BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie - Episode 286 - BudJet

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

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It's Bud Pod 286. 286. I've been watching Netflix. Very nice. Thanks. Very nice. I've been watching the new dramatization monsters about the Menendez brothers, the killer brothers.

I watched the first 10 minutes last night. Oh, did you? Unusually for someone based in and now from the UK, I had already heard about the case. Really? Yeah, well it was as big as OJ, if you were in America at the time. But it just, unlike OJ, for whatever reason, just nothing about it traveled over here seemingly. No one here seems to have ever heard of it. Well, it, I guess maybe it's too messy and very American.

It's very American. A very American story of two boys getting shotguns and shooting their rich parents. Yeah. There wasn't, there wasn't a celebrity element to it, whereas OJ had a celebrity. Yeah. Well, the dad, the dad was sort of Hollywood adjacent. Yeah. Yeah. He was in the, but he was behind the scenes Hollywood. So there was no like-

Played by Javier Bardem, the, the weirdest looking handsome man in history, surely. Sometimes he looks handsome and sometimes like, are you okay? Is he okay? He's got a head like an Easter Island head. He's got this shape, he's incredible. He has a very stately head. Very granite-like. It's like like block. It would be a great,

it would be great to carve his head into a sort of granite block like Mussolini did, who also had a massive bounce with very defined features. The sculptor wouldn't have to work with too many rounded edges. It's just like, think of the forehead. Brutalist sculpture. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think you could do a brutalist head sculpture of Tony Blair. He's got a little nose and little eyes. And the rounded ears, the big old ears. It wouldn't work. Why did you start watching it?

I was just lazy. I already know everything about it. Not everything about it, but I understand. Like, okay, like I'm not like, what's going to happen? It's like, wow, how slowly are they going to tell me this other thing I know? S1 05.00 Right. Why do you know about this case? Aidan O'Connor It's for the same reasons I know about the OJ case, I guess. To me, I'm surprised by how few people here have heard of it. But then I guess, as you say, it didn't have any decent angle beyond, oh, there's probably something to do with just money and there's a couple to do with it's just money

and there's a couple of psychos anyway, bye. Like, yeah, right. Yeah. And it is a lot of British people actually didn't really know anything about the OJ case beyond family guy jokes until Ross from friends was in the OJ case. Yes. Made by the same people that made this. Yes. So maybe actually I'm overestimating both awareness levels. And also like it's a cool cast and everything, but it's like fucking nine hours. It's like eight episodes and it could, is it eight or six? And it could be four. It could be three. I mean, they, they, it's very repetitive. They go over the same things again. Yeah. And ultimately it's one of those things where they can keep showing you this or that scene dramatized in this or that way, but it just comes down to your guess.

Yeah. As a completely uninformed popcorn chewing little pervo on the couch. You're just, you're weird Mr. What you reckon. Yeah. True about this very difficult. And I will, my opinion is just whatever I saw last of it. So it's halfway through, I'm like, he molested those boys and he deserved what he got. And then the last time I was like, they made it up, I hope they rot in jail forever. It's a what if it, but it just depends what they end on. Yeah, I find that the feeling I have when I watch those things that do that is like when the feeling little kids have.

They I feel like a baby where the TV is going. Where's PS sense of justice? There it is. Like it's just peekaboo. Yes. You play peekaboo with a kid and the kids going, Hey, Hey, just, it's just like that. And that makes me feel like a stupid dummy. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I can, I know it's happening while it's happening. So I'm not enjoying it. I'm thinking, well, now I'm being manipulated into thinking this,

but I do think that now, but I do also think it now because it's also what my brain has just eaten through its eyes, through my eyes. And I can't help that because I'm still a human. Because you can know you're squeezing a whole load of ketchup into your mouth and you still taste ketchup. Doesn't mean you're not tasting ketchup. Exactly. Your self-awareness is no defense against the ketchup in your mouth. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what I've been watching on the flicks. You have been on your third stag do of the month. Yeah, my third stag do in four weeks.

I think I've been on three stag dos ever. There's not far off that. We've been on one together. We've been on one. Gosh, ages ago, Johnny's. Yeah. Yeah, is that the only one I've been on together? Because you couldn't make keelys. I couldn't make it. Yeah. And who's your other one? Who's your third? Finn Taylor. Yeah, I couldn't make them for some reason.

Make that. And David Elms. Oh, ages ago. I mean, it's just we went to Thought Park, it was great. Yeah. So you've done four. There must be an... I can't just be... I've been talking to a lot of guys who've never even done any. Yeah, gosh.

I mean, sometimes it's because they're 26 or whatever, but I've got friends who've been on stag do's for over a long period of time, and the ones when you're 25 and 26 are a great deal different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They are a great deal different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot more brutal. Yeah. I've never been on a brutal one. I have to say, no, I've, I've come close, but even then I've been cushioned by sort of responsible vibes of the various people involved, however mad they wanted to go. Yeah. On, on Finn's's one there was one, one of his friends was just like, let's go crazy. Let's destroy everything. And I want

to be like, calm down. Give him another drink. Give him another drink. Let him eat. Yeah, yeah. He just wanted to be so waste and everyone else like, come like one of the guys was just like spatch cocking a chicken and everyone's just like, calm down. No, it's fine. He doesn't need to have, he doesn't, he's had the drinks. He's going to be so, we're going to kill him. We're going to fucking kill him. It's like, calm down man. This isn't what we are anymore. This isn't like one of those things where we're going to kill him and all swear to silence

and there'll be a movie about how it all breaks down 50 years from now. Yeah. No, it's, I think on every stag do or in a lot of stag do is there's that guy where you go, Oh, in the, in like, if this was a Vietnam war movie, you'd be like the crazy guy in the platoon. Every stag do has a psycho. Every single one has at least one psycho. Yes. But they can be kept in abeyance.

Yes. They could, a vibe prison can be created that keeps them, they don't see any openings. There's no window for them to kind of stick their little limb out through. That's a Johnny White, Johnny White joke, right? If we're going to start doing it, he's alone with one of the others. And he's just in the minivan on the way to the campsite. And just goes mate, mate, mate, mate.

I've got some, don't tell anyone, but I've got something planned. When we get to the campsite, I'm going to kill everyone and then kill myself. Yeah, that joke's on Spotify. Please look up Johnny White really, really on Spotify. Listen to it done properly. It's so funny. The idea of treating a mass murderer as part of stag banter is really funny. Was the last... So you got back last night from your most recent stag day. Yes.

And was that the most psychotic? Was it the most wild? It was intense. It wasn't the most wild because I suppose it didn't... The first one of the three I went on involved going on a party boat, which I think I've mentioned. Were you land lovers? We were land lovers, yeah. We were in the, it was the classic house in the countryside situation. Oh, lovely.

But it was mainly old, old friends of mine from the out of man. So it was very casual and easy with each other. Like there was no one there who I hadn't known for a long time, even if I hadn't seen them for a long time. But we do drink a lot. We ordered an amount of beer that we thought when it arrived, we thought we've really fucked this.

We're gonna have to try and find someone to take all this beer. Oh really? Yeah. When you got through it? Oh yeah. Yeah, not all of it, but like there was only crumbs, only crumbs were left.

Beer crumbs. Beer crumbs. There's a few scattered beer crumbs all over the tables and things. Yeah. No, it was fucking, I'm really, I'm still quite shocked at the, yeah. Just the sheer amount. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But some of it was themed loosely around the Olympics. We were discussing this before we started recording.

So I was playing a lot of Olympic music while various things were happening on the stag do. And it's so good. John Williams, Bugler's Dream, all this kind of stuff. It's just such inspiring, amazing music. And you saying about the Marvel movies. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, John Williams made things like Charity Fire.

Ba-brr-da-da-da-da. And then Vangelis, yeah. And stuff you're playing was really rousing. Just rousing, grand, bugling. Hopeful. Patriotic. Sincere. Yes, and the uplifting side of militaristic. Yeah, military adjacent. Yes.

Where it's like, this isn't about the army, but these javelin throwers train as much as the army. And they're training and they're muscles and they're throwing spears and it is for their country. So there's an aspect of civil, it feels quite like, like the sort of ancient Roman idea of like a citizen. Yes. Proud citizens. Popular jingoism.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But artistic enough that it's not like, But then I said, You were sick. It's not like that. Yes, yes, yes. There's still an orchestra involved. We're proud, but it's cause we're good at heart.

Yes. Okay, okay. We're proud, but we don't mind listening to flutes. We don't worry that we're going to be gay. Proud nerds. If we listen to some flutes in this movie. Proud nerds. Proud nerds, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. And I said that it's the music that Marvel movies wish they had. Yes. Because they, so in a, in a Captain America movie, you know, he'll be looking at the Lincoln Memorial and, you know, considering what's happened and deciding how he's going to defeat Blompp. Blompp, the space Nazi. Yeah. And they'll be...

Actually, I think that's actually too good. Already there's a melody there that you could remember. But you will never remember the music. You get one sting of like... There's no theme to latch on to. And it's just kind of elevator music. I hadn't thought about it until you mentioned it, but you're right. It is completely forgettable. And the only memorable music in the Marvel franchise is the Black Sabbath song Iron Man,

which they just felt obliged to use once. And then I think in Thor Ragnarok they use Led Zeppelin, the immigrant song. Right, yeah. So they have to outsource it. It's part of this general place around culture where it's old IP. Even in the movies that are based on old IP, the music is old IP too. Whereas like Batman, the Tim Burton Batmans, so, so good. And that is Danny Elfman who made the Simpson soundtrack and he did Desperate Housewives, he did everything. Nightmare Before Christmas,

Before Christmas, all these amazing memorable tunes. And now these movies just like, ah, just a little rousing fanfare. They're just sound effects now. Could be AIs. Glenn Moore. That's the other stag I've been on. Glenn's stag, five. I only turned up on the last day and played one board game. That's true. And then helped out the next morning tidying up. Because it was Airbnb. I'd spend there, I'd been there one night and I tidied up the next morning. You were kind of cleaning theme stag do. Yeah, the most, the worst part of an Airbnb stay to be at the final night.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Next morning, tidying up. Yeah, I feel like I'm in some sort of stag diversion of wedding crashes. Oh, because you're going to so many. So many now. It's like I've got into like a rhythm. And the montage at the beginning where there's all the topless women flopping on beds for you is just other guys.

It's other guys who are too drunk to stand up anymore flopping on beds. Just going, just being sick all down themselves. I'm like good enough at beer pong now that it's like having a sniper on your team. Wow, really? No, like in the movie. Oh, I see. I see. That is believable. Just like, just like. Beer pong is just not really a thing here. It's just hard to come by.

Yeah, that's beer. We grew up doing a lot of it. Is it? Yeah, but we are maybe an exception. I don't know. Speaking of men who have survived against the odds. Yes, in foreign land. That's true. Our old our old friend from Puerto Felipe more windswept than ever. Yes, yeah. His hair is all up like he's a mad professor.

It's turned white. There's white, there's leaves and twigs in it. Yep. There's a, because he was by the sea, there's a little prawn in his hair. Yes Felipe has made it back from Cayman Islands despite having to miss Bud Pod Live. Yes. Because he was grounded. For being grounded. Not by his parents, by father, by father weather. By mother nature and father weather. Mother nature and father

weather said go to your room and don't come out till we're done fucking up the outside. Because hurricane Helene? Helena? Helene? Helene? Helene? Helene? Ravage that came on islands when Felipe was there. Hurricane Helene? And his planes could not leave. Yeah.

We tried to charter him a private jet, of course. The Budjet? The Budjet, yeah, the Budplane. The Budjet wouldn't allow for a Budjet. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Nice, very nice. Either we should have a Budplane, like bud plane. The bud jet wouldn't allow for a bud jet. Nice, very nice. We should have a bud plane like Wonder Woman.

Yeah, yeah. Would it be invisible? A plane was invisible, wasn't it? Yeah. It's a bit of an odd detail. You think, was that a problem? People could see the plane coming. She's really there.

Yeah, yeah. Can we see her in it? She's not visible in it, just like sat down and going across the sky, right? She's also invisible inside. She's invisible inside. So it's a cloaking. Okay, so it's like... It's a cloaking plane. Okay, fair enough.

But then like when she getting into a dogfight with what Air Force? What's the big problem here? It's going to whip the other planes out of the sky. So the planes have to tell the truth. They have to really honestly state their speed and direction. Pointless. It's like saying, and Captain America's shield is also, it's recycled, it's green. You're rogue. Okay, doesn't matter.

But Felipe made it. Was it scary, Felipe? Those water came into your home, didn't it? You got a bit of flooding. It was still at the tropical storm stage. It hadn't quite turned into a hurricane yet when it hit us. OK, so it wasn't a hurricane when it was actually when it hit you. As it got to America.

Just after the last came out, by the time it hit Cuba. OK, so where you were was a bit of a warm-up and then it became a hurricane. It did its preview show. It was like a major tropical storm. Major tropical storm. So I was advised not to leave the house, etc. And my room flooded. Yes, lovely flooded room. Wow. Well, we're glad you made it back. And despite all the turmoil, Felipe had the

And despite all the turmoil, Felipe had the presence of mind and generosity to find us both a little bit of tat, a little bit of caiman tat. A gift shop blew down and it all flew into Felipe's room. He's got me a little stingray on a spring coming out of shells as Wiglin Woblin has caiman islands tattooed into the stingray. Yeah, it must have been very painful and dangerous. Cruel really. It's classy tat for sure. I wouldn't even call it tat.

I think this is just a nice souvenir. I've got a reef shark. A reef shark with Cayman Islands tattooed into the side as well. That's right. And I think that because it's a shark, I'm more of the opinion the shark paid for it to have it done to represent where it's from because it's a shark says all tough. Yes. Like on the other side, it should have like thug life.

Yeah, my stingray, if you lift it up, it's actually got a neck tattoo. So mine's actually tough. I'm very, very impressive that Felipe was able to weather the storm to get these souvenirs. I imagined the wind and rain was battering the house, there were palm trees flying around like in a circle, like it was a Wizard of Oz. And Felipe got to the doy for his coat and his parents said, Felipe, what are you doing? They said, attention! Attention! It's very dangerous!

You cannot go out there, Felipe! You will be killed! And Felipe said, no! There's two men at home that need a little wobbly face. Yes, necesito tat! And he went... The various members of like people in those like FBI style windbreakers, like with police.

Yeah. Get back inside. It's like clutching the thing around us under his neck fists under his neck. It's for tat for bad bad. They go get right this way. Go go go. Get him right into a big like a swap van. Yeah, yeah.

Get your head down. Imagine if we watched some news footage from the storm in Caman Islands and we're like, what the... And it's like a mob raiding, looting a shop. And it's Felipe. And he's just got, he's just rummaging through a pile of fish souvenirs. Just like, checking around. Fistfuls in his pockets. Just... He's the one guy. Just kicking people out of the way.

Looting the souvenirs. You're really funny to loot souvenirs. Something that you only need if you're not from where you're looting. Looting seems much more of a local activity. It is, tourists rarely loot. I mean, English tourists give it a good go. Yeah, but they might loot souvenirs.

Well, it's a national tradition, it goes good go. Yeah, but they might loot souvenirs. Well, it's a national tradition that goes way back. But yes, it's a funny shop to loot, just this place with all the... Yeah, but even though he was in the middle of a hurricane, throwing cobblestones through windows just to get access to souvenirs. He also managed to save Bud Pod Live. Yes. Thank you everyone who came to Bud Pod Live last Wednesday. It was a triumph, I think. Really fun. Really fun.

Thank you to Rhys for being our guest. Rhys James joined us for the second half and was very, very funny. And everyone had a great grand old time. We sold some books, we signed some books. Yeah. We said hi, we shaked hands, we kissed babies. And Felipe was able to produce from the Cayman Islands. And as if he was registered there for tax purposes. He operates out of the Cayman Islands.

He does podcast production, but only from a sort of offshore base, like the guy from The Simpsons. Yeah. Oh, it's too hurricane today. And we had a grand all time thank you to Toby for stepping in and helping with the tank. Yes, Felipe really called in the troops called in the cavalry to step in. Well, he acted Felipe activated the secret union of podcast freelancers. Yeah, they came out of under the Cayman Islands like thunderbirds.

He put the signal up into the sky, which is like the bat signal, but you just put a freelancer's invoice over a spotlight and that goes onto some clouds and all the freelancers in the city go, and they all... Leap into action. Batman is a freelancer. He is. He's self-employed. I wonder, does he claim expenses for the Batmobile? Cleaning the mask. Luckily for him, with an alter ego,

there's no risk of him being seen in the Bat gear at a party and therefore losing the ability to deduct it. He can claim the Bat suit for sure. And I mean, it doesn't make any income as Batman. So it's a pure, it's all a write-off. He's got a Kofi. What's that? Coffee, you know, K-O-F-I.

Oh, the donation thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. He's got a Patreon, he's got a Buy Me a Coffee. He's got a Substack. Well, speaking of- All the criminals subscribe to the Substack just in case they can get a clue about recipes. Incredibly, and we did not plan it, but Bud Pod Live was in Leicester Square and coincided with the premiere in Leicester Square of Joker Foliade.

And so a podcast that is constantly saying, just like the Joker, had his live 25 year anniversary, no, five year anniversary. Live show. Live show. Going head to head. Same night, same place. Yeah. Same bad night, same bad place, same bad square. Same dark night.

Same dark night as a Joker movie. I mean, you can make it up. We went head to head with old Henry Joker himself. What's his real name in some of the comics? Is he called, what was he called in the Joker movies? Arch, Archie, Arnold? Yeah, he's had a few different names. Henry Crisps?

I don't remember. Arthur Fleck. Arthur Fleck is in the Joker movies. Yeah. I think that's the one in the comics where he falls in a vat. He falls in a vat and it makes him mad. Well, he falls in a vat as the Red Hood. That's the villain he was before he was the Joker.

I thought there was one thing where it's like the Red Hood was just a fake. The Red Hood comes back later on in the Batman story and Batman's like, what the hell? Red Hood, that's the Joker now. So this is someone new. And it turns out it's, it's, Todd. Ronald Reagan. Justin Todd, Jake Todd. Basically it's an old, the second Robin,

who everyone hated, all the fans hated. What's his name? What? Todd? It's so funny to be hated as a Robin. There's a time in my life where I knew this name better than some of my relatives. It's just like your Bible. What Todd was he? To DD.

Who was the second Robin? This is in the comic books, not in the movie. Yeah. Who was the second Robin? This is in the comic books, not in the movie. Jason Todd. So everyone hated Jason Todd so much. And this was in the 80s maybe? In the comics. Why do they hate him? The same reason people hate fucking Scrappy Doo or Pootry. People just don't like sidekicks that have been thrust on them, I think. Yeah, I'm so fascinated by when a new character that should work inherently, the public just go, you know what, this smells wrong. Yeah, no, no, we smell fear.

So Jason Todd, I think, was a second Robin, who became Robin after the original Robin Dick Grayson became Nightwing. But with J.V.R. and hated Jason Todd so much of the comics, they, and the storylines called death of the family. And there's a cliffhanger where Jason Todd has been captured by the comics, the storyline is called Death of the Family. And there's a cliffhanger where Jason Todd has been captured by the Joker and the Joker's torturing him. And the DC comics said to the fans, do you want Joker to kill Jason Todd? Do you want Robin to die? Yeah. And we'll put it to a vote and whatever the answer the vote vote is, they'll happen in the comic books. And people said, kill this boy, get Joker to kill this child.

This child has been too sassy and we'd like him to be murdered by a terrorist. And it's in like the middle East as well. There's like, Joker's like wearing like Middle Eastern. It's in the sort of Silver Age Batman, it gets quite international and it gets a bit odd, but like, so Joker kills him. This will finally see the end of that bat, inshallah. Jojo, Middle Eastern Joker, just something designed to just prey on the very worst fears of a lot of the American public. Just imagine if the Joker was foreign.

Oh, he's twice as frightening. Right, guys? And yeah, it would have been around all that fear around Iran. Libya. Yeah. And so he kills Robin and everyone's like, it's honestly that crusty moment of, Robin's dead, yay. And so Jason Todd dies and it's a big moment

in the story of Batman because he loses a Robin. And then years later he gets another Robin and people don't hate as much. And suddenly this new villain arises called the Red Hood, which is what Joker was before. And it turns out it's Jason Todd. He's back. He wasn't killed.

Yeah. I think that's it anyway. Please don't check that. Please don't check that. Speaking of Batman, I went to the Batman Experience in London. Did you? Yeah. I went with James Gill of ABC comedy. Yes. He's also a big Bat head and... Yes. And has a great podcast himself. He does about

live comedy. I recorded one recently. The ABC podcast I think. And it was advertised as the Batman experience and it's all the props and costumes from the Batman movies. Okay so it's like a big exhibit. Yeah. You don't actually have to fight a low-level mugger. No, but I did outside anyway. Okay, good. I don't think he was a mugger. I think he was just a member of the public,

but I was in the mood. And part of me was kind of hoping it would be a Glasgow Willy Wonka experience. Cause there's been a new one of that now. I don't know if you saw in Detroit, there was a... This is what happens, you got three stag do's in a row and you miss all the big news. Bridgerton, a Bridgerton ball.

A shit Bridgerton? A shit Bridgerton ball in I think Detroit. People who've thought, well why, you know, an enormous seven layer dress made of lace can't be that hard to make. Well, all the poor ladies that turned up had really dressed up to the nines. And they turn up and there's,

the food is like a cafeteria just out of troughs. Nothing's being cleared out. So all the guests are having to clear the tables first before they sit down and eat. There's nothing to do. Milady, your trough food is here. The live music, the live sort of chamber orchestra, is one woman with a violin in the corner.

Oh my god. And the dancing... Like the lower decks of the Titanic. The dancing that was advertised turned out to be one stripper with a pole. What? There's one dancer, one pole dancer in the middle of the room. A Bridgerton stripper with a pole. What? There's one dancer, one pole dancer in the middle of the room. A Bridgerton stripper.

As we've seen by how often, by how not, how often these things, these rare, these are rare, right? Yeah. But currently it's one a year. One a year, but out of hundreds of millions of people, they're rare because people just correctly, statistically cannot imagine having the audacity and the delusional confidence or ambition to just say you've set up a Bridgerton experience and just not do it. Or to just say you've rebuilt Willy Wonka's factory in like an old fish processing warehouse

outside of Glasgow, whatever the fuck it was. And then just not really doing anything. It's also, it's hard to believe there's people out there with that little foresight who think that it'll be fine afterwards. Yeah. Or that little shame. Yeah, right. They just think, well, I'm just like this and I'll never do anything like this again. And I'm going to at least have the money. Like a complete ram raid, smash and grab mindset towards your own life. Yeah.

No foresight, no planning, no notion of consequences. Just, yeah, it'll be great. Yeah. A bunch of presumably incredibly unreasonable ticket purchase conditions. Yes, that's right. No cancellations, no refunds. Yeah. Because it's not illegal to put on something that's shit.

No, it isn't. That must be the argument. It's not illegal to put on something that's shit. No, it isn't. That must be the argument. It's not illegal to put on an event that's shit. I mean, at most they could get you for false advertising, but if you say live music and there's one violinist, that's live music. If you say dinner and is only there for an hour, well, you should have gotten there earlier. If it wasn't cooked properly, you could blame whatever outside catering company you've just made up to hire through a bunch of dodgy mechanisms.

Now, I had to hoped, pardon me, I had hoped that the Batman experience would be like this, so that I'd have a viral feast to post. But it wasn't. It was fantastic. I loved it so much. You start off by entering this little hallway and it's like dressed up as Bruce Manor, Wayne Manor and there's family portraits and everything. And there's a little video from Jim Lee who's head of DC, high up in DC and he's one of the iconic Batman drawers. In my head, even the Wayne family portraits have the parents just being shot in an alleyway. He's like just in oil above the fireplace, like because that's the only time you ever

experienced that with people. In the corner was a little red phone and went bling and the red light came on. Like just in oil above the fireplace. Like, cause that's the only time you ever experienced that there's people. In the corner was a little red phone and went bling and the red light came on. And one of the local, one of the guys on the staff and was like, oh, sorry everyone, just a sec. And he runs over and he picks up the phone. And then there's a video of Jim Lee saying,

hi there, London. Are you ready for? And the guy, the guy's like, oh, hey Jim, yeah, what's the? And he's trying to get the lines out quick enough cause the video is just playing. So, yeah. Hey Jim, how's it going? What do you think we should do? And then that's right. Well, if you look around for a bad statue and he's, and the guy in the room is going, guys, can anyone see a bad statue? We're looking for a bat statue. And it was like, and the video of

Jim Lee goes, well done. And we haven't found it yet. It was a quick, but a what statue? Well done. And so the guy then just has to run over to the bat statue where he knew it was and all of us were like, oh yeah, there it is. And, and he goes to, and there's a little, there's a little clue next to the man statue. And he goes to one of the guys nearest him, one of the guests nearest him and said, can you read that? And the guest is like, um, I fly towards family. I fly towards family. Yeah. So can you, what do you think? Can you maybe twist, move the statue to, and the guy's like just touching his, if you just, if you turn

the statue and you see family in here and everyone looks at the portrait of the way family is, they go, yeah, there. And, and it's like, yeah, there, the family over there. The family over there is the Batman's family. And so maybe, and the guy grabs his bat statue and turns it, click, click, click, click, click. And the guy, and the doorway opens up, and the bookcase parts. And it's like the entrance to the Batcave. And the host guy goes, are you ready, everybody?

And because we're British, people go, yeah. Are you ready? Everybody just goes, yeah, that's why we're here. Are you ready? Are goes, yeah, that's why we're here. Are you ready? Are you excited? Yeah. And then James, I go with, he's good at getting energy up in a room.

So he's like, woo, yeah. And people are like, woo. It's just, but of course we are thrilled to be there. People are like Batman t-shirts and stuff. Everyone wants to be there. James is such a good MC. He must've been standing there like, like, oh, this is tough.

This is a tough one. This is tough. This guy needs my help. But then the bookcase like part and all this dry ice came out and we go in and it's all the props from the movies and then all the costumes, all the bat suits, all the actual props. What's the nipple one there?

The nipple one was George Clooney's nipples. I think maybe the nipple wasn't there. It doesn't surprise me. The 1989 one was there. If you want to get a hold of Clooney's nipples. I think maybe the nipple wasn't there. 1989 one was there. If you want to get a hold of Clooney's, I think the master cowl was there. Okay. Well, very cute, but they had to line up with all the cows. And then there's one at the end that was so small that on the peg you thought, Oh, they've forgotten. There's an empty peg and you go close and right on the, on the peg is the Lego Batman. Very sweet. Nice. And what was interesting was,

in the room with all the props, I went to the one that, I looked at the props from the nipples Batman movie, which is Batman and Robin. And that's the one with Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. Eyes to meet you, the one who does all that. And those were the props that hit me the most.

Really? Because I looked at, because they're so goofy that they really stick in the mind. does all that. And those were the props that hit me the most. Really? Because I looked at the, because they're so goofy that they really stick in the mind. That's true. They are more like something from an actual comic book than they're really ugly. But I was like, but yeah, I remember that. I remember that necklace with the Ruby. I remember the heat bomb. I remember. And what was interesting was those props look so shit, but in the movie look fine. And then the newer props are so detailed and I realized, Oh yeah, cause of HD Batman or Robin was pre HD. You could make a prop like that for a school play and it would look acrylic paint like blobbed on it. And it looks

absolutely fine. But then like they also have the new Harley Quinn mallet and this detail in it, the etching of the wood grain in it, and the prop departments now must have to be so hardworking because it has to all look good in HD. I wonder if they have like an HD camera set up in the workshop so they can just constantly screen test it while they're doing it. Because it's like, no, it's too smudgy if I can do it again, Jesus Christ.

Why do we need this level of HD? There's only one Batmobile though, which is the Robin Pattinson one, which is cool But I could have done the email one deals the email one of the my chemical romance CD in the glove compartment The one they had his his outfit and I I told James which he didn't know the bat symbol in the Robin Pattinson Suit is made from the pieces of the gun that killed his parents It's so fucking emo, I love it. Why does he have the gun that killed his parents. Oh, right. It's so fucking emo. I love it.

Why does he have the gun? Isn't that evidence? He must have robbed it from the evidence. You know, that's why they never caught the guy. Yeah. It's because you turned the only evidence we had into a little bat. You little freak. You little goth.

Fucking good Charlotte asshole. There's like a detective out there. It's like, I had to cut that fucking guy. If it wasn't that creepy little goth boy broke in and took the one fingerprints gone. Edward Cullen from Twilight broke into that evidence room. A fucking vampire took the only piece of evidence for error. It was great.

Holly recommended a few. It's going all around the UK. So it's just in Manchester. It's now in London, the Batman experience. And a lot of fun. We did photos where you do the, like from 1960s Batman TV show, climbing up the outside of a wall and you're doing it horizontally and then they flip it in the picture, so it looks like you're...

Oh, that's cool. So we did that and that cost 13 pounds to have the photo. Hmm. I have Photoshop in my house. And it says when you buy it, it's like frame photos. I'm like, oh, it's framed. By frame, they mean they put into little like cardboard. The cardboard viewing sleeve. Yeah.

Great. Wow. Can't wait to hang this up in my house so everyone knows that I'm fucking mad. James got to keep it. So now James is going home with a framed picture to his family and kids. With a photo of him and a grown man at the Batman exhibit. A different guy.

He can say to his kids, you get to be in a picture with daddy like this if you achieve enough in life. And I'll take you to the Batman exhibit. We should probably do a little bit of Cori Cori Spondo. Cori Popes no. In terms of correspondence we have heard from James. James I don't blames you for writing us. I don't blame you.

I do it. I don't blames you. Dear Ste. I don't blame you. I do it. I don't blame you. Dear Steamy Piss and Wellywang Champ. Wow. I understand Wellywang. Why you Steamy Piss? Why am I Steamy Piss? I mean, I've been doing a lot of Steamy Pisses because of all the stag do's I've been on

and therefore all the constant beer. The Airbnb we were staying at on this stag do just as a short digression. How fucking mad is this? As the lady was giving us the keys and saying, oh, when you clear out the rubbish goes here and all the usual shit. She's goes, oh, by the way, the, the house is quite warm. You know, we were like, that's fine. She was like, cause I've set the all the thermostats to 27. You know, like a heat wave. Yeah. This is in Scotland. This is in fucking Scotland. It's like cold and raining outside. She's like, I've said all day, uh, 27. I just thought myself from going, what, what have you done? Also, what are the economics here?

Like you have to tidy up for this at the end of the stay you've paid for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that I can save money. But also I'll have the boiler on all the time. Yeah, all the time. Even when there's no one here, it's going to be so hot that you could fucking dry wood in it for the fires. And like a, like a roastery. 27. Yeah. I was like, fucking hell. She was like, don't touch any of the thermostats. If it's too hot, just turn it down at the radiator. Oh yeah, right.

If. I don't know if you've ever woken up in the middle of the night having drunk a lot of beer and it's before you put your bed duvet on yourself so you can sleep, it was 27 degrees. But it's like waking up as the mummy from the mummy. Just insane dehydration nightmare time. Horrible. Really crazy. Anyway, maybe that's why I'm steamy piss. Um, dear. Should I leave this in?

It was so hot that... You know when a bathroom has no windows? Like the bathroom is like an internal room. Yeah, it's a little mold factory. Yeah, but as a result, it had all towel drying racks and stuff. Also set to 27. So the bathroom is like this airless heat tomb. And it was so hot when I woke up in the night that twice I ran into the parking lot of the house to just pee outside. Really?

Yeah, I just I burst out of the house like a like a fucking dehydrated zombie. It's going ah ah and just like pee in a driveway. From an outsider, it looks like you're in a house where you're being tortured by not being allowed to pee or drink. They're not letting us pee in there. Please, officer, they're not letting us pee in there. We're all having to hold it in in there, officer, please. They're not letting us pee or drink. So that's probably why I'm steamy piss.

Longtime listener who waits eagerly each week for the new episode. Love what you guys are doing, though your recent decolonization push has sadly deprived you and your listeners of my tale about the Martian poo. I was going to call it the poo-shin, but oh well. Oh no. Well, James, we did say we would decolonize apart from the most exceptional. Yes, and if you have a story about a literal alien... Poeing on you.

Poeing on you. We're happy to regress for one story. But it needs to be exceptional. But if you think it's exceptional, then send it. And we will be the judge Instead I would like to share with you my most irrational thing that winds me up transparent glasses frames Okay. Yeah, transparent specs frames. None. These are I've tried having transparent frames, but I can't pull it off

The people can pull it off a middle to upper middle class White men with a with a bit of facial hair. But not you. So they wear Patagonia, they work in something digital. It's like computer robot man glasses. If I'm thinking of the right thing, I'll Google computer robot man glasses. Yeah. Cause it's like, it is all part of my visor. Yeah. It is all see through. Yeah. We have gone beyond using metals.

Who else wears them is Paul Danos Riddler in the Batman. He has them clear frame glasses. Am I thinking of the right thing? Clear frame glasses. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes. It's just those... To me it's quite... Plastic. Acetate, acetate. It's quite fashion industry. Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. What's James' issue with it? Well, he says, to people with transparent glasses frames,

sorry, but your transparent glasses frames are not transparent. They are translucent and visible. You have paid a high premium for these frames, yet the result is that we can all still see you're wearing glasses. It's like a reverse of the Emperor's new clothes. frames, yet the result is that we can all still see you're wearing glasses. It's like a reverse of the Emperor's new clothes. I realize that it's irrational to be annoyed by this. I felt the need to specify frames because glasses are by their nature transparent.

So it would be orders of magnitude more irrational, and probably confusing. In conclusion, please keep up the good work. Your podcast makes me laugh so much. Ah, thanks James. It also confuses my dad because from the next room Phil apparently sounds like me and he thinks I'm talking to him Really? Yeah lucky James Malifluous James Malifluous James with his beautiful silky voice. Yeah. Well, hello, Papa. Hello, Daddy James Papa, it's me, James.

Dad, it's me, James. Listen, I don't have much time, but I've hidden some money in a tree outside. I have to leave. I've done some terrible things. I have to leave. I have to escape the country. But you, you keep everything, okay? It's for being such a good papa to me.

Papa, it's me, James. Don't ask any questions and don't think about why. Just burst into my room naked right now, please. Come in right now. There's not much time. You have to be naked. It's so important. Maybe that's worked.

Yeah, maybe. Let us know if that worked, James, and how traumatized you are. Yes, well, I think that's all the time we have. Yes. Thank you to everyone who came to Bud Pod live. Uh, um, if you want to hear it, we, you know, you gotta be a, you gotta be a VIP. You gotta be in the room.

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as a general well done and keep on jacking it lads. Either way. Yes. Thank you all, much love, and talk to you soon. Bye!