love to see the place
where you guys are staying underwater on a scuba diving trip.
Yeah, like haunting footage like
the Titanic when they found it.
It's
a stable. It's just you there
floating up against the roof of the stable.
Ah, wow, there he is.
Still with my headphones in.
Ha ha ha!
Blah blah blah!
With that kind of eerie music as you see sort of my face is covered in like uh horrible little little jellies but i've become a reef yeah you yeah you look like um
captain barbosa or whatever. Yeah.
The octopus captain.
Yeah, well, Cornwall waits for no man, Phil.
So yeah, we all had to do it without you, unfortunately. But it's very, yeah, I really was so skeptical.
But I'll tell you what I've been doing, Phil,
that made me feel like a man slash dad.
I've been scrubbing a grill.
Wow, great. And I'll miss this as well pierre in his element some some people phil yeah either the people who own this
place or a series of guests have not taken the neighborly approach to cleaning the BBQ from the charcoal and gunk and grease
from whatever they cooked on it.
And it takes,
and I have to say this, and you know I don't
like jingoistic nationalist sentiment,
but it takes a South African to show up and say
enough is enough, get me the oven cleaner.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I do this not just for me, but for the barbecuers
and briars who come after me
yeah
the catch
the phrase for the slogan for BBQ
should be BBQ
clean please
you
every BBQ
should have that sticker
clean please you when you BBQ.
Clean please you.
Fucking hell.
Amazing things happen, Phil,
when men light barbecues
that they know they will never cook on?
What do you mean?
I'm trying to paraphrase
that acorns thing.
Acorns thing?
Great things happen when men plant trees they know
they shall never sit in the shade of.
Ah, I've not heard that before.
Yeah, that's about planning
for the future, for your next generations
unselfishly.
Yeah, yeah, we need to apply that thinking to BBQs.
So was it a big cleaning operation?
I soaked it in a big bucket for a bit, the two bits of grill,
and I cleaned out the old ash and coal, which was all still in there.
So hopefully it'll work.
That's today's holiday project.
Fire, fire and meat.
Fire, fire.
When you light the barbecue for the first time,
she just starts screaming fire until everyone runs out.
This is how I was trained.
So what's on the menu?
Well, so you'll never believe this, Phil.
So we arrived on a Sundayay and on a sunday in
the middle of nowhere in cornwall it's weirdly difficult to get authentic south african buddha
no idea why totally weird so i mean there are bits and pieces around the place but like long
drives away and they're not always open and anyway is a is it a beef sausage a yes you've
got a bura it's a farmer's farmer's sausage oh like burr yeah burr burr of horse yeah
and it's a very particular type of thing um and i managed phil at the last minute i quickly went
and i bought some in central lond London and I froze it and then in my
luggage I surrounded it with sort of
ice packs and things. I was like a kind of
frozen sausage smuggler.
Wow. Like it was a
like it was a kidney.
Yeah. I had one of those
like vests on and like my everything
was in high vis.
One of those like red coolers.
Yeah.
I came here by motorbike, yeah.
It's actually the fastest way.
I brought the sausages.
Quick, quick, quick, quick.
So I did feel a bit...
I felt a bit insane on a kind of train,
just nervously glancing up at my luggage occasionally
and thinking, I hope the sausages haven't melted.
But that's probably a perfect thawing time, isn't it?
Yes, although you shouldn't really let it thaw and refreeze.
So I had to keep it frozen enough that I could jam it in the freezer on arrival.
Yeah, but once you're there, you can pop this right in the fridge
and you're okay for a couple of days.
Oh yeah, but we're only eating them today, so it needed
a couple of days
preservation. But yeah, if we were cooking on arrival,
that would have been bang on.
Yeah, quite right.
Yeah, but so hopefully some
Buddha verse, I didn't get quite enough, so I bought
some other meats and I've
said to everyone, if you want meats,
there's going to be a big fire, so if you want meats
on that fire, you bring them sweet meats.
You go for it.
Fantastic. Oh, man. I feel sick
to my stomach to miss this.
Well, you know,
there will be brides in the future,
Phil, and we will
create a kind of South African-Malaysian
fusion.
Yeah, that'd be good, actually.
Yes, that would be good.
That'd get us into the food blogs for a week.
That's right.
You and I, Phil, we're both becoming, as we get older,
finer and finer meatsmen, I'd say.
There's marinating.
There's sauteing.
There's brining.
I've started brining.
There's brining.
Brining has changed the game.
Literally, it's a pheasant.
It'll make it saltier but brining is great it just and what i did the other day was i
i was like i want some chicken thighs but you you know how you can only buy chicken thighs
in packets of 35 and so i bought like this tub of chicken thighs and i was like i can't eat all these thighs now
so i brined them all over like two days or something and then um and then i just roasted
them all i brined them in sort of like cross-cultural you know sort of seasonings that
can be western orients and so just like salt pepper yeah a bay leaf and then i just roast
them all in one go
And then I put them in the fridge
And then I just had all this
Cooked meat ready to go, ready to throw into things
Just ready to throw into noodles or pasta
Or like a rice dish or whatever
It's great
Changed the game
Browning changes the game, marinating
Dare we say dry rub, all of the above
All of the above all of the above
I'm going to be BBQing
my absolute knockers off
BBQing
see
he doing
that's me pointing at you
as I clean the grill
see
please please clean
you see he do the bbq
people like phil's got has a stroke yeah phil phil's been standing downwind from the barbecue
the monoxide's got him somehow even in the open air
oh gosh gosh gosh. Is this the first
holiday pod? A half-holiday
pod? Maybe. Because we've done remote pods before,
but there's always been an element of work. This is the first time
one of us has been on
pure leisure.
Leisure.
Leisure.
I'm wearing
shorts and I'm going to play
squash. Leisure. I'm wearing shorts and I'm going to play squash
leisure
actual purest leisure
it is leisure yeah you're right actually
because
because I was in Denmark for one
and you were in America and Australia,
but it was all for gigs, man.
Yeah, all wake, wake, wake.
We don't take, like, if you don't count stag dues and stuff I've done with my family,
I've been on holiday officially like two or three times in eight or nine years.
Well, this is it.
And this is why I feel so especially gutted to miss out on this
because it's really rare.
It's really rare.
Because when you're self-employed, you're like work well okay work i'll put in work because otherwise
i won't have work yeah work more work more we don't get like days off every year where you just
have to take them so yeah you're getting work yeah you're compelled to be a holiday boy yeah
yeah this is it and also like um also just it just it's that thing where if you book a holiday
and, like, literally sometimes the next day someone will be like,
would you like a million pounds for selling one joke?
And you're like, well, yeah.
Some amazing offer will come through, some brilliant thing,
and you have to just cancel everything again.
Yeah.
And look, I mean, look, we're not hard done by it because for work,
you and I get to go to places like Copenhagen and Australia and Vienna
and interesting places
not that you're on holiday
you still gotta do a shitload of public speaking
but it's better than
being trapped indoors
doing spreadsheet entry or
something that actually makes your mind
revolt
but yeah
I think this has to be the first holiday pod, doesn't it?
Really?
Yeah, and also your first holiday in like years?
Yeah, well, the holidays I have been on in this whole time
have come in a sort of burst
over the last three years, I think.
So yeah, I'm learning.
I'm learning that holidays are necessary that, um, holidays are unnecessary.
He's learning.
My God.
My God, he's learning.
He's relaxing.
This should have taken ten years for him to learn how to relax,
and he's doing it in three days.
Like, um, Planet of the Apes.
The apes start playing tennis and engaging in acts of leisure.
My God, they're
learning how to enjoy their free time.
Laziness.
Sorry about last week, PodBuds.
Well, not sorry,
because you're not meant to apologize
or explain. Yes, true.
But, yeah, there was
no PodBuds last week, true. But, yeah, there was no Bud Pod last week
because it was just one of those,
the planets aligned in a bad way
and both of us just were chocker
for all the days we could have recorded on.
I've explained now, which again is flying in the face of
don't apologise, don't explain.
Well, it was a terrible thing because you were chocker
and I couldn't go back to my flat because um my girlfriend got i was on a stag do listeners gosh
this is are you are you now ever not on leisure i'm lazy i'm the king of leisure
decadence leisure um i went on a stag do
And while I was away
My girlfriend got some COVID
Some light dusting of COVID
Oh
And so I couldn't go home
So I didn't have access to my laptop or my microphone
I was staying in a friend's flat
That happened to be empty
Which was good luck for me
So I had to come straight on holiday with my stag dood luggage.
Gosh.
Yeah, so it's been an absolute week of chaos.
Is she alright?
Yeah,
she's started to pass lateral flows and things,
so I think she's actually over it. It was a very
light dusting of COVID, thank God.
And she's double jabbed as well, it's just that
she didn't have full immunity, whereas I am
fully immune. Triple jabbed, once by God's just that she didn't have full immunity. Whereas I am fully immune.
Triple jabbed.
Once by God, once by the state, second by the state.
Moderna, too, as well.
Niche.
Yeah, that is niche.
I've only met a few other Modernas.
We should all start doing some shout-outs for each other and stuff.
Because it is rare.
Modernas are rare.
Modernas are real rare.
We're either the Gryffindor or the Slytherin.
Yeah.
You're the sort of... Yeah.
You're not the Hufflepuff.
Wait, Hufflepuff...
Is that a Pokemon?
No, no.
Hufflepuff is a house, yeah.
Although, I mean, Jigglypuff is a Pokemon.
Jigglypuff is a Pokemon, yeah.
You're close.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What... What house are you in, Phil?
I don't know if I've ever asked you that.
Have you taken that mad test?
No, because I want to be sure it was an official one.
Was there an official one?
I've long been told that the UN-recognized official one,
basically, is Pottermore. I think it's
Pottermore.com? Something like that?
Well, I can do it now.
Yeah, do it now.
I know my result already. I took it like three times
to be sure.
Okay, Discover Your Hogwarts. This is so
off-brand for me. I've never cared about
Harry Potter. At all.
Yeah, but you're getting it live.
Okay, so this is
live for the
first in podcast history.
Oh, look at this,
Pierre. Ravenclaw has notable members
including Luna Lovegood, Gilderoy
Lockhart, and Phileas Flitwick.
Well, say no more.
Fuck's sake. I hate this already.
Okay, um...
Hogwarts sorting, that looks about right. Okay. Hogwarts sorting.
That looks about right. Yeah. Log into
your account.
Not a chance.
Not a chance.
Sorry. Sorry.
Sorry, PodBuds. I will
not give any more personal
details.
Let alone
a company of wizards
they will not know
yeah
I'm going to do this just from the descriptions then
actually does it say
does it describe them at all
okay so Gryffindor the rhyme is
you might belong in Gryffindor where dwell
the brave at heart their daring nerve and chivalry set Gryffindor, the rhyme is, you might belong in Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart.
Their daring nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart.
Okay.
I'm quite risk-averse.
You know this about me.
I'm a risk-averse man.
You hate regret.
I'm terrified of regret.
That doesn't sound very Gryffindorian to me.
Hufflepuff.
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
where they are just and loyal.
Those patient Hufflepuffs
are true and unafraid to
toil. This is starting to
sound a little more like our friend
Phil Wang, I have to say.
We're getting there. I've never seen someone less
afraid of toil.
Yeah, I'm relatively unafraid of toil.
I'm less afraid of toil than I'm of regret. That of toil i'm less afraid of toil than i would regret
that's for sure yeah that's absolutely true yeah okay so so hufflepuff is the current of the the
the leader for me i think ravenclaw or yet in wise old ravenclaw if you've already mind
where those of wit and learning will always find their kind oh hello oh hello those of wit and learning i
like the sound of that i was i was a studious young man i was academically successful
hmm okay maybe okay so it's between have a fun rain closet
oh you're slithering these are they're just like out and out evil isn't it oh okay
or perhaps in slithering you'll make your real friends those
cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends okay so essentially if you're put in Slytherin
you're a little cunt you're a little bastard yeah yeah you're a dirty little bastard it's the
Bullingdon club basically is it perhaps perhaps Slytherin could be your choice at the front
a house you join if you're a little cunt.
You see all the students kind of murmuring like,
oh, that doesn't sound...
What the fuck?
Yeah, why do they even have this Slytherin house in there?
Why are they enabling their most evil students?
It's like putting
minor offenders into jail
where they can just learn from
more hardened criminals like why are you
building your own
the school takes its
charter that seriously that it has to
cater for everyone to be educated
even the openly evil
his name is Severus Snape
For god's sake
Draco Malfoy for god's sake
Yeah all the characters that she put in that house
Were called like Dracula Mussolini
Or whatever
Okay for me it's between Ravenclaw
And Hufflepuff I'mclaw and Hufflepuff
I'm leaning away from Hufflepuff
Just because
They sound a bit like walkovers
They sound a bit like doormats
They're just and loyal
They sound like little bitches basically
That's the reading between the lines of this poem
Go to Hufflepuff
If you're a little bitch
But you can still learn to become a witch or whatever.
If someone says about you,
God, he's very loyal and God, he works hard.
Why don't I?
What are you trying to call me, a little bitch?
I just get all peshy.
Joe Peshy in Goodfellas about it.
Do I work hard for you?
Well, work hard like a bitch? I, work hard in like a bitch?
I'm loyal to you like a dog?
I'm like a dog to you?
That scene is amazing,
isn't it? It's so good. It's so horrible
as well. It makes you realize that these
guys would not be actually very fun to hang out with.
Yeah, it's really good.
But yeah, so
Ravenclaw. Sorry.
Sorry. Can I say that in 2021? Can I put myself um Ravenclaw sorry sorry can I say that in this in 2021 can I put myself in
Ravenclaw I think so learning will always find their kind I'm sure it's quite a Ravenclaw thing
to do thank you I don't know what the entrance exam for Ravenclaw is but I will do the past papers
that's right I mean I I can tell you my test result phil oh yeah i took it three times just to be sure i'm afraid it's slytherin
wow no i'm an evil character you're a little oh you're a big cunt you're the biggest cunt in
slytherin what do you think were the deciding questions or your deciding answers for that? I think a lot of the questions that are
they're designed to make you go
I'm brave and
loyal and cruel.
So they're fucking with you.
Yeah, well they're quite wet questions. They're quite sort of
like
you'd rather
like even if it meant
losing, you'd still never tell a lie
or something like that. It's all a bit wet. It's a bit soggy.
Yeah, that's lame.
And I'm imagining some wizard battle and I'm like, no, I'll lie then.
I don't want to get wizarded to death. I'll lie.
So are you trying to say that Slytherin is the realist's house?
Slytherin is Henry Kissinger's house.
It's very pragmatic international politics.
We'll let China in.
Although Kissinger is much more of a Hufflepuff name, really.
You'll kiss your little bum in Hufflepuff.
Yeah, but typical of young adult fiction
to have a house for kind of bland dweebs,
a house for nerds, a house for the heroes,
and a house for the villains.
Nice and neat.
No ambiguity needed.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Yeah.
Well, that's fascinating.
Well, you're a Ravenclaw now.
I think I would have guessed that.
Yes, but again, this is of...
I've self-elected Ravenclaw.
We will never know what my Pottermore decided house is
because I just will...
I'm sorry, but I will not open another account online.
I just won't do it.
I will not add another vector for personal details to be stolen.
Do you not have a junk email?
Oh, shit, I do.
Oh, yeah, I do.
Can we really do this? Can we now do the actual test?
At this point, is this bad bad content is what i'm asking
it might well maybe but then it would be also be very funny if you ended up also being slytherin
okay okay here we go um fake email address poo poo at weewee.com sure yeah yeah yeah well i mean com password um don't
sell my
details
um
okay
uh god maybe this will be
the first all slither in podcast
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get fucked
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come on you get a gold membership Come on guys
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Exclusive and early access to buy collectibles
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Um
Oh crap
Oh god
This is bad content at this point.
Create your account.
Okay, okay, here we go.
Poop, poo, at...
I've already got a saved address called poopypants.account.com.
Really?
Poop, poo, at wee, wee.
Apparently from something else I had to do, I guess.
Dot com.
Very high address.
Poop, poo, at wee, wee.
I do enjoy selecting, like... I'm actually Dr. Poop Pants B enjoy selecting I'm actually
Dr. Poopantsbumbumhead
Thank you
Did I tell you about
The time it backfired?
No
Maybe, what was this?
It rings a bell
I give a fake email address
Sometimes for
For hotel bookings If I'm on tour.
Just because I can't be asking them, giving them all my details.
And I was at this hotel on tour.
I can't remember what time it was, out west somewhere I think.
And I wanted the fact invoice for expenses.
And so I said to the receptionist,
she was like, do you want me to print it,
or shall I email it to you?
And without thinking, I went, oh, just email it to me.
And then she looked at her screen, and she said,
okay, so that's to chinaboy69 at dimsum.com.
And I was like, no, I was like,
in the most straight voice you can imagine and i the second i heard her say china boy i was like oh no no no because i was there with my
supporter with um yuriko katani who's doing the support slot and i was just so embarrassed
she was like oh yeah so that's uh china boy 69 was like no no no no no no no no fucking hell
that's good man
so that's
go fuck yourself
you stupid hotel
at
freejulianassange.com
um
okay
okay okay okay
yeah it is it's worth it though for signing back in to say the wi-fi on a national train
service for it to go welcome back dr pooh bum it's funny it's a lovely message to get
when you're what is your date of birth wiz Wizards never lie about their age, which is a bit...
Your old Pottermore one?
I don't have an old...
Oh my god, what's going on?
Wizards never lie about their age?
Yeah, it was like threatening me not to lie about my age when I asked.
What's that for?
They don't want kids finding out too soon that they're in Slytherin.
You're only six. You haven't developed evil either way yet
Oh for fuck's sake they got me
They got me
I thought I was at the end of this
Creative account process
And the screen now says
Something should have magically materialized in your inbox
We've sent an owl, sorry an email
To poopyatpants.com
And I'm like, great, great
So now
Fantastic
Well, you better call back that owl
That owl's gonna die
Trying to find poopyatpants.com
All that, I went through all that
Of course they outsmarted me
They're wizards
They're wizards, You fucked with Gandalf
Do the wizards know each other?
Oh my god
Well
I'm now starting to feel
Too stupid to be
In
How did I say I was in?
Ravenclaw, yeah
I'm not even smart enough to be in Ravenclaw.
It should say, we just tried to send
an owl to poopyatpants.com
You're in Hufflepuff.
Congrats, you're in Hufflepuff.
I hope you're happy now.
You lied about your age.
Do you reckon there is a poopyatpants.com?
There's gotta be.
He's received so much fucking junk.
who's received so much fucking junk
he's a really distinguished
professor
and it's his private
email and he sees no
humour in it
god that's fucking annoying
have you ever
the other day
I was in a shop Phil
And I was buying
A sketch pad
As I want to do
Who's a lucky lady
No no it's for someone to draw me
Reclining on a chair
I'm going to recline on a chair as long
And I'm going to try and make sure
I'm going to try and recline at such an angle
That I've got at least one bollock up on a. That's how I find you when I go scuba diving in Cornwall
Just floating in opposition just old old
Old dick and balls like moving like sea anemones
Drifting in the current, you know?
Yeah, I was buying a sketchpad,
and then as I was buying it, the guy goes,
would you like a scratch card?
A free scratch card?
Oh.
And I said, and I kind of looked,
and it was like a scratch card
that was issued by the weird sort of shop.
Wait, their own in-house scratch card?
Their own in-house scratch card.
And you could win 250 quid.
Whoa.
Okay.
Not bad.
So I was like, free.
And he was like, yeah.
And I go, okay.
And he said, great.
And what's your name?
And I was like, and I sort of told him my name. And he was like, what's your name? And I was like, and I sort of told him
my name, and he was like, and what's your email? I was like,
what is
this? What is this for? And he was like, what am I,
postcode and stuff?
And he said, oh, it's in case you win. And I was like,
and I just
went, I
don't want it anymore.
And to his credit, he was like,
okay, and just immediately removed it and sold me
the sketchbook I was anticipating a debate
but
he didn't give me the hard sell
enough people have had their personal details stolen
on some fucking account somewhere
that people might get it
it's so
I think there should be
hey I know I'm sort of captain legislation over here
but I think there should be legislation against asking people for their details unnecessarily.
I don't think, if you don't need it, you should not be able to just pressure people
for their address of their home and their personal phone number.
There's got to be a point where it's like, I'm ordering a trinket from a nonsense website.
You don't need my mobile number in case there's a problem with delivery on the day.
You don't need that.
It is problem delivery.
Just throw it in the sea.
I don't care.
Yeah, bin it.
I'd rather the thing I wanted was in the bin
than you could ring me.
That's how much I don't want you to fucking ring me.
Yeah, and I hate it when the mobile number Bit when you're filling out the form
Has a little star next to it
They're like we really do need this actually
Yeah
But they won't let you complete the form
It makes you go back up and in red writing it goes
We need a mobile number
I cannot stand that
You don't need it
The ones I hate the most are the forms where you put everything in
And you hit submit and it goes
And instead of showing you Where the problem was ones i hate the most are the forms where you put everything in and you hit submit and it goes bunk
and instead of showing you where the problem was it just goes there was a problem there was just a
just a problem now find it find it scroll through this this three page long form and you find what you did wrong
enormous visa form
labyrinth
I hate that shit it's like don't be lazy
program in the fucking locator
tell me what I did wrong
tell me why it's wrong
I'm afraid somewhere in these woods
is the answer to your question
quickly now the rain's
coming
horrible
and then you realize
oh I typed in it was my email
was at at gmail dot
coom
fuck
I was checking my phone number I was wondering if there was
something wrong with where I lived
and then you correct it and hit submit and it's like,
your session has expired.
Yeah.
Boom.
That horrible noise.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
Ugh.
Instant rage trigger, that kind of noise.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
As if it's saying, that's the noise your brain makes when it makes mistakes.
Your stupid brain goes it's also like making fun of you
like duh
oh no you got it wrong did you
that's not an email
that's right
dung is computer for
duh
that's not how you spell dot com
idiot That's not how you spell dot com.
Idiot.
Also, the unnerving sensation of getting one of those how many traffic lights are there things wrong.
Yeah, and you start to go, am I a robot?
Or when it makes you do seven in a row and you think,
are you just pleased that I'm good at these?
How many of these do I have to do?
It's something
like, I read
or let's be more realistic
heard in a podcast that
the capture things
are also in part
to train
AI to be able to themselves
identify
what
a traffic light is.
But what I don't understand is that if they don't know,
if the thing that's asking me doesn't know,
how is it checking that I've got them right?
Unless what it's doing, maybe that's what the multiple ones are for.
It gets you to do some which it doesn't know the answer to and the one
it does know the answer to and if you get that right that means that the others are
probably right and they use those to train the machine.
Or they make it compare your answers to a separate file of correct answers that aren't
part of its brain?
Right. answers that aren't part of its brain?
Right.
In the same way that I can mark an exam if I have the answer sheet, even if I don't actually know
the answers on the answer sheet. But if that answer
sheet already exists somewhere, why aren't they just feeding the answer
sheet into the AI to teach it? Because then it's not
learning. It should be able to learn.
To make it learn. Okay, okay, okay.
And if there's one thing that robots need to learn,
it's what traffic lights look like.
A terrifying thought.
Well, it's just for driverless cars, isn't it?
I wonder if that's all like Uber and Google cars and shit.
That's painful.
Fuck, I never realized it was.
It's always like bicycles and traffic crossings, isn't it?
Yeah, that's true.
Of course it is.
Phil, you've done it.
My boy.
Have we cracked it?
You've cracked it. My boy. Have we cracked it? You've cracked it.
You get the factory.
Don't you see?
This is where Elon Musk gives you the Tesla car factory like Willy Wonka.
Wow.
Well, you heard it here first, guys.
The first true Bud Pod scoop.
Holy shit.
Because it's never like, which of these are bananas?
It's always road stuff.
Yeah. Whoa!
How about that?
I guess when I need to
start getting worried, it's like, who here
is the Eurasian person?
When we have to
worry about the robots, it says
which one of these is the Prime Minister?
Which of these is the prime minister? Which of these is the prime minister?
Which of these faces do you trust the most with your life?
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Who here holds the nuclear codes?
Who knows the nuclear codes?
Who?
Where on this body...
Which of these numbers appear in your pins?
Yeah.
Where on this body are you the most vulnerable to attack?
Mark the areas where you are most vulnerable to attack.
Point... Select all the boxes
with love in it
please
please
which boxes contain
love
and there's a horrible mishmash of sort of wedding rings and baby photos and a tree and a dog and you're like, I don't...
That's funny.
Oh, man.
I'd never clocked that.
There was always road stuff.
That makes so much sense.
Yeah.
God damn
Well I mean hopefully
Well we're running out of lorry drivers Phil
That's the Covid slash Brexit
Problem at the moment we need them robot lorries
Well yeah
That's the great thing about Brexit isn't it
It's like we need to leave
The European Union so that there are
More jobs for British people.
And then we do it.
And they're like, okay, all so many vacancies for lorry driving.
And British people are like, nah.
Well, yeah.
And then they go, right, so you want British people to do it.
So you're going to make the salary higher and there'll be time off.
And they'll be like, no, no, no, none of that.
Don't be silly.
No, we just hope that suddenly loads of people in Britain
are as desperate and enticed by currency differentials
as people from the poorest parts of Eastern Europe.
We hope that's just going to happen.
I guess it's a symptom of a country
that currently identifies as 70% working class.
Yeah, insane.
Economically, definitely not And
That's the disparity that results in something like Brexit
A bunch of people doing working class
LARPing
Then when the realities of
Their choices come to fruition
They're like nah I'm alright actually
Yeah they go no I'm okay I'm a homeowner
In their 60s so my pension pot's worth 8.8% a year.
70% working class.
I could not believe that.
70%.
And then did you see it contrasted with the percentage of actual manual jobs, factory jobs, things like that?
It's like 8%.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Everybody's a martyr when you give them the chance.
Yeah. everybody's a martyr when you give them the chance yeah yeah it's the equivalent of in america how everyone's fucking irish that's what we have here but it's working class yeah the uk my grandfather's uncle's uh corruptists dad was uh working class
that's how americans talk about being Irish or Italian
my grandfather
was born into a mining family
but then became a doctor
yeah
so I've decided to inherit his tragic backstory
it's a one
the British treat the working class
being working class like with a fucking one drop
rule
yeah if you're not actually
a genuine aristocrat then you're
you can make your pitch
yeah you just need one relative
at some point in your ancestry to
call yourself working class
I mean like I mean I couldn't
I would by some people
I swear by some people's standards I could call myself
working class because my mother's
parents were you could say, working class.
But if someone like me told me they were working class, I'd punch me in the face, if that makes sense.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, do you remember when we were joking about how we've lost all our blue-collar credentials or whatever?
We were joking about that. Someone sent a tweet where they were like, oh like oh don't worry i don't think anyone mistook you for working class you guys and it's like yeah that was the joke
we wouldn't even claim it yeah but it's such a british thing to claim it that they thought we
were they couldn't possibly have thought we were being sincere i'd like to think maybe they were
just taking part in the joke but fucking hell that was the joke i mean you and i are both from countries where it's still just like well why
would you pretend to be worse off than you are being worse off is bad it's harder life is harder
your parents work very hard well it goes back again to is that it's a christian tradition
it's christian culture it's the meek shall inherit the earth it's harder for it's easier to
for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter heaven.
It's all Christian.
I like the idea of someone shoving their way through a car.
Out of my way, I'm the meekest.
Nobody is as meek as me.
Nobody's meeker than me.
I'm the meekest.
A lot of people are saying it. I love meek. We love meek as me. Nobody's meeker than me. I'm the meekest. A lot of
people are saying it. I love meek.
We love meek.
I've said I love meek a long time.
A long time I've said I love meek.
A lot of people are saying I'm the
meekest. A lot of people are saying
it.
It's a Christian impulse.
You won't find it
in the far east. I think some of it's genuinely uniquely British. It's the obsession impulse. You won't find it in the Far East.
Well, I think some of it's genuinely uniquely British.
It's the obsession with the underdog.
Everyone wants to be the underdog because that's who gets all the affection.
Whereas I think lots of countries, if you go,
and coming up against everyone's favorite champion,
Muhammad Ali or whatever, is just some guy.
Loads of countries are just like,
we want Muhammad Ali to win because he's already the best.
And we'd love that to continue Whereas in the UK
It's like I want little Jimmy to rise up
And obviously none of our own possessions
They don't apply that to their own
Maybe it's Dickens and little Timmy
Oh fuck yeah maybe
Yeah
Little kid on crutches
I guess because Britain itself
is the underdog
in a way that did really well
and that's it
the success of the British
nation and empire has
given people
a sort of rose tinted perspective
of what it means to be the underdog
of what it means to be a small
fish in a big pond as opposed to teaching them what happens when the underdog. Of what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.
As opposed to teaching them what happens when the underdog becomes the overdog.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It's just another empire.
It's just another empire.
It's just another something.
Yeah.
Well, we've cracked it.
We've cracked it, everyone.
We've cracked a lot today. We've cracked the self-driving car's sinister plot.
Sinister plot?
To teach it the highway code.
And we've uncovered the real reasoning behind the British Empire
and the British obsession with
being working class.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And,
and also,
uh,
well,
I mean,
this,
this,
this is,
you know,
as far as we know,
a middle-class Slytherin podcast.
That's anti-murder.
The anti-murder,
the only,
oh,
and still,
and I can't believe I'm saying this, it's still the only outspokenly anti-murder the only oh and still and I can't believe
I'm saying this
still the only
outspokenly
anti-murder podcast
it's 2021
if I was on
question time
I'd be saying
it's disgusting
it's disgusting
actually
are you anti-murder
yes or no
yes or no that Lemmy sketch is so funny iturder, yes or no? Yes or no?
That Lemmy sketch is so funny.
It's so funny.
Yes or no?
It's more complicated than that.
Yes?
Yes or no?
Yes or no?
It's a simple question, yes or no?
Well, is it ever right to kill anyone, yes or no?
Well, I mean, it's really funny.
Well, you know, we stand alone leading the anti-murder charge,
but hopefully people will come around, Phil.
It's about education.
It's about teaching people that murdering can be bad.
It really is.
Oh, also, doing a half-assed Scottish accent has just reminded me,
to any Scottish listeners, I have added
two dates of my current tour
in Scotland.
This month! I'm in Glasgow
on the 25th at the Glasgow Pavilion
and at the Edinburgh King's
Theatre on the 26th.
So please, if you're in Glasgow,
Edinburgh, or there in Vyrons,
please come on the 25th and 26th of
September.
Please do. And I would like to say a big thank you to all the pod buds who came to the special
recordings that me and Garrett Millerick did.
Ah, yes. How was that?
It looked good from the snippets.
Really good, man.
It was really fun.
I saw a snippet of something you said,
which I've not heard you say before, about
the KFC Mighty Bucket for One.
Yeah, man.
What do you say about it?
It's a whole bit, but basically
the Colonel's genius
for marketing is in his phrasing.
Well, it's just like
the first sentence of it. Mighty Bucket for One.
Which is a horrible phrase.
Which of course is a revolting phrase.
It's just really got me
As is a boneless banquet
Horrible floppy banquet
Disgusting
Yeah so
I think we've spoken about it before
About like a boneless banquet
It sounds like an insult
That it's an uninteresting banquet
This is a rather boneless banquet
It's a banquet of cowards or something.
Truly your feast, my liege, would be a boneless banquet without me.
But all the Podbuds who came were absolute gems.
And after the gig, especially on the Friday, I met some lovely boys.
Good boys.
Fine chapsaps good shouting out
bit of kojis here and there from people which is very welcome
of course
pod buds are exclusively fine people I find
we've got a good crowd
I think it's comedy people
it's comedy people who aren't
bored by the occasional
rant about politics
or class structure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They enjoy the formless goop that we serve.
Which is, I think, another meal at KFC.
Boneless goop.
The Colonel's formless goop.
The Colonel's southern fried formless goop.
And for a limited time only, piri-piri Formless Goop. And for a limited time only,
Piri Piri Formless Goop.
Grilled Formless Goop for the health conscious.
Try Formless Goop in a wrap.
Well, it's been a lovely holiday, Pod I'm going to go try and find
an authentic local pasty
Oh, lovely
Go clot some cream
Are you guys going to
get some seafood?
The seafood in Cornwall is
I've had a lot of seafood around the world
I think maybe the best seafood in the world i think maybe the best
seafood in the world i mean the best lobster i've ever had in the world is that was that is quite
something we're i'm me and uh me and uh well yeah there's some seafood plans yeah for uh two days
from now for shellfish you can't do much better than uk s i think oysters crab and lobster swell
swell swell swell swell high praise high praise I'm gonna try
and expand my seafood palette
I've got a limited seafood palette
I'm gonna try and expand it
yes you should grill some lobster
baby grill some
I think I just
don't have the experience
I think it's just the same but quicker
oh maybe
god yeah maybe fuck well we'll see we'll see we'll see but I think it's just the same, but quicker. Oh, maybe. God, yeah, maybe. Fuck.
Well, we'll see.
We'll see, we'll see.
But, um...
And we'll see you on tour.
Find the tour dates, everyone.
Go see Wayne.
Yes, come to my tour now.
Especially in Scotland.
Because, um...
Well, go to my website.
The dates are on there.
But in Scotland, it's the 25th and 26th of this month.
September.
And the book's filled?
The book?
Oh, the book is out next week, next Thursday.
Next week, baby.
Side splitter.
Please pre-order it.
All right.
Right.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners.
Thanks, guys.
Bye-bye.
Bye.