BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie - Episode 20 - Duodecapod!
Episode Date: July 10, 2019The big TWO-OH! Phil Wang and Pierre Novellie talk about blue witches, electric witches, selfies, Glastonbury crystal nonsense, old Chinese, an African man, seeing George Galloway in a diner and Nigel... Farage taking a call, being the main character in the movie of life, the cosy vibes of Folk-Gothic and Hygge, disguising the fact that you're at work, bum bum wife, soup flushing, slow pooer relatives, Norman weaponry, and Phil's public jacking it confrontation! Plus plenty of correspondence! Get in touch: thebudpod@gmail.com and @TheBudPod on Twitter! Get bonus BudPod on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to BudPod 20!
20! 2-0 the Deca- the Deca- the Deca- the Deca-pod.
The Duo- the Duo- the Duo-Deca-pod.
The Duo-Deca-pod.
The Duo-Deca-pod.
Which is a Pokemon.
Yes.
Statistically, by now.
Yeah, it's just two number 10s with legs.
Yeah.
And numbers look like weapons.
Yes, numbers look like weapons
How you doing, Phil?
I'm okay, I'm good
I got back from Bristol today
Oh, yes
I was in Bristol over the weekend
To do the Bristol Comedy Gardens
Was that good?
It was great!
Really, really great gig
And then I did a preview of my Edinburgh show
At the Wardrobe Theatre last night
Also in Bristol
Thank you to all who came
The Wardrobe
That's a nice one isn't it
It's a beautiful room
And for those of you who want to buy tickets
To Phil's Edinburgh show
Too bad cunts
It's sold out
Fuck off
You fuck off
Don't even
You dare try to
Yeah tickets have
Incredibly
Sold out for my entire fringe run
This has not happened to me before so thank you if you book tickets
There may be some more tickets
Becoming available at some point in the future
I couldn't possibly say at this venture
But just keep your eyes peeled on
My various social media outlets
Mainly Twitter
Yeah keep your eyes peeled for extra various social media outlets, mainly Twitter. Yeah, keep your eyes peeled for extra Phil tickets.
And if you are a Bud Pod fan,
there are, needless to say, as far as I'm aware,
a trillion tickets available for my show.
So do come see me as well.
Oh, yeah.
For the love of God.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or Phil might go mad with power.
I might go mad with power and take over the podcast
but of course it's Pierre who makes
the podcast work and I don't know
how to make it work so the podcast will end
so if you don't want that to happen
yeah
it'll be like that thing where the barbarians took over Rome
and then it all just fell to bits
because they were like
wow all this fruit and silver and meat and palaces, these are great.
And it's like, well, you know, you need to really maintain it.
Never mind.
What are you talking about?
You know we're called barbarians, right? with a bear for clothes, a skin of a bear for clothes, a big hat with horns,
and a giant axe,
and evil biker boots?
Do I look like a man who's willing to try and institute
a Western Europe and North Africa-wide progressive taxation system
to be slowly maintained and expanded over hundreds of years?
Because I'm not gonna.
I'm gonna chop everyone's heads off for looking at me wrong and
have a thousand wives here in the ruins of whatever temple this was for before they must
have shat themselves when they saw this isn't this is boring and nerdy perhaps but like in
in my studies there was anglo-saxon poem poem where an Anglo-Saxon guy was walking around Bath.
The city of Bath in this country.
And looking at all the Roman ruins.
And because they didn't know what concrete was, these buildings were just beyond his comprehension at the time.
And he thought that giants built them before the flood of Noah's Ark.
Right.
That was his theory.
It's always giants with these people.
They love to blame things on giants.
Leave the giants alone. There's a member
of the giant community.
I'm three inches short of being a giant.
Six foot eight, is it?
I thought it was six seven. Maybe this might be six seven.
But if I was a little taller.
If I was a little bit taller
I would be a giant.
It doesn't really scan as well. And I'd be medically entitled
to assistance.
What assistance would you need If you're very tall
I remember at university if you qualified as a giant
If you were 6 foot 7 or above you got a special bed
Yeah that makes sense
Even without my special bed
My feet still hung over the edge
Like I'd broken into a gnome's house
You're in the worst of all worlds
We have the inconveniences of being a giant,
but you don't quite qualify for the sweet, sweet perks.
The sweet, sweet G perks.
Your own beanstalk.
Goose that lays a golden egg.
Yes.
The basic giant pension package.
Exactly.
I can't get fee, fi, or fum.
I'd sell it for fee at this point
Hell I'll take fum
But yes
Do buy tickets for my Edinburgh show
It's on at 7.15 in the Pleasant Courtyard
I assume at this point my whole run
Has sold minus 10 tickets
They've added 10 chairs to punish me
For not selling any tickets
But who knows
Maybe every night we'll be rammed with pod buds.
Yes.
And it'll just be an evening of needless catchphrase-ery.
That would be ideal.
Yeah.
I got a sneaky catchphrase recently.
I tweeted it.
Yes.
I just sat in a pub and...
An incident took place.
A man with long hair quietly walked over
and handed me a piece of paper
and walked away to the bar.
Yeah.
And, I mean, I was terrified.
I didn't know what...
Yeah, that is something out of a...
Well, it's something out of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
I think it's more...
Find the emerald.
I thought it was more something out of a fucking house of cards.
I was like, oh, fuck, what have they found out?
What do they know?
So, if anything, to keep jacking it was actually a welcome relief.
They know I've stopped jacking it, oh no.
Yeah, you thought you'd open it and they'd go,
we know you have the antidote or something.
What would be the scariest appearance for someone doing that?
To have?
Yeah, so you're in the corner of a bar and in a table or whatever and someone comes and leaves a note and walks away their look i'm gonna say
okay um because it's different if it's well maybe it's not so different if it's a man or a woman
but if it's a woman the scariest would be either bag lady
okay or like have you come from the opera or very very um evening gown yeah so either one of those
extremes yeah and like the bag lady comes and drops the note and like runs back outside and
she disappears into the urban chaos. What? No!
And the evening gown lady comes in and drops the note and goes into a limo, a big anonymous limo, drives away.
Both of those, absolutely terrifying.
What if it was a crazy bag lady who handed you the note
and then got into a huge limo?
I'd just pee my pants.
I've never been more afraid in my life.
Just piss all over the pub.
Did you see? Did you see?
That would be terrifying
Whereas a lady comes in
Just in a fleece and jeans
Drops it off
And then cycles away
There's a raffle
There's a raffle
She's letting you know
Where her weekend fruit stand is
Yes
She can't
The hand-drawn fly is to be quirky
Yeah, yeah, yeah
There's cupcakes involved
There's a sale on cupcakes.
Yeah.
I think for me the scariest appearance would be me but older.
Ooh.
Yeah, that's good.
Like, just for a second I go, was that me?
Me but, like, greying and wrinkly.
All wrinkled up.
That I'd be scared to...
I was handed a strange note in Australia.
Were you? I was handed a strange note in Australia Were you?
I was outside taking a call
And
A young lady about mid to late 20s
Started
She was holding this broom
A broom?
A broom
And I thought she was like
Sweeping outside, I thought she worked for the cafe
And then she just kept catching my eye.
And I saw her eye and tried to continue my phone conversation.
And then while I was on the phone, she walked over and handed me a note.
Yeah.
And I said, with my eyes, okay, thank you.
And then I finished the call and I opened the note and it said i am
the blue witch you've you have caught my eye i would like to talk to you um if you have a moment
please come over to where i'm sat in the cafe and then there's a drawing of her riding the plastic
broomstick oh my god and what yeah I am the blue witch.
It was either blue witch or white witch or some witch.
Like electric witch or something.
Electric witch?
Something like this.
I'm the gas witch.
And the gas switch.
And the light switch.
And so intrigued I walked over.
Quite right, yeah.
And she...
This is very side quest-y too.
It was extremely side quest-y.
I thought I was about to be given something to do for some jewels.
And I went over and I said, so, hi.
And she said, oh, thank you for coming to say hi.
She was Russian.
Sure.
This is all lining up.
Baba Yaga. And I said, because i was there for the melbourne comedy festival i said oh is this like a character is this an act and she went act
and i said yeah are you doing a show or is this like a street performance thing and she said
and she just went i'm the blue witch oh wow i'm a witch. Okay. Old? Young? Young. About our age.
Yeah, yeah.
And she said, and I was like, really interesting to get, I'm a witch.
And then she said she'd seen a couple of my YouTube videos and could we have a selfie?
That is so shit.
Hey, she's a modern witch.
That's a modern... She's a modern witch.
She's an electric witch.
She's a member of the occult, not Amish.
You're big in the witch community.
Yeah.
The witch demographics you're nailing.
Yeah, and you know what?
I'm proud.
I'm proud to be part of that demographic.
You've got to start selling Phil Wang-branded Wiccan twig sculptures or whatever the fuck.
Yeah, or black cats.
Oh, dude, I didn't tell you.
At Glastonbury.
So there are some real hippies at Glastonbury.
They're the real deal, yeah.
Yeah, and they've been there since the beginning, really.
And they have marked off their own sort of teepee village.
Well, apparently if you're there from early enough,
you get given lifetime entrance.
Yeah, pretty much.
To preserve the native character of the place.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So they have prime real estate, really.
They have these big old teepees.
And I went with my friend who is a little more engaged with that kind of thing than I am.
And we walked past a teepee that had next to it a big painted picture of an old Chinese lady.
big painted picture of an old chinese lady and she was like wearing like a chinese um shirt with all the gilded patterns and she was doing like a praying hands thing and smiling and it's like a
hand-painted sign outside this teepee and it said under her chong fu and i walked past my friend
and i said um well I bet there is absolutely
No one Chinese in there whatsoever
Oh yes
And my friend said you don't know that
And I was like we haven't seen a single Chinese person at this festival
What are the odds that there's one in here
In here in part of the
The original Glastonbury
Hippies the Druids
And she's like you don't know There could And she's like, you don't know.
There could be a Chinese person there.
You don't know.
We should have a look.
And I said, there's no point in us having a look.
I know there's no one Chinese in there.
And she said, I bet there is.
And I said, okay, I bet there is.
I bet there is not a single Chinese person in there.
And she said, fine, I bet there is a Chinese person there.
And if I win, you have to engage in whatever thing they have going on.
And then if you're right, I have to engage in whatever thing they have going on and then if you're right
I have to engage in whatever thing they have going on
and I was like fine
so we walk in and we peer inside
the teepee hole and I've never
won a bet so hard in my life
there was one chubby ginger guy
and his name was
Chong Fu and his sister
was lying down covered in rocks.
Covered in rocks?
Covered in healing stones.
And we were like, are you Chung Fu?
To the ginger guy.
And he said, no, no.
My mother channels the spirit.
So if you come in tomorrow at 10.30am, my mother will be here.
And she channels an ancient spirit
and the ancient spirit is called
Cheng Fu
and we were like, so is Cheng Fu Chinese?
and he said, no
like it was a weird question to even ask
really?
but this picture, we'll tell that Cheng Fu is a man
not a woman
so this whole thing is
and I'm looking at this picture
I've never seen a more Chinese person in a picture.
Yeah.
And he was like, no,
Chung Fu has taken on many forms.
Right.
The last form was a Chinese person
and his nickname for a while was Old Chinese.
Old Chinese.
That was this being, this spirit's nickname for a while
was Old Chinese.
His nickname?
What were the other spirits down at the spirit club?
What?
It's basically, this guy's like, he's Prince, right?
He just changes his name from time to time.
Sure.
But he's really stuck with a Chinese theme.
More Bao.
He's Bao-y.
This spirit's a Bow-y.
He has these monikers that he changes from time to time. But there's a strong theme.
He's gone, you know what?
Of all the millions of human forms I've taken and spirit forms,
for some reason, the Chinese are my favorite.
For one point.
So he was like the advisor to the last Chinese emperor for a while.
Right.
Which one did they say was the last one?
I can't remember.
The illegal Japanese Manchurian one that was imposed.
Because that would be quite controversial.
Ah, 1946.
It got deposed and whatever the hell it was.
I can't even remember.
Okay, but either way.
I think he said Dowager at one point.
Sure, he said through the word Dowager in there.
Why not?
Blind them with science.
And then he brought out his bag of crystals.
And started showing us these crystals.
He's like, I don't make very much from these.
Isn't this one beautiful? This one cost me
70 pounds. It's like
the ugliest amalgamation of crystals I've ever
seen, held together by some horrible black resin.
And he gave me some
stones to hold, and I was like, can you feel the
magnetic force between these stones?
And I'm already thinking, no, because they're stones.
They're not metal. They need a lot of metal in them for there to be any magnetic force between these stones. And I'm already thinking, no, because they're stones. They're not metal.
They need a lot of metal in them for there to be
any magnetic force.
And I hold them in my hands
and they're like...
My friend is trying to get into this as well.
She's like, don't you feel they're repelling
each other? And I just was like,
I can feel a bunch of stones
in my hand.
Yeah.
Crystals! Crystals, crystals, crystals!
That's right, it's me, Chongfu.
But you might know me as Old Chinese.
Well, those days of helping the Dowager Chinese Emperor
are way behind me now.
But what I did keep are all my beautiful crystals.
A fucking fuckton of crystals.
Every crystal you could want.
I got purple crystals.
I got clear crystals.
I got heavy ones.
And boy, do I have them expensive.
Buy.
Buy your crystals.
Help your soul.
Help your heart.
Help your love life.
Do they work?
Do they?
Do they? Do they work? Do they? Do they? Do they work? Do they? Maybe.
Chung Fu. Come to Chung Fu's Crystal Warehouse. Then come through the gate and I'm the third
crystal warehouse on the right. There are two others but that's shit don't go to those crystal warehouses come to mind chung fu crystals where crystals go to
be bought by my crystals the best crystals and southern english air i
don't know where this place is i was put in a dark van and i woke up here they
won't tell me where i am, so sorry about the vague directions.
But they won't let me go until you've bought enough crystals from me.
Chung Fu.
Crystals!
Crystals!
At one point he was talking about how he buys all this.
He was so self-satisfied.
He bought all these crystals from Malawi.
Right.
He said in his own words,
an African man
gets on a rope
and picks these stones out of a cave.
An African man.
An African man? He buys them direct from
an African man, who I presume he's never
learned the name of.
Did he say he goes out to Malawi
to do this? No, no, he imports
these stones straight from Malawi, where an
African man... As far as he's aware,
an African man... An African man
rappels down a rope into
a cave. Mission impossible.
And chips away at little bits
of amethyst. Yeah, okay.
And then he said, which made
me want to leave straight away,
yeah, his
kids go to school because
I buy these, basically. Wow.
And I wanted to... Wow.
I wanted to kick him
in the chung fu.
I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe he'd said that. That's incredible.
His kids go to school
because I buy these. Wow. I'm sure someone's kids go to school because he buys those. I couldn't believe he'd said that. That's incredible. His kids go to school because I buy these. Wow.
I'm sure someone's kids go to school because he
buys those. I don't know
if it's an African man's.
So another way
he goes, and the
rocks are handed over by
a semi-legal militia
and the head of the militia's
children go to school because of me
fucking hell
I could not I was just furious
and
when I get that angry I don't really
speak so I just sat there like
and he's just like
this is not really your kind of thing
and I was like no it's not really my kind of thing
patronising
racially charged.
Patronizing garbage.
Who painted the incredibly Chinese woman painting?
That's all I want to know.
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
But then I thought, isn't it revealing that the people who claim to have found enlightenment
are living lives you would never want, sitting in a teepee with your top off
patronizing africans yes that um what enlightenment has has brought you to this
point that's no and why should i want this that's nirvana phil that guy doesn't have to ever be
reincarnated again the true meaning of this plane of existence is shirtlessness, yes.
Shirtlessness and buying fake crystals from an African man.
From an African man.
Wouldn't it be really funny if it turned out that Nirvana was just scamming people?
And then secretly he'd admit it, like, I love scams, baby.
I've got so many scams.
Chung Fu was my mum's scam
and I'm scamming too
because she taught me.
I think it'd be
really interesting
if it turned out
enlightenment was that
you should just
scam wherever you can
before you die.
Get rich or die trying.
Imagine if that wasn't
ever...
Get rich or die trying.
That was Buddha's message the whole time. It's like, why aren't people gaining this? Get rich or Die Trying. Imagine if that wasn't a... Get Rich or Die Trying. That was Buddha's message
the whole time. He's like, why aren't people
gaining this? Get Rich or Die Trying!
No, don't get rid of your material
possessions. Get more...
Dammit, they've donated things again.
What's the title for when someone
becomes a Buddha?
Isn't there like a way of referring to them?
It's like...
The process of... But it's like once they've done it you call them like
oh it's like when someone's a knight they're sir so and so oh i don't know i don't know that but
with 50 cents name figure it out yourself listeners yeah um that's astonishing that's
amazing maybe this would be quite a funny sitcom if that ginger guy was just like
my mom was a racist scam artist and I hate this but I really love having
that prime real estate. Yeah.
And I can only go to Glastonbury for free
and have an amazing location every
year if I go along with this
load of fucking shit.
And the shame
on his face as he puts up the Chinese
lady poster
and like the guy who started
Glastonbury is really old.
He's like, promise me.
Promise me you'll keep doing Chung Fu.
I always loved Chung Fu.
Sure, sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's written into the contract.
You've always got to do Chung Fu.
Fuck you, Mel.
Or else, I mean, he points to someone with like even more crystals in a basket.
Yeah.
Just eyeing up the spot.
And theirs are actually actually glowing and stuff.
Somehow real.
Which African man did you buy those from?
How African was he?
You've never seen a man this African.
He wouldn't stop jumping the whole time
I was talking to him.
Jumping, dancing, singing,
clicking, big smile.
Oh yeah, just robes, no technology
No mobile phone for some reason
These are the real deal
Let's just say his kids are going to school
Because of me
Let's just say his kids could afford to go to
Three schools if they wanted to
Not to boast or anything
That's amazing
Extraordinary right
It's worth going to Glastonbury just to try and find that guy now.
Oof.
An African man.
Look, I don't want to start a pile on.
Yeah.
Guys, leave this guy alone.
His life is his punishment.
Is that too harsh?
Is that too nasty a thing to say?
No, because I think that
instead of getting angry with people in public.
Yeah. Do you use that as a way of defusing your own temper yeah it's how i feel about like uh
steampunks yeah i was like yeah well they have to be steampunks oh my god how have you been what
have you been up to um i went back uh to the isle of man the island The island Return to the island The island is calling
I'll put some photos on my Instagram
I went back there with my special lady friend
Has she been to the isle yet?
No
This was her first visit to the isle
I've still not been to the isle
You should come to the isle
I should come to the isle
Let me know next time you go
See the steam train
We went on the summertime steam train
I got that summertime
Summertime steam train
Summertime
Choo choo yeah team
You don't know that song?
I do now
And it was all very idyllic
And sort of vaguely quaint
As it is in summer
In winter it's very like
Three men that was lost
At that stormy night at sea like it's all
misty and i imagine every night of winter on the isle of man is the kind of night uh where an old
lady knocks on your door and if you don't let her in it turns out she's a witch and she curses you
and she wants a selfie it turns out i was the blue witch blue from cold that you subjected me to.
Now you'll never have a selfie ever again.
Because I've taken your thumbs.
There'll be no selfies.
Yes, very much so.
Very much foggy, rainy, howling gales.
The only appropriate source of light feels like a lantern swinging from a handle.
Yes. With a guttering from a handle. Yes.
With a guttering candle in it.
Yes.
Real Headless Horseman feels.
Yes.
Headless Horseman vibes.
Yeah.
I wish there was a word that encompassed that vibe.
Maybe there's a word for gothic.
Gothic, yeah.
But gothic, but that kind of thing where it makes you...
When it's winter and it's really cold and you watch something like The Headless Horseman on TV.
Country gothic?
Folk horror.
Folk horror is good.
Folk horror, sure.
We've done it, guys. It was folk horror.
Everyone put down your pens.
It was folk horror.
But it makes you feel cosy.
Yes, it does.
You sort of go to a fireplace and a,
Welcome, a mug of ale for our new friend.
You know, that whole kind of thing.
And you go, oh, I want a big cloak and stuff.
And a dog.
A big black dog by a roaring fire.
That's the most comforting sound to me,
is a blizzard being closed out by a door.
That's my favourite sound in the world And then the big
Wooden plank going down
Yes
The slightly
The
Sainsbury's Basics version of that
Which is still great
It's raining outside
And you're inside and you don't have to leave the house
That is sweet, I live for that i live for that you don't have to leave the house
and there's something really diverting book movie yes video game or just some shit is this that
shit uh that's but not so heavy they won't deliver food to you. Yes. That's an important caveat. Yes, that's very good.
Yeah.
Is this that, what's it called?
The Danish thing.
Ah, they have like a special...
Hygge.
I don't know if hygge requires that it's horrible outside.
No, and also apparently the concept of hygge has been sort of bent into almost unrecognizability
by people's attempts to use it to sell, I don't know, big mugs that you hold with both hands.
Yes.
Sports Direct.
Lovely.
Champions of hooker since.
Lovely, cosy Sports Direct.
Put on your capper shell suit
and have a big
mug of coke
and Sports Direct
spouts his
autumn
oh god what a surprise to see even the most foolhardy traveller abroad in a night like this.
Come, come, sit. Sit by the fire.
Pay Faustus no mind. He's an old dog by now, but in his youth, my, my, quite the carrier and fetcher.
Yes, yes, yes. Allow me to pour you a tankard of mulled wine, traveller,
and regale me with the tale of how you came to be about in nature at such a...
Oh, there's another person at the... One moment.
Oh, oh, come in. Ah, let me shut the... One moment. Oh!
Oh, come in! Ah, let me
shut the door behind you.
Take a seat by the
roaring fire over there.
Ah, what a... What a night
to be abroad in for two, even two...
Do you know each other? Is that...
Are you slightly behind him?
No? Well, what a coincidence.
Please, sit by the, don't mind him. He's, the dog is old. Anyway, you must, both of you must tell me
how you came to be here on a night like this while I pour you a glass of warming. Oh, well,
busy, busy is this tavern of mine tonight. Quite the turn up for the books, financially speaking, I suppose.
Let me just...
Oh, hello! Welcome to the...
It's very cold outside, so I wasn't expecting...
Yes, no, come in, please.
Yes, I'll just shut...
Don't worry, I'll shut the door.
I'm trying to heat the world.
Fun. Logs. Yes, I'll just shut... Don't worry, I'll shut the door. I don't think to heat the world. Fine.
Logs.
Anyway, um, there's...
Well, now there's no more space by the fire and the dog,
so I guess you'll sit...
Well, there's a whole tavern to sit by on the ta...
Yeah, no.
No, we stopped serving food at ten, so...
No, I'm sorry.
No, I don't...
Really?
You think...
Okay, well, if you want to go and see in a different tavern,
I mean, the next one is 15 miles away in the, through the Blackwood, but no, no, I'm not,
I'm not, please don't leave a bad review on TripAdvisor. I'm just saying, it's fine. No,
I'll open the door again. There we go. People, am I right? It's not atmospheric if there's too many it's an experience i'm trying to sell
here there used to be a lot more um uh your friend and mine ali he's now the king of poems
he's a poet now yes Allie Lewis is a published poet
And a very talented and handsome man
Handsome guy
Anyway so I was discussing with him the other day
Just after
We all saw him actually
You were there too briefly
Yes we ate at the diner
We went to the diner and George Galloway came in
George Galloway came into the diner in Camden
George Galloway And he was Galloway came into the diner in Camden George Galloway
And he was wearing a hat
A stupid fucking hat
His little
The CIA probably have a file on me
Hat
The hat he wasn't wearing when he deep throated
Saddam Hussein over and over again
I wouldn't be surprised if you lifted that hat
The inside was covered in tinfoil
That's what the tinfoil companies Want you to buy The inside of his thing would just was covered in tinfoil. That's what the tinfoil companies want you to buy.
The inside of his thing would just be covered in grease-proof paper.
Like for baking.
Tinfoil's a misdirection, Phil.
It's a false flag.
It's a false flag tinfoil operation.
Yes, he came into the diner.
He wiped Saddam Hussein's semen from his mouth.
And he sat at a
big table full of it. And he had a booking!
He had a reservation at the
diner, which is the most disturbing thing about him.
Who books
the diner? Yeah, he came in and went
October for Galloway!
It's like, yeah, we know who you are, man.
Jesus Christ.
Anyway, that's the kind of incredible lives
we lead, everyone.
Me and Phil and another comedian called Johnny
and a poet called Ali having burgers near George Galloway.
It's one of those...
London town.
It's one of those occasions that feed the unhealthy suspicion
that we all have that our life is the main story.
Yes.
Of the world.
We're in the Matrix we're we're in the
matrix and we're we're like we're one of the possibly 12 real awake people and you go oh of
course george galloway walked into the diner i'm the main character of life yeah i didn't talk to
him or do anything yeah but i saw him with my eyes and for me that's enough yeah um well anyway at some point during that day
but i'd love to if any listeners want to send in their um own political or otherwise famous
people encounters that have made you feel like at the center of uh life story do let us know
you and i uh were sat near nigel farage yes yes He was taking a phone call Kings Cross
We were having a sweet cup of joe
This was pre-Brexit
So we could have stopped it
God we could have pushed him into the road
He was walking around
Allegedly
We could have allegedly pushed him into the road
He was walking around We were sat somewhere Pressed him to the road He was walking around
We were sat somewhere
In King's Cross
Near the station
Outside
And he was walking around
Taking a phone call
And we both commented
That he looked
Like 15 years younger
In person
Yes
And sort of
Less silly really
Because he wasn't on
No he wasn't
He was quite a serious
Looking
Frowny old dude In quite a rich guy suit,
taking what appeared to be a very serious phone call.
So it wasn't, like, fun.
And I remember thinking he was so benign.
I wasn't like, oh, it's Nigel Farage!
I was like, huh, it's Nigel Farage, that ridiculous troll.
Yeah.
How silly and sad.
Yeah.
Well, clearly not.
Clearly not.
More fool me.
He was on the phone
to fate.
Taking the call.
Yeah.
Eerie.
Hello?
Is that Destiny?
It's Nigel.
I will accept the charge.
God.
Weird little frog man.
Nigel Farage is slightly younger than Brad Pitt.
Isn't that awful?
Isn't that awful?
What a life of hate will do to your face.
Also, very ironic that a man who hates France so much should look such like a frog.
And have such a French name.
And such a French name.
Maybe that's where...
Where is Farage from
is it like one of these
old English French names
probably
all English names
that are quite French
are either Norman
in which case
they're very fancy generally
or Huguenot
I met someone
with a surname
Devereaux
ooh
from the
just from the north though
she's got no French ancestry
that she's really aware of, but
there are these northern Devereaux.
She might be a Norman, then.
Maybe Devereaux is a Norman thing.
She did jab me with a spear,
but that doesn't
narrow it down. They're all the rage,
aren't they?
You'll know this. What armour or weaponry
was specific to the normans the normans
uh she she could either uniquely have deployed a kite-shaped shield okay to guard her like a
diamond shape uh sort of like a teardrop oh nice those are cool to guard your leg on horseback uh
so she could have uniquely deployed that or uniquely deployed mass groups of archers firing simultaneously.
That one. She did that one.
Yeah, that was the one. Sounds pretty Norman.
And castles, of course.
Begin to hurt.
The original Normcore.
Chainmen. Castles.
Teardrop-shaped shield.
Oh, very Normcore.
It was really a massed archers,
Normcore bullshit.
There's all sorts of Norman names. Oh, very normcore. It was really, you know, Master Archer's normcore bullshit, yeah?
There's all sorts of Norman names,
like De Montfort and Beaumont and all this kind of stuff.
Ah, yes.
Any name that could be the surname
of a villain in a Victorian novel
is often Norman.
Except Norman.
Which is the most benign name you could imagine.
No one's ever had a naughty Norman
So the thing I was talking about with Ali
The king of poems
That there's no longer any manly poem people
Right
Because there used to be a thing where it was like Hemingway
And Kerouac
All these guys who were like
I lift weights and smoke cigars
And I've just hunted a great white.
Time to write a poem about it.
And everyone was like, that's all consistent with itself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whereas now you wouldn't get that so much.
No.
Well, I don't imagine modern poetry attracts many alpha males.
Not anymore, no.
Maybe that's like they've lost their role models.
It's about representation, Phil.
Yeah, Ladbible is not posting any hot new stanzas.
Any lad sonnets.
Any lad stanzas.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I went to the HQ of Vice the other day.
Ooh.
To do a sort of audition.
An audition?
Yeah, for something
Or a screen test for something
I don't know if I'm allowed to say
I don't know if I'm even allowed to say this
But the point is, I went into
It's very corporate
Vice? I imagine so
Yeah, it's all glass and security barriers
And stuff
I wanted to turn up and it was just like that
Chong Fu tent
That's what I wanted
I wanted rebel smoking big bifters
Did the office have either
A big slide
Bean bags
A football table
Or an all you can eat sweets dispenser
It had
An unbelievable
In size
Bike rack thing Okay Everyone who works there seems to in size bike rack thing.
Okay.
Everyone who works there seems to be a bike person.
Mm-hmm.
It had a cashless coffee shop.
Okay.
Right up at the entrance.
So just cut.
Like in a big wooden hut.
Okay.
And it had sort of pretty like
modern like
fort pod style meeting room.
Sure, sure, sure. But I didn't see enough into the guts
of the building to see if maybe they had some kind of
you know, Sherbert
fire pole you could slide down.
Well usually that shit's like further
towards the outside. They try and make that stuff visible
and then as you get deeper into the organisation
the really boring shit starts to happen, right?
It's really weird
that people work so hard
to just try and disguise
the idea that they're at work.
Yeah.
And you go,
wow, there's an all-you-can-eat
shrimp buffet
that's 24-7
and there's,
wow, there's a room
where they just play,
they just have
Dwayne the Rock Johnson
and you can just go in
and talk to him
whenever you want.
He's on retainer.
He's bored. Wow, he's bored in there. He's on retainer. He's bored.
He's bored in there. He's on his phone.
He's desperate for your company.
You can excite the Rock.
And
then at the end of the day you go, yeah, but you still
have to write billions of lines of
code, don't you? And they go, oh yeah.
You're like, well, then it's
still work, isn't it? You haven't tricked me.
You haven't made me go, wait a minute, I've been learning this whole time.
My sister used to work for a big law firm.
Oh, yeah.
Megacorp.
Megalaw.
Megalaw.
Megalore.
Megalore.
And their office building was completely full of every convenience you could imagine or want.
On the surface, it's because they care about you.
But it's really so that you never have to leave the office.
Yeah.
There was a train station.
There was a train ticket vending machine in the building.
Oh, my God.
So you could buy your tickets there. There was a train ticket vending machine in the building. Oh my God. So you can buy your tickets there.
There was a daycare center.
There was a gift shop for your upset wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend.
Oh my God, that is sinister.
Because of the birthday you've just missed or whatever.
Jesus.
Or whatever last minute present you need to buy.
There's a laundromat.
Everything you could possibly need just so you don't fucking leave the building.
That is horrifying.
Also, it's like the amount of money all that costs.
You go, just give everyone more money.
Do you know what I mean?
Well, I'm sure they've costed it to find that.
Oh, it saves them money.
Yeah.
They wouldn't do it if it cost them more money.
They're just paying everyone
and going
fuck off
we pay you a lot
it's like that tweet
where someone's like
the company's like
we care about our
employees mental health
and the employee's like
can we have a
therapist to help
deal with it
pizza party
and you go like
oh right
a five dollar pizza
times twenty
is a lot cheaper
than having a
you know
a dedicated profession
proper mental health
Facilities
Letters, emails, phone calls
Toilets, your sister
Keep a straight eye
Letters
Correspondence
Time for some goddamn correspondence
Everyone
No more updates from Natalie yet
Natalie is if you heard
last week if you didn't hear last week natalie um did a job interview and when asked to tell a story
told my uh i fucked a dog story and so um she got on to the next round of interviews and i am on the
edge of my seat as to how that has progressed so natalie please uh do update us yes please get in touch uh so uh poppy gets in touch popamundo
uh hello pnp aka the pod butts pod butts yeah that works yeah we have butts for now um and then
she says firstly i want to thank you for your brilliant podcast
and she says
a bunch of nice stuff
and all of it is true
there's no need for us
to sucker index
live on it
we'll read it out
once we finish recording
and sucker index
while we do that
but thank you very much
for those very kind words
hard to keep your eye
on the thing as well
when you do that
yes it is
she says lots of nice things
and then says
I've now forced
most of my friends and family
to sample your comedic wares
So that's good
That's good
Most?
Who's left?
Proselytizing
Yes
That's what we want
To mixed reception
Of course
But those friends have
Since been suitably rebuffed
Or told to fuck off
Yes indeed
I was thinking about
The stupid
Together we joy
Style advertising phrases
After listening to one
Of your early episodes
And it reminded me of a phrase
That I've noticed
Popping up more frequently Sit back relax and let us do the rest in itself it's
a fairly pathetic if innocuous phrase but one that i have noticed increasingly being used when
companies are doing literally the bare minimum required of their services in an attempt to fool
customers into feeling looked after that's a very good good point. It's a good point, yeah, because it's... We'll drive the train, don't you worry.
And it's a lot.
It promises so much less than sit back, relax, and enjoy.
Yeah.
Let us do the rest.
Yeah.
Of murdering you.
It could be.
Yes, let us do the rest of undercooking this fish.
For example, I was at a pub that served food.
I'm reluctant to call it a restaurant.
Last weekend. Where this phrase was written
in enormous letters above the bar
where you had to order your food and drink
I know this is fairly common practice now instead of waiting
staff coming to your table but this place took the
fucking biscuit following your inevitable
marathon journey to the bar to order and then returning
to check your table number you then had to go to the other
side of the restaurant to pick up your cutlery
condiments, napkins, glasses
and your plates.
The plates didn't even bring you the food on a plate.
The food was served in sort of takeaway boxes for you to decant yourself.
What?
And they had the audacity to urge me to let them do the rest.
Which presumably involved pressing start on a microwave
and going back to ignoring the customers and wanking in pint glasses.
Sit back,
relax,
get up,
go to...
Cook the food.
Get some forks and knives,
pick up your food,
put your food onto the plate,
and let us do the rest.
What a waste of cardboard
for the containers.
Horrible.
It'd be styrofoam as well.
Complete,
absolute,
poisonous garbage.
I saw it again
in an email
from an airline recently
Where letting them do the rest essentially amounted to
Letting the pilot fly the plane to the correct destination
As advertised on the ticket
Although of course a tricky thing to do
If you're a pilot whose car has been stolen by a man with Alzheimer's
And you can't get to the airport
He is a pilot!
How is he supposed to do the rest now?
No!
I thought about
what it would take for this godforsaken
phrase to actually be appropriate and I decided
it would only be if the airline sent a car to my
house to collect me having already packed my
bags and checked me in carried me on a
sedan through security and then deposited me on the plane
while feeding me mini cheddars
otherwise there are quite a lot of intermediate steps
between buying the plane ticket and me sitting
back relaxing and letting them do the rest.
At best, it is irritating.
At worst, it is a reminder that you shouldn't eat at shit pubs on industrial parks on the outskirts of Dundee.
Yeah.
Fair point.
Yeah, but we all have to do that once to learn, don't we?
I'm yet to do my Dundee.
It's like getting the chicken pox.
Ideally, you get it when you're a kid.
Take your kids to Dundee when they're three or four.
Because if you go to Dundee as an adult, it can be fatal in some cases.
Parents have actually started having Dundee parties.
So, picture attached of how they served my sister's fajitas, DIY cuisine, at its best.
Isn't that the most dismal thing you've ever seen?
Whoa, that is disgusting. So for the listener, it's
four plain tortillas
and just
five little paper
pots of dirt.
Little paper pots that you put ketchup in at McDonald's.
But where's the filling?
Good question. Is that the filling? I don't know.
I think that maybe the filling comes in a
styrofoam.
Grim. Grim.
Grim, grim, grim.
Frank gets in touch again.
One of the two Franks, I believe, we have.
Yes, please be yourself.
Hi there, butts.
High risk, no reward catchphrase.
Okay, another one.
Yes, please.
As a fairly newly married man,
I've had a number of people say to me,
happy wife, happy life.
I have started to retort with this.
I've started to retort with this. Bum bum wife,
bum bum life.
But only on birthday.
Which gets the response you can imagine
from everyone involved. Okay, thank you,
Koji.
Bum bum wife, bum bum life.
Bum bum wife.
That's very funny. Bum bum life.
I'd love to see those
faces. I'd love
to see people try and style
that out and go, oh yeah.
Well, beneath the surface
thinking, what is he talking about?
Dear darling
Budpods of May. Lovely.
Very nice. I'm a recent convert
to the Budpod. Welcome, brother.
Yes, is it never too late?
That's who we need. We need like the high
sparrow. Ah, yes. Welcome.
All are welcome in the halls of Budpod.
Bring me your weary.
Bring me your wretched.
Bring me...
Your bum-bums. Your bum- bum bums I'm a recent convert to the Bud Pod
And I've only started jacking it in the last seven days
But have been doing some solo long bike rides
And thus have completed every episode quite quickly
I am very much in joy
Great
However I had a worrying thought today
Given the outstanding intellectual quality
Of the email correspondence with Slowpoo
There is a high likelihood
That he or she
Will be selected for the post Brexit UK astronaut program soon
And so
How is plop drops going to work in space
If there is no gravity to drop those plops
That is a very very good point
And a point that we will be putting
To Slowpoo
The next time we see him
He will probably or she Will probably retort that we will be putting to Slowpoo the next time we see him.
He will probably, or she,
will probably retort by saying humans aren't meant to be in space.
Yeah.
And it's not a necessary part of our design.
That's true.
But then how do astronauts,
the fittest people on Earth,
get away with it?
Fittest and smartest.
And smartest.
So a question for Phil.
When you did this module at Cambridge,
how fast would the ISS have to spin for centrifugal or centripetal force
to pull the plops out of a person?
Well, it would be centri...
Oh, I guess it would depend on where your bum's facing.
Whether centrifugal or centrifugal force.
You probably want the bum facing inwards into a sort of hoover
because outwards the poo could just fly.
You would want centrifugal force to pull the poo out.
So you need to be hanging onto a bar.
Okay, to pull it out, yeah.
In a sort of harness.
And you'd spin and plop would fly out of you.
Dangerous game we play.
For God's sake.
Thanks, George.
Eleanor gets in touch.
Not the Prosecco vomit Eleanor She says a different one
Okay
Dear PNP
I'm enjoying the Bud Pod
And like many listeners
Keep finding little
Okay thank you moments
To reflect on
In my day to day life
Great
Now if you're a new listener
Okay thank you
Is when something awkward
Or strange happens
And you just say
Okay thank you
That's all you can think of doing
I started doing it more
Today I had to get up
At 3am for work
Where'd you work?
Hell?
That sounds awful.
Today I had to get up at
3am for work, so by lunchtime I was
and continue to be in a state of quiet
sleep-deprived confusion.
While washing my hands at the sink
in the women's bathroom, a girl entered holding
a container. I watched
her reflect in the box. What's in the box?
What's in the box?
I watched her, reflected in the mirror, go into a stall, leaving the door wide open,
flush the toilet, and empty the last inch of a Tesco soup into the loo while the water ran.
A bum-bum soup.
A bum-bum soup.
I left the bathroom hastily after muttering an internal okay thank you to my reflection.
I don't know why this has happened.
Keep jacking it, Eleanor.
So someone came in.
With one of those Tesco soup things?
Poured some soup in the toilet and left.
And then Eleanor said quietly to herself, okay thank you.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah, it creeps up on you.
You don't know when it's going to get you.
The soup flusher.
Yeah.
Every office has one.
I mean, we've got slow poo, now we've got soup poo.
Soup flush.
Who's soup poo?
Soup poo.
Soup poo.
Can employees please stop flushing soup?
Thank you.
It's making the rats all feel very homely.
It's relaxing the...
The chicken soup has only made the rats
healthier.
A different George gets in touch.
A different... What different George?
Do we have another George?
There was... Yes, just before George
was the... We're replete with Georges!
Georges and Franks.
And Eleanors.
Hi PNP, my most authoritarian
thought involves vapes
Oh yeah here we go
Look I'm all for people having a healthier chuff chuff
Which I guess in this case means lungs
Healthier chuff chuff to me means bum bum
Chuff chuff?
Yeah
Up the chuff
Or tight as a gnat's chuff
Maybe that's a
Goodness
An anus
I think he means a healthier smoke
I hope so.
Yeah.
Well, he's been vaping up his bum bum.
Might be why he's against it.
You have a cotton candy-flavoured smoke flying at your arse?
You were convinced people that you were a fairy?
Your farts would be delish.
Yeah.
And intoxicating.
I'm often people having a healthier chuff-chuff, but I don't want it blown in my face.
So in my authoritarian world, at the end of each day,
all the people who've been a victim of second-handpe smoke get to breathe on the vapor just before they're
about to go to sleep.
Just of their breath?
Just, ah.
Now here's the plot to us. The victims don't come into the bedroom to breathe on them,
as there could be children involved.
Okay.
Instead, they ring the doorbell, and the act of revenge takes place as soon as they open
the front door. Ah!
The vapor never knows
how many people they have blown smoke on throughout the day,
meaning they can never quite settle when they're in bed.
It's like an updated
version of Chinese water torture. Bye for now, George.
But we have a danger here of a
vicious cycle, because
the more on edge they are,
the more they're going to vape.
That's true.
And queues could develop congestion
A vaper who spends the day
Walking around a crowded city
Could end up with a queue of hundreds of people waiting to go
Think about the hit to the economy
Just in their face
What a funny place to meet your wife
We were in the queue
To breathe on this man
From vaping on us.
Or maybe the wife breathes on him.
And he goes, oh.
Well, that's something I haven't smelt ever.
I'm going to have to come and vape on you again.
He comes and vapes on her repeatedly,
so she has to keep coming back to his house to breathe on him.
How romantic.
What's his name?
D gets in touch. D?
The letter? Yeah. We finally got
alphabet cred. Okay.
Hey P Squared.
I'm fashionably late to the Bud Pod party
having only discovered your little treasure trove
last week. Thanks D.
Tuck in. Come on in
Alibaba. Tuck in. The cave is
warm.
We've been farting in it.
That's the real treasure.
I joined at Bud Pork
and I liked it so much I've been time-travelling
my way back to episode one.
I'm sure there's Phil's Doctor Who
joke in there somewhere.
Uh, hmm.
He spells Who-H-U.
Yeah, I don't remember the joke myself, but...
Oh, well.
Why not?
Phil lured me into your universe through his breakfast at Hiddleston's Twitter sensation.
Oh, great.
Phil's got a viral video.
Although Hiddleston was in my house.
He broke into my house.
That's true.
It reminded me of an amazing TV advert I saw
whilst travelling in China back in the year
nought.
Open brackets, 2000.
That's good though.
The year nought.
That's good. The advert was for some sort of
medical cream which the woman could rub
on their breasts to make them visibly larger
Oh wow
So it just irritated your breasts
And inflamed them I guess
Mosquito poison
In addition to this feat
The animated diagram
And flowing arrows
Showed the cream's ingredients moving upwards towards the head
With the added effect of making the brain bigger
No
This is Chung Fu's doing.
Yeah, it is.
Not reading Mandarin,
I'm not sure what exactly was going on,
but in between the squiggle,
I'm certain the cream purported to contain real DNA.
Mmm.
Mmm.
Yeah.
That's how you know it's good.
Professor DNA.
Yeah.
Professor's poof.
Professor's.
Which is jizz.
Yeah. Just creeps. Rub it on your boobs It'll make your brains juicy
I'm a doctor, I'm qualified
Authoritarian idea
Old people to be banned
From excessively feeling and inspecting
Fruit and veg in the supermarkets
You touch it, you buy it
Libertarian idea
Voluntary payment system for all public transport
Based on distance traveled, cleanliness, how annoying the conductor is
Whether a homeless person fucked a dog etc
Pretty good, keep on jacking it
D, that's true
When you see someone really rubbing and sniffing
Juicy melon
So they have to pay more when they get off
Is that the idea?
No, the first thing is authoritarian
All these old people going around
Practically licking the carrots to see if they want to buy them.
Yeah.
That's no good.
Yeah.
Also, you know how, like, here in London town, Phil, we're blessed with lots of corner shops that have big displays of fruit and veg outside.
I've seen and heard of, quite a lot recently, just, like, dopey cunts standing there going, oh, those look like nice mangoes.
And while they're doing that,
this stupid little Jack Russell terrier
is pissing all over the onions.
Really?
I had to stop a woman.
I walked past and I looked
and this dog was like sniffing the onions
and immediately I thought,
well, that's already gross.
Yeah.
Your dog's sniffing the onions.
And the dog just let loose a big jet of piss
all over the...
Oh, my God.
And I had to stop and say to the woman,
excuse me, and point.
And she went, oh, and just didn't do anything.
And was just like...
You know when pathetic dog owners who can't control their animals
just put their face on of, oh, no.
That's just nature, I guess.
I'm in such a panic, but not enough to do anything.
Or even once they try and laugh it off, like... My dog does piss on it. I'm in such a panic but not enough to do anything or even worse
they try and laugh it off
like
my dog does piss on it
I like dogs
but don't let them
piss on food
that seems too far
even for
white people Phil
and yes the lady
was white
of course
she was
start the twitter storm
more twitter storms Start the Twitter storm. More Twitter storms.
Hi, I'm looking for an African man.
Yeah, I'm an African man. How can I help you?
No, sorry. I'm looking for an African man.
Yeah, I'm from... Well, I'm from Magalisberg, just outside...
Well, yeah, I'm African.
What can I do for you?
Oh, okay.
I was just...
I was kind of hoping for a black...
Never mind.
Do your kids go to school?
Yeah, yeah.
My youngest is in high school
and the older one has just graduated.
Right.
So there's no way that I could sort of facilitate
your children going to school by single act of purchase.
How do you mean?
Well, it's just that...
You know what?
It's a long story.
I'll just leave it.
Fucking Chang Fu, man
Seriously
Sam gets in touch
Hey, Sam
Phil's thinking about white people again
Yeah
Dear Phil and Pierre
Sam and Lemon Ding Dong
There we go
Dear Phil and Pierre
A lovely lady at work
Recently back from maternity leave, asked me the other
day which podcasts I listen to.
Oh, no.
She's had the baby.
Yes.
She's had the baby now.
Okay.
She's going to go fart it out after listening to Bud Pod.
And of course, I immediately said Bud Pod.
Nice.
Imagine my horror when she followed up with, great, thanks for the recommendation.
Clearly not the original question.
Ah, yes.
Because she just said, what do you listen to?
Which I have to say to you, Sam,
is a level of linguistic detail that I would not...
I picked up on.
I picked up on myself.
So Sam works like a computer or a robot.
Yeah, yeah.
That's not what you asked.
Hey, Phil, what are you watching right now?
Hmm?
Oh, porn!
Okay, I'll go check it out.
That's not what I meant.
Oh, no!
Imagine my horror when she followed up with,
Great, thanks for the recommendation.
Clearly not the original question. And I realized she was going to dive into a bizarre world of shit,
bestiality, and sperm-covered handshakes.
And she would also realize I voluntarily inhabit that world also.
She would have a peek at your bum bum life.
Considering her favorite podcast is Stuff You Should Know, which broadly consists of two men reading out Wikipedia entries.
And ours should basically be called Stuff You
Shouldn't Know. Or just
Bums TM.
Wee wee bum bum poo poo time.
I fear this may be a bit
of a shock. Any chance of a
couple of PG episodes, purely so listeners
can have a cover story for colleagues
or friends or family about what we really
listen to on the train? Perhaps cookery
travel or book reviews.
I like this.
I like this idea.
We should release a dummy episode.
Dummy episode, yeah.
A dummy episode.
But Sam, what if the dummy episode is so anodyne
that someone who likes a podcast where two men read out Wikipedia,
it goes, I'm going to try the rest of this.
And suddenly it's just, so I was pooing on this jizz, right?
And a big fart came.
I was pooing on this jizz, right? And a big fart came. I was pooing on this jizz.
And then they died of a heart attack.
It's true.
It's true.
But imagine the correspondence.
Imagine the correspondence for that week.
Actually, there'd be nothing better for the podcast it's true but imagine the correspondence imagine the correspondence for that week actually
there'd be nothing better
for the podcast
than if someone died
listening to a story
about poo on jizz
um
oh but it'd be funny though
if we had to
force ourselves to do a
just um
Sam just direct them
to the podcast
me and Phil did
for meet me at the museum
ah yes
that's me and Phil
going around
a museum about
the postal service in London.
So that couldn't be more up the street.
We had a great day out.
Go check that out.
It's a really good podcast, actually.
By the Arts Fund.
By the goddamn Arts Fund, everyone.
And I don't think we mentioned Farts Poo once.
Not even once.
Not a made-to-edit, anyway.
No.
And it's a good thing we did it before Budpod, because we could have asked them, like that
email we got about the man who posted poo to his friend
for a joke. Oh yeah. We could have said to them
Has that ever happened?
Do you have any exhibits about poo
in post? Poo post? Yeah.
Post poo.
Martha gets in touch. Martha!
You don't get enough Marthas nowadays.
It's a rare name, the Martha.
It's a rare name. It implies to me
a certain high level of skill in cooking
But also
A sort of
A rigour
A strictness to Martha
Martha doesn't criticise you when you're late
But you know she judges you
Also good in her own company
Yeah, Martha's not clingy
she doesn't need anyone
really
no
she doesn't mind
being around people
she likes to see her
friends from time to time
but
she's very
she's
she's very good
at
spending time with herself
no FOMO
no FOMO
anyway
the real Martha says
yes
dear peas pudding
nice
yeah
what is a peas pudding
it's like a horrible...
You know those dishes that are from the 1700s and earlier?
Yeah.
And they're always just like,
add a thousand cloves
and some mush
and a horse's brain
and boil it till it's there.
It's one of those.
Yeah.
I think it is made from grains and things or peas.
It is like a sort of
oatmeal style porridge-y
thing. And then it's like it's left
to set. And it's always called
something that sounds quite nice. Yes.
Like, um,
happy jelly. Yeah.
It turns out it's like boiled pig's head.
Or like, um,
um, Duke's
cake. Something nice. That sounds nice.
And you get it and you're like, there's an eyeball in here!
Exactly.
And people say, it's from the Civil War.
Dear Peace Pudding,
My housemate seems to be a relative of the Slow Pua.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Unfortunately, I live in the bedroom Next to the bathroom
So I have an unwanted
Yet exceptional knowledge
Of my housemates bathroom habits
Not only does he spend
At least 30 minutes on the toilet
But this includes
Flushing the loo on average 3 times
Wow
For what reason I dread to think
That sounds like a big poet
Okay thank you, Martha.
Oh, before
we get into that. P.S. Phil, when you were telling
your Glastonbury story about the Japanese man
flipping the V's at you, I initially
thought you said he was flipping his V's at you.
And I loved imagining
this Japanese man bringing his V's
papers all the way to Glastonbury.
P.P.S. I don't like
peas pudding, but I do like the podcast, andastonbury. P.P.S. I don't like peas pudding but I do like the podcast
and you too,
especially Phil.
Ooh!
So,
30 minutes on the bog.
This chap.
Oh yeah.
Who she lives with.
Three flushes on average.
Oh, oh,
she means a relative
because he's similar
in his habits.
I thought maybe
someone she's suspected
to be the slope who visits from time to time.
That's what I thought, though.
Oh, as a house guest.
Yeah.
Like Father Pumas.
Or Shatner Klaus.
30 minutes, three flushes.
On average, that means she's heard him flushing higher than that on some occasions.
But flushing a lot doesn't mean the poo is slow
it means it's hard to get down right i guess but she doesn't say martha you need to get in touch
and tell us if these flushes are evenly spaced over 30 minutes or panicked every time triple
flushes at the end yeah because i've been there myself poo shouldn't float that much though
that's that's something wrong with his diet you're
eating too too many corks and styrofoam pellets yeah stop feeding him packaging and uh life rings
and life rings and um witches and witches yeah yes guys have been a witch heavy episode yeah
and messages in bottles and messages in bottles. And messages in bottles.
He's pooping out bottles of messages.
Any witches listening, get in touch and tell us how you practice your occultry.
Yes.
I'd be interested to see what kind of witch you are.
Or in a dream.
Or in a dream.
And we'll recount it in the next episode.
Yes, please.
30 minutes.
I know a guy who's a 30-minute to 45-minute pooer.
Every time?
Yeah.
But they don't have slow poos ideology.
They just...
Our working theory is that this is a person who...
You know that...
He's a secular slow pooer.
He's a secular slow pooer.
You know that feeling where you go,
I might need to go to the loo in like an hour?
Yeah.
That's when they go sit on the toilet.
Wow, okay.
They don't wait.
It sounds like an anxiety problem.
No, they love it.
They're very like, this person's quite lazy.
And they like just sitting.
An excuse not to, yeah, I get that.
So they go off.
They have that little feeling and they go,
oh, great, I can just sit and like...
Look at my phone.
...will this out of me while I look at my phone for a full half an hour.
I mean, I say that's dreadful, but I don't do very much different.
I just do the same thing on the sofa.
Yes, but just not with your pants down all the time.
Well...
And poo's slowly emerging from your bum.
Don't speak for me, okay?
Imagine if that's why...
You know my life.
Imagine if that's why you disapp my life Imagine if that's why
You disapproved of the slow poo
Is that he wasn't shitting the couch
God this had
This had been a poo heavy episode
Even for us
And surprisingly witch heavy
Witches
Poos
Hippies
Yeah
Get rid of them
All of them
Who needs them
The latest column by
Jeremy Clarkson
Piers Morgan
Everyone the same
Thank you for your correspondence That was a good crop Yeah Who needs them? The latest column by Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan, everyone the same.
Thank you for your correspondence, listeners. That was a good crop after we got up to
date last week. Yeah, very good. It feels
great to be at inbox zero
on the podcast. I mean,
maybe it's not
a great indication of the popularity
of the podcast that we can get to the end of all
the... Ideally, popular podcasts,
they say, you know, we don't read all of them out but we do read them yes uh whereas we say uh we read
all of them out yeah even though we don't need to yes yeah we read all of them we read all of them
out so far yeah well we skipped a couple we've summarized a couple ways just compliments oh yeah
sure but yeah but well anyway send in uh all the different things we've told you to send in over the last hour or so.
And send in compliments.
Pierre might be too humble to read them out loud, but I'm not.
Yeah, quite right.
And also buy tickets for my Edinburgh show.
Buy tickets for Pierre's Edinburgh show.
And if you want to come to mine, keep an eye out.
Maybe there'll be some more.
And I would love for
PodBuds to get them.
Yes. You guys are
priority. Please.
But aside from that...
Thank you very much for listening to the Do A Decker
Pod. Yes. Here's
to another ten
episodes.
And many more.
This podcast will last a thousand years.
It will outlive us.
Yeah.
That'll be good.
Goodbye all.
Goodbye.
Was that okay?
Yeah.