Triforce! - YoGPoD 3: Toaster Bags and Tina Barrett
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Talk about Toast of Ass
Let's listen
You're cooking a delicious romantic meal for two
And you get the toaster out of the cupboard,
put it on the kitchen counter and put salmon fillets into a shitty brown paper bag type
thing and put that in the toaster and that is how you cook your delicious romantic meal.
I mean that's a bit weird isn't it? I mean it's great for cheese
toasties quickly but cooking salmon can you hear me turn the pages? A little leaflet that comes with
you only get like four toaster bags and you get like a leaflet with all these recipes.
What the fuck is a toaster bag?
A toaster bag is like a small brown paper bag-esque thing into which you pop a sandwich
which you then put inside of your toaster and cook so that it becomes a delicious toasted sandwich.
But it doesn't actually get toasted. Is that right?
Well, the outside gets toasted.
So it just sort of warms it up?
No, it toasts properly. I mean, the...
How does it do that?
Magic. I mean, it's a weird thing, these bags. It's like some weird mesh. It's
not actually paper, and it's not really plastic. It's something that conducts heat very well,
but doesn't allow any spillages out of... So what, you pop, like, anything you want
in there? So you can just pop anything in the bag, can you? Like a banana? Or, um...
Yeah. You can put, like, pizza.
A slice of pizza
into it. You can put some
frozen french fries
or chips into it
and cook them on the toaster.
You can put fish fingers in there.
Burgers.
Fish.
Fish fingers. Fish fingers. fish sticks, fish cakes, fish fillets.
I mean, doesn't this largely depend on how...
Sushi, you can cook sushi in it.
But I mean, does all this stuff get toasted?
Yeah, everything is toasted.
But then it's kind of just like grilling and pizza is a very
thin kind of thing so toasting pizza is pretty you know it's fine and toasting fish fingers is
fine because they're you know they're thin they're thin food stuff how did you get how did you get... How did you find out about this? I mean, you can't really put
bits of chicken into it.
You know, you can't...
You can't put half of a raw chicken into your
toaster and expect it to cook nicely.
Oh, well, I guess it is limited by the size
of your toaster. You can't really, like,
stuff the whole chicken down
into the toaster slit, can you?
I mean, it also doesn't heat through.
All it does is toast it.
So the outside is, you know, heated up and made crispy.
But also, I mean, you mentioned...
One of the first examples you mentioned was a sandwich, right?
Now, I don't know how big your toaster is,
but mine certainly isn't big enough to hold a whole sandwich.
Well, I mean, I have to squish the bread down a bit.
So,
especially if you have thick
sliced bread,
you have to, you know,
you have to fist it a little bit.
You know, you pump your fist down,
you knead it, you knead it down
so it's a bit thinner.
You sit on it.
You slam it in a car door a few times.
A bacon and chicken sandwich, okay. You get your sandwich, you lie it in the middle of
a road and then you drive a steam roller over it a couple of times.
Right, and then you put it in one of these bags, pop it in the toaster.
Yes. How much do these bags cost?
Um, I can't remember. I think it's two or three quid or something.
Oh, you've already bought it, have you?
Yeah. I've bought it, I've used it, I had cheese on toast this morning, cooked in a toaster bag but I mean can you imagine cooking a
salmon fillet in one of these toaster bags with a little sprig of tarragon
cooks in about five minutes I mean yeah you could make lasagna
Well, I mean, yeah, a few minutes ago... Do you think you could cook lasagna?
You'd get, like, a bird's eye lasagna for one from the freezer section.
You, like, open it up, remove the packaging, you have this massive frozen lump of pasta and mince,
and you just kind of, like, wedge it into this bag and throw it in the toaster.
You'd probably start a fire actually, the house would burn down.
Why would it start a fire?
Lasagna's very flammable.
Oh.
We didn't start the fire.
Hello!
What's your favourite band from the 1980s?
We can't actually... if we're going to broadcast this shit...
Which, I mean, heaven fucking forgive us for committing such an awful sin against humanity for doing so.
But if we were to, we can't really sing proper music too much...
Due to copyright reasons.
What do you mean?
So, I mean, if we were to sing Happy Birthday, I mean, that's still covered by copyright,
so we wouldn't actually be able to, you know, completely sing the whole song.
But Are you allowed
No but I mean
By singing like
One
Line of a song
Out of tune
I don't think we're like
Going to actually get in trouble
Well I mean there's not much chance
Of us actually singing
Anything in tune
So
You're listening to
The Yolk Pod
yeah
alright
so let's record
some Yolk Pod
what are we actually
going to say, what are we going to do
it's just going to be like a conversation
about toaster bags
hello
and welcome to the old pod
i don't think people will get the reference unless you say the second line because you're so out of
tune with that hello that i think people just think you say hello i have to be though they
won't get the line otherwise reference lionel richie will sue me if I sing it in tune.
So I have to sing it out of tune.
Hello!
Hello!
Oh, for fuck's sake.
I'm just protecting us.
I'm protecting the Yoggpod.
That's what I'm doing.
I have to sing out of tune.
In many ways, I've been practising my entire life
Singing out of tune
Just for this Yogpod
I thought you said we had something to talk about
You had something to like talk about
It was the toaster bags
Oh shit we've already used it
So that's it
That's it we're done
Anyway thanks for listening
to the Yogpod
I hope you've enjoyed
this fucking shambles
oh god
this is awful
I mean
in many ways I'm actually quite reassured
by the fact that
anything that we do from now on can't possibly
be as bad as the Sipsgate episode.
Sipsgate, oh, Jesus. I was a little bit drunk though, when we recorded that.
Okay, pick a number between 1 and 256. Preferably not one or 256.
But somewhere,
you know,
somewhere in the middle.
You have to tell me what it is.
This isn't a fucking,
I'm not a magician.
I'm not David Blaine.
You're not going to guess.
No, I'm not going to guess what it is.
87.
Oh!
113. That was good. I was thinking of...
113. Okay. Let me consult my tone. Okay, what have we got? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 eleven twelve okay a number between one and twelve
uh do i have to tell you hello yes why are you doing that why are you saying hello
i'm just gonna keep singing hello in the style of lionel richie don't do that it's really annoying
i am just gonna keep doing it.
I feel like I should warn you now.
So, a number between...
Hello!
Stop doing that!
Number between 1 and 12.
2.
2.
Okay.
I am reading from Ripley's Believe It or Not book.
Canadian singer-songwriter Kevin Bath recorded an entire...
an album...
Oh, shit, I've already fucked up.
Canadian singer-songwriter Kevin Bath recorded an album a week
for an entire year with eight tracks per album that totaled to 416 songs in 365 days.
What are you talking about?
This is like an interesting fact or feat or freak of nature type thing.
What is?
So this guy, this guy wrote...
What are you doing?
416... What are you doing? 416.
What about the numbers?
This has helped me pick, at random, an interesting fact from this book.
Oh, right, so you have a book.
Which is kind of appropriate, because we were talking about music, and this is about music.
appropriate because we were talking about music and this is about music a very creative hard working guy who produced a massive body of work within a year 416 songs in a year
well they can't have been any good i've never heard of any of them i could do that
let's make one up now actually well we need this is a good fucking lead. We need...
Is that part of it? The clicking of fingers? Is that the beat?
We can have that.
You've already got that sorted out.
We can have that. That's part of it. We need to make a theme tune to the Yog Pod.
So it's like an intro theme.
We've already got the Star Wars theme. We just have the Star Wars disco theme with us singing, you know,
Yorg Pod, this is the Yorg Pod.
Like that.
Well, wouldn't there be copyright issues with that?
Yes.
But we have to sing it out of tune and we can't use any music.
So it would just be me singing like that
With you clicking your fingers over it
Okay let's try again
Ready? You have to sing it out of tune
Ready?
York pod
This is the York pod
This is the York pod
How long is this going to go on for? This is the York Pod This is the York Pod
Alright, okay.
That's it, that's it, that's it, that's enough.
That's beautiful.
That's going to be beautiful.
When you listen back to that,
you're going to be amazed.
Really?
Anyway, I've missed the most interesting fact about this guy from Canada
who wrote 216 songs in a year, right?
He worked so hard and put so many hours into this
that he couldn't take the time out to shave.
So he grew a massive beard over the course of the year.
What? so he grew a massive beard over the course of the year what?
yeah he didn't want to take the time off of you know his
songwriting and recording
was he like Forrest Gump running across America?
yeah
apart from you know the fact that he wasn't running
he was just you know in his studio
and he wasn't some stupid
American
he was a stupid
Canadian
and
he's not fictional
he's a real person
what's his name?
apart from that
it's exactly the same
as Forrest Gump
what kind of music
was it
as well
because if it was like
R&B
everything sounds
the fucking same
so
he probably could have
got away with like
repeating himself
he's a Canadian called Kevin he's bound to be the fucking same. So he probably could have got away with repeating himself.
He's a Canadian called Kevin.
It's bound to be country and western music.
Hey, maybe we could
use one of his songs.
He might let us use one of his songs. Wouldn't that be
wonderful? Oh yeah.
That's a good idea.
What's his name?
Kevin Bath. I'm sure they're really good idea. What's his name? Kevin Bath.
I'm sure they're really good songs.
You know, given that he...
Kevin Bath.
I've found his website, kevinbath.com.
I'm a bit unnerved.
Wow! How on earth did you find that?
Holy shit!
There's links on the front page.
You're quite the internet detective, aren't you, Lewis?
And the links are...
Wow.
Music, skip tracer, the history of my hair.
The history...
The history of my hair?
Yeah, it immediately clicks on that, right?
And it's like a video.
It's like a movie.
About his hair. Oh my god, this is really weird. He wrote
a song about his hair. Basically it's just a slideshow of pictures from his life. Of
him. The history of my hair. Windows media video. Is that the Rolling Stones? What music's that?
It's obviously something he wrote.
Duh.
Why would he use the Rolling fucking Stones?
This guy wrote
400 songs over the course of a year.
Do you really think he would
have ripped off the
Rolling Stones to make a video
about his hair?
Yes. I think he has.
You're listening to Ya Pa.
Each week starting October 1st 2006 and ending September 23rd 2007, I set a world record
by releasing a CD a week for a year Wow I must say the
the album cover art is quite spectacularly shit really yeah one of
them appears to be a picture of a piece of meat. This is very odd.
Wow, one of them looks like it's done in Microsoft WordArt.
2007, it says.
One of the album covers is him.
He's written on his hand.
I've taken a picture of it.
The last time someone posted on his MySpace was the 21st of May 2008.
Right, now I think we should start trying to change this stuff.
We should get people to post on his MySpace.
What? Instead of Tina Barrett's?
As well as Tina Barrett's.
But people didn't know they were supposed to post on Tina Barrett's MySpace
because we never released that.
You never... Oh, man.
It's on the table.
I was just checking it for messages.
Oh, God, there's music playing
by Tina Barrett on her Myspace.
She's actually done
some new music.
It's a bit like the Tetris
remix.
Oh, my God.
There's some posts on Tina Barrett's Myspace.
None of them are from Yogspod fans,
though. But one of these posts,
Hello, honey.
Hope you're fine.
Wow, on February 21st, 2008, I got my first mail from you.
This day, I knew I was blessed by love and happiness, and heaven could exist.
You're one of the best thing which could happen to me since 2004.
Love from Francois.
Yeah, that's a bit fucking weird.
Do you reckon she'd, like, contact us if we added her as a friend and stuff?
Um, I think we'd probably have a restraining order
put out against us.
I'd love to get some mail from Tina Barrett.
Oh, fuck.
This is going to be great.
Right, guys, seriously,
get on it.
All of our loyal listeners, get on to Tina Barrett.
And we want to hear from her.
We want to hear her.
Hopefully she'll email you or contact you in some way.
And we want to hear back.
Or Kevin Bath.
Kevin Bath will do as well.
To be honest, I'm probably going to forget who Kevin Bath is tomorrow.
He's got such a good name, though.
It's just gone.
Kevin Bath. Kevin Bath is tomorrow. He's got such a good name, though. It's just gone. Kevin Bath.
Kevin Bath.
That's the best name I've ever heard.
Jesus Nails.
That's the best name I've ever heard.
Jesus Nails?
Jesus Nails.
Did Jesus Nails ever fight with Chuck Norris?
I'm not even...
And we're not even going to go there.
Jesus Nails.
God, that sounds like a band name, doesn't it?
Or something.
Maybe we should rename the Yoggpod
Jesus Nails.
The Yoggpod
is rebranded.
Rereleased.
Under the new name.
It was formerly Norwich Union
and now it's Jesus Nails.
Yeah, Norwich Union, and now it's Jesus Nails. Yeah, Norwich Union was just lacking something.
So where were we?
This music on Tina Barrett's Myspace is shocking.
How bad is it?
I honestly believe that we could do better.
Really?
I'm looking at it. It says
plays today, five.
Five people
have listened to this music
on MySpace today.
Oh dear. Five people.
Do you think we're weird
for, like, following
Tina Barrett?
I don't think that's the only reason
we're weird.
I mean, Ace is a fan of Hannah Montana, and I think that's much weirder.
Oh, Hannah Spirit is Tina Barrett's friend on Myspace.
See, Hannah Spirit, at least she did Primeval, the ITV supernatural supernatural-ish, bizarre, like, drama thing.
Bleh.
With dinosaurs in the modern world coming back.
Oh, it was terrible. It was terrible. It was shit.
I think I managed to watch about half an episode and then I felt sick and had to shoot myself.
If we actually...
I mean, God help us, if this makes it into the podcast,
we know something's gone horribly wrong.
What, talk about Primeval?
Yeah.
If Hannes Spirit actually is listening to this,
I thought you were very good in Primeval.
I thought you were very good.
You were a very good actor. Especially when he very good in Primeval. I thought you were very good, you were a very
good actress. Especially when he walks around in your pants.
Ever listen to this. She's probably very fond of podcasting. She's
probably quite an avid follower of, you know, like, Nobody Likes Onions or something like
that. I don't know who any of that is.
Podcasters.
Podcasters?
Do you know what?
I think Hannah Spirit's probably my favourite member of S Club 7 now.
You've changed your mind over the last six months.
I don't think it's Tina...
Well, I've listened to Tina Barrett's music
and that's just put me off.
Is it really that terrible? Yeah, it's really bad.
Has she actually released that album yet?
Nobody would fucking know. Nobody would know if she released it.
It's like number 187 on the billboard chart.
Look at Tina Brandt's influences.
Alcohol.
It starts off and it's like...
Who are these people? Tell me if you know who these people are.
Sly and the Family Stone.
Yeah, yeah. Who's that? 70s disco band. Timberland. Tell me if you know who these people are. Sly and the Family Stone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who's there?
1970s disco band.
Timberland.
Yeah.
It's quite a step up.
Music producer and artist.
Leah James.
Nikki Costa.
Air.
Jimi Hendrix.
Khalees.
Yeah.
Billie Holiday.
Khalees.
Fergie.
George Clinton Clinton Nina Simone
Queens of the Stone Age
Nirvana
Dr. Dre
Rage Against the Machine
50 Cent
Nass
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Marilyn Manson
Boys Two Men
Marl Parkley
I mean it just bounces between Manson, Boyz II Men, Marilyn Manson. Marl Farquhary.
I mean, it just bounces between like, everything.
I mean, who isn't
an influence on
Tina Barrett? Well, I mean, maybe
that's her problem. She has too many influences.
I mean, if she
was just a fan of disco, then her
songs would probably, you know, not be so
shit. But because she likes such a wide range of disco, then her songs would probably not be so shit.
But because she likes such a wide range of music, she
just doesn't know what the fuck she's
doing. Maybe that's shit. I mean, she's got
Korn right
next to Boyz II Men,
right next to Outkast.
Well, I like Outkast
and Korn.
I don't like Boyz II Men.
Really? Yeah. I love it. I've got loads of corn songs
on my iTunes and I've also got Hey Ya. No, I was saying really that you don't like Boyz One is listening to the awkward. of shame. What's your most listened to? I've forgotten how you fucking show it
now.
There's either a tab on the left
where you can press it
or there's a play
count tab.
You can have a tab
at the top. Artist, album,
genre, rating, play count.
Top 25 most played.
Hysteria by Muse is top Well that is a very good tune It's not too bad
Happiness is a Warm Gun is number two
The Breeders Cover of the Beatles song
Good God
It's a very good song
I've got some really awful ones
Come on, come on
I've got
I've got I've got some really awful ones. Come on, come on. I've got Coldplay with 44 plays,
Life in Technicolor. Is that top? 44 plays? Yeah. Well, you've got a lot more music than
I have. I mean mean I've got 81 plays
Of Hysteria by Muse
But then I used to
Well the thing is I used to put it on when we'd have
Like a timed boss encounter
In WoW when we were playing
On the internet games
So when because it's a really short
You know fast
Aggressive song
I thought it was you know it was banging
And it really fit.
Oh, God, this is so sad.
Is this why you're so bad
at playing a prop paladin?
Because you were listening to, like,
banging metal music.
I'm not bad at all.
Come on, Max.
I hadn't played for, like,
three weeks or something properly.
And then I, like,
tank everything in Max.
Easy.
Yeah.
You were saying, oh, you're so good, honey.
So second, I've got Amaranth by Nightwish.
That's a good song.
That's a good song.
Then I've got Katy Perry.
Waking up in Vegas.
Oh, my God.
Oh, that is bad
That is bad
Sometimes numbers get artificially
Inflated though
Because if the song is like
If the song is the first one on the album
And you put the album on
That gets played
If not the shuffle
Or if
It just comes up a hundred times a day shut up shuffle it's just random it's
just a coincidence i can't use shuffle because um it starts like i'm listening to shuffle i'm like
playing counter-strike or something and suddenly it starts playing track 17 of like
stephen king's dark Tower 4 or whatever.
Why don't you remove it from your library or create a playlist with every song apart from the audio?
Because that takes effort.
Number four on my playlist is
Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.
So you're pretty cool.
See, number five, I've also got The Who
with Barbara O'Reilly. See, these are both CSI themed
songs.
Yeah, what the hell? That's weird.
Well, the thing is I liked The Who before CSI because my dad was a big fan of them and
we had a member of The Who who lived nearby as well.
Who do you think didn't like The Who before CSI? Who do you think
has discovered the Who through watching CSI? People in their twenties, probably. People
in their teens. People who weren't 30 years old like me. Oh man. And again, that's not
a bad theme tune to have, is it? Like, using the Who.
They did well.
I'm surprised they didn't use the Seeker, because that just, that perfectly fits. Like a cop show. It's just bizarre.
And then I've got Easy by Faith No More. The cover that they did.
the cover that they did which the video has like a huge blank huge
oh god a huge blank
the video for easy has a huge group of um...
transvestites
going about their day
it's very odd
what are you talking about?
the video to easy by faith no more how we move on to some band who I...
How do we suddenly...
Sorry, I turned off for like a second and suddenly you're talking about something completely ridiculous.
I almost listen to songs on iTunes.
Never easy like Sunday morning.
I have to sing it out of tune.
Just remember this.
Hello!
I'm easy like Sunday morning Morning
Out of tune
Out of tune
That was out of tune
I mean I can't sing in tune
Well that's probably the problem
Because you can only sing out of tune
When you tried to deliberately sing it out of tune
You slipped to being
in tune.
Thanks man, I appreciate the compliment.
It's alright, it's alright, you're welcome.
Right, let's do that numbers thing again. Do I have to choose the number? What was the
first number?
Oh god. Between 1 and 256.
It's a very large book. Could you hear that? Could you hear me opening it? It's like this massive, you know...
Big fucking book. Can you hear this book?
It's a big fucking book.
The Madioc, choose a number.
What?
Hi, Hannah. What are you wearing?
Clothes. You have to pick a number...
Clothes! Holy shit. It's a coincidence. I am too. It's a number between 1 and 256.
Although if you pick 256 that will be the Acknowledgements page, which probably won't be very interesting. Writers, China photos.
142.
Okay, a number between 1 and 10.
3.
Okay.
Oh, it's about library books.
Isn't that interesting?
Wow.
What are you trying to say?
In 1650, the Bishop of Winchester, England,
just in case you thought it was, you know, Winchester, South Australia,
or Winchester, Taiwan.
In 1650, the Bishop of Winchester borrowed a book
from Somerset County Records Office,
but it was not returned to the Somerset County Records Office, but it was not returned
to the Somerset County Library
until 1985.
335
years late.
God.
And then there's a joke about the fine, isn't there?
Oh, you bastard.
Okay.
It had accrued
$6,000 in unpaid fees, because this is an American book, it's in dollars.
$6,000 in unpaid fees, and the title of the book, are you ready for this?
The title of the book was The Book of Fines.
Fines, and it was $ 6,000 in fines
for the late book
and it's the book of fines
what do you mean it was the book of fines
was fines spelt differently
it's the book of fines
no fines
so it's not a pun then
we're feeling fines
oh god
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